fall feet

in case you were wondering...

...this is what our fall feet look like almost every day.

it's starting to feel less cool and more COLD in NYC. so i'm going to say goodbye to tights and hello to pants soon. (ah, pants. my old nemesis!)

i have sort of a bad habit of complaining about the cold. i also have sort of a bad habit of running out of the house with no hat, one glove, a scarf that's still damp from the snow the night before, boots with holes in the sole...so uh...

will 2010 be the year i stop looking like a toddler who dressed herself for preschool? we shall see, my friends. we shall see.

P.S. does anyone know where i can get a pair of mittens that are connected by one long string?

a real man

...will carry his girlfriend's purse.

if it weren't for jim, i would probably have a broken back by now.

i love big bags and i love throwing my entire life into them (laptop, notebooks, water bottles, soda cans, novels, energy bars, an extra sweater, etc.) and whenever jim sees me walking a little crooked, he always take the bag off my shoulder and carriers it himself.

he makes an excellent urban Sherpa.

{i kid. i heart him}

Oh, Maine

because it makes me really emotional...and because i have a hard time forming good sentences when i'm emotional...i'm going to let keith olbermann say what i wish i could say about tuesday's decision in maine.

{this video was made after the passage of prop 8 in california}

bus stop

usually when i am waiting at the bus stop for the bus to come i look like this...



...because the bus schedule LIES and it makes me sad.

but when jim is waiting with me, the bus stop is much, much, much more fun...



...even when the bus is 25 minutes late.

P.S. in michaela-land, the bus is always on time and no one has to wait at the stop alone.

awesome christmas card

it's a little wrong, but man... is it so right...



ohhhhh holidays. you bring out the crazy.

{card can be found here.}

we went on a horse drawn carriage ride...

...through central park with jim's family on saturday.

at the end of our ride our driver (is that what he's a called? a driver?) got out of the carriage to take our picture from the sidwalk. while he was snapping away, our horse decided it was time to go and started clomp clomp clopming down 5th avenue. molly, scott, jim, and i were all, HALP! WE WANT TO GET OFF THIS RIDE!

it was all good in the end. but secretly? i wish i could have ridden the horse to the country to live with a nice family on a farm. he looked sad and unnatural next to all the beeping cars and dirty buses. ugh. heart hurts.

i heart visitors!

on saturday morning, before jim's big surprise party, we met up with a couple of my friends at The Park for brunch.

julie and becca were in town from chicago for the New York marathon. it was soooooo nice to see them, you have no idea. i miss my chicago friends somethin' fierce.

thanks for playing with us, julie and becca!