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a rainbow car, finally

All of my growing up life (before I turned 16) I begged and begged my mom for a "rainbow van". It was my dreeeeeam car. (Yes, I had a slight obsession with rainbows) Well, look here. I finally found one, Mom... actually, not a van, but a rainbow car. I always knew New York had everything!

buhbye word a day

Yep, I'm ending my Word A Day subscription. In the email with today's word, this intro was included:

You'd think 150 years is ample time for people to understand evolution, but some still claim it's only a "theory". Perhaps they still believe that the earth is flat and the sun goes around the earth.

My guess is they don't want people who don't believe this "theory" subscribing to their words anyway... ok. Done.

daba girl

I haven't looked into this website very much yet (it was just sent to me by my dear friend LeeAnne), but it just seems hilarious (and too fitting, even though Brendan insisted when I told him about it that he isn't a "banker" anymore, he just has the lifestyle of a banker). I thought I'd share it, but like I said (as a disclaimer) I haven't read everything on this website yet except for the heading block, so it could be terrible. I don't think it will be, but just a warning...

Dating A Banker Anonymous

happy super bowl

Tonight I went to a Super Bowl party at Brendan's apt that he and his roommate (also Brendan) hosted. I like football (ok, love football) but for some reason am not ever SUPER pumped about the Super Bowl. Maybe because it isn't college, and maybe because it isn't the SEC... who knows. But, the party tonight was a blast. There were pigs in a blanket (my personal fave), puppy chow (a pretty close second) and a Bacon Explosion with biscuits (which was pretty incredible).

I was pretty disappointed with the outcome of the game, but it was such a close/good game that you can't complain TOO much, I guess... unless you're one of Kurt Warner's seven kids who isn't getting a puppy now.

birthday girls

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LeeAnne (yesterday) and Pamela (tomorrow)!!!


Cake balls and trick candles after fellowship group. What better way to start the birthday celebrations?!

couldn't have said it better

"Stay happy. Don't cry."

Precious words from a cabbie as I was getting out after a 20 minute ride home of listening to me cry on the phone about the most recent happenings in my life.

congrats, Elisabeth!

and... she's going for the trifecta. The announcement is out - Elsabeth Hasselbeck is preggers with her third child and due in August!!!


Should I send her a congratulations card or just wait outside her daugther's Sunday school class so I can tell her in person?

surprising words from a wise woman

“I mean, I begged God to let me marry two different guys before I met Tim, and I was sure my life was in ruins when I didn’t get either one of them.” - Kathy Keller [yes, TK’s wife]

No matter how wise or godly, I guess every girl is just the same, huh?

little known fact:

schools in the city DO actually close for snow. Today as I was watching the news, I saw tons and tons of school closings scrolling across the bottom of the screen. And then I saw "St Francis Preparatory: Closed", which is the project I'm working on right now. One, I felt very accomplished that I live in New York City and actually knew who one of the schools scrolling across the bottom was... And two, if they're closing for inclement weather, shouldn't I NOT be working on their project during inclement weather?

oh, NY, how i love thee

So I've been a copycat recently on some of my blog postings, but since a lot of you don't read the other blogs I do, I feel that these posts are too good to go unposted. I hope you don't have any copyrights, Pamela, on your blog... however, this could be the best email I've ever received. And the greatest depiction of how crazy this city REALLY is:

"Oh my gosh - so on my way home tonight there was this guy on the NRW platform who had brought down a freaking piano and was playing it. Then there were two people on the L platform dressed up like cookie monster and playing the xylophone!..... THEN there was a guy in a dolphin costume sitting on the train. Like a full-on suit with one of those big character heads and everything - straight from an ocean-like theme park!...Craziest ride home EVER...." - courtesy of LA

I laughed (out loud) for 5 straight minutes after I read this. THIS is why living in New York City never gets boring.

Jen and Barb

I'll probably catch a lot of flack for posting this (ah hmm, LA...) but I love this!

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mystery rose

This morning when I got to work, I found this sketchily lying under my desk... who knows where or who it came from, and why it was put there. And the creepiest part - it was dead. Two other girls in my bay had one at their desk too, and they hadn't the slightest clue why either. I'm hoping someone left it there on Friday afternoon, so it had the weekend to waste away...otherwise I hope it's not some foreshadowing omen of my future at Perkins Eastman. However, LA did have a good point. Maybe the HR department has become tired and stale of the conventional way of doing layoffs, and they've adopted a "Bachelor" style of informing employees...which is good news for me and the others who got the rose - we're safe!

be encouraged

Galatians 6:9

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

With all the bad going on around us... be encouraged.