That Time I Did'nt Blog for A REALLY Long Time But Then Came Back....

   For the last three years I have been working a very wonderful but hectic and time consuming job teaching at a preschool in Tribeca. I loved my job but I ran the after school program so my work day started at 8:15 AM and ended at 5:45 PM. After moving to the Bronx two years ago, my commute increased from 20 minuets to an hour plus. This meant I woke up at 5:30, left the house at 6:45, got to school at 8:15, used my hour and a half lunch break to go to the gym, left work at 5:45, and got home after 7 PM. Every. Day. I loved my job but I was tired and constantly running. All my time was accounted for. In June I said goodbye to my job in Tribeca and started teaching at a school on the upper west side of Manhattan. Right now is summer camp but in the Fall my hours will be less and I will have more time. I'm still learning to adjust to not constantly being on the go. To having time for myself. I miss my Tribeca students everyday though having a camp full of new kids is a great help.

  This new scheduled puts me in a position to actually blog more, something I always say I'm going to do but never had time for before. It also gives me time to plan my wedding which is coming up in October (less then four months! ::insert gulp here::) It also will give me time to cook! I always talk about cooking but I never had time before. Right now in the heart of summer our kitchen on the top floor of our building gets direct sunlight and is at a constant 98 degrees. I don't handle heat well but in the Fall, watch out world! I am going to cook things!

  So yes, more blogging. More updates hopefully and this time I will try to post at least every Sunday.  That sounds do-able at least to start. For now, please enjoy this engagment photo my cousin took of me and the HTB (Husband to Be). It was taken in the courtyard of my mothers building where I grew up and I love everything about it. That's all for now.

The Time I did the Color Run

Ok so I have been training for the color run for months. I did it last year and basically walked it but this year I was going to run it. I signed up along with a friend who is a seasoned runner and I hit the gym. Hard. Three days a week with walk/run intervals. I felt great, I lost a little weight, it was all gravy and then a week before the race it all went to hell. I jumped on the treadmill and couldn't run. It was painful.
It was determined that I had developed shin splints. So I walked/ran the race again. I was really heartbroken about it and since then I've somewhat fallen off the gym wagon. It seems the shin splints led to a hip pain so I've just been laying low and gaining weight back. It really sucks. I know I'll get back on the treadmill soon but I miss it so much. I never thought I would but I do.
Anyway, my wonderful friend Mandy walked it with me, even when she could have ran it in 10 mins and been done and we had a blast anyway. Here are some pictures. If you like paint and mild exercise, you should do the color run.

I moved!

Hey remember that time I moved and didn't post a blog update for just about 8 months? Yeah, I feel kinda bad about that. Many things have happened in the last 8 months and I've been busy adjusting to a new place and working and just living life. Here is a brief summery of life right now...

I moved to the Bronx. I increased my commute by about an hour. As far as living with my boyfriend, that has been a blast. We have a Super Mario themed bathroom, a Halloween themed kitchen and a turquoise bedroom. I'm messy, he's neat. We are working through that.

I got my tonsils removed a week after I moved. But they wouldn't let me keep them OR take a picture of them for me. This annoyed me. They have been such a pain in my life and I wanted to see what had caused such a fuss all my life. Dear boyfriend was a great caretaker and trust me, I was not an easy patient.



Anyway, I will, I WILL update more often. I have nothing better to do on my hour + commute to work.

Location:Bronx and Pelham Pkwy,New York,United States

My adventure to Kentucky went off without a hitch. I attended the beautiful wedding of my sorority sister and survived two flights on some of the smallest commercial planes I've ever seen. We actually entered them from the Tarmac which for us city folks is just not something you do. I was on the Tarmac at JFK. Just saying it makes me feel like I've accomplished something off my bucket list, (you know, the one I don't have and if I did would never involve anything to do with a damn aireal vessel of death) So anyway, yeah I did that.
In my packing the night before, I came across a scarf that I had started I guess last year when my mother had given me a groupon for knitting lessons. It was somewhere around 34th street and I remember the teacher was not the nicest person. While impressed with my homespun yarn, she seemed somewhat frustrated with the fact that I seem to switch off between English and American methods. I was not aware I did this but was told sternly to "Pick a side!" So I started the scarf in the class using some of my own wool and some store bought, took it home and ignored it.




It was a lucky rediscovery right before this trip. Knitting forces you to concentrate and focus which was awesome for my anxiety while I sat in the airport crying during a panic attack. It really helped. The second reason was, I had already fucked this scarf up. I have no idea what stitch I started out in or quite frankly what stitch I'm doing now so I'm not worried about messing it up. I'm over it, it's going to look crazy and hopefully still cool so whatever. So I took the scarf and my knitting problems answer book and I've been screwing around. I've named this project, "The rediculous scarf" or "The scarf of insanity" I'm still working on a title but it will have one. It's liberating for me since I'm always so afraid of screwing projects up and now I have one that I can't screw up. It just is.


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Flight Anxiety

I am taking flight Saturday. To Kentucky. For a wedding. I don't fly well. I use to fly all the time as a child but since my teens I have had sever anxiety when it comes to flying. I have not actually flown since my grandmothers funeral in 2008 so Saturday will be my first flight in 5 years. My anxiety starts about a week in advance. I become moody and have trouble sleeping and all that fun jazz. I have tried to find ways to relax and try to sniffle the stress before it becomes to much. Hence, my return to spinning. Yarn, that is. This past weekend I broke out the spinning wheel and some Romney and spun! Spinning is so relaxing and I do believe it helped a bit.

 So following this return to spinning, I also decided to purge a bit of my disgustingly obese fiber stash. My stash occupies three Container Store bins in my closet. Its obese in part because I both spin and felt so I have both spinning and felting fiber. I bagged up about 1/5 of my stash and brought it to The Spin City meetup for "Fiber Adoption" day. Of course, I couldn't come home empty handed but I held strong and only came home with two fiber batts and a copy of "Mason Dixon Knitting" which I have wanted FOREVER! I swear someday I'm going to be a real knitter.

 I'm not sure I can bring my knitting looms on the plane, not to mention the major drawback of looms is that they are so big and cumbersome AND I'm only going to three days. Do I need a knitting project for three days? Most would say yes but as I am a poor knitter I'm not sure if I can justify it. I did find an old in progress scarf during my fiber purge so maybe I'll tote that along. Either way, I started a cowel on my biggest loom last night in another attempt to destress. I'm using "Cascade Eco Wool" that I bought years ago and knitted my hat with two weeks ago. I love this yarn. It's soft and wonderful and I just want to roll around in it. I decided to hunt for more online and discovered it comes is a crazy amount of colors! I'm already planning new projects. 

 Wish my luck in my travels. I've never been to Kentucky so I'm looking forward to it. And I'm hoping for a smooth ride.








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I'll have a cocktail

Sometimes it really concerns me how many addictions I can have and how crazy said addictions are. Yesterday I was passing by Whole Foods on my lunch break and stopped dead in my tracks. They had citrus trees for $19! "That's a crazy great price." I said to myself and took the spare two minuets I had to inspect the display of baby city's trees. One of the tags said "Key Lime" so I decided to return and pick one up after work.

Now, logically I know I do not need another plant in my life. I know financially that May is a tight month. I've already decided to hold off on several purchases. But if you look anywhere else, citrus trees are expensive and my two year old citrus tree brought me so much joy during those shitty winter months. Citrus trees are evergreens which means they are lush and wonderful all year long AND they bloom and start to fruit in winter. I just needed one. My gardening side of my brain overrode they responsible side of my brain and won.

I returned to Whole Foods and picked a healthy looking tree. I then saw that it had both a "Key Lime" and "Meyer Lemon" tags on it. I asked a sales person but she didn't know. I kinda figured either way it'd be a win and then I looked at the container and saw the words, "Cocktail citrus tree". By the beard of Zeus, it was BOTH! A beautifully freakish, lab constructed citrus hybrid!!! It was the Frankenstein of the fruit family and I was about to freakin take it home. My love for my new tree grew ten fold. While I have no idea how Whole Foods condoned the growing of such a thing, I am nevertheless thankful for bringing it to me. I know I sound crazy, I don't care. I have a passion about plants like most normal woman of my age have about shoes. Shoes don't bloom or grow. I think those bitches are crazy.

So here sits my new addition to my windowsill. It's not actually on my windowsill yet.


It's in quarantine in another room. I heard you were suppose to do that with plants, it seemed legit. Ill name it, I'm thinking of calling it Conrad. Conrad the Cocktail citrus Tree. The bottom line: I'm excited.


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Just trudging along...

I'm working, I'm busy and I'm tired. I haven't had time or energy to craft. My big thing last was week was attending a potluck party in Brooklyn for which I made a crazy yummy cheese dip and cookies and cream popcorn. The host, my friend Kealyn, gifted me a beautiful glass trivet she made.


It's crazy awesome and it's inspiring me to work on my glass skills which have been sorely neglected as of late. One more thing to add to my crazy long list of things to do.


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