Ho Ho Ho

Christmas came early this year in the form of "cyber monday"! I am doing most of my holiday shopping online after experiencing doomsday at Macy's in the picture above.

I am looking at amazing designer discounts at the following:

*Net-A-Porter- up to 50% my favs like Balmain, Isabel Marant, Alexander McQueen, and Versace (yes, my blue birthday dress is now 30% off to just under $7,000)

*Saks- 40% designer shoes!! spare yourself the sales floor and buy online. Otherwise you will have to brave the women on the 8th floor on December 1st.

*All Saints- 25% off the most amazing gothic knits

*ShopBop- take $50+ off purchases of $250+ ENDS TONIGHT


*Aries*

I Hate My Heart.

How come I couldn't care less about the very well-read, feminist, highly successful doctor/hedge fund owner/chairman/charity founder (with all his hair!) who thinks I hung the moon...


...and I can barely wait to see the temporarily disabled, slightly depressed, hyper-masculine, culturally incompatible bald guy who's admiration I can't win, no matter what I accomplish?





I know... I know.



*scorpio*

Holiday Dressing

I am dreaming of a white Christmas (white sand beaches, not snow).

On New Year's Eve, I will most likely be sipping Champagne on the back of a boat in jeans and a tank. Therefore, I will have to find city parties throughout December to justify buying fun party dresses of the season. Maybe the peppermint lattes and Nest holiday candles have already gone to my head, but this year I am ready to go all out with super girlie trends! Maybe I can convince my friends to have a tree trimming party or holiday cocktail gathering to create the perfect setting for beautiful confections like these:






*Best of all you can find all of these and get a discount on Bloomingdales.com*

*Aries*

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers who are celebrating!

I am thankful for so many things and yet feel the winter blues creeping up on me. I know when a quiet night in with pecan pie and an old movie becomes more appealing than a champagne filled party at the Boom Boom Room! Lately, I have been feeling WAY too domestic! My long days have somehow become filled with longer work days, followed by Christmas shopping, eating sugary carbs, reading, and financial planning?? After overeating for 3 days straight, I need to kick my fabulous single ass into gear! Runs on along the Westside Highway are now a distant memory. My gym membership needs to see a lot more activity before I am start to resemble the Pillsbury Doughboy balloon in the Macy's Day Parade. The idea of squeezing into a sexy cocktail dress seems impractical and awful. I begin to like my hibernation chamber and have no desire to flirt, dance, wear makeup, or layer my armor against the rapidly dropping northern temperatures. Even cocktails and sex have lost their appeal.



I have too much on my calendar to fall into this grey period of winter blues. Even though I was strolling through the streets of Rome at this time last year, I am happy to have been able to enjoy this holiday in the city. So I will give thanks, plan new workout goals, reconnect to my social life, and return to the life of a knockout blonde!

*Aries*

First Tracks!

NYE at Vail Village

Our place last year in Aspen

Relaxing by the fire with a hot toddy

For the past three weeks I have been in self-imposed seclusion prepping for the GRE. My days and nights are filled with vocab flashcards and math drills. I dream in data. My family's become accustomed to me answering the phone with, "Help me with the Quadratic equation" or "Obliquy is to opprobrium as vituperitive is to polemic?" (It's not). Suffice to say, it's pretty unbearable.

So imagine my surprise when I opened my inbox today to see a note from an old friend inviting me to Aspen with him over the break. Conveniently, it falls just a few days after I'm scheduled to do battle with the GRE... and I cannot think of a better way to celebrate. Last year, we took this incredible mogul course and I've been reminiscing ever since. (See photos above - unfortunately I'm one of those people who always forgets to snap pics while on the snow - I'm too busy having fun!) We had the perfect sunny weather and it was early enough in the season that the mountains were ours for the taking.

Though my office has been adding holiday tracks to our playlist for weeks now, to me, it doesn't feel like holiday season until I'm on the lift. Christmas can't come soon enough!

Happy Holidays, all!

*scorpio*

New blog I love...

I'm an avid reader, and always looking for a lengthy, well written post online during my (occasional) downtime at work. This blog satisfies both requirements. It's called Walk While Reading (which is funny, because I often do, much to the chagrin of my fellow commuters). He sometimes posts excerpts from his favorite books, and it's so refreshing to read great prose in the middle of a Excel-heavy day. I've followed a few of his novel recommendations and have not been dissapointed, as our tastes are similar: prosaic fiction. Such a treat... and so much more relaxing to read in bed after a long day rather than following the daily dramas of the Housewives (not that I don't do that, too!)

http://walkwhilereading.tumblr.com/

*scorpio*