Don't you just love New York in the spring?

Today was SO beautiful!! It was WARM outside, I didn't even need a jacket!! Yay for spring! I went for a walk to take some spring pictures and do some spring shopping. Here are some of my reasons for loving spring in New York...
1) When it gets warm most of the little restaurants around the city literally open up the front of their store. The giant windows push to the side leaving the store completely open to the warm air. P.s. that says "thai french".. ?
2)Psychic Reena can now do her palm readings outside!
3) Even though most of New York is cement there are quite a beautiful flowers in bloom!

4) More street performers are out making every day and even different streets unique, these guys in this picture were way rad. The sound was sweet! I should have bought a CD, hopefully they'll be performing again soon.. and somewhere where I can bump into them again!


5)New York is probably just the most diverse place I've ever been, and when the seasons change, so does the city. So far I'm a total fair weather fan of New York and I'm excited to get out more in the beautiful SUNSHINE!!

Hopeful

I have been stressing over school and whether or not I'll graduate for a year now. I just went over the courses I have taken, tallied the numbers and it is a possibility for me to graduate next April!! It makes me want to quote that arthritis commercial, the one where they show someone tying their shoes and ask 'can you do this' .. buttoning a shirt.. 'or this?' .. graduate from college?? "OH YES I CAN!!" Both semesters are going to be PACKED like 20 credits-ish AND an internship with who knows where, but I CAN do it and I WILL do it. I feel like I'm starting fresh at school, we've had such a long break. I feel like its a new day and that I can do this. I want to do it. It's like when you wake up really early on Saturday morning and it's quiet and peaceful outside, the sun just coming up and making the horizon turn a strange yellow that fades into a blue, just before it bursts into brilliance. you have so much you want to accomplish and you just know it's going to be a perfect day.. and it will be. I'm so full of hope!

i don't love it

Everyone has straight across bangs right now, and I've been noticing it a lot more since moving to New York. I think it is an adorable style. Kristal had them for a while and she totally rocked them. I thought that I couldn't pull them off because I have pretty long hair and I mostly saw them on people with shortish hair. The other night on TV one of the judges from dancing with the stars had them, AND had long hair. I decided to try them and after chopping away at my hair this was the result... I don't love it, and I'm starting the grow out stages as I type this. Darn it for all those cute girls who can get away with it! I look like I'm 12!






And I get to wear my hair like an athletic chick who feels she needs to wear her hair as if she is at an athletic even.. ALL the time. GREAT!
So it's not that bad, but I did wear a head band two days in a row, but the serious problem here.. I need a tan! Look at that pasty face!

pinkberry for me, pinkbeeeeerry!

On my way home from returning our videos I decided it was warm enough for ice cream! So I stopped at Pinkberry where I have just wet my appetite for an addiction to this wonderful frozen yogurt. The original flavor is just yogurt flavor, sounds kinda gross, but OH MY, it sure is delish. They have a new pomegranate flavor and that was pretty fabulous too, so I got the original and the pomegranate swirled together with some fresh and ever so tasty raspberries. It wasn't super sweet, but certainly didn't leave you wishing for more sugar, and because it is a frozen yogurt and not cream it isn't heavy and doesn't leave a milky sludge in your throat. IN-credible. Edible. and DE-lectable. Oh and there is a downside to this wonderful treat.. it was $5.50 for the small, which was about, well, small. Not more than 8 or 10 oz. But it is SO worth it! They call the swirl at the top 'pouty' and I don't really get what is pouty about it, but its cute to say!

Just another Star Studded Sunday

After church today we had to have our continuing endorsements signed by the Bishop. And while we were waiting we happened to see John Heder himself attending sacrament meeting in a later ward! We kept peeking to see if it was really him and he noticed us looking at him.. I hope he's used to it because I felt kinda bad after we got caught, how annoying are we?? But pretty cool. Among the other stars we have mingled with at church is the CFO of Citibank, Gary Crittenden, I honestly had no idea who he was, but Cory did and was all excited. But overall church seems to be the same in New York except for our mormon celebs that we have been lucky enough to share the sacrament tray with!

subways aren't really fresh in any sense of the word

Yay! I am so excited for the first time since I've lived in NY for a total of 2 1/2 months now I finally took the subway!! I was so excited I was giddy by the time we got down the stairs. We took the A train to W4th ave and then the F train to Lafeyette, from there we walked two blocks south and took a left turn onto Spring street where we had dessert at 'Rice to Riches' where you can get rice pudding prepared with a variety of toppings. AND it was in the movie Hitch. And sadly because subways aren't the safest way to travel I could not take the camera.. but here is their website.. just in case you would like to look at it.. and it was pretty good! My favorite part was the plastic stick looking things that you ate the pudding with. I should have kept it. We realized that we were in Soho, the gay community, which turned out to be pretty cool and artsy, way cool shops and independent clothing designers.. wish i had my camera, this only means one thing.. I will be taking the A train and then the F train again to this little adventuresome neighborhood.

I found this door when I was on a walk one day.. I really liked it, so I took a picture. That is one of my favorite parts of New York, the simple pleasures I find just by going outside.

sunshine here I come!

Last night I bought tickets to Costa Rica and I am SO stoked!! I've seen pictures, and have a pretty good idea of what the country looks like. The main things I want to see/do when we're there is
1 climb a volcano 2 go on a jungle hike 3 see a toucan 4 see a monkey 5 see their desert 6 take surfing lessons 7 go snorkeling 8 sleep in a hammock outside 9 lay all day on the beach with a good book 10 listen to bob marley and caribbean influence music all day every day 11 wake up before dawn and watch the sunrise on the most beautiful beaches ever 12 be a hippy 13 not care 14 ride a zip line through the jungle 15 white water rafting... i'm sure there are more things that we will do once we get there, but this is a pretty good list to start with! And until then I'll be scouring the internet for more ideas and imagining myself on beautiful beaches with my cute husband!
If any of you guys have any suggestions for things we should do let me know!!

RAAAAaaaaarrrr... more tinfoil

So Matt brought to my attention that while it is a pretty cool thing to know about the locks on the tinfoil box, there seems to be some amazing facts that the forward failed to mention.. so here is my brainstorm of other really cool uses for tinfoil that the forward could have mentioned to make it a little bit more interesting..


like a giant lawn decor dinosaur that is sure to make you look even more white trash, or if you have a filling and bite tin foil it hurts really bad, or if you put it in the microwave it starts a fire, or if you put it on your head during an alien attack the aliens can't read your mind, or if you line your bathtub with it it's really uncomfortable to stand/sit/lay on naked in water,(and probably so even if you were standing/sitting/laying on it naked out of water) or if you cram a bunch into a container of hydrochloric acid and cap it, it makes pretty sweet bomb, some countries worship tinfoil, and i read somewhere that in Novogadratica they are going to build a tinfoil temple to the tinfoil gods, which is pretty weird because i'm pretty sure NASA invented it.. or did they? I also watched an episode of Maury Povich where a woman had a phobia of tinfoil, and in case you may be suffering from the same phobia here is a website that I found helpful .. so its not really that exciting, but it is tin foil, i mean how exciting can it really be? hey maybe if your japanese mud art project doesn't work out you could cover THEM with tin foil and then they would shine forever!
if you happen to know of any other life altering uses for tinfoil please let me know!
p.s. this was not intended to sound sarcastic even though it does, I'm just really bored, and sadly as hard as I tried, these were the best ideas I could come up with.

22 years of foil and still learning new things

I've never been a huge fan of forwards, but my mom sent one to me that has changed my life forever. Tin foil boxes have a lock on the ends of the box!
Now when I'm getting tin foil out of the box the whole roll won't come out, which has become a part of life that I had learned to live with! And that is not my man hand poking in the lock, i stole it from the forward. Did you know about this?

just for laughs

I was just on Youtube watching videos of Demetri Martin. I'd have to say he's my favorite comedian because he is smart funny. The dude is a genius. I do not like Dane Cook, and I have given him many a chance. Crawling around on stage and making weird noises and faces isn't very funny to me. And his jokes have the f word in them too much, and they aren't very funny.. not my style. Anyway if I knew how to put a link in the text I'd put it here so you could watch Demetri, but don't click there because it's not a link.

say it loud, say it proud!

I feel that being in New York has helped me become more assertive. I am a pretty shy person around people I don't know and tend to be pretty soft spoken. If someone is doing something that I don't like or is bothering me, I'm more likely to try to ignore them instead of saying anything. Pretty non-confrontational. Well today I spoke up for myself and made myself heard. Here is my story...
Every day at about 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm the traffic on my street gets really busy. This is a residential street and it is illegal to honk on it (and New Yorkers are pretty fond of honking). As traffic backed up one of the motorists was honking relentlessly and it was really starting to get annoying. Like honking is going to make the traffic jam go away! Without thinking I stood up walked over to the window and identified the perpetrator as a middle aged, well dressed man driving a silver Mercedes Benz who was standing outside his car, door open, laying on the horn. I ripped open the window and before I realized what I was doing I was yelling! "HEY!" he didn't turn, but surly he heard me, it was a loud yell, "HEY!" ok I know he heard me that time people inside their cars were looking at me. "STOP HONKING!!!!" Although he refused to look at me, I know he heard me because he shook his head in disbelief and didn't honk again. VICTORY!!! I stood their and watched until finally traffic started moving again. I realized I missed my opportunity to get photo evidence of this honking whore, but I still snapped a picture of the traffic for kicks. For those of you who have troubles speaking up when someone is imposing on your rights I encourage you to speak up for yourself! Let yourself be heard and take what is yours! And it feels pretty good!

hmmm...

i'm not sure how i did this, but i am now following my own blog. this way i can't miss any of my own posts.