Postcards To Home ♥

1st night cooking with the produce from the Farmshare. Doesn't the assortment look great? I boiled potatoes and to my surprise, some had purple on the inside. I had to call Andy to figure out if they were actually potatoes. Looks like Andy, my produce-loving-friend will be getting weekly calls from me wondering what things are and what's the best way to prepare them. Tonight I had a yummy dinner with purple potatoes.

Today has been an interesting day. 1. I won a new office chair. 2. My 1st week of Farm-Share produce came in. Kenta and I share the weekly batches and we could not figure out what the one vegetable was. Oh its Kohlrabi, a cabbage. I let Kenta take that home. Tonight I will attempt to prepare radishes for dinner. 3. I just won 2-tickets to D. Lynch’s film Eraserhead from the local newspaper. 4. Today was "Shiny Shoe Wednesday" where Lara suggested we all wear our shiny shoes. I wore mine yesterday so I wore my fun heels instead.

Record player Originally uploaded by ::: a i m e e ::: As I write this, I am watching the famous shower scene from Psycho. AMC is having a marathon of Hitchcock flicks. Why a marathon on thanksgiving? Weird eh? This year I wanted to volunteer for Thanksgiving but most places wanted more of a commitment than just the one day. So I scrapped the idea, at least for this year. As most of you know, I took the train down to Portland. To my surprise as I sat on the train reading the Great Gadsby, my Aquent agent who got me the position at T-Mobile was sitting in my train cabin, just 2 seats away. Crazy coincidence: her last name is Gadsby. How weird is that! So we chatted for a while and then I slept. My hotel is A M A Z I N G! Simple yet eclectic with sooooo much personality! The lobby and business area resemble a library with card catalogs and cozy places to sit. My room has a turntable and records. Its huge! I reserved a smaller room that you use a "shared" shower down the h

I got a mystery package today. The note had an image of Lake Union and said something along the lines that Lake Union is giving me my phone back because it wants an iPhone instead. In the package was a T-Mobile Dash. (obviously not the dead one at the bottom of the lake.) Yayyyy!!!! I loved my Dash device and now I don't have to wait until the Spring for a new phone. Things happen in life that we cannot control, but we can control how we treat people. We should be thankful for the little things people do to make us happy and try to do the same for others. Make someone else's life a little easier or more enjoyable no matter how little the act is. Life is too short to hold on to anger and sadness. Life is too short to not live life to its fullest. I may not be happy with how my frienship unraveled with Wayne, but I am thankful he is looking out for me. I appreciate him making the effort to get me the phone. Well its almost midnite and I need to refigerate the Greenbean Casserole

WhirleyBall Originally uploaded by ::: a i m e e ::: Game: Whirly B all Location: Edmonds, WA Reason: Tanya's Birthday. We had 30 people to rotate in the 10-person game. You are in bumber cars and need to toss a wiffle ball to your team mates with a scooper in hopes to get it in your team's basket. It was so funny to go after a ball when your car is going so slow or when you had to "chase" after someone. It was like being a bunch of seniors in motorized wheels chairs, only slower! There were a lot of laughs! My team rocked!!!! Good times!!! To See videos go here : www.youtube.com/aimeehossler

I like my new shirt. I first saw the shirt on etsy.com that is designed by a local t-shirt company called Partybot but bought it at a local shop.

We have a green team at work who look into ways we can be "greener" at the office and outside the office. Lara looked into "Community Supportive Agriculture." It is a relationship between a farmer and local members who want to support that farmer in his agricultural efforts. If you are part of this type of program, you become a member of the farm by paying for a season's share. I don't know about you but I have bought some "fresh" produce, such as a pint of strawberries and can taste that somethings not right. So it makes you wonder where some of this stuff is coming from and how are they being produced. When I was a kid, I do not recall strawberries being as big as the ones you'll see in a foodstore. Some farmers use hormones to increase the size of their produce...the bigger means more profit which is not only wrong, its not good for us! If you are part of the farm share, you get a weekly box of seasonal, organic, fresh produce. Based on Lara

I'm meeting up with a fellow ESU Media Communications Alumnae Nathan who lives out here to check out a bunch of art tonight and possibly get some NY style pizza at Piecoras. A bunch of businesses stay open to the public one night per month for their neighborhood art walks. Tonight Capitol Hill has their's. Weather was nice today so I hope it holds up. Should be fun.

A stop action would be a fun project with Jake and Marissa when I come home for the holidays. Let me know if you have any ideas.

Yes, its true. I broke up with French Fries. Since I was little, french fries were my weakness, my favorite food. As a child until my late twenties, I had fries at least once a week. Things have changed, me and fries...we grew apart. In the last few weeks I noticed I feel LIKE crap after eating french fries! Since I have moved out west, fast food is not as accessible. Sure its here, but not on every corner or in every shopping area.I'll have fries occasionally but since its not in my face, I choose other things. Today a few friends from work and I went to Ivars, the popular Seafood staple across the street from our office. I had fries with my meal. I FELT LIKE CRAP afterwards! When I have fast food or french fries now...I can REALLY feel the difference in my body. Walking home from work on days where I ate crap...my walk feels heavier and I have less energy. Today I felt really lazy walking home. So sorry fries but the close relationship we had is over. I prefer to have a fresh, he

Jenna and Marissa Originally uploaded by ::: a i m e e ::: I'm so proud of my sister and her amazing skills of being a relaxed mom of two little ones. She started a blog for moms to help other moms. If you know new parents pass along this link: http://mommachurch.blogspot.com/ Ever since we were young, my sister has been passionate about kids. She worked in daycare for 8 years as a teacher and director before having my niece and nephew. She’s now a stay at home mom and thought it would be cool to share her experiences and have a place online where she and other parents can give each other advice or share interesting stories. Enjoy! P.s. “Momma Church” – Her last name is Churchray... no religion ties what-so-ever

WONGDOODY had their Halloween party yesterday. Good times even though I had to be back at my desk working on a firedrill project by the time they announced the costume winners. We started playing Guitar Hero 3 this week, but its starting off as a WONGDOODY tournament. Monkey, my 1st competitor gave up half way through the song because I ROCK :) but Carmine kicked my ass in the second round. I still have a chance at the "performance" competition where we show off our Guitar Hero rock-out styles. Click here to see more Halloween photos.