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GELATO:: Perhaps you’ve heard, I kind of REALLY LIKE gelato. I once spent a few months in Chile and while I have many fond memories of my experiences there the best thing that happened to me while in Chile was the gelato.

This weekend, while watching the Olympic Gymnastics Trials, I may have eaten half a pint of gelato [major benefit of performing in a leotard no longer being part of my life].

All this to say, the brand and flavor of gelato pictured above is definitely worth trying. My friend, who is a kindergarten teacher, bought it for us to consume on recommendation from the mom’s of several of her students. Having tasted the stuff, let’s just say that as far as I’m concerned those kindergarten soccer moms are THE experts when it comes to choosing your gelato.

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LONDON 2012 :: Seriously, I could write incessantly about how much I love the Olympics. They start in 3 weeks and I can’t wait! Attending the Olympics in real life instead of via television is definitely on my bucket list – Rio 2016 perhaps?!

I watched part of the Women’s Gymnastics Olympic Trials this weekend and seriously, I know these five girls seem super young and in the video they are perhaps a bit overly emotional, but they are damn good – SO AMAZING. Just you wait, the team gold medal is theirs for the taking and I have my money on little Gabby Douglas to be the sweetheart of the Olympics. [Best part of this video – the fat white dude announcing the team – he is president of USA gymnastics which I’m not really surprised by, but still find kind of ironic.]

Olympics! :: http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/gymnastics/u-s-womens-gymnastics-team-unveiled.html

Today in Highlights and Lowlights

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Highlights:

1. Our copy editor at work, who endearingly told me I could call him “Homie” the first day I met him, bought me a cake pop as a gift and told me that I’m doing a really great job. Seriously, sweetest gesture! and THE highlight of my day.

2. This evening I sat on my porch in my rocking chair, ate dinner that included cantaloupe out of a ramekin, and read the Great Gatsby in the sunshine.

3. It’s light till 10:00 these days! So, I also had time to pick strawberries with my housemate and sit at Jefferson Park – eating strawberries and chatting about life’s complexities.

Lowlights:

1. While I feel much better than yesterday, I did have a throbbing headache the first 8 hours I was awake as well as several awkward spastic coughing fits mid-conversation with multiple different colleagues.

2.This is lame and I probably should not state it on the interweb, but it’s okay since only 3 people read this so called blog. I am pissed about a long silence in a string of text messages. Lame, I KNOW.

3. I am uber aware today(as has been the case in recent months) of how very undecided and uncertain so many big things in my life are(you know career, love, a place that is home). I am trying desperately to come to terms with this – as this is just how life is, but as a person who likes things decided the ambiguity, at times, unravels me.

GROWTH :: I may have had to rescue my tomato plant from the frigid June temperatures and bring it indoors so that it will survive the elements, but my chard and squash are thriving outdoors in their grand urban oasis. I planted them just a month ago and look at them! I am quite pleased with their progress. GROWTH, both of the physical, organic, and personal variety is a funny thing. Sometimes I hardly notice it. Sometimes it seems slow and painful. Sometimes it’s too fast. Sometimes its surprisingly painless and natural. Sometimes it makes me smile and other times it makes me sob. For the moment, I’m glad my swiss chard is making me smile [celebrate really] and I’m thankful my tomato plant’s near death hasn’t quite brought me to tears. As for life in general, I’m coming to terms with the extremes I seemingly notice and feel more deeply than many and for now am happy that my growing pains are more analogous to my chard than my tomatoes.

Favorite Slide :: These are some of my favorite kids sliding down my favorite slide in Seattle. Bet you didn’t know I had a favorite slide in this city. Apparently, it is MOST fun to slide down it backwards and lying down.

Gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover

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I have been failing at my post once a week resolution. Apologies to the one of you who I know checks in here regularly!

I’ve decided to re-read the Great Gatsby for the first time since high school. The inspiration came after going to dinner where live jazz music was playing and while I could remember very little about the plot of the Great Gatsby I momentarily felt like I was a character in that book – I think it was the music.

Anyways, I have yet to begin reading, I’ve only taken the book off the bookshelf and added it to the stack of half read books by my bed. This quote, however, prefaces the entire book:

“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;

If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,

Till she cry ‘Lover, gold hatted, high-bouncing lover,

I must have you!’ ”

-Thomas Parke D’Invilliers

Somehow, struck me as blogworthy.

“Life happens when you’re making plans.”

– Not sure who said this first, but someone said it to me this week.

Cake Pops :: Today I went to a photoshoot… for cake pops. Part of me scoffs and giggles and rolls my eyes at that sentence. This life I am living is certainly not anything quite like what Dhaka would have been. The other part of me loved the studio, its talented and artistic staff, its fancy wood floors and amazing natural light, and the free samples they gave me of a couple really cool food publications they’ve put together.

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This article is old, but I just happened upon it while searching for a bookstore in Seattle that sells the amazing(written in the 60’s)book, The Summfolk by local author Doris Burns. I want to gift it to a friend and am having a very hard time finding it! Anyways, given my commitment to posting and the fact that some day this year(I hope!) my book will be ready to sell I found this article interesting and I thought I’d share. You can ask my college roommate, I’ve always been amazed with Seattle’s public library system and am not surprised at all that this well-read brainiac city is setting trends for what the rest of the country reads.

Seattle, You Are A Little Trend Starter in Book Land :: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/business/09book.html?pagewanted=all