December 2011
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tonight.
What’s on my docket for the evening? Wellll, since you’re asking…
Deeelicious vino and cheese (and maybe, possibly, hopefully some mussels or scallops) with my Mallory at the one at only Terra Wacona - where I will be reunited with Tracy and Craig.
Then, we’ll wander over to Mocha Monkey to meet my wonderful mother and more friends and watch Jenn Bostic perform a little...
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threethousandandfour.
Reason 9,234,520,283 why I love my college girlfriends:
We just planned a weekend trip to Boise, Idaho, of all places. March 23, get here now.
my heart.
I hope everyone had a very merry, merry christmas. I have been back in mn for a few days and am having a blast. Though I had been prepared to stay in washington for the holidays, I can’t tell you how grateful I now am that it worked out for me to come home.
Thursday night was a rambuncous evening of family game night. Lots of cheese, wine and competitive spirit. In other words, my perfect...
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“If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.”
– Clifton Fadiman
bananaanna.
Yesterday was my little sistah’s 22nd birthday.
Here is a short list of things I looooove about this firecracker:
1. Her insane internet searching skills.
2. The way she knows to always sing the melody in songs so I can harmonize.
3. How she puts her finger under her nose every time she laughs really hard.
4. Her love for all things wedding.
5. The way she makes me feel that...
pullin' shots in my dream loft.
I am officially a certified coffee expert. Well…maybe not, but I’m working on it.
Since arriving in this land o’ caffeine, I have felt wayyyy behind on my espresso skills and knowledge. And now that I’m working brunches at Tilth, I felt I needed to take some action to correct that. People in this city would be sure to let me know if their macchiato wasn’t up to...
“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you...”
– Haruki Murakami (via roscoe-)
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yumskis.
my breakfast/lunch today…organic brown eggs with kale and tomatoes. plus sriracha of course.
and just fyi…i’ve gone through an entire bunch of kale in three days. obsessed.
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restaurant love affair.
Worries/questions that go though my head when I think about going home….
My flight lands at 8:30am, The Pig opens at 11:30am. What will I do for those 3 hours?
Should I make reservations for Terra on the 23rd? Or wait until after Christmas?
I wonder if the Bahn Mi is still on Blackbird’s menu?
Ridge at Lucia’s or Kings? Or both?
Which days does Wise Acre do brunch again?
...
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kitchen dance.
I have to tell you…it feels good to be happy right now. That seems like an obvious statement but really, I’m so lucky to be a happy girl.
This song just came on, and I danced like a loser in my kitchen alone for the entirety of it - looking out my window at a sunny Seattle day. No snow, huge beautiful green trees, and mountains (a landscape I now can’t imagine living...
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ten days.
ten days. ten days. ten days. ten days.
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confession.
I have a secret to tell you…I have an addiction. Katherine and I discuss it often and try to figure out a way to ween myself off of it but I can’t seem to. And now that she’s in Minnesota and I’m alone in Seattle for two weeks - I know it’s going to get out of hand.
It’s Goodwill. I’m literally addicted to bargain shopping at Goodwill, and Goodwill...
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"Conclusion: A hipster is just a Brooklynite who... →
a few of the manyyyy reasons I miss mpls…
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Listen
ventsesh.
The high is 42° and the low is 31° here today. And let me tell you, I will hear “ohhhh myyyy, is it freezing out there!” about a trillion times before the day is over.
Rocking the host stand at Bastille means I “get” to greet people the second they walk in the door. Yeah, sure, it’s a little, tiny bit chilly when it drizzles but this weather, by NO means, deserves...
tunes.
I like to give credit where credit is due. And the credit I shall be giving today is for my stellar taste in music. And who gets the credit for this, you may ask? Well, that would be my “guess-this-artist, wait-just-one-more-to-play-for-you, i’m-the-one-who-told-you-about-them, check-out-this-“new”-song, i-know-what-could-make-this-better” music obsessed father.
Here...
monsunday.
I’m really starting to love monday mornings - they are my new sunday…and if you know me at all, you know I have a special place in my heart for sundays. Sundays are those guilt-free relaxing, i can do whatever i want and eat whatever i want and do everything or do nothing days, and they are exceptional.
Right now my weekends consist of a nice 9 hour shift on saturday and an 11-hour...
my miss list.
I miss things from home every single day, some things/people certain days more than others. Last week, for instance, I missed sitting on the deck of apt19 with lk. And yesterday, I missed Surly Furious a whole lot. Today, however, I miss my sister.
Anna is the single person in the entire world who gets my sense of humor perfectly, knows exactly why I’m feeling a certain way at a specific...
two friends, one post.
We all know how much I loooove my friend, Ms. Jenn Bostic, so it’s only right that I give her my quartly blog shoutout. Her new EP, Change, went on sale on iTunes recently and it is exceptional - as is everything she does. So go check it out and buy it.
We also know that I love my friend, Ms. Kate Millington, who is currently studying for her law school finals and looking for reasons to...
figs.
Let’s talk about figs for a second…
I like to eat them, I like when Tracy soaked them in port and put them on a delicious salad, I think they’re beautiful - but other than that, I’ve never felt much attachment to the fruit.
A couple months ago, however, I posted this quote on this blog:
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the...
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hoop.
This is how my wonderfully, simple thursday evening is being spent. Lattes and salted milk caramel truffles with Katherine while finishing the last of our semester’s homework at Chocolati, our go-to neighborhood coffee joint.
My real reason for this strange self-portrait post, however? To let everyone know I got my nose-pierced and dammit, it looks good. I just wanted to give the fam a...
“Bear fruit and give life as you blow, with your hands out of your pockets. From...”
– Sigur Rós (via light-essence)
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climbing the food ladder, baby.
So, it turns out I’m pretty good at this restaurant business. Good thing I’m pursuing it, huh?
About a month before I moved out to Seattle, I emailed a bunch of restaurants that I’d read about with my resume and a professionalbutwitty email about how they should hire me as a server. I didn’t hear back from ANY of them and when I got to Seattle, I totally understood...