Skinned
I think I mentioned posture, and maybe obliquely just being more myself, but what I had no idea I’d get into in 2016, and to be fair it’s early days, are expensive (for me) skin […]
Mostly Me
Christmas Passed
My 2016 goal is to be as happy as the stranger on Tinder who asked me out to dinner on Christmas Eve said I looked in my photos. (The night before while trying to sleep […]
What’s Happning
Last week a friend mentioned that I post a lot about dating on Facebook and I was like, “I do?” and was moderately horrified because I don’t want to be that woman. At least not […]
Browbeaten
It’s been brought to my attention (by my own brain–this is where I’d type LOL if I were feeling sarcastic but I’m not) that I’ve overshared, if only in vagaries, a little too much lately […]
Sooners not Laters
Need sustenance after that 3 hour, 10 minute documentary. Also, the west village on a Saturday night is beyond gruesome. #burger #NYC #westvillage A photo posted by Krista Garcia (@goodiesfirst) on Nov 21, 2015 at […]
My Original Mission
Strongly resisting the urge to not move from my couch, and do nothing but eat carbs, drink, and chain smoke until 2016, which jesus, isn’t that far off. Also wavering between just shutting this site […]
Moms and Dads
“Maybe when you have kids, you’ll have a son who’ll look Mexican.” The specificity with which the young Colombian woman (born in 1993, a fact I gleaned while she apologetically had to take a call […]
Affairs
I love how on the most recent episode of The Affair, chipped nail polish and roots showing (which you can’t even make out in this poor resolution snip from Showtime Anytime, which I just decided […]
Making-Up
I don’t have a lot of old photos of myself, but I do have a good deal of old makeup. Maybe you’ve heard before that I’m a makeup hoarder. In the sense that I hold […]
No Rhyme or Reason 10/13
For reasons I can’t pinpoint, not really sentimental attachment, I keep a handful of 1940s-60s vintage dresses and skirt suits in the back of my closet even though I haven’t worn that type of clothing […]