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June 2013

How To Say Yes To The Dress

Jessie Rosen - June 27, 2013

I spent the past four days shopping for a wedding dress on the east coast.  Four days, 10 appointments across two states, and I believe roughly 70 dresses. My “Overachievers Anonymous” group tells me that’s a lot. Just kidding. I obviously don’t have time for Overachievers Anonymous.  People have tons of advice around proper shopping for the “most important dress you’ll ever wear” (side note: …

How To Be 30, According to Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Who I Briefly Knew While In Utero

Jessie Rosen - June 20, 2013

Two things make today’s post incredibly relevant: 1. Tonight is Game 7 of the NBA finals. A. I know this, which is big in and of itself. B. I know that the San Antonio Spurs and their “Flying Frenchman” Tony Parker are playing the Miami Heat and their maybe-greatest-player-of-all-time LeBron James (huge of me!). I also know that some guy named Duncan was supposed to …

Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?

Jessie Rosen - June 18, 2013

(I had not idea this was an actual show on Style Network, but I’m grateful for the logo) If you are currently or have ever planned a wedding in which you are the one getting married, then you’ve definitely passionately exclaimed the line: it’s my wedding! Maybe it was followed by, “I know you want a mariachi band, but…” or, “I understand you’d prefer that …

Bonus Post: Current Plans For My Future Rich Old Lady Self

Jessie Rosen - June 17, 2013

I intend to be a rich old lady some day. This isn’t a necessity – a, “life isn’t worth living unless you’re living large,” thing, but I don’t think it makes logical sense to aspire to be a poor, old lady, so I’m channeling my positive thinking toward a future filled with success. So in an effort to “secret” my way into said success, I …

How The Naked Spa Changed My Clothed Life

Jessie Rosen - June 11, 2013

If you’ve lived in L.A. for any longer than 6 month and are a woman, you’ve heard of the “naked spas.” Thanks to our city’s very large and active Korea Town there is a very large and active Korean population, and as I now know, Koreans respect the spa like no one else – well, like no one else but the women of L.A. Less …

Dating Rules From My Future Self, or the total lack thereof

Jessie Rosen - June 8, 2013

I spent most of Thursday afternoon reading through the first two years of these blog posts, partly because I’ve been feeling nostalgic (already) but mostly because I’m prepping a little surprise (it’s a book!). I learned several things about my former self through all that reading – I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do with my life; I spent an inordinate amount …

How To Set Someone Up: Literally and Specifically

Jessie Rosen - June 6, 2013

This past weekend the yenta-angel who introduced me to R was in L.A. for a visit. Every time I’m around her, I feel guilty for not paying her great gift forward by setting up more lovely single people in my own life. Part of the reason I rarely play matchmaker is because it very rarely ends up as well as my own set-up did (that …

Posts #800: The Last Hundred Mark Before The End

Jessie Rosen - June 4, 2013

I’ve written 800 posts on this here blog. Well, technically I’ve written 799 and am currently writing the 800th. I’m sure there are other things I’ve done 800 times in my life (bought a coffee? pretended to understand baseball? tried to make orange-red lipstick work?), but this feels like it might be the most significant. Maybe it’s because I have a visual account of it …