Archive for October, 2005

Starbucks is killing me

Monday, October 24th, 2005

Starbucks is killing me. Killing me with sweet kindness but still killing me. Let me explain.
I’ve been trying to loose weight for a few months now, and it’s all gone sideways since Labor Day. Looking back, I’ve had two big problems:

I got out of the habit of religiously counting calories. It’s like [...]

Ikea coming to Portland

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Yes, it’s true - according to KGW News, Ikea is coming to Portland. As someone who has regularly shopped at Ikea for many years (both in the UK and then in California), I am so happy that Swedish style has finally arrived in Portland. However, I am double happy that the chosen site [...]

Googlehunt

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

‘Googlehunting’ seems to be the latest craze going round the Oregon blogs (Tabitha,Rebecca Marie) and it seems such a great idea that I just had to have a go. All you need to do is go to Goggle, click on the images link and type in her answers to the questions below, then [...]