My Love List.

1. Always first, my boyfriend. The most… perfect love.
2. Refreshing chats with random like-minded people. (very rare where I am!)
3. Wheat grass shots.
4. Two more months until moving day.
5. Hard ciders.
6. My step-mother suited up for the 1920′s to see The Great Gatsby for Mother’s Day.
7. Smiling all alone, so much it perplexes me.
8. Actually having a love list!

- a great new job opportunity
- spending time laying in the sun, reading and listeining to my favorite vegan podcasts
- feeling a true connection with yoga
- planning a trip to the balkans with my loved one <3
- vegan hazelnut ice-cream

~ vegan frozen yogurt with friends..

~ my newly acquired “previously loved” Tom Waits album Mule Variations..

~ listening to said album this afternoon and discovering the inspiration for the name of this very blog in Black Market Baby { that blew my mind a little bit } who knew?

~ finding an awesome little coffee shop in the town where I meet up with family & friends from back home..

~ watching squirrels play, chase, and squabble in my backyard..

~ allowing my crabby/sad/angry “negative” moods and finding that they pass much more quickly than when I try to glue on a fake smile..

1. Flowers on my strawberry plants I planted in March (my first year of having a garden!). Tomato plants going outside on Monday. They’re a ways off from having flowers though! (I’m slightly mind-blown by your having conquered winter – it never occurred to me it was optional)

2. Written (fully polished, fully referenced) the first 6,500 words of my PhD thesis!

3. Day 2 of the Master Cleanse (inspired, of course, by you) … going amazingly well so far. It’s amazing to realize how many of my food thoughts have absolutely nothing to do with hunger.

also: yoga, my new therapist, ani difranco again (“let’s go down to the east river and throw something in / something we can’t live without and then let’s start again”), my brilliant phd supervisor, my kitty, springtime …

I’m really glad you’re back Sayward. Thanks so much for your courage and your honesty in sharing the bad along with the good. Learning that it’s okay not to be okay has been a really important lesson for me too.

This week I’m loving:

-My friend Blake. He’s so understanding AND helped me move into my new place. Can’t beat that.

-Chamomile tea. Always.
-My bike- without it, I’d get around a lot slower.
-My new roommates! They’re awesome people and we get along really well.
Also soup, coffee, Indian food, and kale!