This is by no means meant to be a synopsis of my year - in fact, I’m leaving out some of the biggest stuff on purpose. Just a few random tidbits about time and how we choose to pass it.
Thoughts on 2008:
- In February I decided to chop my hair off and go blonde, per [...]
Amy tagged me for a meme and I’ve been awful on blogging this holiday season … so here’s a start to 2009!
Four places I go over and over again:
Peak Fitness
Starbucks
Harris Teeter
Borders
Four people who mail me regularly:
Chris
Michael
Amy
Colleen
Four of my favorite places to eat, (apart from home)
The Melting Pot
Harpers
Sir Edmund Halley’s
Jade
Four places I’d rather be now:
At a [...]
It all started with a ring. A birthday gift from Erin, who sent me a very appropriate piece of jewelry to help me celebrate my 30th birthday: a ring, made from an M key on a typewriter. The perfect gift for a writer.
And me, deeming myself clever, had a conversation with my clever partner in [...]
A memory
In keeping with this week’s theme of body mutilation, I give you the story of the time I got my nose pierced.
Susan and I are shopping one day when I mention that the piercing place next door is supposedly THE place to get pierced in Charlotte. I have only bought jewelry from there, never [...]
A memory
It is 2004, September 04. The day of my wedding. Any stress that goes along with planning one’s wedding had escaped me the day before, as I sat at Aunt Josies’ at my bridesmaids’ luncheon surrounded by Mom, Mia (my grandmother), my sister Jenny, my aunt and cousins and bridesmaids - basically, all the women [...]
When I was a sophomore in high school I had it all. Great friends that I had grown up in the town I’d lived in since I was 3, a great social life that included hanging out with BFF Amy literally every day, and great times in the neighborhood with more friends and family. Then [...]
On my 30th birthday Susan surprised me with a headband from the kids’ section of Party City with hearts coming off of it that say “Birthday Princess.” To her surprise, it was my favorite present of the weekend.
She gave it to me at 3 a.m. as we hung out at our hotel in Asheville, N.C. [...]
It wasn’t my birthday, of course. I’ve been 30 for an entire 6 months now (ick.) This time, it was Susan’s turn to exit her 20s, and we did it Vegas-style.
After taking a red-eye home and sleeping all day, I’m still adjusting back to East Coast time. I am tired, dehydrated, and out-of-whack. But it [...]
Me in my room at 15, being photographed by The Charlotte Observer for an article about the teen panel I was a member of. I was very proud of my wall! Susan jokes that I was able to turn it into a career …
I saw myself in a dream last night. Susan had moved in with us for a bit and was staying in one of our guest rooms, which of course looks nothing like the guest rooms in our home. This one had cobalt walls and white wainscoting and black furniture. Most importantly, it had a full-length [...]