We walked around the kitschy little shops near our hotel today and wandered into the Cannon Beach Bakery. We had the best iced vanilla latte I’ve ever tasted. Sorry, Starbucks, I was unfaithful and I liked it. And we split this chocolate cannoli. This little treasure rocked my world so hard I almost screamed “Tsunami!” [...]
Archive for September, 2009
More vacation photos, because I am obnoxious
September 22nd, 2009
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These are photos from Cannon Beach and our hotel, the Ocean Lodge.
Laundry sucks far less at the beach
September 22nd, 2009
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I am taking an hour out of my vacation to wash some clothes, because even though there is fabulous technology that can tell me the afternoon temperature pretty much anywhere on the planet, I can never pack enough of the right clothes to make it a week without a washing machine. The bright side is [...]
Volcanos are the Earth proving it’s badass
September 21st, 2009
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This planet is alive. And when the Earth has a temper tantrum, a touch of heartburn, an eruption, the aftermath can be devastating for decades, centuries. We drove up Mount Saint Helens yesterday, and while it is slowly and surely returning to some semblance of it’s former self more than 30 years after it erupted, [...]
September 20th, 2009
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Long travel day. Finally arrived in Portland. Hello, cerveza mas fina. I don’t care if I do have to eat mediocre food in a hillbilly bar that is hosting a redneck wedding with a groom in a kilt just to be near you. Oh, cold golden nectar. You are mine.
Lean? Yes. Cuisine? I don’t think so
September 18th, 2009
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Best part of upcoming vacation? I won’t be eating any of these little boxes of frozen dung. Notice that this plastic bowl of goo bears almost no resemblance to the picture on the cover of the box, which actually looks like, you know, what’s the word…FOOD.
Counting the hours
September 18th, 2009
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The hubby and I are about 36 hours from leaving for our vacation and I am getting that antsy-in-my-pantsy feeling of excitement and dread. Excited because we are flying about as far away from our little city to the Pacific Northwest, a place I have always wanted to go. Dread because I always feel like [...]
Mean pricks, cool chicks and corporate dicks
September 17th, 2009
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OK, so today could have been better. But it could have been worse, too. At work, I got my ass chewed on – via e-mail – by a sanctimonious prick. Since I like to think of myself as a professional, I sent him back a polite reply. What I really want to say was pucker [...]
Thar’s bears in these here hills
September 15th, 2009
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When did Facebook become the neighborhood watch? I am sitting here surfing the InterWebs, minding my own busy-ness, when a neighbor posts a comment to my status. My status read: Sent the dogs outside with explicit instructions not to kill any woodland creatures while in our backyard. I don’t care who started it. This was [...]
