goodness throughout

Thanksgiving may be my favorite holiday.
I find myself overflowing with warmth and love on this day,
year in and year out.
I want to cook a feast and drink copious amounts of mulled wine.
I want to hug and kiss all of my lovely friends.
It's the only day of the year where I really crave spending the whole entire day with my family.
But since I can't curl up on their living room couch with a cup of coffee and watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade (the one in Detroit, of course!) on channel 4 with them...
...I will spend the day with my other family.
My Seattle friends are the most amazing people
and they do a real good job at keeping me from getting homesick.

Anyway, I just returned from the city of brotherly love a few days ago.
I lost my phone and had no concept of time the whole weekend.
It's a pretty sweet town and I was reunited with some really sweet folks
(also a really sweet cat, Elliot).
Went crazy amounts of vintage clothing shopping (they have the best vintage stores)
Drank at a bar that ONLY sold PBR.
Got classy.
Saw an adorable play for free at the Walnut Street Theatre, which I guess is considered the oldest theatre in America
and scored a free piece of handmade jewelry from the house manager.
Visited a medical oddities museum after my Drexel interview
Ate my very first Philly cheesesteak and almost vomited right after I finished half.
A pretty successful and quirky trip.
I was so well taken care of and they had the most gorgeous weather.
I wish one more day.
And wish I hadn't broken my camera while trying to load film into it.

Although a pretty cool town, it made me realize how spoiled I am living here.
We have yards in Seattle! I hope everyone cherishes their yards!
Really, love your yard!
As someday, you may have to move to Philly and not have one.
Kiss that grassy ground beneath your feet.

On an unrelated note, since I am not a domestic goddess like Arianna Barrans, how does one properly reheat french press coffee sans microwave? I MUST KNOW!!!!

sweet potato dreams

Holy shit, it's November already?!
This busy bee does not have time to post.
Life has moving very fast. Moving very forward...very fast!
I simply can't keep up with it all.

I really need to be more disciplined as far as blogging goes.
It is so much easier to document events around the same time that they occur,
but whatevs.
I will try to recap the past month or so, in fragment sentences:

A most perfect day with lovely ladies, filled with miles of pumpkins and costume creations.

Consistently going on the most rad dates with a pretty rad dude.

Getting back on my moped for a ride down memory lane.

The most classy/trashy bachlorette party filled to the brim with penis props.

The raddest party I have ever been to while attached to a black tub and a foam rainbow.

A lovely trip to humble Bellingham.

And the biggest event of all....I scored two interviews to grad school!!!!!
So much more awesome then the several rejections of 2008.
I just purchased my very first power suit.
And I am hoping my new Molskine will organize my life for me.
I go to Philadelphia for #1 in three days! Oh fuck!


On a way more interesting note, I am sitting at a coffee shop next to a group of six middle aged individuals, discussing L.A.R.P.ing and fumbling with ten different 12-sided die on the table. One had just purchased a book called "Gaming Geeks" from the upstairs bookstore. In eavesdropping on the conversation, I heard one woman say, "I've been a LARPer since 1985. I am striving to be the woman that goes out at midnight to dig holes in peoples backyards. I want to be the woman that people tell really weird stories about. We are gamers, we are proud".

Do not even get me started about how exciting this was to me. Just don't!

Now, I will leave you with a brief, profound conversation between two homeless buddies while on the bus.
Homeless buddy #1: Oh man, I am soooo drunk!
Homeless buddy #2: Naw man, you're not drunk. The bus is drunk!