Uncomfortable Conversations with Grandma

November 28, 2015 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Dating, Humor, life lessons, Life In Your 20's

Before this past Thanksgiving, I had never been asked pointblank by my grandmother to defend my lack of romantic partner. Certainly my aunt has inquired if I was seeing anyone and my cousins have asked if I date, but the conversation is brief and surface-level. This past Thursday that all came to a halting stop.

After dinner, I decided to join the adult table because that's where the desserts sat. (Yes, for my 24th year of life I was assigned to sit at the kids' table, which I hereby reclaim as the millennial table.)

Sallie & Nate: A Futile Parable

October 07, 2015 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Dating, Life In Your 20's, life lessons

Several weekends ago, Sallie hosted a pregame. Natalie showed up with her boyfriend and her boyfriend's friend, Nate. Everyone drank a lot. We eventually make it to a bar. I want food so I join my friends in a booth and steal cheese fries. Meanwhile, they discuss how Nate has had eyes for Sallie all night.

Me: "Really? I hadn't noticed that. Are you going to eat that last fry?"

Cazey Made Me Take a Personality Test and Now My Life Makes Sense

June 12, 2015 by Sara Woznicki in Leisure, Life In Your 20's, life lessons, Sara's Column, Tweets and Mascara

As you've probably been able to tell at this point in our blogging careers (can we use the word careers if we're doing this out of passion and not getting paid for it?), Cazey was a busy guy in college. He eventually became a leader in several organizations on campus, and one encouraged him to take personality tests. He talks about these tests frequently, but I blew him off for years.

I couldn't decipher the difference between personality tests and horoscopes. Both could be right by simply stating enough general traits that at least some will apply to you. I've read my horoscope before, and I barely think I'm making up that my daily horoscope once was, "Some days are better than others." Thanks for that deep insight, I feel like I know myself better now. So why bother taking a useless personality test to get the same general results?

I'm Not Impressed With Your Netflix

June 09, 2015 by Sara Woznicki in life lessons, Tweets and Mascara, Dating, Sara's Column, Life In Your 20's, Leisure, Humor

It's all the new rage in dating. Apparently all the guys will offer it. And I'm only assuming they offer it because girls agree to it.

Rather than offering to take me to dinner, drinks, coffee, a walk, a hike, a kayaking adventure, a theme park, a play, a concert, a sporting event, a museum, a beach or any of the seemingly endless other fun opportunities that this world has graced us with, guys these days like to seduce women with their Netflix account.

When Youth Is Behind You

May 28, 2015 by Cazey Williams in Humor, Life In Your 20's, Cazey's Column, Social Media

Today I went to buy concert tickets. The concert is tomorrow, but I only discovered the band on Spotify last week (In the Valley Below if you know them, you indie you).

I walked over to the box office at the inauspicious time of 3 PM. With tickets at $5, I did not expect a crowd. Most people should be nodding off over their keyboards at work, right? However, what I found was a venue besieged by queues of teen girls and a handful of soccer moms and doting dads. Like, we are talking a hundred females mid-puberty on a sidewalk on an 85 degree day.

Swipe Right With Your Credit Card? You Can Now Pay for Tinder

March 12, 2015 by Sara Woznicki in Cazey's Column, Dating, Humor, Leisure, Life In Your 20's, life lessons, Sara's Column, Social Media

We're surprised it's not trending on Facebook yet, but Tinder - the grimier of today's dating apps - has launched a subscription service. As in, you will need to pay to swipe right if you want certain perks. You know, because you've met so many gems on Tinder that a subscription will totally be worth it.

What does this mean for us American twenty-somethings?