Who is Annabelle?

Despite the dissatisfaction of bff Alice we have a new alias. I present to you Annabelle Tinley. I don't know how I came up with the name it just seemed happy and fitting. Annabelle is a work in progress shes more the girl I want to be. I suppose at my ripe old age of 28 shes the "woman" I want to be but Annabelle doesn't really seem like a woman's name now does it? This blog will chronicle the journey of becoming Annabelle.

Annabelle lives in a shitty one bedroom apartment on the northside of Chicago while she continues to pay on her mortgage of sprawling 4-bedroom suburban/city home in Rochester, MN that was acquired during what she refers to as the "dark years" of her life. Said home is currently rented out to people whom continue to decline the value of her property but pay the rent on time so she doesn't really care that much.

Annabelle works in laboratory medicine where she is some bigwig and all of her staff and bosses worship her for her honesty, intelligence and calm demeanor. However her life is only centered on work for 50 hours per week.

Annabelle likes to spend her evenings cooking with her bff Alice and watching horrible pre-teen drama particularly Degrassi marathons. Together they have conquered making Tofu look appetizing and have tried every single vegetable Whole Food has to offer. After dining of healthful meals Annabelle and Alice enjoy a nice jog or bike ride on the lake shore or if the weather is unfavorable they take in a spinning class or meditative yoga class much to Alice's disdain.

Friday happy hours land Annebelle in Wrigleville to visit her longest bud ever Cobie for drinks, hotdogs the occasionally stolen Camel Light. She enjoys a large and diverse set of friends which Cobie lovingly prescreened for her, and she often treats them to dinner parties and long theological plans on how to save the world through Immunological drugs. Alice & Cobie refuse to attend such parties unless they are drunk, as under being the influence makes us far more entertaining.

She has a slight shopping addiction. She frequents H&M and owns about 3 dozen adorable summer dresses from Mod Cloth. She also spent an entire 3-week European vacation searching for the perfect bowl to place on her table...where she then spent hundreds of dollars getting an electrician to install a spot light on said perfect bowl.

Annabelle occasionally takes metra trips to visit her loving parents and grandmother in the (audible gasp) suburbs. They continually remind her that she isn't getting any younger and should settle down and start ensuring the continuation of the family line. She is however to busy and joyous to be bothered with the continuation of the Tinleys.

Annabelle is a do-good-er. She has contributed 20$ to nearly every charity in the Chicago-land area by participating in 5K races. She brings her own shopping bags to Whole Foods and does not own a car. She also schleps her recycling products since her shitty apartment does not have recycle bins. She believes the idea of being vegan is charming but her love of leather shoes and bacon keep her from taking the leap. She came out to her family as a democrat and was only semi-disowned for one holiday season where she received an autographed copy of Rush Limbaugh's latest book for Christmas.

So yeah that's the plan of where I'm going and who I want to be. Lets see how close I get.

This blog is a continuation of the writings of Ava Mazur. Her musings can be read on http://perpetuallysingle.blogspot.com/.