The holidays are finally over, and now it's time to get to thanking of all your very thoughtful friends, family members, and colleagues.
Naava (who, if you remember, designed a lovely holiday card for my family) is offering a brand-new line of Thank You Cards just for kids via her Etsy shop.
P.S. If you're already thinking Valentine's Day, the shop offers adorable customized Valentine's Day cards, as well.
Here’s the thing about ice-skating (and all winter sports, including my other favorite, snowboarding): it’s rough on the skin. And when your skin is already as sensitive and prone to major dryness as mine, moisturizing isn’t just a nice thing to do…it’s necessary.
Speaking from years of experience here.
I know: you think “Jordan”, you don’t really think “snow-and-ice-loving athlete." That makes sense. But did you know I used to ice-skate competitively?
True story.
Click over to Makeup.com for more ideas for how to pretty up for your day on the ice.
(In the upper-left corner is another shot from my ice-skating semi-glory days - my mom made my costumes, and the black-and-white one you see there was my all-time favorite. I wore it while skating to En Vogue's "Giving Him Something He Can Feel," which is sort of completely inappropriate for a 13-year-old and also sort of awesome, because, I mean...En Vogue.)
Q. Hi Jordan,
I started reading your blog earlier this year and I love it. I just needed to ask you something. I've read your posts about your love life, past and present, and I've been reading and re-reading this post [about being "certain" in a relationship]. I relate to this reader so much...and I do have one question: How do you break up with someone who has done absolutely nothing wrong to you, but you just know you're not supposed to be together?
I have been with someone for almost a year now and everything is fine. Just fine. But that's all. I have always, always had this nagging feeling that I am going to wake up engaged, and I'm scared because I have no reason to reject a perfectly nice proposal. My boyfriend has never treated me poorly, we rarely fight, he loves me so much...but I am just lacking something, and I feel like I need to end this sooner rather than later because I know in my heart that this is not the person I want to spend the rest of my life with.
Have you ever been the breaker and not the break-ee when it comes to ending a relationship? I honestly know what I need to do...I just don't know how to do it. Do you have any words of advice from experience of your own?
We spent New Year's Eve as promised...
Oh my god, is this ever good first thing in the morning.
I think it's fair to say that 2012 brought a lot of introspecting around these parts.
My favorite moments from the Life Experiences And General Drama category over the past year...
This is probably the category that I had the most fun with this year, for pretty obvious reasons.
I mean, we moved.
Transitioning from a fourth-floor walkup that we pretended was a two-bedroom but was actually a one-bedroom with a hallway that was slightly wider in one spot (and that had a toilet in the kitchen and a bathtub where the closet should have been; how weird is that?) to a for-real home was right up there with marrying Kendrick and having Indy in the most exciting moments of my life.
Well, that was a year.
Not "a year"...a year. I mean, lots happened.
Style-wise I went from city girl to suburban mama, and my look chilled out accordingly (but still managed not to change all that much, because I've been a creature of slouchy habit since approximately 1981).
I used to occasionally wear skirts and dresses and, you know...clothing that people wear in public; now I reach for jeans and sweaters that could arguably double as pajamas. Or might actually be pajamas. You never know.
