29
Jan
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I have this joke with my bff S. that comes up pretty regularly nowadays. It all started the morning of January 1, 2009. She’d had a party at her apartment and I’d stayed over to avoid having to fight for a cab home at 4 am. I was lying in bed rather hungover/groggy, and she was reading the New York Times—in particular, a story on people found guilty of the torture and sex trafficking of young girls.
“Can you believe it?” she said. “Horrible!”
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Tags: AOL, deal with the devil, layoff story, mean nasty commenters, new york times, people are weird, strunk and white, website comments, weird people
2
Jan
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Well, hello there. Welcome to 2010!
Yesterday, despite all of my mother’s advice to start the year out right, I actually did no writing at all, but instead went to brunch, then a movie—It’s Complicated, and I’d just like to say that I would like my life to be complicated in the way that Meryl Streep’s life is complicated if it means Alec Baldwin, a gorgeous house with a huge garden and perfect tomatoes, and my own bakery where I make the most delicious chocolate “cwahsont” in the universe—then Sephora (yay, new “compact,” which I was told was something only grandmothers say, yay, Clinique Youth Surge, which I’m sure will prevent me from being mistaken for a grandmother), then Lululemon (yay, new workout pants with hot pink cuffs), then dinner (yay, dinner) and too many glasses of wine in my hood with L.
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Tags: 2010, alec baldwin, AOL, chocolate croissant, clinique youth surge, friday that feels like a saturday, it's complicated, lazy saturday, lululemon, meryl street, movies, new year, real housewives of orange county, sephora, vegan frat boy, what not to wear
29
Dec
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photo credit: Camila Braga
I recently got off the phone with a good friend who mentioned that her plans for starting out 2010 in as beneficial a position as possible included a bikini wax. You know, so things are “less of a jungle.” (Her words, not mine.)
Now, while I shall refrain from divulging any particular aspects of YUD’s grooming regimen for fear of scaring off my last reader, I will say that a new year is a lovely time to—um—start fresh. And whether that means giving up the ghost on certain no-longer viable plans or bad behaviors, or opening yourself up to new possibilities you might never have thought of, or just being positive about shit for once, it’s a good thing.
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Tags: 2010, AOL, bikini wax, bonus, daylight savings time, december 31, grooming regimen, list-making, new year's resolutions, party like it's 1999, starting out the year, the strand
