The Concerns Of Mindy Kaling

Welcome!

About four years ago, I started a blog called “Things I’ve Bought That I Love”. I know, I know. You’re like: Mindy, of course we know your blog. We all lived and died to your postings on that site, you don’t have to tell us. We love you. You’re an angel.

For those of you not lucky enough to have seen my old, very materialistic blog, there’s a link on this site the little ghost town where it lives now, suspended in time and space.

Things I’ve Bought That I Love was created primarily to do something during long breaks at work when our bosses, Paul Lieberstein and Greg Daniels, were editing or on set directing, and we had finished our assignments. Comedy writing is the best job in the world but there can be stretches of achingly boring downtime. Sometimes, instead of reporting back to the head writer when I was done with an assignment - only to sit idly in the writers room playing Word Mole on my Blackberry - I chose to update my blog. Because I am lucky enough to have a little disposable income, I would write about some of my purchases and pack them with anecdotes from work or life so that my mom could read it an have fun learning about my life. I even got some of my funny friends, like Danny Chun and Steve Hely— who I never got to see enough— to post very occasionally. Now Danny and Steve both work at the Office, so I get to see them a lot. Too much, even. Eventually, I got more and more responsibility on the show, and that precious downtime was less and less, so I couldn’t keep up with the postings, and I had to let the blog go.

A few months ago I thought about starting up the blog again, but I saw that someone had purchased “thingsiboughtthatilove.com”. I thought “Oh well, it’s not meant to be.” But now that I have my first book coming out and some writings in various magazines and, frankly, some hot photos of myself I want the internet to see, I thought: let me get my web presence back! Also, 140 characters is too small of a space to discuss the things I want to discuss.

So, stay tuned for some Things I’ve Bought That I Love posts, and hopefully some other stuff too. Visit Mon Amie for links to my loved ones and friends, and check out some photos of me in my Showroom. To reward you for reading this far, I’m going to share a photo of you that my Dad sent me when I was writing my book and wanted some kid photos. Enjoy (if that’s the right word).

Love, Mindy