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Magical Realism

by Satine

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October 10, 2014

Gingerbread Heart

Friday I had to get up early, make myself presentable and fly to Chicago for a quick in and out trip. Flight surprisingly uneventful after all the problems they were having with that air traffic...


September 30, 2014

October Begins

Two Fridays ago…yoga was good (I like the Friday instructor, a curvy actress type with a throaty voice and a slightly twisted sense of humor.) Went home and A had picked up white wine and fresh ...


September 19, 2014

Zero to a Hundred Real Quick

Week before Labor Day - Worked out a lot, Wednesday went for rooftop drinks at Brass Monkey with my friend Dustin, got caught in rain. Had Friday before Labor Day off for a 4 day weekend, went o...


Last Sunday we went to open houses - saw a place I loved, then went out on a mini-bender through the East Village. Great use of time. Woke up at an ungodly hour on Monday, chatted with a far-awa...


It seems like a month since I last wrote - my two weeks in Argentina were truly epic. I won't say they were life-changing, but something approaching that maybe. This was a bit of an impromptu t...


Okay, I haven't written in one million years. Past few weeks were mostly the usual - work, HIIT classes, yoga, food, you know. We did go to this one "Sensory Gallery" party where we were blindf...


Last Wednesday - I had my beet/cabbage/broccoli raw veggie bowl with baked chicken for lunch. Went to the uptown gym after work, by myself, because the timing there worked well to do a yoga and ...


July 09, 2014

One Wild & Precious Life

All I can say is carpe diem babies, seriously. Yesterday lunch - baby kale salad with $14 worth of almond breaded chicken tenders from Hu Kitchen. (A picked this up the day before.) It was a g...


Okay...all I want to do is post Lana Del Rey lyrics like an obsessive teenager and moon about in smudged eyeliner and slinky white dresses...instead I am here at work like a boring grownup in a ...


July 01, 2014

Dinner in White

Whatever week I left off - Thursday was our one day off from evening events after three straight nights out for Shakespeare in the Park Opening Night, the High Line benefit, and then the Google G...


June 19, 2014

All Mirth, No Matter

Last Wednesday I worked downtown, did power flow yoga, went to sushi with A, three martinis (!) at Art Bar after dinner, then late night Corner Bistro. Woke up around 7am on Thursday, and head...


June 11, 2014

Bollywood Hawaii

Thursday - worked downtown, did Tabata high intensity intervals class, then vinyasa yoga right afterwards. Showered, went home, and A had made quinoa salad for us with radishes, avocado, and cuc...


Last Saturday - got back from airport, got 16 Handles for lunch/dinner (linner?) went to sleep nice and early. I don't really believe in jet lag, but was really hoping to use the time difference...


Macau: On Monday morning, we packed up, grabbed a taxi, and headed back to the Beijing airport. Flight was delayed a bit, but the airport is nice and very modern, so time passed quickly. Watche...


If you couldn't tell from my last entry - I was on a total endorphin high after the marathon. It carried me through almost the rest of our trip! The city of Beijing and the Great Wall Marathon...


May 17, 2014

Ni Hao!

We are in Beijing, China!!! A few snags in getting here in a timely fashion due to travel delays via Hong Kong, but we got to Mainland China on Wednesday, went to the Great Wall for an inspectio...


May 12, 2014

Hot Tub Time Machine

Thursday was a rushed day - worked from the regular office, then headed home and got ready for Hot Tub Cinema - a rooftop movie screening in Williamsburg. We had tried to do this when we were in...


Quinoa Meatloaf Update: everything I hoped it would be and more! I microwaved it at work and had with shredded purple cabbage for lunch on Thursday and Friday. Thursday, 4/24 after work we went...


I think I always get a bit restless in April. Oh well, it's almost over. Friday A and I were both running on empty...he is stressed at work and we were both annoyed by yet another apartment pur...


April 18, 2014

Love & Other Demons

Rest in peace Gabriel Garcia Marquez. If you hadn't already noticed from my long-time diary title, I am a huge fan of the magical realism genre. In high school especially, I devoured his work a...


April 16, 2014

Lather, Rinse, Repeat

I'm at the office and I'm writing an entry...stop me if you've heard it... Yesterday afternoon flew by and before I knew it, was time to head out for the gym. Did the rowing circuit class with ...


April 15, 2014

Double-Yolk Day

Yesterday our usual class was cancelled due to Passover so my colleague Caroline and I left work a little early and headed to a different branch of our gym for a new boot camp class. It's in a c...


April 14, 2014

He Died of Thirst

After getting back from Finland, we've been trying to stay on an earlier and more consistent schedule. The night we got back, we went to sleep nice and early and the next morning, we woke up bef...


April 10, 2014

Reindeer Express

The bus to Kakslauttanen was super smooth and uneventful. Slept a little on the bus and before we knew it we were at the resort! Luckily the reception was not far from where the bus stopped, we...


April 08, 2014

Breaststroke, Literally

We landed in Finnish Lapland from Helsinki early afternoon. Even the airport was really festive, welcoming swimmers coming into town. The town of Rovaniemi is marketed as the "Hometown of Sant...


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“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”

~ Cecil Beaton

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