Math Nerds Unite!

It's March 14th... which means it's 3/14...which means it's Pi Day.  The annual celebration of the mathematical phenomenon that is Pi.  Apparently, you are supposed to eat pie to celebrate!  Makes perfect sense.  So, I give you the below meme that circulated the internets a few weeks back. 

Happy Pi Day, everyone!  Thanks to ANE News for the reminder :).

Dance 'til you feel better!

This little vid is making the blog rounds... I will say, it definitely makes me smile today.  Amid all the life stresses we have going on right now, this montage and trivia tonight at Westport Flea Market are making my day a wonderful one.  So, get up off a that thing...


Dance Trailer from Chris Poole on Vimeo.

Quotes aplenty.

{photo from my engagement sesh}

I always love a good quote. Here's a few of my current and all-time faves for your inspirational needs.  There's so much going on in my life now that a good quote always helps to bring me back to center. Cheers to letting happiness and chaos coexist!

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." -Ralph Waldo Emerson


"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." -Mother Teresa


"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." -C.S. Lewis


"Not all those who wander are lost." -J.R.R. Tolkien


"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.  This makes it hard to plan the day." -E.B. White


"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." -Victor Hugo


Ahhhhh, much better.

Do you know the muffin man?

In honor of the final Shrek movie, OPI has put out this new nail polish collection. And I'm kind of in love. What fun summer colors!

I really like ALL of them.  It might be a more expensive lunch break than I was anticipating...

Elephants on parade!

Every year, the circus comes to NYC - specifically, Madison Square Garden.  The only issue is that the trucks carrying the elephants can't make it onto Manhattan.  So, they have to truck the elephants to Queens, walk them through the Midtown Tunnel, and then all the way down 34th Street to the Garden.


This past week, we stayed up well past our bedtime to stand out in the rain and watch the elephants strut their stuff down iconic 34th street.  It was incredibly surreal to see these enormous animals in the middle of Manhattan.  Enjoy a few pictures  below!

Lego-licious.

A lego island in a Parisian Kitchen....

Absolutely brill.  And it only took 20,000 individual legos to complete!  I like those wall hooks too...

via {dwell}

Only in NYC.

Yesterday, we were RUDELY awoken by ridiculous honking at the stoplight outside our window starting around 5:30 AM.  There's usually a certain degree of honking, but it's somewhat tolerable.  But this time, the level of honkage escalated throughout the morning and became basically unbearable and completely maddening by the time I left the apartment.  I was ready to start throwing heavy/sharp objects out the window at these disruptive cars that were ruining my morning.  


Come to find out - the stoplight had broken!  But not one of those polite stoplight breakages where the light starts blinking to inform drivers of its brokenness.  Nope, this is a rude Brooklyn stop light that decided to just STAY RED.


Sigh. Only in New York....

Saddest Dog Ever.

Love this photo of a pug in San Francisco named Newman (isn't that also a great name for a dog?!)... definitely the background on my desktop right now :).

Check out photographer Christopher Michel's website for more sadness/goodnes.

Happy Friday!

B*tches be crazy.

Love this article by The Daily Beast on the Craziest Cities in the country!  Glad to see Austin and NYC up there, but Cincinnati? Really??  Actually, there are a lot of Ohio cities on this list.  Perhaps I need to visit the Buckeye State....

Here's the top 20:

1. Cincinnati
2. San Francisco
3. Providence
4. Milwaukee
5. Las Vegas
6. Philadelphia
7. New York City
8. Tucson
9. San Antonio
10. New Orleans
11. Oakland
12. Austin
13. Cleveland
14. Louisville
15. Memphis
16. Denver
17. Portland (OR)
18. Pittsburgh
19. Seattle
20. Columbus

Magic!

I don't know who in their right mind would leave behind a SIGNED Limited-edition David Copperfield poster.... so, I stole it and put it above my desk!  It kind of creeps me out and makes me smile at the same time.  Ain't he a beaute?

Maybe Davy-poo will lend me some of his powers of illusion....