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Humor me, if you will, and count the times in a typical week that you do something because you and you alone felt like doing it – watched two hours of DVR’d Addicted instead of cleaning your room, left the apartment at 10pm in search of Tasti D, walked to the grocery store to buy cheese in the middle of making a sandwich because any …
Yesterday morning I almost threw up all over myself (and my boss) at a packed event – and a mustard yellow spectator mary jane with a 5 inch wooden heel in not the kind of shoe you want to be running in, vomit-covered. My near-reputation-ending scene stems from the fact that there are three things that can happen on tv (or in a film slash …
“Lemme get your take on something,” one male friend said as we ascended the subway on 23rd street after grabbing some sandwiches and sunburn at the Boat Basin. “I’ve experienced this situation a few times recently with a few different girls I’ve gone out with.” “Okay…” I said, but what I meant was, “awesome because I don’t have a blog topic for Wednesday…” “So we’ll …
You want to really upset someone, forget to tell them that you moved out of the city and back in with your parents a 2-hour bus ride away… It’s not that I forgot to inform certain people, it’s more that I couldn’t get the full, well-rehearsed, why-I’m-doing-this speech into a text message or voicemail and e-mail seemed too I-think-this/I-am-important-enough-to-send-an-email. So in the absence of a …
Here’s a short story: Guy and girl who already know each other hang out at a mutual friend’s birthday party, get drunk, and travel from bar one to bars two and three together. It gets late and guy, who lives outside the city, decides to crash at a friend’s place in the city. Guy offers for girl, who also lives outside the city, to join …
It’s not often that I write a piece offering an honest glimpse into a personal struggle that’s void of both sarcasm and issues involving “men” – but this most recent Lemondrop piece is just that. A little window into my own self-help solution to getting out of a major life rut. Though, according to my Mom, she invented this.. I am what people refer to …
Listen, facts are facts and fact is you don’t have time to be friends with everyone. There’s TV to watch and cocktails to drink and second careers to plan. I know someone who commits upwards of an hour a week to a full check of her 767 Facebook friends so she can send as many “keep in touch” messages as possible. That is outrageous. My …
Here’s the latest in my contributions to Lemondrop (the all-things site for women’s lifestyles and issues): My Life on the Suze Orman Diet or, how a cash-only lifestyle can save you hundreds, in weeks. Remember cash? That green, waxy paper stuff that features one of several dead presidents or Ben Franklin? Well, for upwards of four years, I didn’t. Never carried it. Never used it. …
Carly emailed the below, hysterical youtube clip on Saturday afternoon. Katie – our Kellogg School of Management girl – responded immediately: “You all have no idea just how completely true this is…” The infamous MRS degree – a decades-old joke that the most valuable thing a girl can get out of a college degree is a ring. This Single Ladies mock from some Columbia Business …
Thursday night April 22nd I moved from my Greenwich Village apartment to my parents suburban New Jersey home (why take the day off when your Dad is the equivalent of a professional mover and your life’s contents fit inside a Toyota Sienna minivan?)Friday, April 23rd I moved seven of twelve bags and boxes from the garage to the bedroom I’ll now inhabit and then stared …