May 2012
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Golden Birthday Blues/Bliss
(welp…guess, I’m almost to 30 now.)
Hezah, 27
It’s now just past midnight and I am no longer 26, which marks the end of what is commonly referred to as the “mid-twenties.” I am the newest member of the Late Twenties Club.
I just got home from lovely day full of crepes, comedy, and bbq with new friends. I love how the Internet can make your life seem far more...
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A Fiscal Physical: Why a Random Lady Wanted to Hug...
Hezah, 26
I don’t balance my checkbook (even if I knew where it was hiding.) I ritualistically tear up my credit card statements. I never know how much cash is wadded up and stuffed into my wallet. I frequently borrow money from my savings with an honest yet laughable intent on paying myself back. I can rationalize any purchase or decision with these two justifications, “you’re only young once,”...
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How to Shop for Adult Clothes (even when you don't...
P, 23
I start my first real job next week. I’ve held three jobs since I graduated May of last year. The first one had a really relaxed, lenient environment because it was a student job with the university. The second lasted about a grand total of three days; it was my first time getting burned by an obnoxious group of coworkers, so I scrammed. The third job, at some behemoth corporate...
April 2012
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I’m a Big Kid in Little Shoes
Hezah, 26
It was just a few weeks ago that I discovered Mecca (for ladies with feet sized 5-8). Just to set the scene, it was a particularly low Saturday afternoon. Just about everyone was busy, and I was left to fend for myself. Five loads of laundry and 4 episodes of Smash later (damn you McPhee!); I decided to take myself shopping.
I rationalized away my ever present monetary concerns with the...
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Ever-More Evident
Abbey, age 29
It’s a Monday, (seriously, it’s only Monday?) evening as I stand here, hunched over my you-could-hardly-call-it-an-‘island,’ in the galley kitchen of my modest Congress Park apartment, as I eat Mediterranean takeout while paging through the newest delivery of the J.Crew catalogue and watching an old episode of Lost on Netflix Instant. After this day, one glass of wine didn’t quite...
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Old Lady Taste
Hezah, 26
Um…So I was perusing some shoes online (which is masochistic since I am on a self imposed embargo on all things lovely, expensive, and unnecessary like new shoes) I stumbled upon a pair of seemingly adorable flats that came in all sorts of fun colors. Being an avid online comparison shopper, I rely on reviews to help me down my path to purchase (can you tell I work in marketing,...
Notorious Twenty Something: I'm THAT twenty... →
AWESOME!
notorioustwentysomething:
Hi, what’s up. Have we met before? No? I’m THAT chick. You know what I mean. You’ve totally met me before. Let me explain.
I’m that chick that went to a liberal arts school and actually believed in it and I majored in communications which really means I spent a lot of time writing stories in my…
March 2012
6 posts
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Twenty Somethings Philosophize at Work
Hezah and Friend, 26
What did people do at work before chat? Perhaps there is a serious lack of daydreaming in the workplace these days.
Typical workday musings on life:
Friend: i think she puts a lot of pressure on herself to have a grown up life now
Me: that sounds about right
Friend: im glad i missed THAT boat
Me: yeah, never had that urge
Friend: i probably did at some point, but the idea of...
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Twenty-Something Feelings
Hezah, and Friend 26 (creepin’ on 27)
Guess what…feelings don’t get ANY easier as you get older. Maybe it becomes easier to let the words tumble out of your mouth. But having them? FEELING those feelings…it’s still rough.
Friend: well yea, all your feelings are in a box deep in the back of a closet Friend: mine are coming out of my orifices all the time Me: mine is...
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The Movies You've Seen A Million Times
Hezah, 26
The other day, my girlfriends and I were trying to think of all the movies we’ve seen a million times. The movies that have stood the test of time, the ones that never fail to make us feel good. From the ultimate guilty pleasure to undeniable classics, there are movies that make us feel compelled to stop and watch (or record) when their titles pop up on TBS or USA.
We all...
shinybluestuds asked: Not a question, but a thank you. Thank you for this site! I'm 22 and up to my eyeballs in early twenties angst. Thanks for bringing some humor to this strange, terrible, and sometimes awesome part of a young person's life.
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Taxes are Done!
Hezah, 26
I’m so proud of myself for completing my taxes. It wasn’t as hard as I expected it to be. However, it would have been a hell of a lot harder to finish filling out the questions if I had to answer yes to either of these questions.
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Twenty Something Waistline (AKA KILL ME)
Hezah, 26
I think it hit me that I am old. I recently performed a spiritually cleansing closet purge in which I finally rid my wardrobe of the incriminating remnants from 2008-2010. The majority of the pile included plaid shirt dresses and weird faux pregnant billowy tops with umpire waists. Oh God…even jumpers. The HORROR.
Anyway, I finally faced my denim drawer piled with haphazardly...
February 2012
9 posts
New Domain!
I invested $27.00 in a new fancy domain. I felt really inexplicably responsible. What mundane thing has made you feel unreasonably responsible lately?
nailcolors asked: Why is it so hard to find a decent 25-28 year old male? I may not qualify as "decent" myself...but jesus, if only projection and karma and fate and 'you attract what you put out' were in my favor for once.
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The Most Epic Email...EVER (And My...
Hezah, 26
So I just joined a new gym, and I couldn’t be happier. I am of the belief that I actually felt the moment my metabolism came to a screeching halt on my 25th birthday. It was right after I ate vodka and cupcakes as my celebratory dinner.
As such, my fitness habits ebb and flow like the sea. I have high peaks of outright gym rat performance, to deep valley lows that consist of...
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You've Slept With How Many??
Hezah, 26
Just your average twenty-something night. I made a trip to the market, expecting to live a monk’s life of frugality. I need to pinch some pennies this month, so what better way than to buy less food and force yourself to Mother Hubbard the shit outta your cupboards?
I completely failed, and ended up spending THE SAME amount on groceries as I do every week. To make matters...
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10 Helpful Tips From a Fumbling 20-Something
Trent, 24
A while back, I saw the submission someone else posted which included the NY Times article, “What is it about 20-somethings?” Well, when I read that article, I immediately became very irate. It’s not fair to pick on a generation going through difficult times like ours. We aren’t perfect, and we never said we were.
I’ve seen the older generation who wonder what is wrong with the new...
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Twenty-Something Valentine's Day Scenarios
(courtesy of http://xkcd.com)
Hezah, 26
Valentine’s Day in your twenties is such a mixed bag. It seems like each year is more complex than the last, and you’re never exactly where you started 365 days prior. It’s hard to know whether you’ll be in love, heartbroken, or completely apathetic on any given February 14th. I’ve broken down the different types of twenty-something Valentine’s Day senarios...
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TGIF in Your Terrible Twenties
Hezah, 26
Did anyone else find this week to be too long, arduous, and just…gross?
Yesterday I armoured myself for a day full of meetings in heels and a blazer, ready to kick some ass at work. By the end of the day, my feet were crying and I couldn’t rip myself out of this disguise fast enough. I felt strange and uncomfortable looking at my own reflection as I left the house, and...
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Taxes...
are scary, right?
January 2012
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A Twenty Something Plea - Mom, Get Off My Facebook
Hezah, 26
This isn’t the first time I have been a listening ear to this complaint. Year after year the volume of parents on Facebook rises at exponential rates. Surprisingly, middle aged women are the most active participants on a site spawned from a college student’s brain. Baby boomers are starting to recognize the importance in social media (good for you!), and many have even figured out...
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Twenty Something Needs Her Snack
Hezah, 26
Yup, that’s me having some unidentified religious experience into a bag of chocolate covered pretzels. I am not surprised; this isn’t anything new. I just figured I would actually document my strange twenty-something habits in hopes that others relate. Maybe if the Internet hasn’t imploded in twenty years, I’ll be able to look back on this with an odd sort of...
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This Happened... To Me...a 26 Year Old
Hezah, 26
Last night I made myself scrambled eggs for dinner, because…I have an extremely limited skill set in the kitchen. I realize this means I need to find a damn good housewife. However, in the time being I have to deal with what you just saw above.
I decided that I deserved a warm meal, so I busted out my two dollar can of off-brand SpaghettiOs. I took out my can opener,...
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Important Twenty-Something Advice: FIND YOUR...
Hezah, 26 (Elizabeth 32)
Allow me to get up on my soapbox here for a moment so that I might spout some twenty-something wisdom. Even though I think I am wise beyond my twenty-six years, I’m pretty sure I really know shit. However, there is one nugget of advice I can pass on to twenty-somethings of any age.
Find your mentor.
I was lucky enough to find mine at the age of twenty-two. She was the...
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Sex and The City Just Dated Two Unsuspecting 26...
Heather: um the satc pilot is on
Marissa: i cannot
Marissa: it upsets me
Marissa: her outfit
Marissa: is SO bad
Heather: but its been so long
Heather: OMG....like 15 years
Heather: WHAT THE FUCK
Marissa: 25 fuck im old
Sticky Is A Slut: An Admission →
stickyisaslut:
I’ve never known how to be one person. Monotony makes me anxious, sick, depressed. I hate Halloween because dressing up in costume makes me nervous. I can never “choose”. Year after year I struggle to justify looking like someone else, some character, some monster, for a holiday when I know I am…
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Overgrown Kid in The Office
Hezah, 26
I have a good feeling about 2012, a real good feeling. I also have a good feeling about my impending twenty-seventh year. I don’t know why I do this. Every since I was little, I have assigned a positive, negative, or neutral sign to the age I was turning.
For example, I LOVED being five. For whatever reason, I though being five was tits, and when six rolled around I wasn’t having it....
December 2011
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A Very Twenty Something Christmas
(During Hanukkah this year, I lit the candles and said the prayers by myself in my own apartment. I think I was too lazy to make dinner. Doing the holidays, twenty-something style)
Hezah, 26
It’s Christmas Eve, and this Jew just finished eating at one of LA’s newest hot spots with my best friend and her visiting parents. Now I’m home wearing pajamas and watching old movies. In previous years I...
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You Will Not Die Alone!
Hezah, 26
To preface this, let me just catch you up to speed about one of my best friends, Brandy. She is insanely smart, laid back, fit, independent, gorgeous, has an ass that just won’t quit….oh and she’s a NBA cheerleader. If she’s going to die alone, then we are all fucked.
Brandy, you will absolutely not die alone. This isn’t a prediction just based the...
Top Twenty Somethings ...this makes me want to... →
Distorted Mirror →
Thank for this exercise in twenty-something honesty.
lovelikevulture:
I’m 28 - I’m 26 I live at home with my mother who had a stroke, and her dog and my cat - I live alone with a plant that I struggle to keep alive I don’t have a degree - I have a degree from an overpriced university. I don’t talk about my problems - I talk about the problems that don’t matter, and bury the ones...
Twenty Something Fears
What is your greatest fear as a Twenty-Something?
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A Twenty Something on Parents
(I really do love me a vintage tee.)
Hezah, 26
My previous post on nostalgia spiraled an entire tangential train of thoughts. My closet full of vintage sweaters, drawer stocked with secondhand tees, and walls covered in genuinely hipstimatic filtered photos of my parents made me stop in my tracks. I realized my sense of nostalgia goes much further than reminiscing about old school Nick at Nite...
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Should I Be Worried About This Already?
Hezah, 26
How did I get on this marketing list? Just because I live alone doesn’t mean I’m going to die alone. My Dad once told me that the day your turn 25, you start your slow descent into death. Welp…I guess I am overdue.
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“(7:54:37 PM) Marissa: ive eaten a whole bucket looking for my feelings before...”
– Marissa, 26
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Typical Twenty Something Girl Conversation
Hezah & Friend, both 26
Friend: do you ever get a really bad feeling in your stomach like something bad is going to happen?
Me: yes
Me: but it is usually based on something
Friend: jen just told me some long involved story about her ex boyfriend being a dick bag
Friend: i suppose i could be feeling sympathy pain
Friend: i just feel like something OMINOUS AND FOREBODING is coming
Me: does it feel like A SHARP SHOOTING PAIN
Friend: no
Friend: it feels like im going to barf and cry at the same time
Friend: but its not a panic attack
Me: maybe your body is trying to let a feeling surface
Friend: havent i had enough of thems?
Me: ask your body
Friend: my body is stupid
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A Twenty Something on Nostalgia
(Who isn’t nostalgic for 90’s neon?)
Hezah, 26
Recently, I have been thinking a lot about nostalgia, and how we twenty somethings seem to LOVE it. We delight in anything and everything 80’s and 90’s. Reminiscing on childhood pop culture has become first date fodder, drinking games, viral videos, and road trip playlists. What’s the deal? Do we want to keep one toe in the kiddie pool as...
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“we want what we want when we want it.”
– Hezah, 26
November 2011
7 posts
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Half Birfday
Hezah, 26
It’s my half birthday today. I’m now 26 1/2. Remember when there was a very big difference between 6 and 6 1/2? You had to correct people and let them know that you’d really matured in half a year; you were a completely different person than you were a whole six months ago. A lot could have happened within that time, teeth lost, a chapter book completed, a...
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A Twenty Something on Tattoos
Hezah, 26
Yesterday I got my fifth tattoo, and in conjunction with seeing my family around the holidays, it made me think about tattoos and twenty somethings. It was the least nonchalant I have been about getting a permanent marking my skin. I kept forgetting I even had an appointment, treating it as though it were another errand to run. I think my cavalier attitude is attributed to the fact that...
[Not So] Absolutely Single: Today I'm thankful... →
Yup, sounds about twenty-something accurate to me!
lifeoftheabsolutelysingle:
Pretending to feel financially grown up. Yes I am still broke as a joke and have credit card debt BUT today I broke up with my bank and am now at a Savings & Loan organization and I am really excited about it.
My family. With my dad calling me to check how his class is doing and to check on me…
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Twenty Something Oracle
(Past)
Hezah, 26
I’ve recently begun to notice many twenty somethings uttering the phrase, “This isn’t where I thought I’d be at 2_.”Apparently their juvenile counterparts had grandiose visions for their older adult selves that don’t quite gel with the reality of present day. Some of us are relieved to find ourselves living a life exceeding our inner child’s expectations, while others are...
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I Knew I Was An Adult When...
Hezah, 26
…I stayed home instead of partied for health preservation.
This past weekend, I did something incredibly responsible. I was having a girls’ weekend with my friends in the desert; we gambled with old farts, rocked out drunk to The Village people, and read gossip magazines by the pool. It was midday Saturday when I started to feel my glands begin to whimper. “Oh no, I thought.” I...
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I Think I Might Be Regressing
Hezah, 26
You are looking at a photo of my dinner. Yeah, it’s spaghetti-o’s. WHAT’S UP? Don’t worry I also had a partial veggie tray and a handful of chocolate covered pretzels. Keeping it well balanced.
I bought this can of tomatoy pasta because when I went to the market this past weekend, they looked delicious and I felt poor. I blew through October’s pay like...
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Reason #785 to Love Being An Adult
Hezah, 26
Sometimes being an adult can make you want to go back to bed, hide under the pillows, and not come out until conditions improve (better job, money windfall, no taxes, a really good sale, your favorite band is playing nearby, you smell someone making bacon in the other room.) Paying bills, making your own dentist appointments, and remembering to buy toilet paper can be real reasons to...
October 2011
10 posts
