Category: Life

• Time For a Facelift

  Call me Joan Rivers, but it’s time for my blog to get a facelift*.   *A bad analogy, perhaps, since I don’t want my blog to resemble a duck in any way. Hopefully, this is the kind of facelift that’s seen as an improvement on one’s appearance rather than one that makes people shriek, “Ohmyygawwwd…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  June 6, 2014

  blogging, humor, Life, writing

  blogging, Courtney Cox.  , facelift, funny, Joan Rivers, karma, Motif Magazine, Seinfeld, Summer of George

• A Lesson In Karma

  

  There are two things you should know about me. 1)     I hate paying for parking 2)     I hate driving through Boston Here’s why I hate these things: Paid Parking The beauty of growing up in Roswell, New Mexico is that all residential neighborhoods are fair game for parking on the street, and no parking lot…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  May 9, 2014

  hikes, humor, Life, ranting, travel

  boston, Boston traffic, Braintree, city planners, embarrassing moments, free parking, karma, kindness of strangers, Mass-holes, new mexico, paid parking, Red Line, Roswell, stupid, the grid, the T, The Walk for Hunger, things I hate, Walk for Hunger, why people shouldn’t pay for parking

• A Serious Question For Bloggers (on Being a Hot Mess)

  I have a question for bloggers out there:   How is it that those of you with day jobs find time to write?   I was bad at blogging when I was unemployed, but now it seems impossible. My day job takes up my days, waitressing takes up my Saturdays (and occasional evenings), the gym…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  February 21, 2014

  blogging, hair, humor, Life, writing

  bad interview questions, black dress, blogging, Boston traffic, Burns Day, hot mess, scotland, University of Glasgow

• I Tried To Go Without Washing My Hair and Failed

  I was unaware that this was now a movement, but evidently not washing one’s hair with shampoo and conditioner is the new thing.   And this movement has the most horrid name I could ever imagine:   “No ‘Poo.”   No SHAMpoo, I get it.   But ugh.   Much to my surprise, there’s even…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  February 11, 2014

  hair, humor, Life

  apple cider vinegar, baking soda, experiment, life lessons, no poo, not washing hair, shampoo, six weeks

• A Wee Bit Employed

  I think it’s time that I mention I have a new job.     I was afraid to post a blog about it because the universe likes to snatch good things out of my hands as soon as I write about them. So, rather than divulge too much, I’ll just say I work at a…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  February 7, 2014

  blogging, Life, work

  blogging, cover letters, ivy league, public transportation, ripta, successful, Winter

• BLOG OF SUCK; alternatively, “The Incident Report”

  This blog would have been written sooner except my friend who was visiting this weekend informed me that I should make my blog better by, like, not sucking.   At least that was my interpretation. His exact words were intended to be constructive and more along the lines of: “You should write something that will…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  January 23, 2014

  blogging, humor, Life, waitressing

  blogging, falling, greek friends, slipping, waitressing

• National Gratitude Month

  I meant to post this at the beginning of the month.   I’m sorry.   But I was reminded it of it today when I was at work because I saw on The Today Show (I think…which show features Hoda?) there were captions that said “Positive Effects of Saying Thank You.*”   *This is not…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  January 13, 2014

  holidays, Life, lists

  365grateful, giving thanks, gratitude journal, new year’s resolutions, positive effects, Strawberry Shortcake