Sunny days, sweeping the clouds away

These have been putting a smile on my face all week long. Can Google feature Sesame Street every day of the year?

Confession

Hi. My name is Bethany, and I am a Craiglist addict.

It's gotten really bad. I am hoping to move into a new apartment on January 1, and I feel like I've been spending about a third of my time until then scrolling through those tantalizing and frustrating one-line listing titles.

It's a little too early to start seriously looking at places for January move-ins, so at this point I have not definitely narrowed things down between Brooklyn and Manhattan and one- two- and three-bedrooms, which means there are a lot of variables and price points and neighborhoods and picture options for me to be plugging in and getting glazed-over while clicking through.

Last week I was able to go two full work days without checking my traps once, but my resolve soon evaporated and I since have lost all willpower to stay off the site at work. I just keep scanning the neighborhood names and looking up locations on Google maps and trying to decipher oddly angled photos and drooling over the possibility of having stainless steel appliances and living in Park Slope.

Fall in the park

I'm feeling like a . . . I believe the only correct word is putz for not taking more advantage of Prospect Park being about a fifteen-second walk across the street from the apartment building I've lived in for almost two years. I went for a walk with my parents there yesterday morning while they were visiting and it was so warm out and I just kind of felt like duh, why don't I do this more (or at all)?

I'm going to try to make a conscious effort the next two weekends between now and Thanksgiving to do a little loop there during the day. It's saddening me that any semi-warm weather is probably behind us now, and that I don't have any daylight hours during the week I can do this since the sun isn't even risen yet at 6:30 in the morning and it's totally gone by the time I get off the train at 5:45. If things work out with any luck I won't be living in Brooklyn by the time it's spring again, so I need to get in some quality park time while I'm still here.

Why hasn't Gawker Stalker been updated in over a month? And why I am I so annoyed about this? If Julia Roberts or Justin Long has been sighted a few blocks away...I need to know about it!

In the cube

I spend tons of time on Etsy ogling pretty things, but I had never actually bought anything until this week, when I ordered this fun mousepad (and yes, that's the same fabric as the curtain in my bathroom). Sometimes cubicle life can get depressing, so I wanted a little something pretty to make me happy when I look at it, and I also picked up one of these Stockholm magazine holders in apple green to hold my seasonal book catalogs.