Newport

I will be in Newport, RI at the Newport Folk Festival until Tuesday. Try not to miss me too much, because I'll be back with lots of pictures for you!

Have a great weekend dears!

My Bike

This is me on my new bike that I asked for as a graduation gift. I was riding it around my neighborhood before work this morning and Melina happened to drive by just in time to almost run me over. I look relatively ridiculous, but isn't my bike cute?

Marination Station

So, what do you do when it's Sunday, you are 22 years old, a recent college graduate, moved back in with your parents in New Jersey, and it's raining outside?

Pickle, of course!

This project became a much bigger fiasco than I intended it to be. On my way home from work there is a farmer's market, and I finally stopped at it last Monday. They happened to have pickling cucumbers for 99 cents a pound. (99 cents a pound turned out to only be 3 pickles).
Then I had to find pickling spices, which I finally discovered at Chef Central, and I needed to find a jar, which I also found at Chef Central. And then I needed to find a good pickling recipe, which turned out to be relatively difficult. A lot of people put up pickling recipes online, and not all of these people are very good at giving concise instructions.

And then my friends found out I was starting a "Pickling Project" and they had nothing better to do, either, and so they helped me pickle and we took lots of pictures.

Anyway, I won't be giving a recipe, because chances are these pickles came out terrible. I couldn't find a great, easy-to-follow recipe for refrigerator pickles, so we kind of made things up as we went along. We did make two different varieties though, and I'm nervous to try out either, but also really excited, in case they did actually turn out to be delicious.

If anyone has a good recipe they can suggest, I would love it!

Quote of the Week

Summer: So, what if I'd gone to the movies? What if I had gone somewhere else for lunch? What if I'd gotten there 10 minutes later? It was - it was meant to be. And... I just kept thinking... Tom was right.

Tom: No.
Summer: Yeah, I did.
I did. It just wasn't me that you were right about.
(500) Days of Summer

(image via zooeyclaire)

Diane Keaton in Annie Hall

I'm not sure I could ever pull this off, but I love the way Diane Keaton's character dresses in Annie Hall. (I could do without Woody Allen's white ensemble.) I especially like that first photo, I think it's a little more adaptable to today's style, if I ever felt so inclined. These pictures make me excited for fall and cute new clothes! I'm starting to think about these sorts of things, because I need to buy big girl clothes for my big girl internship soon, and for class.

Bright Eyes Covers

This girl does some really good, really simple covers of Bright Eyes songs. This song (First Day of My Life) is actually where I got the name for this blog. I really like her covers of Poison Oak and Lua, as well.

Remember that time I loved you? It was today.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is on the cover of Details Magazine this month. And I may or may not wish that white fence was me. See ya.