June 2012
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Turn your phone off
I’m instituting a new friend rule: if I am going to eat a meal with you in a restaurant, and you are not paying for my meal, your phone stays in the purse or pocket. Even if you are paying for the meal (thank you!), but you still expect me to enjoy it - turn.your.phone.off.
How did we get to a point where this had to be said?
We were all issued our smart phones around the young age...
May 2012
10 posts
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Beware of the third cat
I like to draw lines that serve as an unbiased indicator that I am on a spiral toward a sad, hoarders-esque life. It’s helpful for someone like myself to draw those lines early, before the behavior really starts, because I’m a classic over-justifier. If I haven’t stated that something is crazy before I start spiraling that direction, I’ll go from secretly liking One Direction, to blasting...
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Start a Fitness Club
Sure the sun is always shining in Southern California, but fashion rules dictate that we only break out the skin-baring wardrobe between May and September (like the rest of the world). It took me a couple of years here to really understand that rule, but these days you won’t find me in sundresses and swimsuits until Memorial Day…
…which (oh shit) is this weekend.
Time to bare...
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Don't buy single ply toilet paper
Single ply toilet paper is the worst.
Every trip to the bathroom transports you to a third world outhouse, public school bathroom or (worse of all) a porta-potty at a music festival. In the summer.
If you buy it accidentally (as I did), here are some uses for it:
Chew toy for your rescue dog
Decorative toilet paper cover stand
Spit ball fodder
Bonfire starter
College orientation...
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Be a better thief/victim
A couple months back, my car was broken into at Runyon. This was annoying on so many fronts, not least of which being I think I should have been rewarded for working out, not criminalized.
From this experience, I not only had the aha moment of where all that thick glass on the street comes from, but I also picked up some solid advice for theft victims. Not wanting to...
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Move your car. Now.
We’ve all done it. Maybe after a grocery shopping trip, a long day of work or a workout/steam room trip to the gym. We’ve parked our car on the side of the street where street cleaning will happen the next morning, and we’ve vowed that we’ll move it after putting the groceries away, dinner, just relaxing for a few minutes, an episode of Law & Order (just...
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Watch
Don’t Become a Hot Dog Stripper
As I was reading through CNN this morning, I was faced with a decision. Do I read an article about the decrease in gas prices and mortgage rates, or do I watch a video entitled “Hot Dog Stripper Goes Back To Work?”
This was not exactly Sophie’s Choice. Hot Dog Stripper for the win (and they say American’s don’t care about the news!).
Please do take the...
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Get back in touch with old friends
It seems like it happens all of a sudden, but really it happens the minute you start driving in the direction of your new home.
The people you had spent every meal, every drink, every activity, every study hour, every vacation with begin to fall off the radar. The people in your prom limo become strangers - and you only have a basic idea of their current city and marital status...
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Never use the sentence, "I bet you don't remember...
We’re in the midst of wedding season, and with that comes the inevitable re-meeting of long-lost relatives, bridesmaids you barely met at a drunk bachelorette party, and high school friends of your college friends who visited once and slept on your dorm room floor.
AKA: ‘Tis the season to forget everyone’s name.
Some people are better at remembering names...
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