I like sparklers

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[eminnyc]

It’s also what my mother has instilled in my sisters and me so much, that joy comes from the smallest things,“ she says. "And if you don’t see joy in a perfect avocado or in a great conversation or in running into a friend or getting a job – if you don’t see joy in a perfectly beautiful tree in autumn – then you are missing your chance at happiness. Because if you don’t find it in the small things and you only wait for big moments, then you’ll just not be a happy person.

Jennifer Garner (from a recent People interview she did for her upcoming movie about miracles)

[pinkseersucker]

This was a year for travel (90,385 miles across 14 states and 9 countries). It was a year of growing and letting go. It was a year for love and celebrations and so many puppy kisses. It was another good year, and I am thankful for that. Wishing you and yours a well remembered past a joyful present and a hopeful new year. Happy 2016 team.

[thedogist]

Nina, Siberian Husky (7 y/o), Waverly & University Pl., New York, NY • “Sometimes she jumps around her food to celebrate it.”

[pinkseersucker]

Me too Nina, me too.

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Nothing to see here

Just drinking Malbec while listening to 'When We Were Young' on repeat. Happy Friday team.

[pinkseersucker]

GRU-JFK

I spend a lot of time in airports, in line at security, on moving walkways, buying magazines at Hudson News. I know where to get the best sushi at ATL, the best wine (and the worst burger) at LHR and the best to-go pretzel and homemade gummy bears at FRA. I've missed flights out of ORD and practiced Spanish at MEX most recently I watched my flight board at AEP without realising it was mine, and I was about to miss it. I like airports, I like the routine, I like the people watching, I like the purpose. Mostly though, I love arriving home. When I land at JFK I know I'm an hour away from my little house on the upper west side. When I land at LHR I know my Brit is on the other side. In any city I know someone is waiting for someone special and sometimes knowing that is just enough. Tonight I'll fall asleep somewhere over South America, and tomorrow I'll be in New York City. Next week I'll go to the airport twice to pick up my British family. And the following week I'll head to LHR to see the rest of my Brighton team. Here's to my last 'work' trip of 2015. I'm so happy to be going home.

[pinkseersucker]

Right now I'm in Vegas at the Venetian pool. We had an incredibly successful year 5 (5! When did that happen), it's like summer camp - everyone you love (work friends who become life friends) under one very large roof. And it was really good this year, we've got a rhythm and flights arrived on time and everyone had a room and we lost Japan for a day but then it was found and the show did go on. And I'm reminded again that I am so lucky to have this job, and I am so excited about where I am going next. Happy Saturday Team.

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This was 33.

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32.

I have a few hours left in this, my 32nd year.  It started with a whole big bunch of gold balloons and some very ripe peaches. It’s been a tangle of chargers and missing hair brushes and doctor visits and not enough cardigans. I went to the Kentucky Derby. I moved into a flat on my own, got a promotion, built on some friendships that I hold very dear. I cried a lot this year - because of unknown bits but also my baby cousin going off to college and sometimes just because of a hard hitting commercial. In my 32nd year I became a Universal Life Minister so I can have the incredible honor of presiding over the marriage of one of my favorite people to her favorite person. I drank some really nice wine and made some really great friends. I sat in a ball pit and I visited the best of all the babies. I ate a lot of bacon. I fell in forever love. There was confetti and sparklers and fireworks and succulents (that I killed). I went to Vegas & Nashville & St. Louis & Chicago & Brighton & Anaheim & Beverly Hills & Mexico & Miami & Brighton again & London & Amsterdam & Brussels & Orlando & Kentucky & Brighton & Frankfurt & Bourton-on-Water & Las Vegas & Boston & Warwick & Newport & Austin & San Francisco & Brighton & New Orleans and Westhampton. I cooked a lot and took Montauk on snowy walks. I ate a lot of really, really delicious food and didn’t really go to the gym (work on that for 33 Suze). I took a hike or two and pet a dog or 600. There were ferris wheels and water slides and looking back, I would say that while this was a tough year - I had a pretty nice 32.

[pinkseersucker]

Siena?

Hi Team - I am going to Siena, Italy for a wedding next week and have 2 days to explore. We have rented a car and my only goal is to eat my weight in pasta. Any recommendations for day trips or places we can't miss?

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Austin!

Heading to Austin for the 1st time tomorrow - it's a work trip but I'm hoping for a little bit of adventure time - any recommendations?

[findthebrightside-blog]

You’ve felt it, haven’t you? Those feelings that seem to get so big in your chest, like something is so beautiful it aches?

Heather Anastasiu (via findthebrightside)

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The best ball boys in the world

[wordsnquotes]

That’s the curious thing about love, isn’t it? It makes very ordinary things seem special. It makes them seem so much more valuable than they really are.

Alexander McCall Smith, Trains and Lovers (via wordsnquotes)

[pinkseersucker]

This place (Brighton, not just the pier - well not really the pier at all) has been a home away from home for me this past almost 5 years. I fell in love on the promenade and followed my heart at the Fortune of War (luckily, it led me right back here). I swam in the sea and cursed the pebbles (rocks really, sharp rocks). I found my voice on Ellen Street and sang my heart out to 80's rock at Lola Lo's. I've eaten my fair share of roasts at Seven Stars and drank (ok, far too) many glasses of rose on the seafront. On this Friday night as I wrap a whirlwind week here and get ready to head to Frankfurt for year 14 (5!!!! for me) I am reminded again how much this place has changed who I am and where this journey is taking me. If I'm really lucky, right back here to Brighton....Hove actually. Happy Weekend Team. Let's crush this one.

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I Am Trying.

To get through 245 emails that need to be actioned and to pack for 2 weeks and our biggest show and to handle some major emotions that popped up over the weekend and say the right and honest things and to not drink all the wine even though I would like to and to remember to walk Montauk at normal intervals so she doesn't hate me and to keep things together when they seem to be valiantly trying to fall apart and to make the right decisions for us for the future and to remember to pack all the shoes I own because none will be right when I want to look fabulous and to be appreciative of where I am and where I am going and to accept that things will happen in the next two weeks that will alter my life entirely and to hope that I will be ok with however these cards fall.

Happy Wednesday Team. Brighton on Friday, Frankfurt for year 14 a week later. Let's do this.

[pinkseersucker]

The 141st running of the Kentucky Derby.

[story-dj]

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but - well I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

F. Scott Fitzegerald (via adderalldust)