A to Zephyr

I have not been updating this blog as much as I’d like. There aren’t enough hours in a day! Can I be less busy, please?

Anyway, here’s what’s new with me:

• I am making my Halloween costume this year. Originally, I wasn’t going to dress up because I feel like I’ve already done all my good ideas (Leeloo from the 5th Element being my favorite – maybe I should just be her for Halloween every year), and I refuse to take the easy way out and go as Lady GaGa like every other girl. BUT – I thought of a good idea and I’m going to sew my costume tonight! It is very me and involves yards and yards of sparkly tulle. Pictures to come!
• I have been reading a lot lately, whenever I have time. I just finished Lolita (one of those books I’ve been meaning to read forever), and I enjoyed it. Like everyone, I felt pretty conflicted while reading it, but I’m glad I did. Next up: finally finishing The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. I’m halfway through but my attention span is poor and it’s a LONG book. So it’ll probably take me a month to finish.
• Bought a pair of Burberry rain boots. I’ve been looking for the perfect pair of rain boots forever & I love them! They’ve actually been making me excited for rain!
• There are so many projects I want to work on but I never seem to find the time to get as much done as I’d like. My inbox is nuts as usual and it keeps getting to the point where I won’t even look at it because there are so many messages and it’s overwhelming. I need to hire someone to do email for me. Any volunteers? I will pay you a lot.
• The bf (I should ask him if he cares if I use his real name here. Or maybe give him a nickname. Calling him “the bf” is boring.) has been working 12 hour days on account of the team unexpectedly making the playoffs. Which means I am basically working 12 hour days now. I kinda base my work hours on his – makes it easier for me to separate work and down time that way.
• Exciting things are in the works! I may be going to NYC soon for a big meeting with a rad company. That’s all I can really say, but it’s very cool and if things work out, it’s gonna be goooood.
• CF received over 1 million pageviews this month (!!!) and is now averaging over 100,000 unique visitors a week! Because of this, the site has been going down like crazy and we just had to upgrade to an even bigger server to handle all the new traffic!
• I need to customize the theme for this journal. It is boring. No bueno!

And lots more stuff that I’m sure I’m forgetting. What’s new with you?

I was interviewed recently about blogging, style, and other fun stuff! It was nice to do an interview that didn’t involve talking about my “desert island must-haves”, haha.

And anyway, I’m way too high maintenance to survive on a desert island, “must-haves” in tow or not. True story.

I have no idea why someone would think I was Avril Lavigne (I mentioned her in a blog post on CF ONCE). But here’s a crazy email I just received:

HI AVRIL IM ONE OF YOUR BIGGEST FANS AND WOUL LIKE TO MEET YOU SOMETIME IM FEMALE AND NOT LESBIAN SO DON’T WORRY NO FREAK, I LIVE IN SA AN MY BIGGEST DREAM IS TO MEET YOU BEFORE I DIE “SOMEDAY”

Yeah. My favorite part is “I’m female and not lesbian so don’t worry” – um, what about being a lesbian would be “worrying” anyway? It’s 2009, come on.

Based on that email as well as the crazy comments on the blog post I wrote, I’m going to go out on a limb and say Avril fans = the craziest fans ever. Yes, worse than fanatic Martha Stewart-ites and JoBros fans. Sooo bizarre.

Reasons I love going home:

The views. It doesn’t get much better than having the following as the view from your apartment. Beats graffiti-ed buildings by a mile.

Seeing my pets. They are uh door able.

And seeing family, obviously.

Reasons I Hate Going Home:

Feeling like you’re getting sucked into the same old drama you thought you were done with. People change, but hometowns never seem to. It’s like a really bad time warp.

Low tide smell. Because seriously, it’s just foul.

Having my boyfriend sneeze for the next month because I hugged my cat at some point during the weekend.

Meh.

That about sums up my feelings about the past weekend (or was it two weekends ago? I’ve lost count). It was nice to go home, but even nicer to come back to Boston. I don’t hate it here as much as I thought. It’s still not New York, but for now, I’m just happy it’s not Cape Cod.

Yes, these exist. And they’re awesome.