Prompt: Action. When it comes to aspirations, its not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. What’s your next step? My next step is to write out my twelve next steps: one major goal for each month, which a bunch of smaller ones spread in between. Now I’m finally getting into a good swing of [...]
Reverb10 Day 13: Action (and Redefining Success)
December 17th, 2010 · No Comments · 30 Day Challenges, Entrepreneur of the Week, Redefining Success, work shenanigans
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Entrepreneur of the Week: Coffee, tattoos, fashion, and why I don’t want a job.
January 28th, 2010 · 8 Comments · char and the city, Entrepreneur of the Week, fierce flawless fabulous femme
“I’m done pretending that I will ever work in the corporate world again,” my designer/stylist friend Sarah Church said as she showed me her fresh wrist tattoo. The puffy red heart was about the size of a nickel, and would hardly be an issue for an office workplace sinceĀ a watch or braceletĀ could easily cover it. [...]
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Squeem makes me want to scream.
January 25th, 2010 · No Comments · char and the city
Saw this display at my local Walgreen’s. WHAT THE HELL. I’m all for Spanx and other body-shaping underwear, but the fact that they are now marketing these products to men is DISTURBING. Obviously, dudes can do what they want, but it just looks absolutely ridiculous to me. Do YOU think that guys should wear such [...]
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Screw the Autumn Sentimentalists.
October 5th, 2009 · 3 Comments · char and the city, fierce flawless fabulous femme
Fall is such a beautiful season in Chicago. The leaves are changing, the air is crisp, and the pleasures of summer are but a faint memory. Screw. That. I’ve read so many blogs lately about how excited the writer is about Autumn, and how the change of scenery puts them in a different mood, one [...]
Who’s your celebrity sibling?
August 29th, 2009 · 11 Comments · friends, fam, and my ridiculously fun life
A couple years ago, Shakeel made four celebrity lookalike photo compilations and posted them to MySpace. They were hilarious and pretty dead on! Angela and Luna Lovegood Shak and George Me circa 2007 with my braids vs some character…from Pirates of the Carribbean? Don’t remember. Diana and Daria Naturally, I love Photoshop, my friends, and [...]