I had quite the friend filled weekend. It was like a refreshing, soaking rain shower of friends after a long social drought. I hope there's nothing inappropriate about that analogy ( Read more... )

I managed to stay up until 10pm last night in my attempt to conquer jet lag. I fell asleep the moment I hit the pillow though, and was wide awake this morning at 6am. Yesterday I crashed around 2 pm, but managed to make it a relatively short nap of 2.5 hours. I felt totally wobbly and woozy yesterday. It was funny ( Read more... )

Now there are 2 ladies coming to stay from Tuesday - Sunday. One of them is a psychic. This should be good ( Read more... )

I went for a walk with my mom and Otto and Kasi today. We went to a lake that's only about 20 minutes from our house. We both marveled that we'd "forgotten" about it. We used to go there all the time for walks and even for ice skating when it got cold enough. Usually our go-to places for outdoor activities are to schlep out to the tow path or ( Read more... )

I had a really fun family weekend ( Read more... )

Last night at 1:09am I realized I hadn't written a post all day, and had messed up my goal of writing a post a day only 9 days in. I thought about cheating again, but I already did that once so decided against it. It was too much pressure anyway ( Read more... )

Today was gray and drizzly. The perfect Portland winter day. I wanted to get out for a minute, so I decided it would be good to go to my bus stop and take a photo from the corner. I took a few shots, and just as I was finished this guy walked up to me and started asking me about it. That's twice in two days that I've taken a photo of the same ( Read more... )

It has been snowing all day. It actually started yesterday afternoon. The snowflakes were big and puffy, creating a perfect, romantic atmosphere ( Read more... )

It rained all day today. I decided to go for a walk at around 5:30. It's already dark by that time. I grabbed my umbrella, put on my waterproof boots and headed out the door ( Read more... )

I'm back home again! It's kind of weird to be here. It's like all of a sudden the house sitting is over, and then it's just over. Oslo and I got along quite well; I wonder if I'll miss him. I'm glad to be back, but I feel a little disoriented. It's the same feeling I get when I travel to another place: in no time you have switched environments ( Read more... )