Archive for 'gimme presents' Category
Please believe me when I tell you that she already owns Goodnight Moon
27 November 2011In our first two years after college, my group of friends went through what I consider to be a pretty typical period of pathological attachment to one another as we tried to avoid the inevitable slide into renters’ insurance and grad school and career paths and general adulthood. For that time we couldn’t go more [...]
What happens if I set this up in the doorway to my office? Only good things, right?
27 February 2009Link via Carolyn– available at JC Penny! Want!
So This Is Christmas: 2008
5 January 2009Somewhere along the line, Christmas in my family became less about Jesus and presents and more about drinking and gambling. I’m not complaining–in order to do that I would have to claim to have nothing to do with the shift and that would never hold up in court–as Christmas has become second only to family [...]
Santa, Baby.
14 December 2008Dressed up as Santa in Grand Central Terminal with two thousand of my jolliest buddies. Merry Christmas!
That’s What She Read: Here are the books you should buy
12 December 2008Everyone has their own favorite holiday traditions. My mom’s is eating shrimp and drinking champagne after mass, my dad’s is hanging the yarn christmas ornament he made at summer camp on our tree, his dog’s is eating wrapping paper and then throwing up, and mine is telling people what to buy. We’re conventional like that. I’ve already warned [...]
shop away
1 December 2008You’re going to be hearing a lot from me very shortly about buying books for Christmas– as a warm-up, here’s a rundown of NYC indie bookstores. I love any place where the crowd is described as “literary nerds and just nerds.” ETA: There is a lot of seriously awesome hair in this video. And Frank [...]
nice knowing you
18 November 2008Time Warner is (allegedly) coming to connect my apartment to the outside world this afternoon. I don’t think this bodes well for my social life, considering how hard it’s been over the last 18 days to step outside the place and that was before I had access to constant House and Law & Order viewings. [...]
love to hate or hate to love
30 September 2008I have such a complicated relationship with Katy Perry. I like her voice, I just wish she would stop using it to sing such enormously crappy songs. I never got into that I Kissed A Girl song (at least, not so much as Cousin Erin, who ran around her office singing it for weeks on [...]
WANT.
9 July 2008Bubble Wrap Calendar! Holy God! I want this so hard!
Day 11: Wyoming
6 July 2008The only experience I had with Wyoming prior to this trip was my assignment to act as a republican senator from that state when we did Mock Senate in AP History. I wrote “Wyoming- Wy Not?” on my name tag (a pun I’m so terribly proud of that I still write it into fiction pieces [...]