July 21, 2013 by Rebekah in ETC., LifestyleThere are a wide variety of changes in my life that remind me I am no longer 21. Back in the good ole days, I could be on-the-go non-stop for weeks at a time with very little sleep. Every once in a while, I would take one day to stay-in, and re-charge my batteries. Now in my old age, I need far more than one day of relaxation, I need full weekends, and then that isn’t even enough. Thus, I decided to devote this weekend to some much-needed alone time.
I thought in my isolation I could knock out a
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July 18, 2013 by Rebekah in ETC.I am totally guilty of it: the second I wake up in the morning, I scroll through my Facebook and Twitter to make sure nothing Earth shattering happened in the last 8 hours. This morning, (not surprisingly) I saw that people were still feverishly sharing information about the Rolling Stone boycott. (If you have been living under a rock, let me give you the Cliff Notes version: the newest issue of Rolling Stone has Dzhokhar “Jahar” Tsarnaev, the living Boston bomber, on the cover) While Rolling Stone is never on my list of must-reads, I had to see what people
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July 16, 2013 by Rebekah in ETC., LifestyleBefore you get your panties in a twist, let me clarify: I love babies and I love weddings. What I don’t love is when weddings and babies happen during the first 30 years of a person’s life. When I see Facebook acquaintances sharing nauseating (yet semi-adorable) pictures of these “grown up moments”, I take a second to mourn the loss of their 20s. (Side note: I am not trying to be mean. I am sure they think the same thing about me when I write about my empty career ambitions and drunken party nights). It boggles my mind: why would
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Maybe I am biased because Katie is my bff, but I thought her Career Confidential answers were filled with such valuable gems that I decided to break it up into two parts (check out part 1 here). I just couldn’t bring myself to edit it down and risk the chance of missing some real advice.
We are all trying to figure out how to balance all the things we love in life. In Katie’s Career Confidential:
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 I am SO SO excited introduce everyone to a weekly column called, Career Confidential. This is where NeonNotebook gets to learn the real dirt about some of the coolest jobs out there. I don’t know
about you, but we are tired of reading generic BS from “career experts”. So, we are going straight to the horse’s mouth: ladies with the most badass jobs around.
In this week’s column, we chat with one of my best friends, Katie Amey! I couldn’t
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I know it is cliché: I have been trying to start this blog for quite a while now. I always had a million excuses for why I couldn’t: “I am too busy with real work”, “I don’t have time”, “It probably won’t get anywhere”…blah, blah, blah. One day, about a month ago, I said, “fuck it, it is time to do what I really want”. Thus, NeonNotebook was born!
I spend a vast majority of my time on the Internet, and I have always felt like there wasn’t a one-stop destination for gen-y girls. There are fabulous fashion blogs, inspiring
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March 25, 2013 by Rebekah in ETC., Fashion 
MAJOR guilty pleasure = Taylor Swift. Yes, I love her! Her song “22” has been my jam lately; I can’t get enough of it. She perfectly describes the days when you just need to “forget the deadlines”, and hit the dance floor.
This weekend, I totally had one of those moments. My best buds and I hit the club, and totally tore up the dance floor for hours. It was exactly what I needed. Sometimes I forget that I am only 25; I deserve drunken nights, best friends and Ke$ha!!!!
Getting dressed for a night on the town is a
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March 21, 2013 by Rebekah in Career, ETC. College graduation. No doubt about it; it is a terrifying life event. I know, I know it probably feels like the beginning of your life, and the end of your life…all at the same time.
Part of you feels an impending sense of doom: what will I do without a meal plan? where will I get guidance without office hours? what will I do without my parents credit card? Let’s be real the latter
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March 19, 2013 by Rebekah in Career, ETC.Can I just say I am obsessed with Sheryl Sandberg’s new book/message, Lean In? This might be a lofty statement, but Sandberg’s “Lean In” Movement is the Seneca Falls Convention for Gen Y gals. She is like Elizabeth Cady Stanton with access to the Internet, and a great wardrobe. Back then we were fighting for voting equality, and today we are fighting for a fair chance at work.
There is no doubt about it: she is a ROCKSTAR. It is sad, but true: women jeopardize themselves in the workplace before they even get started!
I have been especially
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I don’t even have a real blog, and I already suck at being a blogger. I officially started writing this post in July 2012 (right before my 25th bday). Then, I made it my New Years Resolution to blog more, but that hasn’t worked out so well either.
Better late than never seems to be my official motto. So now, as a one-third of the way through the year resolution, I am going to start recording my journey to world domination.
The last 6 or 7 years have been a blur of the good, the bad and the terrifying. In
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