Eat Pray Love

Today, over my favorite drink: a tall-soy-latte-with-one-pump-cinnamon-dolce-syrup-and-extra-cinnamon-sprinkles-please (said all with one breath... or also known as "the Usual") at Starbucks and a delicious apple bran muffin, I finished one of the best books I have ever read to this day: Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. If you have not read this book yet- YOU MUST! Okay, not really, but I definately feel this book was written just for me. It had my favorite things: travel, yoga, religion, love, and pasta!
The book is basically about the author's journey to find inner peace and happiness after dealing with a long and messy divorce among other circumstances that brought her safe little world crashing down. Gilbert takes off a year to go to three countries that, for different reasons, she finds a need to visit- Italy, India, and Indonesia.

Read it!


Song of the Day: TOUT DOUCEMENT by Feist

frost on the windows

I have been scrambeling to get the Christmas shopping done and everything in place for the fast approaching holiday. I finally figured out what I wanted for Christmas: the Rosetta Stone Level 1 German learning kit. I figure that a new language would be the gift that keeps on giving. Plus, one of my most concrete goals is to learn 5 languages (at least almost) fluently by the time I am 30. Currently, I know English (duh) and a fair amount of French (which I will go on to study in college). I would like to learn German, Chinese (for business reasons), and either Italian, Danish, or Swedish for my other three. I just love languages and the doors that open up with each additional language. I guess most of it has to do with my passion for travel and living with locals- not just touristy travel. In fact, I all-but-despise travel just for pure tourist pleasure. I plan on moving around a lot while I'm in my twenties; living in Europe and Asia, which will greatly improve my language skills once I have a base built. So.... that is why Rosetta Stone.

I just finished reading Crystal Castles by Jeannette Walls- incredible. I can't believe the life that woman had as a child- the hardships she went through- and how she currently lives a very sucessful life in Manhattan. I definately recommend Crystal Castles.

book: Simply Breakfast

Get your copy of photographer Jennifer Causey's (of Simply Breakfast blog) Simply Breakfast: the art of breakfast. It's her blog in print and I love it.
"This is a little book documenting my daily obsession with breakfast and the beauty I find in the everyday," says Jennifer.
I'd say this book would look lovely on any coffee table. Especially if you already own A Year of Mornings by Maria Vettese and Stephanie Congdon. Order the book and view a preview here.

at long last.

So, being a huge Harry Potter fan (laugh all you want haters...) since the third grade, I was excited today when i finally saw the trailer for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince movie. The movie was supposed to be realeased last week, but a certain other fantasy book-turned movie (ahhem) stole the show and now we will have to wait until July to see the 6th movie.

ps. I actually love Twilight...

the happiest time of the day- in color

Appreciate the small things in life. Two women, 3191 miles each appart snapped a picture in the morning every day for a year, posted them on a blog, and eventually assembled them into this photobook. Showing, although they are so far apart, mornings and the simple things are universal. Love it.

Check out their current project as a blog- 3191 A Year of Evenings