Spinach Party
I am a girl with a boy's name. I cannot stop buying blue dresses. I can often be found hugging trees. I get to play with colors all day (I make it sound a lot more fun than it really is).
On Eat Your Car
Reports like these make me sooooooo deliriously happy that I finally bit the bullet and moved to the expensive, dumb city where my commute has been chopped down from 1hr20min (on a good day) to 10 minutes. 10 MINUTES!!!! mwhahahhahahahahahhahhahaa.
But sad about the previous 5 years of fat/heart disease.... Oh well. Next step is to use the fitness center in my apt building? Possibly? Maybe?
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On Friday Open Thread
@Kirs Well, I definitely hear you on the crying all day Tuesday. If you cant deal with being just friends, cutting of contact is supposedly the healthiest thing? (This is coming from the girl who has slept with her iPhone all week in order to chat with her now ex-bf whenever he was online...)
So... don't take anything I say seriously
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On Friday Open Thread
@reebs14 Omg, yes please share photos, this sounds fantastic.
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On Friday Open Thread
I am also super late to this party, but I just said good-bye to by boyfriend of 2.5 years this week. He moved across the country and we are no longer together. I cried my eyes our for the first handful of days and missed all my out of state girlfriends terribly.
But I have now turned a corner, and am super loving my 2.5 mile commute (down from 45 miles) and I just had my first Happy Hour drink after work. It's nice not bursting into tears every hour, and I wanted to thank The Hairpin for helping me through this week, even though I was just super lurk-y.
And now I feel like I can go see the Avengers and not be super sad because I was originally supposed to see it with my bf... progress!
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On I Have That: Snatiation
@cuminafterall I sneeze when I tweeze my eyebrows.
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On 'Pinners Unite for Good!
My amazing, fantastic friend (adopted from Nepal and raised in the US) has recently started a non-profit to give back to the orphanage she lived in as a baby. It's called The Kumari Project (http://www.thekumariproject.org/).
She has organized student service trips since college to raise funds and visit Nepal and meet the kids (mostly girls) and see what their needs are. Mostly they try to raise funds to pay for their education, but also bring books and clothes and basic hygiene products.
I had the opportunity to travel with her a couple years ago and organize activities for the kids. It was so great to meet them, they have boundless energy and kindness (as do most of the people I met in Nepal). My friend is trying to have her organization help for for education for the kids and eventually become a support network for finding future employment and easing their transition into adulthood, once they become too old to stay at the orphanage.
I really can't say enough good things about the work she's trying to do. Right now, she's lives at her mom's house, saving up her pennies to travel to Nepal three months at a time on a tourist visa, bringing whatever supplies and donations she has been able to raise. I really hope one day soon it can become a fully sustainable non-profit, but even now she does so much good, just as a one-woman-show.
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On Friday Open Thread
@The Everpresent Wordsnatcher Congrats!!!!!!!
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On O.B. Ups the Ante
@realtalk Well that makes me feel a bit better. Because, you can't really use a cup (comfortably) without breaking the suction anyways. or else it will feel like you are VACUUMING YOUR VAGINA OUT OF YOUR BODY.
Which feels bad.
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On O.B. Ups the Ante
@MilesofMountains Yeah, this bums me out!!! I keep thinking about getting an IUD, but.... I refuse to give up my Cup. So....? what to do?
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On Beauty Q&A: ID Photos, Gaudy Shoes, and Looking 10 Years Younger
@Emmanuelle Cunt This is kind of adorable! I love this.
I wear a super fun statement necklace for ID photos, but the necklaces I wear now are much longer than when I was 16, and I feel like they crop it higher and higher. I swear they practically cropped at my chin for my last license photo.