Maybe There Will Be Cupcakes

Ginny Bartolone's Blog of Many Years

Category: Life

  • Beaches vs. Blizzards: A little story about 2010

    Timehop can be a pretty enlightening app during its first year of use.  If you’re unfamiliar with Timehop (looking’ at you, Dad), the app displays all your social media posts and pictures taken on the current day, each year back in time.  It’s fun to check in the morning, usually to say, “Hey, another cat picture!”  But…

  • Diet Chronicles: Day 4. The Sarcasm Phase

    If you haven’t had a chance to check out why I’m taking on this crazy food challenge, check out my most recent post here. Healthy Lying I have something to admit.  While all your very sweet support was pouring in two days ago, I was sitting in a friend’s house eating a homemade brownie covered…

  • Maybe There Will Be…Green Beans? Diet Chronicles: Day 2

      Hey team.  I’m in day two of sugar detoxing.  Things are a bit better than last night. I no longer feel like my stomach is trying to eat its other organ buddies and I don’t want to kick the cats as much.  I also went food shopping for some great options and don’t have to…

  • A Note on Vulnerability

    Last night Ben and I used a gift certificate to a fancy restaurant around the corner. It’s BYOB, and though I haven’t been drinking this month, I figured the glorious food was worth pairing with wine. But to say the least, after 4 solid gulps of Chardonnay, I was having a time. Not drinking for…

  • January List of Awesome for Your New Year’s Resolution

    At least in the world of blogging, I have remained rather silent the past several months, only emerging out from under my writing rock yesterday, just before the New Year.  While comfortably hibernating, I have been surprisingly busy otherwise, mainly focusing on trying to get my stubborn creativity rolling again.  It happens — you have a…

  • The Things I Couldn’t Budget for in 2015

    2015 was a year of movement.  Though bittersweet, Ben and I waved our life in Jersey City goodbye and moved out to the little haven of Montclair.  As we pulled into town with the first car load of stuff, I jokingly said, “Hey, thanks for moving to the suburbs with me!”  I could feel his mini-heart attack from across the…

  • The “Start Where You Are” Email

    Sometimes the beginning of the burnout cure is an internal or external reminder that you are no one is expecting more from you but you. As much as I continue to want high expectations for myself, I cannot pretend that I am somewhere that I’m not. That is where the burnout comes from. It is…

  • The Deception of Keeping Busy

    I’ve spent the past two days in bed- dizzy, nauseous, feverish, and angry that I can’t work.  I’ve had these symptoms since Saturday night when I woke up at 2am in a sweat about a specific bill I had forgotten about.  I had class and a great family event the next day, so I chose to…

  • Keep Shining, Rainbow Butterfly Girl

      Today is school Halloween.  Which means I am currently sitting at a desk dressed as Nancy Drew as a Panda leads a group of students (dressed as a collection of Donald Trumps, Storm Troopers, cats, and football players) up the stairs to their classes.  It’s really the best.  If I could wear a costume…

  • Actor Poll: What do you do when you’re not acting?

    One of the trickiest things for me about acting is the space between classes and gigs. Unlike singing, dancing, painting, or writing, tactics to develop your growth on your own is not as obvious. And days locked to a desk at your 9-5 can be even harder, no matter how much you enjoy the job…