Tonight!

A-Trak tonight! I love him. I don't love Webster Hall, though. And I have work tomorrow. I'm not sure if I'm going to go.

Funny people also comes out tonight. I've been waiting for it to come out for so long, it looks hilarious. Plus RZA is in it! Bonus!

New favorite songs!

I heard these on the way to work this week . The first is the Armin Van Buuren remix of Iio's Rapture. The second is DHT & Edmee - Your Touch. Love!

Empty Phonebook, being independent/anti-social, new friend application

A few weeks ago bf went out and bought the new iPhone, which means I got a hand-me-down iPhone! Which is awesome because never in a million years would I buy myself one (or any new piece of technology for that matter). The day I got it I entered a few of my phonebook entries, swearing that I would finish "later". Needless to say, that never happened. So, I've been surviving comfortably for almost a month without 3/4 of my phonebook.

Every once in awhile I look at my life and the people who are a part of it and realize that everything has changed. I have about seven people that I call/text on a regular basis. 4 of them don't really count as friends because they're Brian, my mom, my dad and my grandpa. I have a decent amount of "friends" but they're more like acquaintances. That's me, though.

I've never been the type of person to surround myself with other people and go to other people for advice. I'm independent. I figure things out on my own. I need "alone-time" more often than I need "friend time." I'm not the type to have a ton of girlfriends who I call to ask what clothes I should wear or how I should wear my hair or just to talk about my day. I like to go shopping, run errands, get food, etc. by myself. Some people might consider this to be anti-social, I prefer the term "self-reliant".

I learned to get on that "bff" level with a group of girlfriends in high school (which carried on until around this time last year) but I definitely had to LEARN it. It doesn't come naturally to me. I look at other girls, they call each other just to bullshit and hangout and get ice cream and that sort of thing. It's not that I don't like doing those things, it just doesn't cross my mind. I guess it depends on the person, though, sometimes friendships just evolve to that naturally. Like that girl Carla I was friends with. She and I would hangout together, I'd go over her house to hang out and watch TV, we went shopping together around Christmas, we would text about funny, unimportant things. I guess we just clicked (I still have no idea why we're not still friends, but whatever). That's not to say that I don't really like these girls I know now. I do! When we hang out we have fun, we have things to talk about, but it's always in a larger group of mixed company. The best time I've had in awhile was hanging out with them in Ocean City.

I don't want to pull the, "I get along SO MUCH BETTER with guys" card, because that seems cliche, but I do! Guys just chill. They don't call other guys for advice. They don't need help making every day decisions. They can go grab some food together without it being a whole "plan." Everything is so "whatever" and that's how friendship has to be for me. If it requires a ton of effort or attention I bolt. I run a business 6 days a week, barely have time to take care of my own things - I don't have time for a high-maintenance friendship. That's why I love Sean. He's almost always down to just chill. He knows me and either gives me the space I need or drags me out of my hermit-like tendencies without me even having to ask.

Pretty much, my ideal friend has to:

- be the perfect mix of fun, outgoing and homebody
- be able to entertain themselves and not have to hang out ALL THE TIME
- introduce me to new things
- not be a slut
- be a good person
- have good family values
- be REAL
- be 100% open and honest
- be totally aware of the fact that I don't NEED them, I want to be friends with them
- be as good to me as I am to them
- not get bent when I'm exhausted from work and just want to sit on my couch "relaxing" wearing sweatpants for hours on end
- not be judgemental
- love me for me

Inquire within!

Yankees!

One of our friends/customers has season tickets for the Yankees and he dropped some off for us last week. They were for Tuesday night vs. the Orioles. We close the store at 6pm and the games usually start at 7pm so I was stressed we'd get there late, but we made awesome time. We left work at around 6:18 and were in the Bronx at 6:35. It was gross and rainy/misty all day, but as soon as we got there it slowed down and finally stopped. The first thing I did was get a hot dog! Baseball games aren't the same without hot dogs. The same could be said for beer, but I'm not a big beer fan. Speaking of beer, I love beer vendors at sports events. This one guy that kept coming by us had the best catch phrase, "Yo. Bee-uhhh." Simple and to the point. Last year we heard this one guy, "Who's drinkin and drivin tonight??? Getcha beeee-uhhh!" Another one makes you answer baseball trivia questions while he pours your beer.

Anyway. So the seats! They were three rows from the field in right field. This is Yankee Stadium so plenty of balls are going out to the right field. We were right by a few fly balls and some almost-home-runs. (I watched the encore when we got home and Bri was on TV!) The new stadium is SO nice. Everyone says they like Citi Field better but Yankee Stadium is definitely pretty awesome. There are so many good food places! I, in case I haven't mentioned, am a bottomless pit. I can eat anything and everything. I had the hot dog when we walked in, a pulled pork sandwich from Brother Jimmy's a little later on and a large garlic fries. Delicious!

To top it all off, the Yankees won! Great night!

B in his Yankees gear. It just stopped raining so that's not drool on his jacket.

Polyvore

I know I might be the last person in the world to sign up for Polyvore, but I don't care. I love this site! Kiera made me a collage a year ago with all things I love (Hello Kitty, coffee, cute clothes, shoes, etc.) and it was adorable. I always wanted to post my outfits, this is a good way to do it without having to take pictures of myself. Here is my outfit for today:

7-18 by Lindsey823 featuring Morgan

Don't get the wrong idea, some of the items aren't exact. Like the headband. It's not a $250 headband (who would even BUY a $250 headband???) I bought it in a 3-pack at CVS for like $5.

New Makeup. (aka my least favorite thing to shop for.)

Tuesday I went to Sephora after work to try and find new summer makeup. I have three shopping trips I hate making: new makeup, new jeans, new bras. I don't know why but they're all awful, almost always. Makeup especially. You're trying to apply, with precision, things in these brightly lit, imperfection-magnifying mirrors. The whole experience, when broken down, is really just how you're unhappy with your natural self and want to hide/change/fake your appearance. Unless you're perfect and want to "enhance" your perfect beauty. Ugh.

I ended up being pretty successful, though, no thanks to any of the sales people. When I was 19-20ish I worked at Sephora. My specialty was fragrance (my dad and bf constantly make fun of my super-human sense of smell, saying that "the nose knows"). However, if they were short-staffed I'd be thrown into cosmetics which I know, admittedly, close to NOTHING about. I'd try and sound like I knew what I was talking about but most of the time it was bullshit. Anyway, I was asking the sales girl for oil-free bronzer, which is absolutely necessary if I don't want my face to look like an oil-slick at my non-air conditioned job. She showed me 3-4 different bronzers, none of which I thought were oil-free (Calvin Klein, Sephora brand, etc.). I told her I'd find her if I needed anything else and went and read the ingredients. Every single one of them had multiple types of oil in them. Great, thanks, I've got it from here. After many applications and re-applications, I left with a new powder (Stay-Matte from Clinique), new bronzer (Park Avenue Princess from Tarte...I later realized that I look like a giant golden metallic robot, so that's getting returned ASAP), a travel kabuki brush from Tarte (<3LOVE<3), some spot treatment from Clinique, a new foundation from Clinique, Sugar lip conditioner from Fresh (best ever, I can't live without this stuff!) and a free deluxe sample of guava body butter from Sephora (so yummy, I love it).

Slightly less painful than I was anticipating. Let's see if I actually wear this stuff, though. I always try out new makeup and end up quickly reverting back to what I'm used to.

Yearly Ornament Shopping

Ok, I don't think I've ever posted about this before, but I collect Christmas ornaments. Hang on, before you pass judgement let me state that I'm not one of those crazy ladies who has like 4 different Christmas trees and they're all color-coordinated or anything. Please, I'm 25 and work 6 days a week, I'm lucky if I can find enough time to put up/take down a single tree.

Growing up my Aunt Lynn owned a Hallmark store, Lynn's Hallmark (very fitting name). When I was five or six she started sending me ornaments for Christmas. It started with one angel every year, from a collection called Mary's Angels. Then she started sending me Barbie ornaments. I had a few Barbies growing up but I wasn't really a Barbie-type of girl (I later sold them on eBay, which makes me feel sort of guilty but whatever). The angels, though, I loved. It was my job to take them out every year and put them on the tree. When it was time to take them down I would put them back in their respective boxes, one by one, carefully wrapping them in bubblewrap and putting their hangers in the box with them so they didn't get lost in storage. They were such a huge part of my Christmas tradition.

I moved into my first apartment when I was 19. I got my first Christmas tree, a pre-lit one from Home Depot. I brought all of MY ornaments from my parents' house and decorated it, sparsely, with pride. That was the year the ornaments stopped coming. I was over 18 and living on my own. Every year since then I've gone to Hallmark in July, the weekend of the ornament premiere, and picked up my ornaments for the year. I still have all of the Mary's Angels ornaments, plus some new series' like Snowball and Tuxedo (it's a big polar bear and a little penguin, it reminds me of Brian and me!) and Fairy Messengers (ignore the totally lame names) which my mom started buying for me. Here are the ornaments I bought for this year (in case anyone cares, which I kind of doubt):

Snowball and Tuxedo

Mary's Angels

Penguin guys. They don't have a name but I get one every year.

Waltz of the Snowflakes! (I got Sugar Plum Fairy last year. I have an unhealthy love for the Nutcracker).

Marigold Fairy

Those are just the Hallmark Ornaments. My mom also makes her own ornaments. Every year I get at least one new one. They're so pretty, so much intricate bead work and the fact that my mom makes them by hand makes them that much more special. This is the first one she ever made me, when she was pregnant with me. I took this photo from my tree two years ago:

OC 2k9 recap!

I decided to close the store for the 4th of July weekend. (I know, it's already the 14th, where have I been??) That was sort of monumental since I'm a work-a-holic and have a serious guilt issue when it comes to closing. We went down Thursday night after having dinner for Kiera's birthday. We got there at around 3am after a long and never-ending car ride and everyone passed out.

Friday was spent at the beach, then home (E and Hope got there), then back to the beach for a non-existent bonfire (lighter fluid? oops.)

Saturday was spent at the beach again. We went to Assateague Island where there are wild horses. Who eat peoples' food and stomp on their blankets. We played a few rounds of dirty bags, read some magazines and went home. We went to Seacrets, everyone got prematurely wasted and we went home early. There was a ton of traffic leaving OC, I was with Brian, Brendan and Deirdre. We blasted A-Trak and had a car dance party. Sean and everyone else was still in traffic so we went to the Point, blasted house music and had an out-of-car dance party. Our second wind left us and we went back to the house.

Sunday we went to OC to walk on the boardwalk, went shopping, ate at Hoopers (giant seafood place!), went back to the house to pack and drove home.

It was exactly what I needed.

Sean and Bri on the beach, showing their love for each other.

Bri & Me @ Hooper's

Bri, Brendan, E, Hope and Sean @ Seacrets

All of us outside of the house.

I'm not really religious but this sign was posted in front of some religious sand sculptures. It's something I'm going to need to learn to embody when it comes to work.