stuff my face.

i've been really into pizza lately. i'm not really sure where it came from but i've eaten it about almost every day for the past two weeks. the pizza delivery guy knows me by name now. (not really but we're probably only a couple orders away from that step in our relationship.) i tried breaking up with it on saturday but then i got starving around midnight and became weak and tempted and it ended up in bed with me.

and with my bf who was catching up on the latest ish' of ROLLING STONES magazine. brig had to see it to believe it and got out of bed (with his retainers in) just to see it with his own two eyes. (this photo is so crazy but is such a candid version of my life and makes me laugh so terribly hard). -and yes i am a blotter.

i crashed another car.

valentines day was quite the bust. we had such an extravagant christmas we thought we'd be creative and have a ten dollar budget. the plan was to set up the table real romantic and then get costco hot dogs (delish) and watch the bachelor. i put my new fancy dress on and red lipstick and we picked nate's car up to drive up to neverland where costco lives and he wanted me to drive (since i hate it so much) i obliged and just my luck... CRASH. a lady u-turned into me. so not my fault. but still, so my luck. 

we were starving by the time that was done so we ate before we made it back to the table and roses boyfriend bought for me. oh well!  i had planned for weeks to knit my valentines a smitten but procrastinated and then failed big time. i got both the cuffs finished and then got permanently stuck at that step. i am not a quitter, but i kindly placed the unfinished smittens in my drawer to put off until next february. our plans to watch the bachelor were not spoiled since we recorded it, obvi. but then when michelle got sent home i was officially heart broken. boo. valentines day was a bust.  
(i know what you're thinking, boo hoo aubrey. you live in new york and have a hot boyfriend who opens the door for you and buys you dinner and roses and spoons with you on the two seater couch during the bachelor. i  have such a hard life, i know.)

on the flipside H had her bf in town visiting and we all got together at Norma's for a double. this place is worth a trip to the city to try. it's so tasty.

nate got a chocolate waffle filled with peanut butter and toffee sauce. he made it 1/3 of the way through and gave up. 

i got french toast dipped in caramelized rice krispies and caramel sauce. yum!

 and H got juevos rancheros which won the prize. isn't she a beauty?

my random ordinary happenings.

i think i'm getting bunions! i guess that's what happens when you stand in heels all day at work. it's seriously freaking me out because i do NOT want surgery or crutches. as fun as they are to fake having, i would never be able to work and don't want sore pits. just a little side note, my fear of these is not dramatic. when i googled bunions, this (click here)  is what i saw! 

i have a weird love for pretty feet. so to maintain mine, i invested in yoga toes to stretch my feet back into position. and nate tried them too. 

ps. if you clicked on that picture and had to skip lunch i'm sorry. i should've warned you more

we helped my friend move and she had hundreds of pairs of shoes and all in their original boxes because she is 1. organized and 2. they're fancy shoes. one of my new years resolutions is to be more put together ( i am glad i have a full year to achieve this because i'm off to a slow start) well this particular friend is my inspiration and after filling nate's SUV up with her whole closet and then a whole second load with just shoes i now have completely justified spending my life savings to achieve this resolution. (not really but it's seriously tempting) especially when we didn't even make it to jewelry and accessories. anyways, it's worth blogging about because i was so inspired by her collection and nate says "people who help other people move go directly to heaven" and my eternal salvation is definitely important to keep everyone updated on.

all i pretty much blog about lately is my crush on shopping, food and my boyfriend. i guess that's pretty accurate as of late. (i am so shallow)

we have been to lots of dinner parties, birthday parties, oscar parties and i have been thinking about cleaning my room. i would post a picture of that but it would probably make my mother cry (she raised me better) and i wouldn't want that to happen. maybe i'll post one when it's clean?

i'm sorry if you think i blog about boring things sometimes. my life is sometimes ordinary and blogging is my way to k.i.t. with my family all at once since there's never enough time in a day to keep in touch over phone or email or through the post office. (even though i try) if you're bored you don't have to read it. and if you're my family, i know you will anyways.

okay i think that's everything. oh, and it's such a rainy day today. no snow? i think that means spring is right around the corner!

grumpy.

saturday i was really grumpy after work. and on this rare occasion i wrote my boyfriend and said,

"i am so grumpy. i don't want it to rub off, so i am going to order in and catch up on grey's anatomy tonight. xx. a"

and then i ordered chinese and wrapped myself up on my couch and then my boo buzzed up and came to the rescue with a pint of B&J's CHUBBY hubby. (my fav) he sat on the other end of the couch so our feet were in each others faces and he gave me a foot rub for the whole episode of grey's. 

my grumpiness dissolved the moment he walked through the door with that ice cream. the foot rub was like whipped cream on top. and you can never have too much whipped cream. 

nate treats me to a dinner in the city almost every night. or i try to brave cooking and we stay in (i will be real with you- we mostly eat out) (but i am getting better) and in my defense, i get off work late late which means by the time i grocery shopped and made dinner we'd be eating late late late and that is very late.
anyways, we kiss.  and if we are at my house there are usually candles involved   (because i just do that in bed most nights) and in my twenty first year of life i  discovered my obsession with chocolate that is still going strong. so, there is usually chocolate consumption on a daily basis too. which means, my life is basically valentines day everyday, on repeat. 

i am a lucky lady. and i probably shouldn't brag so much about my man or someone will try to snatch him up (i was pretending like they already don't when i said that) he can make me laugh so stinking hard, grumpy days or not and for that i am happy. we did put our heads together real hard and come up with some special way to celebrate v-day this year. it was definitely out of the norm. (even more than we had planned) but that's for another post. this was just a little preface i guess.

(and btw: these are old pics. my hair is still short.)

we are such a big deal.

tuesday was such a special day for me and my main squeeze. a year ago exactly Nate tricked me into going on a date with him. it's true, i didn't know it was a date. (but I would have said yes either way) so off we went, and ate sushi. it was grody. but he was charming and I was swooned.

so happy first date anni to us! I was in charge of the RS activity that night and baked three dozen giant fat heart shaped sugar cookies from scratch and then my beaters zonked out on me so I rushed them over to boyfriend's and we frosted hot pink cookies and reminisced on our year of happy times to celebrate. (we really just focused on the task ahead of us and tried to be quick and efficient and then got distracted and he smeared frosting on my mouth and licked it off. [we are so gross] and the whole time he gave me moral support while I vented about not having a table cloth and flowers and better decorations and everything else all the perfect leaders have for the activity) its times like that I feel bad about being a girl with hormones and he really pulls through being a good bf. (he may also have been motivated by the thought of getting the left overs after) (secret spill: even when there aren't sugary left overs at stake, he's still that sweet)

but dont think thats all we did to celebrate! nope. no way.  last night he picked me up from work in his car and I felt like a QUEEN. I surprised him when I walked out with hair like Claire. (she's the cutest doll on this planet earth) and then he surprised me and drove me outside the city and just over the bridge for dinner. we held hands across the table and had lots of PDA (not really because that's gross) (and because he was scared of my white girl afro) but it was so yum and fun and we even went to the movies after and pretzeled up in the chair really cozy. (for reals) 


and thought we'd better have a photo shoot so we could remember it forever...

k-i-s-s-i-n-g

Nate's sleepy face. and mine too i guess.

right now he is saying "that's enough aubs. i have to work now."

and then he left and i though "oh well"

and then he came back because he got a little jeal i was still taking pics without him. 

aren't we darling?

the end.