Greatest vacation: Walt Disney World twice! Went in January with friends and my brother
Corey then again in October with my mom and sister Alyssa.
Greatest family time: weekend in March visiting the
9/11 Memorial and Highline with my mom, headed to California to celebrate my
cousin’s wedding, made classic grandma Jewel “bunny” cake with nephews for
Easter, spent a week in July with my entire family - went to the water park, played
the piano with my niece, posed for family portrait and took an hour long walk
with my 3 year old niece & nephew for entertainment. And our regular Sunday
night video chats.
Greatest daily
distractions: Instagram photo sharing, Draw Something
playing and Spoiler TV website viewing
Greatest
concerts/Broadway shows: Newsies (3x), Kelly
Clarkson @ Radio City, Peter and the Star
Catcher, Snow Patrol @ Terminal 5 (2x), As
You Like It, The Cranberries @ Terminal 5, Into the Woods, Keane @ Beacon Theater, Ed Sheeran @ Bowery
Ballroom, Once, Ed Sheeran @ Terminal
5, Paloma Faith @ Mercury Lounge, The
Heiress and Alfie Boe @ Berklee Performance Hall in Boston
Greatest evidence
that my friends take priority: not attending the Men’s Final @ the US Open (which Andy
Murray won in five sets!) to hang out with my friend Megan when her vacation plans
changed at the last minute
Greatest guilty
pleasures: Purchase of 4 pairs of Salvatore
Ferragamo shoes, facials @ Bliss Spa, US Open tickets, using miles to upgrade
to First Class for trip to CA, drinking tea, watching TV on my Time Warner
Cable iPad app and Call Me Maybe (Carly Rae Jepson)
Greatest songs played
on my iPhone: the “+” album by Ed Sheeran, Burn It Down (Linkin
Park), the “Our Version of Events” album by Emeli Sande, New York & Lifening (Snow Patrol), Catch My Breath (Kelly
Clarkson), Amsterdam (Imagine
Dragons) and Just Be (Paloma Faith)
Greatest time spent
unwinding in front of my new HDTV: Revenge, Once Upon A Time, The Good Wife, Downton
Abbey, The Big Bang Theory, Smash, Mad Men, Grey’s Anatomy & the coverage
of the 2012 Olympics in London
Greatest hours
spent in a movie theater: The Avengers, The Hunger Games, The Dark Knight Rises, The Vow, Les
Miserables and Skyfall
Greatest purchases
in lieu of annual European vacation: diamond
necklace, Walt Disney World annual pass and Bose home theater system
Greatest New York moments: earning “New Yorker” status on Sept. 19th
after a decade living in NYC,
taking a bike ride through Central Park with my cousin Ali, escaping the screaming
teenage girls cage outside my office because of One Direction concert, an early
Sunday morning stroll through Central Park with friends who just arrived from
AZ via a red-eye flight and witnessing compassion, service and kindness after
the devastation of Hurricane Sandy
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