East Idle

Over the weekend I went to a Beck concert... the openers were Spoon and Cage and the Elephant . I didn't really know too much about the artists, but I really enjoyed the music! Before the show, we went to Sripraphai ... I must say, it was authentic Thai food and we had the most flavorful Thai dishes I have ever had! The restaurant isn't fancy, but it was incredible, and everything was delicious! Ordered Thai tea, tom kha khai soup, coconut rice, soft shell fried crab with green mango sauce, steamed fish filet with garlic/chili/lime sauce, and massaman curry. We then headed to the concert, which was lots of fun. After the concert, we stopped by King Cole Bar . Anyway, I am happy the weekend is now done with and that it is now Monday... a new week means a new start! I am up and ready for a great day - just finished painting and then I will go to the gym for my run! Might post my concert outfit later and list some similar options!

Current situation: laying on my loveseat with achy, sore legs. Why? Because this girl didn't exercise properly during her vacays (walking around hilly towns was about it) and also failed to properly exercise in between vacays. Ah, the challenges of traveling. When I was younger, I would be on the road every weekend to a new city, but the traveling was for tennis tournaments; there was no concern about whether I would get adequate exercise... two hours warm-up, two to four roughly two-hour long matches per day... plus hours and hours of training every day prior to each tournament. Exercising happened without a second thought while on the road back then. However, this summer's travels were for pleasure, and doing lots of exercise wasn't a priority. Oh how times have changed... Now that I am back in NYC for a good bit, at least a few weeks, (although we might be taking some trips soon and will likely take a trip to Switzerland for New Year's), I am hopping back onto an exe...

"Ah, freshly manicured nails... they sure make you feel like a new person, don't they?" I ask as I am sitting here typing away with my freshly done gel mani... yes, yes, they certainly do. Thanks to Amazon I was able to scour some great gel nail products to do my own manis in the comfort of my own apartment. I can sit on my sofa cross-legged while I drink coffee and do my nails? Say whaaa? Yep! The basics needed: a uv/led gel nail lamp , gel nail polishes , gel nail base/top coats . I use the products linked, and they work really well. For around $50 you can purchase all the essentials -- that's roughly one or two gel manis at salons -- which means you'll def save some money doing your own nails at home! That's honestly why I went on Amazon and got supplies so I could do my gel manis myself; as a 20-something living in NYC, costs add up and getting my nails painted is more of a luxury at the moment. I've always done my own normal manicures anyway (see this...

I've had a ridiculously rough summer. My days have been filled with mental anguish. Some stress-inducing, 100%-like-how-could-that-disaster-have-possibly-occurred examples: the lobster roll in the Hamptons could have been more lobster-ey *eye roll*, the people in Paris spoke with too beautiful of an accent *eye roll*, the pink sand in Bermuda wasn't as pink as it was hyped up to be *eye roll*, the pasta in Rome was one parmesan sprinkle too cheesy *eye roll*, the sardines were no where to be seen in Sardinia *eye roll*, and the trees on the mountains in Corsica were too green *eye roll*. Ugh. Life is just *so* hard. Would eye roll, but I rolled them too hard already and now my eyes are sore. I guess I have to be happy though because the eurocraycraybugs chose me to prey on by biting me ~30 times, and having my blood sucked was def extremely detoxing... at least there was a silver lining after all the difficulties. Phew. Just kidding. Ha. Ha. Me so funny. Ha. ha. ha. ha . ;) In...