three years: a briefest review

november is hardly the go-to month for posting year-in-reviews, but with three years of absence (three! years!) it felt that something should stand to document these days full of life and love. so, a little essay of images:

2010

begin dating my handsome. celebrate my twenty-fourth for four and twenty hours. watch amy and warren beauties say i do. take a trip to the cape. take a trip to the cape again to watch dan and michael lovelies conjoin. spend a blissful summer painting, eating watermelon, popcorn, and diet coke, and living in a reconverted coca-cola factory. begin my second year of teaching at first grade. tap feet to vampire weekend (and the national, and beach house, and sleigh bells, and etc.). marvel at leaves and apple festivals in vermont. pair heath's elliott with some '60s mod for halloween. celebrate dinosaurs and vin blanc (and, of course, christmas twenty-ten).

2011

ring in twenty-eleven with an indian food picnic, rose, and a 9 o’clock bedtime. take a trip to d.c., and then another to l.a. watch my car crumple, and subsequently move to west hartford, usa. last night our way into hartford's premier karaoke lounge, butterfly. celebrate the big two-five in boston, and then heath's two-four with a bit of rowdy. say goodbye to my first grade littles. spend a summer not-so-blissfully living in queens (and working as a school operations manager for tfa). move to the land of bed-stuy, brooklyn with kathleen and ben cuties. start year three as a founding teacher at achievement first endeavor elementary. commence tired fridays in. visit sister in boston. enjoy visits from a good marc friend. reunite with dearest friends (and remy!) in d.c. celebrate marc and andrew's perfect union at the national building museum. celebrate christmas part deux together with twelve days of gifties. host a little holiday fete involving cupcakes in mason jars and dan and michael friends. fly home for the holidays and embrace my family, an s. vranes, a little westy and a morganne.

2012

ring in the new year with a little friendy's engagement. spend a friday night at mullanes. get drinks on a weeknight. vacation in our most favorite city with walks across the bridge and grapefruit brunches. picnic at prospect park. take a field trip to yankee stadium. shake our hips and skanky shoulders to andrew bird (and sleigh bells, and the vaccines, and death cab, and etc.) 

turn twenty-six, and say oh, but yes to forever with one heath. watch the rain fall in pennsylvania over memorial day. meet and fall so in love with this cutest, again and again. and again. celebrate the last day of school on a rooftop in manhattan. take heath to the land of utah and reunite with so many dear friends, and in 'n out. watch fireworks over the hudson. take a trip to the beach. spend sweatiest days painting and doing yoga. begin year four as an art teacher. roadtrip to connecticut to dance in fall leaves. weekend with mama and sister. spend halloween as a loofah and karaoke with dear dan and michael for hours.