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Letter To Barbara Walters

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I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, well, since TB and I had our first discussion about it. Being someone who is at home or at the gym in the morning, I have on occasion taken in episodes of The View. It was that train wreck phenomenon, I knew I shouldn’t but was inexplicably drawn to the nonsense. I never loved Rosie O’Donnell- on her own show, liking Tom Cruise, being gay, being loud. And she’s leaving. Then, that little spunky Elizabeth Hasselbeck is soon going on maternity leave. Did you know she did Survivor?

Anyway, who does that leave Barbara with? Joy Behar. David Letterman can tell you what that’s going to be like:

I thought that was pretty funny. Well, I just wanted to announce to Barbara that I’ll go if they do national tryouts…otherwise I’m suggesting Victoria Beckham and Whoopi Goldberg. 😉

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The New SAM

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Our adventures today began with me getting the most super fabulous hairdo of my life at the Quint Eby Salon. You should come visit me just for that. With that asset, we are headed down to the new Seattle Art Museum, which opens with a 35 hour marathon of exploring.

Can’t Wait!!!

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New Adventures

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These pictures are all at the Seattle Art Museum Olympia Sculpture Park, 9 acres by the water of running trails and crazy art that we explored today.

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Then we went to the Hiram Chittenden Locks and Botanical Gardens. Watching the locks in action was amazing. The boat by itself is in the small lock, which puts a boat through in 8 minutes. In the large lock, they cramp all the boats in at once and get them through. You can walk all around the water, stand on the locks, and there’s even a salmon run there to see too.
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More oysters!

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For those of you curious, it’s only really rained one day since we’ve gotten here, and that was yesterday. It was wet for about two hours then cleared up. We were actually able to go out and made some new friends that we’re looking forward to exploring the city with.

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Per Request

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Here is the giant post of the most recent adventures in pictures. I’m most excited today because we went to the Downtown Seattle Library today and took a tour. I got a library card, something I don’t think I’ve had since I was in middle school. It was a riot. It’s a beautiful place:

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I’m pretty excited about spending some time there.

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That’s Qwest and Safeco from Highway 99 into town

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That’s Safeco inside, you can see we spared no expense on seats. The guys that were raking dropped them and did a hilarious dance. I got the pic of the big screen right when the Red Sox ad popped up, woohoo. The guys were old(!) and it was adorable. It was a pretty good crowd and the Mariners also beat the Royals, yay!

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This is Alki Beach, west of the city, with a great view.

Here are two very different types of fish at the Pike’s Market Anniversary Celebration:

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And last but not least, how about every state border we crossed:

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Human Giant

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When I’m not out exploring the city, I’m inside cursing Comcast cable and it’s strange organization of television channels. Oh, and having to wait until 11 to watch primetime TV sucks, too. One plus, however, is that I have MTV2. What on the earth do I want that for? Well, Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, and Paul Scheer have a new show called Human Giant that is seriously the best. sketch. comedy. ever. I couldn’t stop cracking up, and have found little skits on youtube and myspace and watched every episode I could. Aziz hosted two of the SXSW shows we were at and I couldn’t really hear all his jokes, but I’m looking forward to seeing him again at Sasquatch.

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April Tally

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Moving made everything crazy. It’s so frustrating, when you don’t want to make excuses, but being in a car for a week made jogging a little impossible. There’s no excuse for the rest of the days I took off. It was hard to get back into the swing of things this week, it’s amazing to see how much momentum you lose by taking a little time off!

Final count on the Calendar of Progress:

  1. The letter W (for weights) appeared a total of 7 times.
  2. The letter C (for cardio) appeared a total of 14 times.
  3. The letter D (for drinking) appeared a total of 5-ish times.

Hopefully now I’ll be running out of doors, and drag MK along. This should be a good month. I keep threatening to try and get a trainer job at a gym just to keep getting in better shape.

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I found a blog that has some info and honestly made me laugh: 3FatChicks.

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Why I Blog

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This is another meme, this time from snippy…

I started my blog because she did. I saw hers and liked what I saw, what it was all about. Santi, too. I thought it’d be a fun hobby, a way to chronicle my book writing, and I even gave my mom the link, so it turned in to a way to let my family and friends know what I was up to. I have more readers and subscribers than I ever imagined, and really try to provide fun content. Not working gives me the time, and all the fun adventures I’ve had, New Zealand and SXSW and others, have made this little site a great spot for memories.

It has turned into something so much bigger, a platform to analyze my feelings, learn what others feel about issues, and a dashboard to all the other bloggers that I can see and learn from. It’s a whole new community for me that I’ve loved learning about.


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I’ll just tag santi, iced mocha, and blindeh on this one!

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Blog Day Of Silence

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Tomorrow is a Blog Day of Silence, I’ve seen on a couple sites and decided to join them tomorrow, April 30th, 2007, and this blog will be silent. It may seem silly and insignificant, but these people are creating awareness.

I enjoy this perspective: Silence is a Memoriam, Not a Reason to Stop Blogging.

From Lorelle:

My blog is silent tomorrow as a tribute and memorial, not because I have nothing to say. Trust me, I have plenty to say on the issue. I will use my mouth, not my fingers, tomorrow to speak out on the issue. I will spend time with my family and friends and listen to their feelings on the issue, many who have also been victims of violence. I give my time to them in honor of this day, when thousands on the web will also be honoring the death and victimization of so many for no good reason.

Thank you. Thank you for listening. Thank you for participating. And even if you don’t, thank you for speaking out. The issue of this Blog Day of Silence has generated more talk about violence and human rights than most news reports. We need to keep talking. We must keep talking. If we are talking about it, hopefully we’ll be too busy to be hurting each other.

 

 

 

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Gotta Get Goals

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This meme comes from my friend blindeh, and the rules can be found at AlexShalman.com

They aren’t exactly over the top or unique, and I’m good with 5 for now, rather than 10. I’m a simple kind of gal.

  1. Publish my book. I have walked away from this beast twice now. It was one thing to write, and completely another to try to edit. I don’t want to give up, I think it has a chance, and I know I can make y’all buy copies, if only out of sheer curiosity. I want to compete in Nano again this November, so I want to set the goal here and now to have it edited by then. I’m in a new city with very little to distract me, so I feel like now is the time to make more time and less excuses.
  2. External ReConstruction. I have been working out and working on this little body seriously since January. I’ve seen results and want that to continue. It may not increase my life span, or improve my attitude, but I’ve thoroughly enjoyed this change in my life and know it’s a positive one. I want every morning to be waking up in my best shape yet. It takes determination and perseverance to not make excuses, and has challenged me mentally as well and physically.
  3. Internal ReConstruction. Along with my body needing work, I realized my mind and heart do too. Everyone always gets hokey on this one, but I’m very simply just trying to be a better person. I always thought I knew who I was and what I was going to be since I was old enough to walk. I’m realizing a little introspection and effort is worth it. Enough said.
  4. Travel all the continents and states. I’m doing pretty good on this one. I have been so blessed to see so much, and know without a doubt you extend your horizons through new cultures and new places. I want that to continue, to share that with my husband, and eventually our family.
  5. Find a home. Ideally, I would be closest the people that mean the most to me: my parents, (only!) cousin, my brother-in-law, and even T and BB. Where we will end up is so up in the air, and I’d like to have a stronger sense of my future and where it will be.

I’m supposed to tell people to do this, too: how about snippy, misadventures, and simply missional. I would tag TB, but she still doesn’t have her own blog…


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