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	What Movie Are You In? Posted by: MichaelNYC on 2/2/2010 8 You’ve probably heard the expression “The ends justify the means”. It pops up a lot in action movies with a “rage against the machine” connotation. The hard-boiled cop with a heart of gold is arguing with the police chief about how to handle a case. The police chief – probably a bit overweight and definitely a stickler for regulations – insists that they handle this “by the book”. Our hero angrily (or with an eerie sense of calm, depending on the character) places his shield and gun on the ... Read More
	30 is the new 30 Posted by: aclassicdisposition on 10/14/2009 So, I’ve been putting off writing this (aka procrastinating) because I made yet another major move in my life and felt I should gain some posterity before it was possible for me to comment on life at all. I’m 29 ½, which means staring 30 dead in the face. Though most of my friends have already passed this major milestone, some are in my shoes exactly. Which shoes are those exactly? Well we are somewhere between Vans and Manolos, we know we must put on that more serious shoe ... Read More
	2010 Goal Setting for Living On Your Own Posted by: bugcandy on 12/31/2009 As the Founder of StageofLife.com, I wanted to wish our On My Own readers a Happy New Year in 2010. To help provide some ideas on new opportunities for your life this New Year, check out our "Goal Setting Worksheet." Print it here. Feel free to complete this worksheet with a family member or friend. You'll be surprised at the answers you'll reveal to each o... Read More
	What would Carrie Bradshaw Do? Posted by: aclassicdisposition on 12/15/2009 Just around a decade a go, a show came on to the airwaves that changed the American dating scene as we know it. Sex and the City changed the way we women handled ourselves, suddenly we were free to be quirky, sexually charged, brave, fabulous and single at age 40. No longer were we old maids but the girls who had it all, the career, the fabulous night life and the shoes. One thing we also had was that awful truth of repeated broken hearts. If there's one thing we know by the end... Read More
	Budgeting?! Posted by: mcoly618 on 12/7/2009 With holidays rolling around, breaks from school, and the economy I'm finding it harder and harder to keep a handle on my money situation. I try to keep records and receipts, make a list of payments, etc. but nothing seems to work. Does anyone have advice on a FREE budgeting plan or place to go to get your finances in order?... Read More
	Shopping Ideas for Nieces and Nephews? Posted by: Kylie on 11/22/2009 As a single gal moonlighting as the "cool aunt" for my half dozen of nieces of nephews (five to be exact - three boys and two girls between four and twelve years old), I always get extremely excited about planning out their gifts. Here are a few things I'm working on for them this year - feel free to use these gift ideas for your nieces and nephews too (and no, I'm not going to ruin the surprise since the kids don't read my blogs/posts on this site...although my sisters do so I'll ... Read More
	No longer on my own :) Posted by: mcoly618 on 11/18/2009 As of June 2010 I will no longer be living alone, struggling (at least not alone). As of yesterday I signed a lease for a great apartment with my boyfriend of three years. Its in a college town, but surprisingly not a dump. Its half of a house with an unfinished basement, kitchen, living room, two bedrooms, a bathroom, and a porch. Honestly it is exactly what we were searching for, in our price range, and close to campus. Now a days its honestly the little things like a free sofa we got la... Read More
	A big step Posted by: mcoly618 on 10/25/2009 So tomorrow, my boyfriend (of 3 years) and I are going to walk through our first apartment viewing. OH MY GOD! Besides my lack blinking right now, I can't help but have this overwhelming feeling of BLANK. The thing I've been longing for, wishing for, praying for is starting tomorrow. I have no idea what kinds of questions to ask, how to react, what to say, what to wear, etc. I can't help but feel confused and alone. Even though he will be there he has no ide... Read More
	Secret Single Behavior Posted by: thoughtsofadiva on 10/26/2009 My favorite TV show of all time is Sex and The City. I love everything SATC. Don't judge me! Anyway, there was an episode where the girls talked about their Secret Single Behavior. My girl at Broke in the City did a post on this and I thought I would steal her idea and make a post of my own. Secret Single Behaviors are behaviors you exhibit when you are alone at home but would never want your mate to see. Here are a few of my SSB: 1. Washing my hair. I kn... Read More
	Stevie’s Rhiannon Posted by: audiozealot on 10/6/2009 I write about music, and Stevie Nicks is one of my favorite muses. Stevie has written so many wonderful songs, many of which will never see past the demo stage of the songwriting process. Fortunately, for the die-hardest of fans, these songs float about cyberspace and can be easily accessed. Over the years I have collected dozens of obscure, raw piano demos that are poetically beautiful and performed in total simplicity: just an artist, her piano, and her emotive voice. Of all of Stevie’s f... Read More
	Make A Little Birdhouse In Your Soul Posted by: MichaelNYC on 9/22/2009 It’s been said that positive energy is one of the most powerful forces in the world. That, if you keep a positive outlook, you can overcome adversity, negativity and even sickness. Whenever somebody tells me something like that, I throw up in my mouth a little bit. I mean, come on! How cheesy can you get?! You can’t affect your life or your relationship or the world by thinking about puppies and rainbows! And no matter how much we might like to think so, clapping an... Read More
	Keeping My Eyes on the Prize Posted by: mcoly618 on 9/13/2009 So here it is, the beginning of the school year. Fresh new books in hand, roommates (new and old), back to school shopping and my personal favorite... ...debt. Oh credit cards how you have saved me through thick and thin, and now feel like the weight of a 2 ton boulder crushing my every breathe. With the beginning of year fresh on my mind, there are many other thoughts on my mind. Classes and work, that's the norm. Its the little things that have me sweating. The... Read More
	Out of love Posted by: bureauista on 9/8/2009 2 So I've been single over three months now, and the thing that surprises me this time round is that I'm just not attracted to anyone. Seriously, it's not like I haven't been looking. Against my better judgment I did join a couple of dating sites, but after perusing hundreds of profiles, not a single one sparked my interest. I meet lots of guys through work and through my circle of friends. Some of them are handsome, some are witty, some are clever and erudite and wealthy ... Read More
	FUNK soul brother Posted by: mcoly618 on 6/6/2009 1 Funk is the only word to describe it. The awkward, working hard for nothing, no money, no house, don't care just paying the bills, what friends, my boyfriend's busy, can't sleep, not hungry, i want to shop FUNK that I'm in. And most you know you've been through it, too. I'm putting myself through college, been paying my own way since I was thirteen, and now understand why most people literally loose their minds in todays society. I feel that there is no way that I can ever get ahead, t... Read More
	Thwarted Love Posted by: thoughtsofadiva on 8/21/2009 I was reading a fellow bloggers post today and she was talking about past loves and it got me to thinking about mine. It got me to thinking about Bernard Mackey and James Stewart. Those two were the loves of my life. They were the air I breathed. They were my first thoughts when I awoke in the morning and the last thought when I laid my head on my pillow at night. They were my everything……when I was in the 5th grade. See, I hear the scoffs of you non believers but trust me... Read More
	Single girl Posted by: bureauista on 8/19/2009 When my last relationship started going wrong, one of the reasons I kept putting off the break up was my fear of being alone. I didn't want to have no one to call after a bad day at work, to have to decide what to do by myself at the weekends, to have no excuse to get on a train or a plane to go see my man. Turns out I needn't have worried about any of that. Two months of being single and I find that I am canceling dates and avoiding social encounters because I am loving spending tim... Read More
	Reflections of a beach bum Posted by: mcoly618 on 8/18/2009 I am a very independent person to start with, so when I somehow ended up on the beach surrounded with complete strangers I was not surprised. As I was oh so effortlessly lying in the sweltering sand of Wildwood NJ over the weekend alone, I couldn't help but listen in on the conversations going on around me. All the children pink from the sun kissing them all day running around with not a care in the world, the parents under umbrellas taking a jillion pictures of every movement of their child ... Read More
	It's 5 o'clock Anywhere But Here Posted by: laureldiehl on 8/7/2009 3 It is currently, as I type, 2:57pm on a Friday afternoon. I'm finished at 4pm. I have never appreciated weekends more. The local "feel good" perfect-for-office-playing radio station is playing the classic "It's 5 o'clock somewhere". Yes - it is somewhere. Anywhere but here. I go through this every single Friday. My desk is clear. I have completed absolutely any single project I could have possibly completed. Except the school library. It's behind me, therefore easy to igno... Read More
	When I'm 64 Posted by: Mr.E on 8/2/2009 1 So I have another money saving tip for all you starving singles out there like myself. But first a question. Whats does both me and my dad have in common? Awesome mustaches? I wish! Apparently my family's mustache growing power skips a generation, leaving me with more hair in my belly button then on my baby face. Though I look forward to the powerful facial hair my son will have, I'm hoping for something like if Burt Renolds scored with a wood chuck. Anyway the thing my father and ... Read More
	Tell me something I don't know Posted by: mcoly618 on 7/21/2009 "You need to get a real job!" or "Quit spending money, you should be saving!!" oh or the classic "What are you going to do with your life?!?!" Oh, how I love this great "tips" for living. I mean it so easy to say to someone when your in a completely different situation, physically, mentally, and financially. This is going to turn into some what more of a rant then a blog, but honestly this is life. So here's the set up: A young twenty something female living pay ch... Read More
	Using all the buffalo Posted by: Mr.E on 5/13/2009 So what I’ve gathered from watching old John Wayne movies is that before the Anglo Saxons moved to America there were a group of people called “the Indians”. The Indians had a philosophy called, “using all the buffalo”. Whenever a tribe would kill a buffalo, wooly mammoth or any other prehistoric beast, every part of the animal was used and nothing went to waste. I’ve taken this philosophy and adapted it to modern single living, where nothing is wasted and you use all of the buffalo that your... Read More
	Getting back in the saddle Posted by: bureauista on 7/12/2009 http://bureauista.com/blog When a friend has gone through a break up I'm normally the first person to advocate getting back in the dating saddle and going out hunting for someone new. I don't believe that time spent moping around is time well spent. Life is short: there are better things to do than sit alone listening to The Smiths and snivelling into a tissue. In the sixteen years that I've been dating I've been true to my own philosophy. As soon as one relationship ends,... Read More
	On My Own? Posted by: ALID on 6/17/2009 I am writing in the On My Own section, yet am I really, truly on my own? No. I graduated college in June of 2008, which was a bit of a tease since I still had summer school to complete. Go ahead Ali...walk in your cap and gown and feel like you're done with all of the essays, all of the studying, the office hours, the lectures, yadda yadda yadda. But surprise! You're not. Walk on down and shake hands with the Dean, then bam! Walk right back into class and do some more work. Read More
	And I'm Spent! Posted by: ALID on 7/6/2009 7 It's a fact: I can't afford myself. Well, I won't be able to anyway. It's just not happening. I mean, seriously. This whole adult thang is really starting to freak me out. I was so beyond excited the second after I threw my graduation cap into the air - I was free! Freedom tasted delicious. Or so I thought. It wasn't long after that that my dad uttered this fear-inducing sentence. "Ali, you need to call the insurance company and figure ever... Read More
	Looking Back To See the Future Posted by: GaryMarsden on 6/23/2009 Recently turning 50 has had a very strange effect on my way of thinking. Looking back over the years I would have never thought things would be the way they have turned out. There is good and bad as you may have guessed. The most compelling thought is that I wish I knew half as much as I thought I did in the past. With every day comes another reminder that I did not have all the answers. In retrospect things could have been much worse for I have had a good life all in all. Many are w... Read More