patriots again.

The Patriots are officially 17-0. That's right. Still undefeated. I wore my hair in a ponytail tonight. Very unlike me. But I kind of liked it. I came close to wearing my glasses, but couldn't do it. Baby steps. Going out with my hair in a ponytail is a big deal for me. My hair is so ridiculously long at the moment that I don't really like anything I do with it. Need a haircut and highlights badly.

All I have to say. Sleep now. More tomorrow. Yayy!

we are not martha launch. yesssss.

Chels and I are finally launching our new website! It's still in the beginning stages and we have a lot of tweaking to do, but we got the site up and are pretty excited about it. It's called We are not Martha and is basically about our adventures in cooking, eating, decorating, and just plain living life.

We've always been completely in love with Martha Stewart, but we know that so many people our age can't stand her. So, we wanted to do a sort-of Martha Stewart like site for people in their 20s; but of course we hope people of any age will find it useful. Maybe it will inspire you to try cooking a little more...or give you some good ideas for throwing a party. At the very least, you might have fun following Chels and I as we we learn that growing up is actually sort of fun.

So, please come visit us at http://www.wearenotmartha.com/ and leave us comments to let us know what you think. And if you have any great ideas for us, let us know! Don't forget to add us to your GoogleReader. Thank you, my blogger friends :)

sunday night bliss.

Things that are making me happy RIGHT now as we speak/write:

1) Sweet mint lifesavers. Seriously amazing. I.need.to.stop.eating.them.

2) Having enough credit card points to get Amazon gift certificates. Loveee my Amazon credit card a little too much. "But if I just buy one more cute pair of shoes, I'll have enough points for another gift card!" Justifiable, yes?

3) Having had lunch today with one of my fave people in the world who I don't see nearly enough. When we met on the very first day of college, I knew we would be friends. And we still are.

4) The fact that Corey was amazing and put the new Seal and One Republic albums on my iTunes, among others. And I'm listening to them right now. Honestly? Seal is God.

5) That I just got a ton of work done and my boss sent me three e-mails in a row that said variations of "Good job, Susie! Thank you SO much!!" Finally, someone who appreciates my work.

6) That I actually finished reading a whole New Yorker before the next one arrived (the benefit of spending almost 2 hours on the T on a Sunday).

7) The fact that I rarely ever go on the red line, but when I did on Friday night, I saw these guys...Basically two men carrying a boom box blaring music. Everyone the T was like ummm wtf. But then they started talking to us, getting everyone pumped up. And when the T started moving, they started break dancing. Legit doing flips and stuff. The crowd was so into it, including a bunch of older women. It was awesome. And I only came kind of close to getting kicked in the face.

8) That Chelsee and I sort of taught ourselves basic html and are making a kick-ass website. And I learned how to make an icon appear in the address bar. All by myself in less than 30 minutes. We are pure talent I tell ya.

9) That I just ordered tons of new coffee for my Tassimo. Ooooh, my life is so exciting it kills me sometimes.

10) That they're opening a gym in Coolidge Corner. Someone heard my wishes and prayers. Though I'm not sure what kind of gym it is since I couldn't read the sign from across the street. And I was too lazy to cross it. Um, see why I need to go to a gym?

11) C.O. Bigelow Vanilla Malt Shake lip gloss. Yummm. Soooo good.

12) That my final GPA in grad school ended up being .1 of a point higher than it was in undergrad. I iz mad smaht.

13) That Sas is finally coming home tomorrow. Miss that girl like crazy.

my kitchen please.

I said I'd post this when I found an online image. My dream kitchen. However, if I don't end up getting married, I might do pink instead of yellow. We'll see.

That's all for tonight. I was in the Martha Stewart mood after working on a Martha Stewart project all day. Chels and I spent about 12 hours teaching ourselves HTML. So, it was just HTML on Blogger, but still. Neither of us have a clue how to do anything techy, so we are both kind of proud of ourselves for figuring some stuff out. You know how good it feels when you have a big problem and have no idea what to do...and then all of the sudden you discover how to fix it? That was us like eighty times today. Plus, I can't remember a time ever when Chelsee and I have gotten together to "work on stuff" and actually ended up doing work. I'm pretty proud of us. And on a Saturday night too. Um, it's after 3 a.m. now.

We'll tell you about our project soon!

new years resolutions 2008.

It's been a little while but finally, on January 1, 2008, I have my New Year's resolutions ready. Yayy! I've got lots to work on this year. All good stuff. I like to take my resolutions really seriously, mostly because I love making goals for myself and figure the beginning of the year is a good time to review what I need to work on and then see what changes in a year. I guess I have a sad, sad idea of fun. Oh well...knowing me, I'll probably forget all about them until I look back one year from now. I'm really going to try, though. Why not, right?

New Year's Resolutions for 2008

1) Find a job that I really enjoy and can utilize my mad skillzz at. This really should not be as difficult as it feels right now. Seriously my top priority of the year as, yes, I love freelancing, but would prefer it to be more of a side thing right now. I need to get out of my apartment and be around other people and stop constantly talking to myself (my friends are starting to notice it now...eeek). I've been talking about getting a job for like 6 months now, sooo it really needs to happen...and soon.

2) Be healthier in terms of working out and eating. Who doesn't have this resolution? I don't think i have a terrible diet, but I just have weird eating habits. I believe a lot of this has to do with my working at home schedule...keeping weird hours, eating at weird times, being inside a lot. Once I have a job, I am joining a gym and until then I'm doing lots of pilates. I promise.

3) Write a lot more. Sometimes I get burnt out from writing for work and I don't write the stuff I really want to. So, I really need to take more time out and write what I want. I also need to read more. Once again, I always feel like I can be doing freelance work and I don't sit and relax with a good book nearly enough.

4) Learn to speak conversational Japanese. I just started learning and it's an extremely difficult language so I want to see how far I can get in a year. Right now I'm just learning the Katakana and Hiragana alphabets and that has been a challenge enough. Umm why do I want to learn Japanese? I've just always wanted to. And for the first time in my life I'm not in school, soo I need to be learning something!

5) Get my finances in order. Ha. I hate saying that because it makes me sound so pathetic. I'm not one of those people who is in credit card debt or anything (I pay off my cards every month, thank you very much!), but between grad school loans, expensive Boston apartment and living, and freelance payment confusion, I need to sort myself out. I like to go out, have fun, go shopping, etc. and not constantly talk/worry about money, so I just want everything to be on a schedule so I don't have to think about it too much. Hopefully a new job will help this situation.

6) Network more. I have the best friends in the world and think that having just a few really good friends is far more important than having a ton of friends. But having connections with people is so important and sometimes I feel like I just don't know enough people. I really want to get out and get to know more people. Chels and I joke that when one of us is going on vacation, we have to notify each other well in advance so the other person can figure out what they're going to do that weekend. We joke, but it's really not funny.

7) Sleep more/get on a better sleep schedule. I'm a horrible horrible sleep person. I'm a night owl to the maximum and never ever want to go to bed. I have to force myself. Once I'm asleep, I could sleep forever, but I make myself get up at a reasonable time or I'll feel like a waste of space. This results in me not getting much sleep at all, ever. I've come to learn that I don't really need much sleep; as long as I'm keeping busy, I don't get tired. But this can't be good for my body. And I need to fix it. I'm hoping that with a job, this will remedy itself out a bit (gosh, a job might just help all my issues!). I seriously can't imagine myself ever ever going to bed before midnight though, so it will be interesting.

8) Figure out what I want in life. I dunno. I figure I've totally changed as a person this year and really came to understand myself. Now I need to figure out what I want the future to hold. Uhh I doubt I'll really come to any conclusions on this any time soon, but still worth thinking about. Because clearly I'm confused on a few issues.

9) Cook more. This year I started experimenting a lot more in the kitchen and I'm hopefully going to become even better at cooking and baking in 2008. I've learned from the best so far (my parents), but still have a longg way to go. Armed with my new mandoline, blender, food processor, etc., as well as Martha Stewart Living, Everyday Food, Bon Appetit, Gourmet, and Cook's Illustrated (um, I LOVE cooking magazines), I should be good to go. Now I just need more people to cook for or I'm going to gain some serious weight.

10) Start some of the business ventures I have in mind. I don't feel like elaborating here, but there is soo much I want to do. First of all, Chels and I have to get our cooking project started. Um seriously.

BE HAPPY!!!!! I love being happy and really, it doesn't take much to make me happy, sooo I'm pretty sure I won't have a problem with that. But I want 2008 to be the happiest year yet!


Yeahh, so I think that should be enough to keep me busy for the year. New Year's Eve was a pretty good time, but I'll talk more about that later. Maybe. Here are a couple pics from it for now anyway.



Me and my fave girlies.


I just think this pic is great because I look soo happy with my red wine and Red Bull. Typical.