Hodgepodge

I haven’t used tumblr in a very long time, but I figured...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:50:39 -0400

I haven’t used tumblr in a very long time, but I figured here would be the best place to post this.

The rainstorm was crazy! So my roommate and I decided to do a...

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:54:39 -0400

The rainstorm was crazy! So my roommate and I decided to do a slip n slide. No blood, so I’d say it was successful :)

Also, with no job I have a lot of time on my hands.

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:52:47 -0400

Also, with no job I have a lot of time on my hands.

Photo

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:24:39 -0400

"25 Things To Do Before You Turn 25 1. Make peace with your parents. Whether you finally recognize..."

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:21:05 -0400

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25 Things To Do Before You Turn 25

1. Make peace with your parents. Whether you finally recognize that they actually have your best interests in mind or you forgive them for being flawed human beings, you can’t happily enter adulthood with that familial brand of resentment.

2. Kiss someone you think is out of your league; kiss models and med students and entrepreneurs with part-time lives in Dubai and don’t worry about if they’re going to call you afterward.

3. Minimize your passivity.

4. Work a service job to gain some understanding of how tipping works, how to keep your cool around assholes, how a few kind words can change someone’s day.

5. Recognize freedom as a 5:30 a.m. trip to the diner with a bunch of strangers you’ve just met.

6. Try not to beat yourself up over having obtained a ‘useless’ Bachelor’s Degree. Debt is hell, and things didn’t pan out quite like you expected, but you did get to go to college, and having a degree isn’t the worst thing in the world to have. We will figure this mess out, I think, probably; the point is you’re not worth less just because there hasn’t been an immediate pay off for going to school. Be patient, work with what you have, and remember that a lot of us are in this together.

7. If you’re employed in any capacity, open a savings account. You never know when you might be unemployed or in desperate need of getting away for a few days. Even $10 a week is $520 more a year than you would’ve had otherwise.

8. Make a habit of going outside, enjoying the light, relearning your friends, forgetting the internet.

9. Go on a 4-day, brunch-fueled bender.

10. Start a relationship with your crush by telling them that you want them. Directly. Like, look them in the face and say it to them. Say, I want you. I want to be with you.

11. Learn to say ‘no’ — to yourself. Don’t keep wearing high heels if you hate them; don’t keep smoking if you’re disgusted by the way you smell the morning after; stop wasting entire days on your couch if you’re going to complain about missing the sun.

12. Take time to revisit the places that made you who you are: the apartment you grew up in, your middle school, your hometown. These places may or may not be here forever; you definitely won’t be.

13. Find a hobby that makes being alone feel lovely and empowering and like something to look forward to.

14. Think you know yourself until you meet someone better than you.

15. Forget who you are, what your priorities are, and how a person should be.

16. Identify your fears and instead of letting them dictate your every move, find and talk to people who have overcome them. Don’t settle for experiencing .000002% of what the world has to offer because you’re afraid of getting on a plane.

17. Make a habit of cleaning up and letting go. Just because it fit at one point doesn’t mean you need to keep it forever — whether ‘it’ is your favorite pair of pants or your ex.

18. Stop hating yourself.

19. Go out and watch that movie, read that book, listen to that band you already lied about watching, reading, listening to.

20. Take advantage of health insurance while you have it.

21. Make a habit of telling people how you feel, whether it means writing a gushing fan-girl email to someone whose work you love or telling your boss why you deserve a raise.

22. Date someone who says, “I love you” first.

23. Leave the country under the premise of “finding yourself.” This will be unsuccessful. Places do not change people. Instead, do a lot of solo drinking, read a lot of books, have sex in dirty hostels, and come home when you start to miss it.

24. Suck it up and buy a Macbook Pro.

25. Quit that job that’s making you miserable, end the relationship that makes you act like a lunatic, lose the friend whose sole purpose in life is making you feel like you’re perpetually on the verge of vomiting. You’re young, you’re resilient, there are other jobs and relationships and friends if you’re patient and open.

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- January Nelson (via tyleroakley)

Did a little late night sketching tonight of Hannah Hart from My...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:34:00 -0400

Did a little late night sketching tonight of Hannah Hart from My Drunk Kitchen (aka - my dream girl). I also am working on a drawing series for Meghan Tonjes…slowly but surely, so stay tuned for that!

UPDATE: Hannah tweeted me and said it was “BEAUTIFUL” … I don’t do intimacy, nor do I want to get married, but I’d do all of the above with this woman.

Footage of the amazing Meghan Tonjes from her Vidcon...

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 17:57:00 -0400

Footage of the amazing Meghan Tonjes from her Vidcon performance!

New episodes of “Smart Girls at the Party” with Amy Poehler...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:27:13 -0400

New episodes of “Smart Girls at the Party” with Amy Poehler start on July 2nd

thelesbianvulcan: LGBT panel @ vidcon

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:46:22 -0400

thelesbianvulcan:

LGBT panel @ vidcon

New vlog. Skip to 2:31 for Call Me Maybe.

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:15:35 -0400

New vlog. Skip to 2:31 for Call Me Maybe.

All the inspiration.

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:09:06 -0400

All the inspiration.

New vlog up on my channel that I have with my friend, Alison....

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:52:42 -0400

New vlog up on my channel that I have with my friend, Alison. This week features my niece :) and some justin bieber.

That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with...

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:44:58 -0400

That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.

“It’s so bizarre to me because, I work with a lot of men and...

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:32:45 -0400

“It’s so bizarre to me because, I work with a lot of men and then I do these press tours with them and nobody ever looks at Chris Hemsworth and goes, ‘Wow, you play such a strong guy in Thor!’ Nobody does that, you know what I mean? But when we are conflicted and we play characters that find themselves in circumstances where we have to to find our strenght or just something in order to survive, like all of a sudden we are such strong women.” — Charlize Theron on playing strong women

"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative..."

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:24:26 -0400

““Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.””

- Ira Glass

meghantonjes: bouvier: Kameron Slade, a fifth-grader from...

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:21:27 -0400

meghantonjes:

bouvier:

Kameron Slade, a fifth-grader from Queens, NY, was scheduled to deliver a speech as part of a school-wide competition at PS 195. But when the principal learned Kameron’s speech was about same-sex marriage, he was ordered to choose a new topic or lose the opportunity to speak. (via)

Oh, what’s that about blacks being homophobic snobs? Where are you white people?

parenting. you’re doing it right.

My 2 year old niece singing One Direction! haha

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:53:03 -0400

My 2 year old niece singing One Direction! haha

This weekend was AMAZING in terms of food. Okay, just two meals...

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:05:00 -0400

This weekend was AMAZING in terms of food. Okay, just two meals over the weekend…but they were so good it makes up for the remaining lackluster entrees.

Friday night I went out to a sushi place in a Middletown called Mikado with one of my friends. The place was super cute. It was on the basement floor of this building, and was kind of dark with all these different color lights.

One of their specials that night was a Bellinni Martini, so we ordered two of those, and let me tell you….delicious! We ordered an appetizer of fried pork dumplings that were equally as tasty, and for our main course we ordered two special rolls. We got the Tempura Diana Roll, which we later dubbed the “princess diana ross roll.” It was shrimp tempura w/ eel & avocado on the outside. The other roll we got was called the Spicy Girl Roll. I forget what is in it, but its the one pictured above! It was my absolute favorite!

After sushi we rolled ourselves over to a newer cupcake place in Middletown called NoRA Cupcake Company. It was one of those places like you see on the Food Network with all the unique and fancy cupcakes. The place was really decorated with a shabby chic feel, the couches and furniture were all mismatched, and weird artwork hung on the walls. Aside from the decor, the cupcakes were so delicious! We tried a chocolate peanut butter explosion cupcake that was so heavy it kept toppling over. That’s how I like my cupcakes :), and then we also tried just their plain old vanilla cupcake with buttercream frosting and rainbow sprinkles…which was also delicious. Unfortunately, we ate them before we realized we didn’t take any pictures.

Topping off my weekend of good eats I just finished a pb&j (which is a new found love of mine) on wheat toast with confectionary sugar on top and some cherries on the side. It was just the thing I needed to end my weekend.

Quick afternoon sketches

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:00:33 -0400

Quick afternoon sketches

best line: “i’m a feminist because…i’m...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 23:03:52 -0400

best line: “i’m a feminist because…i’m tired of gender roles that restrict a child’s ability to grow into who they are.”

I love Nick’s videos and his vlogs. Go check him out :)

http://www.youtube.com/soundlyawake