hi! our first guest blogger is coming in from emily of nyc - the incredible designer behind Aidan Mattox, she's a genius chef and one of the most full of life women i know. here's her thoughts on this friday.
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I have never blogged before.
Or kept a written diary as a little girl – although I owned several. All with a cutie gold heart shaped lock or a puffy hello kitty on the cover.
I was always uncertain of who I was writing to. Me? I felt funny in a pretentious way writing about myself: like I was important enough for someone to someday want to read what I had written. – Because I never believed that I was really just writing for myself.
Ahhh. But now I have been asked to share. I think it is because I have a husband that I really like.
We are going to a luau tonight. My girlfriend has just completed a full round of chemo and a mastectomy. And she is feeling well enough to host a bbq. So I said – let’s make it a luau!
I have bought grass skirts, flower necklaces, coconut bras (this is a sensitive situation – I ordered without thinking and will likely leave the coconut bras in my office) and all the ingredients for maitais! I asked her husband to download some don ho but he was unable to find any. I am suspicious that he thinks he cannot bear to listen to a whole evening of it so has decided to tell me he just can’t find it. He is British so I think the Hawaiian thing is just too relaxed for him.
The luau is in Harlem (nyc) on top of a roof. I will be the only white person on the subway on my way there and when I get off the subway, people will shout at me ‘hey white girl, watchu doin around here?!’
And I am going to give them my broadway smile and pretend I don’t speak English. This tends to work quite well. Usually people actually smile back.
Aloha! Have a great weekend.
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