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Rainy Day in Chelsea NYC

| #nyc #chelsea #rainydays

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| I love when it rains in the city, but not the kind of rain you might be thinking about. The rain has to have character and the temperature needs to be right for a true Rainy Day. The best rain washes the city anew and gives it a slight sparkle. Rain in NYC also gives you that rare chance to wear a coat, nice boots, and carry a stylish umbrella. There is this understood notion in the city, that you always have to appear as if you put thought into what you do and how you present yourself. The best chance to show off your NYC charm/style is on a rainy day.

Rainy Day Look

Umbrella: Lockwood
Boots: Cole Hann
Coat: Diesel

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Happy Fall from Club Monaco Marketing Team

| #feelingfall #fall #October

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| Extremely lucky to have such a great team of marketing experts at Club Monaco. Through our normal day-to-day discussions we found the group has a mutual love of the fall season. I decided to orgainize a “Welcome Fall” day on the first Monday of the month and here is what we ended up with.

My Senior Track & Field Photo 2006

I found My Senior Track & Field Photo 2006 again, and it hit me the way old places do—quietly at first, then all at once.

In the picture I’m standing at the edge of the track in a school singlet, the infield behind me and the day stretched out like it had nowhere else to be. It’s a simple moment: a posed smile, tired arms, the kind of spring air you can almost feel through the pixels. But the longer I look, the more I can hear it—the distant voices, the hollow announcement over a speaker, the steady rhythm of footsteps that always seemed to be coming from somewhere.

What I remember most about that season isn’t one race or one finish line. It’s the repetition that shaped everything: showing up, warming up, doing the work, and going home a little more worn-in than before. Back then, time felt endless, like laps you could keep adding without consequence. Now it feels more like a loop you return to, surprised by what’s still waiting there.

A photo like this isn’t just proof that it happened. It’s a small artifact of a version of life that kept moving forward without knowing it was already becoming memory.

Team Mystic Leader at Mystic Connecticut Drawbridge Gym

Mystic is the kind of place that feels like it has always been here—salt in the air, boats nudging at their lines, and the drawbridge lifting with a slow, practical confidence. Standing there with my phone in hand, it was easy to imagine two worlds pressing up against each other: the everyday river traffic below and the bright, weightless layer of Pokémon GO hovering over it.

The gym on the screen read “Mystic River Drawbridge Gym level 2,” and there was Snorlax—solid and unbothered, a calm monument planted right in the middle of the moment. Our Team Mystic leader avatar stood nearby like a quiet sentry. The numbers and bars made it feel like a scoreboard, but the scene behind it was something older: steel, water, and the simple ritual of waiting for the bridge to move.

I like how these little stops in a game can turn into a pause you didn’t plan on taking. You look up. You notice the sky. You listen. The town doesn’t change, but your attention does.

Team Mystic Leader at Mystic Connecticut Drawbridge Gym, framed by the river and the lift of the bridge, felt less like a conquest and more like a postcard—proof that even a quick visit can leave a small imprint if you’re paying attention.

Ending the week of Watermelon at Rosie’s

| #margarita #eastvillage #sundayfunday @Rosiesnyc

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|Ending the week with a Watermelon Margarita at Rosie’s. National Watermelon day was this week and after surprising my coworkers with Yellow Watermelon I decided to end the week with sometime more traditional.

The food at Rosie’s was good, the atmosphere was cute, the patio was great, and the margarita was amazing. Overall the perfect Sunday Brunch day with Rolando!

Brown Butter Cod from Blue Apron

| #cooking #934 #nyc @blueapron

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| Another Blue Apron meal and I am starting to see some repetition.I am almost positive there is some research behind what ingredients are available, costing factors into bulk purchasing from vendors, and generally what customers prefer but a vast majority of the fish dishes include Cod. I do not want that to come off as a criticism but more of an observation. That being said, this was a very tasty dish and I now have have knowledge to make a brown butter sauce.

Supper Squad at Vic’s

Tonight the Supper Squad has gathered at Vik’s Noho.

| So here is the rundown – we tried several of the apps (4), 2 pastas and a pizza. The carrots were to die for, a vegetarian dream, but my favorite was the Borsa “Little Purse” pasta stuffed with ricotta, hazelnut, and lemon sauce. They also had a very nice wine selection. I would recommend sitting at the back of the restaurant near the kitchen as there is a glass skylight area that is nice and bright.

Soho Shopping Haul with DBG2614

Soho Shopping Haul

| @diesel @clubmonaco #dbg2614 #soho #haul

| I started today out with the intent to play some PokemonGo in Soho. I ran my battery down to zero so I started shopping.

I was doing a good job at resisting my shopping compulsion until I saw a 5 foot long pair of Diesel Black Gold jeans hanging at the Diesel Soho store. Needless to day I was intrigued, and was convinced to try them on. The DBG 2614 are really quite cool. They are made to bunch as you wear them and have this texture that I could never achieve on other jeans. They are lightweight and stretchy, so easy to bunch how and where you like. I found that If I bunch them over my entire leg they do slightly drift down as the day goes on. On a side note I bought a matching short sleeve button down and shorts from Club Monaco just for a laugh and ended up really liking them.

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Gym Leader for a Day PokemonGo

| #pokemongo @nintendo #gymleader #pokemon #fearow

| The PokemonGo craze is pretty fun, if I do say so myself.I was excited to see Pokemon in the real world and now to be a Gym Leader like in the games. What a strange and wonderful time we live in.

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Happy Birthday Hannah

| #birthdaygirl #workwifeforlife #tgif

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| An Extra Special Happy Birthday Week to my Work Wife Hannah! @hlbiddle at Sel Rrose

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John Elliott S/S 2017

| #nyfwm #newyorkfashionweek #fashion #nyc

A Gilt Noir Status Perk | Zachary Prell at Saks off 5th

| #giltnoir #nyc #q&a @gilt @ZACHARYPRELL

| To my suprise there are men’s perk from Gilt.com and the first I experienced with a see-now-buy-now post show disgussion by Zachary Prell.I was excited to finally cash-in on a perk I received as a result of spending… enough money… on Gilt.com and acheiving “Noir” status. The conversation was very intimate, starting with champagne and a meet-and-greet, followed by a Q&A. The Q&A centered mostly around how Zachary brought about the vision of his fashion line and how there was a learning curve to starting a business out of his general area of expertise. Zachary is extremely approachable and as a fellow “Zach” I was please to see the good name being shed in such good light. Overall the experience was good and I would not hesitate to go to another Gilt Noir perk.

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