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So I had to work at Gap at 5 this morning. Sucked! But afterwards I took Jill's yoga class and it was amazing.

Sunday I spent the day with Alex. After my morning yoga class, we went to the Sunday Market and then to Hotlips where we got drunk at 2:30 in the afternoon and then we passed out in a park in the swanky Pearl District for an unknown period of time. It was nice, but I hate drinking during the day. Makes me feel ridiculous. We fell asleep in a park where couples were getting their engagement photos taken, for Pete's sake. (Who is Pete, and why did I capitalize his name?)

And yes, those are my luscious lips you're seeing.

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I woke up at 6:10 this morning and went to yoga at 7 only to be greatly disappointed by this teacher and her style. What a bummer! I hate when that happens. I feel like I might have gotten a great workout had I been 75.

I had my green and white fusion tea this morning instead of coffee. I want coffee, but I have to cut it completely for now until I can teach myself to enjoy it in moderation. We'll see how long this lasts...

Mount Hood and Mount Saint Helens were so beautiful this morning. The glimpse I got of them while driving up the 405 was completely worth waking up for. The way the sun comes up behind them is just phenomenal.

Today I am working 10 to 6. Let's hope this goes by quickly! Although I don't know why I am in a rush to get home. All I have waiting for me is about three loads of laundry. Ugh! I hate chores.

I think if I'd had a cup of coffee this blog would be much more colorful.

Have a beautiful day.

xoxo-
T

update

Well hello there. I've been bad about blogging since we don't have the internet at home anymore. I meant to go to the library this week, but Keith and I both got so sick and I didn't leave the house for three days, except for one time to teach yoga. Yea, that was fun. After lots of rest and emergen-c, I am now feeling much better and so is Keith.

I've been having some amazing yoga practices recently. I think I am going to go to class at 7 tomorrow morning before work. Alex and I went to the 8 am class last Sunday and it was so great, so we will definitely be hitting that one up again.

My first niece, little Ellie Grace, will be born in the next week or two. I love living on the west coast but right now I am sad I won't be there for her birth and to get to know her in her first couple months of life. I will be with her in spirit though. I love her so much already!

Today I had chai tea, minus the soy milk. I am going to stop by Trader Joe's on my way home from work and get some more tea. Right now all I have is green and white fusion tea. It's pretty scrumptious but I think I might like something else better. I haven't had any coffee for like three days. I think I am officially going to try to replace coffee with tea. At least for a week or something.

I love Modest Mouse. They just played three nights in a row at The Crystal Ballroom, which is only about four blocks from my house, and I didn't get to go to any of them! I was so bummed. They really are one of my favorite bands.

I wish more of my friends would come visit me here in this lovely city I now call home. Sarah's coming in a little over two weeks. Can't wait!

I went with Keith last night to shoot some scenes for The Corners. It was neat to see him in action. And apparently you can pour water on the engine of a car if it's off to create a steaming effect?

Ugh. My nose is runny, yet stuffy at the same time.

Hey you, get off of my cloud.

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Sorry for my lack of recent bloggage. I haven't had access to the internet and probably won't for quite some time. I miss blog-a-logging. A lot.

Sarah will be here in about three weeks and that's exciting. I'm ready for the weather to change. I never thought I'd say this, but I'm getting really sick of warm and sunny. It's been this way all summer and I'm ready for the change!

I was cranky today. I woke up at 7 to take a yoga class this morning and I walked there and back in the rain. The class completely sucked. Definitely won't be going back to that teacher. Then I asked Keith to make me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to take with me to work for lunch and he put it on white bread and I got pissed off. Over a sandwich! What a grump. Then a woman came into my store with her two little girls and let them run amok and that pissed me off too. Today just really hasn't been a great day for me. But I guess it hasn't been horrible either. Oh well. It's almost over now.

I think I want to be a barista. Wouldn't that be fun? I love coffee and it makes me happy. I think I'd like to make it for people for a living. Plus I always like the music they play in coffee shops.

I have to end this blog because I am at work and I am closing in 5 minutes. I'd love to stay and chat but I'd also like to go home. Have a good night.

Yours Truly,
T

hello

Greetings from the Multnomah County Library!

Here I sit, in the library, writing my first blog in over a week. I've been finding myself wanting to blog so much recently, but there's been an issue with the internet at home so I haven't been able to.

My trip home to Virginia was really great! I got to see almost everyone I wanted to see, and I got lots of great pictures.

Today was River's first day of kindergarten and Hunter's first day of middle school. I wonder how that went for them? I bet they were both really cute, and I bet little Mason was feeling very sad and left out!

Keith and I went to the Mission Theater last night and saw the best movie ever. We saw Up, and it was a Disney movie. I'm not going to say anything else besides it made me laugh and it made me cry and you really should go see it.

This library is neat. I think I will get a library card before I leave.

This is my second day off in a row and I have to say that I am very much enjoying it. It has been about two months since I had two days in a row off. Yesterday way my day of relaxation. Keith and I walked up 23rd and went in some shops and then we went to see Up, then I came home and fell asleep at 8:00 while reading Yoga Journal. I slept for 13 hours! I guess I needed the rest? This morning I woke up and did three loads of laundry and then I ran a couple errands. I caught a glimpse of Mt. Hood that stopped me dead in my tracks. Literally! I was standing almost on the corner of 21st and Burnside in front of Fred Meyer, and there it was. Beautiful, snow-covered monster of a mountain that it is! I could not believe it. It's a pretty clear day, but I have never seen it from right there. When I was shopping in Williamsburg with my mom, we were in Esprit and I was talking to the sales associate and he got all offended because I said the mountains on the east coast were more like hills compared to the mountains out west. He was like, "Well, I climb them, so I know they are huge mountains." You know, I have climbed them on many occasions too, buddy! I wasn't saying it was easy to climb them, hike them or bike them, I was only saying that the mountains out west are far larger than anything I've ever seen back east. We can see Mt. Hood from Portland and it's over 100 miles away. That is a damn huge mountain. That is like being in Richmond and being able to see Wintergreen (the resort, I don't know the name of the mountain. Maybe it's just called Wintergreen?). Anyway, he got all offended. Whatever.

Saturday I worked at the Clogs n More store on NW 23rd. I like that location because it's less than a mile from my apartment and that street is really cool. It reminds me of a bigger Carytown. Some people call it 'trendy third". Anyway, I was working there on Saturday and a totally nutty woman came in yelling and Shannon and me asking where Harrison Ford was, and very passionately screaming about how he murdered her brother in prison. She said that Harrison Ford then made $25 million off of the murder was insistent that Shannon and I knew where he was? "Does he live on the avenue? He is in a red house down the street and you know exactly where he is!" Shannon used to work with mentally disabled people, so she knew how to handle the situation. She started walking toward the woman and kind of hustled her out the door, all the while the woman was steadily screaming about Harrison Ford and then told her to tell her dad, Robert Redford, hello for her. We told Ahmed about it and he said he sometimes thought people like that led pretty good lives because they really had no idea what was going on around them. She was crazy. With a capital C. The whole situation really left me wondering how I would handle a situation like that if I were alone. At the Streets of Tanasbourne location, we can call security and say, "I have a package for Nora" and security will come rushing over. I told Shannon if I had been alone and at the Tanasbourne location I would have had a package for Nora!

It's a beautiful day in Portland! I am also listening to TV on the Radio on my headphones. I love this band! Check them out if you don't already know who they are. Keith and I saw them at the Sasquatch Festival.

I love living out west! I don't really care where I am out here, as long as I'm still here. I don't know what it is, I really just love it. It's beautiful. I can't say for sure, but I don't think I will ever move back to the east coast unless I really have to. I love my family and friends and I had a great time visiting, but I love it here! It is quite doubtful that we will stay in Portland forever, though. Who knows where the wind will take us next? I guess that element of uncertainty would freak some folks out, but I love it! The only thing that would freak me out is feeling stuck. I felt that way in Virginia.

I really have to pee. I wonder where the bathroom is in this library?

Have you ever wondered who 'they' is? They say you are supposed to spend less than a third of your monthly income on mortgage, they say you are supposed to spend three months salary on an engagement ring. That has got to be two different groups of 'they' right?! Who the heck is 'they' anyway?!

I have now switched from TV on the Radio to Nine Inch Nails circa The Fragile. We saw them at Sasquatch too! I now love Jane's Addiction and Nine Inch Nails EVEN MORE than ever since I saw them live! That whole Sasquatch experience was awesome! Minus the sleeping in the back of the vdub part. But who cares?!

Sarah will be here in about a month. I wonder what we will do? I'm sure I will be working some. I work every Friday and Saturday at Clogs n More and I really can't take that time off because Shannon is going to Los Angeles to see her nephew. We will figure something out. I work 11-7, so we will at least have the mornings and nights. Whatever. We will have fun no matter what we do. I wish I would get more visitors out here!!

I'd love to blog more but I really have to pee!

xoxo,

T