#15: Halloween Costume: Taco Bell Hot Sauce.
Naturally, being a treehugger and eco-friendly person, I dressed up as the “Verde” Taco Bell Hot Sauce packet.
#13: Furnish An Apt On A Broke Budget.
I didn’t make a lot of money when I lived in Richmond, VA. But resourceful and ambitious, I used whatever flea market, thrift store and consignment knick-knacks I could find. And what did $437 get me? A barely-used IKEA bed, with frame and mattress in mint condition. Black, wall IKEA shelves. A sponge-painted IKEA night-stand. A taste for the finer things in life, like IKEA, apparently. A floor-length, life-size Paris backdrop from a yard sale for $10 bucks. Best of all, amateur interior…
#10: A Lucky, Wedding-Filled Summer.
Returning home from New Orleans was heartbreaking but in hindsight, I found the silver lining in the cloud: When you’re direction-less at the end of a crazy, fun summer, the best way to find it again is seeing a friend get married. My best friend since the 8th grade, Kat, was getting married to her best friend Rogers, and she asked me to be a Bridesmaid. Before she could finish and spout off the venue and flowers, I screamed…
#8: Start A Half-Bucket List.
Dear Nay-Nay & Lou Lou (Roomies): Can we try to accomplish some of these things in New Orleans before the world ends (well mine, anyways) and I have to head back to DC? I’ve generously listed out several options and enticing, almost-too-good-to-be-true visual aids for us. What are we waiting for? 🙂 Get a piercing. Visit Jackson Square. See a movie at old movie theater this Wednesday, right? Dinner at that Mexican place, Las Panchitas. Run seven miles down…
#1: Lose A Job, Start A Blog.
An Open Letter to the Unemployed and Heartbroken: I recently started this travel blog after losing my beloved copywriter job and my love-less relationship in the same 24-hour period. It was a devastating, mentally draining and bittersweet time filled with lots of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. This limbo stage of my life marks the top of my shit list, somewhere around #3. Yet, despite the embarrassment, disgrace, shame and derision of disappointment from losing something and someone, the ephemeral saying still…