Champagne Wednesdays

This gave me a good laugh today (via You are my Fave) in the way that true things are often the funniest. True: Ash and I have made 2009 our year of NYCing. Also true: Far trickier than making champagne-powered declarations is carrying out such resolutions without credit. Yes, we’re on one of those miserable post-wedding cash diets. The kind of belt-tightening [...]

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Things this girl likes today: The song, The Girl, by City and Colour (especially how it ends and then starts again faster and more feverously, as if to say he really means it the second time). The owner of Provide Home, who welcomed me into his fabulous store yesterday with pleasant conversation and a Nespresso cappuccino.  Across from Chambar and Cafe Medina [...]

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No, it’s not the remnants of our leftover Christmas Tree. It’s fresh dill. Found (in the off season) in those handy little plastic boxes near the bagged lettuces (which I never buy, except for the romaine hearts because romaine is a wild creature in its raw form and the crunchy hearts are the best part [...]

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A glass of bubbly for you. And for me. This weekend, we took our nephew to Granville Island and stopped in front of this bakery: Outside was the usual busker, in his tuxedo, playing a perfectly timed La Vie En Rose. We danced. It was one of those moments that make the whole day feel [...]

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