bubbly on your budget

I am starting a new blog. So welcome readers if this is your first post to read!

This used to my catch-all blog (where I tried to post artsy pictures of couches and stuff), my European adventures blog (where I trekked through Europe and got mugged by Arabs), and now this is going to be a budget/life blog about how the heck we live our lives after college and what can be done about it...

  

I read a really cool book called "Bubbly on Your Budget" a few months ago. It applied to so much of my life as a post-grad professional/adult/woman figuring it all out that I decided I had to start letting other girls know about all this wisdom and hilarious information at our fingertips.

I think it will speak to a lot of young 20 somethings who are like me and trying to find my way in this world as an adult since no one gave me a life manual after college.  And the best part of all... this book was written in 1930! Are you joking me? Nope. It is SO sassy, cutthroat, witty, and personable that I literally think it's been my favorite book of 2012 (ok all I have to compare it to is Human Resources textbooks and a few Cosmos...)

Basically, this book is great because it's NOT just about MONEY. Thank goodness, because as much as I like love money, I don't have much of it so it would be annoying as hell to read a whole book about managing money that you don't have (sorry I said hell). It's all about coping with life when you don't have money and how to make yourself fabulous and approachable and still keep your friends even though you're poor and all you want to do is cry about it.

I also thought I should preface.... this book is titled "Bubbly on Your Budget" which I find super fitting because I love bubbly and I love money but this blog title is STOLEN and not original.... it was a book written back in the 30's so please don't think I'm trying to take credit for something I'm not.

Oh another caveat, yeah this blog is called BOYB but I'm still probably going to write about all things on here that pertain to my life and so many other girls my age.....

• How to live alone and like it
• How to communicate with your mom now that you're kinda an adult
• What to do about things you feel you have no control over (career, love, friends, etc.)
• and anything else that sparks my fancy (like what happened to me earlier in an elevator when a man literally struck up a conversation with me and called me ashley and i had to politely interupt and tell him i wasn't his co-worker and then had to stand in silence for like ever....)
• Oh and my name is Marley (?) i forget rando's don't know who I am. So my friends call me Marls. My super close and really disturbing friends call me Marla. Call me what you want--diva, rockstar, whatever flows naturally ya know...

Oh and here is the biggest thing: I hope if you're reading this, you read this because you like it. Even love it. And you gain some stuff to take with you.  I'm writing because I want to. And it's a free country. So I'm totes open to advice and tips and free thought on topics and ideas.

If you don't like it, you should probably run like mad. I'm not writing to impress.  I'm not writing so my aunt in Timbuktu can know what's up. I'm not writing for my boyfriend or my boss or my friends.  But I'm totes not open to meanies--I've never really experienced meanies but on blogs people write about how they don't want mean people on their blogs so I just wanna cover all my bases.