yes, I’m grateful.
in Loved Ones, Performance, there are pictures here, Thoughts and Feelings
as beautiful people, bed, Carpe, case in point, fun, girl, gratitude, laugh, life, point, sleep, Stuff, tomorrow, work
Dear Jessica,
You know that girl who looks just like you? The one who has to do two shows tomorrow? Well, she’d like you to go to sleep.
Like, now.
You know, carpe diem.
Or rather, go to bed now so that you can do that carpe diem stuff tomorrow.
But first be grateful.
Intentionally so.
Because there are some beautiful people crowding your life right about now.
They laugh and listen and dance.
They do all that stuff with you.
And they make work so much fun.
Um, case in point.
turns out nyc does just fine on the 4th.
in Thoughts and Feelings
as apartme, apartment mate, apparent reason, bad move, broadway show, building, creeper, crowd, dancing, Eating, fact, few days, fireworks, friend, fun, funny part, gif, gift, girl, good reason, hand, hoda, holding hands, holiday, holidays, hudson river, music, New, new york times, NYC, office, onlookers, reason, Roda, salsa, shake, shake shack, suck, Times, work, Yay
I have to admit: this holiday didn’t suck. It didn’t suck at all, in fact.
Oh, non-sucking holidays are a gift. A GIFT, I tell you. And I have learned to appreciate them as such.
And as my friend and (once again! yay!) apartment-mate Betsy just said: “You have had a very New York few days.”
They included:
- Watching the fireworks over the Hudson River from an office in the New York Times Building. Great view. Great people. Great fun.
- Participating in my very first outdoor Roda (pronounced Hoda) in Columbus Circle. This is where we all sing and practice capoeira. I was nervous. But the crowd seemed to love watching it (with good reason–there are some amazing capoiestas in the group!)
- Salsa dancing to live music in Columbus Circle afterward. What? SO FUN. And then when a strange looking man tried to dance with me, one of my friends grabbed me and quickly told him that “we need to practice.” The funny part is that the friend is a girl. I am not sure what, exactly, we were practicing for, but whatever it is, I hope it calls for some pretty bad salsa dancing between girls. Cause we had that down. And then whenever the creeper would get close, she would just grab my hand, leaving us awkwardly holding hands for no apparent reason to onlookers. Hilarious.
- Eating dinner at the Shake Shack in Times Square. But I didn’t get a shake, which, upon reflection, was a bad move on my part.
So yes, it was a very New York Fourth of July and I have to say that I rather loved it.
I am smiling just thinking of it.
And tomorrow I get to go audition for a Broadway show–something else that is pretty New York, I guess.
kneading and needing.
in I Lift My Eyes Up, Thoughts and Feelings
as fingernails, gas tube, God, life, rocket ship, romantic notions, something, sweet rolls, thing, today, work
I made some sweet rolls today. And that’s not much, I guess. Not when compared to the people who come home from their work and write something on their blog, respectively, that sounds more like I made a rocket ship today or I danced for the President today or even I invented that break-away pump [...]
And the bass keeps running, running
in Funny Stuff, Thoughts and Feelings
as door, drew, fifth floor, God, MY HUSBAND, night, paper thin walls, Ramada, right, shag carpet, smile and nod, stilettos, theater/tour, thoughts/life, work
And running, running, And running, running And running, running, And… Cause see here at the Ramada we are basically adjoined to a funky club. And when walking into our hotel after the show, not only do we get to wade through all the girls in their stilettos, God bless, with their lack of any clothing [...]
Just to let you know
in Thoughts and Feelings
as blog, drew, gonna, gonna jump, home, stretch, thoughts/life, time, time off, treadmill, work
I will not be blogging as frequently for a stretch here. My sweet Drew has some time off work, as do I right now, and I am gonna jump on this and let some other things go as I focus on being home with him. And other things totally means my blog. But so as [...]
