Maybe There Will Be Cupcakes

Ginny Bartolone's Blog of Many Years

Author: ginnybartolone

  • Never Fear 9-Layer Italian Goodness

    Don’t fear your kitchen, friends!  I know many people who still say that they shy away from cooking recipes that involve anything past opening a Trader Joe’s bag and throwing it in a skillet.  Especially if you’re a creative type, there’s no reason for this.  You don’t have to own a million cookbooks, scour the…

  • Omelette of Inspiration

    It’s incredible how long I’ve managed to put off writing a blog post.  It has gotten to the point where I refer to this as “that blog I used to write.”  Not good.  And though I’ve had many ideas for a post, I think about the topic until the cows come home until I’m not…

  • THIS JUST IN! There are cupcakes!!

    Soon after my morning post, I received a call that there were leftover meeting cupcakes.  “Maybe” turned into “ABSOLUTELY!!!”

  • Wandering on Mother’s Day

    Wandering on Mother’s Day

    Yesterday could have been a disaster.  I woke up to some all-too-familiar problems at my parent’s house, that lead to scrapping all Mother’s Day plans.  I had a very sweet offer from Ben’s family, and normally I would have happily joined them.  But at this point I wanted nothing to do with the Hallmark holiday, and…

  • Life as a Blue Shirt: The Commute

    In order to make it through my year as a “blue shirt” (what I call the corporate workers of NYC) I have decided to imagine 2013 as a comical montage. I want to be able to look back at the year and set my memories to a song from Flash Dance. I will remember myself…

  • The world isn’t ending, this year just sucks.

    WHAT THE HELL, 2012? Can we all just step back a moment, sit down, and figure out what has been going on with the world? I am all for positive blog posts, but these past several months have been one for the books. The only solace I have found is that 2012 has two weeks left and…

  • How to Go Broke Without Going Insane

    I have experience with this topic.  Many people know that complaining about my financial frustrations has become second nature to me.  Not a good thing, and it’s something I’ve been working on.  I know it’s a bit much.  One thing that I have gotten better with over the past two and half years in New…

  • Sandy: This Side of the Hudson

    The past two weeks have been relentless.  It has been ten days since Sandy really walloped us and it is still the primary conversation in Jersey City. Ben and I didn’t expect Sandy to be that big of a deal.  We were barely affected by Irene, and if anything, it had been a nice break…

  • The Catch-22 of the Acting Business

    I am temping in an ad agency this week.  All day long, my desk sits next to a door that says “Studio.”  When the doors open I see green screens, cameras, the whole nine yards.  Every time someone comes out, I sit up straight and bat my eyelashes with the crazy chance one of them…

  • You are a winner!

    I started off this morning with a positive attitude, and I am so thankful for it.  The residue of last week’s money panic lasted through the weekend and unfortunately had an effect on the trip I took with Ben.  There’s nothing worse than being surrounded by a beautiful setting when your brain is stuck on…