February 2012
23 posts
“My daughter asked if I had gotten her anything for Valentine’s Day. I told...”
– My boss is becoming my role model.
He thinks he's a comedian
Me: I'm so excited that you finally joined Goodreads!!! You'll love it. I'm obsessed.
Ryan: (Looking for books to rate) Ooh, Twilight. Gonna rate that a 1. For awful.
Me: You can't rate Twilight! You never read it!
Ryan: I tried. I just didn't get that far because it was so bad I had to stop.
Me: How far did you get?
Ryan: The cover.
K: Aren’t you going to Weight Watchers today?
Me: Nope. I gained 5 pounds, I don’t need that recorded anywhere. Plus I ate breakfast already - it’ll be that much worse.
K: But they’re giving out free snacks.
Me: Okay I’ll go.
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Aww!!! Tumblr Buddy - Thank you soooo much. Once again, you have outdone yourself. This Valentine’s Day package was wonderful. I wish I had a picture with everything all nicely wrapped, but I was too impatient for that.
The mental notes were my all-time favorite but there didn’t need to be quite so many boxes, all I need is “eventually forget” and “ignore.”
...
Phew
I almost had an entry for DamnYouAutoCorrect. I wrote “Ryan’s Boss sucks” in an email. My iPhone changed it to “Ryan’s Dad sucks” (you know because those words are so closely related).
People the email was addressed to? Ryan’s dad.
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“One Planned Parenthood clinic does more in a day to prevent abortions than the...”
– Helen Philpot (via feminishblog)
I went to Planned Parenthood in Boston during a Pro-Life protest in front of the building (not smart). I was accosted at the entrance and had my arm yanked back in an attempt to prevent me from entering (Boston police, where the hell were you?). I finally made it...
“To pass through Grand Central Terminal, one of New York’s exalted public spaces,...”
–
“A Proposal for Penn Station and Madison Square Garden,” from The New York Times. (via taylorlorenz)
Apt description.
(via timeoutnewyork)
As someone who used to start her commute at Grand Central and end it at Penn Station… I whole-heartedly agree.
The Awful Cover Letter All of Wall Street is... →
1/23/2012
J.P. Morgan
Dear Sir or Madame:
I am an ambitious undergraduate at NYU triple majoring in Mathematics, Economics, and Computer Science. I am a punctual, personable, and shrewd individual, yet I have a quality which I pride myself on more than any of these.
I am unequivocally the most unflaggingly hard worker I know, and I love self-improvement. I have always felt that my time...
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People that take off their engagement / diamond...
If it’s not some blinding 20 karat monstrosity - it’s not changing your weight.
Chowdafest 2012
Saturday was for stuffing my face with 30 different chowders from Fairfield county restaurants at the Annual Chowdafest in Westport. I don’t remember ever hearing about a past Chowdafest but at some point in time I had written a note to myself to check out this February event. And who am I to argue with myself, after all? Turns out, I was not disappointed. Chowdafest 2012 was amazing!
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Day 1 - February 1 - Your View Today
Welp, here we go again.
This was my view on February 1st. It was a big deal. A very big deal.
As you know, I am the queen of lazy-dom. The queen of making up hundreds of excuses why I cannot exercise today. Which isn’t a problem, because I’ll just exercise tomorrow. Or the day after that.
But that was all changing and I was on my way from...
“You ask me, [Obama] should have put that mother-f*!cker on ice and defrosted his...”
– Samuel L. Jackson on Osama bin Laden - @davecatanese (via brooklynmutt)
Puck killed it last night on Glee
“Clearly once a Warbler, always a Warbler… You’re like a modern day eggs benedict.”*
“This is what we call taking the high road… which I was shocked to find out has nothing to do with marijuana.”
*True story: when I was a little kid I always remembered Benedict Arnold’s name because it was the same as my favorite breakfast.
“We think of homeschoolers as evangelicals or off-the-gridders who spend a lot of...”
–
Why Urban, Educated Parents Are Turning to DIY Education - The Daily Beast (via apsies)
Little known fact (on the bloggy-blog): my sister was homeschooled from the 6th grade on up.
In the second grade she was diagnosed with ADHD. Now I know several people “diagnosed” with this. They...
January 2012
30 posts
The 11 Toughest Reservations In The World. →
emphasisadded:
1) Noma (Copenhagen) 2) Sukiyabashi Jiro (Tokyo) 3) Next (Chicago) !!! 4) Tickets (Barcelona) 5) Quintessence (Tokyo) 6) The Fat Duck (Bray) 7) Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare (Brooklyn) 8) minibar by josé andrés (Washington DC) 9) Schwa (Chicago) 10) The French Laundry (Yountville) 11) Yam’Tcha (Paris)
Challenge Accepted!
[Source: Eater | Via: Profashional]
Really not good...
You know what I think is really weird? The idea of grabbing your phone after popping out a baby (or watching your baby mama do it), clicking on the Facebook app and updating your status.
Yet it’s what I absolutely expect from every friend I have. I’ve been stalking my friend’s page hourly for the last couple of days waiting for a new message.
Now you may be saying, if they...
Dear New-new job,
Even though you’re still the best job I’ve ever had, you need to cool it with all the blocked Internet sites. I mean, I have grudgingly accepted the fact that Tumblr has been deemed an “inappropriate” and thus blocked website - but Cablevision? I only wanted to access it to set my DVR to record the shows I’m missing by being at work late.
In the...
I just don't understand the airline industry.
Welp folks, with busy season in full swing it’s time for my annual practice of spending the couple of hours between getting home and sleeping to fantasize about post busy season vacations. Usually this fantasizing starts a little later in the year but this week I was bombarded with emails and texts about my sister’s upcoming graduation, as well as the annual in-law vacation in Vegas...
Holy crapolas
Okay so it’s totally bad form to be talking about huge quantities of money, right? But this is so ridiculous I just have to. And let me preface this with the fact that I am extremely lucky to have health insurance through new-new job so this actually is not what I’ll be paying.
First bill came in from my little appendix issue. This is just for the surgery - not the ER visit or the...
“So, where was I?”
– Ricky Gervais’s opening sentence at the Golden Globes
How happy am I that he’s back?!!! Cannot wait!
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“Gutenberg’s generation thirsted for a new book every six months. Your generation...”
– the one and only Mr. Feeney (via 52books)
Ryan recently admitted he’s never seen a single episode of Boy Meets World. I brought up how every boy wanted to date Topanga. He’s never heard of her. I don’t know how to relate to someone who’s had such an empty, poverty-stricken...
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My sister meanwhile is clearly trying to do the opposite of alleviating my pain. I tell her I’m back to normal as long as I’ve got my percocet to pop and nobody makes me laugh. Yet she continues to call me up in order to regale me with stories of her last semester of college. Like how her friend dropped out of school because she fell in love with a mime and ran away to join the...
Anonymous asked: Sooo..I hope that I was able to cancel that last message quickly enough, otherwise I've gone and blown my secret identity. Oof! I hope that you're recovering well from your surgery--I missed catching up on your blog for a little while and BIG things happened! I'm sorry your new year has gotten off to a bit of a rough start. Feel better soon, and relax! xoxo, Tumblr Buddy
My dad joins the social media age
Me: (Ranting and raving over how UPS sucks hard core)
Dad: You should call the CEO.
Me: Well... I was planning on writing a letter.
Dad: Letters get lost. Oh, I know. You should tweeter!
Me: Excuse me?
Dad: You know. Twit... tweet... post... whatever it is you people do.
Pills, pills, pills
Last sick-related post… promise. But here are some expenses I’ve recently had to pay for prescription drugs:
Birth control: $56 for 21 pills (okay 28 but those last 7 are placebos and don’t count)
Oxycodone: $2.80 for 30 pills
Shouldn’t it be reversed or something? I’m confused by this.