I’m alive! It has been so embarrassingly long since I have blogged that I had to google “wordpress login” to figure out how to sign into this thing. So, now that it’s late July, I figured I’d play mega catch up and update you on everything that happened this spring (partly for the benefit of…
winter.
It’s been a long winter, folks. You may have noticed that I haven’t hit the ol’ blog since December, which is sad and embarrassing, but also a testament to how insane these past few months have been. Between entering the hardest quarter of grad school so far, going gluten-free for the months of January and…
catching up on the rest of the summer.
This summer has come and gone in the flashiest of a flash. We kept ourselves pretty busy, and almost nothing made it to the blog (hey, grad school time constraints). So here’s a little rundown of everything I missed.
grad school: one term down.
In case you’ve wondered why it’s just been crickets around the ol’ blog for the past few months, it’s because I’ve spent the past 8 weeks in my first quarter of grad school! I’m in a one-year Nutrition Masters program at NUNM, a naturopathic medical school in Portland. The summer term is the “fun term,” so…
fun things for your wednesday.
Because it’s Wednesday and everyone can use a mid-week pick-me-up:
this season in portland.
So…it appears I kind of dropped the ball on this whole blogging thing. I started taking 17 hours of prerequisite classes for grad school (including two science labs) in January, which proved to require a lot of time and attention, leaving little extra room for blogging (but plenty of time to watch 3 seasons of…
catching up.
Well, there’s no better time to usher in a new year than January 31, right?
a year in Portland.
According to my Timehop (that fun time capsule of embarrassment), it’s been a little over a year since we moved to the big city, which means that one year ago, I was staring down this scene: In the past year, we’ve rearranged the apartment at least 3 times (you can see what it once looked…
five years.
It’s been 5 years, 4 apartments, 3 cities, 2 states, and 1 broken bone since we got married. (For those of you wondering why Eric is sporting such a stylish sling in these photos, it’s because he broke his collarbone last weekend. Yikes, indeed.) We celebrated our fifth anniversary over the weekend with a picnic…
on food and community.
There’s a reason why people gather around the table. I’ve been reflecting on this idea a lot over the past few months, especially after reading Shauna Niequist’s “Bread and Wine,” which is a book that moved me to laughter and tears and intense hunger for curry and wine. If your soul sings for God, food,…
life in the commune.
We moved out of our Eugene apartment at the end of August, packed almost everything into a storage unit (I played no part in the actual manual labor, thanks to my awesome husband who thought hiring movers would be the most excellent thing in the world, which it totally was), and moved ourselves and our…
lately.
August was a busy month. Eric started his big-boy-masters-degree-required job in Portland. I stayed in Eugene and wrapped up my nannying job, while packing up our apartment for our big, never-ending move. And I spent as much time as possible soaking up the glorious running and biking trails in Eugene. Eric came home on the…
the next big thing.
I figured it’s about time for a little life update. We’re moving to Portland! This may not seem like big news to most of you. Eric mentioned recently that most folks probably think we live in Portland anyway, since there aren’t many well-known cities in Oregon. But the move from Eugene to Portland is a…
a few spring happenings.
It’s been a beautiful Spring here in Eugene. We’ve had plenty of showers, which have led to gorgeous blooming flowers and delightful aromas on my morning jogs. And we’ve been blessed with an equal amount of serious sunshine and warmth (it got up to 88 degrees last week!). Unfortunately, we haven’t been out and about…
notes from the snow.
Okay, I’m obsessed with this snow. Partly because they don’t plow the roads around here, so everything remains just as snowy today as it did on Friday. And partly because Eugene didn’t get any snow last year, so we’ve really missed it. Eric insisted we leave the house by car, so we drove to a…