resonates

"i realized i had just entered an interesting chapter in my life. i had outgrown the boys of my past and not quite grown into the men of my future." - s&tc

sunday night

apparently this is blog post number 976. kind of crazy that i've been blogging that long. maybe i'll see if i can make it 1,000 in synch with the 6 year anniversary of the blog in december. but i digress.

sitting here in my apartment watching the patriots play the jets on sunday night football. never really was a big sports watching fan - always preferred to play myself and i get very nervous for my team when i watch - but have gradually gotten into professional football in the last year and now i really enjoy it. it certainly makes sundays a lot better to have something to look forward to at the end of the weekend and even if the patriots aren't playing that well i can still enjoy some beers and wings and camaraderie while watching at a bar.

had a pretty low key weekend - have not left my apt all day and i'm kind of okay with that. had 'fun people who like hanging out' karaoke on friday night and a pit stop at the joshua tree to close out the night. took care of some errands yesterday, and then headed down to the canal room in tribeca (aka TRIangle Below CAnal) to see the 80s cover band rubix kube for my brother's 24th birthday. always enjoy 80s music but it was wicked hot and wicked crowded - remind me to get a table next time. or just close down the j tree. managed to lose my credit card despite not being all that drunk. #typical.

most of my thoughts lately have revolved around plans for the end of the year and the fact i can hardly believe another year is coming to a close. also realizing that a year really isn't a very long time in the grand scheme of things. a good thing to keep in mind.

the holiday season begins in earnest tomorrow with our work team dinner. in the city next weekend and then heading home to the cape on tuesday night for tday. looking ahead to the d club of nyc holiday party and the culmination of my volunteering project, and then tay tay's wedding in miami the weekend before christmas. attempting to step up my gym workouts to do my bridesmaid's dress justice - we'll see how that goes. ideally will be working remote/on vacation between xmas and new years, so lots to take care of before i leave nyc for 10 days at the end of the year.

all in all, feeling pretty good about things - work, life, where i'm at at this point. 'too much to see waiting in front of me and i know that i just can't go wrong'. :)

ruminations

with the demise of google reader's sharing function i can tell i'm going to have to share more stuff via this blog. not a bad thing for you lucky readers!

a writer should concern [her]self with whatever stirs [her] fancy, stirs [her] heart and unlimbers [her] typewriter - eb white

"I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of 
people and then me, on the outside. Because how do 
you meet a new person? I was stunned by this for many 
years. And then I realized, you just say, 'Hi.' 
They may ignore you. Or you may marry
them. And that possibility is worth that one word." Augusten Burroughs

new york can be a difficult place to describe. never has a city of so many paradoxes existed. there are moments i feel this indescribably deep love for it. and then moments and days and months where i can barely breathe here, where i want to run screaming from my own skin.


all new yorkers know you must constantly flee this place in order to sustain and cultivate your love for it. 

both from so-i-feel. amen.

these are my confessions

i know you all (all 3 of you) must be asking yourselves, so ms lyon, why haven't you posted recently? i'm not entirely sure, but i know a lot of it is due to my new lego harry potter iphone game and my recent discovery of the hbo series 'true blood'. we'll take these one at a time.

lego harry potter: years 1 - 4

i have been telling everyone about this and while they generally look at me like i'm crazy (lingley called me a dork) and then scoff when they find out i paid $5 for it, i'm telling you it's awesome. if you're a harry potter fan and you have an iphone you should get it. here's why:

1. it's remarkably true to the books. the characters look like how they're described and the levels as you advance follow the same progression as the books. in year 1, the sorcer's stone, you start out in privet drive, advance to hogwarts, duel with malfoy, defeat aragog and finally the basilisk. beating the troll in moaning myrtle's bathroom is an actual level! if you've ever wanted to be harry potter and live in his world, this game is for you.

2. you get to cast spells. you learn spells as you go along and cast them by tracing them on the touch screen. i know reveliao, reducto, transfiguration, lumos and a whole bunch more. how cool is that?

3. you get a lot of bang for your $5 buck. there are 4 years to defeat, and each year has about 20 levels in it. and it's hard! i cheat a lot. once you win you can go back and play through to get all the wizard hats, special things and red bricks you didn't get the first time too. this game is worth way more than you pay for it. 

4. it's got a sense of humor. there are little vingettes of the characters interacting that are adorable and the lego take on the story is great. they made a lego buckbeak that you feed meat. it's neat. 

so i'm telling you - check it out. tons of reviews in the app store to back me up. AND they're releasing years 5 - 7 this year! MORE FUN!

true blood

i know i'm preaching to the choir, am late to the game, etc. etc. on true blood, but that just means i can watch episode after episode and get instant gratification. wasn't really into vampires and didn't think anna paquin was cute at all, but christine lent me one of the books to read on my way home from boston and while the book was okay i decided to try the show. i like fantasy mixed with reality (i'm sure no one has forgotten my obsession with ghost whisper) and i'm hooked on true blood. the southern setting, with the magic, the sex and the element of danger at all times is fantastic and jason stackhouse is super attractive. i'm almost done with season 1 and of course i've wikipedia'd the entire thing but damn i'm excited to watch the rest. thoroughly enjoying it.

otherwise, had a good time down in dc over the wknd with lingley. loved my ladybug costume - had a blast wearing it. agreed to go back down to dc for the patriots-redskins game in december, which means the next 6 weeks are going to be a little crazy, but i'm excited for my first pro football game.

vin's in nyc this week so we had dinner with her bro on monday and are doing cocktails tonght and going out on sat. yay vin time! saw tower heist with rowena last night thanks to an employee screening - it's so nice that they do that. it had its moments but i wouldn't recommend spending $13.50 or whatever it costs to see a movie these days on it. rowena is also running the marathon in nyc on sunday so i'll be tromping around cheering for her before cheering for the patriots when they play the giants. 

looking forward to going home for thanksgiving - fortunately it seems it will be here before i know it. also i just had the most delicious pizza of artichoke pizze from artichoke pizza here in chelsea. my new favorite place for sure. 

now - back to true blood . . .