Tag Archive: swing


As my friend Layne said, “2011 will be the year of awesome.” Things I want to work on this year:

1.) Reduce spending: cook at home more frequently and pack lunches, limit impulse purchases, use what I have. Conserve!

2.) Increase activity: bike to work more frequently, hit the gym, swing dance, hike and swim more.  Continue to lose weight (woop!).

3.) Create space for creativity: sew and dance!

And, last but not least, one I would like to challenge everyone to take on:
4.) Be a safer driver: No texting in the car! It’s not rocket science here, but it’s surprising to me how often my friends or I will glance away from the road for a silly text. It can wait. I hope you’ll take this one on with me, check this documentary AT&T made on texting and driving if you’re not convinced, I challenge you to watch it and not feel the same as I do.

(Sorry to be a downer, it’s a sad video but important!)

2011 will be AWESOME! Keep it that way – no texting while driving!

</mom>

I have the coolest friends ever, which means I end up with the coolest weekends ever. Really, you guys spoil me. Last weekend was spent with a small group celebrating Micah’s birthday in a beautiful riverside cabin on Hood Canal.

And this weekend? I’m hanging out with my lindy hopping crew. A group of twenty two (TWENTY TWO!!?) of us are renting out a huge log cabin in Leavenworth.

Ah, December. Full of rain and snow and win.


Leavenworth, WA during the holidays (picture from Leavenworth.org)

Wow… I had a simply amazing weekend. Usually I don’t like to write “here’s everything I did” type posts, but this deserves some documentation. Friday night, I hit up a bit of Camp Jitterbug (billed as “The Awesomest Lindy Hop Event Ever!”) for some swing dancing with my friend Shane – they had the first heat of the Jack & Jill Lindy Hop contest, which was so much fun to watch, plus plenty of room to dance in as it was at the UW Hub Ballroom.

Saturday morning I sort of randomly went canoeing with Kevin, a fellow BrightKite beta user who I ran into last week at Indy. I had a great time and have never seen more turtles, check this out:

Crazy, eh? I love exploring the area via canoe, in fact I think the highlight of our morning paddling adventure was attempting to find a way through the reeds. It was pretty hilarious, especially when the going got tough and we nearly tried walking across some not-so-stable marshy “land” that turned out to be not so much “land” as a floating mass of vegetation.

View full article »