Choosing Figs https://choosingfigs.com/ Neurotic as hell. Fri, 31 Dec 2021 16:34:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 So 2021 happened. I guess. https://choosingfigs.com/so-2021-happened-i-guess/ https://choosingfigs.com/so-2021-happened-i-guess/#comments Fri, 31 Dec 2021 16:34:35 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=98093 I saw this meme going around the other day. It was this photo of Bernie Sanders at the Biden inauguration, slumped on a chair in a face mask and mittens that went viral around the time it was taken. But this time the meme said,...

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]]> https://choosingfigs.com/so-2021-happened-i-guess/feed/ 3 I haven’t had alcohol in a year. https://choosingfigs.com/i-havent-had-alcohol-in-a-year/ https://choosingfigs.com/i-havent-had-alcohol-in-a-year/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2021 15:59:39 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=98084 On December 31, 2019 I made a New Year’s resolution to cut back on drinking alcohol. I wanted to say, “give up alcohol altogether,” but, let’s face it, I knew that wasn’t going to actually happen… barring some sort of crazy universal intervention… I wasn’t...

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]]> https://choosingfigs.com/i-havent-had-alcohol-in-a-year/feed/ 2 So I guess I’m 40. https://choosingfigs.com/so-i-guess-im-40/ https://choosingfigs.com/so-i-guess-im-40/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2021 17:58:39 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=98062 On the day that I turned thirty I invited all of my friends over for a big party. There was punch with orange sherbet and a hot chocolate bar with Kahlúa and marshmallows and three kinds of pudding shots and sprinkled and frosted cupcakes and...

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]]> https://choosingfigs.com/so-i-guess-im-40/feed/ 4 Standing still and moving forward. https://choosingfigs.com/standing-still-and-moving-forward/ https://choosingfigs.com/standing-still-and-moving-forward/#respond Fri, 01 Jan 2021 17:16:19 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=98043 At the end of every year I always do two things. One, an apartment deep clean where I take everything out of every cabinet, every shelf, every drawer, and every closet and scrub down surfaces, purge things I no longer want or need, and reorganize....

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]]> https://choosingfigs.com/standing-still-and-moving-forward/feed/ 0 Goodbye 2020. https://choosingfigs.com/goodbye-2020/ https://choosingfigs.com/goodbye-2020/#respond Wed, 30 Dec 2020 19:50:37 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=98025 It’s almost the last day of 2020 and I think we’re all breathing a collective sigh of relief. I mean, I don’t really know why, it’s not like things are going to magically get better when midnight strikes. In fact, I’ve seen every version of...

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]]> https://choosingfigs.com/goodbye-2020/feed/ 0 A gift guide for the apocalypse. https://choosingfigs.com/a-gift-guide-for-the-apocalypse/ https://choosingfigs.com/a-gift-guide-for-the-apocalypse/#respond Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:08:37 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=97792 Normally around this time of year I publish my annual gift guide full of all the amazing, fun, and quirky random things I want you to buy for me and my cats. Of course, none of you ever actually buy me anything from that list....

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]]> https://choosingfigs.com/a-gift-guide-for-the-apocalypse/feed/ 0 Four reasons I caused this pandemic. https://choosingfigs.com/four-reasons-i-caused-this-pandemic/ https://choosingfigs.com/four-reasons-i-caused-this-pandemic/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2020 02:35:16 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=97767 I caused this pandemic. Sorry. I know you all think that it was some guy in China who ate a bat. Or think it was caused by 5G waves. Or think it is a Bill Gates conspiracy. Or even think that the virus doesn’t even...

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]]> https://choosingfigs.com/four-reasons-i-caused-this-pandemic/feed/ 1 Standing still. https://choosingfigs.com/standing-still/ https://choosingfigs.com/standing-still/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:56:20 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=97744 When I last sat down to try to write something here I was sitting on my cat-scratched couch, looking out my living room window at the glowing siren-sign of the shut-down Starbucks across the street. Usually when my brain is spinning and I need to...

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]]> https://choosingfigs.com/standing-still/feed/ 2 Life List #268: Eat dim sum in Chinatown. https://choosingfigs.com/life-list-268-eat-dim-sum-in-chinatown/ https://choosingfigs.com/life-list-268-eat-dim-sum-in-chinatown/#respond Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:35:10 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=97631 Last fall I went to Duck Duck Goat for dim sum with my sister and her friends. Duck Duck Goat, if you don’t know, is Top Chef winner Stephanie Izard’s Asian-inspired restaurant in Chicago. It was also the one restaurant on my list of 12...

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]]> https://choosingfigs.com/life-list-268-eat-dim-sum-in-chinatown/feed/ 0 Life List #264: Indulge in the Beijing Duck Dinner at Sun Wah BBQ. https://choosingfigs.com/beijing-duck-dinner-sun-wah-bbq/ https://choosingfigs.com/beijing-duck-dinner-sun-wah-bbq/#respond Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:48:31 +0000 https://choosingfigs.com/?p=97644 At the beginning of 2019 I made a list of 12 restaurants that I really wanted to go to, one for each month of the year. I have this tendency to go to the same handful of places over and over again. To never leave...

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