Oh Hi...

Apparently I'm very good at waltzing into the blogosphere after going for days without posting, making a grand announcement that I am back and have so many stories to tell, and then disappearing again. So that's all strange and awkward and embarrassing.

If it's any consolation, I've been blogging in my head a lot. If that makes any sense. I even have several half-baked posts saved in my drafts folder, but have managed to abandon them all due to my highly critical inner voice.

So here I am, in my favorite grocery store cafe, staring at hipsters crossing the street and attempting to write something that isn't complete garbage.

I'll start by telling you about my new friend George.

I met George through a friend of a friend. We hit it off immediately and have a lot of things in common. We're both neurotic, we both really love peanut butter, and we both love staying up too late watching paranormal investigation shows on cable television. He's very sweet, quiet, and friendly. Sometimes he does unexpected things (like puke in the hallway), but the truth is, I like George more than I like most people.

Of course, George is a dog.


His People are in Ohio this week, so I'm hanging out with him. He's super old and cuddly. And on top of being my new bff, he's helping me make some money. So that's all groovy...

Um, in other news, there are a ton of seats open in this cafe, but this weird old guy just had to sit right next to me and eat a corn dog. He has a million packets of mustard on his plate and is giving me a weird look. Truthfully, it's creepy me out a bit. I think I'm going to pack up my laptop and do the famous Awkward Lauren Scuttle™ on out of here...

More things soon, when I'm not being ogled by a crusty old corn dog man...

My BFF Jane

Please forgive me for my recent absence from the blogosphere. Life moves fast sometimes. And yet, I think I've probably had too much time to think lately.

Anyway, to make up for a week of unintentional blog abandonment, I've got some music for you! Here are the songs that have been in my car/on my iPod/on my mind this week. It's a pretty eclectic mix, but it's got me in the mood for summertime.

What can I say, my musical tastes are all over the board. You know you love it. :P

I'm house-sitting in the heart of Portland, taking care of a lovely pit bull named Jane and loving life in the city. It's not the first house-sitting job I've ever had, but it's the first one in an interesting location with a dog that isn't some sort of elderly Chihuahua.

I'm not naturally a dog person, but Jane is my new best friend. We walk everywhere together. We cook dinner together. We run around the backyard with a Frisbee at night and then crash in front of the TV together ("Saturday Night Fever" was on the other night and I discovered that Jane loves disco music). We even sleep in the same bed, mostly because I've given up on trying to push a stubborn 50 lb pit bull onto the floor.

I think I'm going to miss this dog/lifestyle in a week when this job ends.

I'm also not really sure what my next move is. I keep hearing the phrase "quarter-life crisis" and I think it defines this phase of my life. Though it's not really so much of a crisis as a weird time of trying to figure everything out. I feel like there are so many things I want to do but I don't know where to start.

Someone recently told me to talk to my future self more often, to figure out what I want my past to look like and then live life accordingly. They sent me the following message:

if you wanna make history, you gotta make shit happen.
the world is as big and as small as you want it to be.
breath it in.
then live the way you want to remember living.

The message was a little out-of-the-blue, but totally what I needed to read this morning.

Anyway, I've been camped in this cafe for a while, I should probably walk back and see how Jane is (this is one of the few places she doesn't go with me haha).

Over and out.