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finally.

I finished The Help! It took me long enough, but I'm finally done and I'm going to see the movie. Since I don't watch much tv, I hadn't even see the trailer preview, and once I started the book I didn't let myself watch it until I was done (mostly because I wanted to keep the characters as they were in my mind's eye until I was done and didn't want to be influenced by the actresses who played them in the movie). I watched the trailer for the first time now and I'm even more excited to see the movie on Sunday!!!

the last weekend of summer
































I can't believe it's that time again. Summer is over. What?! I wish I was spending the weekend with my floaties jumping into a pool, but I'll be here instead (with lots of fun things planned, I should add). I don't know where the time has gone or why it's going by so quickly, but it's going by like a speeding bullet. Here's to enjoying one more weekend of my favorite season of all!

[photo from here]

cafe grumpy


On Wednesday night, my friend Addie and I met (for the first time!) at a local coffee shop: Cafe Grumpy. She had been there once before and recommended it, so I tried it out. It was so cute: in an adorable, quiet part of Chelsea, there was enough room inside to actually walk around and sit comfortably (sounds simple, but often that is a luxury at coffee shops in NYC), and they made this beautiful design in my cappuccino. They also had an incredibly high-tech system for paying which I found to be amazing. It was a tiny credit card slider on an iPad where they swiped my card, and then I "signed a receipt" with my finger on the screen, entered my phone number and they texted my receipt to me! If you're in the area, you should give it a try!

my philosophy


















This is what goes through my mind when I look at my gchat list during the day. I use this same philosophy to decide with whom I will chat. If you don't want to chat, skip busy and invisible and just sign out!

[found here, thanks to my cousin Ashley. We're new gchat buddies.]

fall is coming!

We've had two mornings in a row now with temperatures of 65 degrees. Heavenly! And the new fall JCrew catalog came in the mail last week. If those two things don't bring the smell of fall, I don't think anything will.




And for the first time ever, I am even mildly excited about the new season being upon us.

weekend entertainment



This kept us laughing all weekend as we watched Jenny (Buck and Christine's new cat) do somewhat similar imitations of this. Hilarious...and so darn cute!

eye candy

After all the craziness this past weekend from Irene and the endless rain over the last two weeks, I could use some serious inspiration. Thank goodness for the Pinterest app for iphone! I've been using it frequently for my daily dose of beauty and creativity.



















preparing for Irene

I just got this photo in an email from a friend with the subject line 'water on our table':



We are preparing for the worst, and hoping for the best... New York City, you never cease to amaze me with what you throw my way. I've been through my fair share of "hurricane weather" in Alabama, but never in a city with 8 million other people, while working in a high-rise building with glass everywhere and being completely reliant on public transportation. We'll see how this works out. We shall see soon enough...ο»Ώ

Apple's new CEO

I'm sure Tim Cook (Apple's newly appointed CEO in light of Steve Jobs's resignation) and I have a lot more in common than just this, but this is probably the greatest similarity:

5. He's a fan of Bob Dylan's and a diehard Auburn University football fanatic 
Similar to Jobs, Cook is a Bob Dylan zealot. Yet one of his biggest passions is the Auburn Tigers football team. (Cook graduated from the university with a degree in industrial engineering.) The walls of his home and office are reportedly filled with War Eagle knick-knacks.

Yep that's right. Mr. Cook and I share the same alma mater. Maybe he will give us all free iPads?

[found on People]

street art

I guess I never get to work early enough to see this kind of thing. Today as I was crossing the street to go into my building, I saw that the gate to the normally hopping Houndstooth Pub was covered with this!
























I especially love the Mister Softee ice cream truck painted on it! And, boy, is it tough to get a picture in NYC with no one in it! I tried, but not much luck.