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Me, my friends, and austin

January 17, 2013

My trip to Austin last week was pretty spontaneous. A few weeks back Walker had booked a trip to Dallas for a bachelor party so I decided I would visit friends in Austin. Plus I used air miles so it was basically free. Bonus!

My first few days in town were pretty quiet since most everyone works during the week, go figure. I used this time to take myself out on a few dates and treat myself. I got my hair trimmed, a facial, a massage, and enjoyed some of my favorite Texas beers. These few days were made even better by the amazing weather and sun. There were two days in a row that were around the high 60’s and low 70’s and nothing but sun. I sat in the sun for as long as I could and it was glorious. I enjoyed a nice local brew as I worked on my cowl for my return to colder weather.

My evenings were filled with catching up with ex-coworkers, visiting a local brewery for their monthly party, trying out new restaurants and just getting to be myself with friends. That was a nice change to the small talk I’ve been working through in Seattle trying to make new friends. I know it takes time but it was nice to take a break from all of that and just relax.

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-working on a bit of knitting

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-my good friend and ex-coworker took me out for a belated birthday dinner. It was so good! {crispy kale salad? Yes!}

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-I got to see the new gym my old coworkers got up and running at the office

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-A pretty awesome Austin brewery and lots of cans!

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-a new pizza/brewery we tried out

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OhSoAntsy’s 2012

December 31, 2012

Upon visiting a few of my favorite blogs today (rougeandwhimsey and julieannart) I noticed they both recounted their 2012 in relation to their blogs and handmade businesses. I have quite a few notables from this year and I thought it would be fun to do something similar.

Here we go!

-January is of course my birthday month which is awesome but this year is also marked the 1 year anniversary of my shop!

-February I fulfilled my goal of attending my first blogging/small business conference and met some really awesome people. {Blissdom in Nashville}

 

-March I headed to Utah for the first time and snowboarded for maybe an hour. Later in the month Walker found out he got the job in Seattle.

– April I visited New Orleans for the first time and confirmed 100% that I am allergic to oysters.

-May was Walker’s last month in Texas and we lived it up!

-June Walker moved to Seattle and I checked out the city during my first time there.

-July I left my day job to pursue OhSoAntsy full time! I left Texas and moved home for the summer to spend time with friends and family.

-August I attended my 10 year high school reunion. My how time flies.

-September I moved to Seattle to be with Walker.

-October I went on my annual fall “camping trip”.

-November we celebrated a Northwest Thanksgiving with some friends (who also moved from Texas) in Oregon. My first Oregon trip.

-December marked the busiest month of my business to date. I was slammed with work and was glad to finally take a break to celebrate Christmas. This was our first Christmas living together.

 

Christmas update

I mentioned Walker and I headed out to Oregon for our Christmas this year. Before we left we celebrated our Christmas and took a few silly pictures by our tree.

-helping Walker focus the lens

-new books for Christmas (the best gifts)

-all the stockings hung at our Oregon Christmas

-laying around

-yeah awesome breakfast

-a horse friend we met on a walk

-it snowed a little

-our view of the mountains while we were there

-it was fun being entertained by kids and puppies alike

We had a great time visiting with new friends and family. Christmas was wonderful and then the aweful bug hit us all. It caught us 2 by 2 it seemed. I got it on night 3 and spent the next day on the couch recovering. Luckily I felt great by the time we had to hop on the bus to come home. Walker wasn’t as fortunate as he was feeling a bit ill on the bus but managed to make it home. We are now both feeling great and ready to party our butts off on this New Year’s Eve! Yeah!

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