Things I learned from easter weekend

Hi Blogland, 

I wanted to linkup with Kaite Que and share a few things I learned over Easter weekend. 

//First, it is hard to blog when you leave your phone at home all day and that is what all your photos are on. Hence me blogging on a Monday night. Who does that? 

//Do not go to Costco the day before Easter. Holy packed. Good lord, sometimes I don't like people. Saturday afternoon before Easter at Costco was one of those times. 

//Brunch on a Saturday afternoon is always better when it is with good friends and gravy. Tilt always does it right.

//Ice cream treats after over a month without it tastes better when you eat it on your Friday off from work.

//Portland's Spring Beerfest is always entertaining. 

//Easter with family makes my heart happy. 

//I always eat too much food at family gatherings. 

//If you haven't caught on yet from this post - my life revolves around food.

//Bubbles are still fun to play with when you are 25. 

//The Fault In Our Stars is a great post Easter coma read. 

Cheers to learning new things! 

<3 BB 

blogging is a funny thing

Blogging is a funny thing, I am sure you have all heard or felt that before. When I decided to jump into blogging, for reasons I am still unsure of, I didn't know what the hell I was getting into. Here I am two years into it and still don't know what I am doing - but I am enjoying it. 

I love getting to write about whatever I want, but I think what keeps me coming back are the friendships I am making. My real life friends don't quite understand and that's fine. They don't understand how I was not nervous to meet Kailyn and have her come stay at my house for a weekend. They find it a little amusing that I get thoughtful packages from people like Jenny, who remembered my New Year's Resolution was to write more with stationary - so she sent me the cutest cards around.

And the thing is I don't care if they don't understand the friendships I am making. I may not meet most of these people I interact with online every day and that is fine...because for me, at the end of the day, I love that I am forming bonds with people. I love that people take the time to read my posts and they keep coming back to see what I have going on in my life. I love that I look forward to reading about what is going in their's. It's corny, but it's nice. 

So, today, cheers to blogging and the friends I am making along the way! 

<3 BB 

shanana-eats

Let me share with you the burger that kicked off my weekend. I took myself on a date for Portland's Burger Week.  Restaurants all over the city were offering their ridiculous burgers for only 5 dollars, so I had to partake. 

This burger featured 3 buns, a fried egg, and 3 patties.  I didn't even attempt to eat two of the buns and it was still huge. This monstrosity can be found at a place called Tilt, up in the industrial part of north Portland. Gawd, it was fabulous.   

Because of said burger I had to workout a lot this weekend. Okay, I didn't have to but I wanted to. Luckily, Saturday wasn't too hot (it was a little humid by Oregonian standards though), so I took myself on a 45 min. run, which sadly, is one of my long runs. Anything over 30 mins and I get bored. Trying to work through that though. 

Also, do you ever have those weekends where you do a lot of fun stuff, but then don't really document it. I guess it's not really a bad thing at all...Means you were actually enjoying yourself. Anyway, I had one of those weekends. #badblogger #whatever. Got to see a few different college friends that were home from out of state and it was lovely, but I have no photographic proof, minus this coffee from my coffee date with my old college roomie at Stumptown (I don't know what makes their coffee so fabulous, but it was the best soy latte I have had in maybe ever. Magic beans obviously.)

Lastly, did I commit to doing a 60 day Paelo challenge with my friend Anne?! I think I might have. Good thing most of the food in my house already is. Had this strange concoction last night.  Sweet Potato, Apple, Chicken, and green hot sauce, with a splash of honey and cinnamon. Sounds weird, tasted good... Where is Jessi when I need her, going to have to get creative with my meals. 

Overall my weekend was low key and my shenanigans were on point. Now I must attempt to get out of my food coma and get to work.... ugh.

Cheers!

<3 BB

coast on coast on coast

Anyone else wearing green in honor of Earth Day?! No, just me? cool.  Ok, that's only partly true.  I am wearing green, but it was just a coincidence that it is Earth Day or so the radio told me on my way to work... but enough about Mother Earth, she is only so cool.  Let's talk about my awesome weekend shenanigans instead! 

I spent my weekend at the coast with some dear friends of mine! 

Face Rock! Comes with a legend even. 

I played babysitter and puppysitter while the oh-so talented Anne took engagement photos for our friends that were in from Chicago :) I just know they are going to turn out great, I may even be more excited than Megan and Scott are for their photos. That's a lie.

Above is a sneak peak of the fabulousness of what is to come from Anne's session! Anne just knows how to take a great photo and puts mine to shame :) Plus, she had some adorable subjects to work with! Definitely hop over to her website and facebook to check her work out!

And now back to my pitiful attempts at photography....

Look, a light house!

The weather was great, minus the cold wind.  (However, you can only do so much complaining about the weather at the Oregon Coast though. If it's not raining, it's pretty much considered a success!)

Look, it's the light house again!

So yeah, that was pretty much my weekend.  Had to be up at 4:40am yesterday so Megan and Scott could get back to the Portland Airport and was dead bolted out of the apartment by sleeping Brad. Evidently, there were things that happened during his Man Date with a few friends that he didn't want me to come home to ;)

Oh! And most importantly, I nutted up and chopped off some of my hair! How much do I look like Elizabeth Olsen?!

I really like what my hair guy did with the did. Emmanuel aka E (that's what his friends call him and I feel like I can too, now that we bonded over Boxer Puppies yesterday?) left it at a length that it is still longish and manageable, but much healthier. Plus, he is finally getting it back to a color we are both excited about.  He has been trying to fix what my last hair person did to it months ago.  Note to all: don't die your hair dark brown and then let your hair person try and get it back to blonde in one try. It.doesn't.work. 

Cheers to Monday! 

*Also, I am choosing to be happy on this Monday because it is supposed to be sunny all week. 

<3 BB 

Why Brad And I Almost Broke Up Last Night

It was over a very serious matter, too....

So, here's the deal,  right before bed last night Bradley and I were having our usual before bedtime chit chat... nothing out of the ordinary.  Sometime during the conversation Brad used the term 'bamboozled'. I, of course, referenced Friends:

Because really, who doesn't reference Friends at any opportunity that presents itself?! Arguably the best show ever.  Now here is the MAJOR problem that Bradley and I have in our relationship: he has not watched many episodes of the show. So, anytime I reference it (which is quite often) he usually doesn't pick up on it and then I proceed to get mad at him for not taking an interest in the things that make me happy. (Shit, I watch his soccer ALL THE TIME! Is it so hard to watch 10 seasons of the greatest sitcom ever enough times that you can then quote and reference it at a moment's notice.... I think not?!)

Anyways, him not catching my reference is not what lead to the fight and almost break up (although it didn't help).  What escalated things so quickly is the fact that Brad proceeded to call the show 'dated' (He said Seinfeld was dated, too - but that argument will have to wait for another post) .....

WHOA.

WHOA.

WHOA.

Hold the phone......

Dated?! Are you kidding me?! FRIENDS IS TIMELESS!

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Their pain in my pain.  Their success is my success. Their humor is classic. I refer to Chandler, Pheebs, and the rest of the gang like I am one of the besties.  That I sit at the coffee shop everyday with them. If Bradley cannot accept my Friends and share my love for them, then I don't know if he and I can continue this thing we call a relationship for much longer. end.of.story.

Besides, I share some of the same OCD traits as Monica and I have always had an extra special love for Chandler - maybe I'll date him instead.  At least he is actually funny cough, cough, Brad.


I mean how is this dated?!

Or this:

Answer: THEY'RE NOT!


Bradley, if you're reading this... you have some making up to do.  Starting with Season 1 - Episode 1.


Cheers!

<3 BB