June 07, 2011

bicicleta

Cheers to the bicicleta, my new favorite drink (that is the official name of my new favorite cocktail - campari and white wine)! This is just a simple little post to say adios for a few days. I'm heading back to the states bright and early tomorrow morning and I didn't quite have my wits about me today to cook, photograph, blog, and clean and organize and then cook some more. So today a pretty photo of a pretty cocktail will have to do! I'm looking forward to a few days at home to celebrate a bestie's birthday and to gather with my high school friends for our 10year (!!!) reunion. I'm not actually sure why I put exclamation points in there...high school definitely feels like it was 10 years ago, if not much much longer. Think of everything that has happened since high school - jeez. I feel like I've known my college girlfriends forever and to think it's only been ten years...and then there was the three year architecture school vacuum, which really felt like thirty years and then of course there is Zach, who I met in high school, but didn't start dating until Yale. Now I'm married, living in Zürich and chatting to you all, my imaginary friends.

cheers to change!

ps. any book recommendations for me to download for the 9 hr flight tomorrow? I've learned not to count on good movies. I mean that is a 4 movie flight. Any recommendations are very much appreciated - fiction preferred and don't be shy about sending beach reads...beach reads and flight reads are one in the same! there is no shame. Zach will tell you that I read the trashiest stuff (eclipse, shopaholic, nanny diaries....etc) when on the beach...or even in the dead of winter in my pjs.

7 comments:

  1. Have you read the Hunger Game series yet? I sped through all three. They're technically "young adult" but FANTASTIC. I love the blog by the way. I think I stumbled upon it through Kerry but it makes me want to live in a foreign land and brush up on my baking and photography.

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  2. Swamplandia! It's so good, Tal, and takes place in... western Florida! The author is amazingly talented and annoyingly about our age. It's a wonderful novel.

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  3. Enjoy home, but please return soon - I need to make a trip to A Cupcake Affair ASAP. (and I second the Hunger Games recommendation. Quick, fun reads.)
    Also, any David Sedaris.

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  4. The Hundred-foot Journey by Richard C. Morais is a nice little (and light) read. It's a great book for foodies ;-)

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  5. Thanks for all of the great suggestions! Including the ones that came in by email. I just loaded my ipad with The Hundred Foot Journey, The Bucolic Plague (email rec) and Swamplandia! I was really looking forward to The Hunger Games, but it isn't available for ipad yet I don't think, or at least I couldn't find it. I'll just have to buy the books when I'm in the states and bring them back!

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  6. I'm glad to hear that you are coming back stateside! I've started reading Tina Fey's Bossypants. It's a fun light read so far and she makes me laugh. :) Have a good trip!

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  7. I just finished The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet - loved it and am now onto Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand - both great! Have a great trip!

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