I’ve always wanted to do link love posts as I come across all sorts of good reads daily. (We can ignore the fact that it’s taken me four years of blogging to roll out my first link love post. Oops.) Aiming to do these on a regular basis, but I make no promises!
Beauty
The back of the hand is the go-to place to swatch just about anything makeup-related at the store, but The Sunday Girl breaks down why that’s not ideal, and where you should be swatching what type of products when sampling in stores.
I shouldn’t buy any more polish until I make more of a dent in the current bottles I own, but Jen’s liquid sand manicure is intriguing! I can’t imagine it would be easy to remove, though.
Finance
Aloysa outlines why she hates regifting. I can’t believe someone actually tried to regift her a used lipstick!!
Little Miss Moneybags’ series “Notes from the NICU” tugs at my heartstrings. Her post about things people say about having a baby in the NICU is particularly moving.
Food
Michael’s Mexican corn soup recipe is the type of recipe that made me run to the store that day so I could make the soup immediately. Delicious!
I guess the fact that it’s January has me on a bit of a soup kick. Closet Cooking’s lasagna soup looks like a great take on the classic lasagna.
I love French onion soup. I also love macaroni and cheese. Desiree’s caramelized French onion mac and cheese has the potential to blow my mind.
Life
This ThoughtCatalog article on how to live in Washington, D.C. is spot-on. I wish I had written it.
A new year is often associated with new beginnings. Emily ties the transformative power of friendships in with that theme.
I have a wonderful job in my chosen field of public relations. But I also adore traveling and have a case of wanderlust I fear will never be satiated. eemusings talks about different ways to fit travel into your life plan.
Relationships
I love the title of Captain Awkward’s post: “If he wanted to be your boyfriend, he’d be your boyfriend.” WORD. The reasoning is pretty spot-on too, but the title just says it all for me.
The New York Times article The End of Courtship? sums up why, when G first asked me out, I straight-up immediately clarified whether or not that meant he would become my boyfriend. The dating scene/process is far too ambiguous otherwise.
Oh, this is great. I have a bunch of tabs open right now and will spend the next who-knows-how-long browsing. I approve of this series!
My goal is to post these once a week – perhaps I’ll have you hold me to it
Aw, thanks Manda!
Here, dating is very different. Asking someone to go out with you is a lot more serious than it would be in the US, I think. Which is good for the ambiguity thing!
I think that it just takes a lot longer to get to the step (if ever!) of officially asking someone out here than it does in most places. As in, it’s not uncommon to fall into having a thing with someone and have it naturally run its course/fizzle out without technically ever being officially together, but I imagine that track is harder to achieve elsewhere. (At least, I hope.)
I dunno, that NY Times article on dating hit me the wrong way. I also don’t find any of it to be true, in my experience. I think the dating scene depends a lot on where you’re located. New York City (as in the article, I’m guessing) functions a lot differently from where I normally am, say, Pittsburgh. Online dating *really* cuts out the ambiguity, I think.
I can’t really speak for the online dating part of the article, as I’ve never tried it. From what some of my coworkers and I have discussed about it though, it seems to hold true. But I could definitely understand where the first part about the hookup culture and how dating has become so very casual is true as filtered through my observations about dating in college and even the first few years after graduating. Can’t say I have experienced it personally, although I think that says more about my taste in guys than anything else
I live in DC which I would assume is more like NYC than Pittsburgh in terms of the dating scene: lots of young millennials that filter in and out of the city throughout the year. Either way, I thought it was a thought-provoking piece that demonstrates how times are a-changin’!