Insomnia

It's 5am and I can't seem to wind down for bed. After writing letters and poems that I will never send to the addressee who is plaguing my thoughts, I need something else. Naturally, I reach out of my mind and straight for my blog to put the heavy thoughts away and engage with the world in lighter way.

I am a huge fan of music and have been all of my life. It seems as though I am never at a loss for a song to suit the situation. No matter how I am feeling, a song always seems to come to mind that encapsulates the given moment or emotion. While in the days before internet you had to rely on memory, CDs and radio, now any song that comes to mind can be pulled up with ease.

This morning's tune is Shattered by OAR. The refrain, "turn the car around" keeps running through my mind like there is no tomorrow as it suits my deeper philosophical questions (usually it goes through my head when I am driving, but not today). Can we ever turn the car around when we are not the only ones driving?

New Sweater

Every year my best friend and I buy each other gift cards to Victoria's Secret. I know its not very original or creative to buy the same gift for each other every year (our birthdays are about a month apart), but it makes us both happy and we have done it for years. Last night, in a cold sweat from shopping withdrawals, I went online and spent the whole gift card only minutes before an additional sale on clearance items ended. Here is my favorite (and most appropriate to post online) purchase:

I know you're shocked that I went for the lingonberry (its pretty close to fuchsia!) I really like the sleeves, it looks really soft, and hopefully it won't be too long on me at my grand height of 5'2.

I sometimes wish that Victoria's Secret would get a couple of short and thick models so I could get a sense of how long their clothes would be on me. Their models are so tall that I have to estimate that if the clothes reach their knees, they will probably be down to my shins!

If worst comes to worst, at least I'll have a cute sweater dress to rock with knee high boots and tights.

My First Rock Concert in Years

Last night I had the chance to see Switchfoot and American Bang at the 99x Mistletoe Jam. A few hours before the show a friend gave me the tickets because she couldn't make it and I got to go. It was pretty awesome, these were pit tickets and I stood in front of the stage most of the night.

I hadn't heard of American Bang before, but they put on an excellent show nonetheless. I was totally impressed with their music and performance on stage. Heavy rock, great lead vocals, and really good musicians overall. I think we can expect good things from this Nashville based band.

Switchfoot was off the hook. They are even better live than they are on the radio and really know how to put on a show.

While I really liked the music, I was shocked that there wasn't a mosh pit. Makes me wonder if its my age, or the fact that this was the first rock show I have been to outside of California. Who knows? But either way, I really lucked out with this show last night!

Awesome Song and Video

I think this is my new favorite song.

December

My favorite month of all time and it just keeps getting better as the years go on. Why, you ask?
Well, to begin with my birthday is in December. I love birthdays. I am not one of those people who find them unimportant, depressing, or lame. I don't get embarrassed when people sing happy birthday to me in public, and I don't mind celebrating numerous times over a week-long period.

Then, after my personal little holiday are the birthdays of three of my nieces, one of my nephews, my brother (ok its the last day of November, but close enough), and my best friend since childhood.

Then we have the holidays, which are cool and we all know about them. Great shopping, exchanging gifts, all the good stuff. I always go home. See a movie and hit up the beach on Christmas and eat some very Jewish Chinese food if I am lucky. I can recall the last 5 years of Christmas' by the movies I have seen on that date. (Sherlock Holmes 2009, Yes Man 2008, Juno 2007, Night at the Museum 2006, Cheaper by the Dozen 2005, Lemony Snickett 2004....)

Enjoying my first snowfall on my 24th birthday in New York

But then, the best part of December is that it goes out with a bang: New Years Eve. The best holiday of the year if you ask me, its kind of like the calendar saved the best for last.