week of quotes - day 7

Maybe tomorrow I'll find my way

To the land where the honey runs

Into rivers each day.

And the sweet tastin' good life

Is so easily found,

Way over yonder...

That's where I'm bound

- Carole King

week of quotes - days 5 & 6

"When I get a little money I buy books;

and if I have any left I buy food and clothes."

- Desiderius Erasmus (also attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

Yesterday I ventured over to one of my old neighborhoods and discovered that an indie bookstore had opened up. I had a little time to kill before I met a friend for drinks so I wandered around inside. I quickly decided that while I don't really need another book on my bookshelf, I wanted to support my local bookstore so I purchased a "sale" book: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

I read thisbook the summer before I moved to New York and have wanted to own it ever since. (I'd checked it out from my library in California and vividly remember reading it in the cafeteria at my then workplace during my lunch hour.) I'm glad I bought it yesterday and am feeling quite in the mood to read it again.

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"Won't sleep 'til I've had enough.

Won't sip my wine from no paper cup."

- Beth Hart

This one is by my favorite singer and from one of my all-time favorite songs: Delicious Surprise. To me it is all about not giving up.

As am I...

week of quotes - days 3 & 4

I spaced and forgot to put up my quote yesterday. I guess you could say yesterday's and today's go together.

"Dating in New York is not for the faint of heart."
-my good friend during dinner last night

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But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do
And if you do not like me so
To hell, my love, with you!

- Dorothy Parker -
from her poem "Indian Summer"

week of quotes - day 2

"I want so much to open your eyes

'cause I need you to look into mine."

- Snow Patrol -

week of quotes - day 1

I don't feel like going into it with long blog posts lately so I thought I'd capture the mood of each day this week with a favorite quote. Mostly so I don't fall off the face of the earth. Who knows. It could end up being interesting...

Here is today's... newly discovered.

No coward soul is mine

- Emily Bronte

very short

I have everything nothing to say.

I will be back another day.

my spring weekend was...

...exhausting but GREAT!

I'm bucking the traditional list format for this one and I'm just going to spell it out. This weekend I got a couple of new roommates. I'm thrilled and these girls are super sweet. I think everyone is going to get along nicely. I did not move but as exhausted as I am today you'd think I did. I spent Friday night hanging with one roomie as we waited for her bed to be delivered and just chatted away. I was supposed to meet a friend for dinner but wanted to be around so it wasn't awkward for her to sit there waiting on the delivery. I'm glad it worked out the way it did as I had a great time sitting there and getting to know her better.

For some stupid reason I stayed up really late and really regretted it the next day when I woke up at 7:30 to start readying the apt for its new people. (Cleaning, mopping the floors, sweeping, moving large pieces of furniture, etc.) Like I said, I wasn't moving but with the cleaning and moving of furniture I did you'd think otherwise. By 2:30, the girls were moved in so I attacked the refrigerator with renewed vigor (It was gross but I wanted to make sure everyone was out before I started.) and collapsed on my bed to watch Winter's Bone (I liked it. I think Jennifer Lawrence will make a good Katniss in the Hunger Games!) before heading off to hang with super cute four and a half year old twin girls for the evening. Perfect end to the exhausting day. Next weekend I will do everything up nicely but I would have been too exhausted to do much else.

Yesterday was LOVELY. It was a gorgeous day, I was in a GREAT mood, and I'd been invited by a new-ish friend to have brunch with her and some of her friends in Brooklyn. So I hopped on the train, overestimated the time it would take to get there, and ended up with about 45 mins to kill... I went to Tarjay! I never go to Tarjay anymore. This made me even happier. I went for new curtains but instead got a couple of cute spring dresses. Oops!

Brunch was great, the company was better, and afterwards we walked around Brooklyn just soaking up the nice rays. Perfect. I came home to my nice, peaceful apartment, ran out to do my laundry, watched bad reality TV and roommate and I tried Skinnygirl Margaritas for the first time. (Not bad!)

I'm super duper tired today. Already counting down the days until next weekend! What was your weekend?