From Right Here

Is it just me, or is it that when someone makes you feel crappy it makes you want to:

#1 - Watch tv and read magazines all day until your neck hurts
and then…
#2 - Get off your ass and do something really great?

It’s like we spend our whole lives making up for shitty moments by putting ourselves out there EVEN MORE. They say all the best comedians and writiers and successful actors (real actors - not just the pretty ones) are truly successful because at one point their lives were really, really hard. I think moments like this drive us to take chances and do anything we can to improve our own happiness.

OH - if you realized how trifling a bad moment I’ve just had was - you’d laugh your single head off -

but it has gotten me to sign back up for guitar classes (NYC Guitar School rocks!) and start this motherly-awesome writing adventure with my friend Tina. I’m a food fanatic, I eat anything, I still occasionally love processed foods and I love snacking (particularly at 2am when I inevitably wake my roommate up with our loud beeping microwave.) Tina, on the other hand, is more of a natural chef.

She grew up in an Italian-American home - she pronounces things like Mozzarelle correctly and she has a shiny orange Kitchen-Aid which she actually uses.

Check out our recipes and tips at, and please sign up by email! :

http://www.examiner.com/Easy Meals

First Article - Easy Spring Asparagus

My vacation of a lifetime is now over. I’m no longer in France, I’m no longer dating french guys with  motorcycles. I’m no longer eating baguettes and frommage-frais on a daily basis. I miss my vacation, but honestly- I knew it was only temporary. I’ve got to grow up sometime. It’s great to see friends again, and to jump back into living the high-life in New York City.

I’m back in NYC and all my friends are scaring the shit out of me with all this economy-crise stuff. I’m very happy about Obama…but the magic he’ll try and pull out of his hat is a little too early for all the job-hunting I’ll have to do. More on that to come…

One thing I will NOT go back to is a daily-grind that excludes doing the stuff I want to do — like writing. I’m attempting to write for 3 hours every day except Saturday - blogs/short stories/the outline stage of a novel. I’ll keep you up on my progress.

I started on Wednesday and so far - Week 1 - I got a 3 1/2 out of 4. One day, the mess I created in my mom’s living room just made me crazy and I cleaned. (cleaning along with cooking - will be my nemesis…I can already see it now… Clean room….Packed fridge…and nothing else getting done.)

To make up for my serious lack of writing in the past few weeks, check out “Slow Like Honey” a super-fun blog about baking, j-crew catalog shopping, and fiona apple. This is such a sweet and successful blog, and author Amanda updates all the time-

http://slowlikehoney.net

Thanks for the Fiona Apple link, Amanda! This really takes me back.