“I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet ...
#livinginthemoment
this video has been circulating the interwebs -posted on blogs, facebook, etc. and to be honest, i hadn't spared the two minutes to watch it until just a day ago. i don't mean to be a traitor to my generation (name that movie quote, go!) but y'all, this is us in a nutshell. gah, this ...
orange is the new black
i can count the number of times i have been tan in my life on one hand. there was that one time when i enlisted a trusty spray tan booth at my local tanning salon the week before prom to ensure a bronze glow to off-set my baby pink gown, the time i earned it ...
golden globes 2014: just the best
we're entering one of the most wonderful times of the year. i realize i've used this phrase to encompass other "most wonderful times of the year" -most notably, the return of scripted television in the fall and well, duh, christmas, but the span of the second week in january and the final week in february is also very ...
some thoughts on travel and vacation and going to australia in seven days
i remember the last time i left the country. it was just shy of my 20th birthday. i had switched my major for the umpteenth time (so i was a little indecisive in college, whoops) to spanish and that required me to do a summer abroad. so there i was, in the middle of LAX's ...
dry hands, warm heart
a story. so my hands have been ridiculously dry lately. i don't know if it's the cold winter weather or my affinity for washing dishes (true story: i love hand-washing dishes. i have a dish washer but hardly ever use it because a) i don't produce enough dirty dishes to warrant efficient usage and b) like ...
under the influence
"you may not influence the world, but you can influence your world." mark foreman it's true, as a solitary individual, i'll never be able to influence the entire world. but there is a world that i have the ability to impress -it's this little sphere of mine filled with family and friends and colleagues and acquaintances and baristas and ...
quiero ser voluntario
so one of the (many) benefits of being single is the fact that i can be pretty selfish. selfish with my time, my money, my travel plans, my sleep patterns. i can do what i want, when i want, with whomever i want, or i can do nothing at all and that's okay, too. life's ...
simply me
despite my own discomfort with that girl that incessantly talks about her perpetual singlehood, in some ways i believe i have become the very thing i despise. don't think it's not lost on me. in fact, i'm making a concerted effort to rid this blog of as much debbie downer-ness as it relates to the absence of ...
my 2014 bucket list
as you can recall, i'm not really one for resolutions. and even the resolutions i do make don't always get fulfilled as planned. so i want to approach my aspirations for twenty-fourteen a little differently. instead of resolving or setting goals or placing pressures on myself of things i want to accomplish in 365 days' time, ...
