18 Days and Counting!

Meghan posted about how she is jumping the gun a little bit and getting her house all ready to go for the holiday season, despite the fact that it’s not yet Thanksgiving and that it was 70 degrees today.
I am so right there with her.
I love Christmas. I LOVE Christmas. It’s not so [...]

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Dear Television

My sister and I watched two episodes of Pushing Daisies tonight. We still haven’t watched the last three episodes of the show (I’m still having a little trouble letting go), and so we’re re-watching all the episodes in preparation for watching the final three.
It’s been a while since I’ve watched Pushing Daisies, [...]

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Crazy Money-Saving Tips #1

This post is the first in what could possibly become a series, because, frankly, I could go on for a pretty long while with weird stuff I do.
If there is one thing that I am really good at doing, it is saving money. It’s not really an actual skill so much as it is [...]

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So I Think I Can Dance

To continue on the theme of performance and a lack of natural talent for just one more day:
I have said before on this blog that I am not a talented dancer. (Wow, four days into NaBloPoMo and I am already repeating myself.) My mom started me in dance because she recognized that I [...]

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I dreamed a dream

So, speaking of my obsession with musicals:
When people talk about their fantasy careers, the fantasy job I have had since the age of 10 was to be on Broadway.
When I was a silly, naive child, I thought that this might actually something I could pursue–hence the motivation behind going to a performing arts high school. [...]

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What happened to razzle dazzle?

The first time I saw a live Broadway musical performance was when the touring production of “The Phantom of the Opera” came to Louisville when I was nine or ten. I would say it was the Greatest Thing I Had Ever Seen, but that doesn’t begin to cover it. Over the next several [...]

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Halloween, Year One

Last night was my first Halloween in my new house.
I put a tiny bit of pressure on myself this year. I’m new to the neighborhood, and given that I am surrounded by so many vacant houses, I haven’t exactly connected with any of my neighbors. I am not exactly the type of person [...]

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Keep Coming Back

So! Moving on from talking about one form of highbrow entertainment to another, we go from celebrating iCarly to Infinite Jest.
I set a goal for myself at the beginning of 2009 to finally read and finish reading Infinite Jest. I had no idea that Infinite Jest would become the target of a mass [...]

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Why iCarly Is The Best Comedy on Television*

I love television. Television is not only entertaining when it’s good, but it also brings people together, can provide non-chemical based escapism, and is inexpensive. I love having a TV show I enjoy so much that just watching it becomes one hell of a festive F-ing occasion.
Lately, I have felt betrayed by my [...]

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Conversations I’ve Had In My New Neighborhood, About My Dog

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(I am walking my dog down the street one over from mine. There are two houses next to one another, with people sitting on the front porches. One house has a old man sitting on the porch. The other house has a young couple sitting on the porch.)
Old Man: THAT… is [...]

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