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And So I Face the Final Curtain...

And So I Face the Final Curtain…

No idea why I chose Frank Sinatra lyrics to name my last post on this here site, but here we are, ending as weirdly as we began. For the last few years, I’d been trying to fit a square peg into a round hole here on ye olde blog. I loved having this space of my own to write, and I cherish how this is a scrapbook of most of my life from 2009-2019. I often will google something like “banana phone…

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Black Friday/Cyber Monday Deals

I posted some Small Business Saturday stuff on Instagram yesterday and my friend Kat suggested turning it into a blog post like in the olden days, so why not? Here’s some Small Business Saturday and Black Friday/Cyber Monday/shopping season deals too. These Are a Few of My Favorite Things Cyber Monday Electronics Deals AirPods Pro: I use these almost all day, every day for everything from…

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Like a Butterfly

As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve really been going through it with headaches. They’re largely tension headaches, which means that while I don’t usually deal with nausea or light sensitivity, they’re not quite as straightforward to treat—there’s a lot more options for treating migraines than there are tension headaches. I am getting closer to figuring out some treatment options after…

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The One About the Jacket

(tw for diet culture talk—mostly how it’s BS, but how it’s affected me, too) This blog is like a goonie, it never says die. I keep it around when I have something I really want to say that I don’t want to pitch and is too long for Instagram. (2021 is weird.) Last time we spoke, I wrote about realizing my role in being complicit in diet culture. My therapist and I work on food/diet/body issues…

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Complicit in Diet Culture

I have been thinking about this post for a while—on why diet culture is unhealthy and my role in it. (tw for weight loss/diet culture talk) If you’re new here, this blog started as a weight loss blog. (LOL that that about page says “crap, I’m 30.” Reader, I am now 38. I wanted to lose 50 pounds before a friend’s wedding in Aruba. I lost 35 before the wedding and the last 15 in about six months…

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Beating Yourself Up About Self-Care Is...Not Self-Care

Beating Yourself Up About Self-Care Is…Not Self-Care

I woke up this morning already feeling anxious. (Yay!) My standard iPhone alarm is set for 6:45, but I prefer to get up a little before it and get some shit done. I am most productive in the mornings, and I like to ride that wave. It also means I can be at my coffee shop right when it opens. A positive of the pandemic is that most of the coffee shops on Main Street in Santa Monica are walk-up…

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The Midnight Library Review

I read The Midnight Library over the weekend, and I need to talk about it. With everyone. (Trigger/content warnings of suicide attempt/suicidal ideation/mom loss.) I’ve heard so much buzz about this book, but because of said trigger warnings was really nervous to read it…since those are personal triggers for me, too. But Grace said that it was actually incredibly uplifting, so I decided to give…

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My Funny Valentine

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Theodora Blanchfield (@theodorable) Yeah, just another year with a dog as my valentine. (Though she’s a pretty damn good one, I must say.) Because everything seems to hit differently in a pandemic, it’s hitting me extra hard today that I’m single…still. Taylor Swift gave me a 13 year gap to find someone to date when she re released Love Story and I…

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We're All Just Making It Up As We Go

We’re All Just Making It Up As We Go

I think I mentioned a few weeks ago that I started writing Taylor Swift fanfic. I haven’t written another word of it since, but that’s fine. Because this one little exercise—inspired by this prompt—made me think a lot about writing and life in general. As a journalism major and someone who has written professionally for more than 15 years, I am accustomed to writing in a very structured way.…

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Finding an Organization System That Works for My Chaotic Mind

I have a LOT going on this quarter in grad school*—and, ya know, there’s a ton going on in the world that can make it hard to focus. I spent a long time my first week this quarter looking for a project management software system that would help me stay on top of things. (*And I saw my first client last week!!! I’m happy to report we both survived.) This may be a random post, but I love…

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Second Half of Grad School!

I’ve really felt more of a draw to write lately. I can admit that a little bit of it is fueled by envy—which is leading to a why not me? Some of it is realizing that my words and I do matter, and some of it is just becoming more authentic and less afraid to be myself. And I miss having this kind of record of my life. Maybe I won’t feel this way forever, but I still do right now. I’m listening to…

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My Intentions for 2021

YOU GUYS. WE MADE IT. 2020 is over. Will things be magical better today because of a calendar and a sun setting on one year and rising on another? Nope. Is there a little more hope on the horizon for 2021 than there has been for most of 2020? I think so. The pandemic is looking like it is getting/will get worse before it gets better, but hopefully things will start looking more normal at some…

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Cookie Swap in 2020: Socially Distanced

How did I used to write here every day? Multiple times a day? Sometimes I really miss those simpler times where everything was documented. But I’ve documented every single cookie swap so far, so I wanted to document this one, mostly for posterity’s sake. If you’ve read here for a long time, you know that my cookie swap is probably one of the most important Christmas traditions to me. I started…

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Black Friday Sale Gift Guide

Thanksgiving is over. If the holiday season is tough on you, we’ve ticked one off. One down, one to go. To my friends who lost loved ones this year: it will never be the first Thanksgiving without your loved one again. It will always be hard, but the firsts are just so goddamn raw.

One of my favorite holiday traditions has always been sitting on the couch online shopping/browsing and writing a…

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Holidays Are Hard

Thanksgiving 2020 is going to be—or probably should be if you’re being safe—hard for a lot of people.

Consider yourself lucky if your hard is because you can’t see your family. It means they are still here, and you are maybe saving their lives, and the lives of those you’ve never met.

My heart goes out to those who have lost loved ones this year, whether to covid or to other causes.…

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NYC Marathon Recaps

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A post shared by Theodora Blanchfield (@theodorable) on Nov 1, 2020 at 9:10am PST

Above is a quick walk down memory lane; below are all of my recaps.

It’s the first Sunday in November, and I want nothing more than to be in Staten Island, at the starting village for the NYC Marathon, but alas, there’s a pandemic, and 50,000 people from all over…

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Running Happy!

I just got back from an OK run, and I’m feeling happy.

Why am I talking about running again all of a sudden? Why is it all of a sudden feeling good? I started talking about this on Instagram, and I said I’d expand here.

My friend Meggie (go follow her, she is hilarious AND a super smart doctor) is basically my personal influencer, and I saw she’d started working with a running coach, Jess…

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