My Grandma's Trip to Africa

My 86 year old Grandma recently returned from a three week trip to Tanzania.

First of all, I just need to say how awesome this is! Go Grandma! I hope that I am still traveling around the world with friends when I am that age!

My Grandma wanted to show the family all 300 of her pictures from the trip. So on a Sunday, Cole and I went over to my family's house for dinner and the slide show.

Grandma had some amazing pictures of the people she met, the places she stayed and or course, of the animals she saw. One particular set of images captured the mating rituals of a group of lions (insert brother's giggle here).



Now this is not exactly her same picture but a similar image proceed all of the mounting images. At which point, my grandma decided to explain to my whole family and Cole that "she [the lioness] is lying like that so the semen doesn't come out of her."

WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?! Did my Grandma just say what I think she just said?

Yes she did! Cole and I exchanged glances and then the whole family burst into laughter.

I was a great moment!

I wanted to share this story with everyone because it cracked me up and I hope it made you smile too!

I appreciate my Grandma more than words can say and I am glad she continually surprises me! I would not have it any other way!

Love you Grandma!

My New Apartment

I live with a boy. A very, very clean boy but still a boy.

For those of you who don't know, Cole and I moved in together this November.

We moved to a neighborhood called Phinney Ridge, which is on a hill in between Greenlake and Ballard.

Thanks to Google (scary), I can offer you a pretty cool tour of our neighborhood. I am starting you off at the Red Mill burger & Starbucks coffee shop where the road turns from Phinney Ave N to Greenwood Ave. Go north and check out the Stumbling Goat Bistro on 67nd and Greenwood Ave N‎ where I like to go to dinner with my friend Darlin. Then, go south to check out Sully's Tavern (on the corner of 62nd and Phinney Ave) where Cole and I play Trivial Pursuit Sports Edition from the 1960s!


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Our apartment used to be a one-story house that was split into a duplex. It is two bedrooms, has hard wood floors and a little area out back for a BBQ. We are still trying to work everything out, like getting a carpet and coffee table for the living room, but all-in-all it is a pretty cool little space. I will put up pictures when I have them.

If you want to see an exact image of the house and where it is on the block (yeah Google has that too!), email me and I will send you the link to check out!

I am really excited about this apartment and making it my own. I hope you all can come visit me sometime and I cannot wait to have my first party here. Yes, you heard that correctly. Meg will be throwing a party! Crazy! I know.

Enjoy the tour!

Oh and for those of you who have never meet Cole, here is a great little picture of him.... feeding a monkey!



Man, is he going to kill me! :)

A New Job

Many of you know that I was looking for a job for what felt like an eternity. After a month of searching, anything was going to be better than nothing. However, I got lucky. At the end of September, a larger Seattle company decided that they wanted to try me on for size.

I am now working for them as a Web Content Producer. Sounds vague and frankly, it is. But I will attempt to describe what it is I do for all of you curious folk out there.

I work in a division of said company* that manages an ecommerce website. I am part of the Traffic Team for that site. What does that mean you wonder? Just as it sounds, my team’s goal in life is to drive as much traffic as possible to our little site. It sounds kind of silly but it is general enough where I get to deal with multiple facets of the company’s business. Marketing, syndication, strategy, etc.

Obviously, I do a lot of boring stuff. Pull Omniture reports (what an f***ing awful tool compared to G.Analytics!). Update information on the website via HTML. Write copy for promo material (what a joke… have you seen my spelling?). And general administrivia work regarding server organization and our archival process. Fun.

Overall though, it is pretty cool. And definitely a huge change from the 20 person company I used to be at. I am happy that I am here and looking forward to seeing how my time here works out.

*There will be no mention of the company name or of the channel that I work for due to security reasons. I am not planning on slandering the companyr, I just want to be extra cautious and stay off the big brother radar. You know how it goes.

And the blog continues on….

I know it has been almost two months since my last entry but I can explain:

Finding a new job, finding a new apartment and getting cable set up at said new apartment takes up a lot of time!

But now that the storm is somewhat behind me, I can recount all the crazy events and news for you! 

…Oh lucky you!

Coming soon - New posts :

1.) The New Job

2.) The New Apartment

3.) Introductions

Hope you enjoy!