Soooooo I have definitely been MIA ... for a LONG time. But that ends today!

Let's see if I can catch you up on where I've been. The super condensed short version: felt bogged down by stuff at work. And the newly single life has been interesting and busy. Then I hurt my foot. Then I've been trying to find an apartment. Then there were some family health problems. Then one of my best friends came back from India after a year there. Then I had to go to New York City :) Then I had vacation. Then I decided it's good to slowww down.

All in all, things were a bit hectic and trying to find the time to focus here was difficult. But, now, I'm back and rested and ready to blog again. Stay tuned for a full post on Monday.

Hope all of you are doing well - I missed you so much xo

Happy Friday friends.




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In light of the SATC 2 movie coming out at the end of the month - it's only natural that we should want to do a little celebrating in anticipation, don't you think?

The lovely folks at On Location Tours are offering up a little giveaway to atwg readers to help us do just that.

Details: You can win one gift certificate for two tickets to the Sex & the City Hotspots Tour, which runs daily (an $84 value) in New York City. The gift certificate never expires so you can make your way up to the city whenever you like.

Tour Highlights:

• Shop at the store where Charlotte bought her "Rabbit"
• Stop at "Scout," the bar owned by Aidan
• Enjoy cupcakes like Carrie and Miranda
• Go on location to the art gallery in SoHo where Charlotte worked
• Shop at the hottest boutiques & stores in Greenwich Village
• Visit Buddakan, site of Carrie and Big’s wedding rehearsal dinner
• See new locations from Sex and the City: the Movie

For more info, visit the site: http://www.screentours.com/tour.php/satc/

To enter:

• Leave one relevant comment on this post by next Thursday, May 13th Saturday, May 15th at 11:59 p.m. ET 
• Tweet this post, blog this post and/or follow this blog for a possible three extra entries (just make sure to mention these actions in your comment).
• For a fifth and final entry, check out the wight post below and leave a comment there about what you think of the shop!

A winner will be chosen at random Friday, the 14th. Sunday, the 16th.

Good luck!!!

***Winner has been chosen. This giveaway is now closed.***

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I'm back!

Hope you had a wonderful weekend - I sure did!

I traveled up to glorious New York City for a long weekend with my friend Amy.

I always love feeling the buzz of the city - so different than DC - and it was amazing.

We spent a lot of time walking the city: Union Square, SoHo, Upper East all on Saturday.

And even though we were exhausted, we were able to spend a moment at the Tim Burton exhibit at the MoMA, which was absolutely one of my favorite parts of the weekend. I know Burton has a crazy creative mind, but I was completely unaware of his artwork. I fell in love with his black and white ink and pen drawings (above: Untitled/Trick or Treat). The detail was incredible. We also got to see the full Edward Scissorhands costume. Such an experience!

Saturday night I had a beautiful outdoor dinner with a good friend and then headed out on the town with a few of my favorites, who are trying their hardest to get me to move back up to the city (enter the Harass Anna Until She Moves Back to New York Club). I haven't laughed that much in awhile.

Sunday was a little bit more relaxing, thankfully (I was exhausted!) We headed up to the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx for the Orchid Show.  It was interesting to be around such beautiful flowers and foreign trees in the city. And it made for some great pictures.

The night winded down with some tasty Italian food and an early bed time, so I could head back to DC Monday morning.

A beautiful weekend all in all. Has me craving that town again.

Good thing I will be back there again come summer :)

Happy Monday!




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Guess where I'm headed?!!!!

Be back Monday!

Hopefully when I get back, I can catch up on all of you! I have seriously fallen behind on, well, everything! SO busy.

Have a great weekend all. Hope you all have exciting plans involving this wonderful weather we are getting :)

{I ♥ NYC by acseven}

Happy November all! I hope everyone had a wonderfully spooky weekend. I'm definitely in mourning today because I absolutely love Halloween - can't get enough. We usually go ALL OUT and I'm always sad when it's over and done with.

Every year my friend Kelly and I  - along with a few others - go out in Hoboken and/or NYC for the holiday, following an exceptional amount of planning and costume making.

 Here is what we have done so far:

Halloween 2006 - The Incredibles! Posing with 2 random guys as Oompa Loompas :)

Halloween 2007 - workout instructors! (but in full character - we stretched on the bar and in the middle of the dance floor, and did jumping jacks in line for the bathroom. It was hysterical, but we were spent by midnight)

Halloween 2008 - superheroes! I was Wonder Woman and friends were She-Ra and Catwoman. Amazing.

This year - Jem and the Holograms and the Misfits! I was Stormer of the misfits - I had to have that blue wig!

Next year

??????????????

No clue.*

Usually we have it figured out the next day - something we see Halloween night usually strikes a cord. But this time, no go, but we always know we will be in some sort of spandex :)

What were you for Halloween?

*open to suggestions :)