August 3-Lunch with Taylor!

My friend Taylor was in town for the day so we met up for lunch!

So fun to see him and catch up!

August 2-My front porch

obviously i need to work on my photo taking skills. and on remembering to take a photo during the day. when i was walking home tonight i realized i didn't take a picture of anything! so you get a glimpse of my porch. i kind of love my building. it is just steps away from riverside park. if i lean my head out of my window i can see the hudson and new jersey across the way!

august 1-CPA bet celebration

Andrea and I have great home teachers. Way back in April when I was "studying" (more like not studying) for the CPA my home teacher and I made a bet as to who would pass the CPA first. Whoever passed first got dinner cooked by the other person. Luckily for me, I managed to study enough to pass the CPA and I won the bet!! Today hometeacher paid up with an amazing lasagna dinner. YUM.

Return to blogging...

whoa. how on earth is it august already?!? where has the summer gone?? obviously, i have been the worst at blogging. but i have decided to return to blogging! remember last august when i did a photo a day for most of the month? well, i have decided to do that again this month to jump start the blogging and to force me to take more photos. not only have i fallen off the blogging bandwagon, i have also fallen off the photo taking bandwagon. so here it goes! happy august 1st!

DONE!

It's official. I finally got my FAR score (75 is passing...cut it close) and

have now passed all 4 parts of the CPA exam!!!

YAY!!!!!

Back on the face of the planet

So I had to fall off the face of the planet for a bit to study for the CPA and it's nice to climb back on. I had quite a lovely weekend-I just LOVE the weekend. I never realized how much until full time employment came around.

Friday night I went to a dinner party. My wonderful friend Jen cooked us all dinner and it was so yummy!! I've decided that I need to start cooking more-at least once or twice a month. Sad that it has come to that. I think I've eaten more cereal dinners since moving here than I did in college.

Saturday we went to brunch at Schiller's Liquor Bar down on the lower East side. It was really good! I don't think I'm much of a fan of the LES though. 1-It's like a million miles away from us and takes ages to get down there and 2-it's super dirty and gross down there. Unfortunately a lot of the good restaurants are down there, so I guess it's worth the trip.

Saturday afternoon I went to the Sotheby's auction display! I think that may be one of my favorite things I have done in the city. The coming auction is entitled Magnificent Jewels and it features all kinds of amazing jewelry! It was like being a museum-except better because you could actually touch and try on the jewelry! I loved it!! I also went and saw "How to Train Your Dragon." I LOVED it! Such a cute movie-definitely recommend it to everyone to see! I ended the evening with a trip to Korea Town to do kareoke for a friend's birthday. It was quite the experience and so much fun!

It was a wonderful weekend and I'm so excited to not have to study for at least another 2 months! Yay!

Remember...

...how it was 90 degrees today. IN APRIL.

...and remember how I had to be inside ALL day doing "virtual training"

...and remember how it's supposed to be the nicest for the next week?...and how I have to study for the CPA so I can't go out and enjoy it...

8 days until I take my last CPA (hopefully) and can have some kind of life again! Pray that I study hard enough to pass!!