“maybe true happiness is when we are happy with ourselves”

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Happy Friday!! It is a special day here on B&B as today is my birthday! Another year older, another year wiser, and another year still feeling good! My birthday celebration started last night with a few friends of mine with drinks at Bar Hugo. The weather was amazing, the sunset was beautiful, and I had the best time with my friends. Today my parents fly into town for the weekend to celebrate. We have plans to go to the Polo Bar for dinner, see Carousel the musical, shop till my dad gets bored, and just see where life takes us. I am happy to spend the weekend with my parents and to celebrate my birthday with them. Like I said on yesterday’s post, I kept forgetting about my birthday as I have a million things to do with NFYW coming up and starting a new job. My birthday was sadly on the back burner. Now that it is here I am excited about celebrating and glad to spend time with my family and friends.

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My birthday is tomorrow! To be honest my birthday this year has been a little weird. Normally I am on top of things like creating a birthday list, planning my outfits to wear during celebrations, planning a celebration. I love to make a whole week of celebrating with a special dinner, drinks with friends, pampering myself, buying myself a gift. This year, however, I keep forgetting about my birthday. I also had a hard time coming up with things that I wanted. I guess this is when you know you are an adult, when you don’t really need gifts because everything you want you can just buy yourself. Also my parents would much rather throw me off of a bridge than buy me the Givenchy antigona satchel bag that I want. Anyway, the things I do truly would like to have and experience are to travel, move to a new apartment, get a dog, etc; that I do not think the birthday gods will grant as a gift.

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Lately I have been tearing through the pages of books. All I want to do is cancel my schedule for the rest of the week and read, get lost in a good story. This past year I have neglected pleasure reading. Normally I go from book to book, but this year it has taken me longer to finish one. I only have myself to blame, well that and Netflix.  I decided to make a promise to myself that my free time (and especially on Sundays) are for reading and not re-watching TV shows I have seen a thousand times. If I had to choose one genre of books it will probably be love stories. I am a sucker for hopeless romantic, drama-filled, rom-coms and happy endings type of books. I also love self-help books as well. It’s good to push yourself to be a better person, learn something new whether it’s for your career, health, or just life in general. It never hurts to keep evolving and growing. Here are a few books I have on my reading list, one which I am currently devouring.

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“your biggest commitment must always be to yourself”

-Bridget Devoue

Happy Friday!! The lazy days of summer are over and I am back to being busy. I do not mind being busy but I do need help. There are a few (amazing) changes that are happening in my life that I need an extra hand, especially during the busiest season and while I figure out my groove.  If you haven’t seen my post from any of my social media accounts– I am looking for an Intern to hire for the duration of beginning of September to mid-December. See details here. Anyway, this past week was more about spending hours on my computer than attending events. I actually enjoy these types of days when I can get as much work done as possible. I feel more accomplished and relaxed. Most of those days were spent sending out NYFW request (I am, thankfully, finished!), writing and creating blog post, searching for fashion week outfits to wear, and more. All in all it was a good week and I was in a great mood.

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