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Ashley (AERNYC): 26, Female
United States

Name or Pseudonym:: Ashley

About Me:: When we are younger we always dream about how our life is going to be. Along the way we change our expectations depending on our experiences and the maturity gained throughout the years. We dream, we set goals. Sometimes we succeed, other times we fail. Life is constantly changing, and it never really turns out just the way you planned. It may not be what you expected, but it may just turn out to be better than what you had planned out for yourself.

I’m 26 and i never planned on being in school for 7 and a half years. I didn’t plan on being an interior designer. I never dreamed I’d get to live in NYC and have experienced as much as I have. I never imagined my family to turn out to be cool. When I was 8 I thought my friends I had then would be with me forever. When I was 14 I had dreams of going to UCLA not FIT. When I was 16, I thought I would be married by the ripe old age of 22, have kids and live in the suburbs. When I was 22 I thought I was going to be married by 26 to my boyfriend, live in CT the rest of my life and thought my life was set. But things change.

The life I ordered turned out to not be what i wanted. I didn’t want to live in CT for the rest of my life, I didn’t want to have children with my boyfriend and I didn’t want to be in that relationship any longer. So I exchanged it for the life I have now: that of serial dating, big cities and uncertainties. I find myself taking a look at the life I ordered and deciding if i want to keep it, or trade it up for a better one.

Life is constantly evolving and I’m just trying to keep up.

Blog:: notthelifeiordered.wordpress.com

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A Day in the Life of an Office Going Crazy

We are all losing our minds right now in the office. It’s 95 degrees outside, about -100 degrees inside (brrrr) and we’ve all been working 12 hour days in order to get this work done by our deadline of august 1. That’s coming up right? Shit. Usually it’s around 2 or 3 when people start getting [...]

Second Thoughts

I always do this. I always second guess myself. (Don’t worry, I’m not even giving a thought about getting back together with D, still shaken about seeing him last night but NOT doing that again. Promise.) We were all sitting around the bride’s parents house, there were a few new faces but mainly old ones, who I [...]

Resurfacing

I have always been fairly lucky with exboyfriends, in that I won’t have to see them unless I plan on it. It is the byproduct of dating guys who don’t live in the same town/city as me. If I have to see them, I have plenty of warning, a train ride or the amount of [...]

Sunny, With a Strong Chance of Wind

We couldn’t have asked for more beautiful weather on sunday if we had paid God to do it himself. Saturday was gross, hot, humid and raining. Being that it was an outdoors wedding we weren’t looking forward to it at all. Sunday arrived and it was GORGEOUS. Low 70s, no humidity whatsoever and not a [...]

R.I.P. Fatty

Fatty, also known as my larger than life cat, passed away. This news was brought to be on day that I had a nervous breakdown over my finances and may have CRIED on the subway. Twice. While going home to get the one check I had to save my poor sad ass. So I wasn’t surprised [...]

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One Whole Month of TiNtLIO!

If you remember back in November I made the idiotic choice to participate in NaBloPoMo at the tail end of the thesis from hell. Apparently I haven’t learned my lesson because when this month’s email came through with the topic being “home”, I couldn’t resist. I joined up. So for the entire month of June you guys get a piece of me every. single. day.

Aren’t you excited?

I have no idea how i’m going to post every day. I have no idea how i’m going to have multiple posts on home bec…

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