Sweet on Seattle - Sept. 19th, 2009

I had a simply fabulous day today. Who wouldn't when you are having a day of fun in Seattle? Tasha and I had tickets to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs in IMAX 3-D and decided to make a whole day of it. The first thing we did was go eat at this simply smashing Asian restaurant called Szechuan Noodle Bowl. Tasha had been here before with her sister, but it was my first time ever going and it was marvelous. I had shredded chicken noodle with soup, and it was heavenly. We also ordered green onion pancakes which I have to say is one of the best things I have ever eaten in my life. I will definitely be going back. Then we headed over to a cute cupcake place called Cupcake Royale. I got a lemondrop cupcake which was scrumptious and then got a small cupcake (they call them babycakes) in the huckleberry flavor :) Her sister worked right down the street so we stopped in for awhile to visit before the movie. Then for the centerpiece of the whole day, the movie. Let me just say that this is the first time I have ever seen a 3-D movie at the IMAX and I was blown away! Everything was in 3-D, not just a few little things here and there, no it was everything! The movie was pretty spectacular too. Such a lovely day.

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Crazy Cake Sept. 17th, 2009

Really the only thing I did was bake this cake. My mom has been on my case for literally 2 weeks wanting me to bake her a cake. I finally gave in and baked her one. It's pretty plain, yellow cake, with raspberry creme filling and cream cheese frosting. It is delish though! After baking it I definitely went to the gym though :)

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Voracious Vocals - Sept. 16th, 2009

So today was a pretty average day. Except I did go with Tasha to TCC to pick up some of our books for classes which start in like 11 days!!!! We also went to this amazing new cupcake place in Proctor called Sweet Things. They have some amazing cupcakes. I tried the Chocolate Mint and Vanilla Raspberry. They were simply divine. Then I had vocal lessons which are always amazing. They are getting really difficult. I'm working on hitting a G above the staff. I've hit it tons of times, but I always get so nervous going for it. It's hard for me to just let everything go and do it. I hate being so shy. If I ever want to be in a show I have to get more confidence. Oh well...until next time I guess.

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Jazzy Japanese Sept. 15th 2009

My friend Mari just got back from Japan and is leaving soon for Western Washington University, so we really had to hangout. She bought me a whole bunch of stuff from Japan(I gave her some money lol) and I was super excited to see what she got me!!! She got me the cups(shown in pic) some chopsticks, notebooks, stationary, yummy snacks, awesome pens, awesome smelly erasers, and earphones for my ipod that allows it to hang around my neck for the gym!! :) Our fun started at best buy looking for awesome DS games. I got Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box. Let me just say, this game is hard. Some of the puzzles they say are easy, aren't and vice versa, crazy. Mari got a really cute DS carrying case that looks like a little purse, super cute. Then we went to boarders to look for books. I didn't get anything there but she got some cool boxes for jewelry, a manga, and a really small alarm clock the size of a box of matches, super tight. Then we just went to jamba juice, got some yummy smoothies and looked at all her pictures from Japan. Unfortunately 50 pictures from the end her camera died :( so I didn't get to see them all. Sad. She leaves so soon for college, so it was really nice to see her before she left.

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Brilliant Bowlers Sept. 14th, 2009

Who knew the after posting my previous entry, I would do something awesome my very next day! My friend Tasha and I haven't seen each other for a few days and were really stumped as to what we could do to have fun in Tacoma. Eventually though she had the amazing idea to go to Tower Lanes and play mini golf and go bowling. It was perfect. She whooped me 50 strokes to 71 strokes at mini golf. It was so much fun. Then bowling came along and that is definitely my territory since I've only bowled since I was 5. I bowled a 155 and then a 178, best I've bowled in awhile since I've stopped doing league bowling. So by the end we both had fun and had an exciting time. If only there were more fun things to do in Tacoma we wouldn't have to wrack our brains thinking of things to do. Oh well, Tacoma is Tacoma.

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Delicious Delights September 13th

I know, I didn't post anything yesterday. I'm starting to rethink this blog. I hate the days that I've just sat around my house doing nothing and then have to blog about it. I got so inspired by the people on youtube that I follow watching their everyday vlogs. I figured they make a video everyday, it shouldn't be hard for me to take a picture and type everyday. I'm starting to realize that my theory is dead wrong. I think I'm going to change the whole purpose of this blog. I will continue to take pictures, but it isn't going to be everyday anymore. I don't want this to be a boring blog, and I feel that it has become just that. I want to be able to look back on this blog and feel like I accomplished something with it, even if no one else is reading it. From now on, I'm only picture blog on the days I actually do something worth blogging about, or am overly excited about something. I also want to be able to come to this blog to rant about things that are bugging me in my life. Even if this revelation relaxes me, I feel like I am failing myself for not sticking to the original purpose of this blog. In the end life is all about compromise I guess.

So, the reason that there is a picture of a fork is that, well, that's exactly what was in my hand all day. I ate so much. I woke up and ate lunch a combo of hummus and pita chips, and yummy pasta salad, way to much of both. I also had some chips and salsa and then had more pasta salad and a turkey breast for dinner. Way to much food. Going to the gym tomorrow for sure.

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Perfect Party Sept. 11th, 2009

Yay today my friend Aimee had a housewarming party for the new apartment she moved into. This picture isn't from it, but I can't really find a good one from that night. It was super fun, lots of drinking and good things like that. I got to play two new really awesome board games. One was called Small World and it was a mix between Dungeons and Dragons and Risk. It happened to be pretty fun. The other one was Rorschach. It was a game with inkblots. It it would ask questions like which one is more exciting and you wanted to try to pick the same one as someone else. Awesome party game. At about 4 in the morning though I had to drive my friend to the emergency room because he had a really fast heartbeat and chest pressure. They didn't take him seriously because of the drinking, even though he has a pretty extensive medical history, it was B.S. All in all it was a good night though.

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