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Tag: Misc

  • Spinster & the Single Girl

    Spinster Girl
Confession: I have been single for my entire life.

    …and with that confession I’m inviting in a whole truckload of stereotypes that come attached to being single girl in the 21st Century.

    Stating ‘single’ as your relationship status comes with a wealth of contradicting views and feelings. In some ways it’s empowering, yet you feel prudish for not putting out; envied for your independence and free agency, but bound to the clock that counts down to getting a boyfriend/girlfriend and marriage; pressured to follow your own dreams, your own career and your own path, but are consistently fighting off questions about your dating life, when you’ll have kids, whether you’ll ever settle down.

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  • Shine Theory & the Blogging Community

    Shine Theory & the Blogging Community

    Photo via VisualHunt

    “I don’t shine, if you don’t shine.”

    I said in my previous post I’d been thinking about Shine Theory without really explaining exactly what it is and why the hell I’m so obsessed with it.

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  • Lifestyle | Musicals For Musical Haters

    One of the gripes I get from people who aren’t fans of musical theatre is that ‘It’s all jazz hands and sparkly lights and URGHH WHY ARE THEY ALL SO HAPPY’. Yes, some of the biggest musicals in the world fall into the jazz-hand-y all smiles and no sadness category or the Les Mis/Webber penned operatic affairs that win Oliviers and your grandparents probably consider classics. But don’t write of the musical genre just yet.

    I hold a strong personal belief that there’s a musical out there for anyone. So whether you’ve been haunted by the awful that was High School Musical, or are sick to death of hearing about how great Anne Hathaway was singing I Dreamed A Dream, gear up your excuses, cause I’m about to fire off some serious suggestions to turn you into a musical theatre convert…join us we have Schmakery’s cookies* ^_^

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