girl in greenwood

Tilth

I just read a review of Tilth, a new-ish restaurant in Wallingford. It's certified organic and is run by a chef who used to be at Earth & Ocean at the W Hotel downtown. It sounds like they have terrific food and a fun atmosphere - I would love to try it sometime. They even take reservations online!

Labels: restaurants, Seattle

http://www.parkgallery.org/calendar/calendar.html

This is a small neat thing that I found - this local photographer makes a monthly desktop image that includes one of her gallery's photos along with the month's calendar in the corner. Useful and pretty. I like it.

Labels: calendar, photos, Seattle

This is a list my husband made in response to requests from coworkers about his favorite restaurants in Seattle. He asked me to post it for future reference.

1. Elemental @ Gasworks
2. Dandelion
3. Volterra
4. Le Gourmand
5. Matt’s in the Market
6. Perche No
7. The Herb Farm and the Barking Frog
8. Buddha Ruksa
9. Ray’s Boathouse
10. Carmelita
11. Brasa
12. Saltoro
13. Boat Street Café
14. Café Lago
15. Yamashiro Bistro
16. Saint Cloud's
17. Stumbling Goat Bistro


BRUNCH

18. Café Flora
19. Volterra
20. Wild Mountain Café
21. Any of the Chow Foods joints
22. Salty’s on Alki
23. Café Soliel
24. Hi Spot Café

Labels: food, restaurants, Seattle

Classes were cancelled at the college today. I could've driven R* Outback (Jed the Wonder Car) and made it in one piece, but apparently the roads are REALLY BAD. Check out this picture... if you're not familiar with Seattle, this photo is about 20 blocks south of where I live and perhaps a mile to the east. In other words, not far at all.

Bumper buses

Labels: Seattle, weather

Sweet Perrin Bread from Essential Baking.

Labels: fall, food, Seattle

R* and I went on a lovely date Friday night. To celebrate R*'s birthday, we went out to dinner at Perche'No for delish Italian food (including a dessert that involved miniature crepes filled with Nutella!). And then we went over to the Pacific Northwest Ballet to see a program of 4 modern dance pieces. We had a fantastic time. I was sooooooo tired by the time we got home - I had been up late the night before writing a care plan, then was at the hospital for clinical from 6:45 to 12:30, then had rushed to campus for a lecture on palliative care from 1:30-3:00. I did crash for about 45 minutes before we left for dinner, but it wasn't enough!

This weekend I spent the entire time parked in front of the computer finished my nursing process paper, writing a paper about nursing care of dying children, log entries on various clinical stuff, a midterm self-evaluation... However! After turning in all that stuff today, here's what I've got left for this quarter:

19 days of class/clinical
3 exams
4 quizzes
3 nursing process papers (and I have to pass just one of them!)
1 final exam

This is totally doable! Especially since Thanksgiving break will occur in the middle of it, and I will have 5 days in a row away from school. (We're out of school Wed-Friday that week.)

We already had a visit from the lead 3rd quarter instructor to give us registration forms and clinical choices for winter quarter. The choices for clinicals are two evenings a week (2:00-10:30) at Harborview, or two morsnings a week starting at 6:45 at Stevens Hospital in Edmonds. I put down Harborview as my first choice - mostly because I would really, really like to have a break from early morning clinicals. Also, the evenings clinicals are on Wednesday/Thursday, which would leave me free on Fridays to do stuff like clean house or shop for groceries. Or sleep.

Now watch, since I've expressed a preference, I'll be going to Stevens for sure. :P

Labels: food, nursing school, Seattle

Pumpkin beer? Check.
Eggnog latte? Check.
Hot apple cider? Check.
Fire in the fireplace? Check.
Fuzzy socks? Check.
90 days of rain? Uh... in progress.

The first 5 almost make up for the last one.

Labels: coffee, fall, food, Seattle

Estrella Soaps

I bought five bars of soap from this local soapmaker at Bumbershoot. I really, really like their stuff. It's all-natural and even vegan. I love how good they smell and how well they lather up!

Labels: Seattle, shopping, soap