sparkle motion

i will probably wear this magnificent dress everyday.

crossing over

gray area between soho and noho. let's get out of here before something else happens.

woooopy

when you think of your memories, do you think of yourself in the third person, seeing it all happen from above? or, from first person and you're there again, back in the action?

i always see it in third.

look into my crystal ball

39th and lex.
i'd rather not know.

four

this is me when i was four.


good-lookin'.

sunglasses

i had an intention of buying a pair of sunglasses a la carrie donovan, but when the time came, i was rushing and i didn't give it enough thought. and this really did require thought (and thoughts). the glasses are too big, maybe just by an inch. they feel like they are trying very hard to be "big sunglasses" and i feel really wonky whenever i put them on. more so depending on time of day. and i can't/won't (morally) buy a new pair until i lose or break these, but i can't seem to do either.

sorority

this picture is my official sorority picture from 2005. i look so young and wholesome. precious. i remember waking up fifteen minutes before i had to get it taken. i barely brushed my hair, threw on mascara, a black shirt and ran down the campus green with my girlfriends to be photographed. somehow i managed to look fairly resplendent and perhaps everything was at that point. but things were certainly about to be shaken up only a few days after this was taken.

i pledged the spring of my freshman year. and i loved it. i loved all of my new friends, i loved the history and traditions, the parties, having a house and a house-mom, mingling with fraternity boys, wearing my flip-flops with our letters on them around campus. i even enjoyed the weekly meetings and always having to wear my pledge pin. truly everything. it was just the college experience i was looking for.

and then towards the end of the semester, rather swiftly, the sorority was shut down by the national headquarters. after being on our campus for over one hundred and twenty years, we got the boot. i cried for days afterward. i wept in my dorm room, i sniffled through my classes. i remember waiting for the campus bus during a downpour (in pink rain boots) as tears streamed down my face. a kindhearted girl came up to me and put her umbrella over my head until the bus came. it was out of a movie, it was so sweetly pitiful.

but then the sun came out and i realized that i had all of these new friends. and they were wonderful and great and they didn't go anywhere. and i even lived with a whole bunch of them my junior and senior year. and i still even live with one (hi emily)!

college continued on. my interests expanded and i challenged myself to become immersed in new adventures. i joined a feminist group on campus and i volunteered nine hours every week at the homeless shelter in burlington babysitting the sweet, sweet children. i'm not sure if i'd have these same experiences had i been in the sorority. i'm not sure i'd have the time to juggle everything. or even the desire or need to branch out.

it's amusing to think of what my college experience would have been like had the sorority remained on campus. but i will never know. what i do know is that my experience at vermont still turned out to be wonderful. it was one of the first times i realized that life can change in the most unexpected of ways, but never without reason or purpose. who even knows if i would have the wonderful job that i do now, as there were so many twists and turns that led me here? it is all just part of the fun and i'm thankful.

jenna jean

jenna came to visit for the weekend and we had such a lovely time. 

i can go on and on about how much i love jenna.

but i believe i already have!
so i will tell a few fun facts about her.

1. she somehow knows every lyric to every song (and she has a cousin who wrote the 80's hit 'tell it to my heart').
2. she charms babies, old people and animals.
3. she's really, really creative and truly could be the next lisa frank (she can draw unicorns better than anyone i know).
4. she has a pet snake named iris (and she sadly escaped this weekend while jenna was away in nyc so let's all think good thoughts on her safe return!)
5. her middle name is my first! so we're obviously meant to be.

saturday was one of the first days of intense summery heat and the perfect day to wear my rainbow trina turk dress that i bought last summer (and couldn't find an occasion to wear!) i am glad that i saved it for saturday. the first hot and sunny day is definitely worth celebrating in a pretty frock. we strolled through soho and chinatown. spent the night on a rooftop overlooking the beautiful city. danced and danced until (literally) the sun came up and the birds were chirping. thai food and cat naps, smoothies and street fairs, cheese fries and friendship rings. oh and playing a round of dream phone. seriously the best 90's board game. who, who, who has a crush on you?

we brunched at spitzer's, a nearby favorite. 

french fries with mayonnaise (of course) and panko-crusted poached eggs and spinach ricotta terrine, divine!

jenna charms the pup (see?)

heartschallenger, we meet again (and i adore you).

love and love