Weekend Update

[Ariel Sayre]

HI LOVES! Miss you. Jale, loved hearing your update on the documentary and yoga and everything!!! It all sounds AMAZING just like youuuu!!! Can't wait to hear more!

Thought I'd get da ball rolling on these updates. 

We went camping this weekend in Little Bennett park in MD! The first night was gr8, got there when it was just getting dark and it only sprinkled a bit of rain. Drank whiskey in tent, fun timesss :) 

Chris made this delicious sangria, day-drank that deliciousness and walked around in the sunshine buzzed all day!! Climbed a tree, fell in the river, caught some tadpoles (just two! we're gonna raise them! they're called Bennett and Piedmont :D). Then we got back, played some frisbee golf, walked around more and then started making dinner... it got dark... Chris cut his finger on a can and it started bleeding profusely. It was starting to get dark and to rain sooooo we took everything down and went to the ER. Got there, there was a zombie charity run so there were some zombie people waiting, pretty bizarre. Chris got 7 stitches in his finger the poor man!

Drove back to DC, passed out... Sunday was lazy, House of Cards, went on a run, hung out etc.

Love youuuu allllll

Square (Rookie Squirrel)

[Leah Gold]

I LOVE THAT ROOKIE SQUIRREL IS A THING NOW! Also, roommate, nice to hear about your weekend because I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU AND WON'T UNTIL TOMORROW SOIR. WHAT?! Also HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!

Weekend. Friday I drove home to Baltimore for my Dad's talk on a movie called K-Pax with Kevin Spacey & Jeff Bridges about mental patient who believes he's from another planet. Super cool movie, because it definitely makes you question your grasp on reality and what's true. My dad unfortunately had a meh experience with the talk. It didn't go so well because he was being rushed, people kept leaving  because it was late and the movie ran late, the questions asked were fairly inane... anyway. Cool that he got to do this regardless. Then had a girls night with my Baltimore ladies (which turned into boys night, where we joined the girls' boyfriends out, lame) and I got hit on by a married dude who is expecting a baby with his wife. FUN (not).

Saturday I had breakfast with the parents in the AM, drove home and ran errands, did some straightening up, etc. Then I went over to the guy I've been seeing (Adam)'s place and had the best time. He was housesitting for his parents so invited me over there and we played with his dogs and hung out in his big backyard in the gorgeous weather! He cooked me dinner--steak and seared tuna, on the grill. We watched a movie. It was a great night. He then proceeded to invite me to a Nats game to meet his friends the next day, and I had no plans so I said, why not!? Stayed in bed late next day, breakfast on the porch, then off to the game. One of his friends was an ex, but it was not awkward and I had tons of fun. Got sunburnt. Drank beer. Watched baseball. Made his friends laugh. The Nats lost and were not as cool as the Os (typical). We all walked by the waterfront and went to dinner after the game. So, over 24 hours with this guy and I had a blast... which means I think I really like? More about him to come! Drove home and passed out by 9, phew.

Okay, now SARAH I want to hear about Cville!

xx Wacky sacky

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Leah A. Gold

[Kaity Houk]

Squariel that's such a bummer about the stitches! Oh no! At least you got to be one with nature, so good!

Leah - steak and seared tuna sounds so amazeballs. sounds like a really awesome weekend with Adam!

Sarah I want foxy stories! I'm feeling so nostalgic!

So Friday night I organized this Meetup event for my office, around Data Visualization. Sounds nerdy, but it was pretty cool. Beer and Pizza. Went for late night drinks after with the coworkers. Stayed up till 2 talking about the future. Passed out and woke up at 4 for my 6am flight to Seattle

Saturday was nappy times, but then Ben and I had brunch with my boss Gitendra, plus some interesting Seattle people - some girl who's thinking of moving to the Bay Area and looking for advice, and some old friends of Gitendra's. 

Then me, G, and Ben walked over to have cigars with one of my former coworkers, and talked about startups and venture capital. Met with an Angel Investor Group. Tried a cigar, which was kinda buzzy but kinda ew cough. 

We said bye to Gitendra, who went to hang with his old friends, and then Ben and I picked up the 3D printed wax model of my wedding band, which will be cast later this month. The stones will be from this necklace Ben got for me back in 2006. Then we decided to have a date night at Canlis (fancy schmancy restaurant). You need a rez months in advance, so we just sat in the lounge/bar area. The pianist was our FAVORITE. He played Lorde, Pharrell, Biggie (Gangster's Paradise), John Mayer, and even Les Mis and the theme song from Game of Thrones! Ahh so obsessed. We hung around sipping on wine for like 2 hours.

Sunday was super lazy times, then out to dinner for our friend James' birthday, watched Game of Thrones, and talked about life.

So life decisions being made... Ben really doesn't want to leave Microsoft, and this long-distance back-and-forth is actually putting in a ton of stress in my life. Besides the career things, I think that if I continue to pursue this job at Monsoon, my work will take over my life, I'm going to lose my Seattle friends, and basically have to start all over again. It kills me because I love this fast-paced and interesting field, but I can't justify that I can't find something similar in Seattle. I haven't really told many people, but I'm pretty sure I have to turn around and seek some other opportunity in Seattle. Ben's been really good about supporting this decision to try Monsoon, and he's even filed for work-from-home positions to make moves toward California with me. But the truth is, I'm not sure that this is really happiness, and I'm not convinced that Monsoon is all that it's cracked up to be. Anyway, it's just something that's weighed pretty heavily on my mind, and you guys are pretty good to vent to. 

Miss you all so much, and I really want to see your faces soon,

How Pow

[Kaity Houk]

OH AND YES OF COURSE HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DEAR LITTLE ARIEL!

[Sarah Mercer]

herrow ruvries!!

Happy birthday, squariel!! also, loving how outdoorsy and twitterpated everyone is! happy spring!!

Kaity, i'm sorry that things are hard with deciding what to do about work. but it's good that both you and Ben are being so mature about it. and seattle is still an exciting place, and who's to say that you wont find something there too. especially since you have this boss experience now. YGG.

it's been quite a week. on Monday (last monday, not yesterday), i was playing soccer and ended up spraining my wrist when blocking a goal. ive got this crazy bruise on my wrist that looks somthin awful, but it's healing. ive never broken/sprained anything before, so it's been an experience having to learn to do everything one handed. 

Thursday, my Dad and I went to check out this new pop-up brewery downtown. it was in this really old (built in 1890) building that actually used to be a brewery, and the city was going to tear it down. but the community got them to hold off, and they started this summer-long pop-up brewery thing with food trucks, live music, local beer, basketball viewing parties, the works. the idea is to temporarily occupy the space to get someone invested in fixing the place up and turning it into something permanent. so cool. the structural engineer in me was freaking out at the old building. took like 800 pictures of the roof and columns alone. 

BUT SATURDAY WAS FOXFIEEEEELD!!!

It was so much fun! got into cville really late on friday, but then Elize and i got up early to meet some of her friends for breakfast and bloody mary's. yumm. Elize's office had a plot, and i hung out there mostly. but i did venture over to the student area (which was a shit show. i dont know how we dealt with 4 years of that drunken mess). but i saw a bunch of people! ran around with Leah Davis, Jacob Lyon, Wayne, and Abena for a while. Found Mehul at the dance party plot (obviously). Saw Phillip Rodgers, Chelsea Marcilin, Jimmy Edwards, Julian Guh and some other fourth years (that's right. they are 4th years now). saw KRICH!! smudgens wasnt there though. met one of the tea partay newbies. so little. has no idea what he has gotten himself into. found the a capella plots and saw Reva, Kelly Snow, Michael Winters, a bunch of people i hugged but couldnt remember their names. got me some nick evrington and red fox bromance lovin'. wandered some more. ran into Ian cathcart's fraternity's plot, and pretty much all those engineering guys in that frat from our year were there. plucked mary kate steinbeck out of a crown to give her a big hug. ran into someone from my high school back in memphis (so random!). saw a few kds that i wanted to talk to. avoided some others. 

i had enough of that after a while, and left the drunken riots for the more tamed tipsy-ness of the the alum section. found elize again and just stayed there until we left. we really lucked out with beautiful weather, no burns, and not much traffic. great day all in all. we dropped some people off and the rest headed back to elizes apartment for beers and people watching from her balcony over looking the downtown mall. got some dumplings for dinner. suh good. then elize and i walked to the pavilion for the nickel creek concert. which was amazing. absolutely love them! got post concert drinks, then headed to bed.

sunday we brunched on the mall and lazed around in her apartment until i had to get to richmond for my flight. 

miss you all!!

-Rough Smuff