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Not even close to 27 dresses
I'm attending a wedding in ... 19 hours. I haven't decided what I'm wearing. For this I need your help. The wedding starts at 6, is being held at Bubby's in DUMBO, and is the union of a former coworker and the lady with whom he has chosen to form a union (I got them the mixing bowls).
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You will always be a loser
I had a lousy, frustrating day that is part of a larger, kind of rotten pattern and now I have to remind myself of all the ways that I'm immensely lucky and should not whine nearly so much. Apparently that is what I use that journal for now.
-My gym, which is a YMCA, is delinquent in many ways, but it is cheap and near my apartment, and most ( Read more... ) -
Time to be grateful for what you have, asshole.
I've been acting and feeling like a miserable whiner most of the time for awhile now, but despite my pissiness some good things have been happening. I need to reflect on them.
-Today Women's Health had a beauty sale and I got a bunch of expensive face junk for $6. Didn't even have to throw any elbows to get those lovely Yes to Tomatoes scrubbing ( Read more... ) -
Scavenger Hunt
I need two more recipes for the recipe cards section of my upcoming project. Here are the criteria. The recipes have to:- Have fewer than 400 calories per serving
- Be able to be made in 20 minutes or less
- Have an appealing photograph
- That we own the rights to and don't have to pay for
- Be previously published in Prevention or a Prevention property
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Hi there, reality
So today my brother told me that he was unhappy with me for quitting my job because in seven years he'd like to have a couple of kids whom he would like to take to Disneyworld for free. I managed to convince him that maybe in seven years Disney would own a magazine I might like to work for again, so maybe that dream of his could come true. Or ESPN ( Read more... ) -
The encyclopedia is your friend!
So. Venice went to Remington. While he was there he got all bankrupted and had to (spoiler alert!) become a man whore, which may or may not have been arranged by Alberta who lives in Vancouver's syphilitic father. And now that she's a 22-year-old spinster, Remington is back to compete for Victoria's hand! Except he's poor now.
Grayson sighed. "What ( Read more... ) -
Comprehensive sex ed, Regency style
The writer of my latest is an insufferable twat and I'd like to stab her fingers with my copyediting pencil. But I won't. Because this is a single title and it's going to earn me a lot of money, unless of course I blind myself before page FOUR HUNDRED AND TEN with said pencil.
(Seriously, it is so, so long it makes me want to scream.)
So this one's a ( Read more... ) -
Stupidity, briefly
Working on a Harlequintrigue murder mystery. Main characters are a jumpy psychic widow and the detective (DETECTIVE MACK STEELE, oh no, I am not kidding, and I don't think Michael Scott wrote this book) who's been in love with her since before her husband died. I'm 50 pages in. They're making out in the front seat of his car.
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I'll take clumsy, tin-eared banter for $200, Alex.
So this is happening. The Outward Bound-with-cows program has headed out on their little character-building cattle drive-incidentally, there's been no explanation of if the juvenile delinquents are paying for this delightful experience, or if this is some sort of New York City taxpayer-funded extravaganza-and right now the hero and heroine are ( Read more... ) -
Small things
This has been a surprisingly pleasant day. That occurred to me when I was walking home through the park, laden with bags like a freaking pack mule. (Of course, this is going to appear above that other post, the weepy drunken rant to end all weepy drunken rants, which I now find kind of funny. Now that I have my clothes. And am at home. Meh. Comme ( Read more... )