"The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows"

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows:  this is one of my favorite tumblr sites (and one of the few that isn't pure porn!).

Word porn, maybe.

But, it highlights words...gorgeous, gorgeous words that are, well, obscure.  But the definitions are SO eloquent that I feel like I'm swimming in "rightness" (<-obviously, I'm NOT as great with words).  And I love the thought: "there's a WORD for that?"

Here's one of my favorites recently...

nodus tollens

n. the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore—that although you thought you were following the arc of the story, you keep finding yourself immersed in passages you don’t understand, that don’t even seem to belong in the same genre—which requires you to go back and reread the chapters you had originally skimmed to get to the good parts, only to learn that all along you were supposed to choose your own adventure.

I know!  I know this feeling exactly.  

Brrrr...

So this is the weather tomorrow.  I walk to work at about 8:30am.  Weird thing (weird on many levels) is that I used to live in Kazakhstan (yes Kazakhstan) and it would get to -20 degrees in the winter.  And I don't recall it being that cold.  But its been awhile.  And when I look at that "feels like" column above, I'm a bit panicked.  We've had 2 very mild winters in NY since I've lived here.  This will the my 3rd winter and I'm feeling like a rookie.

The other day I walked to work in a snow storm and there were flurries that were just pelting me in the face.  I covered the bottom half but snow was getting in my eyes!  I asked my native-NY'er coworker if people wear goggles in storms like that.  He laughed at me like I was the funniest woman alive.  

I'm trying to be practical here!  I have no idea what to wear to brave my walk to work tomorrow. 

Hello...Uber? 

Reviving this thing called 'blog'...

I think it's been almost 2 years since I've posted here.  Life is not so different. ha!

What's changed?  Well, I have a new job (started at Spotify in August of 2013), a new apartment (still in the West Village but a few blocks north...loving it!), and traveling WAY too much for work.  Other than that, I'm same ol' same ol'.

But, I'm thinking it's time to give this "personal blogging" thing another go.  Not specifically because I have anything important to say.  But, because I think, at times, it's just important to say something...anything.  To muse, to laugh, to complain, to roll your eyes at, to share...about life.  

We'll see how it goes.  

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!  What will 2014 hold for you?

My goals:

• Learn to knit
• Learn to play the ukulele
• Don't let life pass me by as my nose is in a book (meaning, accept invitations to go out and LIVE!)
• Finish writing my short story / book (I'm at 50,000 words, 25,000 of those might be usable)
• Run a 5k (my goal every year and the one I never achieve...because I hate to run)
• Get a mammogram (right?)
• Send more snail mail letters & cards (someone has to keep the USPS in business!)