Attention Management, Part 1: Quitting
A quick administrative note: I started a brand-spanking new job this month and I’m having a blast. I’ll be doing front-end mobile development and design with these lovely folks, who are seriously some of the most brilliant people I’ve ever interacted with. I’m still kind of shocked they brought me on, and I’m working my...
Pay What You Can in 2012: An Announcement From My Other Website
Hi. Guys. Over here. Listen up. Most of you know that I maintain a second website for my freelance work. In general, I try not to get all salesy with my work here, because that’s not really what this blog is for. HOWEVER. I want to kick off 2012 by reaching a wider audience of...
How to answer the “When are you going to get MARRIED?!” questions [in ways that are less abrasive than "None of your @#&*ing business."]
[When this posts, I'll be attending a wedding and hopefully dodging these kinds of questions. Wish me luck on dodging the well-meaning nosy relatives. In the meantime, here's some of what I've prepared to say without being evicted from the wedding and disowned from my family.] a) Ignore the question. Repeatedly, if you have to....
Fun times for Amanda Lee and I Love Life I Love You!
Before I say a thing, I have to apologize for my silence this week. About seventeen work projects due to end, a huge lump of freelance, the beginning of the season at the Playhouse, and one of the worst chest cold/flu combos I’ve had in the last two years, blogging was the very bottom of...
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Things That Contribute to a Wardrobe That’s Overgrown, Excessive . . . and Totally Useful.
[source] So, I’m getting ready to move. Again. And I’m getting ready to clean out my closet. Again. I spent some quality time with my Mint.com account today and realized that in the past year, I’ve spent more on both food and craft supplies than I have on clothing. Score for minimalism and fiscal responsibility!...
An Announcement
[source] It’s been silent around here for the past couple of days, and I’m sorry. I’m amidst a launch of a big project at work, sometimes putting in almost seventy hours a week between my office and my other job…and it’s catching up with me. So hold tight. I’ll be right back with you later...
Dear Readers…
[made by me. look at these shiny new Photoshop skills!] [All together now: "I wanna/I wanna/I wanna/I wanna/really really really wanna ziggaziggaaaahh!" Yeah, you know you were singing it to yourself. And I know too. Yeah.] All right, kids. I’m ready to step up my commitment to blogging in 2010. So tell me: what do...
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A Reiteration: Why Fashion Is Important
I’ve touched on this before in one of my Inspiration posts, but then a couple weeks ago this happened on Britain’s Got Talent. And I think given that, it bears repeating. How you look matters, people. And since we’re not always at liberty to change our own height, weight, bone structure, skin condition, or disability,...
Turn to Face the Strange (Ch-Ch-Changes!)
So I wrote yesterday about my hiatus and why I took it—mainly because I wasn’t loving what I was doing. So, it’s time for a change. Here’s a heads-up as to what you guys can expect over the next few weeks. You know my Love It! posts? Well, I don’t love them anymore. All my...
Things I Learned, Accomplished, Did, or Came to Terms With During My, uh…Long-Ass Blogging Hiatus [And How This Affects You, Dear Readers]
(Damn, has it seriously been a month and a half? I don’t know where the time went.) Unimportant things: I learned to crochet, courtesy of inspiration from Katherine and an amazing gift from her: a crocheted cowl scarf and a bag of coffee from Ritual Roasters in San Francisco. I visited Jamie in Philadelphia, and...
An Announcement
So I went MIA this weekend. Not the singer. I mean, I haven’t been here. Sorry for that. Things will be back to normal on AmandaLee.org tomorrow. Pictures (including last week’s Window and my costume!) will be up as soon as humanly possible, as well as all the list-y, link-y, New York-y goodness you’ve come...