Day two started off with slowly waking up. On the plus, I was able to sleep nearly a full six hours without waking up because of the jet lag (and only then cause I had to go to the bathroom, after which I slept for another hour), which was a nice change from my normal sleep routine. I let myself stay in bed for bit before getting up and heading down to the Starbucks that you can access from the […]

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I’ve been doing some mighty fancy things these last couple of days, and living quite incredibly extravagantly which I can afford to do maybe once every other year or so. First there was tea at the Plaza and then there was today, when I had my first experience flying business class across the country (thanks to my mom’s air miles, it was only $75). And thus I present the first in the travel tales posts for my west coast adventure. […]

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Watching the Olympics.

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In Arranged, Catherine McKensie tells the story of Anne Blythe (yes, named after the Anne of Green Gables character after her marriage to Gilbert Blythe), a thirty-something year old woman who is having bad luck with love. So far this sounds like the plot to every other chick lit book out there, right? Well, I’ll be embarrassingly honest (for an English major, anyway) – I was likely to read it anyway because I enjoy this overtold love story. I really […]

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I bought this dress from Modcloth about a year and a half ago. I wore it a couple times – to work, and then to my family’s Thanksgiving celebration. I liked it, but the collar bothered me. After a few washings, no matter what I did, the collar didn’t lay the way it was supposed to. In any case, I just stopped wearing it one day, but it remained in my closet, just sitting there useless. As it happens, recently […]

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Just after work ended for the day, I got a text from a friend asking if I wanted to go to the opening day of the Cyclones baseball season with her. Being not completely disinterested in baseball (in fact, I kind of like it), I agreed. Add my sister to the mix and we had an impromptu girls night out. My main interest in baseball games lies in food. Hot dogs, mostly. As we watched the game, our interests fell […]

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This weekend loomed gloriously on Friday. Though I’m not one to complain about work, and in fact really enjoy it most of the time, I was tired. Exhausted, really. And so I was glad to head home to get some rest, knowing I had a full weekend ahead of me – my dad was coming in on Saturday for an early Father’s Day Celebration, and then today I was supposed to see my mom in a show (I didn’t end […]

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It seemed only natural that I The Secret Lives of Dresses, by Erin McKean, would fall into my lap. Recommended to me because of my recent reading of A Vintage Affair, I was immediately drawn to the idea of a young woman who takes over her grandmother’s vintage dress store and discovers that many of the dresses have “secret lives,” stories about them written from the point-of-view of the dress. Each dress has it’s own story, though it can only […]

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Tina Fey is a freaking genius.  I call her my fictional best friend.  I truly believe that we would get along swimmingly if we were ever to meet, and therefore it was no question that I would read her book, Bossypants, as soon as it came out.  I was not disappointed. I can’t say enough good things about Bossypants, so I’ll simply let a few quotes speak for themselves. While responding to some less-than-positive fan who called her an ‘overrated […]

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