Hey everyone!
Well we thought it was time to tell you all that we are leaving Portland. Why? Well there are actually couple of reasons but mostly because Lew has been having a very difficult time with PSU here and I just recently lost my job. So we think it would be better for us if we went back home so I can start my teaching career and Lew can go to Rutgers. We decided this last Sunday and today (sunday) we are leaving! It was a very hard decision and an even harder week of selling anything we could and packing the rest. (As of 9:19 am we still are not finished) We are sad to be leaving so soon, we both had plans for the summer months here. But we can't help but be excited for yet another ROAD TRIP!!!! This time we learned from the past trip that not everywhere has wifi and that my cellphone battery (nor my eyes) can handle typing a blog post on my iPhone. So I have updated the blog to be more family user friendly. We hope to still be making blog updates but for those times where we will be in the middle of a desert and only have the phones. So if you all look to the left the slide show that is playing is coming from my instagram feed that I should be able to post from my cell. Below that is my Twitter feed which lets me update from just about anywhere and although the updates will be short at least you won't go a week without hearing about us! I figured that this would be easier than people logging into twitter or instagram if they don't have them and have no want to get them either.
Hope to see all you east coasters in a couple weeks!!!
Brooke
Showing posts with label portland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label portland. Show all posts
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Settling in
Hey everyone!
Brooke here. Just wanted to update everyone on how our lives are going. Everything is finally unpacked and put in its place in the apartment. Yay!!! Our little home is becoming quite cozy and the geek chic living room is coming together. Our galaxy rug just got in the other night and after yelling at the cat for about an hour we finally convinced her that her carpeted cat tree was a better scratching post that the rug. It ties the room together pretty well seeing that the War of the Worlds poster didn't have as much blue in it as it did in the online picture.
The city is full of artists who are also nerds themselves so it has been had not to buy every Doctor Who or Firefly picture we see. We did meet a really cool artist at the market on saturday who we got to talk to for a while. His art was really cool and Lew and I are thinking about maybe having some of these pieces in the apartment. Here is his etsy page for other nerds
On the topic of never growing up, I just got tickets to my first Comic Con! Sadly there will be no cosplaying because JoAnn fabrics decided to wait a week before shipping me the fabric and it wont get here in time... womp. I was planning on going as Fionna from Adventure time but i guess its my Doctor Who shirt and jeans. Lew will be working so I get to run around the Portland convention center all by myself geeking out about meeting Jewel Staite (Kaylee from Firefly) and sitting in on some really great panels. Later on that night there is a after party and cosplay contest that I want to check out.
The next day is Lew's triathlon that he has been trying to train for but his gym membership does not start till school starts so he hasn't had time to swim lately. He says he's not nervous about it because he is strongest at swimming.
We have been learning about the city more and more. Lew has been running and biking around and getting lost so he always comes back with a cool new place he saw while he was lost. lol We also have taken up swing dancing and that has been really fun. Due to kicking the concrete stairs barefoot last week We didn't go on sunday but are planning on trying out a lindy hop place on wednesday night. That should be interesting.
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The city is full of artists who are also nerds themselves so it has been had not to buy every Doctor Who or Firefly picture we see. We did meet a really cool artist at the market on saturday who we got to talk to for a while. His art was really cool and Lew and I are thinking about maybe having some of these pieces in the apartment. Here is his etsy page for other nerds
On the topic of never growing up, I just got tickets to my first Comic Con! Sadly there will be no cosplaying because JoAnn fabrics decided to wait a week before shipping me the fabric and it wont get here in time... womp. I was planning on going as Fionna from Adventure time but i guess its my Doctor Who shirt and jeans. Lew will be working so I get to run around the Portland convention center all by myself geeking out about meeting Jewel Staite (Kaylee from Firefly) and sitting in on some really great panels. Later on that night there is a after party and cosplay contest that I want to check out.
The next day is Lew's triathlon that he has been trying to train for but his gym membership does not start till school starts so he hasn't had time to swim lately. He says he's not nervous about it because he is strongest at swimming.
We have been learning about the city more and more. Lew has been running and biking around and getting lost so he always comes back with a cool new place he saw while he was lost. lol We also have taken up swing dancing and that has been really fun. Due to kicking the concrete stairs barefoot last week We didn't go on sunday but are planning on trying out a lindy hop place on wednesday night. That should be interesting.
Friday, August 30, 2013
We're here!
Hey everyone we know its been a while but it has been a busy and wonderful couple of weeks. We had to stop the blog half way through our trip because there was no wifi connections. We even lost cell reception. Te second half of the trip was great, we will be posting pictures as soon as the pod comes with our electronics box we packed away.
(Here's some pics from my phone of grand Tetons and Yellowstone)
Which brings me to the not so great news. Due to incompetence our pod was not shipped out the day after we packed it. It was instead shipped the day after we arrived in Portland! Which means that the estimated day of arrival is September 10th. So although we have moved into our apartment, we won't really be moving in until a month after we arrived. But it's not all bad we were able to buy a bed since we needed to do that anyway and it has served great as our couch, desk, dining table, etc. here is a picture of our living room which has a camping table that comes two feet off the ground and two camping chairs.
And for those of you who say I am my mothers daughter the second day we arrived in Portland Lewie and I decided to add on to our little family and adopt a kitten. (As of now the cat has just as much personal items in the apartment than we do) Her name is Samus, named after one kick butt character in a video game.
She was the loudest, craziest one in the kitten room and she won our hearts with her odd meow. Since home she has become a daddy's girl and finds a way to attach herself to Lew as soon as he gets home. (I woke up at three this morning to find her sleeping on his shoulder)
So that's our life right now. Eating ramen out of mess kits and drinking out of the collected plastic Starbucks cups I get in the morning. We're pretty happy with it all.
And for those of you who say I am my mothers daughter the second day we arrived in Portland Lewie and I decided to add on to our little family and adopt a kitten. (As of now the cat has just as much personal items in the apartment than we do) Her name is Samus, named after one kick butt character in a video game.
So that's our life right now. Eating ramen out of mess kits and drinking out of the collected plastic Starbucks cups I get in the morning. We're pretty happy with it all.
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