Category Archives: Women

Today I Am Home

Posted on March 30, 2012 by judisunshine

So my new apartment is in a house that was a small hotel back in the early 20th Century. Wait, do you capitalize “century?” Either way. Now it’s divided up into three apartments. My place RULES, but the walls are … Continue reading →

Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Childhood, Family, Friends, Miscellaneous, Romance, Women, Work | Tagged Amethyst Cream, Annie, apartments, Baldwin, bang, Benjamin Moore, boarding houses, clunk, Colorado Springs, drunken "Glee" singalongs, exes, Full Bloom, furniture from the garbage, Hempstead, historical buildings, hotels, How I Met Your Mother, Jamaican Aqua, landlords, Lemon Yellow, Lily apartment, Long Island, Manitou Springs, marriage, masking tape, memories, Merrick, Morning Sunshine, move outs, Moving, Oneonta, Plainview, purple walls, relationships, shenanigans, staying home from work, sweep, tenants, vacuuming, voyeurism, Warbucks mansion | 8 Comments

A New “90210,” 15 Years Later

Posted on March 23, 2012 by judisunshine

Last Saturday, the day after my reunion (woohoo, more on that another time though), I managed to finally, after 15 years, catch the episode of “90210” where Brandon uses Kelly as a decoy at some college government thing because Josh … Continue reading →

Posted in Body Image, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Friends, Miscellaneous, Romance, TV, Women | Tagged belly shirts, Beverly Hills 90210, Brandon Walsh, Brenda Walsh, Change Partners episode, cheating, Claire Arnold, college, dating, DEA, double standards with sex, Dylan McKay, Generation X, Generation Y, High school, Kelly Taylor, Muntz, Steve Sanders, unfriendly to ass years, Valerie Malone | 2 Comments

Used to Be

Posted on March 17, 2012 by judisunshine

I used to be a cheerleader. I’d dreamed of being one for as long as I could remember, but definitely no later than at 10 when I started reading Sweet Valley High. It was everything I loved in the world … Continue reading →

Posted in AcTING!, Childhood, Friends, Miscellaneous, TV, Women, Work | Tagged Benjamin Bratt, cartwheels, characters, cheerleader, chicken fingers, college, community theater, costumes, depression, exercise in embarrassment, existential crisis, fat lip, fundraisers, glamour, going through the motions, High school, Josh-U-AH!, junior high, junior year, laps, M&M sales, middle school, Modern Family, moving in unisonsquad, Nassau Community College, NCC, NCC theater, no sadder phrase, Rachel Greene, reahearsals, slow learner, stagnation, stationery, student, supherheroes, Sweet Valley High, Tate Donovan, tedium, theater, theatrical highs, uniforms, used to be, waitress, yelling | 3 Comments

A Star In Somebody Else’s Sky

Posted on March 15, 2012 by judisunshine

Just sometimes, it hits me. This place had a long history before us, has a long future after us. I keep thinking it’s a part of our lives, but, really, it’s the reverse. For a little while…I don’t know. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Childhood, Family, Miscellaneous, Women | Tagged apartments, change, Colorado, Dragonfly Inn, Gilmore Girls, homes, houses, letting go, Lorelai Gilmore, Moving, moving on, New York, Sookie St. James | 3 Comments

5 Reasons To Watch Funny Games (2007 Remake)

Posted on March 11, 2012 by judisunshine

Spoiler alert! Though I think one could watch “Funny Games” and enjoy it after reading my blog, I do give potential spoilers for the movie! 1) The Soundtrack/Score I’ve always had a predilection towards metal and other scary sounds that … Continue reading →

Posted in AcTING!, Books, Cats, Celebrities, Childhood, Driving & Other Transportation, Family, Food, Friends, Going Out, Lists, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Superheroes/Villains, Supernatural :o, Theater, TV, Women | Tagged 1987, Adventureland, Alanis Morrissette, awesome kid actors, Balls of steel, Bonehead, Brady Corbet, classical music, Devon Gearheart, Devon Gearheart is a prodigiously awesome actor, emoticons, every woman should read Gift of Fear and Tomato Nation, Funny Games, Funny Games 2007, Gavin De Becker, Gift of Fear, idyllic vacation spots, IMDB, Michael Haneke, Michael Pitt, Naked City, Naomi Watts, Naomi Watts 'cause she is a fucking rock star, Naomi Watts acting the hell out of all of it, score, Soundtrack, sympathetic character, T. S. Eliot, Tm Roth | 5 Comments

Prithee, My Dear, Why Are We Here?

Posted on March 11, 2012 by judisunshine

They were all there. Stuck in the basement. Like it was a bomb shelter — not ideal, but necessary. For the time being. And I was one of them, but one day I wondered why I accepted it so easily, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Apartments & Other Domiciles, Dreams, Miscellaneous, Superheroes/Villains, Supernatural :o, Women | Tagged basement, blood, bomb shelter, chase, floating above, gray and moldy, guard dogs, pin, pricked finger, safety in numbers, stabbed, time being, travel, vacation, waiting at the gate | 8 Comments

It’s Amazing

Posted on March 10, 2012 by judisunshine

And she began to see: how we cling to fragile walls… this first home/body pounded and grown out of necessity, love. Biting love. Survival love. ~ Ishle Yi Park Spring 2004 was the worst season of my entire life. I’d … Continue reading →

Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Books, Family, Miscellaneous, Romance, Women, Work | Tagged abandonment, Aerosmith, alcohol, Amazing, anxiety, catharsis, Christina Aguilera, cigarettes, Clonidin, Cryptoquotes, divorce, Don Quixote, Elisabeth Robinson, first spring day, Get a Grip, Gravitron, H&M, hope, kittens, leukemia, Manhattan, marriage, Miller Lite, misery, New York City, paralysis dreams, Penn Station, Stripped, The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, Tylenol PM | 10 Comments

Goodbye, Barbie.

Posted on March 8, 2012 by judisunshine

When I was almost six, my family moved to a new neighborhood, and I made friends with a girl on our block whom I’ll call Laura. She and I were very different. For one thing, she was born into that … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood, Friends, Miscellaneous, School, Women | Tagged Barbie, BarbieGate, BFF, cops, eery scooters, fighting, friends, growing apart, growing up, jack wagner, Kelly Kapowski, Life, Like a Virgin, Monopoly, soap operas, The Young and teh Restless, Virginia Avenue, Yahtzee | 7 Comments

Russian to Get Rid of The Bar Hunter

Posted on March 3, 2012 by judisunshine

You know who I’m talking about. He comes in all shapes, sizes, ages, races, levels of intelligence – but he is That Guy. The guy who goes to a bar, and may as well have a bow and arrow in … Continue reading →

Posted in Friends, Going Out, Miscellaneous, Romance, Women | Tagged awkward conversations, Bar hunters, bars, Clubs, drinking, flirting, jukeboxes, love connections, Russian, Spokoinoi nochi, Stingers Rockville Centre | 1 Comment

They Will Only Make You Feel Ugly

Posted on February 29, 2012 by judisunshine

Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly. ~ Baz Luhrmann I bought my first beauty magazine — an issue of Teen — in 1989, the summer before ninth grade. It was time, I understood, to … Continue reading →

Posted in Body Image, Childhood, Food, Friends, Going Out, Miscellaneous, Restaurants, Women, Work | Tagged attempts to be demure, bad photos, Baz Luhrmann, Beauty magazines, blue eyeshadow, boots, browns, Cosmo, diet pills, embarrassing pics, floral vests, jewel tones, lack of interest in purses, long skirts, pearl-buttoned blouses, pissed off canaries, plums, puffed sleeves, straight bangs, Taffy Sinclair, Teen Beat, Teen Magazine, The Wizard of Oz, touch of sun, waitressing, weight loss, yearbook pictures | 3 Comments

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