A Nice Jewish boy

My mom (and grandma) are always on my case to find myself a nice Jewish boy to take home already. In NYC, its not that hard to find a Jewish guy, but for him to be nice AND good-looking is usually a challenge. It's usually one or the other and they usually go for the more Jappy, high maintenance girls. I don't get it, but whatever. To each their own, but I would like to eventually end up with someone Jewish. And if they aren't Jewish, you better believe my kids will be raised Jewish, but I am digressing a little. Anyway, Jewish boys aren't really my type, but these guys, fellow members of the tribe, have somehow or another grabbed my attention and if they weren't so famous, maybe they'd go for a nice, down-to-earth Jewish girl like myself. 

1. Jason Segal. Pretty tall for a Jew. And I like it. But its Jason's sense of humor that is what makes him so attractive. Not only is he one of the best parts of How I Met Your Mother (along with NPH), but I still remember him from Freaks and Geeks. Additionally, his movie roles continually crack me up. If only the gym teachers at the school I work at were like him in Bad Teacher. I would hold your ball sac any day.

Sidenote: This girl obviously also finds Jason as attractive as I do and even made this awesome video for him. You go girl.

"The subtext of this text is booty"

As defined by urbandictionary.com, a booty call is "a phone call, page, or conversation aimed at getting into your pants.  Not an invite to a movie or dinner, not just coffee, not a casual or formal get-together, just a plain old-fashioned 'let's fuck.'' This day in age, a booty call is more like a booty text, but lets not get into semantics here. I mean, really, who even has a pager anymore?

I would like to add to their definition and also define a booty call not as the actual call itself, but the person you are calling. That person becomes your booty call. 

So do you have a booty call? Or more than one booty call? (Or are you someone else's booty call?)  There are just so many questions! What are your booty call rules? If you even have any rules?

Battling Tanorexia

I consider myself lucky in the fact that I do not really have any bad vices. Well maybe one, but its not even that bad. I'll get to it in a second. Vices can be harmful to your health and to your wallet. Many of them are mucho expensivo and have terrible effects on you. I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. I don't even do caffeine (no coffee, tea, or pop). I drink alcohol, but consider myself to be a textbook binge drinker so its not a "problem" or a habit per se. However, the one vice I have, is tanning. I know its terrible for your health but it just feels so damn good. If its spring or summer and its sunny out, you will find me outside and soaking it in the rays. However, I do wear SPF 50 (minimum) and excessively about reapply. And most recently, I have taken up indoor tanning again. (I hadn't done it since college.) How can something so wrong feel so right?

I wanna learn...

There are many things that I am good at and there are many things that I am awful at. I love learning new things, but patience isn't a trait that I really have so sometimes I have a very hard time learning new things because if I am not good at it from the get-go, I get super frustrated and stop without giving it much of a chance.  In general, I am not a quitter, but I am also not used to being bad at things, so when I am start something and am not immediately good at it, I get irritated.  However, I need to relax a bit and remember that not everything comes naturally and with practice, I can pick up new hobbies and skills if I really put my mind to it. Below is a list of things that I would love to learn how to do in the next few years.

1. How to Knit. I see people on the train knitting from time-to-time and find myself mesmerized by them. I find it to be such a great talent and something I would really love to do because it looks so therapeutic. And you end up with a keepsake or a gift. One of these days I will take a class and maybe even join a knitting circle. Who knows, maybe I can make new friends this way too!

Hmmm...Chi vs. NYC

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and currently live in New York. People are always asking me which city I love more and I never know how to answer. It's really a toss up. There are really so many things to consider when making this decision. One is the city that I was born and raised in and will always be my home no matter what. I miss it often because it is so great. The other is one that I now consider my home because I have fallen in love with it. In order to try to figure this out a bit, I decided that I was going to look at different aspects of each city and see who has the best to offer. So here we go...

Transportation: New York Wins. In New York, you can take a subway or a bus pretty much anywhere. It's very convenient and also saves me money on car insurance, gas, and parking. (I sold my car before I moved out here.) Chicago is more of a driving city because its so much more spaced out than Manhattan. The L just doesn't go everywhere you need it to in a City as big as the Chi. Many people believe that Manhattan is huge, but its really only like 13 miles long and 2 miles wide. Chicago is enormous. If you really wanted to, you can walk the length and width of Manhattan if you needed to. (I have actually done both on numerous occasions.)