Haircut

I got my hair cut short yesterday, and people at work today kept trying to rub my head.

It’s Wednesday night now and I’m not sure where the week is going.  My family went home but I have had dinners with friends and the doctor every night so I’m kinda looking forward to the weekend already.  I might have to start watching the amount of rich food I am eating before I start to pack on the pounds.  I twisted my ankle badly two weeks ago so I’ve had to take a break from the Running Club and will probably be out for one more week in order for it to heal fully.  Luckily this only affects running and not regular gym lifting.  And actually I might go with Corey to Equinox for a week to check out their pool.  I’m looking forward to spending some more hijinx time with Iris on Saturday and I think I might spend Sunday laying in the Park if its nice.  Hope everyone is having a great “Hump” day

Oh - like Kenneth, I have discovered Duffy.  Eveyone should download her album.

Garden

Every time I think I will get to make a post, something else comes up.  I’ve been travelling again and now my family is in the city this week and next week so I’ve been busy the past few days with them eating out and drinking a lot.  But last weekend Iris and I jumped over to the Botanic Gardens for a couple hours to take in the Japanese festival, and she sent me some pictures yesterday.  There were MANY great pictures of us having a blast among the garden but here are a couple of me.

Hope everyone is great, the weather here in NYC is rocking, I am loving it. 

Update

So at this point you probably thought I had gone down to Florida and didn’t come back right?  :)  Well, I’ve been back for a few days…

I had an awesome time down there.  First of all I ate like a king.  I ordered Lobster, Filet Mignon, Chilean Sea Bass, Shrimp Scampi, Apple Pie with ice cream, Chocolate Eclairs, I kinda pigged out.  And we all washed it down with plenty of spirits….

I went to the beach, drank with Bjorn, played golf (the best I have ever played actually…..my family was impressed and I was shocked)  I was killing my drives and hitting just about everything else well and far too…especially my fairway woods and 5 Irons.  My putting sucked, but I’ve always hated putting anyway so I didn’t really care.  Putting is bo-ring.

There were some flight cancellations at JFK coming back so I ended up staying down there 2 extra days.  Not the worst thing that could have happened.  But the hysteria in the airport when all the NYC flights were cancelled was nuts.

Oh, and a couple interesting things happened in my dating life in the past few days.  First Doogie called and told me he is moving back to Sweden in a few days, and asked me if I am joining him (while we were dating we had always talked about moving to Sweden and raising babies)  I told my Mom and she was like…”Hmm there’s an idea…at least its legal in Sweden and you’ll be among your people!”  Funny.  The other juicy tidbit is I have hung out with the very hot doctor a couple of times.  I have nicknamed him Dr. McSteamy as he is obviously the object of affection of all the women in his office.  Funny coincidence I found out today is that my close friend Corey actually knows him as they both work out at Equinox.  So I have been well

An old friend!

Last night was great.  I finally got to see an old friend, Sarah, who I hadn’t seen in two years.  I made this huge mistake of cutting out a large swath of people in my life a couple of years ago becuase I was going through a lot of things and at the time it made perfect sense.  But this year I realized that I had these black voids in my life where these majorly important poeple had been.  So after a bunch of arranging I finally got to meet up with Sarah at Picasso and later Therapy for some drinks.  It was really awesome to catch up.  When you get someone like that back in your life agian it makes you feel so good.  I felt great all night and I am so lucky that she and others have given me a second chance.  :) 

Tomorrow I am off to Florida for several days vacation!  I will be soaking up the rays, getting tan in preparation for Spring/Summer in the City, and hanging with my brother, parents, and their dogs.  See you on the flip side people…

Memories of a lost time

Someone just sent me this and I had to post it becuase it just got me laughing so hard and brought such a smile over me.  I love after the 4 minute mark when everyone really starts to get down.  “Is there sheet music for this?”

I had so much fun in the 80s.  My best friend back then was JP.  We were ALWAYS together.  I was at his house a lot and he was a little bit spoiled by his parents.  While both of us had younger brothers and both of our basements were filled with our GI Joe and Dino Riders collections, he had SO much more.  In JP’s basement there was the Cobra Commander castle (I forgot the name) and the Joe Aircraft Carrier.  He and his brother also had tons of the planes and the other really expensive parts of the collection which my brother and I didn’t have.  Anyway, we spent a lot of time over there at his house playing and watching Wrestlemania and Royal Rumbles. 

But then there was his mom, who always used to sit upstairs in the living room watching Dirty Dancing.  It was so funny becuase she would always sit and rewind the above scene and watch Baby jumping off the stage again and again.  So the song got stuck in our heads.  Then my Mom & Dad bought the cassette and played it in the car a lot and when we went on ski trips.  So the Dirty Dancing soundtrack was pretty prevalent in my life in those years.

It’s been a great wekeend.  On Friday I only worked 1/2 day and then went to meet Billy in the Park for a few hours.  We met up again later that night with my friend George at Barracuda and then went on to Chelsea Hotel where we met my old make-out buddy Jordan from the late 90s, who in the past 10 or so years has always been a source of great fun and energy for me.  The music was great and we got a lot of free drinks!

Yesterday I sat out in Riverside Park with my new roomie (yes there was another change-up this month), and I got pretty crispy, but it feels good to have some sun finally.  Now I’m rocking a healthy glow rather than pasty cave-dweller-man. 

Another hard workout day

Today I wasn’t really planning on going to the gym to lift after work.  The weather was amazing (like 70 degrees and sunny) and I was sort of looking forward to going out with my friend Doug and having some brewskies somewhere.  Anyway, by the time it is getting close to the end of the work day and I am getting thirsty, Doug calls to tell me that he is stuck at work until maybe 8:30. 

5 minutes later, my work-out partner calls me to see if we can work out today.  Being that I won’t be working out tomorrow, and my plans were already kind of posponed, I decided to go with him.  We did a major workout.  All upper body and then obliques.  We were both like, “that rocked.”

Since I ran yesterday and lifted today, I am feeling it.  But at least I feel pretty good about doing both cardio and lifting in a matter of two days.  That hasn’t happened for a while.

Things that are cool today:

1. It was the first day I wore shorts to walk to the gym.
2. I did not wear a coat to work.
3. I ate a Chipwich at 3:00pm.
4. I got my reservations for next week.
5. My stocks went up.
6. ITS WARM OUT!!!!!!!!!

In the spirit of smiling pictures

So here’s me looking tired tonight after getting home from my Wednesday night run with the running club.  I realize that my past three posts have been about this but Wednesday this tires me out so much that I can actually sit down and think about blogging when I get home.  Today’s run was good, although I have to admit I almost burst out laughing while I was running with a cute opthamologist who out of nowhere asked me to explain the differences between embezzlement, money laundering, and federal racketeering statutes.  Thinking back to the details of my White Collar Crime course in law school 2 years ago helped a little but I think I must have left out several rather important details.  But I think I was able to bullshit my way through a coherent answer.  It would have helped if this conversation happened at the 1 mile rather than the 4 mile point when I started to huff and puff a little haha.  Anyway….

On a separate (but related to opthamology..sort of) topic, I went to a fun party the other day with Iris.  She got invited to this party in Soho at a optician shop.  The place was called Selima Optique and they had this big private party where there was tons of free champagne flowing for everyone.  I haven’t been to such a thing in years.  There were all these wacky people.  The whole thing was very random New York, we ended up meeting all these Brazillian people who were quite characters.  Not something me or Iris do every day because we work at banks and are not actors and other types of New York city slashes (actor/model/waiter/hooker/and so on and so forth), but interesteing nonetheless.

One final note, lately I have had this wierd obsession with checking the balance of my student loans on line.  I’m not sure why this happened this month, I guess becuase I started making much bigger payments.  But anyway I have all these different loans at different rates (I never consolidated) and I make payments to different ones at different times during the month and it’s like a big puzzle.  So anyway I keep logging on to it all the time to see where I’m at.  It’s a little OCD maybe and kind of addictive.  But the smiling woman to the left is the picture that greets me everytime I sign on to my account.  Is that not the most stupid picture you have ever seen??!  I guess that is who you are supposed to envision yourself speaking to every time you call to make a loan payment?  What kind of shirt is that she’s wearing??

Run it

Just got in from an awesome run with the group :)  Whew……..I ran fast today…but was in a fun 3-way (that’s three guys running you pervs) the whole time so it was good convos the whole time.

I am slowly getting the lungs back!

I’d post a picture but I’m all sweaty.  haha.

Hello

Hey there blog people, I just wanted to make a quick post to say hi.  I hadn’t been on my page in a while and I’ve received a bunch of emails asking what’s new.  Things are going well, I’ve been really busy the past month or so.  Work got a lot more involved, and I’ve been spending a bunch of time with the Running club and at the gym (beach bod weather is around the corner people!), weekend visitors and trips, and hanging out a lot more with friends.  Oh and I also turned 31.  Very happy Spring is here.  Josh and I did brunch this AM and walked around Central Park for a while where he took this shot.  Who could say if I’ll be writing a ton becuase I’d rather be outdoors than on my laptop in Spring, but I will pop on from time to time with a picture or a story.  So don’t be strangers ya hear?? 

time out

i apologise in advance for jumping into the magic hat, but i am going to make this blog private for a little while (hidden to everyone including me).  things just got really busy at work, my head is all over the place, and i have all these friends and new activities that i really want to try to make time for over the next few weeks.  i sort of just want to live for a while…..

i really appreciate all of you, blog land has sure been nice to me over the past 4 years or so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  now i’m late for a happy hour

a break

i have been talking to cooper a little bit.  so we have reclassified our present status as taking a “break” in our relationship (my idea).  i guess this seems more hopeful to me because the word has a possibility of a reunification in the future sometime.  that being said, i know that there is no guarantee of this and i wouldn’t expect cooper to promise to that.  maybe it’s just semantics.  but for some reason it feels more positive and i’m a little tired of being down.  time will tell.

i also had a really great 6 mile run today.  it was the first since last fall.  it killed, but the mixture of physical burning pain in my lungs and legs and the euphoric pleasure of the endorphin rush was a little cathartic being that there has just been so much emotion lately.  the salt stung in the corner of my eyes as i saw couples walking around in the park like we used to do, but it was also cleansing and inspiring - bodies were in motion, people were out making themselves better.  the winter is breaking and i am looking forward to strapping my running shoes on a lot more often.

just friends?

i think it will be incredibly tough for me to be just friends.  i was never friends with cooper - there was a romantic and electric sexual spark right from the start.  when he first suggested it he said why dont we just take everything away that is causing stress and leave the good parts.  for me its not that simple though becuase some of the best parts were not things i do or how i feel with friends.  confusing and sad.

i just wish we could figure out something different from the negative aspects of what we were doing before, something that could work for both of us.

ok…

i guess i’m just having a difficult and confusing time saying goodbye to or switching off romantically loving a great man that i have been with for 7 months, especially when there was no betrayal or anything.  we both made mistakes and i think we are now starting to learn how they were made.  i feel like i’m sending my son off to war or something, not sure if he’ll come back in months or years or never.  not sure what else to say at the moment.  of course the situation hurts but every decision is not always made by me.  we need to do what is right for two people not only one.  i do want what is best for both of us.  i have learned that it takes a balance between two people to make something work.  i suppose with time will come answers.

hmmm

I think there’s a bit too much fluctuation in how I’m feeling right now to be making posts.  How I feel changes each day and a lot during the day.  I keep making posts and deleting them.

Long Weekend

I found a couple more pictures from the visit to the Met a few weeks ago, so I thought I would post them.  The Roman sculpture gallery really was great.  You should try to see it if you visit New York any time soon. 

I just got back from the gym, my life has felt a bit ordinary lately.  I work during the week, try to have some fun on the weekends, and go to the gym as much as I can fit into my schedule.  Sometimes I wonder if I am indeed boring!  I feel like I should mix it up a bit, but then the question of how exactly to do so looms large.  I am sure this sounds absurd, not knowing what to do in one of the most exciting and dynamic cities in the world.  But as the weekend rolls around it still happens.  But the winter does take away some of my desire to walk around a lot outside (especially at night).  It’s just so cold out there.