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Category Archives: Girlfriends

I Bet My Friends Never Knew That’s What They Were For

I have no problem admitting to my faults, but the one thing I am good at is trying to compensate for them. I may not be able to fix every character flaw, but I do my absolute best at damage control.
For example, I am known for oversleeping so on important morning I set three […]

Under Thirty But Feeling Over the Hill

So, if you really want to feel old, go out with a group of students. We actually came to a point in the night tonight where a 22 year old young fireman-in-training tried to guess the age of everyone in our group. I stood next to a young woman one year younger than I […]

Instant McKarma

Some might say that Santa was good to me this holiday season, parading men across my path to distract me from the Boy Toy, but I prefer to believe in karma, to which I fully attribute the following story.
Following the Giants/Patriots game Jodie, Cali and I realized that, it being early evening and a […]

Cashmere Mafia is the New….I’m Not Sure Yet

Well, I give them credit for not avoiding the fact that they’re going for the Sex and the City replacement slot. The theme music is similar, they always meet over drinks, and the four friends of differing hair (if not skin) colors cover every Clairol girl on the couch. That much is hard to […]

I Guess This Makes Me a Giants Fan!

After a pseudo-break up with Boy Toy over the holidays, I reverted to old habits of singledom- namely scrolling through my cell phone for former flames that somehow fizzled. And I partially blame the NY Giants for my regression.
A few weeks prior, while Cali was in town visiting, I’d met a cute guy out […]

Fighting Fair

One of the most important things, in a relationship or a friendship, is learning how to fight fair. Now, I’m not talking about punching below the belt or pulling hair, I’m talking about the much more intimate War of the Words.
That whole “sticks and stones…” rhyme that we learn as kids is […]

An Open Letter to My Girlfriends

I always wanted a sister, someone to stay up giggling with late into the night, to share make-up tips and wardrobes, someone who knows with just a look how I’m feeling, and someone loyal to a fault.
But we can’t have this without the other side of family. You’re the ones who know exactly how […]

An Accidental Friend Filter

I lost my cell phone recently and, despite the absolute common knowledge that I should have them backed up somewhere, my entire phone book of numbers. As I looked for alternate means of contacting friends, I discovered a new sort of hierarchy in determining the level of a relationship. I was first struck by […]

“Sucks to Be Single Week” (Part 2 of 3)

My second example of bad luck this week came from Callie. When she called with news of a boy story with actual hope in her voice I was overjoyed! For the past few months she had been sliding down a slope of cynicism towards the pool of hopelessness waiting below and I worried that […]

“Sucks to be Single” Week (Part 1 of 3)

After conversations with girlfriends across the country, I decided to declare this week as officially disastrous for single women everywhere. It began with Jodie, who thought she would attend an uneventful family wedding as a guest. She was already dreading the event because her on-again, off-again “refuses-to-use-the-term-boyfriend-even-though-we-spend-every-day-together” guy decided he wasn’t feeling up to […]

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