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That subject line is not a joke. This is hands down the nicest Goodwill I’ve ever visited, ever. Nevermind the fact that there are thousands of Goodwills and just one of me. Focus on the positive. ETA: I wrote about the nicest Goodwill in Pittsburgh without naming the location: Centre Avenue in East Liberty. Sorry, [...]

In addition to my grey hair, another thing I’ve learned to make peace with is the fact that not everyone who meets me will like me. That may sound a little weird or not that big of a deal to you. Maybe one day the fact hit you and you just went back to whatever [...]

I headed out last Monday on my birthday to the Red White & Blue Thrift Store assuming it would be closed, since most things were in observance of Independence Day (a fact I’ve grown used to after all these years). I mean, come on, do thrift stores get more American than the Red White & [...]

Saturday was my mother’s mother’s side’s annual family reunion. It’s the Italian part of me and they’ve been going to a local family amusement park since I was a small child. There are matching t-shirts, card games, and tons and tons of food, of course. It’s as dorky as it goes and I completely love [...]

Wearing dark denim on the hottest day of the year will make you melt.

After an almost two month hiatus, Mining Monday is BACK. I missed it too. To celebrate, its return, I went to the Regent Square Community Yard Sale- it only comes once a year. All those little dots were potential gems. Weather-wise, it was a FANTASTIC day for a yard sale. And unlike most Mining Mondays, [...]

I know, I know. What a fucking tease. Seriously, who drops a bomb like that and then doesn’t blog for three weeks? I even missed my super important three year blogiversary or blogaversary or however you spell that made up word celebrating the day you started your blog (hope yinz got me something leatha’). I [...]

We received an e-mail at work on Tuesday about a drawing to throw out the first pitch at the Pirate game Friday. I entered for the hell of it, thinking I’d never win. I even joked around with my co-workers about what I would do if I did win. So. When I got to work [...]

The apartment situation didn’t quite work out the way I was expecting. I know everything will work out in the end (it has to), and I’m trying not to dwell on the bad. Moving on. My Easter was fantastic. I went to church with my family. The flowers were pretty. After that, there were a [...]

Memory fascinates me. Not the matching card game, I always found that boring. Brain memory, specifically what I can remember and what I can’t. I occasionally say that I have a bad memory, but this isn’t quite true. Some things I can recall so well, so vividly, but other information has to be drilled in [...]