(and yes, I've been excited to post with that subject heading all week ( Read more... )

Hmm I wish I had a funny story to post, but I don't really. Lately, my life has been controlled by the bizzare world that is the Test Prep industry. Did I mention I work part time as a student advisor for Kaplan Test Prep now? Well I do. It is supposed to a 15 hr/wk job, so that I can go to school and get another work study job, but for some ( Read more... )

Ryan and I were just standing around about to go to the grocery store when a single clump of caramel corn fell from the sky (ceiling?) and landed on our kitchen floor.

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I'm about 99% sure I just got caught working for some version of a pyramid scheme. If not, then 100% it was a scam of sorts. So I'm a little embarassed to admit it, but I've been painting houses for the last two weeks as a very desperate, very temporary way to make money/kill time until i can get a real job that I can hold during the school year ( Read more... )

tomorrow i'm finally schlepping all my stuff (why do i have so much stuff??) to seattle. one might say i'm finally MOVING to seattle. Yay! goodbye crappy vancouver summer!

but i'll miss tippy.

Ryan and I found an apartment in Seattle this weekend! It is a "Mother-In-Law" apartment, which is apparently the basement of someone's house. In this case, it is the basement of one dude's house and it's actually a pretty big, nice place with reasonable rent and all utilities included. It's in the Greenwood neighborhood, which we both like, and ( Read more... )

Best night ever. And Tippy rocks!

Oh, and fuck hipsters.

Olivia and I tore it up So-Cal style this last weekend. Really I mean that we spent a lot of time going to beaches, museums or theme parks and then watching Bridezilla and Pants Off Dance Off at her house. We did spend a night on a boat, which is something I've never done, so that was cool. Our lamest adventure involved unsuccessfully sneaking ( Read more... )

well, at least to me. They may seem trivial, but four very very exciting things happened when i went for my dressing change at the surgeon's office today (yup, still gotta do those dressing changes ( Read more... )

ok so i had my skin graft and it went really well, and they kept me in the hospital one more night (total of four) than i thought, but now i am home and hopefully all this is behind me and the light is finally at the end of the tunnel ( Read more... )