octubre: october

the month of my birthday. i just realized i have spent every birthday for the last 31 years in new york state. now i'm seriously considering heading to CR for a long weekend. have i lost my mind? maybe.

but kristen, jenn and kim will be here and i could head down with them. jenn and i even have the same birthday, is that a sign or something? tickets are about $230. another sign? tbd.

kickin it in Connecticut.

i had a great girly weekend in suburbia with kerry and sasha. we went to the beach, had lunch on the water, hit up a great acoustic show in the park with a sweet picnic, even made it to the mall and CPK...and we did all of the above while drinking vino and/or driving around to some dirty, dirty hip hop. it's how we do.

it was just what i needed, a real house (which is amazingly cute), a lawn and some QT out of the city with a great friend. thanks kerry, love you!

bastille day: day of the french

some of my favorite people came over to my hood last sunday to celebrate the french on bastille day, none of us are actually french so we actually kicked off the day a very American way, pitchers of beer and wings.

outside the wing bar, smith street is lined with sand and there is petanque tournment (kinda like bocce ball) and drinking, hanging in the street. it's a good time.

now this...

is a funny blog.

10 years.

this june was my ten year anniversary living in NYC, they say that makes me a real new yorker. when i moved here amazed by the idea, i walked around in awe that i was living in the place i saw in the movies, the place at the bottom of the designer ads, the Big Apple. and i had a job just like Angela Bower on "Who's the Boss".

now ten years later, i can't imagine having lived in another place. i witnessed and lived through 911, played in the streets during the black out. i have made AMAZING friends, lost some, learned a million lessons. been in love, been out of love. been on some remarkably bad dates. moved apartments about 6 times. had two surgeries. lost a job and found traveling.

tonight i'm celebrating with some of my favorite friends in a bar crawl to our favorite old bars, where we spent hours dancing, laughing and causing trouble. tonight will we be reminding each other of all the things that we've probably blocked out and that only good and long time friends are meant to remember (and torture you with).

from latvia with love.

my friend marcis is from latvia, i met him in costa rica, we traveled together in nicaragua and now he's in brooklyn for a week. it's a small world....but big too because i had no idea where in hell latvia was? i'm still pretty confused. kerry? ;)

dear jersey.

you aren't so bad.

my friend stark flew in from wisconsin for the 4th and we had a blast on the jersey shore. i love that girl, she's the people whisperer...friends everywhere and easily. we stayed in ocean grove. its a cool little town with a big religious history, methodists have been coming here for retreats for years so it's a dry town with a huge cross you can see from the beach, scripture at the beach entrances, impromptu prayer sessions...interesting for sure. but right next door is asbury park (obviously named after wendi) with a great boardwalk full of booze and a good handful of the gays. it was a good time.