lately

February was a bust blog wise. Here's to kicking off March with a post... hopefully I'll be a bit more present this month on my space.

dreaming: of spring – 7 feet of snow and counting, and when it gets warm it will take some time to melt. Summer sun is calling my name.

reading: Us: David Nicholls. So far interesting – a marriage story that doesn’t look like a happy ending, but there’s a ways to go before I’ll know what really happens.

watching: Archer on Netflix. I think I love this primarily for Jessica Water and my love of all things Arrested Development. I definitely love the humor on this show – the snark factor.

smelling: my summertime candle – if you can beat winter, you might as well smell like a day at the beach.

needing: a pedicure – winter’s been tough on the old heels. 

wanting: new workout gear, might be time for an upgrade from the raggedy capri pants I've worn for years - I am not sure, but they might be see through 

listening: Ed Sheeran - I am hooked that that voice, I also think I have a thing for gingers - call me Ron Wesley? 

failing: at getting my steps in on fitbit- tell me March will be better?

confessions:three

I love Colin Firth  and have loved him for the better part of fifteen years. He’s much older than me, but that adds to his appeal.

I worry about my parents a lot – the older we all get, I feel like the roles reversed on who’s better suited to make the decisions – sometimes.

I cannot sleep if the closet door is open. That’s how the boogey man gets into your room (I saw Monsters Inc.) and I am not taking any chances.

Sometimes, I go to the gym just for the company of other humans.  Life gets busy that sometimes this is one of the ways I connect.

I love old people candy – think of what would be in your grandmother’s candy dish and I am in (except the freedent gum). Cinnamon disks, lemon drops,  hard caramels –  it’s on like donkey kong.

Hey Mr. DJ…

I am very into spin these days – there’s something about good music and low impact on the joints (no I am not 90, but recall last summer when I stress fractured my foot from lots of impact). I’ve been hitting 2-3 spin classes a week within my work out routine and I’ve been loving it. I definitely have tried almost all the trendy spin places in New York – FlyWheel, Revolve, Studio 360, and I am about to try Soul Cycle this coming Saturday. Soul Cycle is apparently life changing according to a few of the regulars I know. Right now I am really loving Revolve because there isn’t a bad spin instructor in the group – no one to avoid because you hate the music, or the instructor isn’t motivating you the right way.  Last night I went to Revolves Live DJ ride and it was freaking fantastic. I’ve never had so much fun in a spin class before. The music was epic, it was perfect – every song I was like okay I got this, and when the ride ended I kind of wanted to go dancing.  I highly recommend a live DJ spin class if you get the opportunity.

(images via pinterest: 1, 2)

movie memories: center stage

I love movies, going to the theater seeing some epic moving on the big screen, watching at home. When I was in college my friends and I use to have regular movie nights where we’d gather in our pajamas and round up snacks and watch old favorites from someone’s VHS collection (yep, I went to college with a TV with a built in VCR – I was fancy). It was the early 2000s and for some reason movies involving dance were big, for example Save the Last Dance, Center Stage were some we watched on repeat.  I have fond memories of Center Stage, it made me want to be a dancer even though I have little to no experience and figuring that out that dream at 19 was well, far too late in life. This does not stop me from putting on my ipod and hosting my own personal dance recital from time to time in my apartment (downstairs neighbor, sorry about the leaping, but ballerinas leap).

It’s been probably 10 years since I’ve watched Center Stage, but my memory serves as this: Girl wants to be ballerina, girl’s parents want her to go to college, but she gets into a very prestigious ballet academy in New York. The dad from the OC is a jerk, who runs the ballet company that the academy is associated with, who tries to crush girl’s dream. Girl makes friends, has a roommate who’s a b*tch, but also an eating disorder making roommate hangry. Girl meets guy who she puts in friend category, girl meets ballerino star – who thinks she's

cute enough to sleep with, but not date. Girl gets big part in jerk ballerino’s workshop for the final performance before finding out what ballet company wants her. Ballerino has a vision and its ballet for the rock and roll generation – we all dance to Jamiroquai and everyone’s dreams come true.

Honestly, I think my favorite part of that movie was some of the great/terrible music. I sadly really love the song, Friends Forever by the Thunderbugs. It’s cheesy goodness that only a movie can give you.

(photo via all posters)