Thursday, January 24, 2008

What will you do with your $600?

Word on the street is that red blooded, tax payin' 'mericans are getting tax rebates of $600 or so. Perhaps by June!

In keeping with the whole point of economic stimulus, we NEED to spend this cash-o-la! Hooray for spending!

So- I'm starting to think about what I'll spend mine on. How can I be most responsible and economically stimulating with this money?

Purchase a CSA farm share perhaps? Dine at locally owned restaurants and order domestic wines?

Yes, both good ideas.


But what about a weekend in Vancouver BC?? Perhaps a quick trip to Mexico?

On what will you spend yours?

Thursday, January 03, 2008

The 'Hawks are Undefeatable...

Yes, please sing the above title to the tune of Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresistible." (you folks who remember that song on the radio get one gold star for living in Seattle in the late 80's. And listening to KUBE. Or was it KPLZ??)

It's that time of year again when people and radio DJ's in DC are saying things like "Seattle? Where is that? Do they even HAVE a football team?" with undertones of snottiness and some sort of lost legacy of football greatness.

Ever since a misguided trip to Hooters on Lake Union circa 2004, when I witnessed and entire family of Hawk people (seriously, even the baby was donning Blue regalia, and I think wearing a beak), I can attest that yes, Seattle DOES have a football team. Not only that, but crazy wacky football fans too. Am I one of them? I answer that with a resounding, "not necessarily." (I admit, I've never really cared much about professional football. Can you blame me though, I grew up in the era of Brian Bozworth.) BUT-- I sure as heck would cheer for the Seahawks more so that that OTHER football team that plays its home games in Seattle. Especially when they're playing the Red Skins. So on this occasion, I offer a hearty "Go Hawks!" to the team in the town that I love.

Here is a fun little article that I wanted to share from the Examiner. I like articles like this, that make it so easy to write off your opponents as total idiots. The comments about the rain and umbrella loss are almost too good to be true. So reminiscent of "But it was snowing! Whaaaa" that it makes my little heart flutter.

And what is this ihateseattle.com business? (No, I'm not even going to give him/her the gratification of a hyperlink.) A dumb little web page with only 4 inarticulate reasons to "hate Seattle"?!?! Please. Anyone worth reading could come up with a whole web SITE teeming with proper reasons to hate Seattle. Was this a lame attempt to copy
whyihatedc.blogspot.com?

And I happen to like my Subaru very much. Jerkface.



PS- Is it just me, or does anyone else kind of feel icky when people refer to the Red Skins simply as "The 'Skins"?




Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Hi 2008! Let's have a fun year!

Happy New Year reader(s)! Why must blogging and exercising be things that I get really into for months at a time, then blissfully abandon? Don't answer that.

So it's 2008 which is just, well, awfully futuristic sounding to be the present year. But I'm dealing with it, and hoping that this year will have all of 07's pluck with a tad less of its yuck. Hell's bells, I should write for Sassy Magazine!

January 2008 not only marks the beginning of a new year, but also the beginning of my THIRD year in DC. Wherethehelldidthetimego?? I swear I just moved here. I'm still a hip and with-it Seattle type.... right? I know. I know that "hells no" is the only true way to answer that question, but I grasp at the possibility that I'm still a West coaster type (and by that, I mean all the good things about being a west coaster, none of the crap things). I still certainly feel like an east coast outsider. Not that DC is really "east coast" per say, but there sure are a lot of Pennsylvanians and New Jersey-ites around here. (I suppose the New Yorkers stay in New York?) But when I spend more than a few hours around Californians, or- dare I say, even Seattleites, I realize that... I'm not like them either. I'm not nearly politically correct enough or mercury-content-aware enough to fit in at their cocktail parties anymore. But I AM enjoying the Uptight Seattleite column in Seattle Weekly. It's probably been around forever, but I just started reading it.

Heck, maybe I just need to get over it and move to Eastern Washington.