tonight we went and watched the ballet @the opera house. 

...it was breathtaking and beautiful and tragic and everything you imagine the ballet would be. 

and then made a frozen pizza + fell asleep on the couch.

{it was the perfect date in the city}

cola+redvelvetcustard

meet nate. my new boo.

tiptoe tiptoe JUMP

"A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying." -MG

inside my journal

5.15.2010

today was an ordinary day. and then i thought through my day and concluded; my ordinary days are quite extraordinary.

i also came to the conclusion that

a walk home and kiss on the forehead is a pretty perfect way to end a day. even if the walk home is <10 steps.

one more conclusion, my two most favorite gifts to give/receive will forever be: 

            1. a mixed tape

            2. a good book 

and pedicures are a favorite of mine too. not to be gifted but to pay for. 

and standing on my feet for over twelve hours a day makes them a guilt free+ frequent favorite treat.

i wondered today where my dimples came from? 
and noticed that when i am reading a good book i take the local train home instead of the express so i double my time to read. (always)

but when the weather is nice, i ride my bicycle. 

and i really love riding my bicycle.

and i really love that the hardest part of my week was deciding between so many good things. 

this week i especially am crazy in love with: that late night chat with mom. the sunshine. puffs with lotion and lemon cough drops. my candles. kit kats. purple nail polish. green apples, pictures from my childhood, my comfy red sneakers, and headbands. 
i also decided this week that  i really don't like sleeping on a twin bed anymore. no matter how comfy the mattress is, i am looking forward to my upgrade. sleeping under all my fluffy covers with the AC on high and having all the room in the world to roll around, sounds real great. 
okay all that bed talk made me remember how tired i am. please runny nose stop soon.
xx aubrey

phlemy

"well at least we are both sick so we can just hang out and be sick together.."

i can't stop watching this.

remember when scrat was trying to burying his acorn and it caused the crack in the ice that traveled all the way up to the tippie top of the the hill that caused the split that then became the start of the ice age? it's days like this that make me sit and close my eyes so so tight and wish as hard as i possible can that i could just go back to that first crack... if i could just go back to that first secret that was buried or that first moment you didn't chose each other to confide in. to that first small small split that caused that little space between you two that over time morphed into this earthquake, into this huge catastrophe that seems impossible to ever mend. i just wish i could go back and fix it. push you back together before it was too late. because it is days like this when the weight of it all is crushing and breaks my heart. 

you know you have the best dad when you have a bad day and call him and tell him you miss him and he books a flight out the next week to spend the day with you...