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Andrea Disaster, 25, is a fan of the Sunday Routines column in the New York Times. Even though she’s not a media mogul or a Broadway star or hell, even a New Yorker, she wanted to share with you her Sunday routine, if nothing else to give her the opportunity to write in third person [...]

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 [...]

So, how has everyone’s past few days been? Here’s mine: My car was declared unfit to be on the roads more than necessary on Christmas Eve. No three hour round trip to my parents’ house. I called my parents to let them know. My mom asked if I wanted them to pick me up. “Don’t [...]

Things I’m Thankful For: Hulu. Because I’ll never have to get cable again. Sweet potatoes. With caramelized pecans on top. $20 co-pays and generic prescriptions. I’ve never been so grateful for it as I am now. That it hasn’t snowed yet this year. Keep winter at bay as much as possible. That I’m a non-smoker. [...]

I just found out tonight that instead of having dinner tomorrow in the mid-afternoon like we usually do, it’s going to be at noon tomorrow. Noon sharp, I was told. Apparently everyone in my family has a second dinner to go to later. This means I need to get there by 11 am, so the [...]

I like chandeliers, but you don’t see them very often. Or maybe they are in houses that I’m just not visiting. The house I grew up in was from the early 1900s and had a grand Victorian staircase in the front entryway. It was made of deep dark wood (Cherry? Oak? I have no idea), [...]