Portland. The city that makes you wanna quit your job.

As you can see I have a new format for my blog. You may recognize the layout because it is the generic WordPress layout as you can see on Joey’s blog. I’ll be personalizing it soon.

A great trip to Portland and our cult leader KB brought about:

    -a transfer from MT to WP
    -a subscription to metafilter
    -two pairs of great pants from REI only to discover I had a $100 dividend I didn’t know about.
    -consumption of the best oatmeal from Kornblatts
    -cheese tasting at the gourmet City Market followed by purchase of great cheese and a bottle of 2001 Tedeschi’s Capitel Dei Nicalo Valpolicella which I consumed myself
    -the traditional new cd that I let Kris pick out for me
    -my first viewing of Kill Bill (awesome!)
    -the popping of my Halo2 cherry (I suck at it)
    -a personal one on one tutorial in PhotoShop from the guru himself
    -and of course the obligatory trip to Powell’s where I walked out with some great books including “The Phantom Tollbooth” which Kris bought for me (thanks Kris!)

Ah yes, a great visit as usual and much needed. But speaking of childhood books and memories (Kris bought me the book because he couldn’t believe I hadn’t read it and I can’t believe it either), I found out something interesting regarding an old childhood song I used to sing all the time.

When I was a little girl my mom would teach us songs and sing with us a lot. At least I remember doing this before I was old enough to go to Montessori and maybe a little after. One of my favorites was “Aloutte” which was in french but I managed to learn it anyway. Of course now upon reading it I realize that I had butchered the language and in my head it looked entirely different. 🙂 Regardless, the bigger shock was what the translation was. Check it out.

12 thoughts on “Portland. The city that makes you wanna quit your job.

  1. Johnny says:

    KT,
    Sorry if I lacked mercy playing Halo 2 with you the other night.. It’s hard for a cut-throat video gaming asshole to change his spots 🙂 I loved that translation you linked to… creepy!

    Can’t wait to see all y’all at Dave’s Wedding, yo.

  2. Aaron says:

    Where is your new rss feed? I simply won’t abide having to actually visit your site in order to read it. I must have rss! I crave it.

  3. Joey says:

    HELLO!! “…generic WordPress layout as you can see on Joey’s blog.” Something needs to be changed here my friend. KB…I need a new look. Generic…I tell you me! 😉

  4. Kris says:

    Joey, When we next talk, remind me to introduce you to this new revolutionlary communication tool called “email.”

  5. Aaron says:

    For some reason, that link doesn’t work, Kris. Tried to paste it into Bloglines, but no soap.

  6. Aaron says:

    Upon further review, the RSS 0.92 feed does work, but the 2.0 does not. Somehow, I’m guessing this news is interesting only to myself and Kris.

  7. xxx@hotmail.com says:

    what a Krappy new “format”

  8. Mad says:

    Oh my God…why did Mom teach us that song?! Now I’m going to have nightmares! Hmm, what other twisted songs did she teach us…

  9. TonjaD says:

    “I like big butts and I cannot lie…”?

  10. kt says:

    TD? What?

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