Look who's famous now..
http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=13596
6.30.2009
6.12.2009
6.11.2009
my fiancee is going to kill me
So I'm going on day 3 of being sick and housebound. Online shopping has quickly become one of my favorite past times. I found this awesome rug on PoshTots. Even though it's a children's furnishing website, I think it would look great in the new place. Si?
Looking for something to do Saturday?
Check out Kovax, at the Seaside Tavern in Stamford on Saturday night. The bari sax player might look familiar.
6.10.2009
6.08.2009
blue skies
Happy Monday! After a wonderful weekend filled with birthday celebrations, Jersey, and beach time, I'm ready to start the new week. Today I truly felt like a housewife: gym, laundry, lunch with a friend, shopping. Now this is what I call summer :)
The search for the wedding venue is in high gear. We were uber productive on Saturday and still just trying to figure out the *perfect* spot--I'm not too worried, we'll know it when we see it..
Alrighty lovely readers, I'm off...but before I go, let me leave you with this a-dorable dog J e-mailed me this morning:
The search for the wedding venue is in high gear. We were uber productive on Saturday and still just trying to figure out the *perfect* spot--I'm not too worried, we'll know it when we see it..
Alrighty lovely readers, I'm off...but before I go, let me leave you with this a-dorable dog J e-mailed me this morning:
Have a great day!
xo,
E
xo,
E
6.05.2009
the search for the perfect venue
We've started looking at a few places for the wedding, here's where we've been so far:
1. Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
2. Penfield Pavillion in Fairfield
And this weekend we're driving down to Jersey to take a look at these:
-The Breakers
- Water's Edge
Perfect and beachy, don't you agree? :)
1. Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
2. Penfield Pavillion in Fairfield
And this weekend we're driving down to Jersey to take a look at these:
-The Breakers
- Water's Edge
Perfect and beachy, don't you agree? :)
6.04.2009
Shackin' up (and movin' stuff)
The verb "to move" has its origins in Phoenician and several other Semitic languages, in which "l'muuvar" meant, approximately, "bringing oxcart-loads of clay tablets from one dwelling to another and most likely losing a couple along the way to the wrath of the gods." So it's nice to see that the meaning of the word hasn't changed too much over the millenia.
As E mentioned in her last post, I have some boxes (boxen?) of stuff in the basement of my old apartment. These boxes have things in them that I know I should get rid of, but irrationally can't, really--jewel cases for my large CD collection (the CDs themselves are, for the most part, stored in binders, in a space-saving measure that I made years ago), things I made in elementary school, copies of newspapers and magazines I've written for or was quoted in, that sort of stuff.
The problem, of course, is that our new place is already pretty much full from emptying E's place, which had to be done by May 31st. So now, aside from the one half-wall in our big closet and some space in the Man Room, there's nowhere for me to put the contents of my old place, which has to be emptied by June 30th (although I'd much rather have it done earlier and try and collect a half-month's rent back if my landlord can turn the place over quickly).
We've got some basement storage space at the new place, one of those big rooms full of padlocked cages that I'm sure some readers have seen before, but we can't seem to get in there yet. Once we have the right key or whatever, that's the space that would make the most sense for storing things we don't need to get at too often, but don't want to get rid of, like my boxes of stuff, my bike, our painting supplies, temporarily unused furniture, etc. But I also know that we BOTH have to go through what we have--E at the new place and me before I pack up the stuff in my old place--and do some serious culling.
I've always been the kind of person who liked to own, actually OWN, copies of things that are important to me--favorite books (and I'm an English teacher, which means I've got a lot of those) and CDs, especially. I've definitely gotten better at using the library when I actually have time to read things, but there's something about owning the book that's somehow better for me and how I work. It's probably because I'm also the kind of person who has four or five books going at any particular time, so it's good to be able to bookmark something, put it down, and pick it up again a month or two later to see if I'm still interested.
Then, of course, there's the other side to the whole thing:
So now I just don't know. I've got a fiancee who, despite her amazing practicality on almost everything else, doesn't quite share my opinion that bookcases are meant for books, instead of for sparsely arranged photos. So I guess that means I'll be doing some serious thinking and sorting over the next couple of weeks, winnowing away at what I've got so that next time, for the next move, it'll be ME who gets to complain about who's got the most unnecessary crap to pack up.
As E mentioned in her last post, I have some boxes (boxen?) of stuff in the basement of my old apartment. These boxes have things in them that I know I should get rid of, but irrationally can't, really--jewel cases for my large CD collection (the CDs themselves are, for the most part, stored in binders, in a space-saving measure that I made years ago), things I made in elementary school, copies of newspapers and magazines I've written for or was quoted in, that sort of stuff.
The problem, of course, is that our new place is already pretty much full from emptying E's place, which had to be done by May 31st. So now, aside from the one half-wall in our big closet and some space in the Man Room, there's nowhere for me to put the contents of my old place, which has to be emptied by June 30th (although I'd much rather have it done earlier and try and collect a half-month's rent back if my landlord can turn the place over quickly).
We've got some basement storage space at the new place, one of those big rooms full of padlocked cages that I'm sure some readers have seen before, but we can't seem to get in there yet. Once we have the right key or whatever, that's the space that would make the most sense for storing things we don't need to get at too often, but don't want to get rid of, like my boxes of stuff, my bike, our painting supplies, temporarily unused furniture, etc. But I also know that we BOTH have to go through what we have--E at the new place and me before I pack up the stuff in my old place--and do some serious culling.
I've always been the kind of person who liked to own, actually OWN, copies of things that are important to me--favorite books (and I'm an English teacher, which means I've got a lot of those) and CDs, especially. I've definitely gotten better at using the library when I actually have time to read things, but there's something about owning the book that's somehow better for me and how I work. It's probably because I'm also the kind of person who has four or five books going at any particular time, so it's good to be able to bookmark something, put it down, and pick it up again a month or two later to see if I'm still interested.
Then, of course, there's the other side to the whole thing:
The trouble is that maintaining a physical collection is expensive and bulky. There’s just too much out there in the world. Even after pruning the treasury down to only those records and books of great personal importance, you can still be saddled with mountainous stacks to maintain.
So now I just don't know. I've got a fiancee who, despite her amazing practicality on almost everything else, doesn't quite share my opinion that bookcases are meant for books, instead of for sparsely arranged photos. So I guess that means I'll be doing some serious thinking and sorting over the next couple of weeks, winnowing away at what I've got so that next time, for the next move, it'll be ME who gets to complain about who's got the most unnecessary crap to pack up.
rainy day
What a rainy, rainy day. About to head out to the gym, and then the rest of the day will be dedicated to getting this place in order! Also, J just informed me that he has *more* boxes down in his old apartment's basement. That's in addition to all the stuff he still has IN the apartment. O, this should be interesting. There really should be a reality show on cohabitating and finding room for both people's things. Wish us luck!
6.02.2009
hello summer!
...here's to the next 3 months..filled with wedding planning, memories with friends and family, outdoor concerts, lazy days at the beach, Maine, late night drinks on our balcony, Bermuda, reading for fun, selling my jewelry, bbqing, unpacking/decorating the new place, happy hours.... 6.01.2009
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