live laugh blog | jenn schiffer

i vividly remember the first time i was made to feel dumb for asking a question

a few days ago i was sitting outside the pharmacy waiting for a prescription and ~~*as one does*~~ decided to match my mental pain to the physical by going on twitter. sure enough, the first thing i see is a viral tweet of a young woman calling another young woman’s tiktok “the dumbest video” she’s ever seen, as it was questioning the realness, reasons and origins of mathematical discovery.

i was a virtual fan at an nba playoffs round 1 game

i got into today’s game 2 with the nets and raptors. the nets are my team, and the raptors won the playoffs last year, so i was excited about the match-up.

getting a tofu press made a huge difference in my faux “egg” salad and my stress levels

when i started getting into reading vegan blogs, i saw how all of their tofu recipes looked so perfectly crisp and not soggy and my hypothesis was that they were properly pressing their tofu (spoiler alert: i was right). after reading some reviews, i got myself a tofuxpress. it arrived a couple of days later and i broke it in with some faux egg salad.

here’s a “what a vegan eats in a day” post for me to point folks who are artificially concerned about my protein intake to

this post is about food, specifically food that i have eaten today.

6 statement pieces that really make a statement

as a student of sustainability on a quest to become more of a friend to the planet than a foe, i made it a point in 2020 to stop buying new clothes.

i am a stamp collector now

happy friday, friends. on monday i go back to work after a week off of self care and catching up on hobbies, old and new. i wanted to tell you about my newest. it all started a couple of weeks ago when a coupon insert told me i can get 200 used stamps for “–only $1.00” and i was like “hell yeah, count me in.”

this blog is not even two months old but i’ve already given it a new look

i am currently going through what some would call _it_, and when i’m going through _it_ i cope by reorganizing the things around me that are reorganize-able.

finally, a classic smoky eye tutorial that works for my down-turned, hooded eyes

compared to my lifestyle blogging peers, i am fairly new to Makeup, but i’ve been having lots of fun with it over the quarantine, both by putting it on and also watching how other folks put it on. it’s truly an art form and a great medium for creative expression. but there are so many different kinds of faces that it's hard to find an eye look that works for me.

celery soda for adults (real grown ups only!)

while quarantine makes it easy to avoid work and networking events with flowing alcohol, i still wanted to feel grown up and so i tried my hand at celery soda.

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