Steak and Potatoes

I know.

After the massive brain/heart data dumps that I was doing a little while ago, where the heck have I been?

Now, it's not that I'm sitting here thinking my double fistful of readers is out there fretting over my whereabouts, but having a private blog that hasn't been updated in a really long time is sort of like inviting people over for cocktails, then ignoring them while you go off to watch television.

So I apologize, dear guests. Usually I'm a MUCH better hostess than this.

Canape? Freshen your drink?

Work has been absolutely breathtakingly, mind-bottlingly crazy, first of all. I've been cross-country three times in as many weeks, which put a serious kibosh on my socializing for most of the month of August, not to mention I had a ton of underwear to wash when it was all said and done.

I've been so busy this season that I wasn't able to take a single one of my Summer Fridays until last week, when I ganged up three of them and made a vacation week out of it. Usually I save them up and take long weekends in August, but -- well, the fuck? What happened to August? Already it's mid-September, it's turned chilly and rainy (the weather suspiciously like LA was in August, almost as if it got hooked on the tail of one of my eastbound 757's and dragged into New York, sorry, everyone!)

My complexion went into some sort of time zone/no sleep/doesn't know what to make of the strange water in whatever city freakout and for a little while, I looked like a thirteen-year-old having her first period.

It's a good thing I like working for the Major American Designer and that I'm friends with all my vendors, because frankly, they were getting all the good Aileen stuff, not my friends here in the city.

Well, until recently.

Remember when I talked about the Beautiful Thing a while back? Well, it's still a Thing, and it's still Beautiful, and I'm still really enjoying the fact that the Universe threw us a bone. Well, no, I take that back. 

The Universe threw us a steak. Medium rare, a little bloody. With mashed potatoes and creamed spinach on the side.

And so far, it's freakin'-A delicious.