hair up, new book, new clothes

[the photo above was taken at the strand. i wrote a post about it over here. ]

loving this day off. loving it and wishing for more... thinking i need to start using my weekends better... thinking i need to start stopping in the city on my way home from work a day or two during the week... i keep talking about it but i've yet to really do any of it... i just get so exhausted and home sounds so comfortable. but that has to change...

wanted to take care of a few things that i couldn't today because of the holiday. :( i guess i'll be scrambling to squeeze them in tomorrow after work.

despite that, i headed into union square to meet seth for lunch. went to the book store (strand) before meeting seth. found the book for book club at half price (happy!) i decided to give book club another chance since the organizer has changed and hopefully the location will be in union square, much easier to access than the place before. we are reading confessions of a counterfeit farm girl by susan mccorkindale. i started it on the ride home this afternoon and know i'm going to enjoy it! it's a memoir about a woman who left her high paying nyc job to move to the sticks of virginia... o and by the way, if anyone is interested, i want to send this book to someone when i'm done with it. my shelves are getting to full. and i don't want full shelves to prevent me from getting more books in my future! let me know... i should be done with it later next week!

while at the book store, i spent a bit of time in the photography section. i realized that i need to start making trips to the book store more often, even if it is to look through books and not actually buy any. flipping through page after page, book after book, i was inspired. ideas were popping in my head... notes were being added to my iphone. it was hard to leave, but i knew if i made mr. wait any longer he'd be suffering of hunger, withering slowly to death in his office chair.

lunch with seth and one of his brothers. then after, i thought about just heading home... my camera battery was almost dead (completely mad at myself for schlepping it all around with me today only to realize the battery was barely breathing!) then, to my surprise, they both told me i should go shopping... so shopping i went. found a few shirts (on sale) and a new pair of tights.

now i'm home... wishing time would slow down so i could squeeze some more into my day off... but alas, it's coming to an end.

oh and one last thing... love this how to get a messy bun post. linked to it via a cup of jo (one of my favorite daily blogs). i think the messy bun is slowly making its way into my hair style... i use a rubber band, but i'm thinking i should try bobby pins like the how to suggests... with a rubber band, my bun falls lower and lower off the top of my head.