Day 43: What a great day

Not only did I have a good fast day, but I also went to NYC to get the latest book by one of my favorite authors signed. I also got to meet an online friend in person, for the first time. She brought along some other friends who I was glad to have met. What an awesome night!

Besides the great night, the day was work and work, and I only had pineapple juice all day. One juice. I am really bad when I am working from home. Here I have the juicer and all the stuff, and I wait until 3pm to make one juice. I am an idiot sometimes.

In other news, I cleaned out my closet with my sister yesterday. I apparently don't fit into most of my tops even though I thought I did (she said they look like sacks and like someone popped my boobs with a pin because there is too much room in the chest area -- bummer). I also had to get rid of about 5 pairs of capris and all my pin-stripe dress pants. In exchange for said pants and capris and tops, she brought me some things that don't really fit her. I have her stuff to go through tonight and tomorrow. Maybe I will luck out.

Day 60: Top 10 Before and After - Number 1

Last Day of my fast! I am so happy. I have my meal of prunes soaking for tomorrow. I am thrilled.

I filmed a bit this morning, but the sound is off. I will post it here anyway.

I went to Nyack Main Essentials, that Vegan Dominican Juice Bar I went to on my birthday 60 days ago. I had pineapple celery kale parsley lemon ginger juice. It was really great. That grapefruit asian pear juice was pretty good too. For dinner, after my interview, I made tomato basil leek parsley celery juice that was great. Overall it was a great day, and I am looking forward to eating my first solid food in 2 months!

Career: Be a tree - grow in place

In an age when research says millennials change jobs 4 times before age 32 and job sites advise switching companies to advance in your career; they claim "workers who stay with a company longer than two years are said to get paid 50% less, and job hoppers are believed to have a higher learning curve," I'm here to say: try to grow in place.

Last week I celebrated my 9th anniversary with KPMG International; tomorrow is my 38th birthday. I get all reflective around this time of year for sure. I'd like to share the advice I gave a student recently. The power to grow is in your hands.

My path was not direct. I planned on being a writer and a professor. I guess the idea of reading and writing all day and talking to students seemed the ideal nerd-career in my 20s. While in university I worked in business development and in the temp field, moving from company to company on long and short assignments. I worked as a tutor in the school with students of all majors and degree pro…

KonMari - Does this blog make me look preachy?

We have too much stuff.

Here is a general statement - we retain a lot of stuff we don't need. Our capitalistic culture wants us to keep buying more stuff. Our culture wants us to keep up with the Jones, to memorialize moments in sourviers, to buy storage solutions for our things, maybe hold grudges and emotional baggage of guilt associated with gifts and hand-me-downs. We keep to preserve but to also avoid loss.
Last night after reading a really hysterical piece of satire about the influx of the KonMari and minimalism into our culture, I started to feel bad that I was step-by-step processing my belongings in this method and it was a bit...gross.
I had that same reservation when I took my first photo for this segment of the blog - my entire wardrobe on my bed.
Can you imagine I looked at this, at one time thankful for the bounty that allowed me all these clothes, but also horrified at my own horde. "Oh, poor me. I have too much stuff and I can't manage it all like a normal…

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