Firsts

I was recently thinking about some of the milestones I've reached in my short 22 years. Some of them make me feel pretty grown up! It's exciting to think about the 'firsts' to come (i.e. first house! first real job! first child! (AH)). Meanwhile, here is a little glimpse of the past.

1st Crush: Justin Tosco from the band Justincase

1st Real kiss: Abe

1st Real boyfriend: Cam

1st Car: Old Blue

1st Apartment: Sound Beach, NY

1st Passport stamp: Costa Rica

1st Perfume: DKNY Be Delicious

1st Drink: wine at Pago

1st Job: Hogle Zoo

1st Phone: Nokia 'brick' -- indestructable

1st Pet: Stubbs

1st Very own magazine subscription: SELF

1st Big concert: CIWWAF



Older Men...

...that I would run away with in a heartbeat.

They will forever be their younger selves in my eyes.
Admit it, who is your older man crush??

x's and o's for Mr. Darcy, Prince Henry, and Remington Steele

Cro-chet

I've been sick - really sick. Actually I've been sick for about 85% of this semester, but the past 2 weeks have been the worst by far. I finally feel like I'm not dying, but definitely not out of the woods yet. Poor Julie came to visit me but I had to pawn her off on the nicest friends in the world who took her around Boston in my stead since going anywhere was not an option. I am still stressing about the cough I have, since I'm leaving for Africa Friday morning. Anyway. Being sick I had a lot of time to crochet. I plan on making lots of scarves on my 18 hour flight too! Although I am hoping for spring and not needing to bundle up.

 

Scarf with removable flower pin

Conundrum

I've been thinking a lot lately about where I'll be in the next year, since I will be done with my masters in December and I may be getting ready to start a PhD - I love Boston, but I also really miss New York. And D.C. is another big possibility! I guess, to quote The All American Rejects, I'll leave when the wind blows.

Boston

New York

Washington, D.C.

Cologne (Not Germany)

After a great deal of cologne shopping the past two weekends (long story...) I created my personal list of approved (and very intoxicating) colognes. These are scents that I can instantly recognize on a man, that simultaneously make me attracted to the man wearing it. Here they are, in no particular order:

• Issey Miyake - L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme
• Giorgio Armani - Aqua di Gio
• Prada - Infusion de Homme
• Chanel - Bleu de Chanel
• D&G - Light Blue, The One
• Givenchy - Play
• A&F - Fierce

TGIF.

Photographie

Photo by Catie

Weird.

I have a lot of weird food habits. My friend encouraged me to compile a list, and I hadn't realized just how many there are.

• Sauce. Spaghetti sauce, bbq sauce, honey mustard, salsa, you name a sauce I will use 10 times as much of it as normal people. I love to drown food in sauce.
• Tofu. Specifically, tofu on pizza, jazzed up with fun spices like paprika and garlic and oregano and then smothered with sauce (see above), spinach, and cheese (farther below). Tofu-haters of the world can suck it.
• Top layers. I only like the top layer of movie theater popcorn (it has the most butter!). Also, the top layer of a newly-opened carton of ice cream tastes absolutely amazing.
• Seeds. Hate them. Will not touch seeded grapes or watermelon - despite my love of both fruits I can only handle seedless. Dislike strawberry seeds as well, but only in things like ice cream and jam.
• Plain. Plain hominy and plain beans, straight from the can. Plain toast. Plain deli turkey and bread.
• Pickles. I get the most intense random pickle cravings; my strongest recurring food craving by far. Stupid Snooki for making pickle-loving so cliche.  
• Salt. I almost never put salt on anything.
• Meat. EW to: veins/skin/fatty parts/stringy parts/slimy parts/weird colored parts/parts that look too much like muscle. So that basically leaves me with well-done chicken breast that has been carefully autopsied for all of the EW factors.
• Cheese. Except stinky cheese. Mmm.
• Bananas. I won't eat the bottom end, only the top.
• Crust. If it's good bread or pizza or pie, I always save the best for last.
• Gross. Living on my own I don't eat peanut butter or eggs, simply because I can't stand washing dishes that have involved either. As a matter of fact, I really hate all dishes in general (luckily every guy I've dated thus far happily does dishes - it's now a prerequisite).
• M&Ms. Red, blue, and orange only, eaten in groups of three (1 of each color).
• Lime. In a 50/50 mixture of Dr. Pepper and Diet Coke.
• Nuts. I despise nuts in brownies and ice cream. Peanuts are only good for peanut butter, almonds must be blanched, and pecans must be sugar coated aka pralines. Nope, I'm not picky at all.
• Foreign objects. Mostly hairs, but obscure things end up in my food so frequently that I'm no longer shocked. 12" strings, bugs, bandaids....

On that delicious note, dinner time! Ha.

Models.

Look! We are models. Keala is too legit to quit. I will post some more when we receive them :)

 



Guilty pleasure

Courtney and Bee and I went to see "Easy A" last night. First off, I love Connie who sold us our tickets. She thought we were pretty great too, like when Bee started complaining about the 'cold' and I snapped "Oh, SO sorry, California." Anyway. Stellar movie. By stellar I mean dumb funny. I want to be the parents in that movie when I grow up. I know that makes none sense (yes none sense - long story) but watch it and you will want to be them too. Also, we are planning on seeing "You Again" on Monday ($.75 movies!!! I love Utah for that!). Both very uncultured, cheesy, and in the case of "You Again" seemingly ridiculous movies, but hey. Every now and then won't hurt you.

Movies

I have been feeling under the weather lately. Luckily, I have my go-to movies! I can watch these any time, but I especially like them when I'm sick/in bad mood/bored:
Jane Austen movies (especially Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth, Persuasion, Emma)
The Young Victoria
The Sound of Music/Brigadoon/Mama Mia/any musical on film
The Little Mermaid
Any of the HP movies
What a Girl Wants
Charade
Sweet Home Alabama
The Scarlet Pimpernel

The tiniest s'more

Etsy

I love Etsy. It is a source of crafting inspriation (sometimes I find fun items to make on my own) but also a great gift center! I did most of my Christmas shopping here this year. Some of the best-loved gifts I have ever given have been of Etsy origin - such as a silkscreened print of a tapir on the page of a vintage Russian book I had specially made for WL, the original collage piece I found for Amanda, and the hair flowers for Courtney -

I really liked two of the recent Etsy sellers I worked with - Jim, a 73-year old jewelry maker and self-proclaimed hippie who is proud of his 100% positive feedback rating and wrote "Thanks Cathy!" in a little note included with my purchase, and Ms. Mary Maples of Ireland from whom I got the cutest vintage postcards. I'd tell you more about my Etsy purchases but.....that is going to have to wait until after Christmas!

Brrr.

Anderson Bridge, Harvard University 7 Dec. 2010

It was a

RIDICULOUSLY

cold, cold day in Boston. Again.

(Sadly this is not the coldest the east coast has to offer...joy)

It is also finals week, and I am out of brainpower.

Finals = fueled by hot cocoa.