I was the friend who always ended up out the latest, refused to go home when everyone else was done for the night. Ended up partying all night with the bachelor party or a DJ at Winter Music Conference in Miami. One time I did go home early we were in Vegas celebrating a 21st and everyone went to the bar to get a drink except me. I then looked around by myself and thought all my friends have left the club and forgot their purses so I scooped them all up for safety and left to go back to the hotel by myself, taking all their necessary night out belongings with me 🫠
I feel like me, everyone i know and everyone i don't know has gone to NY to see a potential love interest and ultimately ended up couch surfing elsewhere (or sleeping in their car 🤣🤣🤣). This may be a core millennial experience/phenomenon.
I love your tales. So happy you went back to NY for work. We get to reap the benefits. Best of luck in New York, it’ll be great this time! So excited for your upcoming coverage. Thanks for taking on this big job, we are lucky to have you! Prayers for an amazing trip xoxo
Wish I had journaled more when I was living in nyc. I was given a choice by my parents: come home to Phoenix after graduation and they’d help me buy a car, or go to NYC (my plan) and good luck. I did the latter and spent eleven years working my way up in my industry. Those were really crazy years. I’ll never forget getting kicked out of line at One nightclub (circa 2001) with a Paltrow cousin who was a major DB. Her entitled behavior as she snarled at him to let us in was why the bouncer refused to let us even stay in line. Years later she’s the wife of Adam Neumann, and famous in her own right (likely for still being an entitled DB). Such is life. A lesson on “winning.” Lots of life lessons to be had in NYC.
I do have a long list of stories, but don’t assume anyone really wants to hear them (although appreciate you asking!!). I kissed a LOT of frogs. Spent way too much of my hard earned $$ thinking I was the fifth girl on SATC. Lived and was laid off and then somehow found my footing in a new job through 9/11. Made friends, one of whom took off with the guy I was seeing. Thank God.
But so many funny, unhinged and wildly surprising and enchanting experiences walking through life in nyc from 22-33. Oh and way too much alcohol! Met every type of person. And somehow those people sometimes cross paths with you again when you least expect in the most random ways now when you are much older.
Met the guy I thought was my husband. Then met the real one one night on park Avenue and the rest is history 15 years later.
Anyway, nyc was a core part of my life and I’m really excited you have a new chapter there. Can’t wait to read it along with you! x
Hehe it’s like you were writing about my experiences in my 20s…. Chaos, figuring it out when I get there, trusting strangers a little too much, & yet surviving, so on to the next adrenaline adventure. & then one day it all just stops & home is better than hangovers.
I’ve still never been to NYC, but I always would find the NYC guys visiting my city. 🤝 the best of times & the dumbest of times of my life.
I describe those guys as fun. My friends would say “run”!
If it makes you feel better I had a mania induced nervous breakdown when I lived in NYC and then got addicted to Xanax after going to Mount Sinai 5 times thinking I was having heart attacks or strokes, it was hard out there in our 20’s 😂😂 cannot wait for your coverage of the trial with Brianna, it’s going to be wild there!
I went in my 20s with one of my best friends. We were two small town girls totally unprepared for the big city. The first time we road the subway, a disheveled man boarded and started talking loudly about having HIV. We were so terrified that we took cabs for the remainder of the trip and ate fast food to make up the cost. The shopping was incredible, though. H&M had just opened what may have been their first store in America. We left NYC with suitcases brimming with styles that our town wouldn't see for 2 more years, minus a pair of really great jeans that I accidentally left in the back of one of those cabs.
I have a few similar NY stories from when I was younger :) I really hope this one is amazing and that you turn this passion into a well paying career. Just let it go to your head like that mean lady you worked for ❤️
Ha ha that’s funny. Well, I am a Leo and I suffer from over confidence. But then I have a Virgo moon so when I leave my overconfident moment, I then overthink it 1 billion times was I too confident? was that not confident enough? do they think I’m an asshole?
I went to NY last year first time to visit my friend and also visit a girl I was seeing before she moved to the city. My plan was to split between them over 7 nights. I saw her briefly on day 2 but she ghosted me after that.
I overstayed my welcome at my friends has and had to fly home to CA after night 5.
Huge emphasis on making sure your sleeping arrangements are line up before you visit
I love this style of writing. Like I’m a fly on the wall of your past and you put me there. Enjoy your trip!
Oh good! Thanks! We will make sure we include you guys in our upcoming adventures
Oh the things we did in our 20s! Such a fun piece and your personality shines right through the writing.
What did you do 👀👀
I was the friend who always ended up out the latest, refused to go home when everyone else was done for the night. Ended up partying all night with the bachelor party or a DJ at Winter Music Conference in Miami. One time I did go home early we were in Vegas celebrating a 21st and everyone went to the bar to get a drink except me. I then looked around by myself and thought all my friends have left the club and forgot their purses so I scooped them all up for safety and left to go back to the hotel by myself, taking all their necessary night out belongings with me 🫠
If only there had been AirTags back then…
Sounds like you were the responsible friend we all wish we had
I feel like me, everyone i know and everyone i don't know has gone to NY to see a potential love interest and ultimately ended up couch surfing elsewhere (or sleeping in their car 🤣🤣🤣). This may be a core millennial experience/phenomenon.
Restacked this for culture
Thats really nice and all but all I've been able to think about for the last 2 days is whether or not Andy got his rug. We the lucky few need closure.
He won’t answer our calls- we are all on the edge of our seats
Omg it's an Andy cliffhanger. He's treating this rug like an episode of DALLAS.
I giggled the whole way through, I adore your style of writing! The spelling bee 🤣
Lmaoooo wonder if I’ll see him this trip
I love your tales. So happy you went back to NY for work. We get to reap the benefits. Best of luck in New York, it’ll be great this time! So excited for your upcoming coverage. Thanks for taking on this big job, we are lucky to have you! Prayers for an amazing trip xoxo
Thank you!! Heading there now
It’s tiiiime! Go get em girl.
Wish I had journaled more when I was living in nyc. I was given a choice by my parents: come home to Phoenix after graduation and they’d help me buy a car, or go to NYC (my plan) and good luck. I did the latter and spent eleven years working my way up in my industry. Those were really crazy years. I’ll never forget getting kicked out of line at One nightclub (circa 2001) with a Paltrow cousin who was a major DB. Her entitled behavior as she snarled at him to let us in was why the bouncer refused to let us even stay in line. Years later she’s the wife of Adam Neumann, and famous in her own right (likely for still being an entitled DB). Such is life. A lesson on “winning.” Lots of life lessons to be had in NYC.
I do have a long list of stories, but don’t assume anyone really wants to hear them (although appreciate you asking!!). I kissed a LOT of frogs. Spent way too much of my hard earned $$ thinking I was the fifth girl on SATC. Lived and was laid off and then somehow found my footing in a new job through 9/11. Made friends, one of whom took off with the guy I was seeing. Thank God.
But so many funny, unhinged and wildly surprising and enchanting experiences walking through life in nyc from 22-33. Oh and way too much alcohol! Met every type of person. And somehow those people sometimes cross paths with you again when you least expect in the most random ways now when you are much older.
Met the guy I thought was my husband. Then met the real one one night on park Avenue and the rest is history 15 years later.
Anyway, nyc was a core part of my life and I’m really excited you have a new chapter there. Can’t wait to read it along with you! x
I think people want to hear them- the kissed a lot of frogs got me 🤣🤣
Hehe it’s like you were writing about my experiences in my 20s…. Chaos, figuring it out when I get there, trusting strangers a little too much, & yet surviving, so on to the next adrenaline adventure. & then one day it all just stops & home is better than hangovers.
I’ve still never been to NYC, but I always would find the NYC guys visiting my city. 🤝 the best of times & the dumbest of times of my life.
I describe those guys as fun. My friends would say “run”!
Such a great read! Thanks for sharing!
Ooo yes that’s a chapter you could write on your own! About the guys visiting you- emphasis on trusting strangers too much
Love this! I feel like a lot of us have traveled to visit a fuckboy at some point 😂
Why don’t they ever work out 😰
I cannot love it enough that you challenged him to a spelling bee.
Loved reading the Misadventures of Emilie in NYC. You are a great writer!
Thanks! I could write a whole
Book on these 🫠🫠🫠
These “slice of life” stories are so much fun!
This coverage is going to be everything! I believe everything (drama) that happened so that you could FLY! This talent 💫💥
En route now
Loved this !!
Thank you
I am seriously looking forward to your coverage of the trial !! I know you’ll be awesome!!
I loved this NY saga. Your writing really puts us there!! Excellent!!
Please be careful, have fun, don’t do anything that will end up on the #NYFailedTrips list! ❤️😂.
Thank you for the reminder. Heading there now. I think I’m too tired these days for nonsense but you never know
If it makes you feel better I had a mania induced nervous breakdown when I lived in NYC and then got addicted to Xanax after going to Mount Sinai 5 times thinking I was having heart attacks or strokes, it was hard out there in our 20’s 😂😂 cannot wait for your coverage of the trial with Brianna, it’s going to be wild there!
This is relatable! A friend I know kept going to cedar thinking he was drying and it was just anxiety. NY seems to do that to people
It was hard out there for an undiagnosed bipolar bitch 😂
I went in my 20s with one of my best friends. We were two small town girls totally unprepared for the big city. The first time we road the subway, a disheveled man boarded and started talking loudly about having HIV. We were so terrified that we took cabs for the remainder of the trip and ate fast food to make up the cost. The shopping was incredible, though. H&M had just opened what may have been their first store in America. We left NYC with suitcases brimming with styles that our town wouldn't see for 2 more years, minus a pair of really great jeans that I accidentally left in the back of one of those cabs.
Omg memories!!! Make H&M great again
I have a few similar NY stories from when I was younger :) I really hope this one is amazing and that you turn this passion into a well paying career. Just let it go to your head like that mean lady you worked for ❤️
Nothing ever goes to a Virgos head we never feel adequate 😂
Ha ha that’s funny. Well, I am a Leo and I suffer from over confidence. But then I have a Virgo moon so when I leave my overconfident moment, I then overthink it 1 billion times was I too confident? was that not confident enough? do they think I’m an asshole?
Fellow Virgo moon here overthinking every life choice
I went to NY last year first time to visit my friend and also visit a girl I was seeing before she moved to the city. My plan was to split between them over 7 nights. I saw her briefly on day 2 but she ghosted me after that.
I overstayed my welcome at my friends has and had to fly home to CA after night 5.
Huge emphasis on making sure your sleeping arrangements are line up before you visit
Heavy emphasis on overstaying at friends’ house 🤣 been there and have had it done to me