i won't sleep tonight

So, the other day I got myself an account on Pinterest. I was excited while logging in -- but when the front page loaded, I got indimidated and closed it. And then looked at bathing suits on ModCloth, Target, Alloy and Delias and dreamed about feeling comfortable in a bathing suit again. Like these:

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Anywho.

I feel like everyone I know is getting married, getting engaged or just got married. So sometimes I like to plan my own wedding, even though it is many miles, moons and adventures away. I go back and forth between traditional and non-traditional wedding dresses and white and non-white wedding dresses; between flowers for centerpieces and something funky and handmade. I am very indecisive, but I do love these few that I found while making at second attempt at navigating Pinterest:

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Pretty things! Okay, so maybe I like Pinterest, after all. Follow me, and I'll follow you!

human nature (ten on tuesday)

As always, head on over to Roots and Rings to link up with Chelsea!

1. What’s the recipe for your favorite drink? (Smoothie, alcoholic, coffee, whatever.) Chai Tea mix and milk. I just love chai.
 2. What kind of razor do you use? Bic Soleil. I've contemplated going back to using one of the Venus w/ the disposable heads, but I just can't bring myself to spend the money to start it off.

3. Who is your favorite Sesame Street character? Cookie Monster? or Oscar.

4. What makes the perfect salad? (Lettuce type, toppings, dressing, etc.) Iceberg. Those wedge ones. Oh, man. I do also enjoy a good Waldorf, with the nuts, cheese and berries. Yum.

5. What was your favorite subject in school? Chorus. I like singing. Plus, it was super easy =)

6. What’s your favorite summer tradition? I'm not positive I have any summer traditions. Maybe I should change that...

7. Do you suffer from season allergies? How do you combat them? I don't have any seasonal allergies. Knock. On. Wood.

8. How often do you have to charge your cell phone? Usually just while I sleep. I know its bad for the battery to leave it plugged in all night, but it's the only time I remember. =P

9. Do you have a bucket list? I have a list of things I'd like to accomplish, but I haven't updated it in a while. So...sort of?

10. Do you have any desire to go back to school?
Yes! Though, I'm not sure what for. I'm very indecisive.

the words don't mean enough

It has been crazy CRAZY here at work, because it's the end of the fiscal year so everyone is scrambling to get shit stuff done before the 30th. I am taking  amoment to breathe, because after lunch I feel like all hell is going to break loose and there will be people physically running invoices around. We're obviously super prepared for this! Hah.

Nate and I went to the gym last night to have our free personal training sessions for the month. He was training with a guy named Charles, but since he got a new 8-5 desk job (which he is increasingly more excited about every day he goes) and Charles only works until 4:30, he was in need of a new trainer. So we decided to do a buddy session with my trainer, Dawn. I was a little skeptical, but it turned out to be awesome! We worked mostly arms, legs and cardio, with a little core (which is fine by me.) We also did measurements, and discovered that -- despite my week in Boston eating every type of barfood imaginable and not working out for a week and a half -- what I have been doing is paying off. I haven't lost a whole lot of fat (see: copious amounts of nachos/ice cream/rich wedding food,) but I have gained 1.5% muscle, which is awesome. My arms are now even (apparently before one was 9.5" and one was 10.5"...so I gained .5" in one and lost it in the other. Hoorah for symmetry?) Unfortunately everything else is the same or a little higher, but I'm not surprised by that fact. Now that we're back in the swing of things, that should (hopefully) change.

Ok, back to numbers and numbers and numbers. Have I mentioned I'm not really a numbers person? Oh well.

sweet berry (ten on tuesday)

Welcome to yet another week where it's possible all I'll do is answer memes. Because it's my blog and I can; my life is just that exciting. (Link up with Chelsea over at Roots and Rings!)

1. What’s the perfect meal?
Thanksgiving. It includes all the perfect foods: dark meat turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, stuffing, copious amounts of bread and PUMPKIN PIE.

2. What are the perfect pair of shoes?
I have a hard time finding perfect pairs of shoes, but recently it's been my new denim Airwalks. They're from Payless, and I'm pretty sure they cost me about $6. ANDILOVETHEM.

(my feet hang out under a desk all day, so I very rarely change into my work shoes -- even though I bring them with me every day. Shh, don't tell!)

3. What is the perfect afternoon?Something that involves food, drinks and shopping! But seriously, I love just wandering around markets, stores, downtown areas. It's all good.

4. What’s the perfect house?
Something roomy. I'm not terribly picky about what type of house it is, as my interests stretch from old school Victorians to new construction to Tudor, but I would like it to have an awesome kitchen with a gas stove and an island/breakfast bar, a fireplace in at least the living room (if not bedroom,) and a master suite. Other than that, I'm pretty flexible.

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5. What is the perfect outfit?
Jeans. T-Shirt. Aboslutely no shoes.

6. What’s the perfect wedding song?
The Luckiest by Ben Folds, but it's kind of running rampant among my friends as part of their weddings, so I probably won't use it as anything specific in my wedding.

7. What is the perfect job?
For me? Singing. Especially a cappella and choral, but I'd take just about any singing. I like performing for people.

(I'm on the left; one of my best friends, Megan, is on the right)

8. What’s the perfect hairstyle?
A ponytail, because I don't have to mess with it.

9. What’s the perfect music festival?
Winterfest at Leon! Get out of school early and just run around with friends listening to bands. It was the awesome-est.

10. What’s the perfect day to yourself?
I love just walking down to the water and reading on a bench where I can look out over the Sound. I guess a perfect day to myself involves me, reading and tea. And maybe some Facebook games <-- addict over here, people.

i am a junkie

Of the Food Network. And HGTV. And sometimes TLC. I just can't help it. This is the second time I've watched this rerun of Next Food Network Star today...and I'm still kind of watching it. Why? Who knows. I'm a glutton for rerun punishment.

Happy Father's Day! I sent my Dad a card, but he didn't get it yet. Super lame.

My computer at work on Friday got a virus from somewhere or another (sad. face.) around 11:30 in the morning. It's something nasty, and doesn't allow me to even see my desktop background (even though it's there and working fine) and gives me false alerts about memory execution failing and such. Our IT dude called it tenacious, because at around 4:00PM, after having the computer repair itself and running a freakin' three hour virus scan and deletion, it still wasn't gone. I don't know where it came from, because I didn't open anything that I hadn't already opened on the computer before, so who knows where it came from. But it was running another virus scan when I left on Friday, so hopefully that wiped it out? Of course, Brian (our accountant) was out, so I was only one there who actually knew how to do the stuff that was supposed to happen to the purchase orders -- way to make me feel necessary -- and I couldn't check my emails. It was el stupido.

In any case, our trip to New England was awesome. The wedding was beautiful, even if the weather wasn't, and visiting with friends and family just made me even more homesick. The feeling has been appeased a bit, however, because my sister is here! And to escape her bible-study offering housemates, she came and hung out with us Friday night (for sloppy joes -- nom!) and then on Saturday, Nate and I rented our first Zipcar, picked up Liz and went shopping. We had Five Guys for lunch, then proceeded to drive back and forth between Target, QFC and Northgate Mall as many times as possible in a 5 hour period. I'm only slightly kidding -- we retraced our steps multiple times because we kept forgetting things. And as it stands, we still forgot grocery items (after hitting up Safeway, also,) and somehow we misplaced a bag from Target containing two packs of hangers which is part of the reason we were going to Target in the first place. We are winners.

I'm looking forward to summertime, when the weather is supposed to be gorgeous here, I get to hang out with my sister more and Nate is working a desk job very close to my desk job, so we can meet for lunch and walk together in the morning. Yay!

-Caitlin

moving from left to right (wee bit wednesday)

Wee Bit Wednesday is hosted by Leigh Ashley! Link up in the fun =) {one} what color best describes you + why?Green. Possibly because it's my favorite, but also because I think it is spunky while still having depth.
{two} how have you changed in the past year?I think I've become more confident, in the past year or so. I've always been able to act confident, but settling into my new job and being in a completely new city has actually upped my confidence in my abilities, which is great!
{three} have you ever had any surgeries? I had bunyon correction surgery (because I'm an old lady) during Christmas break of my Junior year on my right foot. I also had my wisdom teeth removed -- all of them, pesky little buggers -- during college. That's it.
{four} why did you start your blog?Because I have a horrible memory for the little stuff, and I want to actually be able to look back and see what I did and how I was feeling during my life.
{five} what are you looking forward to this summer?Sunshine!
{six} do you have any family traditions for the 4th of July?We used to go visit friends that had lakes and stuff, but mostly it's just setting off dinky fireworks in the street. Hoorah!
{seven} what’s something new that you’ve tried in the past few months?Hmm...I try new things a lot, but I haven't tried anything substantial recently I don't think?
{eight} what is the perfect a/c temperature?That's hard, because it depends. AC usually makes me too cold after being in it for a while. I'd say maybe 72?
{nine} what was the last movie you saw in the theater?Insidious. It. was. AWFUL. (That reminds me of the way Natalie Portman says that in Garden State.)
{ten} what song do you think everyone should hear at least once?The Luckiest - Ben Folds. Do it NOOOOOOOOW. 

Gonna go watch Game 7 after work. We are on the wrong coast for this, and I don't much care about hockey, but....Go Bruins!

 

clouding up my mind (ten on tuesday)

(retroactively posting for this week's ten on tuesday, because I was traveling all day yesterday! Hosted by Chelsea.)

1. How do you pronounce the word aunt? Does your pronunciation rhyme with ‘haunt’ or ‘can’t'? Rhymes with can't.

2. Do most of the people in your life know you blog? Or are you partially or totally anonymous?
I definitely don't hide it -- but whether or not they read it when I post the link on Twitter/Facebook/etc. is up to them! I do have a blog that I keep private from almost everyone, just so I have a place to write completely anonymously. But I don't use it very often.

3. When you grocery shop, do you prefer to bag your own groceries or do you like it when the store bags them for you? Paper, plastic, or reusable bags?
I'm fine either way? Sometimes the grocery store people like to put two things in a plastic bag and call it a day, which is not really a great way to bag things, in my humble opinion. We get plastic, so we can use them as trash bags!

4. Do you have a green thumb? I suck at keeping plants alive. Nate's parents gave me one, though, and it hasn't keeled over yet.

5. If you watch the Food Network, which chef/show host is your favorite? I love Food Network, but I don't think I particularly care for one chef. I like pretty much all the chefs on Iron Chef, though.

6. Do you like to take baths? Do you take them very often? I like baths, but the water always gets cold way too fast. I prefer the hot tub ;)

7. What color are the walls in your kitchen? Mmm...white? I think our apartment is white or off-white.

8. Do you prefer to dine outdoors or indoors? I like dining outdoors, when the weather is nice.

9. Describe your ideal weather. Sunny or mostly sunny, but cool. Like, with a cool breeze. But not so cold that I need a jacket.

10. If you could learn any foreign language, which would you choose to learn?
I've tried learning many foreign languages (ie: Latin, German and Arabic,) and I'm just not real good at it. But I would probably pick a romance language, like French or Spanish. I feel like I'd do alright with those. I did ok with learning ASL, but that's because it's so kinesthetic, so memorizing vocab is completely different than with a spoken language. I've pretty much forgotten it all now.

vampiress

I bought some of the Covergirl Outlast lipstain to try something new on my lips. I very rarely use anything on my lips, because they are naturally pretty pink, but I was trying these on in the bathroom and I think I am already in lurve. This is the more red of the two colors:

I feel very much like a vampire without any other color on my face. It's ok though, cause vampires are teh sessi right now.

Just thought I'd show you all. I'm getting on a plane to Boston in 5 hours. Whee!

a love story

with a salon.

Imagine walking into a space that is both chic and relaxing. There bright colors lining the walls, a carafe filled with chilled lemon water, an offering of beer and hot tea. The floor to ceiling windows let in natural light that filters all the way back to the end of the space, but you can't hear any noise from the street. Colbie Callait, Sara Bareilles and acoustic John Mayer serenades softly in the background, and an old episode of Wonder Woman plays on several TVs. Everything is simple: pure and pristine.

This was my first impression on entering Julep. After leaving my previous employer in Boston, I was kind of skeptical of getting nails and waxing anywhere else. But walking into Julep quelled my fears, and I instantly felt at home. The aesthetics of the salons are very similar, as is the cleanliness aspect. The difference being that Julep has only its own line of nail colors and products available in its salon. Don't worry, though, they have every color you might want -- even metallics. I didn't see any matte polishes, but those were only kind of a fad back when I was working, anyway.

I had an appointment with Vicky. She was cute and quiet, and very apologetic that I had to wait an extra thirty minutes for my appointment. (I know this would be a turn off for some people, but I don't often schedule appointments when I have other places to be, so I don't mind waiting. But I know other people can get all up-in-a-tizzy about it. These nails are only a small portion of my very busy day of shopping!) I decided to go for the Fab for 14 Gel Manicure (similar to OPI's Axxium service) because I'm going to wedding in Boston and I am one of those people who is not at all careful with her hands, so polish very rarely makes it three days still intact, let alone until next Tuesday. Vicky was super thurough my manicure -- a must because I have not had one in *ahem* quite a while -- and made sure that the cuticles and shaping were as close to perfect as possible before starting up on the polish. She even informed me that the color I had originally pick (a mint green very close to Essie's Mint Candy Apple which I love) had been fading on other customers, so she suggested I try a different one. I contemplated going for a shimmery purple, but decided on a nice, Springy periwinkle, instead. After the normal (for me,) comments on how tiny my nailbeds are -- and I really do have the nailbeds of a seven year old -- we were off!

The service takes about 45 minutes but you completely dry at the end of it. Like, dig in your purse, whack your nails on a zipper, shuffle some extra shoes to find your wallet, dry. They use an LED to cure the gel polish as it goes on, and each cycle in the machine only takes 30 seconds (a minute for each land, so you can do your thumb separately and not bump it into anything.) This also means that you can get the quick hand massage after your polish, which I think is excellent, because all the alcohol and stuff dries my already dry skin out even more.

Personally, I think the $48 price tag is totally worth it. Afterwards, I went to Forever 21 and tried on some dresses. It's been three days and they are still totally beautiful. Check plus!

i can't wait (wee bit wednesday)

Want to do it to? Make sure to link up, over at Leigh Ashley's! {one} how many times have you been a bridesmaid/maid of honor?

Hmm...none. My friends hate me. Actually that's a complete lie, none of my close close friends have gotten married (or even engaged, save one) yet!

{two} what’s the last thing your do before you fall asleep at night?

Usually it's either kiss Nate (you have my permission to groan) or check my phone. I do both, in one or order or the other.

{three} you just won your dream vacation, all expenses paid. where are you going?Oh man, this is hard. I love many places, but I'll say Egypt, because I haven't been there yet and I really want to go someday!  

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{four} what is your favorite outdoor activity?I love being outdoors in general, but I'm big on swimming. Only if the water isn't freezing, however.

{five} as a child, what did you want to “be when you grew up”? did you end up there?I don't think I actually wanted to grow up, but at various points I wanted to be an archaeologist and a veterinarian. I've also contemplated being an author, but that would require me to finish something I start writing (besides blog posts.) I still want to be a movie star or a famous singer, but I don't know how attainable those goals are. Especially since I'm not really working at them...  

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{six} what are 3 things your dream home would have that you don’t currently have?The most giant and beautiful room of a shower ever known to man. A pool and hot tub. An awesome kitchen with gas stove. (I think these things are totally doable, right?)  

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 {seven} what’s for dinner tonight? No clue. Pasta? Maybe with peas. And green beans? We don't have much left in the house, because Nate is already gone and I'm about to be gone for 5 days.
 {eight} if someone stopped by your house unannounced on a typical Saturday night, what would they find you doing?

Prob watching TV/movies or playing on the computer. Sometimes we might be drinking. Almost always eating!

{nine} what’s your average monthly water bill?

We don't pay water, our apartment building does. It's a good thing, too. =P

{ten} what do you do to relax?Read. Sometimes I'll listen to music and play on the computer, but mostly my downtime is spent with my kindle. Or possibly in the shower -- so relaxing =)

spektor

"I hear in my mind,

all of these voices.

I hear in my mind,

all of these words.

I hear in my mind,

all of this music --

and it breaks my heart;

breaks my heart."

(Regina Spektor - Fidelity)

just the same

I have recently become kind of obsessed with owls. Thankfully, so is everyone else,  so I don't have to go too far to find my feather friends!

Owl Soap Dispenser and Toothbrush Holder

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Owl Measuring Cups

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Owl Lovers on Music Print

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Peekaboo Owl Teacup

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Owl Multicolor Necklace

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Owl Watering Staes

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Ceramic Owl Bank

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I admit, too many of one decoration can be a tad bit ridiculous -- with this many owls, your house will start looking like an aviary and less like a living space. But how can you say no to their little owl faces?



(woah woah) evacuate the dance floor (ten on tuesday)

There are just simply so many of my friends' birthdays this month, I don't even know what to do with myself. So I ignore them all, and then feel bad and proceed to comment on the FB of anyone who I'm actually good friends with. I'm a horrible friend. Horrible. Shame on me.

Anywho, it's Ten on Tuesday time! Feel free, as always, to link up over at Roots and Rings. (Also, it's one of my fav blogs, so check it out, anyway =)

1. What type of phone do you have? Do you like it?
iPhone and I am totally an iPhone person. I will spout its glories to anyone who will listen. I have a 3GS, and I want a 4, but since my upgrade with AT&T doesn't happen until next February (ooh hoo hoo,) and there are rumors that the 5 will be out before then, I may just wait and get the 5. Hopefully by then we will have the money to throw away on fancy gadgets. Because really, I'm in agreement with the commercials: If you don't have an iPhone, well...you don't have an iPhone.

2. How old were you when you got your first cell phone?
Uhm...high school, I think? Sohpomore year. I got one pretty much as soon as they became vaguely affordable. It was about the time my friends started driving, so I was out and about and getting rides from school to theatre and theatre to home, so my parents wanted to know where I was.

3. How many cell phones have you owned since your first?
Let's see...I had a little baby Kyocera for my first one. Then I stepped on it, cracked the screen (I take real good care of stuff, can't you tell?) and it slowly went crazy until I was forced to get a new one. I loved that little phone. After that I had a couple flip phones. My sister and I got a contract for the two of us, so pretty much every time that was up, we got the new "free" phones when we renewed. An exact number is hard, though. Somewhere around 5?

4. How much is your average monthly phone bill?
Uhhh....I don't know. Nate pays the bill. I want to say it's like, $130, for our two data plans (thank goodness for being grandfathered into unlimited data!) We also have unlimited texting, with the lowest number of minutes possible...and we still have rollover. Neither of us talk on the phone very much.

5. When you were a kid/teenager, were you allowed to have a phone in your room?
I don't remember if I ever had the actual phone unit itself. We had at least one cordless phone from the time that cordless phones were available -- my Dad likes new technology -- and at least two phones lines from the time I was 11 (though one was for dial-up (oh my gawd, dial-up?) or DSL, when we switched over,) because we are an interwebs family. In any case, who needs the phone when you can just take the receiver up to your room and leave it there?

6. Do you like talking on the phone or do you despise it? Or somewhere in-between?
I hate talking on the phone. It makes me feel so, so very awkward. I'd much rather text/email/IM.

7. Do you text a lot? Is texting/talking while driving illegal where you live? Are you guilty of it anyway?
Yup. I don't think it's illegal here. I don't have a car, so I don't text and drive. I used to text at stoplights in Tallahassee, but I was pretty good about not texting while the car was actually moving and under my control.

8. What sort of texting keyboard does your phone have? Touch screen, slide out, or something different? Do you care?
Touchscreen. Oh yeah, iPhone.

9. Look at the last call in your call log – who is it? What were they calling about? Who calls you the most?
Yesterday I got a call from a number I didn't recognize, as I was leaving work, so I didn't pick up. Turns out it was from a research firm in Boston that I had signed up for while I was living there, for some extra money, seeing if i wanted to participate in a study. Awesome how they never called me while I was living there...

10. What is the longest phone call you can recall having?
I remember I used to talk for hours late-night on weekends to my guy friends, because obv there were no sleepovers happening, since we were in middle school and all. It was before computers got real popular for that kind of stuff. And my friend Evan didn't have access to a computer/the internet, for a while, anyway, so we chatted on the phone.

tell us of the night

One of these days I'll stop being a lazy bum and start writing regularly again so I don't have to lump our giant weekends o' fun into one long and slightly boring post. Ah, well. A girl can dream.

This weekend was one of the most gorgeous times I have seen in seattle. Friday and Saturday were both super sunny, and Sunday was marginally sunny, so Nate and I took full advantage and walked around for a total of 13+ hours from Friday night to Sunday night. All our pictures are on the real camera -- we took the real camera out, aren't you proud of us?! -- so I don't have many to post here today, but as soon as I can muster up the energy to steal them from Nate's computer, I'll post our marathon walking tour.

Friday evening we walked downtown because a) it was nice and I wanted to get some exercise but b) Nate was still a bit of a sicky, so we weren't going to submit the gym to his snot just yet. We walked down to Pike Place and got some awesome shots of Rainier over Qwest.

The crazy-ass giant volancomountains is one thing I will definitely miss whenever it is we decide to scurry back over the east coast. I love the Appalachians, but there's really nothing like craggy, snow-capped peaks in the distance. It's one of my favorite things around living in Seattle, for realz.

Friday night we watched The Fighter. I though it was good, but I really have no love to give to fighting -- it just isn't really my sport. I don't like watching people get hurt. Nate said he thought it wasn't as good as he thought it was going to be.

Saturday we woke up at a vaguely reasonable hour, got ready and set out to find breakfast. We had yet to find a decent breakfast place and upon some further inspection, discovered a diner, Planet Java, right on the waterfront, a straight shot down Washington from our house! It's super cute and has that old-school, 50s diner vibe, including the music. There's vintage Coke and diner paraphernalia everywhere, but the most ridiculous thing is that the entire place is covered in clocks. Most of them are cool. Some, like the scary clown clock, not so cool. But the vibe and food (and our waitress) was AWESOME and just what we wanted.

After eating, we were going to wander down by the waterfront (along with everyone else who lives in and/or was visiting Seattle,) but we got distracted by the ridiculously loud sounds coming from Qwest, so we walked over there to check it out. There was a U2 concert on Saturday night, and they were setting up and sound checking while the Mariners game was happening at Safeco right next door, so we were not alone. (When we walked home later, I got an awesome shot of Lenny Kravitz -- their opening act -- using the digital zoom on the camera and focusing in on the giant screen above the stage. It almost looks like we were there! ;)

Afterwards, we headed to the waterfront, and walked and shopped and took pictures for the rest of the afternoon. We ate dinner at Contour, where they have a $2-5 happy hour menu until 8PM with some really delicious food. We also got a free round of drinks because they neglected to tell us until much, much later that they didn't actually have the fried calamari we ordered. Oops. Free booze!

I wound up getting a little sunburned from walking around, but considering were out for hours and my chest is just a little pink, I'll take it. Saturday night we watched The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. It is kind of horribly depressing, but really really good. Beautiful cinematography and music (by James Horner,) but man, I did not see that ending coming. You should see it. And then be kind of depressed for a while.

Sunday wasn't as nice, but we went a-walking anyway. We would up at Planet Java for breakfast again before heading downtown to do some shopping. Originally we went for cologne for Nate, since he's almost out, but we wound up with six pairs of shoes instead. Hahaha. Hah. Ha. Oops. =\ But we needed them, and we got rid of some shoes that were really quite past their prime (which the shoes we bought replaced) when we got home, so it wasn't completely frivolous. Nate replace his semi-dressy black shoes, his gym shoes and walking sneakers and I replaced two pairs of casual walking shoes and got a pair of wedges for work. See, see?! We needed them. Neeeeeed. I mean, yes. Plus, they're having a BOGO sale until July 4th. Totally justified.

I also got this awesome ceramic owl at UO.

Technically he is a piggy bank, but since we keep out change in a Cafe du Monde tin near the door, he is simply a decoration on the window sill. He was on sale for $1.99, how could I say no?!

TGIF and all the goodness

I'm so glad this was a short week because I. Am. Beat.

I had my first two free personal training sessions at the gym. The girl was very cute and nice and I hurt all over. We did arms for 45 minutes on Tuesday and legs for an hour on Thursday. I'MSOTIRED. Working out is hard and stuff. But now at least I know how to use the machines and don't feel as awkward about it. Holla. My trainer is also trying to get classes for the evening to happen at this gym location, which I am all for. Some people live downtown and only have one gym membership. Hmph.

I'm also crazy excited about the fact that next week this time I will be in BOSTON! Granted, I don't get to spend much of my time in the New England actually in Boston -- I'll be in Maine Friday night/Saturday and in New Hampshire on Sunday -- but that doesn't make it any less exciting. I am returning to the land of Dunkin Donuts and Chik-fil-a. It's a dream come true.

You guys, I'm looking forward to fast food chains. This is my sad, sad reality.

Not that I don't love Seattle, especially right now. It's beautiful here, being able to live right on the water without paying exhorbitant prices is pretty freakin' cool (cooler if we could see the water from our apartment,) and the whole Pike Place/Space Needle area of downtown is really, really nifty. But I am affected by sunshine, or lack thereof, and I just can't handle it being 45 and drizzly most of the year. If it's going to rain, I'd rather have crazy thunderstorms that last for an hour or two than constantly being spit upon by the overcast sky. Personally.

Did you know Seattle is the birthplace of Starbucks and UPS? Nathan discovered UPS's Waterfall Garden right downtown near my work today.

It's also the birthplace of grunge.

You know what Boston is the birthplace of? Awesome.

But seriously, I'm glad to be here for the time being. I am embracing the newness of it all, even 8 months later.

(also, I got a new follower! Helllloooo, new follower! =)