Postcards To Home ♥

Thanksgiving was fun. We saw the Tenacious D movie then went to 13 Coins for dinner. I had the special Turkey Dinner and Leanne ate an omelette since she's vegetarian. We then went back to her apartment and watched a season of Sex in the City that I hadn't seen yet. After two bottles of wine, a season of SITC and Greys Anatomy, I retreated home to my place and crashed! I overslep this morning to see my car get slapped with a $35 parking ticket. Oh well. I don't pay for parking since I get home after 6 everyday, so a $35 charge once in a blue moon compared to $150 a monthly parking in a garage is not too bad when I luck out with parking most the time. Tonight I'm heading to the Tractor Tavern with friends. Great friends, great bar. I love this city. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone

A short week but a crazy one. I had maps to work on. (as some know is a responsibility of mine at my job) One after another things were screwed up and not going as smoothly as previous rounds. Late nights and long hours staring at maps. But its all better now because the issues were fixed, I got what I needed to get done, and was out of there to begin the thanksgiving holiday. Since I have some time to kill before my physical therapy appointment on mercer island, I met up with a few co-workers for some drinks near work. I was going to go out tonight but after eating dinner I decided to have another low-key night. I watched a little of the Madonna concert on TV. Something is wrong with this world when you have Madonna on primetime tv with her dancers in dominatrix gear. I always liked Madonna but since when is she suitable for primetime television? As she wore the thorns on her head, singing "Live to Tell" and photos of children in Africa were flashing on the screen I decided

Tonight I chose to lay low. I ventured downstairs from apartment to El Portal, the restaurant on the 1st floor of my building. I had their yummy Chicken Tortilla Soup @ the bar while watching the Sonics vs Utah game. I chatted with Joe, the owner and the other patrons at the bar. After my delicious dinner, I am now over at Uptown Espresso typing away. Surprising there is only 7 people in here tonight. That is a slow night for Uptown. The barrista has great music playing that I swear he hacked into my music collection. I'm going to go home and watch "who killed the electric car" and take it easy this weekend.

Tonight Leanne and I got together for our 1st night of CHCU. CHICKS HELP CHICKS UNIVERSITY ha ha The plan: She wants to get more into page layout design and build her portfolio....I can help her. I want to produce my website and need some motivation, dedication and help with some technical stuff... which she can help me with. Plus the time we set aside, will help me make time for my self-promotional stuff such as a website since I always put my clients first and never get around to my personal projects. Well our first night, we watched the office and greys anatomy. However afterwards, we procrastinated on the work and showed eachother funny stuff on the web like the Fruitcake Lady (go to NBC and look her up! They removed the best footage from youtube.com) Even though we did not work, we had fun.

Darbs and I got 3rd row seats to the Sonics vs Sixers . It was amazing! We were so close that we could see A.I. 's tattoos! Luke Ridnour was on fire once again! However he was still not as skillful as Iverson . I was routing for the Sixers but caught myself accidently cheering for the Sonics at several points during the game. (Its tricky rooting for the hometeam most the time and then that one night Sixers comes to town..its confusing!) I love going to basketball games. No offense to Philly, but Sonics have a better mascot . Its a Sasquatch in a b-ball uniform so it looks like Michael J. Fox in TeenWolf !

Last weekend I had quick jump across the country to Boston for Carrie & Michael's wedding. I left early friday morning in the dark rain, making it to Boston by 5pm. Boston was warm and sunny! I rented a car and headed to Southie. Carrie and Michael's place is cute and in a great location. Only two blocks from the beach. We all realized none of us have had a simple night just sitting on the sofa so thats what we did. It was great to just relax with good company. Carrie's cousin Steph and I were entertained by watching Carrie and Michael work on the seating chart for the wedding. Carrie wanted to done and Michael wanted to make sure each table of people got along and would blend well together. Both had good reasonings but it was funny to watch them work it out. Oldy enough, the majority of guest stayed up at the bar all night! ha ha Saturday morning I drove to New Hampshire to see Jenna & Marissa at her friend Lindsay's house. Marissa is ADORABLE! I have NEVER h

US @ Chateau Ste. Michelle Originally uploaded by aimeehossler . My folks came to Seattle to visit me. Even though it rained THE ENTIRE TIME THEY WERE HERE, we had fun and did a lot of cool things. - Saw the BODIES exhibit which was interesting. - Saw Little Miss Sunshine (2nd time for me) - Saw a Supersonics basketball game against the LA Clippers (evil Coby Bryant) - Went to Chateau Ste. Michelle & Columbia Wineries. - Ate at Two Bells Tavern, Cheesecake Factory, Jak's, Paddy Coynes, and Murphy's. It was a great time. Now I'm off to Boston. I should have been asleep HOURS ago. Click on the winery image to see more photos!