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view from the ferry to Bainbridge Island I have longed to travel to the great city of Seattle since I first watched Meg Ryan creep on Tom Hanks and his son flying kites on that picturesque beach. Now after 68.5 hours spent in the city where one man was famously sleepless, I can say that it is just as incredible as Nora Ephron and Kurt …
Remember this above all. Image source. In less than two weeks my littlest sister, Alex, will turn 21. [Yes, very close to my birthday. Five stars for careful reading, reader!] Like me, she will ring in her ability to legally drink alcohol on the Jersey Shore with college friends, high school friends and our parents. Unlike me, she will not consume nine shots at the …
photo credit: my friend jenny anderson! I’m sorry I said pussy in the title of this post, but it’s relevant to the point of the whole post so I sort of had to do it. I thought about putting a * where the u is, but everyone who gets offended by the word pussy knows how to spell the word, and I don’t know how …
Last night I got the very cool chance to attend the 2014 ESPY Awards because R is a professional athlete. Surprise! Kidding, though he was recently the first pick for a backyard volleyball game among a group of fairly athletic people. I was at the ESPY’s because R’s business is doing business with the people who do the ESPY’s. I can’t share those details but …
Annie’s sweet little blog header! It took two months of marriage and a push from fellow blogger Annie over at the fantastic Altar-ed to make me finally get this long list of wedding planning advice down on Internet (what is paper?). To help me even more, the newly engaged Annie sent an incredibly comprehensive set of questions, and I just typed my answers into the …
*photo source I tend to keep quiet about the more divisive gender issues that hit the media (unless they’re the Duke Sex List scandal or the Lena Dunham photoshopping issue…), but I had a very specific reaction to this whole Esquire “In Praise of 42-Year-Old Women” thing that I didn’t see represented much on the Interwebs so I thought I may as well join the …
Last week I posted four outfit selfies in two days on my Twitter account. I was at the Fontainebleau for that iHeartRadio Ultimate Pool Party. I had put a lot of thought into what I should wear to each specific event of the weekend. I was alone in a super fancy hotel room that had a really giant and well-positioned mirror. I finally figured out …
*image source I recently came to an important conclusion. I can’t let the simple fact that I’m married get in the way of my insight into the fascinating ins and outs of the dating world. If this blog’s intended focus is 20 and 30-something life, then it is my obligation – nay, duty to cover the myriad ways that we as 20 and 30-somethings lead …
tag out, don’t care I’m not an entirely calm person by nature. I’m not prone to outbursts or anxiety attacks, but my mind and body are most commonly racing at a stomach-ache inducing speed. I worry a lot. I want everything to be perfect. And I’m always disappointed in myself for not going further, faster. So it doesn’t exactly make sense that travel gives me …
The rest of my time in Miami was as times in Miami tend to go (I now know), totally over-the-top, incredibly decadent, and mostly spent at a pool. Saturday day featured the iHeartRadio ultimate pool party, which looked like this: Saturday night featured a Ham-Hattan (bacon-infused bourbon) plus the rest of whatever goes in a Manhattan aka the Jon Hamm meets Don Draper of cocktails, …