Summer has come to Seattle

Finally. I guess it sort of makes sense since it is officially the first day of summer, but honestly Seattle: would of appreciated it a little bit sooner. Not that I don't love wearing sweaters in June and all.

But summer is finally here and it's all redish orange nailpolish, overgrown gardens, and watching Will & Grace on the big screen with wheat beer.

Pretty glorious and worth the wait (almost).

I'm Baaaaack

Apparently after taking the GRE and running a marathon all I want to do is check out a la Bruno Mars style. (You know, "The Lazy Song"? )Add to that some finally nice weather in Seattle, and both blogging and work seem to be the last things on my mind. Meh, I'm okay with that.

Unfortunately my rent and bills aren't (well with the work part, they don't seem to care as much about the blogging). Rude.

My coworkers today are some pretty sweet old ladies (one is rocking a denim tuxedo! and the other has hot pink running shoes on!!) and a little boy pretending to play football complete with cheering crowd noise and touchdown dance.
Since I can't be seven again I'm going to start planning my old years. I envision lots of hot pink lipstick and way too many necklaces. And I'm going to pretend to be deaf when I don't want to talk to people. Then shout "EH??" midway through their next sentence. Get your friendship applications in now because oh man, I'm going to be FUN.

What I've been doing:

Dancing in honky tonks:

Touring the Country Music Hall of Fame:

And running a marathon, NBD:


(Also, uploading pictures to facebook and avoiding work, but that kind of goes without saying)

Getting Ready

In two days I'll be on my way to Nashville. I'm nervous but excited; I'm the personification of that hysterical laughter that makes you want to move slowly away from the person doing it.

Also I need to do laundry and find a place to stay. Hmmm which to do first....

Coworkers round 2

Today my coworkers are an old man snoring in the chair behind me and the woman outside the window who is clearly living out of her car with her three small dogs.

Needless to say they got me dreaming of a sweet office space like this: from here.
or this one-it makes me feel industrious just looking at it:
from here
and this one (without the rug of course) but that window?? Yes please.
from here.

Growing up

(picture from here)
You ever have those days when you become everything you'd hoped you'd be as a small child? I had one of those today.

I was walking down the street eating a doughnut with pink frosting and pink sprinkles, wearing bright purple leggings when I suddenly realized, "awww yeah, this is why you become an adult".

Then I got a sweet high-five from six year old me (it's the same one I get from my 13year old self when I do an awesome job painting my nails).

aaand that's how I define being a grown-up.

Sitting

(from fffound)
This article from the NYT about sitting is pretty interesting. I think my favorite line in it would be when a researcher in the study call a person's muscles after sitting for too long "as silent as those of a dead horse". Yikes-what a visual.

The study even found that for every hour you spend watching TV it increases your risk of dying by 11% (!!). Almost makes me stop and think before I watch 30 Rock or Modern Family repeats. Almost.

Even though I don't think it's possible to completely avoid a sedentary cube job it's fun to think of what one could do to get out of that existence. Maybe periodic runs around the block? Meetings held during a yoga class? More of those silly looking balls for chairs? In the article they suggest treadmill desks which I think would cut down on productivity like whoa, but would be really fun. What about you? Any thoughts on how to stay active at work?