Thanksgiving (and last weekend too)

It’s Thanksgiving day and I made the drive down from Seattle to my parents’ house this morning. We always have a quick dinner, everyone stuffs their faces for about 20 minutes and the rest of the day is spent watching tv and trying to cool down (my mom likes to make sure the wood fire is always roaring).

I figured all this down time is the perfect excuse to drink some red wine, snuggle with Fluffy and blog. Historically Thanksgiving for me has been spent not drinking wine, snuggling with (read: sobbing into) the cat and outlining for finals. Life after law school is so good!! Hooray!

Anyway, here I go: Last weekend I also made the trip back to White Salmon for my Tot cousin’s FIRST birthday party. His birthday is the day after mine, and we are basically twins (even down to our matching shin, dragon-shaped birthmarks). I love that kid!

We all got matching shirts for his birthday (with his cute little face screen printed on them), we ate cake, opened presents, and I obviously stayed hours after the party was over because I don’t get to see Chip and Katie NEARLY as much as I’d like anymore.

The night before the party I was able to sneak in some time with my Hood River friends. It was our friend Nate’s going away party last Friday and I made it out to the end of the party (after my SEVEN HOUR drive from Seattle… #neveragain). It’s always so fun to see these kids:

 
I’m hoping I’ll get to see everyone again while I’m here for the holiday.

Also, fun fact, today and tomorrow are my first EVER paid days off! Did I already mention that I LOVE life after law school? Because I do! I think this whole no-law-school-thing is one of the things I am most thankful for today (on this day all about thankfulness and shoving all the food in your face).

And now, it’s time to go get a refill on that wine…

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I hope you all are having a wonderful day.

Spring Break 2012

This past week I had my very last, EVER spring break. I feel like I kind of blew it, but the week off was nice regardless.

3L-itis is kicking in, hard.

Anyway, let me show you what I’ve been doing lately:

Monday I worked. And I hung with Battle Cat. Catz need love too:

And for my big spring break trip, I went home to White Salmon & Hood River Tuesday-Thursday.

Tuesday night was definitely the highlight of my whole spring break. It went like this: dinner at Henni’s (SO tasty) with Beth and Marissa (bestfriends), packed Beth for her NYC adventure, then went to the trillium, took jello shots and got everyone in the bar to shout “whoooo spring break!!” with me. But really, the whole crowded, karaoke night bar. It was fun, let me tell you! Nights out with those two are always my favorite nights out.

I don’t know? Don’t ask. Hash tag totes cute.

But while I was inside the spring break bar, pretending it was tropical and amazing, this is what things were looking like outside:

Except not daytime. This was the next day. It was filled with unwanted snow accumulation, which during spring break = NOT CUTE!

Anyway, Wednesday I got my hair cut (thank you Kalyn!! I love) and then I babysat Tot (my favorite little cousin). He’s a day short of 4 months here and he is a rad baby. We bonded:

But after a while of us snuggling (aka me carrying him around the house and looking out all the windows and bouncing him and taking this picture of us hah) he got sleepy and THIS happened (OMG I die, those leg rolls, that fanned out passed out position…):

 
After he woke up I went to dinner with little Rogue (AKA tot) and his parents (my cousins Chip & Katie). Dinner in the Dalles = amazing sweet potato fries and a tarantula I STILL think is crawling on me. GROSS!

After that I met up with Marissa for a drink and some PIE and some friend love at Brian’s Pourhouse (I love LOVE that place – I used to work there and it makes me really happy). Coincidentally it was PIE DAY! Pie on pie day? We’re so cool.

Then the next day I drove back to Seattle.

After deer for breakfast with my parents, of course. (marissa + dave, I don’t want to hear it)

In Seattle I worked some more. And I hung out with Battle Cat some more (did I mention Dustin was in Iowa all week? Lamesauce).

But that meant that I got a rad facetime in with him after he had gone out with his coworkers, and during the chat he made me this (and I thought it was cute of him, even though I look cross eyed – I wonder if my eyes will permanently go like this from looking at my phone so much?):

Also after I got back to Seattle, while Dustin was gone, I sat around his house and then decided to make these and I almost ate them all because I was alone with a cat and I missed my boyfriend and my friendz and my spring break didn’t involve a bikini so there was no good reason not to, right? But then I controlled myself. A little. But between the two of us, they all got eaten this weekend. Don’t you worry about wasted treatz. Rice Krispie Treats are SO good. They’re definitely one of my favorite desserts of all time:

Oh and when I got back into the city (that wasn’t completely covered in snow), the flowers were starting to bloom. And I felt like it was almost sort of spring. Then I saw some completely closed daffodils for sale at Safeway while I was getting supplies for my treatz. So I bought 10 for Dustin (well for his apartment so it looked extra fancy when he got home). But I think I liked them way more than him. Daffodils and tulips = amazing. They mean spring is on it’s way. And here in Seattle, that’s a big deal:

Anyway, the rest of my week off was spent relaxing with these two (glamour shotz can be seen below). We didn’t even go out on St. Patrick’s day (well, I guess we did go out for some lunchtime double mountain beers but we didn’t go out at night because, well, those beers made me REALLY tired). 

Now spring break is over. It was SO hard to go back to class today. SO HARD!

But now that spring break is over, I think I’ll begin looking forward to a wedding in vegas in a little less than a month (average temp in april in vegas is 78degrees said Dustin today). Sunshine + wedding with my favorite boy? GAH! Can’t wait!

Oh and I’m laughing at this little St. Patty’s day GEM:

Well friends, I’m sorry this post was so long. I just wanted to update you on SO MANY THINGS (my parents surprising me with no internet at their house wasn’t really conducive to the blogging I had planned for Tot’s nap – oh well)!

Before I go, though, one last thing: I finished & sent in my bar application AND I did my taxes this evening. I didn’t do much homework, but I figured that both of those are more important, right? Right.

Ok goodnight friends!!

The Day After Thanksgiving (Not Black Friday)

Yesterday, Thanksgiving was delicious. It was just a delicious day in general. Most of the day was low key. Example: I spent an hour on the phone with someone in India trying to get our wireless internet working and when it finally turned on, it was a Thanksgiving Miracle (#1). Then it was the afternoon and almost dinner time and my brother’s girlfriend got off work and my friend Marissa came over and we all ate. My mom made ham AND turkey and lots of other delicious things. It was good. Then we ate pumpkin pie and wild blackberry pie and some of my belated birthday cake (which was my mom’s homemade carrot cake, and it is like, the best cake EVER). Then I went food coma status for a while and tried to craft a skirt. I semi failed. It needs more work.

Later, in the night time, I met up with Beth and Marissa. We were going to meet our friends, but they were being jerksauce/lamefaces. So instead we went to the Red Carpet (remember how I love the red carpet?) because Ho Ho’s was closed, and it was the only bar in town open, and it really was a Thanksgiving Miracle (#2)! A little while later, all of our jerksauce friends showed up, and they weren’t so jerksauce anymore and we had a girls only dance party to the classy jukebox in the divest bar in Hood River with sketchy old men watching. And it was fun times.

Today I woke up and ate pumpkin pie for breakfast. Because I don’t care about calories today or yesterday or most of the time I guess. And then I ate more leftovers later. Thanksgiving leftovers (especially leftover sandwiches, Rebeka style) may be my favorite meal in the whole world:

Today after my breakfast of pie/champions, I went to the Dalles to meet my baby Tot cousin for the first time. He was born the day after my 25th birthday and he is just so perfect! His real name is Rogue (but you should call him Tot) and we’re basically best friends (love at first sight?). Also while I was visiting he had the most giant vomit ever. It was like a fountain of vomit that barely missed Katie’s face. Silly Tot cousin!

Chip took pictures of us being in love on his phone and on his camera too, but I haven’t harassed him to send me them yet, so you’re stuck with this one of him and Katie on the day he was born:

Later tonight: belated birthday love will be had with Beth and Marissa, and then we will engage in some more girl time with more lovely ladies.

Tomorrow: I’m headed back to Seattle.

Sunday: the plan is: homework, so much homework and a whole paper about the Indianz.

I don’t want this weekend to be over. And I guess it’s not. It’s only 1/2 over. And I hope the last 1/2 is as good as the first.

P.S. The title of this post is the way it is because, confession, I don’t like black Friday. I don’t really get it. I especially don’t get why, if for some reason, you felt the need to go shopping at the crack of dawn, you wouldn’t just wake up, turn on your laptop and do your shopping from bed on amazon.com instead of waiting in like, in the rain, outside of wal mart? No one looks cute waiting in the rain in the middle of the night outside of Wal Mart. NO ONE! Not cute!

No Sleep and Dinner and Craziness and Tot

Last night Dustin took me to dinner at the Palace Kitchen. It was good. We had goat cheese and lavender fondue and he had a whiskey and I had a vodka and he got the steak and I got a veggie plate. It was all very good.

After dinner we decided to walk to Lola, another Tom Douglas restaurant, for one more drink before heading home. I got the Lola martini, which I’ve had once before, and it’s like, the best martini I’ve ever had. I don’t know why it’s so good? It’s just a grey goose martini with a feta stuffed olive and a little bit of magic. PURE MAGIC!

After dinner we went back to Dustin’s and waited and waited until his mattress was finally delivered at like 10:30pm. I couldn’t sleep on it. It was SO uncomfortable. And hard or something. And not broken in yet. It’s the firmest tempurapedia mattress. And oh man, my body wasn’t happy. Neither was Dustin, because I kept moving and wiggling because I couldn’t get comfortable and my whole body hurt. So then I went to the couch to try and sleep and I couldn’t. So I laid there. And didn’t sleep on the couch. And didn’t sleep on the bed. And didn’t sleep at all last night. It was NOT a good night for me. Not that you care.

Also maybe I’m grumpy now?

Awesome. I’m an old grumpy woman. FML.

BUT, on a way WAY happier note: GUESS WHAT?!!? My cousin Katie’s water just broke. Tot is a day late (well technically he’s early, but whatever, TOT!). I’m so so excited for him to be born. New favorite cousin? Probably!

And ummm this is a little embarrassing, but I forgot that I had court today. At 1:30. How do I just FORGET that I have COURT? WTF Rebeka?

Oh man oh man. I’m going to take some melatonin and go to bed early early (in my own bed) tonight. I need to pull it together.

I also need some coffee. And a shower. And to get out from under my heat blanket. I LOVE MY HEAT BLANKET.

Seriously, crazy, grumpy old woman status.

This Weekend via Instagram

This weekend was busy, and when it ended I was more tired than when it started. I spent all day Friday doing work at school for my clinic. Talk about time suckage. I did manage to go on a mini-date with Dustin to Bastille in Ballard. I’ve been wanting to go there for a long time now. Had I not been suffering one of the worst stomach aches of my life (no exaggeration, I almost cried in the restaurant), I think I would have enjoyed it much more. I had the Croque Monsieur, and they gave us pom frites to share. And also we got baguette and Dustin had muscles and I had wine too. Looking back I’m sure that dinner just made my stomach ache worse. I shouldn’t eat bread. Or cheese. Or french fries. But the restaurant was super romantic and awesome and other than my pain I liked it. Dates with Dustin are the best.

Early Saturday morning I woke up and drove down to Portland for my cousin Katie’s baby shower. I got there 2 hours early (thanks mom for telling me the wrong time) and then killed two hours in Gresham. Part of it I spent laying in my car because my stomach STILL hurt. So then I took this picture so that you could know how I was feeling, and because I am the epitome of cool:

Katie and Tot (that’s what I call him) got a ton of cute stuff at the shower. He’s spoiled already. I love it! I can’t wait to meet my littlest cousin (and also, I’m pretty sure he’s going to be born on my birthday!! his due date is only 3 days after, c’mon Tot!).

Also, doesn’t this onesie crack you up? Ha!

After the shower I drove back to Hood River for Hops Fest. I drank many samples of fresh hop beerz with my friends, and it was good. And did I mention that I definitely wasn’t doing homework while I was drinking? Because I wasn’t. And I didn’t even feel that bad about it. Also I was super jeal of Beth’s amazing outfit (stripes, boots, pleated maxi dress? yes please)!

Then hops fest ended at 9pm with some Tony Smiley and me rushing and pushing my way to the front of the crowd for one last dancy song.

Next we went to the Pub (obvious choice). And I found Marissa! YAY! Finally! I had missed her at Hops Fest because she was moving. I don’t want to talk about it. Any of it. (ha, so dramatic):

 
After that we just had a standard night out in Hood River.

The next morning I spent some quality time with my favorite kitty (Fluffy Face). He tried to drink from my glass (after I snuck him into our house). So silly.
 

Then I drove back to Seattle on Sunday. Yesterday I suppose it was. And now I’m so so tired. I need a day to recover from my weekend, I think.

But then, in the midst of my tiredness this morning, I found this little buddy on my walkway, and I liked it:

Now I’m making venison stew. Nom nom. Hello Fall. Hello busy busy week filled with stew for every meal? Probably. Oh the life of a law student…