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Disneyworld!

Disneyworld Magic Kingdom

I just got back from an amazing trip to Disneyworld with my boyfriend Ian and his family. I’d been to Disneyworld twice as a kid, but this time I got to relive my childhood and my love for the Disney Princesses through new eyes. The first day at Epcot, I learned that you’re never too old to stand in line to meet Disney characters. One of the highlights was meeting Aladdin and Jasmine in Morocco. Aladdin kept calling my camera a genie. By night, Magic Kingdom came alive with its fireworks show and parade. Seeing Cinderella’s castle lit up never ceases to inspire me.

For those of you planning a visit, here are a few key tips. It’s best to visit Magic Kingdom when the sun goes down and the kids have gone to bed because you can pretty much get on any ride you want. At Animal Kingdom, it was great to go on the safari ride then cool off on Kali River Rapids (just be ready to get wet). Lastly, always wear sneakers. I wouldn’t have made it to so many parks without my Skechers Go Walk shoes.

Many thanks to the Schwab family for making me a part of their magical vacation!

Disney Fireworks

Aladdin

magic lamp

Epcot

Disney Princess

Disney Parks

Disney Boardwalk

Disney ships

Downtown Disney

Flamingos

Disney Cinderella

Cinderella Evil Stepsister

Cinderella

Prince Charming

Tinkerbelle Peter Pan

Cinderella's Castle

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5 Things I’ve Learned From the Disney Princesses

I’ve always related to the elegance and aspirational qualities of the Disney Princesses.  It’s good to know that I actually learned something during the countless hours I spent as a child watching Disney movies on VHS, rewinding them, and watching them again directly after.  You know you did it too.  I didn’t realize it at the time, but during these back to back Disney Princess sessions, I was learning a lot about what it means to be a fashionista and full-fledged Aspiring Socialite in 21st Century New York.

Here’s what I’ve learned from my favorite Disney Princesses:

1.  Sleeping Beauty: Princess Aurora has always been my personal favorite Disney Princess.  Having pricked herself on a spinning wheel even though she ran the risk of falling into an eternal sleep definitely shows that this Princess was serious about fashion.  But, what I’ve really learned from Sleeping Beauty is the importance of sleeping in.  After a big night out or even a big night in, I’ve been known to sleep till 4 p.m. the next day and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

2.  Belle: In Beauty and the Beast, Belle was a smart girl who read a lot of books.  You should treat everyone with kindness and respect because you never know when you’ll meet them again.  From Belle, I learned the importance of not judging people by appearances because you never know who they may actually be.

3.  Cinderella: Socialites aren’t always born; sometimes, they’re made.  Cinderella inspires the upwardly mobile aspirations in all of us proving the even if you come from modest means, you can still rule the world someday.

4.  Snow White: She knew she wasn’t really supposed to, but Snow White ate the apple anyway because she wasn’t a fan of dieting.  I’m not a binge eater or anything, but I’ve never been a fan of dieting either.  I’m not about to be counting calories when I get so much exercise walking around Manhattan.

5.  Ariel: In The Little Mermaid, Ariel longed to leave the ocean to live on land which reminds us all that tanning in a lounge chair by the pool can be just as refreshing as a long swim.

Which Disney Princess inspires you the most?

A Cinderella Story For the Social Media Age


Whenever I tell someone about my blog, the first thing they always ask me is how I came up with the name and the idea.  So I figured I’d share my story.  During the summer of 2009 after graduating from Syracuse University.  I spent the summer sleeping on friends’ couches and going on dead end interviews all over NYC.  One afternoon, I found myself wandering the streets of the city aimlessly for hours when I found myself locked out of my friend’s apartment.  I walked passed a bank that had a ticker with all the stocks of the day out front.  Having nothing better to do, I stood there and watched the entire thing go by only to find that every single number was red.

I stood there motionless for I don’t know how long thinking about my nearly broken dreams and inner desires.  I could do one of two things: I could give up and go home or face this world like the socialite I’ve always wanted to be.  Some people may have been born into high society, but social media had given me the opportunity to tweet my way in and this was exactly the spark I needed to inspire my first Internet venture.  Months later, I mentioned my blog idea over lunch to my friend Nicole who told me not just to think about it, but to dive in.  She helped me set up my WordPress that weekend.  With all the amazing feedback I was getting on my writing from strangers, I really began to feel like a socialite and the site grew from there.

Since I like to think of everything in terms of the Disney Princesses, I consider the story of how Aspiring Socialite came to be a modern-day Cinderella story.  At the risk of sounding like the next episode of ABC’s hit series Once Upon A Time, I’ll always be thankful to Nicole for giving me the Fairy Godmother push I needed to tangle myself in the World Wide Web.  Sleeping Beauty has always been my favorite Disney Princess, but this is absolutely a Cinderella story for the social media age.  If I’m the Social Media Cinderella who tweeted herself into instant fame, does that make Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter who I totally have a secret crush on, Prince Charming?  I really hope so!

The Disney Princesses with the social media icons they remind me of.