Noe's Noise
Random thoughts and images and general noise I'm making...
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- Space Needle (always a must)
- Salumi’s
- Ferry to Bainbridge Island
- Pike’s Place market
- World Spice Merchants
- Ballard Locks
- Lunchbox Laboratory (amazing burgers and Nutella shake? Sold.)
- Fremont Troll
- Cow Chip Cookies
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The story behind stet…
Stet is an editor’s mark, taken from Latin that means “let it stand.” It is used to indicate that one should disregard a change that was marked and to leave the original as it was.
When I first thought of it as a tattoo, it was a joke, playing on the irony of essentially marking yourself with a “never mind, no change needed.” The more I thought about it, I realized it was actually deep. Leave me as I am. And given the layers of it all…ironic, funny, deep…I decided it was me.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stet for more on stet.
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Yeah, I watched this. In the theater.
We loved Thandie Newton’s abrupt, over-the-top reaction to a death. You’re missing the audio of “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
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Wake up on the wrong side of the bed?
Some days I think there is no right side of the bed. Heck, I’d even climb over the headboard if it would help, but there’s just no shaking that mood sometimes.
Being in a bit of a funk lately reminded me of some thoughts about moods and emotions.
Advice I tell myself and others when going through a rough time is to allow yourself to feel what you’re feeling. Be honest about how the situation makes you feel and feel it. Don’t disallow yourself an emotion because it’s not an ideal one. But then, do NOT dwell there. Feel the emotion and move on. Dwelling is where we get unhealthy and stuck in the mood, I think.
You don’t have to be on all the time because chances are it’d be 1) dishonest and 2) annoying, frankly.
Just make sure you remember the important part: getting back up. :)
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Just walked into a kitchen in the office and saw that the sink was starting to fill with mystery nasty water from the drain up. Flashbacks of Milli’s 23rd birthday I think it was. Went to the movies and came back to our apartment to find the kitchen sink was beginning to fill with water coming up the drain. Tried turning on the garbage disposal. It actually got even worse! Called the emergency maintenance line and took SEVERAL trips back and forth with containers full of the water to the bathroom to dump it so it wouldn’t flood the kitchen.
What a birthday, right? Haha. (They eventually came and fixed it after about an hour or so I think. Also note, the kitchen sink in the office behaved and is not currently flooding.) :)
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- Man walking by, looking back: "I like your ass."
- Me: "What'd he say?"
- Her: "I like your ass."
- Me: "Oh. Mine or yours?"
- Her: "Probably yours."
- Me: "No, probably yours. This skirt shows no ass. See." (turning to side)
- Her: "This skirt shows no ass...heh"
- Her/us: "Why are we even talking about this?!"
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams
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INGREDIENTS 2 cups quinoa Vegetable broth
1/4 cup red onion, chopped 3/4 cup corn 3/4 cup (cherry) tomatoes, chopped 1 cup black beans 2 tbsps cilantro Olive oil Balsamic vinegar Salt Pepper
DIRECTIONS 1. Cook the quinoa, using vegetable broth as the liquid. (Two parts liquid to one part quinoa.) 2. Put the cooked quinoa in the fridge until it is cooled. 3. In a large mixing bowl, combine the quinoa, red onions, tomatoes, cilantro, corn and black beans. 4. Add the olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper to taste. The amounts provided are loose suggestions.
