"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.They must be felt with the heart."
-Helen Kellar

* quote taken from a card my friendly Jennifer sent me. I love her!

P.S

On Saturday i was in NY, for the above mentioned friend's SURPRISE bridal shower. It was FABULESS!

How is everyones Wednesday going?

food for thought

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida

try not to do things you will regret, think before speaking (or writing, or typing).

advice to myself & to all those close to me.

i'm an open book

"The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet."

-Ann Landers

i talk too fast & too much.

i miss all of my friendly's back in NY, they always let me blab on and on.

i kind of feel bad for my new co-workers and random people working at stores, they have unwittingly become my "best friends", which means they get the pleasure of listening to me babble..... Lucky, lucky them.

How are all of my bloggy friends doing on this lovely Wednesday?

p.s I miss all of the kitties back home too, they would listen to me talk ALLLLL DAY LONG! ;)

perhaps i should spend less time talking & more time thinking & doing.

There's this pesky thing called a "day job" i need to get.

wish others well

"You get what you get and you don't get upset."

Who first said these words?

Perhaps a lovely kindergarden teacher?

I'm not sure, but, I heard them from my wise friend Melissa.

The phrase has been popping up in my head alot over the last few days.

I'm not quite sure why.

Regardless, it's good advice.

Do you agree?

lovies,

gina fina

What I Learned in Girl Scouts

Make new friends, but keep the old; one is silver and the other gold.

This is the best piece of advice i received during my years as a girl scout.

Yes, lil fina was a girl scout, all the way through sixth grade :)

What is the best/most useful piece of advice YOU received as a child?

p.s Where can i get me some girls scout cookies??

TILT 11/04/10

love on a Thursday

No more midterms

Cuddly cats

Making plans

Miranda Lambert

Friendly folks

Meeting the girls for dinner & drinks (pumpkin beer, YUM) on a Friday night night!! wooot woot

Sneaking in quick blog reads when i have a free second :)

Dierks Bentley - LOOOOVE. Saw him in Brooklyn @ A bar called Southpaw. I was entralled all night. (I wore blue jeans & a white tank top, you will only get this is you are a Dierks fan!)

Leaves

Cardigans (I think Becca's got more than me though!) haha

When headaches finally go away!

My friends

Pancakes ( goooopy, gooopy in the middle)

My mom

My dad

Plain white t-shirts

Deep breaths

& deep, slow stretches!

Morning snuggles w/ kitties

Sales @ LOFT!

Getting a SUPER sweet & thoughtful package in the mail, with GLITTER!!!

What do you LOVE today????

Cute Bridesmaid Gift Alert!

My lovely friend Melissa got married on October 1st.

Her wedding was beautiful & the food was fantabulous, like really, really good.

I've always thought the Bloomingdales "little brown" bags are adorable.

Of course i was super duper excited to receive one as a bridesmaid gift. :)

Here is a picture of the lovely, fun and VERY happy couple.

Come On Get Happpppppy!

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.

- Anne Frank

These are some of my bestest girlfriends.

They make me VERY, VERY happy.

OK, so it's midterms week :(.

I'll be back soon lovies!!

I miss you!

Lovies, you know wh0 you are! ;)

Pretty please don't forget about me!!

tilt 9/2/10

things i love thursday

1- (almost) every night i come home from work to a super yummy dinner made by Rob. (i don't get home from work till 9:30 or later so he's in charge of dinner) :)

2- Squirrel's (my cat) nightly ritual of circling around the bed w/ her seahorse toy, making very strange meows/yelps.This must be done every night prior to cuddling up with us.

3- That im in my last semeseter of school & im pretty excited about all of my classes. I can not wait to (finally) receive my diploma. :)

4-My engagement ring, it's yellow gold w/ a pear shaped diamond; exactly what i wanted. I can't believe i haven't posted a picture of it on here yet; i will have to work on that!

5-That i had the best time @ an all day wine tasting trip with all of my girlfriends last saturday, for my friendly Melissa's bachleorette party! (no skeevy strippers for us; we have class! haha)

6- I finally started reading My Dog Tulip. Krystal @ Village made me want to read it, after posting the most hysterical video about it!

7-My future mother -in -law (yess i actually like my future M-I-L, she's super fun) & her Boyfriend are coming to visit this weekend. We have tons of fun things planned; A Yankee game, picnic & wandering around the city. I need to see all of the "sights" i've never seen (even though i've lived on long island for 26 years) before our big move!

8- Thinking about our big move & all the exciting furniture we are going to buy. Yup i'm sooooooooo excited about furniture. I'm also pretty darn excited about buying gain laundry detergent; it smells sooooooooo good!! hehe. You can think i'm weird; i don't mind :).

What are some of your favorite things this thursday?

Have a lovely Day; I hope the sun is shining where ever you are!

save the date!

How cute is this?

My friend Jen is getting married next July & she got these awesome save the date magnets here at Terrill's Tiles on etsy.

I can't wait to put it on my new fridge in my new apartment! hehe

Aren't these original?

I've never seen a save the date this cute.

to me......

love is



being silly



listening



understanding



compromising



empathy



doing crossword puzzles together on the plane ride



being ridicoulously excited about what the future holds



having nicknames for each other that other people think are absolutely ridiculous :)



love is when your girlfriend strolls into the bathroom & decides to take a poop while your in the shower; it's when you only get slighty annoyed. i can't believe i just wrote this; hope your not so completely grossed out that you decide to stop reading my blog!



love is cuddling up in bed with your girlfriend & the laptop, excited & just about to check out some paint colors for your future apartment. It's when her best friend calls and they end up on the phone for an hour.Its when the call ends way to late & its time for you to go to sleep so paint color choosing will have to wait. It's not minding one bit, knowing she hasn't had a chance to catch up with her friend in awhile. Love is wanting her to be happy, always.



love is not minding that when he gets together with his brother they turn into rowdy eight year olds, it's thinking it's cute. (most of the time)

love is when it's no big deal that your over an hour late to see the flugtag you were really excited about, because she CAN NOT leave LA without having pumpkin pancakes at the griddle

love is previously "disliking" cats, but now find it hard to sleep without her cat (squirrel) snuggled up against your legs or feet.

What does love mean to you?

tilt 8/12/10

Loves

1- a yummy egg sald sandwich with a pickle on the side, even better when there are TWO pickles on the side!

2-leaving for california on SATURDAY! wooooooooohooooooo

3- yogurtland here i come :) (i'm allready salivating & it's still a few days away, is 10am cali time too early for yogurt? i think not)


4- meeting up for Sunday breakfast's & Loft shopping afternoons w/ my friendly Erin. (don't worry, i didn't buy a thing.)

5- looking foward to the plane ride. i'm weird right? i just love having time to chat w/ Rob & read books and mags for 6 hours straight!

You're So Vain

I went to my friend Melissa's bridal shower this past weekend, it was really nice. She got soooo many fabulous presents, now I can't wait to have mine!

Here's me & my bestest friendly Jen.

Im 4'10" & shes about 5'8".

She said in this picture shes a giraffe & i'm a peanut hehe.

i just realized we look very patriotic, this was unitentional ;)

& Here's me showing off my new outfit :)

like my shoes?

truth is love

"Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie."

-Robert Brault

TILT

Lemon - I've been putting it on everything , veggies, chicken. yummy yummy lemon!

Asparagus - I put lemon on it.... ;) ( im not really a fan of the stinky pee though!!)

TWITTER!

My best friendlys new blog - melissahartman.blogspot.com. She's just getting started, but if the blog turns out anything like her personality it will be super funny and sarcastic. check her out and leave her some lovies!

Planning for our future apartment - Currently obsessed w/ design blogs & storing TONS of ideas in my lil head. Rob & I have started looking at a few places, we don't plan on moving for at least six months but im get soooo ridiculously excited yipppppppeeee :)

Bookmarks Made w/ Lovies

My wonderful and fabulous friend Jennifer came over with two lovely surprises for me last night:

She chose quotes from my blog and knowing how much i heart reading, made me two beautiful bookmarks! She is incredibly crafty and has made gorgeous scrapbooks for all of our friends. (Although the one i have is from her beginning days, i would absolutely adore an updated one *hint hint*.)

I decided to start putting one to good use this morning and began reading " Names My Sisters Call Me" by Megan Crane, it seems cute so far. Have any of your read it? If so did ya like it?

Tonight Rob and I are going into the city to see The Fantastiks, im really excited, i hope its good :)

We are supposed to be getting a bunch of snow tonight which puts a bit of a damper on my plans to wear cute shoes....

I hope you all have some marvelous plans for the weekend!

False Impressions

Last night i went into the city w/ my neighbor Jenn for her sister Kristina's birthday. We had a really good time, there was a big group of her friends and we had a nice dinner at a little Italian restaurant, then we went bowling at the port authority. I bowl terribly by the way... 55 was my "high score" ha. Anyway a rather amusing thing happened to me early in the evening. Jenn and I got to Penn at around 6:45 and our dinner reservation wasn't until 7:30. We decided to grab a drink at Fridays. I was sitting there drinking my yummy yet strong mudslide martini when a girl leans over and says i look familiar. I didn't recognize her at all. After the usual " where do i know you from questions" she finally said " OH! Do you date Rob?" So i got all excited and was like "yeah he's my boyfriend! How do you know him" anyways she gave me a BS story about knowing him from back home upstate new york and stupid, tipsy me started blabbing on and on giving out all kinds of info about him like when he comes home, where he will be stationed blah blah blah. Then i started to wonder how she recognized ME. She said myspace or facebook, hmmmm even if she knew Rob from back home why would this random girl recognize me " from myspace". Finally after she left i texted Rob saying i just met this nice girl he knows from back home.... named Kim. Turns out the only blond haired "Kim" he knows is his ex girlfriends sister! So OK the girl lied to get info on me for her sister, i suppose I'd do the same for a friend. ( this also means his ex is stalking me on myspace and showing my pictures to her sis which is pretty amusing). The not so good part is that at the end of the convo i leaned over to my "lovely new friend Kim" and said " when you first recognized me i was nervous you were one of his ex girlfriends friends.... and she's a little CRAZY".

So i told this girl that her sister is crazy......

I know this story was a little long and drawn out but i just can't believe it happened and had to write about it!

Here are some pics of the FUN stuff from last night! :)

T*I*L*T

Yummy Food

* See previous post where i gush about Sunday night's dinner.

Feeling Happy

*Letting any tiny thing boost my mood :).

Having Goals

*I'm so proud of myself for going back to school, I really enjoy it and am glad I'm heading in the right direction.

This beautiful scarf

*I just ordered it on etsy and I am so excited I can't wait to get it. I'm kinda broke and shouldn't be buying myself anything when I need to buy Christmas presents buuuuut, I just HAD to have it :). The seller is a supersweet lady; check out her store (http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=505)!

My Friends

* They are a diverse and fabulous bunch, always there for me in many different ways. I

you Jen, Erin, Melissa, Jenn, Courtney & Nicole :).

What are YOU loving on this fabulous Thursday??

Tasty Tapas

Last night i had the absolute most yummiest dinner I've had in a long time! My friend Courtney & I went into the city to see an old friend of her's sing some lovely songs and play his guitar @ Arlene's Basement on Stanton St. His name is Bobby Doran, he's quite good if ya wanna check him out.(http://www.myspace.com/bobbydoran )Court's sister suggested we eat at a place called Stanton Social. It was a super cozy little candlelit place & they served tapas style dishes. Everything we ordered was DELISH!! Seriously i am NOT OVEREXAGERATING!

**We had cornmeal corndog crabcakes, french onion soup dumplings, sweet potato butternut squash raviolis, and some tasty meatballs.**

Yum YUM & Yum!

Im getting hungry again just thinking about it, i can't wait to go back :)

If your ever in the area you should def give it a try <3

Silence is Golden

"True Friendship is when silence between two people is completely comfortable"


*I have no idea who the author of this quote is, but it's been a favorite of mine for years <3

Here is a pic of two of my cats, Rocky and Gizmo ( you may remember Gizmo as the incestuous homosexual).





As you can see, Rocky is very forgiving and still loves his brother. How freakin cute are they?