Four...

4 Things that have made me think of yall lately:

1. Heard someone say "pooty tang" the other day--and remembered the story of the woman in vision video.

2. Had the most amazing turkey burger + sweet potato fries... come visit and you can try it.

3. (shout out to becca)-- I was looking at some pretty amazing holiday desserts and wish we were all back in poplar and you were stressed (not that I want you to be...but) and you were making yummy desserts!

4. and obviously as the holidays near how could I forget the 6 golden rings!?!?

love and miss yall!

oh and kaylyn, the day you posted about being snowed in.... it was 81 degrees and humid here. yeah hot!

Ok and finally, Austin and I went to new orleans the other day for a day trip. There are some real cool places there--especially a street called magazine street with ton of cool stores that are very green. I had a delicious po'boy too...

come visit cajun country!!

Winter Wonderland in Downtown Seattle

And the snow begins! As some of you might already know, Seattle got hit by a huge winter storm Sunday night and all day Monday. No one predicted it would be this bad. This photo is looking outside my balcony at the courtyard Monday morning. It snowed like this almost all day Monday. The temperature dropped so much that most of snow turned into ice. Because no one knew it would get this bad, no one closed businesses or schools early. Ive been watching the news and people are saying that their commute thats usually takes 30 to 45 minutes took 9 to 12 hours!!! People who left work at 4pm didnt get home till 2am!!! A lot of people abandoned their cars on the interstate and tried to walk home. Gah, that just sucks. This is basically the only time Im thankful I dont have a job. This kind of thing usually isnt this bad because the city can prepare, but the snow plows and salt trucks were stuck in traffic with everyone else. The city asked people not to go to work today if they have to drive there. So people ended up walking miles to get to work, and some people skied to work!

Anywho, like yall know, still no job. I literally have been applying to everything. I really believed I would have one by now. Ah well, it will work out. Im trying not to get too worried. Theres not really anything more I can do, just keep applying. Also I was totally excited to cook a huge Thanksgiving dinner for myself and Jordan. I had everything planned out and recipes ready, but then the snow hit. We cant get out to the store. Some of the main streets are ok but our garage is on a STEEP hill thats cobblestone and its still covered in ice. When I was here last last Christmas, Jordan and I were snowed in for days and days. We finally tried to get out, and everything went well till we tried to get down the hill to the garage and we lost control and slid into the side of our building. So.... we wont be getting out for awhile. We were gonna try and walk, but even the sidewalks are covered with ice. So we wont be having an amazing Thanksgiving dinner. I have another idea, so I hope it will work, but who knows. Haha.

Welp, thats about it with me. I am excited because mom and dad are coming for Christmas. So that will be fun! Course people are predicting that this winter might be the worst Seattle has seen in CENTURIES!!! So we might be snowed in while they are here. Which will still be fun, just to be with family:)


This is the entrance to the downtown sculpture park 1 block from my building. It overlooks the sound.
This is also the sculpture park. Its such a great place to go watch the sunset.... at 4:15pm! It gets so dark so fast!
My building is on the right side of the photo. Its at the very edge (sort of cant even see it) oops. But yall get the idea.
Tehe. Love you guys and miss yall like crazy!!!!

(i need a clever title).

Hellllllo friends. Since I am sure you all have been reading my minute by minute life blog, all of this mumbo gumbo will be old news (don't worry, you aren't missing anything. i don't have a blog).

For starters, I had a fabulous three week long birthday! The weekend of the 5th, Al-pal and I went on a Anthro shopping spree (compliments of Donna). The next weekend, Donna came into town. AND last night, Al and Mae cooked a wonderful dinner for our roommate celebration.

The day of my birthday, Mae and I picked Donna up from the airport and went to Three Fox winery. Our picnic consisted of turkey, goat cheese and pear sandwiches, sweet potato fries and chocolate oat bars (oh and of course the yummy wine!)

Last night, we had mushroom lasagna, vegetables and beer-margs with apple pie and ice cream. O to the M to the G, it was so good.

I am leaving you with Sadie's Halloween pic. The kid is so freakin' cute.

With that folks, my blog post is complete. Love. Love. Love.

good food + good beer = happy ellyn

herrroooo ladies. it's been WAY too long since i posted so here we go. a post full of food. i just got back from london yesterday morning after a great eid al adha (the hajj eid) break from work. it was so nice to get away from cairo and go to a civilized, western country for the week. the two things i was most excited about? good beer and pork. does that make me an alcoholic pig lover? maybe. but seriously. the beer here is shady at best, but drinkable. and there is no pork. anywhere. so yeah. i guess absence makes the heart grow fonder. madeline and i had a great time. her friends were awesome and i had so much fun seeing matt sellers (Aaron's ex-boyfriend and my fellow Roosevelt board member), who came in from oxford (he's studying abroad with UGA's program) for the day.



we stayed with madeline's friend jon the first 3 nights and he, his girlfriend, and their friend greeted us with avocado cocktails (so good) and this delicious vegetarian soup. so good.






ate the most delicious pecan pastry from this lady's booth at the brick lane market. then she let me take pictures cause i asked nicely. what a gal.



okay, so this isn't food but it is the blues club where we spent a lot of time and enjoyed great cask ales and a freaking awesome house band and HILARIOUS open mic/jam night that included several japanese tourists playing awesome blues music and a crazy canadian lady that was terrible. win.

i love you guys, miss all of your faces, and can't wait to talk to each of you soon. skype dates? yes please.

someone stole my grocery cart...

hey...

we have internet!! skype or ichat with you lovely ladies would be quite enjoyable!

Also, on monday at approximately 10:45, my grocery cart with about 10-15 things in it was stolen. I left it on one aisle for like 30 seconds. Upon my return, the grocery cart was NOwhere in sight. So some lady or gentlemen jacked my grocery cart... seriously?? classless. Welcome to cajun country!

Thought yall would enjoy that.

miss and love yoooou!