Obsessions

  • After moving back to the Seattle area last year, I decided I wanted to volunteer at Seattle Humane. I was fairly “broken and bruised” – literally and figuratively – after pursuing a music career in NYC for six years, and I had a gut feeling that focusing my energy on a greater cause would be…

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  • Well, fellow footy fans, France is your new 2018 FIFA World Cup champions! Congratulations to “les bleus” for winning what had to be the most underwhelming final match I’ve ever seen. And well done to Croatia for making it this far. Despite a rather anticlimactic finish, I have to say this year’s World Cup was…

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  • 18 For 2018

    HAPPY BELATED NEW YEAR, ALL! The fact that this blog post is so untimely is the perfect example of why I gave up New Year’s resolutions years ago – I can’t even make my lists on time, let alone complete everything on it within 365 days. That being said, as an avid listener to Happier…

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  • For whatever reason, I feel like more people have been bitching about the Christmas rush this year than usual. I totally understand that not everyone gets all “holly jolly” during this time of year for various reasons; but when those reasons include things like “not wanting to spend money” or “it’s so stressful finding the…

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  • I don’t remember the first time I read Running with Scissors. It was definitely within the last eight years, and I think I borrowed it from someone else. I forget. All I know is after I finished the book, Augusten Burroughs became one of my favorite authors, and I immediately purchased and read his follow…

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  • In case you haven’t figured it out, I love Christmas. I’m not like Molly Shannon’s character in The Santa Clause 2, but it’s definitely my favorite time of year. And, like many people, my favorite Christmas pastime is trimming the Christmas tree. As a tradition, my mom buys me a new ornament every year (sometimes,…

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  • Ever since I first watched my first episode of Seaquest at the age of seven and learned what marine biology was, I knew I wanted to be a marine biologist – or at least learn as much about the topic as I could in my spare time. Being born in Hawaii and growing up swimming…

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  • Color Away Your Stress

    Feeling exhausted after this week? Yeah, me too. So I’m gonna hold off on addressing the country’s events for now (but trust me, it’s coming) and just blog about something simple and random – coloring. I love to color. Maybe it’s because a big part of me is still 5 years-old, but I was super…

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  • Garb Day!

    HAPPY GARB DAY! If you have no idea what I’m talking about, I’m referring to my newest obsession involving the three most adorable triplets I’ve ever seen and their local sanitation engineers. Heaton (Big Boy Heat), Holden (Punkie Pie), and Wilder (Wild Man) – collectively known as the Snicker Doodles – have been brightening up…

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  • I don’t even remember when I started watching Full House. Maybe I was four-years-old. Five? Either way, I know one thing: I have always had a girl crush on Stephanie Tanner (Jodie Sweetin). Not only was Stephanie’s catch phrase – “How rude!” – my favorite, but she was also the funniest of the Tanner girls.…

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