Pictures from the walk me and my rommate took last night.

So grateful this view is a 5 minute walk from my apartment.

Life is good friends.

Harry Potter in 36 hours!

Family comes on tuesday!

Babbitt comes in 2 weeks!

Gweeeee!

(thats the noise my insides are making, i es so excited)

Now enjoy this great song,

that i might have found watching pretty little liars last night.

shhhh.

don't judge. its a great show.

BK-->UWS

UWS to be exact.

lovin this feeling!

last night in the BK

Brooklyn has been my home for almost 6 months now, and it has become the only way i know how to live.

I know to take the G to the 7 to get to work, or if it's a thursday or friday, G to the E to the 6.

I know I have to walk out the door exactly an hour before work and this puts me there 20 minutes early but if i leave just a few minutes later i will miss the subway and by the time the next one comes and I will be 5 mintues late to work. 20 minutes early.. or 5 mintues late has been the battle in my life.

I know that once i get off the subway I can start singing in my head the street names in order and once i reach Newel and see the samalaboogaslawa laundry mat on the next block, I am home.


I know that the moment I get on the L train heading towards bedford ave, I will be in a sea of hipsters.

I know that on saturdays and sundays if you walk around williamsburg you will find some of the best farmers and artist markets.

I know that 9 times out of 10 the conversation in passing will be in polish and I will feel like I'm in a different country.

I know that whenever someone new comes over to my apt. without fail they will ask "I feel like I am falling over when I walk, is this apartment slanted?" Slanted is a massive understatement.

I know that if i am walking home past ten on any given night, there will be the same gangsters in front of the deli on diamond and nassau, doing their drug deals, and blasting their thug music. It's become a sense of stability in my life.

Tomorrow this time Norman Ave will no longer be my address. I will no longer have chalkboard paint walls. I won't have to leave an hour early to get to my destination. I won't have 2 black kitties as my sleeping companions. And I won't get to call Brooklyn my hood anymore.

Tomorrow I will be the newest resident to the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
I am ecstatic to be starting a new and learning to become a true new yorker.

Due to this being my last night in the BK I took a stroll around my hood and snapped a few photos on my way.

MoMa Fashion Show

Remember how I dog sit?

My friend is out of town at least a week out of every month and I get to go stay at her place in chelsea while she is gone to baby sit her pup's. I get to sleep in her huge beautiful bed and watch netflix on her flat screen tv. And it's conveniently located a block away from Chipotle and Pinkberry. I loooove when she needs me to stay over. She treats me so good, seriously I love this girl.

The other night she snuck me and danna lee into her fashion show she was modeling in at the MoMA. I about peed my pants when i heard it was a charity show raising money for Aids hosted by JAMES FRANCO. She took us back to where they were getting ready and i was in a sea of shirtless male models. We snuck out to the runway and to watch her and spotted James Franco himself. I also saw Lance Bass from NSYNC and Ke$ha was rumored to be there but was never spotted.

I am making her sneak me into all of her fashion shows from now on.
Having a super model as a friend has it's perks.
One of them is being able to say that to try and myself sound legit.


That first picture is Michelle, I love her pup's.
This is where you can appropriately comment on how completely under dressed I was.
The guy in the jean jacket is her boy friend.
And am not exaggerating when I say they are seriously cutest couple ever.

this night was the shiz.
the only thing that could have made it better
is if Justin Bieber himself was there.

Rue Magazine

Remember that crack load of posts i still need to do? Here we go with the first one off the check list.

Have you heard of Rue Magazine?
Well its pretty much an adorable magazine and you should start reading it.
If you click on the link above and flip through until page 145 you will see a video up in the right hand corner of the page. Friendships, this is my video!

Okay well only partly my video. But i still got giddy when i saw the video featured in the magazine.

My dear friend Matt Sundin was so kind to let me tag team film and edit this "modern varitey show" with him for Rue Magazine. The magazine was doing a piece on turning a normal reception into a Modern Variety Show which included a magician, a jazz band, a personal painter, and a photobooth.


I didn't care very much for the song choice but its whats we had to work with so.. 
Love me or hate me it's still an obsession. (bad girls club anyone?)


It's So Us: A Modern Variety Show from Madison Waters on Vimeo.

Take me out

 

If you haven't heard yet, my roommate and best friend who started this adventure out here with me will be leaving me in one week from today. She found out a few nights ago that she got a shnazzy job at a news station in colorado and will be starting a new chapter in her life there.

My feelings on the whole thing? I feel like my comfort blanket (aka shanny) is being pulled out from under me. Sad in the aspect that I don't get to be with my best friend everyday anymore. Scary thinking about being out here without any piece of home surrounding me. But wonderful that I am being given another chance to force myself into new surroundings where i can grow even more.

In the next month or two I will hopefully moving out of brooklyn and into the city. I have loved living in Brooklyn and would gladly stay if it weren't for the fact that every single soul I know out here lives in the city and it takes me at least an hour to get to any of them. Isolated and Shannon-less is not what i want to be.

It's amazing how fast life changes eh?

Any-who on to the pictures.

Can you say Yankees game anyone?

Ward activity=Free tickets and loving life.

This was my first major league baseball game and I can now say baseball is my favorite sport to watch. I like basketball games but start to get bored after so many times back and forth across the court. And BYU football games with my dad are pretty high up there in my "Loving sports" category. But this baseball game brought out of me a whole new love that I didn't know was even there.

And one of the best parts is at the end of the game they play Frank Sinatra New York, New York and everyone dances around (okay maybe just me) and you have one of those surreal moments of saying to yourself "Do I really live in NY? Is this real life??"

and now I will leave you with the oh so wonderful Frank Sinatra so you can love your life for a bit.

rooftop on a sunnyful day

65 degrees+ 

a rooftop + 

a manhattan skyline + 

a lovers brawl+

the soundtrack to 500 days of summer + 

tanning in feb = 

one blissful afternoon spent in brooklyn.

...yes it was striped shirt day.

 

"Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism."

- Richard C. Edgley, Faith—the Choice is Your

October 2010 General Confrerence

Happy Lovers Day! A bike ride in Brooklyn? How much cuter can it get peoples? I am now going to go curl up and read the hunger games series. 

xxo - ♥ 

 

A Resolution

I resolve to take my camera out more 

when i leave my warm non-face freezing apartment.

mmmm. I'm liking new york these days. 

minus the wind.

wind chills = d.e.a.t.h.

Due to the frigid weather as of late our plans have consisted of: 

staying inside our apartment.

Tonight we ordered food,

From brooklyn mac. Baked mac and cheese, you can add anything you want into it. Brilliant and oh so delicious.

And then drew with chalk on our walls.

A few days ago we painted our walls with chalkboard paint and we couldn't be happier with our decision.

#6 from Madi & Shannon on Vimeo.

This thing happened. 
Please take a gander at seconds 56-57. Yes he did scratch me. Yes i was bleeding. No i'm not dead, but it was touch and go there for a bit.

P.S.

Thank you lori truman for the music in this video. I might have fallen in love with this band thanks to this post.

Just because i would rather not write it all again, go here to read/watch my day yesterday.

All i will say is I'm pretty sure i was the only Mormon holding up her water glass cheering while everyone else held their alcoholic beverages.

And i loved every seconed of it. 

Isn't being sober watching drunk people make a fool out of themselves the greatest?

a choice

Today while Shannon was at work I walked around to try and become more acquainted with this thriving metropolis. After I downed my first delicious Pinkberry and had few very lovely phone calls from friends and family back home, I made my way uptown to borders on Park and 58th street. I ended up walking the wrong direction after coming out of the subway (which happens often) and bumped into Bloomingdales. Immediately I became ten folds happier. Not because of the store (barf please louis vuitton bags) but because the quote from my favorite character Kathleen Kelly in You've Got Mail kept running through my mind.

"Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one! It got on at 42nd and off at 59th, where, I assume, it was going to Bloomingdales to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake, as almost all hats are."

This is going to sound completely cheesy but bare with me.

I made the choice a long time ago to be happy. Happy even when life has thrown a trial my way. Happy even through unwanted but needed change. I don't think i could make it through life being upset or angry all the time. I feel like my life would be colorless if i couldn't see the simple joys in it that make me so happy. I am so grateful for that ability. 
You've got mail was my happy today and so i thank you Meg Ryan.
Okay phewww you made it. I hope i didn't scare you away from reading any further posts. I will try to keep the cheesy-ness from now on to a minimum.

Video Documents

This thing might have happened called, Shannon and I started a blog together.

I know i know kind of cheesy right?
Don't judge, it just happened.

It's a video blog.

It's going to document our days together here.

We feel as if this is a good way for us to remember our adventure in New York.

Oh and what an adventure it is going to be.

If you would like to come along with us on our escapade, 

here's the link to our blog.

Nassau Ave.

 

I Don't Like:

-When I forget to bring hand sanitizer with me whenever i am traveling via subway

-When I swipe my metro card and it says go so i go and it turns out it was playing a joke on me so i slam into the metal thingy. (this happens at least once every day)

-When I get stuck in the subway doors.

I Do Like:

-Dancing while waiting for the subway to come.

-Listening to the black girls gossip on the subway and talk about how good they look.

-That the subway is literally a walking catalog. I have already decided my next 5 purchases thanks to the subway models (aka any adorable new yorker who rides one the G train or the L train when i do)

p.s.

 Me and Shannon have decided to make a video blog to document our time spent here in new york together. I shall post more info tomorrow.