chocolate and bread equal love

Last night I went to dinner with Brittan, Natalie and Lisa at Via Tribunale on Capitol Hill (which arguably has the best pizza in Seattle - although we also really like Piecora). It was delicious. We split two pizzas between the four of us, and mandated a no talking about school rule. And we drank red wine too, and it was good. I love Wednesday nights.

But that's not the point of my story. The point of this post is love. More specifically: my love for chocolate and bread. Together. It's. So. Amazing!

After dinner last night when our waitress asked if we wanted dessert, Brittan immediately responded yes and ordered us a nutella calzone, insisting it was amazing and we HAD to share one. Done and done. I was down. Oh my gosh! It was so good. I don't get why chocolate and bread are SO good together, but it's magical.

Baguette and melted dark chocolate (especially from cafe presse?). Yep, delicious.

Croissant stuffed with Nutella from Ground (or really anywhere). Yep, also delicious.

I want to eat chocolate + bread every day. And Trader J's frozen chicken fried rice. And drink lots of coffee. So much coffee, because did you know, coffee reduces depression in women? Amazing, right?

Ok, now I should stop procrastinating and go to school. But I don't want to. School = stress, and drinking coffee at my computer and blogging doesn't. True story.

And P.S. YUM:

CREDIT HERE

The First Rainy Seattle Monday

Three posts in one day? What? WHAT? Yep!

The torrential downpour outside (all day long – bye bye summer and fall, hello 10 months of rain) has made me weirdly productive today. Kind of. Unless you count that time during break I spent on my couch watching TV and not really reading. But it’s whatever.

Anyway, it was really really rainy today. Like the whole city was gray from the rain kind of rainy. I forgot what that was like, to look in the distance and not see colors, just shades of gray. It’s weird how rain in Seattle does that. It’s weird that I forgot about the grayness. I guess it hasn’t rained hard enough in a few months (hey, I’m not complaining).

Anyway, this grayness has me in sweats right now, all comfy and warm. It’s almost nostalgic. It’s been a while since I was in sweat pants and a sweat shirt, with my lamp on, at my desk, eating dinner. Standard law school Monday night. It has just been a while.

Also, I baked banana bread (my mom’s banana bread to be more specific – so nostalgic and comforting) today. And I felt productive when I did it. And I felt wintery when I baked it, too. Then, to keep rolling with the food productivity and comfort, I made myself an awesome dinner:

Gluten free pasta with a mushroom, onion, tomato sauce over a bed of spinach, and my new favorite food: Brussels Sprouts!! Brussels Sprouts are soooo good! Usually I just fry them in a little butter and they are my favorite part of my meal. Yum yum.

I didn’t discover Brussels Sprouts until about a year ago, and I’ve only fallen super in love with them, hard, over the past month or two (probably because I learned how to cook them all the way through haha). But oh my, so good. They’re up there with sweet potatoes, which are also so so good! I love fall/winter foods. Someone get me a pumpkin spice latte, ASAP! Ha.

Also to add to the rainy-day-feel, I accidentally forgot my makeup in Dustin’s car yesterday and didn’t realize it until this morning. So I had an unintentional Makeupless Monday. And I felt scrubby and rainy and soggy all day, with my messy bun and no makeup. By the way, can I please say that I did NOT miss having dry jeans/clothes when it was rainy and nice here for like the 1.5 months of Seattle Summer? Oh well, at least there was a little sun this summer, right? Right.

Moral of the post: it’s rainy again in Seattle (real, heavy, all day kind of rainy).

And I need to go finish my homework for tomorrow. And eat some banana bread before it cools completely. Yum!

Happy fall & happy rain friendz! 

Battle Cat

This weekend I bonded with Battle Cat.

And I love this picture. He is so sweet (when he’s not being a little biatch haha I kid).



I can see my future now: crazy cat lady (fo sho)

Thermos Obsession

Guys, I have a confession. I have an obsession: thermoses. They’re amazing. True story.

I used to think thermoses were something that only old men use. Right? But they’re awesome. Maybe old men use them because old men are wise. And they know that Thermoses keep your coffee SO hot for SO long. It’s awesome. Hot coffee for a long time means that I can space out my coffee intake into a more efficient and manageable and less caffeine jittery way all day while I’m at school. It’s a law school coffee revolution. I’m convinced.

Friday morning I had to be at school early for my clinic office hours. Dustin (yeah, that’s happening again, BTW :) made me some coffee but I was in a hurry so I had to find something to take the coffee to go in. He apparently doesn’t have any travel mugs (what??), but he did have a thermos. Ok, it’ll do, right? Right. Plus I figured that Kyle (my clinic partner, who just turned 30) and I could bond over the thermos since he’s basically an old man. Fact: it worked. Kyle totally has a thermos. He loves it. I giggled about it.

But after 3+ hours and many hot hot mini cups of coffee (isn’t it so great that the thermos comes with it’s own mini mug?? right??), I was hooked. I basically shouted to Kyle that I LOVE THERMOSES! My excitement may have been partially due to the caffeine, but whatever!

I then immediately text Dustin to confess my love. He told me that I could have his. But I didn’t want to take his. Who takes someone else’s thermos? Rude!

But when I went to his house that evening for a little dinner date, I returned his thermos and guess what? He had went out and bought me my very own, amazing (old man) thermos:

I knew I kept him around for a reason. How sweet, right?

And by the way, I effing love my new Thermos! YAY!

Kammerer Wedding Part Three

It has taken me about a month to tell you about Danielle and Steffen’s wedding. Ha. But here I am, at the last post. (oh and here are the links to Part 1 and Part 2 in case you missed them).

So after getting ready at the Ritz and having our pictures taken and all of that we headed down to Mullens where the reception would take place. We sat in this room and started to get really, really nervous. Then we listened to a little “Party Rock” on Courtney’s cell and everything got infinitely better. Then it was time to head out to the ceremony.

I walked down the isle with my man twin, Josh, waited up at the alter for Danielle while Steffen sobbed. It was so sweet. 

The ocean was in the background and although it was overcast out, it was beautiful.

The ceremony was really sweet and I was smiling the entire time in an attempt not to cry in front of 100+ people. Ha. I would!

After the ceremony, it was picture time/cocktail hour. We waited and took some pictures under the alter then headed inside real quick to get some drinks (Josh and I double fisted champagne and Kate stole a whole bottle for us to take on our picture adventure). After a slight mishap we were in our golf carts heading down to the beach to take some wedding party + bride and groom pictures. I wish I would have brought my camera to the golf cart adventure. But I didn’t. Bad blogger.

After picture time we headed back to Mullens and bustled up Danielle.

 

Right after we got back it was dinner time. I love dinner time. I was starving. I got sat next to Josh at dinner (we were at the big wedding party table in front of everyone and we felt really cool about it) and obvi we had a great time (twinz do that).

KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN! Like this!

Dinner was delish. It started with a yummy salad, a piece of bread with goat cheese on it and a roll. A+:

Also I had 4 drinks… because that’s how I roll at weddings apparently (two champagnes, one red one and one water):

After that our main courses came. I ordered the chicken dish (I can’t remember what it was called now, but it was really good – it was chicken, wrapped in filo and stuffed with some mushroom amazingness).

Josh ordered the Prime Rib and I forced him to trade me a bite for a bite. His was amazing too. NOM:

We obviously finished our dinners completely, and hoarded a dish of butter too.. Fat kids FOR SURE! We also finished up Courtney’s prime rib when she couldn’t do so herself. All that standing, and picture taking and stress really made us hungry.

During dinner there were a bunch of toasts too. I had to hold back tears the entire time. Weddings are so emotional. Sigh!

But I remember sitting there during dinner thinking: I can’t believe this is it. I can’t believe they’re FINALLY married. They’ve been together the entire time I’ve known them and they are one of those couples you just know are supposed to be together. They are really really great and I am just so happy for them.

After dinner we got up to go watch Danielle and Steffen’s first dance. But first, a surprise! Whatttt?

Steffen surprised Danielle by playing/singing  a song that he had been practicing for a few months, SO SWEET!

He sang her “Teenage Dream” by Katy Perry but changed some of the lyrics. If I told you I didn’t ugly sob during it I would be lying. Like really, really ugly crying.

What can I say? After having such a stressful/emotional day, where I held back tears for like, the entire day, when I was watching him play/sing her that song, it was just SO sweet. And I wept. But when I looked over I saw that Courtney was doing the same, so it was ok. (P.S. her boyfriend may be my man twin, but she is my female twin. Love.)

Ugly cry faces? Don’t say I didn’t warn you:

Then came their first dance which they had been taking dancing lessons in preparation for. It was really really good. I loved it, which is saying something because usually I hate first dances. Like how awkward, everyone standing there watching you grope each other and makeout to a song for 5 minutes? NO thank you!

After that I went to the bathroom, wiped the ugly off, went outside for a second, then got the dance party started (duh):

The DJ was really great. He didn’t just play songs iPod style, he actually mixed them it was a great dance party.

I kept taking breaks to go outside because I kept feeling super overwhelmed though. Then going back inside to dance (obvi) and take care of drunk people (oh the life of a bride’s maid).

And then near the end of the night Danielle suggested a tequila shot (which were kind of our thing in college – um, Patron, yes please). The other bride’s maids got word and it turned into a bridal party shot. And it was awesome!

We hung out until the end of the reception then helped clean up a little before Kate and I headed back to our hotel room to change and go to the house the boys had rented for a little (super mellow) after party.

That night we slept for a few hours before getting up and heading back to the airport. I sat next to the worst child ever on the flight back to Seattle. He had no sense of boundaries. I almost punched him, but I didn’t. Close call. Note: don’t ever touch me over and over again on a flight when I’m about to vom from my raging hangover. But that’s beside the point…

Danielle and Steffen had the best wedding ever. Ever ever ever. It was just so perfect and nice and fun. I loved it.

The end.

I don't know what the plan is

All I want to do is listen to music, all day. I'm antsy and lethargic at the same time. I don't like it. 

But I do like this song, lots and lots. Talk about obsession of the day. Do you guys get that? Find a song or an album you really like and just listen to it over and over and over again? I'm so so guilty. Always.

And I must sound like a huge complainer. I'm sorry, friends. I wish I had real things to write about. 

Epic Sigh...
(is it too early for a drink - haha I joke, mostly)

Update:

Day was mostly remedied by Fro Yo date with my roommie, Erin. We went to Zoe Yogurt near our house and right across the street from Green Lake:

I got Peanut butter (DUH) and cheesecake fro yo with heath bar and Oreo toppings. Um, yum. Perfect for this 80 degree Seattle (Fall) day! 

And tonight I have a hot dinner/after date. So maybe my day is looking up after all?

Happy Friday, friendz! xxoo 

Hi Seattle

This photo of Seattle (credit HERE) has been circulating on Facebook today and I think it’s just awesome:

 

Yay for Seattle! Even if the weather is SUPER confusing and semi-awful today. It’s a mix of hot and drizzly and cloudy/muggy outside. I guess that means it’s a perfect excuse to wear a maxi dress?  Sure, I’ll go with it.

And, on a side note: I can’t wait for this school week to be over!! I’m stressed to the point of unproductivity. Hello anxiety.