Sprizee :: A simple girl replete with complications

A heavy dusting of powered sugar over nearly every flat surface.

It took me 3 months but I finally wrote a little bit more about my trip to New Orleans back in March. Cafe Du Monde to be specific. I'm telling you, that town is magical. I found a place in Seattle last week that had beignets on the menu. They were good, but no comparison. None.

This month being June I'm really into...

...Altrooist (seriously, go check it out!), cotton skirts and flip flops, striped navy and white t-shirts, picnics in the park, meeting friends for lunch, noisy house remodeling, being without electricity or running water, visiting downtown Seattle constantly, volunteering with NW Harvest, seeing lots of SIFF movies, being picky about the next place I work,and my new (old) vintage cherry red bicycle with a basket in the front, white walled tires and a chain guard so all those cottons skirts I've been wearing don't get caught in the gears while peddling away.

Life is what happens when you're making other plans.

I have this tendency to jot down random notes on random scraps of paper. Yesterday I found these. Today I found this. 

Me:  That much cheese as a main dish is not healthy.

Lunch Buddy: There's no meat.

Me: And that makes it healthy?

Lunch Buddy: Yeah.

Me: Chocolate Cake?

Lunch Buddy:  Healthy.  

Me: Twinkies?  

Lunch Buddy:  Healthy.

[pause]

Me: Works for me.

I still totally remember this conversation. Pretty sure I'm the only one that finds it funny.  Too bad. This isn't your blog. By the way, he no longer works here either. He left a few years back. That's how that works. Yay for the next thing. Seriously can't wait.

I also found a document titled Coping Strategies with the following items listed:

• Chocolate
• Running
• Mac N Cheese
• Chats with Misty 

That's a keeper, for sure.

Dreamy wild flower. Not noxious weed.

Totally besotted with this milk weed skirt. Can I have it? Pretty please? It's not even for sale. Which is really too bad because I would totally buy it. Except, no I wouldn't. Want to know why? Because last week I GOT LAID OFF after nearly 6 years of working there. It's a long story but basically RECESSION ON meant drastic cuts at my office.

So I've taken a vow not to buy a single thing until I secure a steady paycheck once again. I'll miss all my former coworkers, but honestly I can't say I'm sad to go. I'm actually really excited for the next thing. Plus, Seattle's having some amazing weather so now seems like a pretty rad time to be unemployeed. And also, can I have that skirt? No, seriously. Gimme.

Vancouver is for victors.

M is for Moda., originally uploaded by sprizee.

Last Saturday me along with 5 lovely friends headed up to Vancouver, BC to cheer on 4 other lovely friends as they competed in the Vancouver Half Marathon. But before that we ate. And after that we ate. And drank. And ate some more. And there was karaoke in there somewhere too. And shopping. And walking, lots of walking all over town. Ah, good times.

New Michael Sera documentary...or movie?

I can't tell if Paper Heart is just a movie made to look like a documentary or an actual documentary? Either way, it looks cute. Of course, like everything else on my blog these days TBTL is involved. I emailed them last week and suggested that perhaps TBTL is Mystery Solvers could solve this mystery for me. They just emailed me back saying they were "on it" and had already requested interviews. Now, I'm not sure if that means they were already on it before I piped up, or if they're on it because I piped up. Either way, rad.

P.S. Fun factoid: All of the music featured in the Paper Heart trailer was composed by Michael Cera and Charlyne Yi. How do I know this? Twitter, of course.

WWKD?

Snacks for TBTL!, originally uploaded by sprizee.

I was on TBTL again last night. This time representing my Kateness and opening up my shame-ber. What's a shame-ber? This. Mine happens to involve a tent, makeup and misrepresenting myself via Flickr. I'd remove the tag now, but I feel like that would make me more of lying liar then I already am. What's that? You don't know what the hell I'm talking about? Oh, right.