Oh how I’ve missed you! Okay, that’s actually a tiny white lie – I only missed you a little bit. Sometimes, when I spend my whole day at work and a lot of my evenings on the computer, it’s nice to go anonymous for a couple days. But, I’m back! And so full of updates from the last week, that I didn’t know where to begin…

Hmm. Do I tell you about my Friday night, meeting my friend’s new girlfriend, who he met on Match.com and seems a wee bit loco? Do I tell you how his reasoning behind dating her is, “So what if she’s 21, still in college, and we don’t have anything in common! She has a 26-inch waist and size D boobs, how could I get bored?!” Do I tell you how I was super nice to her, despite of myself, but scoffed a little bit at her fur-lined clogs (seriously?!) while drinking too much wine at Solo?

Or I could tell you about my Valentine’s Day – how everyone from my mom, who sent me a box of my favorite candies and lip glosses (marzipan, marshmallows and Stila); to my neighbor, who left cookies and a note in our mailbox; to my boyfriend, who gave me a pot of little pink roses (that I’ll probably kill, honestly) and a card the size of a small child; made me feel loved. I could tell you about how mediocre my dinner was at Betty for $80, or how laughably giggable the Laugh Lover’s Ball comedy show was at The Moore Theatre. So funny that we’re still quoting some of the jokes – now laughter is what makes my love world go round.

Potentially you’d like to know about my double birthday party Sunday where I drank yet more wine, bringing my weekly weekend tally up to about four bottles. I *really* ought to look into switching from white to red – I just end up drinking white like grape juice. You might also like to hear about the two new bars I checked out – Post and The Dray – which were both small, but great atmospheres for intimate crowds. Or how a friend told me that thanks to a chain of events from my blog post on Seattle Ork Posters, a little shop in Ballard is now displaying them across their front windows. Oh, how neat!

I was thinking I could tell you about my day off on Monday – the first full day alone my boyfriend and I have had together in months. How we started it off with a day trip to IKEA, where I purchased new bedding and an awesome baroque-style frame for the wall. And then how we spent a couple hours at Peso’s for happy hour where I tried for the first time their Philly steak quesadilla with caramelized onions – YUM. But, don’t you worry, Interwebs, I walked it off later with an hour walk to and back from Trader Joe’s to load up on healthiness for the week.

I could also tell you about my new haircut, my shopping spree to F21, my deep-clean of my apartment, which is oh-so-shiny and sparkly now, how level two of Jillian’s Michaels 30-Day Shred pretty much makes.you.want.to.die, as do personal trainers, but how I’ve lost six pounds in three weeks. I could tell you how “Save Karyn” was pretty much the cutest, funniest book I’ve read in a long time, and although I’ve been boycotting Chic Lit, this one was worth it. Or how I purchased a WOK, which is super exciting and I can’t wait to wok it up this week after wok. Woka, woka, woka.

Interwebs, I could tell you ALL of that… but then,

I guess I just did.

Love,
20-Something

Currently Feeling: Slammed today, but I just had to squeeze a post in!
Currently Anticipating: Catch-up dinner tonight at Twist with two of my old roomies from college.
Currently Wanting: To pick up “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson – Amazon or local bookstore, hmmm.