It feels like the end of an era. Thank you, house, for hosting my second child/teenhood. In many ways, you were the perfect place for my belated incubation, a big messy nest for my obsessions and tantrums, ecstasies, sorrows, loves, and misfortunes. I wanted to buy you and fix you up. If I ever walk by to find you torn down and replaced by more ( Read more... )

Indulged in some preliminary birthday festivities last night by sitting on my boyfriend's face while eating Kraft mac n cheese, and watching the season finale of Paris Hilton: My New BFF.

He really meant it when he said today was my day to be a princess. Aww!

I am now co-owner of Dumps(,LLC): A late-night food cart in downtown Portland that serves Russian-style dumplings both traditional and fusion. And That's What's Up.

Y'know, I really couldn't have asked for a better time to be fired.

:D

Who would've thought that not only would Whatchoo Need?!? take off business-wise, but also be a source of a job at one of the swankiest restaurants in Portland for me and possible hot dates for both of us?

I like where this is going.

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To the one who always picked out the best and brightest free store shoes for me, who oh so nonchalantly swiped a laundry basket from Freddie's so we could go sledding near PGE Park after Snowpocalypse '08..I miss you tonight. The wind's keening, but it's snug in this bed, and I wish we were sharing headphones and playing all our favorite Lilith ( Read more... )

Just got done with my very first fashion shoot at Holliday Park...fun! Got my makeup and hair did, and got to wear all manner of pretty things that I could not normally afford. It was a little strange for me to realize that it was more traditional fashion than I thought, and though this is Portland, all the other models were teenaged, tiny, and ( Read more... )

I probably should've just stayed in Europe.