thoughts on a thursday

--- wedding plans are in full swing. i hit my stressful peak last week and i am now back to being excited, well, actually even more excited because the day is getting closer and closer! at our food tasting last week (YUM), our wedding coordinator said: "you're easy! are you always this easy?" i said, "i try to be" and i also tried to bore my eyes into my mother's soul to make sure she would both hear and remember this proclamation. to make it even better, the coordinator continued and said i should give lessons to all of her other brides so they could be more like me. um, i'd love to!

--- i am going to miss the baristas at the coffee shop i became a regular at in york when i move. i love talking to them and they make the best chai. plus i already fulfilled one of my lifelong dreams of becoming a regular somewhere. so much so that they stopped saying "the usual?" after awhile, ahh bliss. it is good to be known. and the little things are always good. i've also really come to love york city, in spite of myself. it is a great city, especially for an aspiring young professional.

--- it turns out i like "crafting" more than i thought. i've been making random things for the wedding and i have had a lot of fun doing it.

--- the best part of winter is my lands end parka. it is one of the best things i've ever bought. you can't even feel the cold when you wear it zipped up to the neck with the fur-lined hood up. only problem is you then lose all peripheral vision. i almost got hit by a car trying to cross the street the other day. it was really close. i had the walk sign and looked before i stepped out, but nonetheless the speeding car almost hit me and i didn't even see it coming because of my hood. but the statue of liberty graciously started yelling at the car for me. there are people dressed up like the statue of liberty singing and dancing all over the city, and i still have no idea what they're advertising for so that tells you how effective that campaign is. or maybe how clueless i am. i think it has something to do with taxes or loans? maybe?

--- suit shopping with my dad = success! i was dreading it, but it went really well and the third one he tried on worked great. which was good because i think we had both already hit our limit at that point, ha. after lunch he ordered cheesecake and when he was halfway through the enormous slice that probably could have served a table of four he said, "is this a concentrated sweet?" "what? yes, of course it is! dad! i forgot you're not supposed to have that, now i'm going to get in trouble, great. that is literally about as concentrated of a sweet as you could have ordered!" he's on a diabetic diet and i'm obviously a great caretaker.