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Amazon Prime Day

I’m looking on Amazon & I don’t even know where to start.  Do I really need the waffle maker that’s on sale because I would like to make waffles for breakfast (probably once a year)?  But, before I even think about getting it... I should first figure out where I can store it (& all the other things I want to buy) in my teeny tiny NYC apartment. 

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Sometimes when it's hot outside & I'm feeling lazy, I like to open the curtains & people watch from my air-conditioned room.

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The Piano Man

“You’re the Inspiration” by Chicago just started playing at work & I just got flashbacks of a Criminal Minds’ episode.  Though I really love watching crime dramas, maybe I should lay off on the binge-watching, because it’s not very pleasant when you’re working & looking at spreadsheets, and then all of a sudden, you see blood & dead bodies in your head.  

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Changes & Restructures

Today was another day where people who I worked & grew close with have shifted from the colleagues group to my friends group.  This isn’t the first time this happened.  However, I can’t help but feel a mixture of emotions whenever this happens.

There’s anxiety for what’s to come; grief for losing kick-ass coworkers; relief for being “safe”; more grief & guilt for feeling relief; then the cycle continues.  What is going to happen to our company?  What’s going to happen to my team?  My position?  What the f%#k is going on?! 

I also couldn’t help but have flashbacks to the day when I lost my wonderful team & friends at Fab, which has probably prepared me for whatever professional changes & restructures (& emotional damage) is to come.  However, just because I’ve already gone through this before, doesn’t make it any easier when I see my now friends get taken into conference rooms today for a “talk”. I get it, professionally, but it’s still hard to not take things personally. 

Oh, life.  Le sigh. 

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Sick & working from home = Mad Men & email time.

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Obsessed & on repeat. 

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Perfect for this rainy day in NYC. 

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#Tbt to 2.5 weeks ago when I was standing on the rocky shore in #Doolin, breathing in some fresher air (& not sitting in front of a computer) #ireland #takemeback

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Only in NYC...

Last night, I ended up hanging out with a few Germans and one of them happened to be a Grammy-nominated musician/DJ (Robin Schulz).  I didn’t even know that I knew any of his songs, but I’m sure everyone has at least heard this song. We were at his concert earlier & my friend, who had randomly invited me to this concert (which was actually sponsored by a radio station) knew his booking agent so we ended up hanging out altogether in Robin’s hotel room after the show, just drinking & talking.  

I’m not really sure what I talked to him about, but I do remember us all looking at his Facebook page & then watching a video of him accepting an award at some music show.  It was a pretty random but fun Monday night & now I’m paying for all the free drinks we had.  These random nights (as well as other random things that seem to only happen in NYC) will make me miss this city even more, if & when I move back to the West Coast. 

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Holy moly.  As someone who’s acrophobic (& also had nightmares of avalanches after watching Vertical Limit), this is one helluva stunt.  

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Thursday Tunes

Bittersweet - ARCHIS

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A birthday selfie from atop King John's Castle in Limerick, Ireland.

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3 girlfriends + 5 wine bottles = a pretty awesome Sunday afternoon

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Downtown we let it go Sunset high and our bodies low Blood rush in the hazy glow My hands, your bones

Loose up we break the scene One step deep as you fall to me Heart clap, we skip a beat Count one two three

And don’t you stop the music Get into it Won't you dance with me?

Find a place and lose it You can do it Won't you dance with me?

Move your feet and feel it in the space between You gotta give yourself a moment, let your body be We gotta lose it We gotta lose it

Your name I’ll never know As we get down in the world below Caught up in an overflow My hands, your bones

Wide eyed, you look at me Set on fire in a silver dream Spin round you can feel the breeze Count one, two, three

And don’t you stop the music Get into it Won't you dance with me?

Find a place and lose it You can do it Won't you dance with me?

Move your feet and feel it in the space between You gotta give yourself a moment, let your body be We gotta lose it We gotta lose it

Make a spark, break the dark Find a light with me Who we are from the start Won't you dance with me?

Make a spark, break the dark Find a light with me Who we are chasing stars Won't you dance with me?

And don’t you stop the music Get into it Won't you dance with me?

Find a place and lose it You can do it Won't you dance with me?

Move your feet and feel it in the space between You gotta give yourself a moment, let your body be We gotta lose it We gotta lose it

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Haha.  This is just amazing.