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Blogging about what I ate for breakfast just got a lot more interesting… for me anyway. I’ve been using my new iPhone to take garden, cooking, and [nomnomnom] out to dinner pics. It was fun to import a few weeks of food pictures into Picasa! One of my favorite recent recipes was ^^^ Summer Pasta [...]

I’ve been neglecting my blog… thanks to my new iPhone. Obsessed much? Yes. Best thing… like evah! Favorite Apps Google Maps – Yes, it’s a pretty standard map, but the geo-location feature is awesome (my gigantic shoe phone aka, Treo didn’t have the locating bit, and took about 5 hours to load). So example of [...]

It’s been a few months since I did a 10 things that make me happy post… so stuff that has my attention lately… Liberty of London – Remember when I went overboard on buying Liberty of London stuff? Yep, still like it. World Cup 2010 – Was I stoked for World Cup 2006? No, I [...]

I bought a house condo in April at an auction! Yes, really! I never thought I’d be buying something so soon after my return to ‘grown up’ life, but I really wanted that first-time homebuyer tax credit (which you cannot get for a yurt, fyi), and it was a great time to buy. The auction [...]

Well this one was pretty easy — I had a little help since some restaurants went out of business last year. :|  There were a couple of restaurants that I’d been meaning to try just because they’re close, but I’m disappointed to report that I wasn’t missing much and I won’t be back. However, there [...]

Potentially awkward blog posts — saved by haiku (via yes and yes)! not bad, but not fun my budget doesn’t thank me swimsuit season, please? On that note, for Portland waxing salons, Urban Waxx is seriously awesome — great staff, wine for a little liquid courage :P and 15% off your first visit/referral.

So I finally got my living room curtains up last weekend. I had a slight change of plans after making about 12 trial holes in the wall. And after trying a concrete drill bit, I came to the realization that getting anchors into that part of the wall was a no-go. ‘A’ for effort, right? [...]

Guess who’s not vagabonding around, living out of a backpack, or sleeping in a sleeping bag on someone’s floor anymore? Yep, me (ok, I may or may not be in a sleeping bag still)! I’ve been in my new apartment for two weeks now, and although I still have two “in progress” items, I’m considering [...]

This 101 Things in 1,001 Days goal was originally to volunteer with the Big Sister program, but the gist of the goal was just to volunteer. I ended up choosing S.M.A.R.T. — Start Making a Reader Today — based here in Portland. SMART partners with Oregon schools to help kids “discover the joy of reading.” [...]

Spa day! One of my birthday gifts this year was a massage at McMenamins Edgefield Ruby Spa, so the soybean and I had an impromptu girls day. It helps that our birthdays just happen to fall on the same day, so this was our gifts to each other this year. We picked the $45 30-minute [...]