Friend Anniversaries

by Liz Heather in ,

I'm not sure why friend anniversaries aren't as recognized as romantic ones, but I vow to change that. I guess they're less common because it's harder to pinpoint the exact moment upon which you became friends with someone. Thankfully, I met one of my closest friends Jenn when my brother Gary was visiting me, so I know the exact date and year - which happens to have been eight years ago today! 

We have taken many trips and videos together and I'm thankful as hell to have this fine woman in my life. 

If you care to see more of our videos (why would you? We're great!), you can find some of them over here. Happy Anniversary, my love!

Long Island Day Trip

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Once in awhile (or extremely often, depending on your preference), you need to get out of the city. So when I was recently asked by my friend Jenn to accompany her and some friends on a day trip to venture across Long Island, I was eager to come along. What did we do? What DIDN'T we do is the more apt question.

We found a farm where we could pick raspberries & blueberries in Mattituck, which happened to have the largest and loveliest sunflowers I've seen in years.

And, I mean, look at these tomatoes. Are you kidding me with that ripe-ass red? So gorgeous.

We then headed onward to Macari Vineyards to sample some wines, which happened to be accompanied by the finest of truffle cheeses.

To finish the day, we stopped off for food in Oyster Bay. I've only ever heard of Oyster Bay because of that Cole Porter song, but I figured that hearing a place mentioned in a lyric is almost too great a reason to solely visit a town. And the oysters at Canterbury's were fantastic.

The above photo is of the Oyster Bay LIRR station - and it may not look like much, but I can't accurately describe how much I love seeing these older types of train stations. I love the fact that it never got torn down and completely redone. Doesn't it make so much more sense to restore buildings like these? Ugh. Love this old station so much. 

Anyway, it was a great day. There are so many different paths you can take once you get off the highway heading to Long Island. I hope to make it to Montauk someday.

30th Birthday Photos

by Liz Heather in

I know it's a Saturday and I don't post on the weekends, but I just wanted to quickly share some of the photos from today.

Harmeet & Nathan decorated the whole apartment

Breakfast cake!

This gorgeousness came from my parents

Nathan, Harmeet and I went to Lovely Day for lunch and I felt ill as hell

Jenn made me a key lime birthday pie!

With Harmeet at The Smith

With Jenn at The Smith

These ladies are kind of the best.

Thank you times a million for coming to New York for my birthday, Harmeet.

Moonstruck Chocolate in Portland, OR

by Liz Heather in ,

You know how sometimes I give you really specific food advice about certain goodies from extremely specific towns in North America? Well, it's only going to continue to happen. Why? BECAUSE I CAN! 

As you already know, my babefriend Jenn recently finished her first book tour. And while she was away, she brought me back some chocolates from a place called Moonstruck Chocolate Co. located in Portland, Oregon. The best (/most memorable) piece of chocolate I've had in a very long time was their Popping Praline that was amongst the Monster Mash Collection. 

It was tasty as hell and actually popped in my mouth - yeah, popping chocolate. I don't get it either. Not sure how anyone can make popping chocolate but I'm going to assume it has something to do with science. 

If you find yourself in Portland, OR - go check this place out. I'm sure there are other chocolate anomalies existing inside.