#ThanksObama

They're calling it, "Obama Jam". 

It's the traffic jam of 2015 that has the city crippled with fear. Worse than a snow storm, the arrival of POTUS in Portland has locked down the city. "Stay inside", "work from home", "don't rely on maps, or public transit. Not even your barista".

Everyone is going to feel the hit and I'm having no issues with it.

It's all worked out pretty sweetly for me because he's scheduled to speak at the place that I work and that means if you weren't one of the lucky 2,000 employees and Portland Elite to get a ticket, you are advised to stay at home.

A free work-from-home day with a cloudless 80-degree forecast and a Friday as the cherry on top.

So today, I'm saying a huge #ThanksObama for making it feel like a three-day weekend.

So if you're sitting at your desk and not working from home - thanks to Obama - here's some of my favorite finds this week on the Internet.

Alyssa, I capitalized Internet thanks to you!

:: This article on the Dad Bod. It doesn't go both ways.
:: This wonderfully choreographed "IDFWU" video. One of these girls is 11 years old.
:: Chia Pudding. So much chia pudding.
:: These grain-free Cinco-de-Mayo recipes, because I don't need a holiday to love Mexican.
:: Here's how Yoga helps to reverse the damage of your desk job.
:: Follow these Fit Instagram accounts for some awestriking inspiration. 

Have a lovely Mother's Day Weekend!

Are you linking up with Amanda?

Hair and More

This weekend I skipped a Derby party so that I could get my hair cut. 

This is not a post about my avoidance of social gatherings, but rather my blatant avoidance of things that I should do, but don't. Social gathering avoidance is a different topic altogether and shouldn't be taken so lightly. Really it comes down to the ever important debate of pants or no pants. No pants will always win. 

So this haircut, it wasn't just any haircut. It was a last-minute holy-grail same day hair cut. This was a haircut and hair coloring that hadn't been done for 33 weeks according to the last instagram "new hair!" selfie. One I'd avoided scheduling because history shows that the minute I schedule any appointment for my hair I become emotionally obsessive about everything that's wrong about it. For the 2-4 weeks I have to wait post-schedule, there's nothing that can ever go right with my style, it takes too long to dry, it's too light, too dry, too something.

Oh, and way too many split ends to get distracted by. There's always another.

This made me think about other errands and "things" I'm currently putting off because I'm lazy or something.

:: Fold the socks that have been occupying my pool table for longer than I care to admit.

:: Actually donate the clothes I long ago sorted into the "donate" piles.

:: Restore clothes with holes and missing buttons that prevent me from wearing them.

:: Pick up my undergraduate degree paperwork from college (Graduated in 2009).

:: Update my resume and cover letter.

:: Find, organize and use outstanding gift cards. Free money.

:: Understand how my DSLR remote works (and use it). Currently wasted money.

:: Om at Home more often (thanks, Alyssa)

Oh yeah, here's my hair since this is the only after-salon shot I was able to get before getting sweaty. Sweaty was either from a workout or a crazy sunny day in Portland, you decide!

Pardon the obvious snapchat AND the obvious car-selfie.

Are you confessing today with Melissa?

Jessi Does the Mission

Yes, my last post I revealed that I kissed a boy - multiple times - during my twenty-day blogging disappearance. 

I'm not trying to keep the sweet, sappy and juicy details from you, really. 

I can tell you the part where we were drunk in love outside of Fenway Park and strangers were shouting everything from "Get a room!" to "Say yes!" to "Say no!". In fact, we were sober. And I happened to get sick that evening and almost hurled my cookies on the T, but he was my ride or die and suggested we stop for chicken strips, water and a place to hurl. It was his best call yet. Or the cool part where he showed me that he could do a headstand for way more than 15 seconds and I lost my biggest bet of the century.

But why was the kiss what got 99.8% of your attention? Really, didn't you see that I got called up on stage to co-teach drum class? Or that I read more books in 20 days than I've read in the last three years combined. Not only that but then I bought more? Or cookies? Or chia seeds?

Or most importantly that I hung out with MacKensie for a whole entire weekend? I hadn't seen her since she came to visit me in August last year with miss Ziggy.

Actually, if you do nothing else today you should go read this and see how great the weekend in San Francisco was.

One word: Cold.
Two words: Napkin blankets.
Three words: She's so adorable. (she'll say creepy)

My travels are over for the short term, no jet-setting currently in my schedule and maybe that will mean more outdoor adventures, more Portland loving and quality sister snuggling like I got to do this weekend!

Really, go read about "Jessi does the Mission (impossible)"

Happy Cinco de Mayo!