A Night Off With Amazing People

I had the whole day off on Saturday. What to do, what to do......well, I really needed to get my hair colored, so at my friend Cecily's suggestion, I went to Epicenter & a lovely stylist named Stephanie hooked me up. Stephanie was super sweet & super talented, and if you are in the Portland area & need your hair did, go to www.epicenterhair.com to schedule an appointment with her. Trust me, you'll thank me later ;)

Once my hair was back to it's old self, I decided to do a little shopping on Hawthorne St., as suggested by Stephanie. Hawthorne St. is a really cool strip of restaurants, theaters & shops. I perused the vintage & resale stores & I had lunch at a delicious restaurant. I would tell you where I ate, but I forget the name. Anyway, I had a delicious cold cucumber soup & some ahhh-mazing mac & cheese. I did ok with the resale shops, too. I found an awesome pair of vintage patent leather heels, and a pair of Melissa shoes. I was especially excited about the Melissa shoes. They are a deep berry color jelly shoe in a 40's style heel.

After I was finished shopping around, I drove back to my hotel. I was going out later that night, and I still had some things to take care of. I was hanging out with the producer from Smutty Cash, Nathan, and his girlfriend, Cecily, that evening. Cecily works in a night club/bar & Nathan & I were going to go hang out with her at her work. Let me just say, I had so much fun! The bar was cool, but it was so packed & sooooo hot inside, so Nathan & I went outside to hang out. It was definitely great people watching, lol. There was a girl near us who had tanned herself the color of a hot pretzel, and she thought she was the shit, lol. She was doing this ridiculous dance & we just snickered & laughed & kept referring to her as The Pretzel.

While we waited for Cecily to finish cleaning, afterwards, Nathan & I went to one of the local food carts to grab hot dogs. These hot were amazing! So yummy! One of their friends ended up driving us back to their place, and then I got in my car & drove back to my hotel. I had a lot of fun hanging out & I enjoyed getting to know those  guys better!

Let me just take this opportunity to talk about how much I love my job & how it allows me to travel to places that I wouldn't have gotten to travel to otherwise, have amazing experiences & adventures & meet some really amazing people, some of whom are starting to become great friends. I seriously love, love, love every aspect of what I do. The work is fun, and always different & the people are just incredible. I've had many jobs & worn many hats in my life, but I have never had the experiences & met the kind of outstanding people, as I have with this job. It's nights like Saturday night, spent with amazing & generous people, that make me realize how lucky I really am.

Anyway, back to where I left off. I drove back to my hotel, and someone must've gotten married earlier & were honeymooning at the airport Ramada (lol) because I walked past this lovely vehicle on my way to the door:

Oh Portland! LOL