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When you know better, you should know better.

New news!

Dear Readers,

Since I've already informed my bestie, who is also couch bound with Covid, I am happy to report that I have finished my mourning of Jason Momoa and I have moved onto Glen Powell.

Smooches,
G

When C is NOT for Cookie...

Welp, it happened. After an amazing 4 year run of being COVID-free since having the OG COVID strain, I popped positive today. That test lit up quicker than a Christmas tree. It sucks, but at least it's not as bad as the first time.

I sent my friends a picture of my positive test and someone thought I was pregnant. I found this hilarious for many reasons including that the time is well past. But, if that was the case, then I would have many questions including 1) will the second coming of Jesus be timed for the ugly sweater party or Christmas? and 2) will he turn the water into wine or do I have to shop for booze?

And to pile on, my A/C has not been able to get overly cold. So now my "worry-free" program has paid itself off. A few weeks after having the capacitor changed there are certain times it won't go to the temperature it's set at. The PSEG guy said "it's doing the best it can." 

Me too, little A/C unit, me too.

Fun fact: technically your A/C can only get to a 20-degree differential from the outside, as it's an A/C, not a refrigeration system.

Stay tuned for ongoing insights that I manage to learn.

Smooches,

G

#ick

This is exactly how poor decisions are made. You think that it's simple to try to call someone and that doesn't happen

Yes.

#Facts

"To be successful at anything, the truth is you don't have to be special. You just have to be what most people aren't: consistent, determined and willing to work for it."

There's no denying the GOAT is spot on with this quote. Consistent, determined and willing are attributes that are so rare.

The bad Italian

I'm slowly making my way through past TV I missed…and yes, admittedly, I never watched The Sopranos.

It is hilarious.

Tones of home? Not exactly, although the family dynamic is on par. Tones of my 20s in Nutley and the 'Boken, you bet.

I miss cereal

 11:11 - Make a wish. It has been a day / week / year / life. 

As I patiently await the final version of one of the least relevant releases of my career... ugh, oy! It's been a long, pleasant stretch of enjoying my clients and my work. 

Steamy Girl Summer

I did not have air conditioner breaking on this year's bingo card. Thankfully, I diagnosed the problem and handled the issue so I didn't get screwed (still not literally). If I knew that the secret to mansplaining and fixing shit was YouTube, it probably could've saved me at least one marriage.

Life lesson

Never, ever f with Angela Bassett.

Hot Boy Summer

Of course, soon after I post about being on a sabbatical, the Universe loves to toy with me. I swear last weekend was crawling with hot dudes everywhere. Thinking I was hallucinating, I shared this with my sister and her bestie - which led to the three of us watching an impossibly buff, hot dude scrub down his boat. It continued on the water, where there were at least 5 boats full of legit, hot boys literally and figuratively, as the majority were shirtless (and, definitely were sharing their gifts). 

My therapist laughed about this and said it's a sign of what's waiting for me when I'm ready. 

I'm sticking to eye candy only (for now), but it's nice to know that I'm transitioning into dirty old lady territory. 

Smooches, 

G

Hmmm....

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

I have to think on this one. It got me today.

Updated: If I have nothing else, it is character. :-)

"Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose. " - Evan Esar My bad, I posted this quote already. Oopsie!  It’s a good reminder that people can take everything from you, except who you are.

Just keep swimming

Grief is not a straight trajectory. Adulting never gets easier.

"I still fuck up. Every single day, but you learn from it and you find a way to put one foot in front of the other and if you're lucky you don't fuck up in exactly the same way next time."

Jersey things

The great pizza debate continues… tonight's lesson is that non-Jerz people say "cheese pizza" when they mean plain. They also think that Hawaiian pizza is real.

We met in the middle - I will call a plain pizza, "cheese pizza" if they call anything outside the standard toppings a flatbread.

Thank goodness he's married to one of my best friends or that could've ended badly but I even let him drive my beloved Fred to pick up the "cheese pizza" and flatbread.

Ms. Mixologist

It's been said that I've missed my calling and that I have a natural ability for making cocktails.

For the last couple years, I have not been mixing anything, I would maybe have a cocktail if I went out, but mostly I drink wine or beer at a local brewery (save for my overindulgence on KW Mai Tais).

About a month ago, I remembered this amazing margarita that was made with fresh watermelon juice from a restaurant that has since closed and it put me on a mission.

I didn't even know you could buy bottled watermelon juice, and unfortunately, when I looked at that time, the only place that had it was Wegmans, which everyone knows I do not enter.

But I was heading to hang out with friends and I am not the type to show up empty-handed. As luck would have it I tried my beloved old people ShopRite, and they happened to have the bottle. I wasn't feeling very tequila that day so I decided that it would have to be watermelon mimosas.

It was an instant hit and has since been used by others at parties.

Yet, I still didn't make that margarita and found myself out of wine. Duty called.

I thought I would be rusty bc I haven't made cocktails in a while...but vodka with watermelon, pineapple and mango juice with a splash of Pelligrino. I still got it.

You heard it here first. When watermelon juice starts popping up on specialty cocktail lists…that's the power of Ms. Mary Popov!

The ghost in you

A man in my shoes runs a light
And all the papers lied tonight
But falling over you
Is the news of the day
Angels fall like rain
And love, love, love
Is all of heaven away (Love, love, love, love, love)

Inside you the time moves and she don't fade
The ghost in you, she don't fade
Inside you the time moves and she don't fade

A race is on, I'm on your side
And here in you, my engines die
I'm in a mood for you
Or running away
Stars come down in you
And love, love, love
You can't give it away (Love, love, love, love, love)

Inside you the time moves and she don't fade
The ghost in you, she don't fade
Inside you the time moves and she don't fade

Don't you go, it makes no sense
When all your talk and supermen
Just take away the time
And get in the way
Ain't it just like rain?
And love, love, love
Is only heaven away (Love, love, love, love, love)

Inside you the time moves and she don't fade
The ghost in you, she don't fade
Inside you the time moves and she don't fade
The ghost in you, she don't fade
Inside you the time moves and she don't fade
The ghost in you, she don't fade
Inside you the time moves

Facts

A Mother’s Day post

"We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back to see how far they come."

I'm not a mother, at least not in the literal sense, but this quote hit deep.

I live in admiration of all the moms I know who have made this sacrifice and I'm grateful to be part of the girls now women who have shown us how far they can go and in awe of how far I know how they will go.

Being a "real" mom, that is just amazing. I am constantly amazed by their abilities.

Being a "bonus," whether it be an aunt, godmother or otherwise is a privilege and honor that I never take lightly.

Yikes…

This is fucking dark…but I love it.