February 2012
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I really should invite girlfriends over to watch...
[Emma Stone on TV]
Me: What to you think? Everyone on Tumblr is loving it - but I'm not feeling it at all.
Ryan: My softball glove?
Me: What?! No! Emma's dress.
Ryan: Oh. I think I'm going to go look at my new softball equipment now.
I'd like to thank the Academy...
Earlier this week I’d heard about a booth in Grand Central Station where you could take your picture with Oscar. Cute, but I wasn’t about to stand in line to take a picture with some Ken doll painted gold. Except when I walked by the booth this afternoon I saw that it was a real Oscar statue - not plastic!!! Never mind my earlier scoffing - I was so there!
Oscar was HEAVY!!!
I was...
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And with that, my 2012 busy season comes to an end
Now I disagree but I would guess that some people would define over-indulgence as staying at a bar for 12 hours, during which lunch, happy hour, and dinner was served. And seeing the shift change of three waitresses.
We know how to say goodbye to another busy season in style.
And with that, I feel a quote from Braveheart is in order…. FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You know that gross person who is barely running and yet producing so much sweat you are trying not to wrinkle your nose and lean away from their machine?
Exhibit A: Ladies and Gentlemen.
Seriously. This is gross. And a good 10 minutes after I finished my run / walk of the day. How does everyone else get the pretty I-just-worked-out-and-now-am-glowing-without-making-you-gag look?
Also, my...
Now that I'm a week late with this post...
I’m going to say it. This year was the best Valentine’s Day I’ve ever had.
Growing up I was one of those people obsessed with Valentine’s Day - which made it the worst day of the year. Was my crush going to get me anything? (Probably not.) Was I going to be the only loser walking the halls alone? (With 420 kids in my grade alone, not likely.) Why didn’t my parents...
“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,...”
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“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...”
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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...