blogging from a bar

somehow I feel like this is bridgette's wet dream: blogging from an amazing bar. I totally just drunk dialed claire and she was asleep, sorry luvbug! the adverts are playing right now and it totally rules. I love steven hoffman a lot! sooo much. please come visit our adorable existence soon/ I have so many cool places to show you

ZEXY TIME

donkey kong

OH HI THERE GUYS. i'm already such a lame blogger, not updating. lately my life has consisted of putting together furniture and watching steven play video games. currently he's playing donkey kong country: 3. oh yes. it's true. oh man right now he's a tiny elephant shooting himself out of barrels (so cute and so confusing, i thought this game was about monkeys?)

so furniture update: 2 days ago, in a fit of determination, i marched over to the william temple thrift store, approximately 3 blocks away. my plan was to buy a basket and maybe some wall hangings, both i found right away. now, small backstory, i had seen this amazing chair a few days prior, but steven refused to attempt carrying it to our apartment. i've been thinking about it for days, plotting how i could possibly strap it to myself or maybe i could bribe one of the workers into lending me a dolly. so once i found a basket i went to go sit and admire my chair, but i couldn't find it at first. i searched and discovered they had moved it to the back. that was the final straw, i went to purchase my items and found out that i could borrow a dolly no bribing necessary! so i surprised steven and managed to get it home, receiving many strange looks along the way. did i mention it's green and has a matching ottoman? oh yes. today i put together a desk i purchased at target yesterday thanks to madie and her mom, and her mom's car. the apartment is becoming so nice and homey. i will take pictures (if anyone cares) as soon as it's all done.

not a whole lot to mention though, mostly i've just been cooking and playing nintendo. i signed up for a twitter, i had one but i completely forgot about it, even the username. so if anyone is on twitter plz follow me. also been discovering so many cute places to go. trying to save my moneys though. we live right around the corner from some amazing bars. the other night we went to two of them, tony's and the matador. tony's is pretty much an authentic dive. wooden booths and red lights everywhere. we were the only people under 40, everyone in there was a regular and they all knew each other. some amazing old man bought the whole bar 2 rounds, and then another for just me and steven. he reminded me of boomhower from king of the hill, because for the life of me i couldn't tell what the hell he was saying. so steven and i got pretty wasted for free, even though pints were only $1.75! and they have a "depression fighter" special 9am to noon, dollar pints $3 small pitchers. and then happy hour is noon to seven! what?! best bar ever. ok so we were drinking it up, steven gave me a couple of bucks to put on the jukebox. once our songs were over, the previously mention old money bags, gives steven and i $5 to put more songs on. $5 on the that jukebox bought 23 songs! once those song were all over we headed next door to the matador. basically it's a mix of the cha cha lounge and the v-room, but less lame and also more lame? needless to say it's pretty sweet. drinks are pretty cheap, there are paintings of matadors all over it, AND there's a photo booth. black&white, real film, photo booth. YUS. god, i really love portland. there are just so many amazing places. i want all of you to come live here with me! please? ok thanks.

sidenote: steven is now a spider wearing sneakers in donkey kong.

i suppose i should be doing something productive so i'll BRB, TTYL KIT
SIGNING OUT

oh hi there. 

so we're semi-settled in portland, actually made it here in one piece, amazingly. the drive was a bit rough. we got stopped trying to cross the CA/OR boarder because of SNOW. snow flurries to be exact. driving in snow flurries, INVIGORATING&TERRIFYING. point is, we're here. sort of moved in, not very unpacked at all.  but wow, the apartment is so cute. so effing cute you would all die. my dad was here for two days, it was so sweet. he stayed an extra day because i was so bummed he was going to leave. seriously i have the most adorable dad ever. he left this morning and saying goodbye to him was so hard. he helped steven and i SO MUCH. he built us a custom kitchen table, c'mon! so wonderful. yesterday after steven filled out his rental application (why he had to i'm not entirely sure) he got this call saying he owed the city of forest grove $116, for unknown reasons, and that he HAD TO TAKE CARE OF IT THAT AFTERNOON, OR ELSE. luckily my dad offered to drive him, which would have been a 2-3 hour excursion on public transit. so thankfully it was all cleared up in a timely fashion and my dream was realized, i got to see FOREST GROVE. the tiny town i heard so much about, that steven refused to ever take me, (the town that steven went to college in). so steven's going to sign the lease and everything tomorrow, yay! he was nervous he wasn't going to pass the credit check, but he did, so no sneaking in and out of the building and only having one set of keys!

so this morning my dad left, *tear* :'(   i know i'm drunk and so homo, using emo-cons and everything. my parents are so wonderful. i love them. got a bit homesick today, just knowing i'm so far from the people i love, and those who know me best. but i am completely in love with this place, and i have my stevie beans and madie here. 

 today steven and i wondered around our amazing neighborhood OMG IT'S SO GOOD. we're so close to everything. we walked to the goodwill after getting breakfast and bought a microwave, for $25, no sales tax! yeah, it totally rules. then we went to ace, again right down the street, got fishing line to hang pictures from. walked a bit further to the pearl to go to powell's. powell's is the most ridiculously amazing bookstore ever. it's the length of a city block and four stories high. each room is a different color with a different genre. after, we wondered back closer to our house, drank some espresso and waited for 5:30, when synecdoche, new york was playing at the theatre down the street. ok you guys, mission theatre, portland oregon. amazing. the tickets to the movie were only $3, and you could drink and eat inside of the theatre. amazing. so many good things so close to us. i'm too drunk to continue writing this, but i love everyone. i love love steven hoffman. i miss murphy. i miss maxwell and my dad and my mom. MEOW!

listening to le tigre & missing claire williams

packing still blows, but i'm kind of accomplishing things. hoping sarah will come over and steal more clothes from me.  steven is currently caffeinating himself with birthday boy franklin. so of course i'm blogging instead of packing.

ok i always knew i was a pack-rat, but seriously you guys i have so much shit. so many fucking items of clothing.

i wish i could take delilah & theo (steven's cats) with us. damn, they have been so cute lately. i'm gonna miss that jerk murphy too. damn him! so cute.

i had a point to writing this, but i guess the point was really just to distract myself from the inevitable. ugh.

frank gave me and steven a toaster and a coffee maker! and my dad found us a TV, also he found a bunch of expensive wood and made us a table. i love my dad. i love free things too. 

what else... danny and jesse threw us a party on friday, and it was amazing, though the next day i had maybe one of the worst hangovers to date. 

just look at this!

ok must be productive!