Hooray!

07Jun09

I’m back! The wedding was a smashing success. It would really be far too much to write about, so if you want to take a look at some pictures, you can do so here. Annie O’Neill was our photographer, and I’d recommend her to anyone!

Charleston was amazing as well. I’ve never seen a place with so much art. Galleries on every corner and everyone was so excited to talk about their artists. We bought our first piece. It’s by Ben Timpson. We’re in love and can’t wait for it to come to our house in July.

In other news, I’ve started a new place. You can now find me here. I’ll probably still stop by when I want to rant without full disclosure, but you know, hopefully that won’t happen too often.

I’m a happy girl, and that’s all I have to say for now.

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Numbers

10May09

I hope so posted another great link. Turns out, I’m a 6. And am I ever a 6…

The Life Path 6 suggests that you entered this plane with tools to become the ultimate nurturer, and a beacon for truth, justice, righteousness, and domesticity. Your paternal, or maternal, as the case may be, instincts with a 6 Life Path exceed all others by a considerable margin. Whether in the home or in the work place, you are the predominant caretaker and family head. While the 6 may assume significant responsibilities in the community, the life revolves around the immediate home and family, for this is the most domestic of numbers. Conservative principles and convictions are deeply ingrained and define your character.

You are idealistic and must feel useful to be happy. The main contribution you make is that of advice, service, and ever present support. You are a humanitarian of the first order. It is your role to serve others, and you start in the home environment. You are very human and realistic about life, and you feel that the most important thing in your life is the home, the family and the friends.

This is the Life Path related to leadership by example and assumption of responsibility, thus, it is your obligation to pick up the burden and always be ready to help. If you are like the majority with Life Path 6, you are one who will willingly carry far more than your fair share of any load, and you are always there when needed. In doing so, you take ownership and often become an authority over the situation.

In romance, the 6 is loyal and devoted. A a caretaker type, you are apt to attract partners who are somewhat weaker and more needy than yourself; someone you can care for and protect. The main ingredient that must prevail in the relationship is complete harmony. You don’t function well in stressful relationships that become challenges for you to control. It is the same with friends, you are loyal and trustworthy. But there is a tendency for you to become dominating and controlling.

It’s likely you feel compelled to function with strength and compassion. You are a sympathetic and kind person, generous with personal and material resources. Wisdom, balance, and understanding are the cornerstones of your life, and these define your approach to life in general. Your extraordinary wisdom and the ability to understand the problems of others is apt to commence from an early age. This allows you to easily span the generation gap and assume an important role in life early on.

The number 6 Life Path actually produces few negative examples, but there are some pitfalls peculiar to the path. You may have a tendency to become overwhelmed by responsibilities and a slave to others, especially members of you own family or close friends. It’s easy for you to fall into a pattern of being too critical of others; you also have a tendency to become to hard on yourself. The misuse of this Life Path produce tendencies for you to engage in exaggeration, over-expansiveness, and self-righteousness. Modesty and humility may not flow easily. Imposing one’s views in an interfering or meddling way must be an issue of concern.

The natural burdens of this number are heavy, and on rare occasions, responsibility is abdicated by persons with this Life Path 6. This rejection of responsibility will make you feel very guilty and uneasy, and it will have very damaging effects upon your relationships with others.

You are idealistic and must feel useful to be happy. – Uh, YES.

You are very human and realistic about life, and you feel that the most important thing in your life is the home, the family and the friends. – Ding Ding Ding!

You don’t function well in stressful relationships that become challenges for you to control. – Most definitely.

I love sitting down on Sunday morning and relaxing and reading about what astrology says about me… then how close to real life it is.

Every month I check out my monthly horoscope at Astrology Zone. Most of the time they’re spot on… or at least spot  on by a day or two. April’s was terrible, and it turns out that April was a pretty terrible month. So I was really afraid to check May’s… since you know, this is kind of an important month and if it said something terrible then I was afraid I’d believe it instead of just letting go.

Anyway, this morning I decided to just do it.

And it made me smile that the first sentence is, “May has the potential to be an extraordinary month for you, dear Pisces.”

It turns out that Astrologers look to both Jupiter and Neptune for Pisces rulings.

You always do exceedingly well in years when both your ruling planets are in harmony. This year, Jupiter and Neptune will go one better, as they are about to form the most powerful astrological aspect possible – the conjunction. A conjunction, or perfect alignment, signifies the start of a vital new cycle, one that will take you forward until 2022 (at which point a new cycle will begin when these two planets meet again).

If any influential people have underestimated your talents, they will now be sorry. You are about to become quite a force of nature, dear Pisces. Others will be forced to take you seriously.

Most years when these two planets meet, they meet only once and then go their separate ways. But in 2009, they will meet three times in conjunction, on May 27, July 10, and December 21. This is sensational news because three meetings of two slow moving planets always suggest the possibility for a transformation.

Be determined to stretch your abilities and take risks in your creative output. This year, there’s no reason to play it too safe. At work, present proposals and ideas, and petition the help of top-level VIPs.

Of course, somethings are just funny when they work out:

Near this full moon, May 9, for example, you may conclude a screenplay or pilot, or be asked to appear on TV or the radio.

I turned in my 127 page thesis on the  8th.

There is also a new moon on May 24th.

Don’t think of a new moon as “just a day,” but rather the opening of a gate – a flood of days to follow that date. New moons are synonymous with beginnings and the planting of seeds.

Since The Big Day is May 23rd, I’m going to say that this is an auspicious time for a new beginning. HOORAY!

Well this is a giant post. But I do love astrology.

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Simple Sundays

26Apr09

This morning I was up really early. A friend who I hadn’t seen in ages had her birthday party, so we treked ourselves up to the Upper West Side despite the MTA’s decision to do construction on all of subway lines near our home, and despite my normal aversion to “pay a cover then open bar all night” because invariably I get there and find the party lame, or the bar is constantly 3 people deep and its impossible to the bartender’s attention.

Well last night was amazing. Her parents came to NYC from California to surprise her since it was her 30th. They showed up at her door… in disguises! Amazing.  And there were just really good people there and it was great seeing some folks who I hadn’t seen in, uh, seemingly forever. The bar situation was fine and we definitely got our money’s worth, sucking down Glenlivet and other assorted whiskeys.

We got home late, fell into bed, and the alarm promptly woke us up before 8, since someone works on Sundays. I thought it was possible that I was still drunk, but it turns out that feels surprisingly like you’re just really really sleepy. I knew he wouldn’t get out of bed unless I also made an effort to get out of bed; as soon as I stood up, I felt wonderful. Wonderful with a capital W.  So I decided to wash the makeup off my face and throw on some clothes and walk him to the subway.

I stopped in a little deli (Finally getting around to the Simple Sunday part…) to get my “hangover breakfast” in hopes that I would not suddenly develop a late blooming hangover on my walk back home. This normally consists of Orange Gatorade and a white american cheese sandwich on a roll with a lettuce and tomato and a tiny bit of mayo. (I have a thing against yellow american. I think that they add some other flavor or maybe the dye is flavored or something, but I cannot stand it. White only for me, please.) But then he found a Newman’s Own Lightly Sparking Lemonade. So in addition to my gatorade, I also got one, but in Orange Mango flavor.

I tried finding a picture, but apparently the internet doesn’t know it exists yet. Not even Newman’s Own product page seems to be aware.  I’m going to try and remedy this delimma.

This shit is amazing. There is NO high fructose corn syrup, the lightly sparking aspect is refreshing, the flavor is delicious, neither overpowering nor weak, it comes in an adorable glass bottle, and since it’s Newman’s Own I can feel good about my money going to a charity. And a drink with all these positives is surely a candidate for a simple pleasure.

If you see it in the stores, I highly suggest trying it out. I don’t want it to end.

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New Favorite Quote

26Apr09

All the ills of mankind,
all the tragic misfortunes
that fill the history books,
all the political blunders,
all the failures of the great leaders
have arisen merely from a lack of
skill at dancing.

– Moliere

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Pig Flu

24Apr09

Have you heard about the Pig Flu?

I first read about it this morning on The Awl (which just launched this week and you should read, but only if you’re smart) and the post title is “Shut Up Bacon” which I adore. I want to tell Bacon to shut up and stop taunting me at least times a year.

Anyway, I used to have a very large fear of bird flu. I now also have a very large fear of contracting the pig flu, which seems like it could come after me much faster than the bird flu. It’s like the pandemic of 1918 – it’s a mutated strain that they haven’t seen before, it’s being spread by human to human contact, and the people falling ill are the healthy, not the babies and the olds. JUST LIKE 1918. My prediction, it’ll hit a few places, then disappear, then in 6 months or so, it will be everywhere.

I’m going to invest in a shotgun and fill my pantries full of canned fruit cocktail and board up my windows and doors when that happens. Please let me know when it’s over.

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Let’s Guess…

24Apr09

What I was dreaming about. I woke with “Smack Your Bitch Up”  in my head.

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Trilling

21Apr09

I wish I could la la la la la around the house in a french accent and in tune. Absent-minded self singing is so sexy.

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2666

19Apr09

Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the  same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench.

Robert Bolano, 2666

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Movies

16Apr09

Can’t wait to see this.  (I still can’t figure out how to embed… someday I’ll figure it out…)

Other movies I want to see:

X-Men: Origins

Star Trek

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Shot at my subway station!!)

Sunshine Cleaning

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Where the Wild Things Are

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

And I’m sure there are more.
Clearly I’ll be spending the entire summer at the movies.

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Happy

16Apr09

I came home last night, after my peer thesis meeting, which was inspiring as always, to the best surprise.

The furniture in our bedroom was rearranged. I now have a writing desk that looks out of two windows! All I’ve wanted for months is to have a writing desk… and now I have one! And the fouton is moved to our library-ish section, so now I have a great cozy writing spot. And there’s new artwork up, so lying in bed falling asleep, I can stare at art instead of a messy desk! And it was CLEAN. And the lighting! We actually have lamps in all corners! And they work and they’re not too bright! I couldn’t stop staring, all I wanted to do was hang out in there. I am in love.

In other happy news, friends from Montreal are visiting. They’re super chill and I’m psyched to see them again. Hooray!

This could be a great end of week and weekend.

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