Portland, OR

This week’s Friday’s Feast is not a normal “Friday’s Feast.” Instead of me telling you about one of the many super-cool Portland restaurants or bars, since I’m pretty stressed out (and driving to Ashland, Oregon for a Lithia Park wedding as you read this), I’m going to do a different type of Feast. This meme (idea shamelessly stolen from Terra at Eating Disorder Talk is meant for you to be able to get to know me a bit! Enjoy, this may not occur again! (PS - the picture of the dragonfly is because I’m a huge fan of ‘em!)

Appetizer
On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being highest, how much do you look forward to your birthday?
Previous to this year: 9
This year: 5
Next year: 6
Explanation perhaps? This past birthday I turned 25. It was the first birthday (in 25 years) where I started feeling old. It was also my first birthday in 10 years spent as a single woman. I was nervous about being alone on my birthday and so I was dreading it. Thankfully, a very close friend took it upon herself to throw me a bar-b-que in the park over Memorial Day weekend (my birthday weekend) and then proceeded to take me out and let me get drunk on my birthday. Next year, I don’t know where I’ll be mentally/emotionally/relationshipally but I am pretty sure my girlfriends will take good care of me again!

Soup
What is one word you do & then don’t like the sound, spelling, or meaning of?
Oooh, I love words. No, really, I love words. I read books about words. I write at least 500 words a day (two blogs) and then another page or so in a hand-written journal. That’s without updating my personal blog, too! I have a lot of favorite words (in both English & German).
I love the sound of the words uncertainty, change, fuck, smooth, fantastic and tumultuous.
I love the spelling of the word phlegm. Gross, huh?
I love the meaning of the word evancalous - it means “a pleasure to embrace.” I use the word to describe myself every once in a while. Anyone want to hug me?
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I dislike the sound of the words moist (even in German it’s gross, too, feucht, pronounced “foycht”), provost, terrible and attache.
I dislike the spelling of calendar and secretary - I always want to spell them entirely with e’s!
I can’t say that I dislike any particular word meaning. All meanings are important to me.

Salad
Do you wear sunglasses when you’re outside? If so, what does your current pair look like?
I wear sunglasses when it’s bright outside. Even when it’s rainy, sometimes in Portland it’s still crucial to wear them - white clouds can be blinding. I have two pair of sunglasses I wear depending on what I’m doing. I have a pair of wrap-around tortoise-shell mirrored-lenses that I wear when I’m running or hiking and I have a pair of black-framed mirrored-lenses that I wear while I drive.

Main Course
If you were to write a book, to whom would you dedicate it?
This book is dedicated to my parents for always encouraging me to write, to Mr. Oswald for telling me that I was a wonderful author, to Mrs. Doerner for telling me that I’d never make it as an author, to R.F. Schreiber for pushing me out of my writing comfort zone and to all of my blog readers for making me realize that someone does want to hear what I have to say
(Yes, I have this already planned out. One day it’ll actually be printed, too.)

Dessert
Name a beverage that you enjoy.
Like a true Portlander, I love coffee (the darker the better). I also love beer (the darker the better). However, when I’m not pumping up my system with coffee or cooling my jets with a beer, I drink a lot of water.

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