Nathan & I just had our eight year anniversary this week, so I went on his podcast and HERE IT BE.
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Summer List 2017
I haven't made a what-I-should-do-this-season list in a very long time. So here we go! Summer is upon us and goddamit, I'm gonna have some fun. I encourage you to make your own list as well.
Eat a Coney Island Red Hot from Feltman's.
Finally visit The Met Breuer and The Frick and The Cloisters since I've never been.
Ride bikes around the top half of Central Park since I've never seen any part above 79th street.
Wear dark lipstick with all white outfits.
Eat the whipped steak tartare at Employees Only.
Go to the beach at least ten times.
Go swimming at least ten times.
Make an apple pie from scratch.
Take Baby Dog to a dog bar to meet other dogs.
Lay out with the kids and look at the stars.
See how simple that was? I know I can't force you, but you should really make one of your own.
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2017 Resolutions
You might give me grief about writing a new years resolution post ON FEBRUARY 10TH, but you know what? That's cool. It's cool of you to try and keep me in check. Truthfully it took me this long to come up with some (in my opinion) good resolutions. OFF WE GO.
Read at least one book per season.
Go to the gym or do pilates at least ten times a month.
Juice at least five times a month.
Get at least three haircuts this year.
At least once a month, go to a fancy restaurant that you've never been to before.
Make one Chrissy Teigen recipe (from Cravings) each month.
Take Baby Dog on at least one dog date each month.
Try at least one new hairstyle every month. (God, these are low/sad expectations, BUT THEY MINE.)
Properly go on a date Nathan at least once a month.
Finally go to Staten Island for pizza. See what the big deal is.
(UPDATE: To see how these resolutions went, come on over here.)
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2016 Resolutions Revisited
I've purposely delayed writing this post, but since 2017 is officially well underway, there are no more excuses. I'll list my 2016 resolutions from last year below and then write alongside them how each went.
1. Read at least two books per season.
Yeah, this didn't happen. Instead of reading eight books this year (two books x four seasons), I read a sum total of TWO books. Yikes. When I think back on why this happened, I really can't come up with any sound reasoning. This will be rectified this year.
2. Do pilates (or go to the gym) at least five times each month.
January - 6 times
February - 6 times
March - 8 times
April - 8 times
May - 4 times
June - 5 times
July - 1 time
August - 8 times
September - 6 times
October - 1 time
November - 6 times
December - 3 times
Okay, so I crushed this goal two thirds of the year. Yeah! And that means that I went to the gym 14.5% of the days this year (53 out of 365). Okay, that's not great since in 2015 I went 23.5% and in 2014 I went 37%, but still - it's not 0%. Not that there's anything wrong with 0%, but I would really like to get back up into my 2014 gym game.
3. Save 20% of every pay cheque from waitressing.
Totally done. I would tell you how much money that is, but it's gauche to talk about money.
4. Juice at least ten times a month.
January - 11 times
February - 4 times
March - 9 times
April - 2 times
May - 5 times
June - 12 times
July - 4 times
August - 5 times
September - 9 times
October - 1 time
November - 7 times
December - 10 times
I really said ten times a MONTH? Jesus. 2017 is definitely going to be about low expectations, Liz. LOW.
5. Go to an island with Nathan.
If Boston counts as an island, then did we ever!
6. Constantly buy flowers for the apartment and take photos of each arrangement.
This definitely happened and it was glorious.
7. At least once a month, go to a fancy-ass restaurant that you've never been to before.
January - Minetta Tavern & Bar Boulud
February - Stanton Social
March - Delmonico's & Peter Luger
April - Collage (in St. Augustine)
May - Beauty & Essex
June - nowhere!
July - Del Posto
August - The Lamb's Club & American Cut
September - nowhere!
October - Gramercy Tavern
November - nowhere!
December - Barberian's (in Toronto)
I love this resolution so hard. It's hard to pick a favourite of the year, but if I absolutely had to it would be Delmonico's. It'll definitely my to-go best steak place in the city now.
8. Get at least three haircuts this year.
Damnit! Only got two, one in January and one in September.
9. Wear all of the lipsticks. (I own twenty tubes of lipstick and I reserve them for... what?! I don't know. They gots to get WORN.)
I really did try to make an effort with this one.
All Fired Up by MAC
Sin by MAC
Freckletone by MAC
So Marilyn by Charlotte Tillbury
Bitch Perfect by Charlotte Tillbury
10. Sing in public again.
Completely forgot about this one. Maybe on purpose.
All in all, 2016 was a pretty great year for me. I started the new year in Connecticut with Nathan, I began waitressing at a small French restaurant nearby, I went to the Westminster dog show, finally went to the planetarium, went to Florida three separate times (jesus, I just realized that), visited City Island in the Bronx, rode bikes around Governor's Island, cooked a lot of new things, went to the beach a ton, went to a lot of baseball games (one at Fenway Park), my mom came to visit me in New York, three of my close friends had babies, one got engaged and one got married, my brother came from Scotland for Thanksgiving, went on Central Park walks with Baby Dog - it was a pretty sweet year. 2017 resolutions coming soon!
Thanks for reading!
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The Return!
Hey! I realize it's been about five (yikes) months since a new post - and for that, I'm truly sorry. I want to say that a lot has been going on, but the real culprit was laziness. It's one of my worst qualities and it's so hard to change who you are.
In any case, I've decided to change the format a bit with this site. It's exhausting to do two posts every weekday and frankly I'm sick of having to stick to a schedule with things. (I hope you understand how hard it is for me to admit that since, for the past few years, I've stuck to a rather rigid schedule of how I run things on here.) But maybe I can change and be a little more flexible. I'm not saying this will be a permanent change, but for now it's the best that I can do. I'm hoping it'll inspire me to write more posts that I'm passionate about and less ones that are basically just filler. HOPING.
And also? Thank you for continuing to gaze your sweet little eyes on this page and these words and for caring at all about what comes out of my mouth. I feel like the three of you who read this site don't realize how much I appreciate it.
Lastly, a lot has happened this week. Well, one major thing that has made a lot of people feel a lot of ways. Yesterday in particular was one of the darkest days I've ever experienced here and I'm not sure that I'm capable of expressing it accurately at the moment. I do know that we all need some kind of good in our lives right now, so that's what this week of posts will be centered around. Specifically things that are comforting to me and have lifted me up, even for a second.
I hope you're okay with the new changes. Thanks for still reading, bud.
Parents in Florida
That's my dad in the pool and my mom taking the video. They both accidentally took their hotel keys in the pool with them and both fell out of their pockets. As Heathers, we aren't the tallest bunch, but we're crafty.
Spring in Central Park
This is what Central Park looks like right now.
So when it looks like that, me and Baby Dog have to venture on over. And here's what happened.
She talks to other dogs! Do you know how rare that is? I'm thinking about making our visits a more regular thing since she really seemed to love it.
Yeah, that's it. That's the whole post. I'm sorry, but it's a big deal that she'd speak to another dog! On with your day.
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Snapchat
I'm on Snapchat! I'm still getting the hang of it, but if you have it, my name on there is liz-heather
Bip on Bip
There are the types of photos Nathan sends me when I'm out of town.
Words
Sidenote: Happy Birthday to one of the best women I know, my friend Marla. You're easily one of my favourite people on earth and I love you an amount that I shouldn't admit aloud.