Currently freelancing

Freelancing like crazy (which is great because that=freelance dollars like crazy). It's nice to take a break from the sci fi and read some nonfiction, and I'm about to learn a whole lot about surfing. And 23-letter Hawaiian words and names and funky accent marks.

Namesake

Wine is great, but I am just not good at it. My #1 criteria is that it be easy to drink. I have a hard time remembering what types of wine I like so ordering at restaurants is usually a crapshoot, and I depend on my handy Wine Deck (a 21st birthday present from Rachel) for info. (For example, once I bought a wine that came in a dark-colored bottle and I didn't even know if it was red or white.)

But, there is this supercute wine store called The Juice Box close to my apartment where the salespeople give helpful recommendations (and there are inexpensive choices!). And last weekend when Kathryn came to visit I discovered a wine I really like. It's the Pacific Rim Sweet Riesling and it basically tastes like candy. Best of all--a bottle is ten dollars only!

Not really made for walking...

Lordy, how positively cute and vintage-y are these pumps? Too bad they are$90 and I would probably never be able to walk in them.

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If I were a bell I'd be riiinging

This one goes out to Kathryn.

Kathryn was all mad that I told her about my blog but then didn't write anything about our fantabulous trip to see Guys and Dolls on Broadway last weekend when she came to visit.

Let me just tell you how many kinds of luck we had getting these tickets. Kathryn was dying to see the show because, you know, she loves doing stuff, and Guys and Dolls was her first musical as a child. I was desperately hoping we could get tickets because none other than LAUREN FRICKIN GRAHAM was playing Miss Adelaide. Gilmore Girls is hands-down my favorite show of all time. I own the complete series on DVD and it pretty much provides the background noise which plays on a loop in my apartment.

We went down to the box office at the Nederlander Theater in the early afternoon to find out about rush tickets for that night, and lo and behold, with our student IDs we were able to score 11th row seats for $26.

It was amazing to sit that close at a Broadway Show even though we were waaay over to the side and a teensy sliver of the right side of the stage was obstructed. The show was a lot of fun and Lauren Graham was really entertaining. It was strange to see her in the blond wig and laying on the thick (New York?) accent and acting all ditzy; her voice was totally unrecognizable.

The one line that would have put the night over the top, was unfortunately never spoken on stage: "Give it to 'em good, Jule!"

Tell me you didn't have a Caboodle.

When it comes to makeup, I basically fly by the seat of my pants while wishing that Carmindy would come to my house and sit me down. And while I don't still use all of the same makeup I did when I was 13 and my mom first showed me how to put it on (and said makeup was kept in a Caboodle), I get very attached to my products. So when my Clean and Clear zit-concealing-stick thingy ran out I was hesitant about finding a new product to try (especially because I don't want to drop $12 only to find out that it sucks). But, behold, the Neutrogena Skin Clearing Oil-Free Concealer! So far it's working great for blemish coverage, and I recommend.