Lately

When enough time passes, it's hard to pick writing back up here again. But so much has happened in the last few months, that I feel like I need to record it all somewhere.

Since I've last updated, I've:

- visited 3 countries (Germany, Iceland, Turks&Caicos)

- really grown into my job as a media research analyst, which I love

- saw the Northern Lights (!!!) 

- probably had the best weekend of my life when I found an amazing dessert (rote Grütze) and watched the sunrise in a fish market (all in Hamburg, Germany)

- started liking sushi, sashimi and seafood

- found a good group of people to regularly hang out with

- lost a ton of weight 

The last one has had the biggest impact day-to-day for me. I started changing my diet and habits after I left my advertising job in May. I felt like the unhappiness of that time, plus bad habits I picked up (free vendor lunches! happy hours every night! subway rides to and from work!) contributed to weight gain since I've moved to the city. Now I definitely feel healthier, especially since I walk everywhere, keep work food in check (just because it's free doesn't mean you have to eat it!) and wear a fitness tracker to keep up with my steps. The bittersweet thing about a drastic change in my appearance though is that it's impacted what clothes I can wear, and I've cut out a lot of things in my closet .So anyways, between that and the really long winter in NYC, I haven't been taking very many outfit photos. Which I hope to pick back up soon once it's warm again.

Anyways, thank you for reading - whoever you are out there.

Here and there

Just a few things on my mind lately: 

watching: 

- I saw Gravity last week and highly recommend (along with everyone else in the world it seems, haha). I am usually not a fan of 3D movies or the space travel genre, but this one was incredible -- a total feast for the eyes.

- Still mourning the end of Breaking Bad, but I've been filling the void with Downton Abbey (I have my sources, shh!). A few recent Netflix finds: Orange is the New Black, Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's, Freaks and Geeks. What are you watching lately?

reading: 

- I bought a copy of "Who's Buried Where?" at the Westminster Abbey gift shop and have liked poring over the final resting places of famous Brits. I know that sounds macabre, but that kind of history has always fascinated me ... Other books that I've recently read: "Quiet" by Susan Cain, "No Reservations" by Anthony Bourdain.

- A few new blog finds: Empty Emptor, Wish Wish Wish, Assembled Hazardly, Chronicles of She. 

- Inspired by this post about the power of side projects (via swiss miss). 

- 101 travel tips that are pretty useful and include tips like rolling every piece of clothing you own to maximize space, and avoiding airplane ice cubes.

- When I miss Georgia, I look to these blogs: Petite Panoply, Grits and Moxie, Evan Leavitt, Back Down South. 

-  I look here to fall in love with New York even more: HONY, NYC Type.