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I'm the girl, Gracie. Here at GML you can follow my journey of dreaming, working, eating, loving, dancing, and blogging my way through life in NYC.



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February favorites.

February isn’t exactly my favorite month of the year, but I can’t say that this February was all that bad! Here are some of my favorite things from the past 28 days.

train rides.

Why didn’t anyone ever tell me how amazing public transportation is?! I seriously value being able to just sit back, relax, and arrive at [...]

what I want, when I want.

I’ve got to say that my favorite thing about moving out has been being able to do what I want, when I want to do it.

It’s the mundane things that I seem to enjoy the most, really. For example, I like to keep the news playing on the TV almost all day long. In the past [...]

back to bed.

I’m usually a very “up and at ‘em” person when I wake up in the morning. But today? I’m pretty sure I’ll be heading back to bed soon after typing this post.

Yesterday was a long day. A messy day at times too. But it was also a great one.

I headed into a rainy Manhattan around noon [...]

today I will…

…thank God it’s Friday.

…embrace the unknown.

…cling to my umbrella.

…and repeat in my head, at least it’s not snow. at least it’s not snow.

…remember that warm weather is just around the corner.

…bring a nearly empty jar of almond butter as a train ride snack. Completely normal.

…potentially take the next step in this [...]

life lately.

Hello, sweet ones!

For some reason I’m feeling all sorts of dear diary, so here’s a post straight from my heart; how I’ve been feeling, what I’ve been up to, yada yada.

As I mentioned yesterday, my mom came up for a short visit. We had a great time! We followed our typical routine of running errands, ordering [...]