Some quick facts about moi: I have always lived by the sea (except for college years, which I did not really fancy all that much) and I am settling for now by the Atlantic Ocean. I adore bridges and late night walks tuning in to the subtle chaos of the city. I am the star of my own kitchen and I love to entertain. I love my family, I love my friends and I miss them a lot. I love traveling and my best memories took place in cities all around the world from La Habana to Amsterdam, Paris to New York. I am up for the unexpected fun and I don't like to overplan my trips. About my blog: My blog has no central theme whatsoever. I just post whatever I feel like that day. I am maintaining it for myself more than anything as I have a memory weaker than the average fish. Though, if you, the random person, stumbled upon my blog and are enjoying it, I am glad you are here. Browse away!
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
I have been on this train forever I feel like and I am only in Trenton, NJ. It will be a long one.
Lessons from this week
- I am capable of enduring tons and tons of pain.
- I absolutely love living in New York and love it significantly more when I don’t spend my entire day at work.
- I love my apartment. It turned out to be a simple but cozy living space and that’s exactly what I needed.
- Heightened senses can lead to remarkable(ly subdued but still significant) realizations like how much you use your sphincter muscles to perform simple tasks like sitting… even sneezing and like what a chaotic cacophony it is in the mornings in New York in pre-war apartments with neighbors clinging plates, next door high school’s annoying gangster wanna-be pupils’ music from their smart phones, cars and garbage trucks passing by and the neighbor lady singing in the shower. Things I normally never realize with my strategically weakened senses - almost in a Darwinian way.
- Real friendship is in the hummus, the flower arrangements and the concerned text messages when you are sick rather than in shallow words when you are well.
- Lying (or concealing the truth) is not only perfectly acceptable but sort of rewarding when done for the sake of protecting your family and friends.
- Prune juice is one hell of a drink and brownies can save lives when prepared with love.
- How I Met Your Mother and the Big Bang Theory are great TV series.
- I really like living alone and as financially draining as it is, I don’t think I will be ready to give that luxury up any time soon.
- I am not ready to go back to work. Not at all, which brings me to my one-note conquest. I think I can totally do it and I shall.
I love how the bbc captioned Mark Zuckerberg’s photo with a chicken “Mr Zuckerberg… and a chicken” To the t reporting.
I watched 12 hours of Millionaire Matchmaker on Saturday. As a result I am dumber and I lost faith in NYC dating. Fail.
I have news for the Occupy Wall Street protestors: the 1%ers don’t take the subway.
I got an email from American Cancer Association and read it as African Dancer Association. Suffice to say I was confused.
Since when Starbucks is playing horrid country music?! :-/
My two favorite people in the entire planet talking about a subject I can relate to all too well. Oh and shameless plug, I have that exact same coffee table purchased from the same exact store Anderson-the-dream-boat got it. Sigh.
(Source: anderson)
Intense… very intense!
Sisters!! How you doin?
Hotel doorman to passing by nuns in midtown New York
It was amazing to see the NYC marathon runners’ happiness in their faces at the finish line today. Joy of human accomplishment is priceless.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs
I am actually in tears! Steve Jobs! :( Seriously! I am genuinely hit hard by the news.
Juanita: Wake up, I made you waffles.
Gaby: Come back when you learn how to make mimosas!
Desperate Housewives. - I am ecstatic that the new season on!
