Hello 2010.

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Wow, this year flew by. The older I get, the quicker time flies. Bizarre. Though 2009 was a pretty good year, I'm more than ready for a new one with new beginnings. I finally purchased a bottle of Lippmann's Happy Birthday and I'm ready to rock this New Years Eve!



To bring in 2010, I'd like to celebrate 2009 with some of my favorite moments.

Making new, lovely friends:



Getting to spend quality time with the old ones:



Getting to celebrate a dear friend's marriage to a wonderful man:


Adding another show to my resume:


Getting to be even better friends with my brother:


Seeing Flight of the Conchords in concert:


An amazing vacation in Maui with my incredible family:


Going to many many Angels games:


Going to many weddings, (probably too many) to celebrate my wonderful friends:


Spending 9 weeks in New York City:


A wonderful Christmas:



Happy New Years to you and yours. ;)

LOVE

I am ridiculously in love with Christmas. It's my absolute favorite holiday, and I'm always pretty sad when it's over. I love what it stands for, family time, love, friends, decorations...

I love GIVING gifts, but am pretty awkward about receiving them... Not sure why.

A little while ago I saw a post over at Color Me Katie where she played with paper filters with her camera. I randomly remembered it and tried myself. Now I'm obsessed.





Among other sweet and lovely gifts, one that meant the most to me was this from my Mom. I love this story so much.



And the play I was in in New York City last year was published and my name was in there. ;)



My dear friends delivered this ridiculous plate of goodness.



Our lovely tree.




Though I'm in a weird, confusing, and somewhat scary phase in my life, I'm very aware of how blessed I am, and am trying to love every moment.

Happiness to you all. ;)

I'm alive!

Hi readers, friends and strangers alike.

I apologize for my absence. It tends to keep happening...

Well I'm back in California. And exhausted and jet lagged. The only other time Ive ever really felt it this bad was when I came back from 3 weeks in France, and got very sick upon my return. I'm not sick, just exhausted.

I'm so looking forward to Christmas though. Two and a half months without my family and friends was difficult, so I'm more than thrilled to see everyone. I also think I did pretty decent with the gift purchasing this year, yay! I love giving gifts, but feel awkward receiving them. Not so much from my family, mostly just friends. I basically already know what I'm getting since I didn't give the family a list and they kidnapped me and brought me to the mall this past weekend to show them things I wanted. I'm most excited about all the goods from Sephora.

I'm a little sad I missed all the snow in New York, literally by a day, BUT my flights would have probably been all messed up, and they already were with me leaving on time, so I'm thankful I didn't have to deal with that...

Wow, what an exciting post eh? I'm super tired, and throwing a cookie exchange party tonight. I'm crazy.

Have a lovely day!

Tim Burton

Sorry for my absence. Since the week of Thanksgiving I've been running around with my head cut off, doing New York-y things.

One thing I do want to share with you guys is the AMAZING exhibit at MoMa (The Museum of Modern Art) that is all Tim Burton. I've gone twice. There were the characters from Nightmare Before Christmas, and from The Corpse Bride. There were also TONS of brilliant sketches, old poems and school assignments, costume pieces from Edward Scissorhands, Batman and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory... It was awesome. If you'll be in the city Before March, and enjoy Mr. Burton's work, GO! So worth it. Here are some photos I found on the MoMa website.











So awesome.