nikkiana
June 2013
5 posts
Music Monday: Oingo Boingo - Whole Day Off
It was one of those days where you roll out of bed and manage to do the bare minimum of daily morning chores… Feed the kitties, empty your bladder, eat a slice of cold leftover pizza… and then think to yourself, “This whole awake thing? SO not happening…
May 2013
9 posts
The Uneasy Hour of Eight AM
You know that feeling of when you’ve stayed up two hours past your bed time and you’re still not sleepy?
You try to curl up in bed and you just sorta end up laying there staring up at the ceiling and thinking to yourself, “Nope, this is so not happening.”
When Did I Start Needing Permission to Act Creatively?
I went Michael’s the other day. You know… The big ass chain craft store.
I seldom go to chain stores living in the city, less because of any moral imperative to shop local (though I recommend it) but more because I’m lazy and am loathe to leave the five…
The Emotional Minefield of Food
If you were to pull up the list of my daily blog reads, you’d find a bunch of people talking about food.
Some of them are talking about what they’re doing in the food department to promote healthy living in their lives, and some of them are giving an…
April 2013
15 posts
Music Monday: Elephant Revival - Remembering a Beginning
I got passed along this tune by my friend Nick last night and I’ve seriously listened to it over and over and over since then… and well… That just seemed fitting for a Music Monday.
Elephant Revival‘s an Americana band based out of Colorado. Check them…
Where I'm At Today
Somewhere in the past two weeks, I hit the extreme overwhelm point…
I’m not exactly sure when (I feel like my perception of time is skewed), but I remember reading Sarah’s We Used to Speak in Essays and then watching Aubrey’s most recent vlogabout her…
This Is What Happens When There Are Too Many Channels of Communcation
If I hypothetically wanted to communicate with my roommate right now I have the following options:
1. I could kick the wall in front of me and yell out “Hey Jed!”
2. I could pick up the phone and call him.
3. I could pick up the phone and text message…
I'm Old in Internet Years
I’ve been online in some capacity or another since I was nine years old. I’ve been around this interconnected computer world for 20 years.
I created my first personal website and started writing journal entries on it when I was thirteen years old. I’ve…
On Not Being Good at the Touchy-Feely Response to a Tragedy
I’ve wanted to say something about all of the shittastic events that have happened this week, but I’ve been struggling to find any words that really cut to the heart of what I’m thinking and feeling…. So I’m going to show you this video of a cat licking a…
Music Monday: The Standells - Dirty Water
Mostly, it just seemed appropriate to pick a song about Boston today.
I Might Actually Launch that Business Blog
I finally decided last night to surrender all of my best laid plans about my business blog and just start taking steps toward launching something.
It kinda hit me that started trotting down a path that was just leading me to misery and procrastination by…
March 2013
9 posts
Music Monday: Bill Grady - Pour Me Some Wine
I don’t know how things work in your house, but in mine… We tend to have these songs that just become staples. The ones that get played everyday, or get put on when we’re doing certain things around the house.
Bill is someone who James occasionally…
Of Impatience & Head Colds
Yesterday afternoon that old familiar swollen feeling started happening in the back of my throat. You know the one… The one that says, “Guess what! You’re about to come down with a cold!” and by morning, sure enough… I’m blowing snot rockets.
I’ve been…
Mourning the Death of My Feed Reader
Quite possibly the worst thing about Google deciding to announce the impending closure of Google Reader was their timing of it… The announced it on the same day that my grandfather passed away.
Which makes me feel like I’m the biggest asshole on the face…
You Could Always Hire Me To Help You With That
Confession: I’m in the process of doing a total revamp of my professional life, and I’ve gotten to the point where I’m moving out of the daydream stage and into the making it a reality stage.
Oh my God, I have been so freaking out.
I’ve been sitting on…
February 2013
12 posts
Reflections on Being a Night Owl
Whenever my life allows me to create my own schedule, my bed time shifts to sunrise and you’ve got to tempt me with something super awesome to get me out of bed before noon.
It was a bitch to write that sentence.
I really want to turn around and erase it…
What American Girl Samantha Taught Me As A Child
Source: google.com via Wendy on Pinterest
Do you remember the American Girl dolls?
They were (and probably still are) the quintessential upper-middle class doll. In early nineties, the dolls cost something like $82, and that wasn’t even taking into…
The Balance Between Positive and Negative
If you were to hack into my feed reader and take a browse around of all the blogs I read, you’d find some incredibly positive blogs… Blogs abound mindful intention and gratitude, blogs about body acceptance, blogs about sex positivity, blogs about…
The General Idea of What I've Been Up To Lately
My days… or more accurately, my nights… are full of soul work these days.
I spend most of my time writing and thinking.
And checking Facebook.
And wandering around the house aimlessly while talking to myself.
I won’t lie. It’s some rough work.
I’m…
A Fresh Look for the Auth Exp
I always feel awkward doing these announcement posts where I’m pretty much just posting to say “Hey! Look at my site! It looks different! Isn’t that awesome?” because to be honest… It’s kinda lame.
So… now that I’ve got your attention…
Happy Valentine’s…
Sunday Confessions #34: Digital Cleanup, Nothing To Write About, Casey Desmond, Mission Cleanup, and Ordering Stuff from Amazon
1. I did a massive clean up of the blogs that I’m subbed to recently.One of the things that I was noticing about my life was that I was spending a ridiculous amount of time trying to get through all the blogs in my feed reader and I only gave a shit…
Not Even Josh Groban Can Distract Me from Staring at My Boyfriend's Butt
For me, Josh Groban is one of those celebrities that’s on The List.
You know… The List… The list of celebrities that you’d willingly cheat on your partner with if that celebrity happened to saunter up to you and be all like, “Let’s blow this taco stand…
