best birthday wishes

Today is my dad's birthday. Without getting crazy mushy on everyone I'm just going to make a simple list of the top 10 memories with my dad. Pictured above; Dad, my sister Danielle (in the stroller waving hi) and I (look at my purple shoe laces!)

10. Always remembering what food to keep in the house when I am home
9. His ability to fix anything I hand him
8. Driving home with him from Manhattan listening to Van Morrison and Pink Floyd
7. Playing in the ocean when I was young and him teaching me how to jump over/dive under the waves
6. "Jeffukkah" 2010 - this was his week long birthday celebration last year
5. Baking baklava for class together in middle school.
4. Pulling up to pick my sister up in college with TI's "Top Back" blaring from the car
3. Preparing the traditional Polish meals together around Christmas
2. Going to the market and him showing/teaching me how to cook different foods
1. Making snow people in winter storms together

We're celebrating at DBGB tonight and then I'll be in Pennsylvania for the rest of the weekend with my family. Can't wait :)

think positive

your worst day only lasts 24 hours

the big picture

You can always rely on three things when it comes to relationships; there will always be a Big, there will always be an Aidan, and you will always be caught in between the two. This reason alone allowed Sex and the City to live on for six seasons and two movies. Everyone can relate to the feeling of Carrie when she teeters on the edge between the two men. You feel bad for Aidan because he's the nice guy who just wants her all to himself. However, it's his own insecurities that leak poision into their relationship. And you hate Big for dragging Carrie through the mud but you always applaud the scenes where they work it out and something as stupid as red balloons on her birthday make you weep. Dating in Manhattan, much like the show, is a circus. Full of classic bad boys, established men from 'far, far away' places like Connecticut and those random cute guys who look normal and interested until their girlfriends return from the powder room. So what happens when you are caught between your own Aidan and Big? Do you sit comfortably with Aidan in hopes for smooth sailing and the simple life? Or do you risk it all, put it all on the table for a chance with Big who could up and leave you ruined at the end? Everyone knows that in the end Carrie and Big work it out but 'you can't believe everything you see on tv' so what's a twenty-something girl to do but carry on and hope for the best.

xxv

I'm such a bad blogger. I do however have an excuse and it's a good one! Yesterday was my birthday and all weekend was spent celebrating with friends and family which left me zero time to blog. In honor of my 25th birthday I am listing out 25 goals for the year ahead. Some serious, some a little ridiculous. Also a very big shout out to everyone who helped welcome me to year 25 of my life. You all mean the world to me and I love you so much.

1. Travel more
2. Make less excuses (oh crap, a bad start but I will get better)
3. Go to more flea markets/antique fairs
4. Spend more time kissing
5. Train for the NYC marathon
6. Write more thank you notes
7. Learn to moon walk
8. Do more yoga
9. Keep up with this blog
10. Visit the ballet
11. Take ballet
12. Make it to the beach come summer
13. Get a promotion at work
14. Donate more of my items
15. Spend less time being hungover
16. Drink way less sugar
17. Get my allergies (to almost everything) figured out
18. Pay off my credit card
19. Procrastinate less
20. Spend more time with my sister
21. Go horseback riding more
22. Learn to cook all the dessert recipes I save
23. Keep up with my journal (nerdy, I know)
24. Take a cooking class
25. Make more friends