These balmain boots.

They go for $1,605 at Net-a-porter. I can’t wait to get a job and start making money, I’m going to be homeless but I’ll have the most fabulous shoes.

And clothes.

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Spent all of today keeping NYboy’s mom company at the gem, mineral and fossil show in Freeport, and bought a bunch of pearls from Hong Kong from a dealer who NYBoy happens to know – so we got them at a crazy price!

They’re imperfect pearls, so they’re not perfectly round, but they’re real – and who’s going to get close enough to see all their imperfections?

I bought some bracelet making supplies from Michael’s and am going to string a bracelet and necklace out of them.

Including bracelet-making material, my new pearl bracelet and necklace will have cost me $56.

Bargain.

It’s a Wednesday, and I’m not reorganizing the stamp library today.

NYBoy had to go meet with a very important American Revenues collector this morning, and then with the owner of a very large stamp auction house in the afternoon. If you are like me, and know very little about stamps, then all this would seem very strange to you too!

I have since learnt that American Revenues are a type of stamp, to do with taxes? It’s what NYBoy specializes in collecting. I know that one of the stamps he wants most is called a Persian Rug, it doesn’t sound like a stamp to me but he loves it, so one day I’m going to find one and buy it for him…. when I have $20,000 to spend on a stamp.

So I’m here sitting in the loft space we share, it’s kinda like a mini-office.

There’s a huge two-person desk at one end of the room that houses our laptops; a scanner for his stamps; and a TV for when I get bored while I’m scanning his stamps.

The other side of the room has a full-length mirror for me to pick out my outfits, and do my makeup every morning; and the very comfy bed I sleep on (and am currently typing this on). The bed is right underneath a skylight, so while I lie typing this out, the sun is warming my back.

Today’s one of those really lazy days – I woke up at noon, had a shower, put on my favorite Juicy lazyday sweatpants, flipped my hair into a ponytail and have been playing Sims all day, sans makeup.

The local highschool is over the fence and they’ve been banging on drums outside all day. What’s going on!?

School doesn’t reopen until September.

I can’t wait for NYBoy to get home, off-days from work suck when you don’t have anyone to play with.

The past two weeks have been crazy!!!

I commute into the city every morning from RVC to Penn Station, which takes an hour each way, to be in at 10am – helping NYBoy with his internship, which he loves. I figure it’s better than sitting at home all day doing nothing, but boy is it tiring (and expensive!).

We’re reorganizing the stamp reference library, which is thousands of books – most of which are so old, they crumble as soon as you touch them. I end up inhaling and swallowing millions of tiny pieces of book every single day – the feeling of old book stuck in your throat is the most disgusting feeling ever, trust me.

Now that the month of Ramadan has started, fasting is the biggest hurdle of each work day. It’s such a challenge, and I’m really missing fasting at home where the sun sets at roughly 6-ish each day, it would be so much easier than not eating until 7.45pm here. I also miss the family gatherings! Not fair.

The weather in New York last week was incredibly messed up, I blame Hurricane Bill which was passing through somewhere over the ocean, we didn’t get crazy rainfall but check out the photos I took at 4pm in the afternoon.

The clouds were so scary, but it only drizzled and was a little more windy than usual.

Trains on either side of NYBoy at RVC station, very cool!

Now that we work pretty much full-time in the library on weekdays, we really try to make the most of our weekends. We watch movies together, lots of TV shows & do the occassional very fun outing!

We went to the M&M’s store at Times Square, where I got to pick the colors I liked (light blue & pink!) from the dispensers that went all the way up to the ceiling, and got to bring home a pound of M&M’s – most of which have now been eaten!

Next I want to go to the zoo. I have pictures from Pittsburgh Zoo to put up but still haven’t found a card reader, and truth be told we are very broke here, and it isn’t exactly high on my priority list of things to buy.

I’m trying to save up as much as possible for Fashion’s Night Out in NYC!!!

I’ve been trying to plan my itinerary through their website, but everything looks so good! I think I’ve added about 30 different places and they’re all scattered across Manhattan.

My top 5 places to go to will be:

- Lord & Taylor, I’m hoping to get my hands on a winning key.

- Vera Wang, to meet Vera herself.

- Magnolia Bakery, for the special Fashions Night Out cupcakes!

- Sephora (any one!) – I’m really tempted to hang around the Soho store where they’ll be picking two random people for Oscar Blandi makeovers, but what are the chances of getting that, I never win anything.

- Michael Kors – beg NYBoy for a new bag, and pick up the free tote?

There are going to be designers/models/celebrities everywhere on the night, which I got really excited about before, but I’d rather shop on the night than celebrity spot, so I’m planning my itinerary around the shopping and hopefully if I’m lucky I’ll bump into a few people worth noting on my way around!

Bedtime for me, early breakfast before another day of fasting at 3am-ish. I have frosted wheaties and strawberries. My mom always told us that wheat fills you up better than rice, and it’s much easier for me to prepare when I’m half asleep – so that’s my fasting month daily breakfast.

Happy Ramadan to everyone who reads this and is fasting!

I bought a pair of Nine West booties less than a month ago on sale, they only had 7.5M sized shoes left so I took them even though I’m a 7… unfortunately the half size makes a huge difference, so I’m selling these on!

They come in their original box, but without price tags, and were worn for under an hour so are in pristine condition.

EBAY FOR IT IF YOU’RE INTERESTED!

Ends in 7 days.

So I’m sick.

(and not in the cool way, like DUDE you’re SICK!, but rather the snot-filled, puffy skin kind of sick.)

It started with a mild cold, and on the 8 hour drive down to Pittsburgh it became a full-blown cold and fever. So I’ve been sitting inside my hotel room at the Westin for fear of infecting anyone else!

We drove down here for a stamp convention, and I hate to stereotype but most of the stamp collectors are really old… and the simple cold to them would be a tragedy.

This city is strange, I get the feeling we might be on the wrong side of town because it is DEAD over here.

That’s the view outside the hotel room window.

I can’t say I mind sitting in the hotel room all day, NYBoy bought me the Sims 3 just for this trip.  We met two other young risers in the stamp world (wow, how dorky do I sound) and their respective girlfriends, who are sooo much more tolerant of stamp collecting than I am.

They even seem slightly involved?! I wonder if it’s something that rubs off gradually, maybe I already have a stamp enthusiast on the inside waiting to break free… but I doubt it.

They’re all very nice people, it’s definitely not true that everyone who collects stamps is by default a geek – it seems like a rather lucrative business venture?

Buuttt, I still have no interest in it.

I can listen to NYBoy talk about it because he gets so animated and excited but I don’t think I’ll ever find joy in picking out stamps for myself!

My job for the duration of the final day of the stamp convention is to finish my waffles and get better, so I can beg for a trip to the zoo tomorrow!

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I love this song. I think I heard Imogen Heap’s original on an episode of the O.C (I think that was this song) but I like this much better!

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