Friday - supposed to go to Seattle with Becky and Lauren for birthday dinner at crazy Moroccan restaurant. Becky did not get home to Olympia until around 8 and was too tired from work to go so off Lauren and I went by ourselves, off to discover the wonders of a small section of 2nd Ave. in Belltown. Found a tiny Mexican restaurant called Mama's ( Read more... )

Saw Spider Man 2 last night. Dear lord, that was long. And ridiculous. Is it wrong, though, that almost at the very end what happened made me grinny? Undoubtedly yes.

Oh, yeah, and never has any groin been pulled so much in so little time. Ow.

So I saw 13 Going on 30 tonight with Hannah.  Now before you say anything about me being an idiotic sap for going to see said movie, shut up because it was delightful.  It made me quite happy with people and I love when that happens.

So now off I go to get much less sleep than I'd like but before I go I'd just like to say that I would very much ( Read more... )

But whilst waiting for Pops I decided to read the news. Oh, glorious news. For those of you linguistic fanatics out there, here's a fun little tidbit. "Va va voom" is officially a new English word. Quotes the dictionary, "va va voom" is "the quality of being exciting, vigorous, or sexually attractive." My greatest wish is that at my death party ( ( Read more... )

I just shot a hoop (that sounds like awkward wording), nothing but net, from half court and made it. Hot damn.

was rather uneventful.  Supposed to go shopping with Jane for wedding paraphernalia (my spelling has become atrocious, thank you K) last night but 1) was sidetracked by birthday call from The Wife and 2) was exhausted.  I'm such a baby about this work thing.  So stayed home and talked to Lexy for a long time, watched a little bit of a movie, and ( Read more... )

Before we get to the thrilling, intimate details of my life, thank you so much to everyone who left me birthday messages, whether on LJ, AIM, the phone, in person, whatever.  Thank you so much.  It was very sweet.  But now, the moment you've all been waiting for...MY LIFE:

Yesterday was a good day.  I slept in until 9, lounged about the living room ( Read more... )

It's someone's birthday today.

Someone's 21st birthday.

"Someone" is me.

Okay, now that that's out of the way...

Friday at work I nearly threw myself off a tall counter.  There I was, scraping staples out of the wall (that's right, everyone, envy me and my thrilling summer...whoo!), when suddenly I notice that my hand is roughly an inch from what appears to be snakeskin.  Not just any snakeskin, my friend, oh no.  About ( Read more... )

Ever wonder what top international relations officials due at the end of a tough meeting? WONDER NO MORE!  Here is the inside scoop on what went down at the Asian Security Council Meeting.  I'm so happy.

Oh, yeah, and it's Friday at 2:30.  That means there are only approximately 40 minutes left of my work week.  I'm so happy.

One more thing.  Can ( Read more... )