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#tbt Everybody’s Doin’ It
Back when I was in first or second grade, I begged my parents to let me pierce my ears. All my friends were showing up at school with dainty, sparkly studs, and I wanted to be just as grown-up as they were! My parents’ answer was an emphatic NO. “You’re too young,” was the reasoning.…
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#tbt Dance, Dance
This photo is from late August 2007 and the real beginning of my adult life and as such, I am in a toy store. playing DDR. and falling in love with New York City. a year later, I would move to the Big Apple – September 8th, 2008, and from then my life would never…
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#tbt The Least-Super Model
My mother sent this article to me, clipped from a local magazine. The year is 2006, and despite a deep-seated self-loathing that the photograph conveys, I have volunteered myself to model for a local photo-feature. Does this image not make you cringe? The forced, uncomfortable smile barely peeking through a wall of hair, one arm…
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#tbt A Tale of Two Robots
On January 19th, 2012, I took this photo in Williamsburg, Brooklyn: Pay CLOSE ATTENTION the goofy little robots in the bottom, holding up the carnation? I loved this photo and the robots and the flower SO MUCH that I made that photo my lock screen photo for the past, like, two and a half YEARS.…
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The Time I Wore A Snake
Like, I’m always bragging about how New York City is magical and any given night can turn into an amazing adventure and blah blah blah and I think sometimes people roll their eyes and assume that “New York City is a constant adventure!” is just something we tell ourselves to justify paying more on rent…
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#tbt On The Boards
I used to act, believe it or not. This photo from my college days, back when I used to love acting and boy, do I look like I’m loving it in this picture! How hot is that orange and yellow dress? And the white feather twixt mine cleavage? Hawtness.
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Currently…in August 2014
FEELING: Stoked, excited, and sooooo happy! My big vacation was a lot of fun, I’m glad to have gotten away, but I’m also so happy to get back! My life lately is so surreal and wonderful. WATCHING: I’m falling behind on Sailor Moon because I’m just a bit too busy for TV these days! LISTENING…
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#tbt Grandma’s Birthday
My Grandma is an awesomely funny lady. She just turned 89 two days ago. This photo is from her 80th birthday party a.k.a. the last time I wore a blouse to please my mother. I’m sure I was sweltering in the late July heat, here. Ugh! Look at those neutrals! What was I thinking?!? Just…
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#tbt WAL-MART
This photo isn’t dated, but to the best of my knowledge, it was taken sometime in the spring of 2006-7. I have no recollection of the time or who I was with but I remember spending glorious hours hanging out with my friends in the local WAL*MART. It was a playground for people with no…
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#tbt Flattering
I always thought neon pink was a flattering colour on me. Soft lighting, my best friend. And as far as flattering angles go, those of us with big noses know to look no further than the overhead angle. Boom.
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#tbt Clingin’ to Big Red
Back in 2005, I was clinging to a lot of things I probably shouldn’t have. The delusion that I could still pull off being a blonde. I’m talking full-time blonde here, of course, not the partial blonde that I currently rock to, if I may say so myself, great success. My high school glory days,…
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#tbt Carousel Rider
The other night, my aunt texted me this picture completely out of the blue! I have no idea when it was taken (judging my the blonde boy in the background, possibly 1987? 1988?) but thought I’d share. I’ve been really nostalgic for carousels lately. My hometown of Binghamton is well known for its carousels. Homesickness…
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Diggin’ on Degas
My favourite collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is unquestionably the Degas pieces. There’s a couple of rooms of sketches, statues, and paintings by the Impressionist master Edgar Degas just close enough to the rooms housing your big names – Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso – but secluded enough that you can stand almost uncomfortably…
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden
It wouldn’t be a trip to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden without taking a photograph of the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is free on Saturdays from 10am-noon. That’s the time to get there – the paths aren’t crowded, and you can get close to take photos! The real upside of getting to the…
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#tbt Sweaters in July
July 2012 Doesn’t this totally look like a book jacket photo? It was taken on the deck out back of my parents’ house and speaking of jackets, I am freezing in this pic. It’s my late-July annual Trip Up North and climate change is for real, y’all. I left NYC in sweltering heat, with a…
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Central Park Conservatory (Secret) Garden
The Central Park Conservatory Garden is a tiny surprise located near the Upper East-Corner of the park. With an entrance on Fifth Avenue between 104th and 105th Streets, it’s secluded enough that tourists can’t find it, and that makes it feel like a delicious secret. There are distinct separate “areas” to the park. The main…
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#tbt 2007 Knows No Cool
September 20, 2007 Oh my word. What have we here. Lately I’ve been missing my hometown a lot. That’s not to say I love New York any less, but I sometimes want to sojourn back to simpler times. When an afternoon of fun was as simple as going to the Salvation Army for Half-Price Wednesday. …
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#tbt Ring-A-Ding DONG
27 April 2010 Guys, I really need a vacation. Like really really REALLY. I need to get the hell outta dodge, away from these stupid tourists, and my heart longs to go all the way across the ocean, back to Europe. In April 2010 I was in Amsterdam, where the sun shone, tulips bloomed, french…
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According to Instagram…
The sweet-and-beautiful-online-and-in-real-life Eeka at Live.Love.Random recently did a post called “According to Instagram” about the telling nature of her Instagram feed. And I vowed to steal that idea. Fair warning, I left a comment! And it turns out, my Instagram feed pretty much paints an accurate picture of who I am: ACCORDING TO INSTAGRAM: …
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Throwback Thursday – Ashton and Me
Facebook kind of sucks for a lot of reasons. It creates unnecessary drama, shows a side of people you’d rather not see, blah blah blah. But what it’s really good for is storing photos! And without further ado, here are some choice shots of my puppy love and me: Those crazy, pink-haired college days! I…