to fit the mold (ten on tuesdays)

Ten on Tuesday! Link up with Chelsea, over at Roots and Rings!

1. When you are on a plane and the kid behind you is kicking your seat, what do you do?
Ignore them. Roll my eyes? I don't like confrontation. Usually I just complain to my flying companion. I'm a very passive aggressive plane passenger.

2. What food that you KNOW is bad for you and you shouldn’t have, but you love/eat it anyway?
Everything? I guess chocolate. Pretty much any kind of sweets...pizza...there are too many. Nachos! COCA-COLA.

(and I'm not ashamed)

3. What is your favorite book of all time?
I kind of hate this question for two reasons: 1) because I have entirely too many favorite books and 2) because I have to admit that my favorite book is probably Summon the Keeper by Tanya Huff (even though most of the time, I say it's American Gods by Neil Gaiman.)

(you should read it...but they don't have it for Kindle, that I can find. Boo.)

4. If I came to visit you in your town, where would we eat? (aren't you glad to know me, three towns-worth of places to eat!)
Seattle: Coffee - Trabant or Cherry Street, Breakfast - Planet Java, Lunch - Blue C, Happy Hour - Contour, Dinner - Sip and/or Purple Cafe.

Boston: Coffee - Espresso Royale (or Dunkin Donuts -- I'm high-class,) Breakfast - Ball Square Cafe, Lunch - Pie (uhm...apparently Pie is closed and that makes me SAD,) or   Happy Hour - Sonsie,  Dinner - Central Kitchen or The Other Side.

Tallahassee: Coffee - Red Eye or Black Dog, Breakfast - Another Broken Egg or The Crepe Vine, Lunch - Sumosabi, Pitaria or One Fresh, Happy Hour - The Winery or Finnegan's Wake, Dinner - Los Compadres, Jasmine or Bonefish.

5. You have 500 dollars and 40 minutes to spend it at any store you want. Where do you go?
Ooooh....H&M. or Forever21. Do you know how many clothes you could get there with $500? Or the Apple Store! That's most of an iPad =)

6. What blog do you read every day/the most often?
 Mostly my friends' and sister's: Liz, Christopher, Tara, Mary, Jeni - when she actually updates for Josie and Mary, Caroline, Catherine. Then, also, Two Adults, Young House Love, Lariats and Lavender, Art for the Heart and Constantly in Transition. And lots, lots more.

7. What’s the longest you’ve ever been stuck at an airport?
I've been lucky and never gotten stuck for too long. I have had, like, 8-hour layovers, though. *knocks on wood*

(EDIT: apparently I just missed copying this one the first time around...)
8. What’s your daily makeup/face/cleansing routine?
I wash my face in the shower at night with cleanser. I use scrub every other day, and every once and a while I use a face mask with salicylic acid. When I get out, I use an astringent/toner and then moisteurizer, and maybe some spot treatment. In the morning I usually use toner to clean off my face and sometimes put on more moisteurizer, if my skin is feeling tight.

9. Where is your farthest away friend?
Oy...actual friend and not people I talk to via le interwebs? Probably Megan, in central FL. I do have family in the Keys. And then I have friends visiting other countries. And facebook friends in Europe =)

10. Where is your favorite place to go hiking (or to enjoy nature)?
The mountains. Especially when there is water involved, like a stream or a lake. We haven't done much of that here in Seattle, but we will. Soon.

we on a boat!

This weekend was the bomb (dot com?) Mostly it was Sunday that was aweomse, but Saturday was pretty good too. We got up late and got an awesome work out in -- 35 minutes of cardio and 40 minutes of strength. I was beat afterward, but it felt good while it was happening.

Sunday, my co-worker/friend Brian invited us to go out boating! Apparently one of the designers at work owns a small boat that he lets people just...use. Which is awesome.

We got off to a late start, and early in the day it was kind of cloudy, but while we were waiting for the boat to come pick us up, we hung out at Lake Union Park and had Starbucks. And watched Nate play High Noon (an iPhone game that involves shootouts like in the old west. Nate's avatar has a cowboy hat and a mustache.) He really gets into it:

*ooh-ee-ooh-ee-ooh*

"this town ain't big enough for the two of us!"

*tumbleweeds*

In any case, once we got to the boat it started to clear up some. We were taken on the "architectural tour" of Lake Washington -- aka the "holy sh*t these are ridiculously large houses" tour. We got to see things like Bill Gate's house (not pictured,) which is 1/3 outside the hill and 2/3 built into the hill, an archaeologist who has a full-scale T-REX INSIDEHISEHOUSEWTF, and a house shaped like a castle. All of the houses were beautiful, but so. very. large. They even had their own funiculars up and down the hill from the road. Ridiculous.

Castle House. With a turret.

T-Rex inside. No big deal.

Aside from the crazy-sized houses, we also got to see an abandoned sea plane somebody had in their yard (does anyone else call them float planes, or is that just me?) and a miniature horse that somebody had...in their yard.

de plane, de plane!

wtf, mate?

Then, Nate got to drive the boat. He drove fast. Notice his maniacal smile?

driving.

scared for my life.

All in all it was an awesome day. We had a dinner of sliders and crab rangoon at BluWater in Leschii before heading back to Lake Union. Before they dropped us off, we made friends with some geese.

They swam up to us in a line, so we fed them jalapeno chips until Nate informed us geese can't handle spicy foods. Then we fed them some more and waited around for a while to see if they keeled over. They didn't, so we figured we were in the clear. One had eyebrows, so we named him Ollie. I took a picture of him, but apparently my sister decided he wasn't important enough to put in her facebook album -- and that's where all these photos are from so...

We had lots of fun. Don't we look like we had fun?

fun.

Nate's beer that Liz held while he took a picture of us. Bottom's up!

At the end of the day, it cleared up enough to see most of Rainier from the water.

I think Rainier is my favorite mountain. It is totally bad ass.

What did you do over the weekend? Post Fourth of July fun?

(p.s. -- Naaaaaaaathan. Why is my signature no longer on a transparent background?)

wall of sound

I keep wandering over to Blogger to write a post, but then when I get here, I realize I have nothing to say because -- let's face it -- I didn't even go to the gym last night. That basically means I have done nothing except eat, watch tv, work and sleep since my last post. Hah.

I have a Skype date tonight with my friend Megan, to see her and her fiance's new house. I'm excited -- I haven't really talked to her for, like, a year. Which is ridiculous, but what happens when you hate the phone like I do.

I'm supposed to hang out on a boat on Sunday, if the weather is nice.

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It's Friday!

Hello, friends!

I switch over here, and hopefully you know that, because now you are reading here. I decided my old address didn't exactly describe or mean anything, so here we are. Because done and done means (to me) that you have completed something important and/or exciting -- even if that means you've only completed the thought of it in your head. It's a saying I picked up from friends somewhere in college and it's stuck with me. So...there. Done and done.

It's Thursday (huzzah!) so here are a Top Five (idea stolen from The Perfect Compilation Tape, though, she switches up her topics every week) of some new tunes I have come across recently, mostly sent to me in a cappella form (which then causes me to look up the original song) by my good friend Christopher, who -- not unrelatedly -- is going to be working for The Sing Off next season! That means he's on MY coast now (the western one, though we are both from the eastern one) and therefore in my timezone. So maybe I will actually see him. But probably not. LA is far away from Seattle. It's okay, though. I like him anyway.

1. "Again and Again" The Bird and the Bee

(Check out Sonos's version of this.)

2. "Unravel" Bjork

(The Swingle Singers do this a cappella and it. is. RAD!)

3. "Little Bird" Jazzanova ft. Jesse James

(Sonos does an awesome a cappella version)

4. "Wicked Game" Sonos (originally Chris Issak)

(Sonos rocks my face off. I like their version better than the cheesy original -- despite it's sexiest-music-video-of-all-time standing.)

5. "Monsters" Matchbook Romance

(UPenn Off the Beat has a kick-ass version.)

Today was supposed to be sunny, but they LIED and it's like walking around in a giant cloud. It's lame. Lame. Also, we completely ignored the gym this weekend, so it's kicking our behinds this week. But it's a good kicking -- my butt hurts from squats, and I'm ok with it. Especially if it means looking good in a bathing suit. Not that we wear many bathing suits in Seattle.

me and you, you and me

This weekend was a spectacular of shopping fun-times, eating good-times and beautiful weather. I'm talking 70s and perfectly sunny, with an awesome cool breeze. It was awesome! See below for case and point:

Bow tank from H&M ($12.95? Not on sale.)

Bird skirt for $7 from H&M (remind me not to wear these two things together)

New jewelry setup with cork boards! (Target - $7.90 for 4 panels)

Leopard flower hair-clip (Forever21 - $1.50 for 2)

Owl earring hanger (Forever21 - $11.50)

Oyster Trio @ Sip (5th & Madison)

Flatbread Pizza (Sip)

Poutine for Breakfast! (J&M Cafe - 1st and Washington)

iPod Nano Watchband (Apple Store - $25)

Pretty new nails! (Julep)

suddenly, you're mine

Nate and I watched the first season of Game of Thrones, a show on HBO. There are ten episodes, and the show is based off the book series 'A Song of Fire and Ice.' I have to admit, the episodes are a little slow-moving sometimes; you can tell what scenes -- mostly dialogue -- would have been cut or shortened or implied if it was a movie (or set of movies,) but the storyline and characters are good and interesting enough to have kept us watching.

And then we get to the end of the 9th episode and Nate FREAKSOUT about the ending and insists we keep watching, even though it's late and we both have work the next morning. Because really, how can you just DO THAT? I mean...HBO didn't do it, the books did, but still. Totally didn't see it coming. And yes, I'm being elusive on purpose in case you want to go watch the season without my spoiling it for you. And if you have seen it, you KNOW what I'm talking about. This is why I usually like to read the books before I watch -- I like to be prepared.

REALLY, HOW CAN THEY JUST DO THAT?

edit: I think my favorite storyline is Daenerys's. Dragons are just too cool.

i'm so spot on

Currently! Stolen from Lemonade Life.

Current Book: Mockingjay, Third Book of The Hunger Games. I ate the first two, and this one is turning out to be no different. Sometimes, I hate to find a book trilogy/quartet that I love, because I alwasy finish it too quickly. And then I'm sad.

Current Movie: Hmm...last one I watched was Schindler's List, which was beautifully sad; The Boy in the Striped Pajamas before that. My sister is bringing Blue Valentine to watch this weekend. We are apparently people who love to be depressed.

Current Song: I'm a little obsessed with Promises, Promises -- and some other new Incubus.

Current Restaurant: New favorite in Seattle is Contour, on 1st. Their happy hour menu is so good, so varied and so cheap!
 
Current Needs: More sleep. And more exercise. And less homemade cookies and bagels sitting the breakroom! Oh yes, and a Google+ invite. (Anyone...anyone? I can pay you in (boyfriend) baked goods and snuggles.)


Current Dream Travel Destination: I think Egypt.

Current Bane of my Existence: That it is not yet 5PM. That is all.

Current Inspiration: My friend, Christopher. For saying what he wants and what he means, even if it isn't directly. And for going after things without any agenda but his own happiness.

Current Favorite Blog: Craftgasms. Totally wish I had known her better when we were in school together!

Current Excitement: Three day weekend! And the weather is supposed to be gorgeous. And I got a new credit card (which was my plan, after closing a different one...but it's still exciting.)