the end of my youth

Today is the last day I’m 24. Tomorrow I turn 25, and I’ll be an adult. I don’t know why I feel like 25 is the beginning of adulthood. But it just seems like it is. My youth is over. The end is near. in less than 12 hours I’ll officially be old, or an adult, or something. To mark the occasion I’ve been doing some grown up things. I ironed my birthday shirt last night. Only adults iron things, right? Usually I just put stuff in the dryer, or use a blow dryer/flat iron to get wrinkles out. Because I’m classy, and young. Not for long. Also, I roasted a whole chicken on Friday night for Dustin and I. I also made brussel sprouts, sweet potatoes and stuffing. It was probably the best dinner I’ve ever made. Everything turned out really well. I was so proud of myself. Of my grown up self, I should say.

Then yesterday I took the leftover chicken and bones and things and made chicken noodle soup. Completely from scratch. Even the noodles. And it was effing delicious! Seriously guys, I was so proud of myself.

Anyway, enough about being a grown up. My friend Rochelle came to Seattle from Chiciago yesterday for my birthday (she’s a flight attendant so she goes where she wants when she wants, so cool). We hung out yesterday and went shopping at U Vill and got ready for my birthday party, then birthday partied it up. She left early this morning but it was a fun visit.

While we were in U Vill shopping yesterday, we stopped by Sephora and I got this amazing nail polish. Birthday sparkles anyone? I’m kind of obsessed. (confession, after this picture was taken I painted on like 5 more layers. my nails are SO sparkly now).

And, as I mentioned, I had a little birthday party last night at a bar near my house. I’ll post all the pictures later, but look what they gave me:

I was pretty excited about it.

Alright, I’m off to get ready for the day (yes it is 2:30pm and yes I did sleep in until noon today, cherishing the last of my youth and irresponsibility I suppose) and then force Dustin to go eat some Red Mill Burgers and Onion Rings and Milkshakes with me, because I’m a bottomless pit of hungover hunger today. RAWR!

XXOO

5 Random Friday Things

1. I’m going to attempt to make a whole, roasted chicken tonight. For the first time ever. It seems so grown up. You know? Roasting a whole chicken is something adults do. And I don’t often feel like an adult.

2. And I guess my grown up, chicken cooking task seems fitting seeing as I turn 25 Monday (so old). To celebrate I’m having a birthday party this weekend. Not a real birthday party (with hats and a cake and things). A hey, come to this bar and have a drink with me, kind of birthday party. And I’m excited. It’s at 9pm at Leny’s (on 56th), if you’re in Seattle (or elsewhere – my friend from Chicago will be there, so BAM) and you want to come. They serve steins (is that what they’re called? the giant mugs?) of beer. And it’s walking distance from my house. Double BAM!

2(a). I use too many parentheses.

3. It’s 11-11-11 today, in case you didn’t already know. Make a wish. I know I did.

4. My newest baby cousin, Tot (no, not his real name, even though it SHOULD be – I’m looking at you, Chip & Katie) is supposed to be born any day now. His dad, Chip (my first and favorite cousin) thought that he was going to be born today. Also Chip is a veteran, so it would have been perfect (I guess it could still happen). I think little Tot will be here on my birthday. And his actual due date is on Thursday, the 17th. No matter when he’s born, I can’t wait to meet him!

5. One more picture from Danielle’s wedding, because I’ve been sucking at posting pictures with my posts lately. Also I love this. What a perfect day!!

Ahh Law School Life

Tonight I went to dinner with 3 of my friends from school. We go to dinner most Wednesday nights and we have a rule that we aren’t allowed to talk about law school. It’s one of my favorite parts of the week.

Tonight at dinner Brittan asked us all what the best part of our week was:

Me: I got a heated blanket as an early birthday present
Lisa: I’m not pregnant
Natalie and Brittan couldn’t come up with anything

And so are the lives of law students. Pathetic.

At least the end is near. I registered today for my last semester of law school. I’m kind of scared though, that I won’t find a job when it’s over. So maybe I should just be content with the days of Wednesday night dinners with friends and never ending homework.

The Best Parking Attendant Story, Ever.

Yesterday I was on my way to school. I had parked my car on 14th in the zoned 2 hour parking area and was walking down Columbia to the Law School Annex. I looked across the street on Columbia and saw a parking attendant car parked across the street behind a car. I was all “why is that meter maid parked there? I thought Columbia was un-zoned? Am I missing something?” But as I got closer I noticed a car blatantly parked right behind this sign that says DO NOT PARK WEST OF HERE, OR ELSE!! So I was all “dumbass, who does that?” because clearly I’m super kind when I think to myself.

But then just as I was thinking that, I see a fellow law student sprinting up the middle of the street shouting “NO NO NO NO!” I again thought “dumbass”. The kid (BTW if you go to school with me, and you ask, I’ll tell you who it was, it might make the story that much better) proceeds to sprint to his car, unlock it and get inside. The parking attendant then gets out of his little parking car after honking his horn a few times, and is like, “dude, don’t leave”. At this point most rational people would admit defeat, right? Right.

Nope. The kid then proceeds to turn his car on and shift in reverse, while I stop on the sidewalk to watch, because you know, that’s what I do. Anyway, he shifts into reverse, slams on the gas, speeds backwards and RAMS into the little parking attendant car causing it to slide backwards! He hit it so hard I was honestly surprised it didn’t flip over. Then the kid shifts into drive AND SPEEDS AWAY! While the cop was watching! The cop then gets on his walkie talkie and starts shouting to someone on the other end. I  definitely LOLed. I know it was probably wrong of me, but I couldn’t help it.

Then I resumed my walk toward class and asked myself “WHO DOES THAT?” Like really though, who? Especially when you have to apply to take the bar in like a year and a half. AND even if you didn’t have to apply to take the bar, who hit and runs a cop car, with the cop watching? Oh man. It totally made my day.

Husky vs Duck Football

This Saturday was game day! The UW Huskies played the Oregon ducks here at Husky Stadium. It was the last football game at the stadium as we know it. They’ll be remodeling for the next two years, and all the games will be played at the Seahawks stadium in the meantime.

Saturday we had people over for some food and drinks before everyone headed down to the E1 parking lot of tailgating.

  me, Erin and Kylee (my roommates) – “we really love each other”

Everyone was late getting to our house, but when people finally got there, we played some flip cup, ate some food (chili, corn bread, salmon dip, chips and salsa and guac, monkey bread, etc), had some jello shots and got excited for some Husky football.

everyone but me: 

Two of Dustin’s friends came up from Portland for the game. They all went to UO together, so they were rooting for the Ducks. WHATever ;) ha

 Dustin, Alex and Pickle

somehow Dustin and I managed to get along despite our school rivalry (haha):

After a few hours of hanging at our house, everyone headed down to the stadium. I left  with Dustin and his friends, Alex and Pickle last. We walked through campus to get to the stadium. I love the UW campus, it’s so so pretty! We pit stopped at Suzzallo Graduate Library along the way:

Dustin and I in Red Square
you can’t really tell, but it was a really nice day, you could see Mt. Rainer in the background in real life:

 Alex and Ross in the Reading room at Suzzallo:

After our pit stop we walked down to the E1 parking lot (the HUGE stadium parking lot where everyone tailgates), and tried to find my friends. We failed a little, and I got annoyed by UW fans (mostly drunk sorority girls, BOO) throwing bread at Dustin and his friends (feeding the ducks or something), so we left E1 and walked down to the water by the crew house then to the “zone” for some drinks and food for the boys. I hate when fans are rude to other fans. I really really hate it actually. I don’t understand the game day shit talking and things.  It just seems silly to me. KINDNESS, PEOPLE!

After that we went to the stadium to watch the game. We sat in the UO section, which was a little rough for me, but I didn’t catch too much crap because I was wearing a black coat over all of my purple. It was REALLY cold out! But I did wear my motherfuckingBEARhatRAWR! all day, and that kept me warm. Also Dustin bought me a box of hand warmers and some foot warmers which I used during the game and they were seriously life savers. I was so happy to have them!

Dustin and I at the game:

The game was a lot of fun. The Huskies ended up losing, but I kind of knew they would (Husky fans don’t hate me for saying that), so I wasn’t too disappointed. Also we didn’t get totally blown out, so that was a positive.

AND, I saw my friend Heather at the game. We went to high school together, and cheered together, and I don’t think I’ve seen her since her wedding so it was really great to catch up a little at the game.

After the game Dustin, Alex, Pickle and I walked back to my house before heading to Dustin’s house to relax (it was like midnight by this point). It was a really fun game and I’m glad I got to go with Dustin. I’m also really glad that we didn’t lose by like 50 points!

GO DAWGS!

Guys, I'm getting really excited for this weekend. This week's UW football game is here at Husky Stadium (the last game at Husky Stadium before the remodel) and they're playing UO. I'm going with Dustin (who is a duck fan, since he went to undergrad at UO), a few of his friends, and a bunch of my "sisters". Also, my friend Noelle is coming into town and staying with us for the weekend along with her BF. She is one of my (our) sorority sisters who is in her 3L year at Marquette. Rude of her to go to law school so far away, right? 

We're having people over at our house for snacks and drinks before the tailgate. Prefunk the prefunk, right guys? Anyway, we're having pplz over then we're walking down to the stadium for the game (which is at 7:30pm on FSN. you all should watch (and look for me haha)). 

And now here are some pictures from the rainiest ever UW football game against Stanford (from last year). Cross your fingers for better weather this year. There is a 30% chance of rain with a high of like 46degrees for Saturday. FML. Beer blanket, here I come ;)

ZTA Alumni Tailgate (Noelle was here for this game too!!)

My Roommates Erin & Kyle & ONE GLOVE ONE GLOVE

Danielle and I 

The Longest (Sweetest) Halloween Post

Dustin told me like, weeks ago, in the midst of all of his being gone non-sense that we would carve pumpkins for halloween (alright he maybe didn’t tell me as much as I begged until he agreed). But last week when he got back from all of his trips he asked me if I wanted to come over Friday for a pumpkin carving EXTRAVAGANZA! (Alright, he totally didn’t use the word extravaganza, but didn’t I make it sound exciting?). Obvi I told him yes.

On Friday I got really excited after I was done with school stuff and before he picked me up. So I curled my hair and sent him text pictures like this (it’s the “’get excited, you’ face”). Because I was bored and maybe lame? Don’t judge/pretend like you’ve never done it!

 

So, Friday evening after Dustin was off work and things, he picked me up and we went to Safeway to pick out pumpkins. Clearly I was being very picky about the whole thing but finally found one that was a good size and a good color and a good shape and had a good handle (so important) and didn’t have gross stuff on it.

After we loaded up our pumpkins we went back to Dustin’s apartment where I found this waiting for us:

HALLOWEEN TABLE OF FUN (the great pumpkin charlie brown DVD, jack-o-lantern pizza, gummy worms and candy cornz in skull goblets, science project skull face, cookie decorating things, jelly beans, pumpkin carving things and games). He also had taken out a light bulb in his hall and replaced it with a red light and had scary music playing when we got there (obvi I had to turn the regular light on to take this picture with my iPhone, sorry for the blurryness, I forgot my camera). So cute, right? What a little planner I have!

Oh and did I mention there was also a SPOOKY black cat?? (Battle Cat):

After putting the pizza in the oven and Dustin putting my bear hat on, we had mini photo shoot (because we’re good at it)…

Scary halloween bear faces now:

And then we got to work carving pumpkins.

This is what mine turned out like (so not scary):

And this was Dustin’s which was way more creative and scary and awesome (with him in the background, whoops ha):

side note: We also saved the seeds and Dustin roasted them and we ate them all weekend (fat kid status) and they were super delicious. The perfect Halloween weekend snack and paired well with ALL THE CANDY we ate – really, sooo much candy.

And in case you didn’t remember, our pumpkins looked really cool lit up (alright, his did, mine just looked goofy hah):

And also, last night for actual Halloween, Dustin put our pumpkins outside for everyone to see. He also bought glow sticks to put in them so they wouldn’t burn down his apartment complex in the night.

Bonus Quote: “rainman basically bankrupt the casinos and he was a ra-tard” guess that movie…!

Oh, and did I mention that we sipped on candy corn cocktails while we worked on our pumpkins and did our other Halloween activities?

Also all weekend we could not stop singing “Monster Mash” (honestly we probably sang it about a hundred times during the weekend, because we’re cool – at least we like each other, right? ha).

Dustin (in monster singer voice): The ghouls all came from their humble abodes, to get a jolt from my electrodes
Me (in girl du wop voice): They did the mash
Dustin: They did the monster mash
Me: The monster mash

After pumpkins and snacks, it was science experiment time:

     

We made zombie barf which was chunky and gross and too sugary for me and also it’s what Dustin is drinking in the above picture. And we also made jelly bugs. And it was pretty exciting (see picture of table, science experiments were made with the scary green scull thing).

After our science experiments we decided it was time to wind down from all of our activities and watch “it’s the great pumpkin charlie brown” which I just love so so much. I was SO excited to see this on the table of activities. Good job Dustin!

   

We watched, and ate pumpkin seeds and candy and drank our candy corn vodka and it was amazing.

The next day was Saturday. And Fall-time Saturdays are usually spent watching college football (or at least the Oregon Ducks and Washington Husky games). So we first went downstairs to the Baronoff for breakfast and then we headed up the street to Bleacher to watch the UO game.

I’m not going to lie. We went to the bar at noon. And we were the first people there. And by the time the game was over at like 3:30 we were both a little buzzed. Also I wore my bear hat. And it was rad (old men complimented me, duh).

Then afterwards, Dustin was like, “let’s keep day drinking” and I was like “AWESOME! I LOVE THAT IDEA!” Because I had decided on like Wednesday that I was going to take Saturday completely off from school work (the first completely off day in about a month) and it was the best. But in the midst of Dustin declaring that we were going to day drink we passed this time travel shop on our walk down Greenwood Ave. and Dustin insisted we go in (to be fair, we’ve wanted to go in a million times but they’re always closed). So we went in. And Dustin bought lots of things. Like this smoke gun (it’s a toy gun that blows smoke rings):

And then we went to the grocery store and then we played games on his patio area and shot smoke rings at each other. I was almost really good at the throw the ball in the cup game. But not quite. He beat me every time, even though I think I had more close shots ;)

isn’t my bear hat the best?

And then we came inside and he made us Philly Cheese steak Sandwiches because I forced him (okay, this time I didn’t force THAT much, because he likes them too).

And then we made and decorated BOOGER COOKIES (all his idea. so cute of him, right?) We did this on Saturday b/c we were too tired after all of our other activities on Friday. But it was so much funz:

The boogeriest cookie     

And then it was Saturday night and so we watched the University of Washington Huskies win their FB game. And we watched the really really awesome close Stanford vs. USC game. And we also watched “the Haunted Mansion” movie with Eddie Murphy. So silly.

We thought about going out to sing Karaoke but I was too tired and lame. Day drinking really took it out of me. Ha!

The next morning I made us biscuits and gravy and bacon. And Dustin made us Bloody Mary Bar. Because I love Bloody Marys. And there is a Pirate themed bar right downstairs from his apartment (I know, right??) that has bloody mary bar on Saturday and Sunday, but we always miss it. So he brought it to me. And it was sweet. He wins. All weekend he won.

    

And then after that I went back to being a normal, boring person law student. I went home and did homework and worked on a  motion that is being submitting to the court for the theft case I’ve been working on. But the weekend was super fun. I loved it so much.

On a side note though, my roommates and I didn’t get ANY trick or treaters last night. This is despite the fact that we live in a residential neighborhood. We even had our porch light on and pumpkins on our porch. I don’t get it? Oh well. More candy for me! Ha. Someone stop me!

Sorry this was such a long, picture heavy post. I hope you’re over it :)

Also, tell me about your weekend. Did you dress up and go out? Was it awesome?