Hair Change

Good Monday little bots, hope you are all enjoying this Labor Day weekend before you go back to school or work. Both PAX and Bumpershoot is wrapping up today, so no more obnoxious teens and young 20 passing by my apartment coming to/from Bumpershoot! With the kids going back to school and summer winding down I can finally relax and not yell at people to move away from my window at 1 in the morning.

This past week has been uneventful, mostly been working on vamping up my resume and cover letters. Since it was so boring I decided to change up my hair. On Wednesday I decided to do the hair color my mom has been wanting me to do for the past two years... ombre hair... in green... so I would look like a tree. I had to go to two different stores, both of which were on the opposite ends of town for the bleach kit that I have used in the past. To achieve a true ombre hair I should have gone to a professional but fuck it I was on a budget of under 30 dollars. Over all I was pleased with my outcome.

I ordered the green dye online so I had to wait two days before I could dye the ends green. The dye I used was Manic Panic Green Envy, it was the darkest green I could find with out it being to turquoise. Once it arrived on Friday I immediately put it on the ends of my hair and a little bit into the brown parts as well. I usually leave bright colored dyes in for at least two hours on dry hair so it can absorb into the strands of hair. Washing it out in a cold shower, I was afraid it would all wash out, but to my amazement it stayed in! And now I have this fabulous shade of green in my hair. I love putting it up, it does resemble a tree.

For the rest of the weekend, my man and I stayed in avoiding the crowds of people and the hassle to get any where in the city. I did make these amazing doughnuts that are doughnut muffins! They are so good and addicting, you can find the recipe here: Doughnut Puffs

While I was a little sad not attending to PAX Prime this year, I am looking froward to Emerald City Comic Con next year. I really need to start working out hard core again, starting now. Those doughnut muffins were my last temptation! See you guys Friday for a rant or something.

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PAX Food and Tourist Guide

 

Happy Friday little bots. While I may not be at PAX Prime this year, I still wanted to do a little guide for those who are attending. This is mostly for where to get food, slip away from the crowds, and where to unwind other than your hotel room.

Breakfast:

If you don’t want to eat from your hotel's complimentary breakfast, there are vast options for you to go out to eat. Remember a good meal before you head into the convention will keep you alert and energized all day. Here are a few suggestions on where to go:

Seatown: Tom Douglas is one of the top chefs in Seattle, he owns many restaurants and I would suggest you should try at least one before you leave town. Seatown has a great basic and some so basic breakfast options. Located on the edge of Pike's Market, the prices are great, the food is good, and you can swing threw the market after wards to pick up some snack to eat while at PAX.

Sun Liquor : Want to get away from the crowds? Head up to Capitol Hill

Saturday or Sunday to try Sun Liquor's brunch. Set in a local distillery where they make gin and vodka, it is one of the only distilleries in the country to also serves as a bar & restaurant. If you are old enough try some of their sprites they make in house. The best part, all brunch items are under 10 bucks!

5 point cafe: Set in Belltown just a block away from the Seattle Center lies the 5 Point Cafe. This 85 year old bar is the perfect fix for your greasy spoon food. Open 24 hours a day, you can get breakfast any time you want. This is a great place to cure your hang over the night before.

Where to grab food for later that day:

It is essential to have snacks on hand while at the convention. You don’t want your stomach to be growling while waiting in line or in a panel. Pike Place Market if you go early in the morning is great place to get fresh fruits and veggies to snack on, the key is to go early before the big crowds come. There is also City Target just up the street from Pike's Market where you can grab your usual junk food must haves. But say you want a good sandwich for later that day, stop by Dahlia Bakery to grab food on the go. Not many people will be there and the line goes pretty fast. Another option is to grab doughnuts for early morning meal or afternoon pickup, the best doughnuts in town is Top Pot doughnuts.

Coffee:

it's everywhere in Seattle, I'm serious, you cant walk 10 feet with out bumming into a coffee shop. You don’t need to go far to find coffee around the convention center. There is the always reliable Starbucks, or if you want to try other options there is the Nordstrom Ebar or Caffe Lardo.

Large Group Dinning:

If you normally have a large group to eat with, it's hard to find a restaurant that will accommodate your group. To combat this is is important to make a reservation at least by 3pm. That way you are not waiting for over 2 hours for a table. Here are a few places to go away from the crowds with your group:

Local 360: This place screams everything Seattle. Fresh local food, and drinks right in the heart of Belltown. This place is great for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.

Icon Grill: Want something that reminds you of home? Look no further than the Icon Grill; serving Seattle since 1998 with dishes like Mac&Cheese, Fried Chicken, and Prime Rib there is something for everyone on this menu. Like Local 360, you can come here for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Bonus points for it being a 5 minute walk from the convention center.

Rhein Haus – formerly, Von Trapp's: If you really want to get away from the PAX crowd, head up to Capitol Hill for some great Bavarian food. Walking in you feel like you are going into a beer hall in Germany, the beer is great as is the food and they have 5 indoor bocce ball courts. A great place to relax before another day of PAX.

Ivars: Ivars is Seattle, Seattle is Ivars and we love our acres of clams and chowder. Located on the iconic waterfront on Pier 54 you can not beat the views of the ferry’s coming into port. Great seafood you do not want to miss this little piece of Seattle history.

Unwind/ Where to go:

Now sometime you would like to get away from the convention center and relax for an hour or two. Sometimes you don’t want to sit in a hotel, why not instead go to Pikes Market and go on a Food Tour. See the different side of the market and sample the great foods of the Northwest. Or go to the Seattle Public Library with its unique design both exterior and interior. Normally I would say go ride the monorail to check out the Seattle Center but Bumpershoot is this weekend as well and the crowds over there are ridiculous, DO NOT GO!

If you only have an hour and your feet are killing you, swing into Julep for a relaxing pedicure. Need some comics to read for the trip back home, go to Zanadu Comics they have a large collection of trades and new comics.

Hope this helps you for your trip to PAX or any other convention taking place in Seattle. If you are attending this weekend have fun and be safe. See Monday for a weekly update.

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Hauling 4 Tons and Waffles

 

Good Monday little bots. This past week was filled with gaming, shopping, hauling, being creeped out, and waffles. Hoping this week will be boring and I can relax a little bit before I have to deal with the Bumbershoot/Pax/Labor day crowds.

In the first half of the week I played the new expansion from Diablo 3 called Reaper of souls on the Xbox One. I finished the main story and loved it! I really liked how they added some more character development to the side characters and even your own character. I still need to play adventure mode and try out the Crusader character that they have added. This past weekend all I played was playing Diablo with my boyfriend and friends.

I took a break from playing Diablo to go shopping with my mom and to comfort her as she gets a new load of hay. The shopping aspect was fine, I love shopping with my mom, but she needs to get over her anxiety over hay delivery. She has been getting hay delivered for over 18 years now and nothing has gone wrong. Usually I just have to make sure the horses are put away and secured and hold my mothers hand when they bring the trailer up to the barn. Now the barn is up on a hill and usually the guy can make it up and just have to stack the hay. Unfortunately he couldn’t make it up the hill, my mother and I had to drag 4tons.... let me repeat that... 4 MOTHER FUCKING TONS OF HAY EACH BALE WEIGHING 100 POUNDS!

I love my mother very much but between hauling that hay and the creepy delivery guy checking me out I told her I'm never hauling hay again. And she agreed with me. I told her next time they couldn’t make it up the hill for some reason, they should park the trailer down the hill and make trips with the pickup truck until the job is done. I'm not throwing my back out and being so sore it hurts to sleep because the driver couldn’t make it up the hill.

I returned home bruised, sore, and tired. So as a result of being an out of shaped pig; I dedicated the weekend to laziness. Mostly it was for recovering my mussel from pulling 4 tons of hay that I did not stretch out before hand. So thus I played the shit out of Diablo with my man on hard difficulty. I also made waffled cinnamon rolls. They were so good! I highly recommend doing this with the pre-made dough that you buy in the supper market. The waffling make a great catcher for the icing.

This week is back to job hunting. This weekend is not only Labor day but also PAX. And while I may not be in attendance this year, I do hope to catch up with some out of town friends over dinner. See you little bots on Friday for a rant I promise I will make one.

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The Bug Bites Are Doubling

They are starting to multiply. Just when I think they are gone....Bam! 15 more show up. Summer is the season where the bugs come out and attack you, I really cant wait for fall. Normally in the city I can avoid being eaten alive, but this past weekend I went to a good friend of mines birthday party and I got eaten. Pretty bad, not going to lie. I've put itch relief and that is not helping. Maybe I should try an oatmeal bath....

But aside from becoming an insect's meal the party was great. Booze was flowing, people were getting there dancing on, and the snack foods were tasty. Did I mention that this was an 80's – 90's themed party. Sadly, or I should say, it was a good thing that I don’t have a picture of my self dressed up as an 80's workout instructor. My god I was totally tubular.

Since i'm not going to PAX this year I was able to see a sneak peak at my friend's Tali's alternate outfit that she is doing for PAX. I'm sad I wont see it in person so I hope she gets some decent pictures of herself while wear it.

Side note; earlier this week the BioWare store is releasing this supper adorable tank top. Click the image to pre order your now!

Thats it for this week little bots, just wanted to keep it short for you. Come back Friday for a rant or something.

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A variety pack week

This past week has been full of ups and downs in regards with my social life. My week started off great, I bought gifts for my friends birthday party, tried dahlia lounge, and I even found the perfect dress for SIFF's opening Galla. Now all I need to do it find the right shoes, make hair and makeup appointment, and buy proper undergarments.

So all was right with the world up until PAX Prime tickets were announced. I logged on two minutes after the announcement and waited for over 20 minutes to only find out over twitter that all their 4 days passes were sold out with in the first five minutes. Needless to say I was pissed, I felt like I got screwed over by this Que line, later I found out from some of my friends they were to screwed over as well, and it feels like every year their ticketing system keeps getting worse and worse. I could have bought individual day pass but that would have been a lot more money that I felt would have been a waste. It is pathetic but I went threw the stages of grief over PAX. Now I realized with all the money I am saving by not buy or attending PAX (about $450) that I can use that money for my trip to Hawaii later this year. Can you say up grade?

The rest of my week had its up and downs. I had lunch with my father at Purple cafe and wine bar, good food, good wine, and for lunch prices were reasonable. The icing on the cake or I should say should have been the icing was the fashion show event on Saturday presented by RAW.

I was going in support of one of my good friend who was walking in the show. In hindsight my man and I should have listen to our gut and stayed home. For starters there was a change in venue after we bought our tickets; originally it was going to be at Trinity club but moved to a new club out in the middle of SoDo. A week before the event it changed from 21+ to 18+, and finally two days before they decided to make it a dry event.

Already these RAW people pissed me off. I wouldn't have bought tickets in advanced if I knew about these changes up front. But we still bought the damn things and I promised my friend that I would go, so we went. According to the event page there was plentiful parking around the event. I'm sure there was if you arrived at five but when we got there we had to park 1/4 a mile away. Side note there wasn't any signs for the event so we kept driving by it two times. Once we arrived we had to wait outside 15 minutes after the event was suppose to start. Eventually someone came out and said we had to use the side entrance, this would have been nice if there were signs. Mind you there were over 30 people waiting to get in before they came out.

We looked around the "art gallery" area, no one was by there art to engage you or try to get you interested in there craft. For food they had a taco truck in the back, which you had to pay for, and the drinks were free jones soda out of a can. 45 minutes into the event they had some singer from Idaho on stage singing for 30 minutes. This would have been great if she did a sound check first. All you could hear was her guitar blasting out the speakers and some mumbled words, this is why you do a sound check or unplug you acoustic guitar. The worst part was when she played the ukulele plugged in, I thought my ears were going to start bleeding it was so loud.

After her was the fashion show, which is why 80% of the people were there for, but they had to change the seat so it was going to be another 45 minutes before it started. According to our watches it wasn't going to start until 9:15 or the most likely case 9:30. We didn't want to stand around ant wait for them to set up so we left around 8:30. I can honestly say that I will never attend another RAW event, I have never been to a more disorganized and boring event.

The moral of the story is to go with your gut. This coming week should be better with my film happy hour and my retreat to my parents house which I am currently at. Have a wonderful week everyone and don't for get to come back for party Wednesday for some cards against humanity.

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