Power

is being told you are not loved,
and not being destroyed by it.

I didn't dress up for work today

and I feel under-dressed.  Awkward if I go home and change and come back. Dear me, remember this for tomorrow.



I only had 1 cup of coffee this morning so can I have another already?  I made the boy a smoothie this morning before work and that was before the coffee. Think of how much I've gotten done since then! Wait actually a lot. Caffeine I love you like no other.

Have I told you about Local 22 yet? It's the new kitchen/bar my company is opening up.  It's next to one of our other restaurants, Parizade  It's like Parizade's cool 22-year-old daughter.  The kitchen will feature gourmet, local ingredients on small plates and the bar will feature.. wine? Lots of wine. And hand-crafted cocktails- which I've had the really hard job of testing for you- and beer! of course. Website-in-progress, anyone? Also follow our instagram account @local22kitchenandbar and our twitter @local_22 duh. Ok, sorry to get promotional on ya.

Thank you girl who lived in my apartment before me for the fall '13 Madewell catalog, I needed a reason to be happy about the changing weather.  Getting my down comforter dry-cleaned also helped. Hello, fall.

We didn't come for money

In restaurant world weekend begins on Sunday night therefore POP BOTTLES AND TURN THE LANA HOUSE UP 

Fairy ghosts are real

I have a fairy. The boy is convinced its a ghost and excuse me if i sound crazy but she's anything but haunting. So far. It makes sense though, living in an abandoned tobacco warehouse from the 1800s. My fairy is making it clear she was here first. Turning on my bathroom light in the middle of the night. Should I be freaked out? Probably. We're cool for now. 

I think it's really fall this time. You know when the sun is still hot but the air is cool? I'm laying at the pool. And as much fun as I've had at all the Cary pools, a real-people pool in West Village is way freakin cooler. This blog post has already been interrupted to socialize and there's another girl named Shannon so I'm gonna put this away now to go do more of that. 

What is time when time is dedicated to work? Work is life and life is work and it's probably good that way because if there's anything worse than a poor girl it's a poor lazy girl. So here I go on hour 25 of Wednesday or Thursday or is it Friday already? to dine with work for the second evening in a row, which includes one of my boss' guests who is the smartest most beautiful woman I've ever met. Maybe it's work but I don't care because the people I meet in this industry are beyond gods and goddesses. Especially this couple. 

And the food isn't so bad either.