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Small Business Saturday: Ocean’s Originals
Posted on August 8, 2020 15 Comments
Hello, everyone! I hope you are all having a great Saturday. One thing that Saturdays are good for is shopping small! Which is why I’ve decided to start a new thing on here where, occasionally on Saturdays, I feature a small business that I think is awesome and highly recommend! Every business that I promote […]
A Four is a Two is a Six
Posted on August 7, 2020 120 Comments
One thing to know about me is that I love shopping. Like, so much so that it’s an issue. Much like Ariana Grande said in 7 Rings, “think retail therapy my new addiction.” However, there are so many reoccurring issues I run into when shopping, that you’d think they’d be enough to deter me from […]
Don’t Call It a Comeback
Posted on August 4, 2020 70 Comments
Hello, everyone! Today is my first day back on the blog and I’m so stoked to be here again! Some of you may remember my time on here from the summer of ’18, and even more recently, my one and only post since then. I’m not sure how long I’ll be around this time, but […]
Heartbreak is Not a Joke, or, the Tragedy of Kristoff in Frozen 2: A Guest Post by Athena Scalzi
Posted on April 12, 2020 41 Comments
Hello, everyone, it is I, the junior Scalzi! I have come from the deepest and laziest depths of quarantine to bring you a post that I have been meaning to write since January and just haven’t gotten around to. I figure now is a better time to write it anyways, since it pertains to Frozen […]
This Is Goodnight and Not Goodbye
Posted on August 26, 2018 40 Comments
Hello, everyone! Welcome to my final post. Today, I’m just here to say what a pleasure it has been, and close the curtain. I moved into my dorm at Miami today, and me being back here means summer is officially over for me, and that means after I post this, I am no longer a […]
The Anxiety of a Non-Writer Surrounded By Writers
Posted on August 24, 2018 66 Comments
Hey, everyone, hope you’re having an awesome Friday! One thing some of you might possibly know about me is that my dad is a writer. A successful one, at that! And as such, he knows a lot of other successful writers. Because of that, I’ve had the amazing chance to meet so many super cool, […]
Some Fantastic, Awesome, Super Cool Music
Posted on August 20, 2018 5 Comments
Hello, everyone! Today I’m here to share with you some awesome music from a very talented friend of mine, Jon R. Mohr. He’s a composer/musician, plays piano and writes music, all that jazz, and he has some pretty awesome sounding stuff I thought was worth sharing. He’s got slow, pretty piano pieces, action-y ones that […]
Sunday Smupdate!
Posted on August 19, 2018 16 Comments
Howdy, everyone! How’s your weekend going? Hopefully, it’s going well, but if it’s not, I’d like to offer you a Smupdate in this trying time. Smudge is getting bigger and becoming even more of an asshole than before, but I’ll be darned if he ain’t the cutest thing I ever did see. One down side […]
An Interesting Song I Found
Posted on August 18, 2018 26 Comments
Hey, everyone! As I’ve been packing and sorting clothes and junk, I’ve been listening to a lot of music, and I stumbled upon a song I think is really interesting. It’s got that old sound to it, like it’s from another era of music, but I think it’s really good and I like the lyrics […]
Gearing Up For Back to School
Posted on August 16, 2018 38 Comments
Hello, everyone! Summer is coming to a close, which means I only have one week left of posting on here. It also means that I move into my dorm next week, and will be starting classes soon after. Last year, I definitely went overboard on back-to-school clothes and supplies shopping, but that just means I […]
Kayaking at Lodi Lake
Posted on August 11, 2018 17 Comments
Hello, everyone! I hope y’all’s weekend has been awesome so far! My week has been pretty uneventful, but today I actually did something fun and exciting! I got to go kayaking at Lodi Lake with my Cali family. I’ve only been kayaking a couple of times before, and each time my arms get insanely sore, […]
What You Should Be Watching: YouTube Edition: Binging With Babish
Posted on August 9, 2018 11 Comments
Hey, everyone! Welcome to another edition of “What You Should Be Watching”! And, yes, it’s another YouTube one because, hey, there’s a lot of good content on YouTube, and it’s free, unlike Netflix or whatever, so. For this edition, I have chosen another cooking channel, mainly because I have only posted like one cooking related […]
This Song Is In My Head So It Must Be In Yours
Posted on August 5, 2018 2 Comments
Hello, everyone! Tomorrow is Monday, and that is always a bummer. So I thought I would bestow upon y’all this song I recently found to help you make it through. Also, it’s been in my head for about a week and I want others to suffer the ear-worm with me. I heard this from the […]
Here’s a Lil’ Something I Wrote For Creative Writing Class
Posted on August 3, 2018 24 Comments
Hello, everyone! Today I will be sharing a short story I just wrote the other night for class. It had to be two and a half pages long, no more, no less, which was kind of difficult to make it fit perfectly into that amount of space, mostly because of pacing issues. This is also […]
A Summary of How the Rest of My Trip To NYC Went
Posted on August 1, 2018 15 Comments
Ah, yes, the Big Apple! I have no idea why they call it that, but in case you didn’t read my last post, that’s where I was last week! Instead of going to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, Meg and I went to the Brooklyn Museum because it was a hundred million degrees outside and the […]
Crab Cakes, Ocean’s 8, the Ferry, and the Republic of Booza
Posted on July 27, 2018 14 Comments
Hello, everyone! I hope you have all been having a fantastic week, I know I have been! New York has been awesome so far and it hasn’t rained nearly as much as I thought it would, so that’s a plus. Honestly, I haven’t done too much. I’m generally a pretty lazy person, so I might […]
The Love-Hate Relationship With Travel
Posted on July 25, 2018 45 Comments
Who doesn’t love traveling? Everyone loves a good vacation; so many amazing places to go, spectacles to behold, adventurous things to do, traveling is enriching and can be super awesome! Unfortunately, traveling is also expensive, and tiring, both physically, mentally, and emotionally. Personally, traveling is one of my favorite things to do. It’s so nice […]
Beat Saber: AKA the Coolest Game Ever
Posted on July 23, 2018 9 Comments
Hey, everyone! Hope you all had an awesome weekend. This weekend, thanks to my friend, I got to try virtual reality. More specifically, I played Beat Saber for like, three hours, and my arms are extremely sore. Beat Saber is this awesome rhythm game where you basically have two light sabers, red in the left […]
The Bright Side
Posted on July 15, 2018 9 Comments
Hello everyone! Today I’m going to tell you about this awesome comic that a reader of this blog told me about (when I posted about Death as a character). It is a comic about the personification of death, otherwise known as Dee, befriending a teenage girl named Emily! They become besties and she teaches Death […]
What You Should Be Watching: Final Space
Posted on July 12, 2018 5 Comments
Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of “What You Should Be Watching”! Today I’ll be telling you about Final Space, a TBS original adult cartoon. It’s a sci-fi that takes place in an Earth where aliens are totally normal, and the Earth has a military-style organization called “Infinity Guard” that has spaceships and lasers and […]
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