Technical difficulties...

Something is up with my blogger account and I seem to have lost my old template somehow. Ugh. Hopefully my blog will be cute and personalized again soon. Boo

I'm joining the ranks...

So, you know how you got that e-mail this morning from the New York Times or you read your local paper this morning about the unemployment rate being the highest it's been in a while? Well, yours truly has now joined that number. I am now unemployed. I am sad and worried and anxious and all those things you feel when the rug has been pulled from underneath you. However, I've been through tough times before and I'm confident I'll get through this with the help of my wonderful friends. On the bright side, now I'll have plenty of time for this blog and for my list of things that I said I'd do.

P.S. If you're in the Chicagoland area and now of any job openings, please contact me at dennisepnd@gmail.com.

Much love. xo

Because the holidays don't only promote commercialism...

they promote loneliness too. I hate that celebrating Christmas as a single girl who isn't close to her family-except her sister-is bringing out sad feelings on this end due to the commercial joke that we call holiday time. If I see one more stupid jewelry commercial about diamond earrings and such, I am going to throw a shoe at my television.

I am a very positive and optimistic person and I hate making myself look like a needy, lonely sad girl-which I can assure you I am not. I think all the hub bub is getting to me and I'll be glad when January 1 comes around. Here's to new beginnings.

I do like this Christmas song, bittersweet and beautiful.

Oy vey...

Chicago Politics at its best.


Chicago politics at its worst.

The Hamburglar, otherwise known as the governor of Illinois was arrested today for plotting to sell President-Elect Obama's open Senate seat to the highest bidder.

November 4th= proud day to be a Chicagoan.

December 9th= not so much.

Hello there....

After months of contemplating starting a blog, I have finally decided to bite the bullet. I am an avid blog reader (commenter, not lurker) and thoroughly enjoy all the daily fashion and design tips I obtain from some fabulous folks.

I haven't really had an experience prompt me to start blogging until now. My only sister (and sibling for that matter) has decided that at the end of August she will be leaving sweet home Chicago and moving to Portland. She and I are not quite two years apart; as kids we fought constantly like cats and dogs and as young adults, we've become best friends. She is the most beautiful, unselfish and caring human being I've ever known. She has never been afraid of living life to its fullest, she is not concerned with other people's opinions of her and her choices. As her slightly older sister, I cannot help but be in awe of her and imagine that in a perfect world she would be the older sibling.

Although I am excited for her in her new endeavor in a wonderful and exciting new city, I can't help but have tears in my eyes when thinking that she will now be a plane ride away rather than a short bus ride or el train ride away. She has been there for me through all the bad choices in men, clothes and hair, she and I have been through thick and thin together and I will miss seeing her lovely face on a regular basis.

I've started this blog to share my thoughts, dreams, ideas and inspirations to anyone who'll listen. I've also started it to chronicle what is sure to be a very difficult period in my life as I learn to cope with change and loss.

P.S. Those are pictures of my sister, isn't she just adorable?