Summer Events
One of my friends said to me the other day that I “make everything in to an event”, and I think this is pretty true. Sushi in the Park and Sangria Sundowners are just every day hanging out with people that have made up names. The adoption of Chunk. Travel to various places. The beginning of Spring. Planting my garden. Why not live life is an event? And now that it’s May, it’s time to start prepping for summer events on our deck! I mentioned in…
“MINI” Road Trip
Chunk arrived last week!! We’ve pretty much been driving around town since to “break it in”. The dealership told us to take it easy on Chunk for the first 1,200 miles or so which means no cruise control and no RPMs over 4K, which is very hard to do given Chunk’s who has a turbo, sport engine. Obligatory photo of us standing next to the car at the dealership: I was pretty tired and ready to go when this photo was taken. The entire experience…
Road Trip Planning
Chunk gets in sometime this week (!!), so I’ve been diligently planning the road trip that we’re taking him on at the end of May. This article in Seattle Met inspired our destination — Northern Canada / Alaska! We are not doing the full route to Anchorage that is written up in the article. Instead, here’s the basic itinerary: Seattle > Port Angeles Port Angeles > Vancouver Island Vancouver Island > Prince Rupert, BC Canada (On a 14-hour ferry, with our car!) Dip in to…
Fonts for the Silhouette Cameo
Did I mention that I got a Silhouette Cameo?! I did, and I’m loving it. It cuts paper… perfectly. Here it is in suti on my desk in my office. (By the way, Scott says that I keep crazy in jars. It’s ribbon.) So, after cutting out a bunch of random shapes for the hell of it, the second thing I did was scour my fonts for ones that would “weld” together nicely. These are my favorites (all free, by the way!): Japan | Lavanderia | Ballpark | Channel | Lobster | Wisdom Script | Reklame Script | Pacifico | Amsterdam…
Newest Latest Addiction: Triple Town
Oh wow. Triple Town is awesome! A coworker of mine introduced me to the game and it is flat out addicting. I know real chess players would scoff at me saying this, but the game feels very much like chess. It can be very strategic. And at the same time, the game is crazy cute. The bears, which block your moves and are a nuisance, get annoyed and growl. And when the bears growl, the people scream. I’ve been telling people that I’m so addicted…
Where’s Chunk?!
We were originally told 60 days from the time our car was ordered until it was here in Seattle, which would puts us currently at about 3 weeks out. We got antsy when the MINI Owners Lounge said that Chunk was on a boat, but didn’t give us any information about it. So Scott and a friend did some internet research and deduced that our car was on a boat called the “Glorious Leader”. I double checked with our dealer today, and they were right!…
Gaming
Newest Latest Addiction: Triple Town
Oh wow. Triple Town is awesome! A coworker of mine introduced me to the game and it is flat out addicting. I know real chess players would scoff at me saying this, but the game feels very much like chess. It can be very strategic. And at the same time, the game is crazy cute. The bears, which block your moves and are a nuisance, get annoyed and growl. And when the bears growl, the people scream. I’ve been telling people that I’m so addicted…
Latest Addiction: Solitaire Blitz
Luckily, I play video games for a living because I am addicted to Solitaire Blitz. Have you played it? A friend of mine did the art for it (which is adorable), and others I know developed the economy and balancing, but that does not make me biased at all. It’s blitzy! And fun! By the way, I’m going to be re-posting some of my gaming content that I wrote last year during the MBA program. It’s going to show up in RSS feeds, even though it isn’t…
