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Since I got home in June, I re-activated my 24 Hour Fitness membership. Hey, unemployed people have to have something to do during the day! I’d tried their yoga classes before, but as an employed individual, it wasn’t convenient to drive into Portland for yoga, since I already went to spin class twice a week. [...]

With a month to kill back here in Portland, I switched into planner-mode and decided finish some items on my 101 Things in 1001 Days list. I called a few golf courses in the area, but most classes were around $50 per lesson. This seemed pretty outrageous to me, but I finally heard through a [...]

After traveling for four months, it’s hard not to approach your home town with more curiosity. After hitting all my favorite restaurants that I’d been missing (Chipotle and Ya Hala), I’ve checked out a few restaurants that remind me of my travels, Malay Satay Hut (Malaysian food) and this little vegetarian Vietnamese restaurant on Powell.
Another [...]

I spent the night in Beijing, in a neighborhood close to the airport. It was funny being back in China. I wandered around the neighborhood and went to the grocery store to get snacks (and cucumber chips). After a day of exploring, I was back at the airport and on my flight home.
It was so [...]

My room was featured in this week’s post on Apartment Therapy! It’s great motivation to finish the 8 week cure. Of which, I’m almost done with the “chore list” for this week. I declared yesterday Fall Cleaning (I know, it doesn’t have the same ring to it as Spring Cleaning).
Fall Cleaning:

Dust
Vacuum
Wash: sheets, duvet, mattress pad, [...]

Today was Blog Action Day, thousands of bloggers posting about 1 issue relating to the environment. So I’ve decided to take the 2 Mile Challenge… sometime!
40% of US urban travel is 2 miles or less. Ride your bike to fight global warming.
Now why didn’t I decide to take this challenge in the spring?

I’ve crossed the 1/2 way mark! Only 4 more weeks to go! This week was one of the more inspiring weeks of Apartment Therapy, because you start to see whole rooms coming together with just a few little changes - framed wall art, color, etc. I went to IKEA and picked up 3 frames for [...]

I finally went over to Ken’s Artisan Pizza. It did not disappoint! It was already packed when we arrived, and I was surprised at how small the space was. The roll-up side window and huge open air windows make the space really neat, well, that and the gigantic oven! :) The wait ended up [...]

The Cheap Eats 2007 (Willamette Week) guide doesn’t have a map, and I really wanted to see them all on the same map. So I decided to try out the Google Maps API, but first I needed to convert all the addresses into latitude and longitude coordinates. I ended up finding this website, BatchGeoCode.com, that [...]

This will be an on-going “project,” but I finally found the updated list for 2007 (from Willamette Week). I’ve crossed out the few I’ve been to. After looking at this list I feel like I go to the same few restaurants over and over again… which is true. :) And now for something completely [...]