A girl can dream...

I've never been one of those people who knew with certainty what I wanted to do with my life. There was a brief period in elementary school when I thought I wanted to be a dentist, but I think that more stemmed from my desire to spare other kids from the horrific hours of screaming, painful, "one more minute" pleading, dental visits that I logged before the age of 10, than from actually wanting to be a dentist. Then there was a brief encounter with a fake veterinary kit, sparking the "I want to be a vet" proclamation, countless afternoons setting up my "classroom" (all of the students were stuffed animals aside from...

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Travel, Co-Ops and Summer Fun

Sometimes life comes at you all at once and it's just so much fun. The weather is nice, friends are great, work is in check, there's a boy, plans are planned for summer and you're like damn...life is great. That's where I'm at right now. This weekend I headed up to Boston to visit my cousin and his fiance'. He's been living up there for about six years and no one in the family has been to visit him in the last few years (take a hint buddy, only kidding). I've been meaning to go for a while but you know how it is, work, social engagements,...

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"I have to pee but I don't trust you guys"

...you know your meal is good when one of the people you're eating with won't leave the table to use the bathroom for fear that when she comes back, all of the food will be gone. And so went our May monthly dinner. About a year and a half ago my three best friends and I were enjoying a Friday night dinner together at the once fantastic, and now sadly closed, Salt in SOHO. When the check came we all pulled out our wallets and the waitress groaned as we asked her to please split the bill evenly by four. Midway through the killing of 4...

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Nutritiously Delicious...Pizza is My Weakness

Pizza might be my all time favorite food. Actually, I think it is my all time favorite food. That or Costco cake... judge away. I love, and I mean LOVE, melted cheese. When my sister and I were younger, we used to cut up fresh mozzarella (you know the kind in the ceran wrap with the little knots on the ends), put it in a glass bowl and microwave it for 20-30 seconds. The result was a melted cheese bowl...might sound ridiculously gross, but trust me, if you're a cheese lover, it's ridiculously good. A few years into our culinary discovery,...

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It's a tough life, but somebody's gotta do it

I was always one of those people who loved school; A fresh schedule, sharpened pencils, stack of sparkling new (and entirely unnecessary) school supplies, the promise of straight A's (yes I was that kid) and the undeniable need for a planner. For 17 years I knew what September had in store and then suddenly... I didn't. When you graduate from college and enter the workforce, it's impossible to know what to expect. Will the days be long? The people nice? Will anyone care when I have a bad day? Will I become friends with my coworkers?...

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Agents to the left of me, brokers to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with you

In theory, moving is a great idea. A new apartment, new furnishings, new neighborhood spots, friendly neighbors, the renewed promise of meeting your future husband in the elevator while carrying a box, and a reinvigorated take on life in the big city.  In theory, moving is a great idea. In reality, moving is the worst idea in the history of ideas. A new apartment, a new brokers free, a new security deposit, a new set of broken lights, pipes and floorboards, a new sense of panic when you wake up in the middle of the night and have no idea where you are, a new commute, new neighbors who are far from cute (or single)....

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אנו עומדים עם ישראל

Count to 15. Yes, seriously. Sit there at your computer and count to 15.  Out loud, in your head, I don't care. Just count. Done yet? How about now? Okay, now imagine that in the time it took you to get annoyed at me for making you count, and then to actually do the counting, your window of opportunity passed. Why? Because you really only had 15 seconds. What could you have accomplished in those 15 seconds? Probably not much. Well, in the Eshkol region of Israel, just outside Be'er Sheva, 15 seconds is the amount of warning...

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You're the Peanut Butter to my Jelly

You know those perfect nights? The ones where work ends and everything just falls into place? Nights where you find yourself walking around thinking: "Man, I like my life"? Well last night was one of those nights. The evening started at 5pm when I dashed out of work eager to get to my 5:30 Pure Barre class. Being my mothers daughter, I had allotted the perfect amount of time to get to my destination (7 minutes) and had grand plans of taking the bus. One quick glance at my watch and an "are you en route" phone call later and I realized...

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Taking the Plunge

Welcome friends! If you're here it means you've somehow stumbled upon my blog (let's be serious you're probably my roommate, mom or grandmother) and are looking to see what this place is all about. If I'm being honest, I've contemplated documenting my life through a blog for some time now, but have never had the courage to do so. What's held me back has been a combination of time (or lack there of), nerves and a general feeling of "who would want to read what I have to say?". Well now, after talking to friends, family and encouraging coworkers, coupled with the fact that I often overhear myself telling a story and think "is...

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