I got engaged this month! It’s very exciting and I’m very excited. Full disclosure, though: I’ve been lowkey planning my wedding for a cool four months now. I bought the dress and booked the venue all before holmes dropped to one knee on a bridge on the romantic Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. There […]
You will catch a cold. The stock market will rise. It will also occasionally fall. Someone you know will get married. Every episode of This Is Us will make you cry. Famous people will die. You will wonder why you’re so tired. The Cavs will play the Warriors in the NBA Playoffs again. One of […]
I just had “the talk” with my bank account. It … wasn’t pretty. If you thought I was not that fun in 2016, hold onto your asses: I’m going to be a real dud in 2017. It’s budget crunch time! Outside, meanwhile, the weather turned cold and blustery so quickly that I found myself spontaneously holding […]
It’s no great secret: I love to write. Loveity love love it. Sometimes, when I work hard enough on something, it ends up quite good. In those moments, I often wonder “What if I could just do this all day?” Particularly when the day job is extra-sloggy (which, on the plus side, it isn’t always). […]
If one thing’s for sure, it’s that I am very normal. I certainly don’t alienate people randomly, or fear my peers, or have trouble getting out of bed most mornings. Not doing those things is just one of the many normal things about me. Similarly, my many and thorough obsessions are very normal as well. I have been […]
Hi everyone, I’ve been watching Bones every day for two months and eating jars of almond butter, plural. Have you also been achieving your fitness goals? If not, don’t worry — have I got some tricks for you. Water: Drink a lot of it. That way, you’ll have to get up to use the bathroom frequently, […]
Quick question: It’s normal to lose friends, right? Not just drift apart over the years, or misplace them in the backseat of your car. Just straight up abruptly lose them in the blink of an eye after certain things were said or done – or not said or not done. If I were to count, […]
Life is full of tough questions, like have you invested way too much money and energy in a career that’s all wrong for you, are you spending enough time with your nieces and nephews or are they growing up without really knowing you as a constant presence in their lives, and should you Facebook friend […]
*I’ve been having my apartment professionally clean (on the CHEAP) by Handy for the past year or so. I live in a studio. I really don’t care how lazy this seems. I know myself, and the alternative is that the apartment never really gets cleaned until I move out and scrub the drywall off for […]
Rise and shine! What a beautiful day you have ahead of you to spend inside where it is always cold. I mean COLD, unlike this pesky comforter, which is pretty much DESIGNED to keep you in a cocoon of warmth not unlike your mother’s womb. Who needs THAT? The last thing you want to do […]