anger levels stabilized

last weekend, i had an extended visit home to portland and it was lovely. lots of rest/sleep and plenty of good food. i walked around the pearl district with wendy and shopped for paper for her invitations. i watched fever pitch with my brother mike and wendy. it was pretty funny. i spent some time with my parents and spent some time unpacking some of the stuff i moved home, mostly winter clothes and books from undergrad classes. i was productive and cleaned out my home closet for clothes to donate - there were clothes from junior high. it's scary and totally embarrassing to see the clothing that i used to think was attractive. looking through the pile, it was like "what the heck was i thinking?!?" over and over again. i'm sure that 10 years from now, i'll look back on pictures and say the same thing. lame.

after work on friday, i joined the other bridesmaids for christine's wedding for dinner at ginza in bellevue. i was supposed to go to inSpa with them for some relaxing and pampering, but i couldn't leave work early enough to make it, which was a bummer because i definitely needed some de-stressing. dinner was good and afterwards, we went to visit jen and arthur's future home. arthur's staying there until they get married in august.

saturday morning, i overslept and was a little late to kristie's finals for volleyball in the CSL. they had team uniform t-shirts and everything. it was pretty awesome. i caught the second game [best 2 out of 3] and it was definitely fun to watch. of course, it's always more fun to play. i had lunch with her team somewhere on ranier avenue. it's been awhile since i've had dim sum in seattle. and it was pretty good and cheap too. afterwards, we watched a little more the CSL playoffs and then i headed out to join christine, connie, and isabel for some practice hairstyling for the wedding. it didn't go so well with hot rollers for my hair. i think my hair is too short for roller, even the small ones, and also, my hair texture just might not be conducive for rollers since the final outcome was like i electrocuted myself. it was even funnier because we only did half my head. so half normal, half electrocuted. we've determined that it will have to be curling irons all the way, much more style control that way. and then it was more food at olive garden, and i hadn't even fully digested from lunch. i felt a little sick afterwards, like when you're at a buffet, and you've had one plate too many.

i updated some pictures from christine's bridal shower and from mel, vern, and ben's visit to seattle here.