#KindnessCounts

So I had to get to work early this morning.  Like an hour and half early early.  Which means, for my commute here in NYC, I had to be up at 7:15 AM.  Granted, this is not the first time I've gotten up at the crack of dawn to make ends meet (I've been known to get up at 4:30 AM to get to a place in the city at 6 AM...) but knowing that doesn't make it any easier.  Yet, when I arrived at the store early this morning, after I had bought my $1 bagel from the gentlemen who enjoy my presence in their store a little too much, but I don't mind because I know that my bagel should cost more, after I had let in the plumber (the whole reason I am here early this morning), I turned on Adele's album, 21--which I am currently, utterly, overly obsessed with at the moment.    And I couldn't hold it in.  In my long apron, braided pigtails and around tables of pottery and teacups of water, on a wooden floor in a random store in Tribeca that probably most people in Manhattan do

"Maybe love doesn't mean being willing to give up everything for someone else.  Maybe love means giving up just some things just to see them or to make them happy.  Because I want to see him happy.  It makes me happy to see him happy.  But if I give up everything for him, I won't be happy anymore." One of my wisest best friends, Kathleen, said this the other night at Mother Burger in midtown.  Over frozen margaritas and fattening foods, my wonderful friend and I discussed her married life and my crazy New York life.   And I told her and keep telling myself that I can't believe it.  I've been in a relationship for four months. Now granted, my longest relationship was about a year or so, which is not bad, I suppose.  And I have been in some great relationships.  I have been in love before.  I have been loved before.  I've been very lucky for most of my "track" record, to be most blunt.  But I have hurt.  I have been hurt.  And with love and

I was on TV.  That's right.  Adrienne Bergeron.  Put it in lights. And then view the video here:  http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/650966/first-date-with-oh-land.jhtml#id=1627684 Enjoy! Ciao for now. :) Love love, Adrienne PS:  Yes, I'm keeping the blog.  I do live in New York City and let's be real, lots of stuff happens to me.  Why not write it down?