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- top of the rock
  
  Posted at 5:56 pm by jasminedesirees, on March 19, 2014
  
  One of the coolest things we did in NYC was go up to the top of Rockefeller Plaza and look out at the city. We actually had tickets to go up right before sunset so we could see the day, the sunset, and the night views, but we had some issues with the hotel we were at so we ended up having to go later.
  
  The view is really amazing from up there, you know there are a lot of people in New York, but seeing all of the lights stretching out for miles and miles in each direction is pretty humbling. It was a pretty warm night so we stayed up there for quite awhile just marveling at the beautiful view and taking pictures.
  
  I was fairly devastated when I saw this a few days later. It was on The Tonight Show on Monday, and we were up there on Saturday, so it was likely filmed sometime over the weekend.
  
  If we would have made our earlier ticket time, it would have been me he was photo bombing, and then I could have been in a photo with, and possibly met Jon Hamm. And then I would have probably just jumped off the roof and ended it, because there is really no where to go from there but down.
  
  Posted in exploring, New York, travel, USA | 1 Comment | Tagged city lights, jimmy fallon, jon hamm, New York, photo bomb, rockefeller plaza, top of the rock
- we who are your closest friends
  
  Posted at 8:44 pm by jasminedesirees, on March 18, 2014
  
  Love this poem:
  
  We Who Are Your Closest Friends
  
  we who are
  
  your closest friends
  
  feel the time
  
  has come to tell you
  
  that every Thursday
  
  we have been meeting
  
  as a group
  
  to devise ways
  
  to keep you
  
  in perpetual uncertainty
  
  frustration
  
  discontent and
  
  torture
  
  by neither loving you
  
  as much as you want
  
  nor cutting you adrift.
  
  Your analyst is
  
  in on it,
  
  plus your boyfriend
  
  and your ex-husband;
  
  and we have pledged
  
  to disappoint you
  
  as long as you need us
  
  In announcing our
  
  association
  
  we realize we have
  
  placed in your hands
  
  a possible antidote
  
  against uncertainty
  
  indeed against ourselves.
  
  But since our Thursday nights
  
  have brought us
  
  to a community
  
  of purpose
  
  rare in itself
  
  with you as
  
  the natural center,
  
  we feel hopeful you
  
  will continue to make unreasonable
  
  demands for affection
  
  if not as a consequence
  
  of your disastrous personality
  
  then for the good of the collective
  
  By Phillip Lopate
  
  Posted in art, poetry | 1 Comment | Tagged art, friends, friendship, Phillip Lopate, poetry, uncertainty, writing
- central park
  
  Posted at 9:41 pm by jasminedesirees, on March 17, 2014
  
  We flew into NYC at 5:30 am last Friday. After a few hours of creeping around trying to figure out where we were supposed to be going, we found our hotel in Midtown, dropped off our bags, and set out to explore the city. The very first place we stopped was Central Park.
  
  It was a gorgeous day, apparently it had been cold for weeks before we got there, so the park was full of people running, walking and playing hockey. It was amazing to see the huge, beautiful park surrounded on all sides by towering skyscrapers. We climbed up on top of one of the big boulders and just sat there people watching and sunning ourselves like lizards.
  
  One of the things I liked most about New York was how easy it was to get around everywhere, either on the subway or just walking. We walked about 10 miles a day every day we were in the city. If I lived there, I would have legs of steel.
  
  We visited Central Park several times on our trip, and just spent hours walking through and looking at all of the sites, including the Belvedere castle which I thought was in my imagination since we walked all over the park and couldn’t find it, but we eventually made it there on our last stroll.
  
  There were lots of great things about our time in New York, but those first few hours in Central Park were definitely one of my favourite things. It reminded me so much of spring time in Canada, when you finally feel the sun on your face after months of bitter cold, and even though there is still snow on the ground you can finally feel the end in site. Everything smells fresh and clean, and you just want to go play outside.
  
  Posted in exploring, New York, travel, USA | 2 Comments | Tagged Alice in Wonderland, belvedere castle, Central Park, exploring, hockey, life, nyc, travel
- chef
  
  Posted at 12:02 pm by jasminedesirees, on March 12, 2014
  
  Last week we had an onsite work training that our whole team flew out for from all over the country. At the end of the second day, we did a cooking class as a group for something fun to do together.
  
  It was at Jordan’s Kitchen in San Francisco, and it was amazing. It is a full scale commercial kitchen, but they only do group cooking classes, so we had the place to ourselves. The staff were super friendly, and really knowledgeable.
  
  We arrived, and they had trays of cheeses and smoked meats for us to snack on, and they were handing out wine before we even got our jackets off. We made mushroom risotto, flank steak with fingerling potato salad and chocolate mousse with sea salt for dessert.
  
  Our group got to do everything, they taught us how to chop vegetables, season everything, and prepare, plate and garnish each dish. The food was delicious, mushroom risotto is one of my favourite things in the world. I may have gotten a little too deep into the wine because before I knew it I had nominated myself as the grill master of the group, and was picking up the flank steaks with my bare hands, and expertly (ish) maneuvering them around the flaming grill.
  
  The chocolate mousse was delish, and we had a post-dessert mini-booze bottle pinata, which is not something I’ve done before but may well become a part of my supper routine every night. It was a really fun activity, and we got a copy of all of the recipes we made so we can re-create them at home. Not promising I will, because even though it was delicious it was a lot more work than boxed mac and cheese, but still it’s nice to have the option.
  
  Posted in food, recipes, San Francisco | 0 Comments | Tagged cheese, chocolate mousse, cooking class, flank steak, food, friends, Jordan's Kitchen, mushroom risotto, recipes, risotto, San Francisco, wine, work
- manhattan
  
  Posted at 3:45 pm by jasminedesirees, on March 11, 2014
  
  Our time in New York is going so fast, only two more days and we’re off to Toronto. It’s been such a busy, fun week though.
  
  I worked from our Manhattan office today, it was really nice to finally meet a bunch of people in person that I’ve been talking to every day for months.
  
  Also, I found a place that makes really good lemon drops so I’m pretty much all set.
  
  Posted in exploring, life, New York, travel, USA | 0 Comments | Tagged lemon drop, Manhattan, New York, travel
- ny
  
  Posted at 4:23 pm by jasminedesirees, on March 6, 2014
  
  I actually can’t believe it even as I’m typing this, but we are leaving for New York tomorrow. Also I haven’t even started packing, so right on schedule then.
  
  Some of the things I want to see are:
  
  Statue of Liberty : This one is pretty obvious, I think it’ll be pretty neat to see in person after seeing so many images of it all my life. Or maybe it’ll be super underwhelming and actually be like 10 feet tall, like the Mona Lisa is apparently very tiny and unimpressive.
  
  Metropolitan Museum of Art: I’m really excited to visit The Met, and my mom is a painter, so it’ll be really fun to go see it with her.
  
  9/11 Memorial: I remember exactly what I was doing when I found out about the attack on the World Trade Center. I was sitting on the bathroom vanity doing my makeup, and I heard my dad yelling from upstairs.
  
  Central Park: I’ve always wanted to visit Central Park, especially Belvedere Castle. Even though it’s just going to be one big snowball, it’ll still be awesome to see. Actually I’m pretty excited about the snow, it’s been too long.
  
  The Plaza hotel: I’ve wanted to visit the Plaza for so long that I can’t even remember when it started. I suspect that it was when I was about 9 years old, when I started reading The Babysitter’s Club books my Ann M. Martin. Stacey was my favourite character, and her favourite book was Eloise, a story about a young girl that lived in the Plaza hotel. I’ve never even read Eloise, I guess I just assumed that if Stacey liked it, it was probably amazing. It probably is.
  
  And tons of other things. I know it’s all super touristy stuff, I’m also just excited to creep around and do some exploring, but I want to have a list just in case we do have some free time, we won’t waste it trying to think of what we want to do.
  
  We’re going to be staying with a friend in Brooklyn for most of our visit, and I’ll be working out of our Manhattan office, or as is more likely, getting lost on the subway and crying on a street corner.
  
  I’d love to hear any suggestions that anybody has for fun places to visit, or great restaurants!
  
  Posted in exploring, life, New York, travel, USA | 0 Comments | Tagged Brooklyn, Central Park, Chicago, explore, Manhattan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, statue of liberty, Times Square, travel
- seventeen
  
  Posted at 8:46 pm by jasminedesirees, on March 5, 2014
  
  Can’t believe my baby brother is 17 years old today. It seems like just yesterday he woke me up by throwing a bucket of cold water on my bed and my older sister and I dragged him into the bathroom and gave him a swirly. He is a lot bigger than me now, but I’m pretty sure we could still take him.
  
  It makes me sad that I can’t be there to celebrate but hopefully I’ll get to see him soon.
  
  Posted in family, life | 0 Comments | Tagged birthday, family, love, siblings
- if you’re not good enough…
  
  Posted at 8:03 pm by jasminedesirees, on March 3, 2014
  
  Love this. I feel this way all the time, one day I hope to close the gap.
  
  Posted in art, inspiration, life, loveliness | 0 Comments | Tagged art, improvement, life, work, writing
- move on
  
  Posted at 5:39 pm by jasminedesirees, on February 28, 2014
  
  For someone who puts so much emphasis on forward motion, I’m really terrible at saying goodbye to the present.
  
  No matter how many times I tell myself it’s for the best, or at least you had the amount of time with that person that you did, or maybe you won’t see each other all the time but it’s not goodbye forever, it doesn’t seem to help.
  
  Because the truth is, you do make choices, whether you’d like to admit it or not, and those choices lead you towards new things, but also, away from other things.
  
  And that’s OK, it’s good even, because the alternative is being so terrified of what you might lose that you forfeit everything you stand to gain and that you stay in the same place forever and are always the one left behind.
  
  It’s normal to be sad, and to be scared that what’s to come won’t be as good as what came before.
  
  Just be grateful that you had the chance to experience something that was so hard to say goodbye to. Keep moving forward, because really, what choice do you have?
  
  Posted in life, thoughts, Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged choices, life, moving on, thoughts
- loveliness
  
  Posted at 4:16 pm by jasminedesirees, on February 27, 2014
  
  Just some lovely things for a gorgeous day where lots of things went right, made even sweeter by the fact that yesterday was a miserable day, where nothing did.
  
  Posted in art, inspiration, love, loveliness, quotes, Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged art, inspiration, love, loveliness, poetry, quotes
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