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Due to weather conditions and overwhelming laziness, the Friday Six has been replaced this week in favor of the Sunday Siesta Special. Â It’s actually hot here. I sort of thought maybe it never really got hot in Portland and despaired that my little sun dresses and sandals wouldn’t get any use and I’d never get …
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I have a thing for cake. I think this may come from my early years of cake deprivation (thanks dad), but there’s something so decadent and lovely about cake that it is the perfect celebratory thing to me. In fact, I’ve even written a picture book about cake because I love it so much. We …
1) Forest Park. I saw it on the map and thought it looked kind of cool before we moved here, but I had no idea how quickly you could feel like you were in the middle of the wilderness when you walked in. We were both blown away the first time. Here’s a pic. I’m …
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I’m on the homepage of the CCBC website — a good ten percent of the time or so. Woo hoo! Today the CCBC homepage, tomorrow the cover of People. You have to hit refresh on the CCBC’s website to go through all of the pics. So I’m saving you some trouble by posting the image …
Our first mattress we bought out here was horrible. I was so sore, I’d wake up and walk around half bent over for the first part of the day and would have been crippled within months. So we decided to exchange, but this time we were going to get the PERFECT mattress. No more early …
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Met my dad halfway between Portland and Port Townsend in Olympia, WA today for a father’s day lunch. Their farmer’s market is lovely — we got gorgeous cherries, which is totally mind blowing coming from Wisconsin where there is just a tiny late summer window for Door County cherries, and gigantic apples that wafted deliciousness …
1) Our first sighting of Mt. Hood as residents of Portland today. We’d seen it before on visits, but it’s different seeing a mountain IN THE SAME PLACE THAT YOU LIVE! It was so exciting that I jumped up and down shouting, “Oh my god, there’s a mountain, I’m looking at a mountain right now!” …
We tried shopping locally today to continue outfitting our apartment and it made me appreciate the full day I spent at Ikea yesterday. At the time, it was horrible and I was completely overwhelmed, but there’s something about a $500 couch that’s so incredibly lovely compared to the $2,500 couches in the hip furniture stores …
We’re in Portland. Our apartment is lovely — hardwood floors and nice big rooms. There are even roses growing outside our windows. Not just any old roses either — big, fat, luscious ones. So far we’ve spent more time at Ikea than we have really hanging out in Portland, but we did go to our …
We close off on the house in two hours and then we’re off. I’m going to Seattle and Barrett’s going to Minneapolis, then we’re meeting in Portland tomorrow. Yeee!! After all of the to do lists we’ve been working on for the past month, I’m looking forward to ten full hours of uninterrupted reading. Portland, …