goodwill towards man

great purging of clothes today, including all of my gaucho pants- i am no longer in college- and i will never work at fogo de chao, ive decided to gradute to full length pants. i texted aubrey & adrienne for moral support. it's a big day. gotta make room in the closet for power suits and heels.

mama mia

guilty pleasure night with the lord: junk food & the musical masterpiece, mama mia. too much excitement for eddie as evident when he passed out on my couch circa 11 pm. and yes, he chose the couch that he is longer than when the comfy couch was unoccupied.

penny on the train tracks.

helped to "chaperone" the ben kweller concert on campus tonight. sometimes my job is pretty great. ben requested the lights be kept on so he "could see the crowd." and he played all of my favs and took requests from the audience. i pretty much love him.

the excitement is palpable

tapas dinner with k to the web to watch our favorite doc, "wordplay." she introduced me to tj's bruschetta. it was one of the most delicious discoveries ever. i love trader joe's.

watley

dinner date with adrienne at the park towne and a chance to give some love to my nephew, watley. he was an asshole today. i love the "pet" setting on my camera, even though watley moved and made his close up a bit blurry, i blame the 5 yr old ikea coffee table he's sitting on.

zombie

sju crew celebrates restaurant week @ rum bar. courtney & i decided to order drinks called "zombies" which prompted kelly to state that if anyone threw up in her car, she was quitting the three musketeers. the musketeers remain strong. in other news, our waitress was in a pregnancy pact. amazing lifetime movie.

notorious

wtf does this mean? i have no idea. i'm too old to understand ads for sju poster sales...rip biggie, sometimes your words just hypnotize me.

drill baby drill

new owner of my very own power drill. my dad will be proud.

genius mix

lucky enough to see the go-go dancer as jim's "floating a boulder" exhibit comes to an end...i wish i had a a pictures of the ladies chest bumping that christine, tyler & i saw that night while watching for our delicious sushi dinner, living in eternal wonder of what mix he was dancing to on his ipod will have to suffice.

may i keep this?

birthday girl & her prix fixe birthday menu from savoy. d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s.

two thumbs up

packing my fav new sweatshirt with built in mittens to brave the winds of nyc for the weekend...and missing the office & 30 rock because of digital conversion...

giving up the ghost

we have to install converter cable boxes for the digital upgrade. i gave up 3/4ers of the way through the installation process. it's really not worth it for the the 60 minutes a week i spend watching the office & 30 rock. on an unrelated note: now accepting applications to host me while watching the office & 30 rock during the regular television season.

love ya girlfriend

end of an era. joan timby's last day in the office after working here for 9 years. the fish lady has left the building.

castle

today i went to a castle. it was AWESOME.

mother daughter day

nancy came for the first overnight visit at one of her kid's houses ever. she said she was sent to slam doors & jump on beds. however, she did bring a housewarming gift made of recycled magazines.

nothing suits me like suit

chris discovering his alter-ego "nothing suits me like a suit" on the way back from sno-tubing.

hat trick

bingo

i've really been bringing it in scrabble recently- i've gotten 3 bingos (using all tiles on one turn) in the past 24 hours and a high score of 106 points for one word. my vocab is expanding at an alarming rate. however some people are now refusing to play with me.

flash

thought i had a photo for today- until i got in from a long day- capped with dinner on carson st to find a "congrats on your new baby" card from my parents for my recent iphone purchase. i love them. i named my son flash, because he has a cover with a lightning bolt on it. they even signed their predetermined grandparent names "hap" and "winky." have i mentioned that i love them?

trust falls

professional staff retreat the morris arboretum in chestnut hill. this is a "squirrel scramble" nets 50 ft over the forest floor, showing what it would be like to be a squirrel. or, if you are us, eddie tackling kelly. very un-squirrel like.

arrupe

courtney, kelly & i stayed out of the way while jj, marci & mep attempted to put together the 50 inch tv today to watch a documentary about the life of pedro arrupe. interesting stuff. and note new mod furniture in the sourin lounge, for those that have seen the past furniture.

the help

book club discussion questions- light ages beyond the last time we decided to start a book club and we didn't discuss the book at all. good to spend time with people who knew you when you were a collegiate hot mess...not that i've really improved all that much...

member of an elite squad

law & order: svu marathon on tv while i was cleaning my apt

hope

playing with the obamicon app taking a photo of kelly, who hates getting her photo taken- hence the turn away shirk. hope.

the only vampires i like are vampire weekend

doing room checks in my buildings today and encountered this man in moore hall. had the interesting opportunity to see the first twilight film while on an 18 hr bus trip back from georgia in november. i didn't know the characters were available in life size form.

lovers of central america

spent the afternoon in an assembly line of one putting together welcome back gifts for the romero community kids with framed notecards with a quote from the archbishop purchased from a website that kaela sent me. fitting as today is the anniversary of her birth. the second photo (not taken in 2010) celebrates my love for her.

the brynwood

weekly date night with ageorge: one bottle of sustainably grown wine + one chick flick + one bff + lots of gossip= great night. always.

$1 premium lagers

first of many good happy hours this evening with good work folk. added a new coaster to my coaster collection in which i take great pride hailing from 3 continents and many countries....a lot from my unsophisticated high school days at ruby tuesdays & tgi fridays.

baggage claim

kelly flew in from visiting her family in the midwest and i picked her up from the airport around 11:30 pm. i love taking people to and from the airport. it just seems to me to be a nice thing you can do for someone and expect nothing in return. in bethel i would love going to airport- mostly because it was the furthest you could go in town. i think mostly though, i like pretending that i'm in the heathrow scene of love actually. maybe i should start playing some beach boys during my trips to philly int'l

nuclear codes

jess and i hit some after holiday sales at the premium outlets- and took in the site of the nuclear stacks. even though it was ridiculously cold- we scored some great deals.

olympus event

i have discovered this new phenomenon of the "365" a challenge to take one photo a day- either of something common that you do everyday- or something great that happens...and because i expect 2010 to be fantastic, i'm updating the hype to reflect this instead of making the world a more complicated place with one more blog- or coming up with a better name that the one that currently exists. so today, january 1st, 2010 will have to be a photo from midnight- first moment of a new decade from nora's surprise birthday party last night- amy ringing in the new year: