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Clever
You don’t make it to Employee of the Month without making a few die-hard fans. After a little over a year at work, I have gained some fans. Regular customers who stop in, chat a bit, and whom I’ve gotten to know. There’s my High School Pep Squad, who pop in after school for a…
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Blogtember #12: The September Issue
Today’s Blogtember prompt calls for “only photos.” I wanted to get a little meta with it: take photos of photos. See, my friend Matt and I always get together in the beginning of the fall to share Pumpkin Spice Frapps and ogle the September issues of the big fashion magazines. And then he moved away. …
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Blogtember #11: Love Actually IS Possible
Halloween 2004 The night before was a huge party in the apartment I shared with two friends who I met at community college. Decorations still everywhere – orange and black and fake spiderwebs camouflaging the real spiderwebs. When does a busy college student have time to dust cobwebs? The next day was my American history…
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Blogtember #10: Working Girl
Source To the working woman of New York Enduring the sweltering heat in your chrysalis of linen sheath dress Carrying your pumps to work, fluffing open the New York Times, steady hand applying mascara on the unsteadiest of vehicles! Full of that potential one can only have before the 9-5 Grind. Repeated gestures betray habits…
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Doctor Who / Tom Baker Scarf !!!
Yes, remember a few weeks ago when I started earnestly tackling the most daunting nerd project of all – the infamous Tom Baker scarf? Ten feet long, it is now FINISHED! Proving that you never know what you can accomplish until you start! I used this pattern, found on Pinterest, courtesy of the awesome Tara…
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Blogtember #9: A New Smile
Can you see yourself aging? I can. 2/2009, my headshot, a slight smile. Two days ago, self-portrait, slight smile My smile is different. I used to have a different smile. Somehow, without my noticing it, the entire makeup of my face has changed and my smile is not the one I used to have. The…
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Blogtember #8: Be True to You, Whoever You Are
When I started blogging, it was in the hopes of making more friends like myself. Through blogging, Twitter, and online publications, I became fascinated with all these awesome women and their lives – such as Nat the Fat Rat, Rachele the Nearsighted Owl, and Emily McCombs of xoJane. Each of these women, and so many…
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Blogtember #6: I Don’t Care
From the moment she saw me like this, her face crumpled into a grimace of disgust. Whispering tersely into her companion’s ear while glaring at me, they inched through the crowded train to be further away from me. She had seen the bandage covering the second half of my fresh tattoo, and she wanted nothing…
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Blogtember #5: Take Care
Last Autumn, I took the Myers-Briggs Personality Test and got the result ESFJ – the Caregiver. I then proceeded to laugh my ass off at how accurately the result had pegged me. I live to please! Sometimes to the exclusion of my own needs! I’m always doing what other people want of me – well,…
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5 years
On September 8th, 2008, my mother and I loaded up my van and took turns driving down to Forest Hills, Queens, for what has turned into the adventure of a lifetime. To say that this anniversary is a big deal to me would be a gross understatement. Living here is the realization of a dream.…
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Blogtember #4: Nothing to Fear
When I sat down to, as today’s Blogtember prompts, write a story about a time I was afraid, I could think of none in recent history. Going back further, however, I remembered there was a time when I was always afraid. I was afraid of losing the people I loved, of getting hurt, or embarrassing…
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Blogtember #3: Like My Father Always Says…
There is, at my parents’ house, a trivet sitting on the stove, belonging to my father and bearing this Elbert Hubbard quote: Source: mywordstuffs.blogspot.com As a kid, I thought it was funny. Redundant. “Well, of course you don’t make it out alive… That’s the point!” As an adult, the saying has become a frightening warning.…
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Blogtember #2: Ma Vie en Paris
Me in Paris, 30 April 2010 I know it’s a cliche, but if I could take the next three months of my life “off,” I would pool my savings and return to Paris. There, I would live the life of a starving artist – sort of like A Moveable Feast – scraping by on what I…
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Blogtember #1: The Twilight Zone
In five days, it will be five years since I became a New Yorker. New York City is a city of immigrants, from other parts of the world and all over the world and sometimes – maybe – out of this world. When people ask where I’m from, I earnestly and honestly answer, “The Twilight…
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Currently…in September 2013
New bang trim…what do we think??? Feeling: EXCITED! Fall is my favourite season! I adore Halloween. New York Comic Con is just around the corner. And I count the days until my first Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks! Watching: Classic Doctor Who. I keep returning to it because it has such heart and so much…
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Diamond Candle Giveaway!
Next month will be my five-year anniversary of living in the Big Apple! Expect to see some changes around here, starting with MY FIRST GIVEAWAY and guys, it’s a doozy. A Helluva Whizzbangin’ Doozy. FACT: I love candles. Reading, knitting, blogging by candlelight….or even those long, hot baths. Dude. Perfection. OTHER FACT: I love rings. …
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How To Meet an Internet Date
1. Be first to arrive. That way your date has to pick you out of the crowd, not the other way around. You don’t want to be the asshole trying to peer behind every individual’s sunglasses to divine if that is the stranger you are meeting. 2. Don’t pull any punches on your appearance. No…
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Special Delivery
Hiya, Internet! Didja miss me? It’s been one month of radio silence from me except for the random here-and-there phone post. Shudder! I finally received my charge cord in the mail from the UPS! Here’s a funny thing about the UPS: they claim to be a delivery service, but they don’t ACTUALLY deliver packages. On…
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No Charge Cord: Week Four
Dear Outside World: It’s been four weeks without a computer. What’s a girl to do with her time? Outside of working 6-7 days a week, I’ve been going on a lot of OkCupid dates (post about that pending when I have a computer again), watching classic Doctor Who (more posts about that when I have…
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Speaking of Saturday…
I haven’t been blogging every day and I miss it! My computer charge cord was supposed to be delivered yesterday, but thanks to the gross incompetence of the UPS, I have to pay a convenience fee (HA!) and wait an additional week for delivery. I have no idea how anyone gets packages with UPS. Unless…