A Little ♥ and Soul

There is a certain website out there in the land of internet that has caught on like a wildfire. Seriously. If I didn't have to work and/or people just gave me money to sit around all day to play on this website, I probably, maybe would. Okay, maybe not all day. Anyway,  Pinterest  is probably one of the biggest time sucks out there. And I mean that in the kindest of ways. Basically, it's a virtual pin board for anything crafty, holiday ideas, clothes you want to try, recipes that make you salivate just thinking about them. It takes the manual labor out of the equation. No scissors. No glue. No buying poster boards. For OCD people like me, Pinterest keeps it all stored in one spot and arranges any post into the category of my choosing.  Anyhow, the whole point of me sharing this, is that on one of my pin boards, there is a certain pin that has reached epic proportions. I mean for someone who isn't in the business of photography or doing anything creative as a full ti...

So...I went into Portland today with my roomie/bestie. We saw this little park in the middle of the city and they had these cool little elephant statues and I just had to take a photo.  Aren't they cool?  This was our second/final stop of the day. Seriously, these donuts may not look so good, but believe me, they are so worth the 10 minute wait. Ask for a Voodoo Dozen. :-) And the crowning moment of the whole trip into the city... well...I guess you can't really tell, but we spent the most of our time in Powell's City of Books. This is a photo out of the 3rd floor window of the Pearl section - photography/coffee/art room. Powell's City of Books is seriously the biggest bookstore I have ever seen in my whole life. F O U R floors of 12 foot tall bookshelves on every subject you could possibly think of. It was seriously heaven on earth for me. I could have spent all day in there.  Anyway... spring is here. kind of. The weather here h...

Dear Sunshine, I was so happy to find you peeking through the clouds this morning. So happy, in fact, that I was excited to start my day of errands. Two hours later, though, you've gone away and your evil cousin has settled in. That's right. It is pouring rain right now. POURING. Why? Why did you have to go away? Don't you know I wanted to do something fun today? Didn't you know that your patchy sunshine-y goodness would have made the day that much more enjoyable rather than sheets of rain? Ugh...I am so done with the rain. I'm done with the bottom of my pants being soaked through. I'm done having to wear socks and shoes. Please tell spring to hurry the heck up and tell summer that she needs to be here by the time May rolls around, okay? I need my sunshine back. I need you back in my life. You make everything feel better. You make my tennis calluses worth having them in the first place. So, please. Just come back. I love having you around. I think you shou...

I have felt the need to catch up with the world wide web this past week. Since purchasing my laptop just a couple days ago - almost a week - I've been blog stalking, Facebook stalking, Twitter stalking (though not as fun as Facebook), watching my shows on Hulu, catching up on my YouTube channel subscriptions,  reading  skimming my NY Times subscription, trying to find cool stuff to do in Portland, ordering work pants online, adding stuff to my Amazon wish list. The list could go on for eternity, but I won't bore you. With all this "catching up", I haven't slept very well. It's nearly 2 AM and I have to be at work at 8 AM. Yep. I have less than five hours to sleep tonight...awesome. I was supposed to be in bed at least an hour ago but being me, I needed to clean up my room after going to Target and Rite Aid tonight. Tomorrow, tomorrow, I resolve to: *Clean the rest of my room. Putting every needful thing in its place. *Eat a healthy dinner 'cause heav...

So, obviously - or not - I haven't posted anything in the last month. Mostly, because a certain laptop decided to take a nosedive into oblivion. I feel like this month sabbatical from the internet was good for me. I really didn't get more done, necessarily, but I wasn't staying up late playing games on Facebook or lurking through blogs of people I don't know. I do, however, feel like I missed out on a lot. You know, like little tidbits of people's lives and whatnot. But it's okay. I got my Federal tax refund today and I will be - finally - purchasing a laptop. So, I guess that month off from all things internet will be in vain. Maybe. I don't know. Anyway, enough of the not even close to connecting ideas/sentences. I don't know if I posted in my last post that I got a job. I did. I've been working 40 hours a week for what feels like very little money. Although, I can't complain a whole lot, it is a job. Bottom line, I get paid. Not a whole lo...

Someone just pinch me! The weather here in Portland is absolutely GORGEOUS today. Yesterday the morning was fantastic, but the clouds inevitably rolled in. It actually hasn't rained for 2 whole days which is pretty fantastic. I'm currently sitting here in my living room with my windows open. It's almost time to completely air out the winter blues and let spring and summer overtake my soul. There's a passage in a book that I love that explains my feelings about this.  "Now May had gone and June had arrived bringing bright long evenings and the beautiful mornings that came with them. And with these bright sunny days, June brought clarity. There was no more hiding indoors as soon as it got dark and there were no lie-ins until the afternoon. It seemed the whole of Ireland had come out of hibernation and suddenly started living again. It was time to open all the windows and air out the house, to free it of the ghosts of the winter and the dark days, it was time ...

I'm sitting here on my comfy thrift store couch trying to organize my thoughts for this post, but I'm at an epic fail right now. So, if my thoughts are a little all over the place, just be warned that it is 2:45 AM and I haven't been to bed. Anyway, I got a job at Goodwill last week. I am pretty stoked. Except at this moment, I'm a little stressed out about it for a couple of reasons. My sister ended our contracts with AT&T and switched to Sprint. Except, I didn't know she was going to do that and the store manager was supposed to call me that day to let me know if I passed my drug test and background check - which I did, by the way (duh). So, much to my chagrin, I was unreachable to everyone in the known universe. The store manager finally emailed me today to tell me to call him to find about orientation and training and paperwork and all that fun new job stuff. I didn't get the email till almost midnight though. Almost 10 hours after he had sent the emai...