All About Amy
Fruit Salad Life, you ask?
1. For my whole life, my mum told me I dress like a “fruit salad.” Neon nail polish is a must with every outfit. Tie-dye? Yes please. Cowboy boots with a cerulean dress? DUH!
2. The blog will cover a mix of topics, all jumbled up into delicious servings for you.
3. Or, for you minimalists out there…fruit, salad, & life.
fun stuff
- I drink iced coffee year round.
- Whole wheat everything bagels are probably my favorite food in the world.
- I can frequently be spotted with my mid-back length blonde hair piled on top of my head…which ends up resembling some sort of pastry (I’ve heard both danish and croissant).
- One of my dearest friends gave me a pair of cowboy boots that she never wore and they are now one of my favorite possessions. Seriously, I wear them with everything.
- I obsessive-compulsively paint my nails. If I don’t have nail polish on, I feel naked.
- I am an unabashed geek.
- My mum was super crafty when I was growing up, and it rubbed off on me. I’ve dabbled in making my own jewelry and random artsy-fartsy endeavors, but am itching to do more!
- My favorite color is aqua, but I really don’t discriminate. One look in my closet and you might think that a unicorn vomited rainbows…classy and tasteful ones, of course.
- I have a tendency to over-emote texts, emails, or anything written really. This mirrors real life, where I’ve been known to emit squeals of joy. A former roommate told me that I was the loudest person that he’d ever met (still don’t know if that was positive or not).
my story
I’m an only child who grew up in the ‘burbs of Massachusetts. I take pride in the fact that whenever I tell people that I’m an only child, their reactions are always something to the effect of, “REALLY?! I would have never guessed!” So I like to think that my p-units did a pretty darn good job raising me. I attended Colby College, located in the bustling metropolis of Waterville, Maine. There, I aimlessly took classes, unsure of what I actually wanted to do. I ended up majoring in International Studies, with a concentration in Latin America. This afforded me the opportunity to study abroad first in Ecuador, then in Chile.
After graduation, I moved into Boston to return to a phenomenal previous internship and began applying to jobs in advertising. Unable to find a job due to the crappy economy, and having rent to pay, I applied to lululemon on a whim one day. A week later, I was working there, taking full advantage of the benefits! I adored hopping from yoga studio to yoga studio across Boston, picking and choosing from my favorite classes and teachers. After 4 months, I knew that I did not want to work retail forever, and was desperately in need of a life shake up.
One of my best friends had just moved to San Francisco, CA, and one month later so did I! I arrived wide-eyed, jobless, with 2 suitcases, and ready to take on the city. By a strange turn of events, I landed a coveted job at a hot social gaming start-up, and scored an enviable apartment…but something was still missing. Fast-forward 2 months when Kman walked into my life…or actually, into the office I worked in!
Family health problems started bringing me back east pretty frequently, and I soon realized that while California was incredible, life is simply just too short to be away from your loved ones. I began hatching a plan to transfer to my company’s New York office, and on May 7, 2011 (almost a year after Kman and I first met), I hopped a plane to JFK and moved in with him, crazy kitten in tow.
As soon as I got here, I felt the creative energy of the city, and knew that I had to explore as much as possible and document my new adventure. I absolutely adore NYC and all of the fantastic things there are to do here. We’re currently living in a gorgeous brownstone apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn and won’t be leaving anytime soon.
