fortunately/unfortunately

Fortunately it's Friday! And I am leaving work at 1:00 today!
Unfortunately Friday is also my Weight Watchers weigh in day and this morning I was up 1.8 pounds...grrr.

Fortunately I am giving my notice at work in just one week...next Friday.
Unfortunately the thought of having the "I'm quitting" conversation with my boss really scares me!

Fortunately I'm still loving the look of my new bangs.
Unfortunately I haven't quite mastered styling them (and flattening the cowlicks that always stopped me from having bangs) so sometimes they look a bit wonky (today for example.) And they could already use a trim.

Fortunately Hanna and I are going to be spending the weekend at my friend, B's house. Her bf is going to be away and K needs to study so it will be a fun girls weekend!
Unfortunately wait...there is nothing unfortunate about that!

Happy St. Patricks Day!

Today makes me nostalgic for college. Green beer, decorating T-shirts, random kissing, being drunk. This truly is the perfect college holiday. Maybe not what St. Patrick had in mind, but oh well.

Since I am no longer in college I need a new way to appreciate this fine holiday. I'm thinking a trip to Ireland might do the trick.

(image found here)

Sigh. Maybe someday. For now I'll just wear a green cardigan.

In other exciting news my fabulous real life friend, JM, started her own blog called DC Food Love. It's going to be all about food, wine, and entertaining. Check it out!

coming halfway out of the closet

When I started this blog I was very concerned with remaining anonymous. For a long time I didn't put any pictures up and was very careful about not telling anyone from the blogging world my real name. As I read more blogs I realized that I could be more personal and put up pictures while still keeping it from potentially interfering with say, my career.


I was (and am) happy with the balance I found, but there was one issue. No one in my "real life", except K, knew about my blog. Part of me was worried about being judged by them or that they would think it was weird. The other part just had no idea how to work it into a conversation. So I did nothing.


My other concern was after going so long without telling anyone I worried whenever I did tell them they would be mad I hadn't come clean from the beginning.

This weekend I came halfway out of the blogging closet. It was pretty unexpected. Out to dinner with my best friends in Philly, after a lot of wine, the conversation turned to the fact that a couple of them were thinking about starting their own blogs and I blurted out my "big secret."

Turns out they were not weird about it at all and very supportive. I'm glad that they know. I still haven't told my family but I would like to find a way to do that sometime soon.

To my "real life" friends who may now be reading...welcome and thanks for being so awesome!

To my bloggy friends...do your real life friends and families know about your blogs? How did you tell them?


(PS I will do a post about my interview and the rest of my weekend very soon...with pictures! Thanks for all the interview fashion advice. I also need to catch up on my blog reading so sorry for the lack of comments!)