True Irony

Photo courtesy of: thesatorialist.com

In my mind, this picture encompasses the true meaning of inspiration.  Reading The Satorialist, I noticed that he had this picture of Bill Cunningham.  As one of the Father's of Fashion Journalism, Bill Cunningham has lived a very adventurous NY based life.  Staying true to the ideal fashion man, Mr. Cunningham is famous for his work with The New York Times and riding his bike around NYC taking pictures of the fashionable Manhattanites parading down the streets of New York.

Here another famous fashion blogger, The Satorialist, has captured Mr. C in the middle of a photograph.  To me I look at this and think that it resembles the thoughts of a father and son relationship.  Inspiration and desire to look up to him as a son does his father!  

Thank you Bill for all of your wonderful work and your daily Sunday Styles.  Thank you Satorialist for your beautifully captured candids inspiring each one of us to adorn our outfits with personality and pizzazz.  

Symplicity

It has to be said that my favorite days in the city are the weekends. Now this goes without saying, but the weekends in New York are full of excitement, energy, spending way too much money, and making memories for myself that will forever be, my early days in NY!!! 

Saturdays; Starting the day with a 10am-12pm wake up call (depending on the level of fun with Friday night activities), a pot of coffee continuously brewing between the roommates, the classic breakfast of a cup of yogurt or fried eggs, and then returning to the bed, only to spend the next couple of hours completing necessary house work: paying bills, blogging, self-reflection in comparison to other's lives via the Facebook newsfeed, and the small injections of caffeine as I simultaneously pump the coffee into my bloodstream.  

Sundays: Usually start with an earlier wake up than on Saturday followed by am coffee.  The best part of Sunday though is BRUNCH.  It's known throughout the city that brunch is the New Yorker's church.  :)  Last weekend I brunched solo and I have to say it was one of the most interesting experiences in NY, thus far.  I took out my agenda book and started journaling while sitting in a back garden at Life cafe` drinking my bloody mary and coffee.  After enjoying an amazing Green Goddess omelet: Eggs, avocado, goat cheese, rosemary, and pesto...I started to engage in the conversation of the other soloists in the garden.  Through lots of coffee and conversation I ended up meeting a struggling comedian, who I am not entirely sure if he was actually interested in what I had to say or if he was just using the situation for his next act.  However, despite the company and the fact I was dining alone, it was a very blissful brunch.  

I am excited for tomorrow's brunch though because it is Nicola's birthday's and we will be celebrating that while sipping on our bloody marys and mimosas! Perhaps tomorrow I will get the french toast that I have been desiring for the past 3 weeks.  :)

xoxo

YUMMMO

So excited for Halloween.  Had a Pumpkin Spiced Latte the other day and it finally felt like fall!

Photo courtesy of: cupcakesandcashmere.com.

Necessary

Great songs + Sunday night cabin feever = dancing and jumping on the bed to the following:

3 FABULOUS songs! Enjoy!!!

Be Sure to Count Your Blessings

It is only appropriate for my next post to be a post dedicated to the people who have helped me achieve all that I did in the post below.  I am so blessed in knowing so many wonderful people and at a time when I was one of the hardest periods of my life, these people were there for me, no matter what.  With all of this being said: To the following individuals...THANK YOU! 

Bre-From day one you greeted me with open arms and allowed me to crash in your kitchen for the next month as I arrived with full luggage and huge dreams.  You were there to listen to me whether it was boys, jobs-or lack there of-, parents, dealing with life living in New York again, and/or the occasional going out-->usually resulting in our lives turning into shambles the next day.  Through the multiple song wars and long nights at Kiss & Fly you helped me get my foot in the door and brought me back to my one true love...this city!  Your personality and drive will allow you to go so far and I am now so excited to see where we each end up.  Thank you again for everything, you had such a pivotal role in making everything happen.  

Nicola-Your attendance at FIT is how we were brought together and through that we have decided to take our love for each other to a completely new level.  Between our wonderful chit-chats, fashion, being a real woman in a big bad city, and all the sillyness in life I have really begun to call you family.  Thank you for all of your love and support throughout the past 2 years as it has been one hell of a ride with being in NYC to IN and then back to NYC...only to stay! Your wit and spunk continue to inspire me in my own creativeness.  You truly know the meaning of appreciating the little things! :)

Z-TOWN-As another member of my new family you have become like a brother to me.  Thank you for putting up with a third girl in the humble abode.  I am so proud of your upcoming job and know you will do so well!  I can't wait to see where life takes each of us as we see our dreams to fruition.  Congrats on everything, thus far. I only wish you the best in the future to come! Get ready to see some REAL eating when we celebrate Thanksgiving together.  Perhaps you could provide music?

Kelly-Really? I don't know if it's even possible to put into words the love that I have for you.  Starting with gossip sessions at Indigo, to discussions about New York, to continuous slumber parties, I have always hoped that we would become good friends, but never in a million years would I have thought that we would have become this close.  You are the big sister to many girls, but more than a big sister, you are an inspiration.  Your poise, grace, taste, and ability to handle being a WOMAN in a MAN'S world continuously show me that it's possible to accomplish the impossible.  Thank you for ALWAYS being there!!! I honestly can't thank you enough for EVERYTHING.  SOMEDAY I will be able to repay you appropriately for all that you have done! 

Thank you again to you all listed above.  You have each made a difference in my life and I know will continue to make a difference in other's as well.  

xoxo,

Blair

explanation to my absence

Wow! It's crazy to think I've been in New York City now for 6 weeks now! The past month has been one of the craziest months of my life.  I don't even know where to begin.  I think I'll start by just picking up where I left off..(Thursday, September 9, 2010)

That night upon leaving Starbucks I met up with a friend, who introduced me to the hiring manager of a website that is trying to promote themselves throughout the sports/bar industry in New York.  That following Monday, I ended up meeting with the head of the company and receiving a part-time job as a Brand Ambassador with Blood, Sweat, & Cheers.

The Wednesday following, (September 15, 2010) I was to the point in this job process where I just wanted to give up.  Don't get me wrong, I wanted to give up way earlier also, but not this bad.  After becoming frustrated, gathering up enough strength to call a couple friends (who basically told me to suck it up  because this is what I was meant to do), and the saying a few prayers...I got a phone call.  A phone call that has changed my life.  As I think about it now, I begin to tear up, because the desperate emotions of trying to make it and survive in this city were so intense.  Anyways, it was Macy's and they had 3 positions open and wanted to contact me about one of them.    Long story short, I had a phone interview and then they wanted to bring me in on Friday.  Went in for the interview and within 30 minutes of walking home I received the phone call asking me if I wanted to accept the offer! MORE THAN YOU COULD POSSIBLY KNOW!!!!!!!  I couldn't believe what I was hearing.  The woman that interviewed me absolutely loved me! I was so glad to hear that! It had been so long since I had heard something good in regards to a job! AND NOW I HAD ONE!!! I was scheduled to start on September 27, 2010 at Macy's.com in the Young Men's division as a Merchandise Assistant.  

A week later, I started my first shift with Blood, Sweat, & Cheers.  It was so much fun! I got to tour the bars of the East Village and ask drunk people for their signatures and e-mail addresses.  Easy Peasy. 

Following my first day with Macy's.com I have become so excited about my job that it's sickening.  People just don't love their jobs like I do.  I've always grown up in a home where a job was also called work.  Something you went to everyday and it was not fun!  Everyday during my first week was even better than the last, and I was literally running on pure adrenaline.  I would leave and couldn't WAIT to get back there the next day! 

The next step in the journey was now finding an apartment.  It was time for the next month's rent to be paid at my current residence, instead of paying for another month I decided it was time to move on.  That Friday I pack up half of my belongings and SHOVED them into my large suitcase in which I took to work and is now sitting underneath my desk until I was able to find a place of my own.  Later that day, after work, I moved my stuff from the middle of 15th street to 1st Ave, where I would be staying with three lovely individuals, whom I have now begun to call my family.  I couldn't thank them enough for allowing me (the 4th roommate) to pile my things in a small corner and move in with them.  I will never forget the night right before I moved to Kelly's...sitting on my "makeshift bed" and crying non-stop because i had never felt so scared in my life and was now technically "homeless."  At that point, I had begun the search for an apartment, but it was kind of put on hold with things.  I really wasn't sure where things were going to take me in the next couple of days.

But I guess that's the fun in it, right? What would life be like if we knew everything that was to come next.  It would kind of be like we were living as characters in a fictional novel.  Nothing would be a surprise, and just with that, think about all of the time that you have been surprised...To me, it's probably one of the best feelings.  One quality about myself that I love, is my ability to find, appreciate, and LOVE the little things in life.  I even get excited about Happy Meals, because I can request a toy for a girl and then end up giving it away to a little kid that I see/know.  :)  

That's all for now...blair