December Goals

It's been a while y'all!  I can't even begin to explain how busy and full these last couple weeks have been.  It's December! Can you believe it? This is the happiest time of year, and even though I am far away from loved ones until the 23rd, I am embracing the Christmas season city style.  So here's to the last and best month, time to make and meet the last of my goals for 2013...

December Goals--

1) Go ice skating (must must must)

2) Create a cohesive calligraphy font (work in progress, just loaded up on lots of new calligraphy goodies including gold ink, swoon)

3) Start my Christmas shopping for family and friends (hitting up Woodbury Commons this weekend!)

4) Attempt the Balthazar French Onion Soup recipe (had the real thing last week, so now I am motivated)

5) Make Christmas cards for family and friends 

6) Hit the gym three, yes three, times a week

7) Do all the city Christmas things I can // Watch as many Christmas movies as possible   

8) Start thinking of New Year's resolutions

9) Cross something off my 30 before 30 list (hopefully it's meeting John Mayer at his concert this month!)

10) See as many friends when I am home for a week at Christmas  
11) Blog four times a week!!!!

November Goals Update--

1)  Go to the movies (planning on checking this off this weekend when Joel is in town) I saw 12 Years a Slave definitely a tough movie to watch, but was so moving and great

2)  Wake up 30 minutes earlier every morning (definitely easier now that the sun will be waking me up!) This has partially been a success! Any progress is good right?

3)  Clean out my closet (this is seriously a must..) Done and done- make way for new clothes!

4)  Organize my makeup (instead I have just been buying more. Oops) Well, I guess I didn't organize it all so to say, but I definitely got rid of some old stuff

5)  Transform my apartment into a holiday wonderland Oh yes this happened, after a great trip to target I now come home to a winter wonderland!  Still not sure on a tree though...

6)  Get tickets for the Gossip Girl UES tour

7)  Attempt the Balthazar French Onion Soup recipe

8)  Start my Christmas shopping for family and friends

9)  Create a cohesive calligraphy font

10)  Go ice skating

November Goals & October Update

Check out what I marked off on my to-do list and what's to come for November:




November Goals--

1)  Go to the movies (planning on checking this off this weekend when Joel is in town)

2)  Wake up 30 minutes earlier every morning (definitely easier now that the sun will be waking me up!)

3)  Clean out my closet (this is seriously a must..)

4)  Organize my makeup (instead I have just been buying more. Oops)

5)  Transform my apartment into a holiday wonderland

6)  Get tickets for the Gossip Girl UES tour

7)  Attempt the Balthazar French Onion Soup recipe

8)  Start my Christmas shopping for family and friends

9)  Create a cohesive calligraphy font

10)  Go ice skating

October Update--

1)  Go to the movies

2)  Read a new book (Elizabeth Smart's My Story is a must read)

3)  Clean out my closet

4)  Organize my makeup

5)  Do one thing I love everyday

6)  Sign up for another calligraphy class (signed up and completed the class, thanks Paperfinger!)

7)  Wake up 30 minutes earlier every morning

8)  Get up early and go for a walk in Central Park (so I technically did this on November 1st..) 

9)  More frequent FaceTime dates with my boyfriend

10)  Purchase a coat and boots for the fast approaching winter weather (got this cute coat)

Never Alone

As a recent college graduate from TCU in Fort Worth, Texas who has just recently relocated to the Big Apple,  I tend to miss my best girls from time to time-- okay all the time.

I couldn't have been any luckier to find such a close group of girls that I could truly be myself with {the good, the bad, and the ugly}

Now that I'm doing city livin' on my own, away from these great gals, I truly realize what friends are and know that friends like them are few and far between.

So here's to us, and the greatest four year! Many, many more to come!

You can find a few of these ladies on the world wide web, check them out here and here.

In Honor of My iPhone

About three months ago I had a tragic {iPhone} accident.. We are talking shattered glass and all.  I waited it out and today was the day -- I was upgrade eligible.  In honor of my new pretty, shiny, and white iPhone 5, here are some cases I am currently craving (although I am no longer craving case #2, scooped that cutie up yesterday in prep for my purchase) 

1//2//3//4//5//6

Give My Regards to Broadway

After making our way down to the Financial District to the pop up TKTS booth on the corner of Fulton and South Street, Abbey, Luke and I chatted with the friendly TKTS employee who persuaded us to see Once! Not only has this show recieved 8 Tony Awards and has been deemed the best show on Broadway, but we heard that it had Mumford and Sons style-esque music so we couldn't say no...

Here are a few pics from our fun night on Broadway!  Check out our great seats -- I have never had bad seats when I get tickets from the half price ticket booth stands.  Plus, we looked up the going face value online and the seats were originally almost $300.. definitely worth the trip downtown!

The music was fabulous -- totally folksy and fun.  I have never really had an appreciation for the violin, but now I definitely do.  The venue was great, during intermission they even had a bar on stage!  The musical itself was beautiful and totally brought a tears to the eyes of many in the audience and left me in awe