discovering me

Sunday night I joined with many other to celebrate Brandon’s birthday. I caught the last half hour of dinner at Benihana’s (and ate leftovers from several peoples plates–i asked everyone but saeed before doing so…)  Then we headed over to W for dessert.

(This is the picture I got on our walk between dinner and dessert […]

I had no idea my purchases were so predictable.
I was downloading a podcast today and remembered there were 2 books I was interested in buying, one by Donald Miller, the other by Rob Bell. I go to amazon and look up the new Miller book first (To Own a Dragon). Scrolling down I’m surprised to […]

All the picture of me and Ali remind me of the vanity shots I see on myspace, which further reminds me of these t-shirts we saw while shopping on Saturday:

(and yes, I’m on myspace)

Here’s some goofiness from Ali’s trip here! Saturday night we discovered we had an unexpected hour to kill after confirming the flight time was later than we’d thought.
Lacking a single picture of the two of us from the weekend I set out to remedy that in my dark apartment at 10pm. i snapped a few […]

A few weeks ago I was challenged at work to create a Strawberry Brownie. [Or, rather, the non-chocolate, strawberry equivalent of a brownie.] The goal was foremost to create such a dessert. Secondary goals included discovering other yummy desserts that were less strawberry-ie or less brownie-like and naming the creation. The latter is still an […]

It takes a lot of drugs to make my mouth sufficiently numb to have a cavity filled. Here it is 5 hours later and I still lack control of half my face…
Here’s a legitimate attempt to smile:

What a fun surprise! I came in to my office and the Easter bunny had stopped by. I have a hunch who his accomplice was, but I’m waiting for confirmation! Thanks for making me feel so loved!

Yesterday Lori and I enjoyed an after church Easter meal with Christa, Ezrah, Sarah, Mindi, Owen, Cody and Ryder).
The highlights included
Cody (3) jumping on the love sack and threatening to throw his dad on it.

Ryder(1) and his open-mouthed flirty face

The Easter bunny bread and Ezrah’s disection of it! (note that he covered the bunny’s eyes […]

Yesterday was a day of two injuries. I spent some part of the morning assembling some ikea purchases which involved using my hand to screw some eye-hooks in to soft pine. A few hours later my wrist erupted with pain. I hurts to hold anything with it and any torquing action is out of the […]

On our tour of seattle coffee houses Lori and I have visited Zeig Geist and Vivace. I got my usual Chai at our first stop, and was dissapointed with its bitter taste. [Lately i’ve been very let down with Chai–Even my last trop to usually consistant starbucks dissapointed me with the bitter Chai.]
 I […]