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Luck works out in weird ways. The same day I’m freaking out over not having enough money to put gas in my car, I win tickets through work to the Flaming Lips concert. If you’re keeping track at home, this is the third thing I’ve won in three months, after throwing out the first pitch [...]

Oh hey, remember last year when I went to that really super awesome party at the Mattress Factory Art Museum? I got to go again this year! There were skateboarders…. … some pretty decorations… … good food… …. excellent music…. … and of course, great, great, great, great people. Some of whom I may have [...]

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 [...]

It’s been crazy lately, but good crazy. I mentioned to my old landlord that I was trying to get out of a lease to an awful apartment that even my optimism couldn’t buoy. He said that he just had a one bedroom open up and would I like to check it out? I thought I [...]

I finally went to Yesterday’s News. I say finally because it’s been suggested to me a million times but I just could never make it (to my credit, they’re only open 12-5 during the week). It was very much worth it, as you will see. Let’s start with the store front. Classy. I’m not sure [...]

Photo by Laura Petrilla. In case you have not heard: Jamie and Ali are two Pittsburgh sisters who run the BRESMA orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which just suffered a devastating earthquake. They have 150 children without food, water, or shelter, living in the yard of the orphanage. The wonderful, inspiring Ginny from thatschurch.com has been [...]

In case you need a refresher of why I’m doing this: I hate to spend money, but I love stuff. Thus, I turn to secondhand stores. Somethings are amazing. Somethings are awful. Somethings are hideous. And somethings just need to be shared. Every week, I’ll bring the best, the worst and so-bad-it’s-awesome of Goodwill, Salvation [...]

I technically began 2010 by projectile vomiting. However, I’m personally don’t consider the day finished until I go fall asleep, clock or calendar be damned. So I think of my upchucking as a form of cleansing from the previous year, especially as I began that one by throwing up. I ended it the same way [...]

There are some things that I do everyday, like drink coffee and blog. There are some things that I do on a regular basis, such as watch 30 Rock and visit the library. However, there are many more things that I do in spurts for weeks, maybe months, and then not again for some time [...]

When I was growing up, my family didn’t eat Chinese food very often, a few times a year at most. They said it was because my siblings didn’t like it. Now, of course, everytime I call home they’re General Tso-ing it up. I smell a conspiracy. Even though now, as a grown-up (gag), I could [...]