Scott wanted to do the Big Climb this year — a fundraiser for Lukemia where participants climb 1300 stairs (or 69 floors) up the Columbia Tower, Seattle’s tallest building. Being the ever supportive wife, I joined him… But Scott did all the work in fundraising and signing us up. Together we raised $1500! We matched everything that was donated to us out of our own pocket. To practice for the event we climbed the stairs off of Broadway together (it’s approximately 4x up/down), and I…
I love, love, love the hummingbirds that zoom around as I walk to the bus in the morning. I picked up on the sound of their chirping last year at some point, and now whenever I hear it I have to stop and look for the little birds who are usually perched on some very high point. I love it. So, this post about our local hummingbirds on the Capitol Hill Seattle blog was pretty great to stumble across! It’s MATING SEASON! “The Anna’s hummingbird,…
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…
I’ve been practicing for the Big Climb coming up in a few weeks by climbing the 12 flights of stairs at work a few times a week. I generally like to listen to NPR when I work out, but climbing stairs in a boring stairwell requires music, so I’ve put together playlist. You can get it here! afrolicious | The Dining Rooms | Experiments In Ambient Soul Bondade E Maldade [Yoruba Soul Mix by Osunlande] | Césaria Évora | Club Sodade Remixes On the Floor…
A while back, Scott was inspired by this video of Robert Rodriguez (director of Sin City and From Dusk Til Dawn — I have to reference because I wouldn’t otherwise know him) making puerco pibil. In the video, Robert Rodriquez notes that everyone should have a menu of “house specialties”. He recommends learning how to cook 2-3 of your favorite dishes very well. “You’ve gotta eat the rest of your life, so you might as well eat well.” –Robert Rodrigues Scott showed the video to me,…
Scott and I haven’t owned a car for 5 years. We’ve gotten by on public transportation, Zipcar and very kind friends. About a month ago, I got the idea that we should buy a car. And three weeks later we bought a MINI Countryman! We started out thinking that we’d get a Mazda (zoom zoom!) or a Subaru. I wanted one, Scott wanted the other. One didn’t have 4WD, the other one did. One was cute and sporty, then other one was standard Seattle fare….