Anniversary and Goals

Above is a picture of William.... who I miss very much because I have barely seen him.

So, as the title suggests, I have a lot to cover.

Fig1: Old barn in Mazama

The Anniversary
 I'm referring to the one year anniversary of my blog.  Technically it's not until the 31st of January.... but like every other cycle in my life, it's coming early-- mainly because I just think it's so exciting and I want to talk about it RIGHT NOW.









Fig2: Kelsey licking snow

Some fun facts about the blog:
1) No one knew about it for the first month or two of it's existence. I didn't tell a single person I had made one. Then I told William and Rebecca and not only did my views shoot up, but shortly after I had two awesome blogs* to visit daily.
2) Over half of my blog's life was spent at a different url. I was able to move the posts- though I weeded some out in the shift (ex: stalker post.)
3) My intention in making a blog was to post only about food and music. And to become internet famous. One year later, I have no such aspirations nor do I feel bad about failing to be both consistent in my posting content or famous.
4) I've gotten in trouble for copyright infringement only once for uploading songs onto the blog for easy listening and downloading..... the song was "Climbing Up Iknimaya"- the soundtrack from Avatar.
5) This blog has been visited by people around the world! Which seems ridiculous to me because it's not an exiting blog at all- not even to people who know me directly. Which suggests that all of the visits from Malaysia, Slovenia, France, U.K., Russia, Denmark, etc. are all by chance/ mistakes. Canada is a close second to the US in viewers- which suggests some sort of trend, but I don't know what to make of it.
6) The name of this blog came from a conversation with Rebecca. I don't remember what we were talking about exactly- believe it or not I can't think of a specific freckle that we might have been talking about on my body.... my guess is we were eating a big sandwich at the time**.

Fig.3: A tree in the snow

Goals
For the Blog:
1) Talk about food using all my pictures of food. Even if it's boring- food is one of my few, unwavering passions.
2) Use the blog to keep track of my thoughts on halloween costumes. I currently have several in mind.
3) Make a post modeled after The Man Repeller, only using my own clothes- plenty of which I'm sure repel men.... Also, lets be real, I think I can make a way more man-repelling outfit than some of hers- she doesn't go WEIRD enough. Weird is where I thrive***.
4) Use the blog as an outlet for some pictures I just developed that are too fucking indie to go on facebook and I'm ashamed that I took them, even though I like them. I could rant more, but I'll save it for when I actually post them.
5) Post Captain's Logs once a month. I understand that some of these can get a little fucked up/ personal/ confusing due to my use of secret code.... but they kind of fill the journal aspect of the blog, and I always laugh a lot when making them.  The first one especially is confusing and highly coded. I have never updated those missions because so many of them were such failures. The first one especially. Now it could refer to so many coffee servers, but I'm thinking of reviving that mission with the original target.... anyway, that can all go in a captain's log.
6)Tweet about blogging and blog about tweeting.











Fig.4: Matching blue long underwear, courtesy of Kelsey

For me:

1) Floss every day (so far I'm rocking that one!)
2) Add more spinach, bok choy, and cabbage to my daily cooking
3) Cook daily
4) Get to bed before 2am on school nights
5) Don't bring the computer to bed with me****.
6) Don't get smashed/wasted/room-spinning drunk until renn fayre
7) Eat more sandwiches**
8) Spend at least one night a week at home, doing girly things with Rebecca/ anyone who is home.
9) Write more post cards
10) Keep my room clean (THAT MEANS CLEAN IT EVERY DAY!)
11) See Kelsey regularly
12) Take my vitamins

Fig.5: Downtown Seattle durning Christmas

*Sadly these blogs are no longer updated. It is a tragedy I still mourn regularly.
**How I Met Your Mother reference. Sucks for you on so many levels if you don't get it.  To be clear, it has nothing to do with sucking dicks.
***See the pictures on Rebecca's phone for documentation of some of my 'outfits.'
****There are exceptions to that rule.












Fig.6: Another shot of the old barn and the antlers

My Day

I'll keep it "brief." I'm bored out of my mind but I don't actually have anything to say. Unlike my other blog posts?

 I've been in bed most of the day. I woke up at 7, thrilled to be going to down to portland, only to see 2 inches of snow outside, tree's blowing wildly in the wind, and my sister singing a song about how school was delayed two hours. Going to Portland has been delayed until tomorrow. My mom's in L.A. right now. She'll be visiting me in Portland on Friday. The only reason I didn't go with her to LA was that I originally thought I was going back to Portland last Sunday.  Now I wish I'd taken the opportunity to soak up the sun while I had the chance. Plus, a drive from L.A. to Portland = lots of good food and chit chat time with my mom (AKA bliss.)  I was in a bad mood this morning, but I've softened up with half a dozen episodes of "The IT Crowd."



I've spent all day in bed. Right now I'm eating pretzels dipped in cream cheese and drinking a beer (Full Sail Pale Ale- which makes me feel sooooo mature.) I've eaten tasty food today. A breakfast of apple crisp, a lunch of a delicious grilled sandwich, now this. I've decided to use my blog to talk about food a lot- which I'll start more when I get back to Portland and can upload all the pictures of food from my camera.

meanwhile.... Maia and I have been having daily photobooth photo shoots.  It's really fun and we laugh constantly.

Captain's Log

Captain's Log
11:00pm
On the Farm


Recent Activity:
-Obscene amounts of Tetris... I'm making lots of friends!And no, I'm not embarrassed about that.

Fig.1 example of one of my friends in the Arena of Tetrisfriends


-I went shopping despite the fact that i'm flat broke... I bought a couple work-in-progress items which are always fun. One is an ankle length bright red, felt, high waisted skirt. I'm going to take a scissor to it. I got a grandma floral dress- which is my favorite kind of dress. i just need to make it fit a bit better. also, an extra special set of t-shirts. One of those t-shirts is going to have to be transposed onto another boy-sized t-shirt. I LOVE SEWING PROJECTS


-I've been downloading music up the ying yang. Playlists are slowly forming.


-I started journaling and drawing again. I tried to take a picture of one of my drawings of fish that I really like. But the picture just didn't look good so I gave up.


-I took hundreds of pictures of food and snow while in Mazama. Speaking of which, was the best week of my semester. 


-My mom has been giving me THE COOLEST CLOTHES IN THE WORLD. Seriously, everything awesome I own has come from my mom. Most recent items: motorcycle boots, leather jacket, and a hollywood sports jacket. check it:

Fig. 2- back of the jacket... shitty quality, but it's a just a little taste anyway.


-I've had the same cough for two months. It's a terrible cough that keeps my parents up at night and makes me embarrassed in public places (such as the library or the grocery store.)I'm going to try to see a doctor about it. I'm just dreading the inevitable "you've had this for two months and haven't seen anyone, not even at the free health clinic at reed for this?! here are three days of antibiotics and you'll be all better!"  way to go, simone.


Current Missions:


Retreat-
Reference Code: "PDXXX"
Code Color: Red w/ black tire marks
Description: Well, let's face it: the holidays are blissful but work calls. Now, despite the reference code, I'm not going back to make pornos (though my career as a stripper is still pending...)I just need to get money get paid. Also, I miss my room and the Giant Peach-

Fig. 3- a corner by my bed in the Crows Nest of the Giant Peach


Playlists-
Reference Code: "lockyourselfinyourroomfordays"
Code Color: iTunes blue and grey
Description: I suck at playlists. I have made several this year though. I haven't posted them, which I regret. They're no longer contemporary with my listening trends so their isn't any point in posting them... but so far i'm working on some playlists under the current titles: "smoke weed eryday," "hard drugs," "new years"
"new years" is the equivalent of my monthly playlist, only i'm blending december and january.... thrilling i know. 


ANYWAY, i have a sneaking suspicion that i'm going to regret ever having a blog in a couple months/years because of how ridiculously stupid it is... but i can't bring myself to delete it. Because what's more fun than seeing you have some random people from russia and malaysia reading your blog... nothing. (shout out?)