Filed under: bars, food, life, travel | Tags: portland, seattle, vacation
again, a bit late in posting, but portland and seattle were both beautiful. both freezing..but beautiful. we didn’t do anything very touristy at all..besides take cabs. we basically ate and drank the whole time. it was awesome seeing old friends and making new ones at the same time. we flew into portland pretty late and headed straight to the doug fir lounge at our hotel (the jupiter hotel). erin and i were pretty much the only asian people in the bar..maybe even in portland. anyways..the rest of the time in portland, mario, erin and i hung out together..thrift shopping, going to bars, checking out portland state university for me..and going to more bars.
we took the train to seattle (which was a semi disaster–missing our first train, the second train didn’t have bike hooks for mario’s bike, so he had to disassemble it and box it). got into seattle, took the bus to mario’s place, drank some, then took a cab over to the cha cha in capitol hill. literally..all we did was eat out and drink. so i’m not going to recap anymore than that. here’s some pictures. all in all, it was an awesome trip and i wish we could have stayed longer in both cities. i’ll definitely be making a trip back up to seattle, if not both cities, soon.
Filed under: social media, travel | Tags: choke, chuck palahniuk, comic-con, debauchery, twitter, twitterberry, vacation
An added bonus of living by myself is now that I have a kitchen all to myself, I actually enjoy cooking. I’m still not very good at it, and only cook simple things, but it’s a start. Last week I made a potsticker salad with bean sprouts, sugar snap peas, carrots and scallions with a sesame oil / soy sauce dressing.
Monday night (before I came down with the bird flu…) I made mini artichoke / roasted red pepper pizzas, and the side is lemony green beans. The recipe was so delicious and simple.
This weekend I experienced Comic-Con. Craziness, let me tell you. All I really wanted to do was get in and get out. I wanted to get tickets to the screening of Choke, which I did. So Heston and I speed walk to the theatre (passing a group of about 25 zombies), wait in line for about 15 minutes only to get turned away. Guess I’ll have to wait until September to see it. We walk back to the convention center and meet up with Heston’s little brother. By the time we got back from the theatre, there were only 45 minutes left in the exhibition area. It was still fun even though we were only there for a little bit.
Everyone should check out Choke though: www.chokeonthis.net
So, I’ve been MIA from basically everything except Twitter (thank god for TwitterBerry) for the past few days because I’ve been disgustingly sick. I’m starting to feel better, and have only a half day of work tomorrow then off to SLO! Can’t wait for a nice relaxing weekend…hot tub and all. I’ll be back on Sunday night and am ready for some debauchery. Staying in for three nights in a row is uncharacteristic of me and I did not enjoy it one bit. Let the fun begin.
Love,
Lady
