song of the day

Koza Plains by Great Waves (a local Sammamish band)

I wish I were going to bumbershoot so I could watch this lovely band. Heard this song for the first time last night, on my way home from grocery shopping on 107.7 the End's local's only show.

I'm stressing today, I have to give an oral argument tomorrow for legal writing. I'm really nervous. And I also have a ton of other homework to do. I should get off here and get back to work, I just wanted to share this song with all of you.

sister roommies

This pic was pre-housewarming rager yesterday.
the party was a success.
we went through a keg, 3 flats of beer, booze that our guests brought, & $45 worth of food from Costco.
nothing got stolen or broken.
our families came, our friends came, we drank, we played games, etc. love.

first night back

I'm back in Seattle now. School starts the day after tomorrow, NOT stoked. I bought two of my books today, bye bye $300. BOO. Yesterday Seattle greeted me with a traffic jam. I ended up going to Capitol Hill to meet Leslie last night. We went to Barca where we made friends with a table of guys. They seemed nice. After buying us a few drinks "Barry" zoomed in on me. We initially thought he was gay. He told me he was 52 years old, and then later amended his age to 38. Right. He was telling me that he is a. attractive, b. the owner of a house that I should come back to because it has both a jukebox and a waterfall in the backyard and c. the singer of a band that sounds like Nickleback. He then tried to convince me to go home with him, telling me that he wasn't going to sleep with me but he was definitely going to make out with me. I vommed into my own mouth a little then quickly sent an SOS text to Leslie who was outside. Barry then told me that the alleged 15 (I think more) year age gap between us was no big deal, because he was so attractive and cool. I quickly excused myself to go outside to find Leslie who was chatting with Barry's younger, more normal friend. Barry eventually got tired of me telling him he was having "crazy girl moments" after he repeatedly referenced our future marriage etc. and his friends dragged him away (he was very grumpy at this point). Moral of the story: you can go to a bar in Seattle and not know anyone in it, meet some crazies, and end your night eating a hotdog from a street vendor with your lovely law school friend. So different from my Hood River summer. Sigh.

i miss you so much it hurts

work

I just discovered Ground's website (hah). On it I found this picture ♥



Today, tomorrow and Wednesday are my last days there. Come in, say hi, get some coffee and enjoy the tilt shift photo exhibit! CLICK HERE for more details about the art, and HERE for more details about the coffee!

last weekend of hood river summer: favs

I had an awesome friday night ending in amazing jack's time. Saturday night was more low key but I was surrounded by faves. Sunday = clothing swap where I got some good things, most memorable though: sweet sweet shoes! love it. and the evenings have been perfect and warm and magical... or maybe majestic ;)
P.S. the majestic unicorn is fixed! SO don't worry!
P.P.S. 3 more days of work

then I thought, wait a minute, could it be?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgTssbfJu3Y

Hello,

How about that ride in? I guess that’s why they call it Sin City (hahaha)

You guys may not know this, but I consider myself…a bit of a loner. I tend to think of myself as a one man wolf pack. But when my sister brought Doug home, I knew he was one of my own. And my wolf pack, it grew by one. So were two…so there was two of us in the pack. I…I was alone first in the pack, and then Doug joined in later.

And 6 months ago, when Doug introduced me to you guys. I thought…wait a second, could it be. And now I know for sure, I just added 2 more guys to my wolf pack. 4 of us wolves running around the desert together, in Las Vegas looking for strippers and cocaine. So tonight, we make a toast!

SUP

Today Greg took me Stand Up Paddleboarding (SUPing). It was a really nice day and I was stoked - I had been once before but had absolutely no instruction. We went out everything was going alright. I say alright because I kind of sucked but it wasn't that bad, UNTIL we got into the middle of the river and the wind started to pick up. I couldn't steer/keep my board straight and I was floating down the river. It was awful, especially since I can't swim. I was for sure I was going to end up at the dam and die or something. Needless to say Greg saved the day and paddled me back in. I was in fear blackout for most of the experience and then when I was walking my board back in once it got shallow (about 1/3 of the river there was shallow) I got judged by some kayakers. FML moment FOR SURE. I then laid on the grass at the event site while Greg took the board out with a sail on.
After that we went to Double Mt. for super delish Pizza and Beer (lovelove) and we ran into Greg's "friend" who told us about fairies and magic and the "castle" he is building. I kind of went into blackout mode during that too - blackout here = zone out mode haha.
So far my last day off this summer has been weird. Didn't find anything I loved at the Plenty sale, SUP fail, weird man while we were enjoying our lunch/din... but now I'm going to meet some lovelies at Waucoma club to see Joey play some music, then we're party time around Hood River. I'm stoked. Stopping on my way to get a sugar free redbull, then it's goooo time! haha.
Last weekend in Hood River: GO! Put your party pants on, friends!
xxoo

summer nights

last night Greg and I took a blanket into the field and watched the Perseid Meteor shower.

I ♥ warm August nights

now getting ready for my last summery weekend in Hood River

my summer "break"

I took the past couple days off work to go to Seattle. Saturday night I spent in Fort Lewis at my cousins' house with brother Jim. We "played sports" and drank beer and hung out. I love fam time. Sunday morning I headed up to Seattle to move. Thanks to Ameet and sister Kelsey and sister Erin for all your help in moving me out of my 7th story downtown apartment. I said goodbye to my apartment and moved into my new house. Monday I unpacked all day, and did some other things. When Erin got off work we went to trader Joe's and got stuff for our fab homemade pizzas which we then made. Katie came over and ate our first meal with us, then Ameet came over. They left and we had a celebratory bottle of champagne, and then I was REUNITED with my Leslie who got back from Africa only a few hours before that. Yay. It was a good night. The next morning I woke up with strep. I went to the dr, waited in line for Paseo with Ameet and Erin, had Molly Moon's, watched sex and the city and weeds, and slept 13 hours. The next day I woke up, ran some errands, had some Zoka and drove home. Today I lasted 15 min at work before being sent home b/c I'm sicky pants. Feeling much better now, thanks to popsicles ♥

pic of our new home:

TREW party pics

Friday night I went to a DJed dance party at the TREW house. They seriously have the BEST parties -- ex: 4th of July. I had fun with my girls (Beth, Marissa and Lora) and my other lovely friends, had a tiny drama (what's a party without some drama?), and had a fun walk/hangout with Greg. Nights like this one make me remember why I heart Hood River!

home is wherever I'm with you

I'm writing this from my bed in my new house. yay.
yesterday was moving day. I was sad to say goodbye to my downtown apartment. Moving is hard for me, not so much physically (even though getting everything I own down from a 7th floor apartment was difficult ha, totally sore today!) but it's the mental move from one location to another that gets me. It's hard for me to say goodbye to those memories and its weird saying goodbye knowing that I'll never live there again.
Yesterday when I was driving away from the apartment with my last load of things I started thinking of the day I found that apartment; Brian and I had come up to Seattle to go on an apartment hunt. We hunted for a day and a half. I was exhausted. The apartment I ended up in was the first apartment we looked at, we really had no idea what we were doing. We looked at some ghetto apartments, walked around, ate McDs Frenchfries, and sushi, took a break at gasworks park, went to Earl's, escaped to a hotel so we wouldn't have to drink anymore haha. It was a totally mentally/physically exhausting day. I am glad he was there with me for that. And even though everything didn't work out the way I had hoped it would, I still changed a lot and became more aware of who I am and what I want while I was living in my apartment. That has faded into a memory and I guess it's time to make some new memories in my new home (which is SO nice P.S.).
I'm living here with Kylee and Erin (who I lived with in the sorority and Erin and I go to law school together). It's ideal. SISTER ROOMMIES FOREVER.
I have nothing to do today, really. I think Katie is going to come over later (hooray) and Erin and I were talking before she went to work about maybe christening the house tonight with a few friends and a few adult beverages. I'm excited. I might walk up to Zoka after I shower and get some coffee too. I hope the clouds burn off so that I can enjoy some sunshine on my days off!
Anyway, time to shower and do good things with my life!
xxoo