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Domestication

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I am officially a lame old person. Here is how I spent my weekend.

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I finally got the plant hanger things I wanted and put them up on my patio.

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I planted petunias at the base of this weird shrub thing in  my backyard.

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And begonias next to one of my pine trees.

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I took the weird shelf thing from my front porch and turned it into a decorative cage for my beans to grow up.

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I took the plastic off my tomatoes since it was almost 100 degrees.

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I made my front porch “more inviting.”

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I got way too excited because the columbines i planted last year are blooming.

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Same with this azealea. It didn’t bloom last year but a little fertilzer and look at it go!

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I am really excited about the improved curb appeal of my house over all.

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Oh yeah, and my new stacked washer and dryer!

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And who could forget my adorable cats! They wanted out.

Oh yeah, and I also did some work. A post about the Bonfire party on Future and of course some updates to Alliancewakeskate.com. Big weekend.

Summer rules

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I love it when I come home to Portland just in time for good weather. It doesn’t always work out, and more often than not I miss the brief sunny streaks in the winter. But now we are getting into the time of year when it’s nice all the time, and hopefully this is the official kickoff. I was telling Corey from Alliance about the warm temps and he asked if the newspaper was covering how the polar bears at the zoo were handling it. I laughed and didn’t think anything of it, but this morning here was the headline:

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Last night Sherowski had a little BBQ. It turned into a ladies skate sesh on the mini mini but I am really mentioning it because I told Jesse Huffman, who was visiting from New York I would blog about seeing him. I like Jesse, Portland needs him back.

Oh yeah, and I got my own thread on the wakeskate message boards! Since usually threads about me are devoted to what a hack I am, this is a nice change, although it will probably take a turn for the worse at some point.

Dude Barn part-tay

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The other night I went to my first dude barn party. Due to my hectic schedule (and general lameness) I missed all the prior festivities so this one had a lot to live up to. Rumor was these parties got out of hand — cake in the ceiling fan, burning shoes and other debauchery. I even secured myself a designated driver in the hopes of getting “sketchy.”

I’ll be honest. This Dude Barn fiasco was a little on the lame side. Granted I left at 11:30, but the promised rap act did not perform and instead there was a DJ. (And no one comes to a dude barn party to dance. ) The party started out with a bunch of dudes ripping the mini, and everyone standing around watching until that got shut down. I blame my latest squatter Nate for the fact that I was drinking Budweiser. But because I always think things are lame, I asked a few other people to make sure I wasn’t being unnecessarily salty. They agreed.  Honestly, I wasn’t even going to blog about it but George totally challenged me and here it is.

Now the dude barn dudes will probably hate me and I will lose skating priviledges. I will be 86′ed forever. So I am going to conclude this by saying that it was clearly a fluke thing and the next party will be epic! Either that or this was typical and everyone has been lying to me all along. Damn, there I go being salty again.

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I totally sponsor Ben.

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I was having trouble getting the timing right with my point and shoot, but i totally nailed the drop in!

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Designated drivers.

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It’s snowing!

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Across the street from my office there are a row of flowering trees. I think cherry, but I am not sure. Anyway, yesterday the wind was blowing just enough to scatter them all over the street, which made it look like snow, but pink. It was amazing.

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I entertained myself by exclaiming “it’s snowing” every time I went downstairs, which didn’t seem quite as hilarious to Aaron, the vegan bakery employee who was hard at work. Also, I made sure to get this shot below which NO ONE ELSE thought to do. So creative.

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Blogging the shit out of things

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I’ve taken to saying “I am going to blog this shit out of this” no matter what I am doing, because for some reason I now have like 15 blogs on different subjects going. There’s this one, of course, and then Alliancewakeskate.com, Futuresnowboarding.com and Yobeat (which let’s be honest, probably isn’t getting updated anytime soon.)

All this blogging makes me tired, although I do enjoy that I get to tell everyone my thoughts and sometimes I get paid for it. I just posted my first snowboard-related story in a few weeks on Future. Actually, yesterday I took Jared riding for the first time this season. The snow was sticky and we didn’t make it off the advanced bunny slope, but it was sort of fun. We had fun taking pictures of each other “getting some” and here’s the one I got of him.

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Mostly my time has been spent on Alliancewakeskate.com. It’s worth it though, all 30 people who wakeskate seem really psyched on the site. I kid, I kid. There are at least 50 people who wakeskate.

There have been several things I meant to blog the shit out of recently, but haven’t, such as the wierd Last Thursday artshow I went to. I heard it described as “a field of psuedo hipsters in a sea of bad art” but Lovejoy’s art was pretty cool. Here’s a picture of that so you can feel like you were there.

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And I also went to check out the new Atmosphere store, which I would expand upon but there’s a Future Blog in the works. I will give them the exclusive!

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Winter’s Over

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I think it’s official this time. Today it’s well over sixty degrees and sunny, and I finally got my studded tires removed. Actually, funny story. Since this was my first time having studded tires (and I have been called a pussy and informed I should “jet get all season tires”) I am not that well versed on the protocol. After my first treacherous drive to the mountain with them though, I was glad I dropped the money to get them. I even wrote a blog about that.

But now it’s April, and Portland has some silly law that you have to remove them by a certain date. That date, as it turns out, was April 5th. Now on April 5th  I was actually using my studs, driving up the mountain for Vegetate. So obviously I didn’t get them taken off. I had really good intentions to do it that Monday, but you know, I managed to forget.

I went a whole three days before getting pulled over for still having on my studs. Now as I was getting pulled over I really had no clue why. I’d grown very accustomed to the noise, and well, it seems the cops would have better things to do in Southeast Portland, like busting drunk drivers and breaking up meth houses. But no, he wanted to tell me that I was supposed to get my studs off THREE DAYS AGO! Everyone I mentioned it too said it that way, like three days was a really long time. Maybe it’s just cause I am getting older, but three days doesn’t even seem like enough time to do anything, so seriously, why the guilt trip?

Anyway, the cop let me go with a warning and I got the tires taken off the next day. My car is so much quieter now and hopefully I will get more miles out of my $4 a gallon gas. If nothing else, maybe I can get a tan cause it’s finally nice out.

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Super Sweet 27

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Yesterday was my 27th birthday. Even an old lady like me knows that if your birthday is on a Friday, you best be going out. So I did. While my vision was blurred, most of these pictures are out of focus because my camera was set on Macro for the past four days. Now that I am 27, I am old and wise enough to figure that out. Whatever, you get the idea.

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This was my very wonderful birthday cake. The witty slogan was courtesy of Jared, but the baking and icing was all Lisa.

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Derek took me to Sagittarius for dinner. This time I went with the deep-fried Garden Burger. Now how can you go wrong with that?

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We went to the East Burn, where you and nine friends can drink for free for an hour on your birthday. Of course, you have to plan ahead for that, but they did give us a free round. The Koerners stopped by on their way to some show.

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Derek was the best birthday motivator ever, and I am stoked Jen came, even though she bought me a gin and tonic and broke my no hard alcohol rule. I held it together though and everything turned out ok.

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Luckily I took a lot of extreme close ups, since I had that damn macro thing going on. Pat came, but hung out with his girlfriend the whole time.

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Ramon always manages to show up for my birthday. He was even there the year I did shots and ended up licking the wall at the Sandy Hut. Gross, i know.

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Here’s me and Derek. Look how much fun we are having!

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We migrated to Red Flag, where Jason was hard at work. Here he is making rice and beans. Good job.

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Drew came by when he finished work. Miraculously, I was still there! But don’t worry, I left pretty soon after.

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I think this picture of Pat really says it all!

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Done!

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3 days. Not too shabby.

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Day 2

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Just a photo and quick update on my yard project. Bribed some boys with beer and hot dogs to help me move the asphalt. Went to Home Depot and bought some plants. Set everything out how I want it. Today more digging, but it’s coming together.

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Under Construction

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If you’ve been reading this blog then you have probably deduced the things that I am interested in: cats, food and extreme sports. But there is one more great passion in my life, home improvement! It’s not just that I watch HGTV constantly, but since I got my house almost two years ago I have delighted in painting, digging, destroying and refurbishing things. While I have a very useful boyfriend who has done things like put in a sky light and wood floors, sometimes I just like to get my hands dirty myself. That, and my spazziness gets things done much more quickly than his need for perfection.

He left town yesterday, so I decided to go to town on the random strip of asphalt next to my drive way that has been bringing down my curb appeal since I moved in. I started out timidly poking at it and seeing how hard it would really be, and before long I was was going full force, smashing, ripping, pulling and tossing. The whole neighborhood got in on the act. Bob from across the street was offering up sledgehammers and other useful tools, and Robbie, the six year old from next door, was actually helping. What six year old wouldn’t want to destroy shit?

I had only intended to do part of it, but before i knew it all the asphalt sat it two not-so-neat piles at the end of my driveway. Today I am going to cart it away– I found a place that will take it for free, and then the space will become a lovely garden with a path using some flagstone Bob gave me. I don’t want to sound like a dork, but this stuff is way more fun than skateboarding.

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