People/Relationships

[Almost] Wordless Wednesday | Rainbow Vegas

May 16, 2012
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No, YOU’RE looking at tacky lady cards in a Vegas hotel room and pretending to call them and being completely shut down because they know you’re faking it. Because I certainly had nothing to do with that. See also: Today, I head to Las Vegas for the fourth annual Bloggers in Sin City. Hold my calls. [...]

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Life List Item #85 is in motion. See also: This is one of my biggest, biggest dreams.

April 30, 2012

Life List Item #85 – Attend La Escuela del Sol La Escuela del Sol (The School of the Sun!) is a school in Costa Rica offering Spanish, yoga, scuba, surfing, and fire-dancing classes. Yes, fire dancing. Apparently, that’s a thing. I first learned of La Escuela del Sol a few years ago while poking around [...]

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Sorry, I’m Not Sorry

April 26, 2012

Isn’t it strange the things we find ourselves apologizing for? I saw similar posts to this one on Amy’s and Lindsey’s blogs recently and decided to make my own list of things that I’m just not sorry for. Sorry, I’m not Sorry but: I can’t get enough of One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful.” I [...]

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“There’s a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.” – Jimmy Buffett

March 14, 2012

“Where the hell am I?” I peered through squinted eyes as I started to notice the smell of stale beer and burnt popcorn. I couldn’t see over the blankets that had created a fort around my head. Slowly, painfully, I forced one eyelid a little more open, then the other. I realized I was on the [...]

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Sunday Drives and Three-Volcano Days

February 6, 2012
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Sunday in Portland was a Three-Volcano Day, a term I coined (as far as I know) to note those days that are so sunny, so crisp, and so clear, that you can see three volcanos at any given time from the city of Portland. Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens, and either Mt. Adams or Jefferson [...]

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