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Away from it all in Costa Rica

You may have noticed I’ve been quiet on this blog and Twitter for the past couple weeks.  That’s because I was in Costa Rica!  Have you ever been?  It’s my second time going with my boyfriend.  A couple years ago we went to Playa Hermosa and Manuel Antonio.

This time we were in Jaco for my friends wedding (she looked so pretty and happy!) and then we went to Santa Teresa.  I highly recommend going to Santa Teresa if you’re up for an adventure to get over there (it took us a couple hour car ride, then boat for an hour, then another hour in  a car) and want to totally relax and disconnect.  It’s a small, relaxed town with a very much untouched beach with big waves for the surfers.  I want to go back already!

(waves at Jaco beach)

(rice with chicken, salad and fries)

(me on the ferry)

(view from the ferry)

(“downtown” Santa Teresa)

(Santa Teresa beach.  My favorite – so relaxing!!)

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

I am definitely not a big fan of this holiday.  For the many years I was single, Valentine’s Day would either stress me out or seem totally ridiculous.  Since I’ve been in a relationship, the one time we did try celebrating the day, it turned into a bit of a disaster – getting lost on the way to the restaurant, meals messed up, etc.  But there are a couple things I did get inspired by this year to get into the day a little bit.

I made these super-cute treats for my co-workers.  Thanks to pinterest for bringing these to my attention and for this blog for originating the idea.  Not only do they look good, but they taste good too!

I also painted my nails in celebration of the day – nude on 4 fingers and pink on the ring fingers.  I’ve been wanting to try the multi-color nail trend for awhile and figured this was a good one to test it out on.

How are you celebrating or not celebrating Valentine’s Day?

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I burned a hole in a brand new ASOS shirt

I hate ironing.  I’d rather just not wear the shirt at all or wear it wrinkled than deal with ironing.  But last night I thought I’d stop being lazy and iron a shirt for work.  It was borderline wrinkled, but there was another shirt that needed some ironing too so I decided to just iron them both.

I turned on the iron, touched it to my shirt..and it happened.  I had a hole in the shirt and part of the shirt burned onto the iron.  Apparently the shirt is polyester and I had the iron set on the highest setting :(  What makes it worse is that it’s a brand new shirt from ASOS that I have never worn before.  I went back and forth on even buying it because of the color and style, but decided to go for it.  Now it’s ruined.  Has anyone else done this before?  It’s a first for me.  Since the hole is at the bottom, I may try out tucking it in to the highest waist jeans I have to hopefully hide it.  And luckily I have an extra iron to replace the ruined one..unless anyone knows a secret for getting burned material off the iron?

Shirt:

Hole:

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My 2012 new years resolution

My mom’s going to be so happy.  My new years resolution is to finally learn how to cook!  I’ve been lucky enough to have a mom who cooked for our family most days growing up and who continues to cook meals for me to take back to my own apartment.  I’m also lucky enough to have a boyfriend who likes to cook.  So with 2 people cooking food for me, it’s been hard to get myself motivated to try it out on my own.

But now that I’ll be living with my boyfriend in an apartment with a nice modern kitchen (my old apartment’s stove was literally 20 years old and before that my NYC apartments had no counter space), I figure I should a least contribute by cooking some times.

Again, my mom is going to be happy to know that the first dishes I want to learn are the types of meals she cooked for my family growing up and now – greek dishes.  She has mastered recipes that have been passed down over generations, originating in Greece.  The meals, like spanikopita (spinach pie) and gryo, take time and preparation, but they are recipes unique to my family that I’d like to be able to cook for other people!

(My attempt at making spanikopita with my mom a few years ago.)

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I have a crush on Eddie Vedder

I’m writing this as I’m watching PJ20 for the 4th time.  I have a crush on Eddie Vedder.  It’s a recent crush since in the 90′s when Pearl Jam first came out I was still figuring out what boys were all about.  I became more interested in him when the Into the Wild soundtrack came out and then I started getting back into “old school” Pearl Jam from Ten and Vs. And then my crush grew over the summer when I saw him on his solo tour – 2 nights in a row!  And then PJ20 came out in September and I got a behind the scenes look at the band and Eddie! He seems like a such a cool, laid-back guy, and his lyrics and voice are amazing!  Anyone else with me on this?

image from sweetlyrics.com

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