January 2009
The Top 10 Everything of 2008 - TIME →
“We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.”
– Elizabeth Bibesco
The Year That Was: Best Dishes in New York |... →
I just realized I haven't paid my phone bill for...
You know…just…didn’t pay it. Completely forgot I even had to pay for it. Blarg.
December 2008
I wish there was a way to...
…block tumblrs who consistently use your content without giving credit.
“The worst movie of the 2008 is — drum roll, please — “One...”
– 2008’s Worst Movies, According to the Critics - washingtonpost.com
How Caramel Developed a Taste for Salt -... →
A very cool little article about how salted caramel went from being a chef specialty to a product for mass consumption in America.
The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2008 →
“India is as about as different as you can get in the human realm from the west,...”
– heartspace.org. and totally agreed. (via travelproblem) (via iindia) (via ruhi)
Glamour Still Rules, but With Fewer Debutantes -... →
NYT continues to honor its commitment to document how the recession is impacting the wealthy today by bemoaning the lack of debutantes at the International Debutante Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria this year and weeping for rich people who are having trouble getting their 10th divorce because it’s too hard to sell their multi-million dollar homes. Somewhere, the world’s tiniest violinist...
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words...”
– T.S. Eliot, from Little Gidding (via thebronzemedal)
“Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there’s plenty...”
– (via littlemiss) (via kari-shma) (via lovebot)
Travel Read: 100 Places Every Woman Should Go -... →
“The year, 1972, was a memory, like it or not. The funny thing is, looking back...”
– Kevin Arnold, The Wonder Years (via trappedintime)
Year in Review Meme
In 2008, I gained: a real job, my own apartment, a dog. I lost: a lot of my freedom. I stopped: being as spontaneous. I started: taking better care of myself. I was hugely satisfied by: my boyfriend. *wink,wink* And frustrated by: how stagnant my life has become, my job, my lack of friends, my lack of mobility…pretty much everything else. I am so embarrassed that I: ended up working in a...
Honestly...
Not having comments on your tumblr in this day and age? Tsk, tsk.
5 Drinking Myths That Can Kill You →
onemoretimewithfeeling:
Good info for tonight’s festivities. #5 especially.
2009 Resolutions
Money
Pay off credit card
Pay off dental bills
Continue saving at least $200/mo.
Be more organized: file bills, be more consistent with my budget.
Travel
Go on at least one real vacation this summer that isn’t to see family.
Go somewhere on my own, for at least a couple of days.
Food
Continue to pursue a diet that contains as little HFCS as possible
Buy a cookbook of international...
“On a flight a few years back, when things weren’t nearly as bad as they...”
– Galley Gossip: Airline Bashing, bringing the world together - Gadling | travel blog | news, stories, deals, and tips. Go there.
5 great New Year's resolutions for amateur travel... →
A lot of really good advice! I’m thinking about starting a photoblog just for my pictures…and trying to take a picture every single day.
Women's Rights Wins Of 2008 | The Frisky →
Where did the airline service go? - Gadling →
The decline in service is a direct result of ticket prices today, which is why our flights are always full, staffed with minimum crew, and why people who couldn’t afford to fly thirty years ago are flying today? And that, I think, is a good thing, in a way. The airlines are giving passengers what they truly want - affordable prices. Not embossed napkins. People are no longer willing to pay...
“That song you keep playing is nothing but a photograph you look at with your...”
– I Wrote This For You: The Repeat
EVERY 30 gig Zune died last night →
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Microsoft on their largely successful quest to redefine incompetence
“Any other reason women were advised to wear high heels? Lucinda Slater (no...”
– WSJ.com : Firm to Female Lawyers: Wear High Heels, Embrace Your Femininity
All high heels do is give you cramped toes and corns. And if someone has a problem with the fact that I’m 5’1”, they’re not going to like me any better when I’m 5’3”.
“Sometimes it’s difficult to define yourself as a woman in this culture by...”
– “Not Rape Epidemic”: The Modeling Industry Is Anything But Immune
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Sigur Ros //...