Bacon Doughnut???

I need to go to Portland OR.

I don't know what I would there besides visit VooDoo Doughnuts on a regular, possibly hourly, basis. This shop sells AMAZING doughnuts and treats. My friend sent me the link because she loves the Voodoo Doughnut. Yes, it comes with complementary pretzel stick to stab his little body to inflict discomfort for your victim. While, I agree that the Voodoo Doll sounds delish with his raspberry jelly filling, I would much prefer to try the Bacon Maple Bar.


I have yet to experience a bacon dessert, I will not count an occasional bacon chocolate bar as dessert, and would love to savor one. Sweet sweets are not my favorite, but we if we can find a way to add salt into that final course, I am all in!

I suggest you flip through their menu so that you can drool along with me.

Clearly I need more VACATION in my life

I am taking off two days for moving this week and 11 days in August for my big trip to ALASKA. After requesting the 91 hours of vacation, know what my vacation hour balance will be at the end of the month?

85

Yeah. I have never taken a full week of work. Ever. I totes need to take more vacation. Get away from the office and such. Once I saw this I immediately tweeted the state and posted it on gchat - I am very connected on the internet. People started responding. Either I got, Are you serious? or Let's travel!

Currently, I am leaning to trying to meet up with a friend who will be backpacking through Europe in October. We shall see. If anyone else has a place they want to go travel to let me know! Please remember that I am not the richest girl in the world. ESPECIALLY since I am about to start paying twice as much rent. But I am not above couch surfing. :)

Packing is an Art

Overall, I would say I am pretty good at packing. I try really hard to not over pack clothing, and in general, I usually don't have many unworn items by the time I return home. Books are my downfall.

I over pack books like it is my job.

I was in S.F. for a total of 4 days. I brought 5 books. FIVE. I could even rationalize why I needed each and everyone of them. I came no where near close to reading them all. Fortunately for me I was much more realistic for Vegas and only brought two. I did finish one and started the second while I was sitting in LAX waiting for my red eye home.

One of the books I brought to S.F. that I did finish was Eclipse. Eclipse being the 3rd installment of the Twilight series. I am so glad I only have one more left. Not only do I truly want to see how this all wraps up, but once I finish that one I can finally live my life guilt free. I won't feel like such a tool being a grown female reading a tween romance novel.

It is funny to see how many adults are reading the series. Most are women. If Harry Potter hadn't taken the world by storm, I am not sure Twilight would be doing nearly as good. Part of the reason I started was that I had kind of hoped the writing would be of the same caliber. It is not.

On the plane to S.F. there was a woman kitty-corner to me reading Twilight, and she was probably in her 40s. This helped me deal with my addiction. In Vegas, one of the girls on the trip with me was in the middle of reading Eclipse so that did make me feel a little better. I mean she is about to be a Dentist and was still letting herself read this mindless vampire romance book!

Now we wait to see how long I break down and purchase the last one. Being the OCD person that I am, I am slightly bothered by the fact that I bought a hard copy of the third book and will have to purchase the 4th in this style as well as the paperbacks have not been printed yet. That will mean the first two are paper and my second two are hard. I like series to look like they match. I think this is why I held off purchasing the H.P. books for myself. Fortunately my mother understands my quirky behavior and bought me the box set (the kind that comes in its own trunk) for my birthday two years ago :)

Virgin goes for Sex Appeal

Virgin America is totally trying to be the new cool kid on the block. I flew with them to get to San Fransisco. You walk into Logan and all the other airlines have long painful looking winding wait lines. Everything is dull and you just cringe at the idea of checking in.

Then there is Virgin.

It has a red carpet that you walk up to get to the self service monitors and check in people. There is a disco ball and bumping music. It is like they want to be a night club.

Then you walk through the security machines and find yourself in a private gate area. They only use two gates and they are completely closed off from the rest of the airline. Which is cool but there is absolutely no food options, nor is there a magazine stand. Boo

But anyway...

When it was about time to start boarding my plane, I noticed the flight attendants/stewardess wearing the most amazing heels. They were gorgeous four inch shoes and I could not wrap my head around the idea that these women walked up and down the narrow aisle of the aircraft with turbulence! I mean, come on, I have a lot of practice walking around my office and what not, but I could not do turbulence. These women were my heroes.

I get on the plane and notice the woman greeting us is wearing ballet flats. Then thought it was a bit weird but maybe she just wasn't quite ready for the big heels.

At one point I went to the back to use the toilet and noticed the two women who I were wearing those amazing shoes were also in ballet flats. Being the awkward person I am I asked them what was with the change. They explained that the airline says that while in the airport they need to look sexy and thus the shoes. But once they get on the plane flats it is --- because otherwise they would topple over or run over a small child.

!!!!!!!

Can you believe it? I thought we were maybe a bit beyond all that. But guess not. I mean, damn, those shoes were hot. But really.

Leaving on a Jet Plane

I am just leaving my house to get to work a bit early as I have to scoot out to catch my flight to CA this evening and I realized that a) I am going to be in CA before the end of the day and b) I will be in the middle of lift off one week from this minute on my way to Vegas. Life comes at you fast. One month ago I don't think I had plans to do either of these things.

More and more I have become a subscriber of taking that big leap and hoping that the landing won't hurt too much. It has been a fun experience so far. Not to many bumps or bruises. I may permanently have some extra ink on my skin but whatever that isn't so bad, and it's pretty.

I may get a few posts in before I jet off, but there is a good chance this blog doesn't get updated all that much in the next 10 days or so. So, sorry to disappoint. This can give you time to do some some leaping in my absence. It really does give you a high :) I know John Denver wrote this song, but I like the Peter, Paul and Mary version.