Lovelies, we have a special surprise for you all! A new
blogger on Lovely! Wahoo! We are so excited to introduce Ms. Ali; she'll be our
go-to-gal-pal for all things relationships, men, women, and living together
(and all that entails!). Welcome to the Lovely Ship, Ali--leave her a comment
and say hello! She'll be posting every Monday, so if you have any questions,
remember to email us and ask!
Hello loyal Lovely readers, I do apologize for interrupting
your normally scheduled programming with this interlude.
My name is Ali Plante, born Alexandra Christine Plante. Try
as I might, I can rarely convince anyone in my life to actually call me by the
name on my birth certificate. Except my mom. True story: my mom says I was
named after a fabulous woman she once met (who went by the name of Zandra)
working at Town & Country Magazine in the early 80’s. I have the
veritable Ralph Lauren of names. Now if I could only be so classy…
Why am I bothering you with facts about my name? I’m here to
introduce myself and get you excited about my new weekly column – not bore you
to tears. The Lovely sisters Jenny and Olivia graciously took me up on my offer
to guest blog on a weekly basis. Lovely is a tremendous wealth of inspiration
for me. Liv constantly persuades me in her posts to dust off my sewing machine
and Jenny’s costume ideas sometimes make me think she has a hidden video camera
in my boudoir. As a huge fan of the blog – and the ladies behind it – I really
wanted to add something that wasn’t already a major part of the blog.
I sat and I thought to myself - while watching my boyfriend,
Dan (you can see him in the pictures here, he's the one with the beard), make
dinner – what do I have to offer the Lovely blog? While I ignored Dan’s ever
mounting pile of laundry, I mused aloud “What anyone would want to listen to me
on?” When Dan and I were intensely deciding between Pavilion Grey and Lampshade
Grey for the color of our bedroom walls I thought: am I really even doing
anything that any young woman in the U.S. of A. isn’t also currently
experiencing for the first time? Then I realized that in my incredibly
shortsighted way, I was staring the perfect blog worthy topic right in the face
without realizing it. It was quite literally living, breathing and working
beside me.
Co-habitation, my friends! We’ve done it, we want to do it,
we worry about making the step and about what we could do to have it all blow
up in our faces! I’d like to help you all get through it. There is the easy
stuff: where do we live? how do we pay for it? And then there are the more
delicate things: how do I tell my parents? who pays for what? I don’t pretend
to have any schooling or professional background that makes me more credible
than anyone to give advice on this sort of thing, I’m just a girl who lives
with a guy who she loves and is making it work. I do have an M.A. in Medieval
Studies if it helps though.
Dan and I live in Hoboken ,
New Jersey
Like you all, we’re young, stupid, kinda poor and hoping to
make our mark on the world. I don’t want to give too much away in my
introduction so I hope you’ll continue reading along on our ever enlightening
experience moving in with your significant other.
Welcome to Cohabitable.
