Carolina girl, navigating life in a new-old city with a husband. UofSC & AU j-school Grad. Reformed congressional reporter. Communicator. Gamecock.
What I’ve been reading
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What does 26 mean exactly?
I’m starting to have trouble with picking songs for my many months and years. When it comes to summarizing an entire year in three-ish minutes, well, you can see how that’s not easy. I don’t know why I’ve decided to track my life like this (Liz White soundtrack part one and two). It made sense at 18. Music … Read more
A girls’ weekend in Virginia wine country
When my best friend got engaged, I immediately started thinking about a girls’ weekend getaway. She’s one of the funnest people to be around so I knew it would be a blast. We kind of had a mini girls’ weekend in D.C. last year so I was ready for this. My bachelorette was two years … Read more
House Hunting: Saying yes to the house
After looking at well over a dozen houses and fighting with the husband and everything, I was feeling disheartened about finding a house. The husband wanted to wait, claiming something better might come on the market. I didn’t want to wait because you never know how long that could take or if something better really … Read more
Marriage: Year two, day 365
People often say that the first year of marriage is the hardest. I’m not sure where this came from but I have to disagree. OK, I’ll concede the point that every marriage is different. For us, the first year was pretty easy. It was just a continuation of the previous three years we’d spent together … Read more
House Hunting: The search, emotions
I have a lot to blog about since I’ve been so neglectful, but I’ll start with the house hunting. When I left off I was apprehensively approaching the house hunting for real. With the help of a friend, we landed an awesome Realtor (if you’re look or thinking of looking in Columbia, message me and … Read more
House hunting: The pre-search
House hunting isn’t at all what it looks like on TV. I know that’s a dumb thing to say but it is called “reality tv.” For a little over a month I’ve been thinking about how to go about this whole buying a house thing. I’ve done the google searches and left frustrated. There’s just … Read more
On friendship
I’ve been thinking about friendship quite a lot lately. In June, my D.C. book club read Rachel Bertsche‘s “MWF Seeking BFF.” It’s about a Chicago-transplant’s year-long search for a new best friend. Then I moved back to Columbia, where I’ve been pondering new/old friendships. To be honest, friendship is something I think about pretty often. … Read more
All you need is love
Today is a special day for my husband and I. To remember that, I’m sharing some of our wedding playlist. One of the major pluses to me about making our own playlist for our wedding is that I get to carry it with me anywhere on my iPod. (We took requests via our website and … Read more
Glamourous and overwhelming
I’m exhausted after last night’s White House Correspondent’s Association dinner. It was quite an experience. Overwhelming and fun. There so too many celebrities and politicians to keep track. My guest tried. I tried tweeting them all but they just kept coming. At one point, Asif Mandvi (Daily Show) came in beside me and I audibly … Read more
Blogging, connections, self
Is blogging egotistical? I had essentially this argument/conversation with my brother over the weekend. It started when I read a piece in Jezebel about a story about a blogger. Whoa, that sounds complicated. Essentially the Jezebel story kind of pulls out pieces of the news profile about a blogger to highlight some of the more … Read more
Reading challenge 2013 part one
My goal for reading this year is at least 30 books. I need to beat 2011′s total of 24 but currently I’m two books behind (according to Goodreads). 2013 Reading Challenge Liz has read 7 books toward her goal of 30 books. hide 7 of 30 (23%) view books Here’s what I’ve been reading so … Read more
My best friend’s wedding
Next week my best friend will tie the knot. I couldn’t be more excited for her and her fiancé. We met in college but despite having a class together we didn’t meet on campus. This guy I was dating was best friends with her boyfriend at the time. We went out on a double date. Somehow, … Read more
Back down south
I’m ashamed at how late this post is. Last week was my first birthday back in the South, back near family. Don’t get me wrong, my birthdays in D.C. were great. Year No. 1 we went out to our favorite, local Mexican place with my friends from work. My office had a birthday celebration like … Read more
