Decisions...

As I plan my trip next week I keep going back and forth on what is most important and what I should do during my five days in NYC. For example:

Should I see lots of shows or stalk Gretchen Rubin?
Should I spend time with the people I love or stalk Gretchen Rubin?
Should I jog along the Hudson or stalk Gretchen Rubin?
Should I spend an hour with my favorite masseuse or stalk Gretchen Rubin?
Should I stuff my face with cupcakes while riding bikes through Central Park or stalk Gretchen Rubin?
Should I walk from The Heights to Battery Park or stalk Gretchen Rubin?
Should I ....

There's only so much time and so much to do. Here's the thing...I'm quite talented and I'm planning on doing it all!


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My First Outing of the Season

Tonight's goal was to find my iPod Shuffle, put on my work out clothes and then go for a walk. A few months ago I busted up my knee and so running has been out of the question and has impacted my attitude as much as my body. Those jogging endorphins are real and I've missed them desperately. Anyway, tonight I was walking and the playlist on my shuffle was from all the races I did last summer and before I knew it I was jogging. It was basic and instinctive: Listen to Broken Dishes=start running. I quite literally couldn't walk. It may have only lasted for a mile or so but I did it!


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Just Put the Phone Away

I’ve always believed that advice is best when it is affirmed by someone else – like a ‘second opinion’ or whatever but I definitely appreciate certain things better the second, third and seventeenth time around. For instance, yesterday I found this quote on Gretchen Rubin’s blog but it is something that my good friend Ryan used to beat me over the head with all the time. ‘Angie, do not look at your phone. Angie, you do not need to be accessible ALL the time. Angie, let it go to voice mail’. I always believed Ryan was right but there’s this part of me that knows everyone knows that I am accessible all the time. We live in a world where everyone has a smart phone and everyone is connected all the time. Even my father has an iPhone that I’m sure he doesn’t know how to use but he could if he wanted to…

Last week Andrea Scher wrote an article about the moment after you’ve sent someone a text or E-mail or voice mail and you don’t get an instant response. That “Oh, my gosh, they must be mad at me. Oh, I did this wrong. Or that wrong”. Yeah, sometimes maybe you did but most of the time they just haven’t responded and we’ve have worked ourselves into a frenzy over nothing. I loathe this about myself. I hate hate hate that I do it. I’ve gotten better but occasionally it still happens and when it does I have to take a deep breath and control the only thing that I can control. Me.

Yesterday I was super grateful for Gretchen’s post because it reminded me that this constant availability does in fact make it hard to truly connect with people. So many misunderstandings take place through E-mail and text messages that would never happen if I were actually talking to the person. Sometimes I feel like all I do is apologize for things I didn’t mean to “say”. I’ve also noticed through my on-line dating extravaganza that nearly everyone has lost the ability to spell, use punctuation and properly communicate. And, yes, I’m judging you hotlipz6969 on how many times you typed “LOL” in your profile cuz not everthang iz funny.

I’m trying to be better. I still text constantly. I e-mail more than I call and sometimes I still pray for the call to go to voice mail but when I’m with you I’m with you. My phone is in my bag or the other room or wherever and I’m mostlysometimeskinda okay missing the occasional text or phone call. And for the record no I’m not mad at you and I am not ignoring you.

A Guy Like Jon

cross country texting...

Me: Why can't we find guys like Jon Stewart?
S: Because we know Mormons and he's a Jew.
Me: Ugh, true.

Last night during dinner I was watching The Daily Show and my I-wish-he-was-my-boyfriend was talking about some random lunatic spouting off about having a problem "voting for someone who worships a different God than me" and Jon said, "Hey, I'm a Jew, you get used to it after a while". Really, Crazy Christians, why does it matter? I know it seems as if I'm even defending that person that I will not name but I'm not. I don't like him and I won't vote for him but I do find it silly that millions of people seem to care what God he worships and is basing that on his ability to lead the United States. I personally believe our country has bigger problems than caring about if Mormons are Christian or not. Cause the bottom line is a lot of them are and some of them aren't.

New Favorite Product

I'm totally in love with this product! My clothes smell so fresh and good and it makes me happy. Yeah, it's true, fabric softener makes me happy.