Archive for the 'City Living' Category

Overheard in the lunch line

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Things that the very handsome and very well dressed young business men in line behind me at Chipotle talked about:

using self tanners (”it messes up my hands”)
how they vote on American Idol (”the girls were on last night”)
Gossip Girl (”its easy to love to hate it”) (”you can’t DVR it or you won’t be able [...]

In which my husband has no job and no tan lines

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

I spent the summer between graduating from high school and moving away to college in my parent’s backyard, working on my tan. I woke up every morning, put on my “tanning attire”, pulled my hair back, applied tanning lotion, grabbed the latest novel I was reading, and spent the rest of the day lying out [...]

Mormons rule. Pass it on.

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

I’ve been a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints my entire life. You know, the Mormons (or “LDS” or “Saints). I grew up in Utah, surrounded by others of my same faith. What I’m saying is that Mormonism is very normal to me, and also very important to me. Most of [...]

In which I’m a rat

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

I decided to treat myself yesterday by walking over to Nordstrom on my lunch break to peruse their glorious make-up counters. I didn’t plan on making any type of a purchase. I just wanted to set my eyes on the summer’s new lip gloss.
Hey, a girl can dream.
Right in the middle of holding a new [...]

In which I’m a city snob

Friday, March 27th, 2009

The first time I visited The King in Seattle, I knew I had found my “home”.  Not only was The King Dreamy McDreamypants, but The City was awesome.  I loved seeing the tall buildings, the buses and the fancy stores.
It was nothing like I was used to back in Utah.
And that was a very good [...]

In which we are totally snowed in

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

My boys look like this today:

So that they could go outside and do this:

So that I could stay inside and do this:

Working from home (in my pajamas) today.  At some point I hope to get a shower.  And maybe something to eat.
Do you think any pizza places are delivering today?  Yeah, probably not!