Monday Inspiration: INGRID!

Going to see Ingrid Michaelson tonight!! Live music just makes me feel mmmm mmmm good :-) and she puts on a heck of a show! In just one hour, I can shed my corporate skin and soak up some sweet sweet muzac!!

Mad Girl's Love Song

BY Sylvia Plath

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)"

Insomniacs are Smarter!

But you don't have to take my word of it (in my best Lamar Burton voice)! According to a recent Psychology Today article, people who deprive their precious minds and bodies of shut eye are the true geniuses among us.

"Net of a large number of social and demographic factors, more intelligent children grow up to be more nocturnal as adults than less intelligent children. Compared to their less intelligent counterparts, more intelligent individuals go do bed later on weeknights" Published on May 9, 2010

Ah-HA!! To all of you who question my 1am emails and late night Facebook posts, read it and weep!

:-)

But there are some serious consequences that come with all that sleep deprivation...like morning crankiness and killer caffeine addiction. Check out Cristin O'keefe Aptowicz' hilarious poem - "Ode to My Morning Cup of Coffee"

"Ode to my morning cup of coffee -
I buy you every morning at the same place
They know me and have the cup ready
before I even approach the counter.
Some days the subway runs slow
and I don't have time to pick you up
We categorize this days as being BAD!
Life without you, coffee, isn't life at all
It's a terrible fog
A slow motion movie about the wind..."

Enjoy, my fellow night owls....I mean...geniuses:-)

Blogger Hates Me

...and somehow deleted my template. Apologies for the stark whiteness of the page for the past few days. We're back up with a new and improved template. Hope you like:-) I was getting a little tired of the old one anyway.

smooches!
sb

Memorial Day Wedding-Ness

There is nothing like a string of bad relationships to cure a hopeless romantic. It happened to me. I was jaded. I had become a bitter, cynical chica...then my beloved wedding season started! Months of helping my friends check out dresses, pick out colors, reminisce about when they first met their beaus culminated in a weekend of back to back wedding-ness around Memorial Day. I couldn't stop with the aaaw-ing:-) All of the white. All of the beauty...the pure, unadulterated smell of sweet love in the air. It was just want I needed.

Love is real, good people. Breathe deep and believe! Check out my stunning friend Kimba below:-)

love is real
it is not just in long distance commercials
or something that you thought you felt back in high school
so i will turn black and white,
become that horoscope you're reading
it predicts
that something good is on its way. -Kathy with a K's Song, as performed by Jason Mraz