Our apartment is fairly close to street level downtown (that elevator ride enough gives me heart palpitations), and I’ve never worked in a highrise office building. Last week, I met a friend for lunch at Key Tower, who works on the 46th floor. Seriously, we were higher than Tower City!
Through my visits to Chicago and [...]
I’ve been spending a couple days packing up my condo: a) because I have the “free time” and b) OMG I haven’t lived there in six months! It makes me feel sad.
I do NOT regret leaving the suburbs one bit — especially the insane and worthless condo association. More than anything though, I miss my stuff [...]
How fucking serious am I when I’m blogging? Or, in the middle of still writing my vacation blogging posts — getting in every minute that I can. What’s that? You’re out of work, Mel & you have all the time in the world to be writing right now. Not quite.
BTW, learning Mac shortcuts for use [...]
When big shit happens, I can maintain a fairly level head of the situation at hand and act accordingly. So, why does the “small stuff” still wreck havoc on my insides and provide endless amounts of stress? And why is flying STILL one of the most traumatic experiences for me ever?
Never start a conversation with [...]
I cannot believe it’s past the mid-point of January. Week-long vacations have a way of taking a big ass chunk out of the month.
Another vacation, another year of not dying from alcohol poisoning.
Both our road trip to Indiana for New Year’s Eve and our vacation on The Rock Boat were fantastic. Now, it’s January, and [...]
Well, hello ladies and germs. I have returned from the cold, choppy seas of Tampa/Cozumel. With no tan. Not even a new age spot or cleavage wrinkle because we experienced perhaps twelve minutes of sunshine. I ever expected to wear my Cleveland WINTER gloves to a concert on the Lido Deck of a Carnival Cruise. [...]
Wow. 2009. No question, I think this was one of the happiest years of my existence. True story. Although, you would never have guessed with how 2009 STARTED…
January started out a little… weird. I mean, it started out on vacation in Scottsdale, soaking in sunshine and a Buckeyes loss at the Tostidos Bowl. Yuck. But, [...]
Kudos:
Room Service gets a big, big, big gold star! While Danielle did not have the item I needed in her store, she graciously offered to find it and call me once stocked (unfortunately, I needed it that day… poo on me for being a procrastinating last-minute shopper… blame Beer Week). She is such a fantastic, [...]
I had a bit of time to write this afternoon, while I await a visitor (or is a coworker so much at ask?) to appear in the office to vacuum the giant hairy balls centipede underneath my desk. That I killed with Windex.
His fault. He had a whole office to invade. He is the creature [...]
I’ve been spending a LOT of time writing and in Development Land over that last few weeks. I’ve created a couple new blogs (stay tuned, Impatients!), made some super-awesome new promotional contacts & have steadily tried to recreate my “brand,” if you will (ie: my part-time freelance career). And, oh, the Reader! (Thank you!).
Aside from [...]
Proof that we Clevelanders are truly a bunch of drunks. This release has no direct link to a study on the propensity of the population of douchebags, but I digress.
Speaking of drunks, Browns season is almost here. The Browns season of which I will be living downtown. Me thinks this will be a season [...]
Back to engagement stories again (why are we still talking about this?). I retold the story of my former engagement to AB the other night, and it was… weird. Having to recapture and retell a story that I had all but really forgotten (purposely, of course). Sure, stories of exes come up, but it was almost [...]
Well, this summer just keeps strolling along, eh? There were no shortages of “Things Planned” for July, and August is looking much the same. But this past weekend was truly one of my favorites. I can’t place exactly why — a combination of company and weather and activities and fun, I suppose. Or all the [...]
Viewing this picture this morning — embodies a lot of my emotions today:
— from ffffound.
While I am beyond exhausted, and probably touched with some sort of migraine/alcohol poisoning blend, I am beyond happy. And emotional, but that’s an entirely different matter.
I put my weather on shuffle. Check out my Songs to Blame For the Rain over at Addicted to Vinyl. Duel post Day — ZOMG!
Frequently, I see the Google Search “things to do with your bf on a rainy day” come up in my stats. It’s as if the rain comes and all of [...]
Undoubtedly, I have had an odd set of days. While the week stretches on (so very fucking slowly), I’m preparing for an awesome weekend away in Chicago to celebrate an early St. Patrick’s Day. My self-esteem has taken a huge plunge, then life continued to shit down my throat again releasing the hugest zit known [...]
I spent majority of my weekend in bed with whatever-the-hell-it-is flu thing that has been moving from person to person. This morning, while my fever has recovered, I’m still feeling the bit of aches especially in my neck and middle back. It may or may not have to do with spending 85.3% of my Friday-to-Sunday [...]
Here’s what I said I would attempt to accomplish in 2008.
You know, as far as resolutions go and stuff.
1. Writing goals: shit out of luck on most of these. I never really found more of a motivation to write other than here on this blog — in which I think I did OK. Cleveland Magazine [...]
Sent in email to a good friend: Yeah, I really like him. And it scares me shitless.
That makes perfect sense, right?
Sorry for the neglect, Internets. Apparently I lost my free wifi signal at home while I was away, and haven’t had much in the way of extra time these last few days (or motivation to [...]
I have been completely worthless in my hostess entertainment for you, Internets. I have no promises that I will be better either. Here’s a little update, bitches:
It seems the crappy holidays are upon us. Woo (emphatically woo, Scrooges).
Work has been kicking my ass because rates are low, and people want to refinance the shit [...]
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