[Replay Cliché] 15 Things I Would Rather Do Than Spend NYE In Times Square

This post is from 2014. And it’s funny because this year I’ll actually be ringing in 2018 in Times Square! But INSIDE! A New York Cliché come true! 

1 Attend a party held in a public restroom.

2 Shadow a mariachi band throughout the entire NYC subway system.

3 Be the only single person on a romantic evening with all my exes and their new girlfriends.

4 Take a Church of Scientology “Free Stress Test”.

5 Sit on a rock at Coney Island, shivering from midnight through the first sunrise of the new year, then jump in the Atlantic for the 1PM Polar Bear Plunge.

6 Get drunk at home alone on my couch, listening to Taylor Swift’s 1989 on repeat, and kissing my cat when the clock strikes midnight. Read More

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[Replay Cliché] How To Survive A NYE Party Attended By Your Ex And The Girl He Left You For

It’s too cold to wander outside looking at street art this Saturday! So instead I’m sharing one of my favorite posts ever, the true story of running into my ex on New Year’s Eve. Hope that doesn’t happen to any of you tomorrow, but if it does, this post might help!

Step 1: See your ex-boyfriend from across the apartment of a ruckus New Year’s Eve Party.

Step 2: Assume you didn’t actually see him. That some how, with no warning or reason, you have regressed to how it was when you first broke up and would hallucinate his form all over New York City.

Step 3: Start to freak out about this sudden and alarming regression, until your best friend at this party confirms: Yep, your ex-boyfriend is here. At this New Year’s Eve party thrown by your friends! Fine, mutual friends, you acquiesce. But you’re closer to them, figuratively and literally. This is the New Year’s Eve party of the boys who live across the street from your apartment. Your ex 100% knew you’d be here.

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12 of the Best Blog Posts that I Wrote in 2017

It’s kinda a rule that you reflect on the past year in the week between Christmas and New Years. It’s more or less mandatory in the blogging world…I think they might take away your URL if you don’t write some sort of End-Of-The-Year post.

Yesterday I shared the love with some of my favorite posts that I read from others over the past year. Today it’s back to all about me. Without further ado,

12 of my favorite posts I wrote in 2017

♥ Bright Lights, Big Screens of the Pixel Forest NYC
My experience of one of the most popular NYC art exhibits of the year. It was pretty magical.

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12 of the Best Blog Posts I Read in 2017

There are so many things we could say about this doozy of a year, 2017. But right now, I’m just going to go with the one thing I’m an authority on:

2017, for all its complicit covfefe, did  produce some brilliant blogs!

And I’m not just talking alllllll about myself (for once. #bloggercliche. That’ll come tomorrow!) I’m talking about the amazing blogs I read in 2017. Say what you will about the state of the “blogosphere”, there is still incredibly creative content being produced every single day. I’m so grateful to be a part of it. Story telling and humanity go hand and hand, and blogging makes them more accessible than a celebrity #RelationshipGoals Instagram.

I’m always looking for new blogs to read, maybe you are too. Plus it’s nice to tell my cliché millennial mantra of SELF PROMOTION, SELF PROMOTION to STFU and celebrate other people’s hard work!

Bloggers published some amazing things in 2017. Here are a few of my favorites♥

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California Christmas Break in San Francisco

Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas weekend! Whether you were celebrating with family, jet setting to an exciting locale, kicking back and enjoying time off work, or enjoying some sweet, sweet overtime pay!

I spent the long weekend in my hometown, San Francisco, enjoying highs in the 60s and some California sunshine.  There were signs of both fall and spring everywhere, with colorful leaves and flowers alike. As much as traveling during the holidays is rough, I relish the excuse to escape NYC winter! And of course, there’s nothing better than being home for the holidays.

My San Francisco Christmas

I’ve lived in NYC long enough now that I forget how much palm trees dominate the city vegetation. Such a California cliché!

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Deck the Transportation Hubs with Futuristic Holly: The Oculus at Christmas

I’m writing this from JFK Airport, about to leave NYC to go home to San Francisco for a long Christmas weekend! There’s nothing more stressful than the line for airport security during the holidays, especially when you forget to empty your water bottle AND get your period in the middle of the line (TMI/too true!). Add to all that the fact I stopped to take in one more piece of NYC Christmas, instead of diligently leaving straight from work #TypicalMaryLane!

The New New York Oculus at Christmas

The Oculus is the fancy, futuristic AF transportation hub in the shadow of One World Trade.

I remember watching as they erected to outside frame, thinking it looks like the skeletal ribs of Godzilla or some other monster who’s tried to destroy NYC. Read More

Jaded New Yorkers Experience Kleinfeld Bridal (the One from Say Yes to the Dress)

There is a bridal store in NYC that women all over the country know, regardless of their marital status.  Anyone who’s had a guilty-pleasure binge of the reality show Say Yes to the Dress feels like they’ve been inside Kleinfeld Bridal. On a snowy Friday evening, my bestie Miranda and I stepped inside the actual boutique.

Miranda has never seen Say Yes to the Dress, but she’s getting married in July and needs to say yes to one real soon. In fact, pretty much the minute we stepped in Kleinfeld, she was berated for waiting “so long” to get a dress.

Excuse me, not a dress, THE Dress.

I’ve watched enough friends get married now to  know the world of weddings is bonkers. Still, it was something else to experience it intimately, as Miranda’s right hand woman.  Read More