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Like A Kid Again
I miss everything I used to hate about being a kid. When you’re little, someone cooks ALL your food for you. And if you were anything like me, you hated it. I put up such a fuss over eating basically anything. I hated dinner so much that I gave up eating meat altogether when I…
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Call It A Talent
Today’s Blog Every Day prompt is to sell yourself in 10 words or less. I did it in 9. I know I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating:
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…Only I Didn’t Say “Fudge”….
I am afraid of peanut butter fudge. Rather, I am afraid of saying “peanut butter fudge.” Let’s back up. I have the easiest job ever. My job is to smile and hand out free candy. Like Halloween, only for nine hours at a time standing on your feet up and down stairs. Okay, not so…
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I See Dead People (Maybe)
I spent most of a rainy morning practicing my newest ghost tour route down in Lower Manhattan. The rain really made the experience, I gotta tell ya. Nothing like getting your route map and notes soggy while you bump through streets crowded with tourists! But, I wouldn’t do anything differently. I already can’t wait to…
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The Five Scariest Moments in Trapeze
The scaffolding on top of the building? That’s the trapeze school! 1. Climbing the 20 foot tall ladder to get to the platform – exacerbated by the fact that the trapeze structure sits on the roof of a building, making you three stories and 20 feet high in the air. 2. With your toes over…
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BRB – AFK
I’ve taken a bit of a blogging vacation – unintentionally – while I sort out how to have a personal life while working one full-time job, and having a part-time job on the side, and sometimes attempting to sleep. I’ll be back in a week to share my adventures in celebrity, trapeze, and new plans…
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Spring Fever
It’s been a crazy week, folks. It seems like warm weather and sunshine is bringing out the crazeballs in everyone. My workweek was long but not uneventful: Late night Dylan’s Candy Bar run! instagram.com/p/YZG8QEOS7b/ — Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) April 22, 2013 And I am currently listening to a full-scale fiesta happening above me, at one…
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I Stand with Planned Parenthood
(which is to say, I mostly sat at Planned Parenthood.) As an adult woman of nearly 29 years of age, it somehow escaped me that I should see a gynecologist. I mean, I’ve seen The Vagina Monologues – TWICE! – but I’ve never had a professional look at mine? Okay, that joke was a stretch. …
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Loose Change into Magnets DIY
I have had a collection of fancy European coins for years. Jingling in my drawer, bein’ all pretty, but never being fully enjoyed to their potential…until now. This is the DIY for the DIY impaired. It’s so simple: Magnets + Household cement Onto the back of coins Let dry. Voila!
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On Selfies
I’m going to put this out there with zero judgement, and only love: I think I might hate self-portraits. Please don’t immediately click the “Unfollow” button! I’m not condemning anyone for their self-portraits. You guys, you professional photographers, you have amazing photo skills. You do your hair and your makeup and put on pretty clothes,…
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Parking Lot
I admit, I gripe a lot about the subway on here. The subway and I have a love/hate thing going on. I love the idea of getting in a tunnel and, minutes later, being MILES away. At it’s best, it is fast, whimsical, orderly, and friendly. LIKE ME. At other times, like when you’re trying…
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My Nest Is Best
Source: wendo.it via Alessandro on Pinterest Do you remember this book? When I was a kid, my mom read this book to me and there was a special melody to the song. One day, I caught myself thinking of my home as my “nest.” My nest is best! It has so much character. It’s always…
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A Peek At… The Donut Pub
Source: google.ca viaMeghan-Sara on Pinterest The Donut Pub may be my favourite Donut shop in New York City. The irony is that I rarely buy donuts there. Not that their donuts aren’t innovative, fresh, and delicious. No, I come to The Donut Pub for their chocolate chip cookies. Yes, I’m the one raving away on…
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The Chocolate Easter Bunny Story
In lieu of sharing Christmas with my family (thanks, retail job), I shared my family’s Christmas traditions with all of you – here and here and here and here and here and here. Guess what?! No family Easter for me either. So here’s my family’s favourite Easter story. This is a story of cause and…
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Always Take A Pedicab
I always walk through Central Park on my way to work. Four or five days a week, at varying times, since last May. Often enough that the pedicab drivers, who yell out and solicit every passing pedestrian, don’t really pester me anymore. Until last Monday, that is. Two ciggie-smoking Irish pedicab drivers caught me coming…
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The Walking Dead Google Reader
I’m the latest princess to the party, but I just started watching The Walking Dead and I’m afraid it may replace sleep. Who needs sleep? ZOMBIES! And also, who can sleep? ZOMBIES! Speaking of things that are dead-but-not-entirely-dead, Google Reader! I’m also the last person to mourn that Google Reader is gone. And at first…
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A Peek At… Mura
Controversial statement in 3… 2… 1… Mura makes Brooklyn worthwhile. Sushi is a funny animal. Sushi lovers know that if you have some “off” sushi, it will put you off sushi for a long time. After you’re ready to come out of sushi hiding, go to Mura. There has never been an occassion where the…
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A Star Is Born – or The Thing I’ll Keep Forever
One of the topics that came up in therapy for me was my fear of making decisions. It’s easier to back down to a safe place and go with the flow than it is to strike out and take a chance, if that chance holds unknown circumstances. The story of my little star is that…
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Don’t Blame Me, I Was A Creative Kid
Today’s Scintilla Prompt has to do with a time you embarrassed your parents in public. So I’m just going to tell you about the time my mother picked me up from the school bus in kindergarten, attempting to wear my backpack on my legs. While wearing a skirt. There’s the story. There’s the visual. And…
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How To Cook: And Instructional Haiku
Chuck it in a pan Set burner to “high” setting Wait for smell of smoke. When smoke arises, Flip and reveal your burnt food Angrily sizzling When smoke alarm bleeps, Rescue food from kitchen fire. Buon appetito! Source: curbly.com via Brandi on Pinterest