What Happens When Your Savings Account Equals $0?

 Carrie: “I spent forty thousand dollars on shoes and I have no place to live? I will literally be the old woman who lived in her shoe.”   There comes the time in every (late) 20-something’s life when they are supposed to take a certain amount of their income and apply it to their “savings” account.  What [...]

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Sick of Being Sick

  I was about to write this article *cough* to tell you that I am tired *sneeze* of feeling so *wheeze* sick all the tme *louder wheeze*. But truth be told *hiccup* I can barely even sit here and write this article *cough cough* because I am so distracted by everything involved *grabbing tissues* in being sick. [...]

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(In the Words of Mary J.) No More Drama!

There was a time, not so long ago, when I couldn’t wait for ‘something big to happen’ gossip-wise. Who was going to cheat on who? Who got implants during summer break? Who’s boyfriend wore socks made out of Kettle Corn?…And of course, the ‘WHO’, always meant ‘to someone else’, not me.   I was one of the [...]

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New Yorkers I Hate, Volume One

Is it just me, or does it sometimes feel like everyone is just the worst? I mean, the worst! Here are a few types who have been especially high on my radar lately: The Walking Reader Seriously I am going to slap that fucking book/magazine/Kindle/iPad right out of your goddamn hand and stomp on it if you [...]

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The Perfect After-Work Evening

I don’t know if anyone else is experiencing this, but it seems to me that the only thing anyone does anymore is work. Has the world gone mad? When did marketing Applebee’s salted pork ribs become more important than spending one’s free time with their family/drinking excessively in a beach environment? I think we as [...]

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Email Heaven

When was the last time you sent a resume through Monster? Hotjobs? Craigslist? Did you get a response? Maybe? Maybe not? I am guessing most likely the answer is, “No”. And the call-backs have been few and far between. How about apartment rentals, there is a place open that sounds exactly like your style, your timing [...]

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The Anti-Sleepover

Last night I got together with my girls to celebrate one of their birthdays on Long Island and the game plan was to pre-party at the birthday girls’ cousin’s apartment, then hit the bars for more drinking and dancing, and then back to the apartment to crash. All fine and good except for the last [...]

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Does Where You Live Make A Difference When You Are Single?

My Junior year of college I had an option between two different types of housing. One was a small, dirty apartment, located inside of campus, where 5 of us would cram into 2 bedrooms . The other was a large, newly finished apartment, closer to the city, outside of campus, where there were 3 bedrooms [...]

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Easter Sunday

So today was Easter (Happy Easter to all who celebrate), and it turned out to be quite craptastic for me, and here’s why . . . . 8:45 a.m. Wake up fifteen minutes before my alarm goes off and lose fifteen quality minutes of sleep. I immediately sense an allegy attack on the horizon and take [...]

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NPH, You’re My Hero

They say that every boy and girl needs a hero and when I was younger, mine was mom and dad, and Rainbow  Brite, but as I got older, my heroes changed and became people like Kim Kardashian, and The Girls Next Door (original, not the new bimbos), and Neil Patrick Harris. That’s right, a gay, [...]

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