Glass HALF Full :)

As I'm approaching the halfway point of my time over here (technically its on Saturday but I’ll be on a plane to Istanbul), I thought it was important to say something about all the things I miss from my amazing hometown of Seattle. Lets call it an homage.

First of all, I have to say a huge thank you to my parents. I basically died trying to save enough money to be able to eat and drink and travel while I'm here, and could never have afforded to pay for my program as well. So a huge thank you to them for affording me this opportunity. I swear I'm learning a ton (even if its only how to buy groceries in Danish and where to buy the best scarves) and having such a great time.

They have also braved technology to skype with me and stay in touch. Yay parents and your new mac, as well as an incentive to get a better internet connection.

I also miss the rest of my family, my grandparents and my sister WHO NEVER TEXTS ME.

I miss late night food. Probably the one thing the culinary scene is missing here is food for me to eat after 11 pm. I never realized how much Seattle loves happy hours and late night happy hours until I left. So even though I'm killing it with Wednesday cinnamon rolls from St. Peters, various cheeses like its going out of style and other classy Netto findings, I'm pretty excited for my first post-midnight sushi fest or after work olive poppers or some half-off oysters compliments of Tommy D and maybe Heather.

I MISS MY GIRLFRIENDS! I miss gin and tonics and kamikaze shots and De Bierstube nights. I miss Seattle dates and going to Trinity and having someone to talk to about boys who actually knows who all the boys are hahaha. But mostly I just miss seeing all of your faces and getting to hear about your lives because really awesome girlfriends are hard to find and I'm lucky that I have four amazing ones.

Im telling Kim not to Yoko Ono my shuffleboard game, a classic and epic moment in our friendship and also my favorite picture of us :)

Halloween 2011

Trinity Bathroom hahaha

Messing around at DeBierstube

Snuggle Nuggets during a rough winter

Weird, DeBierstube again

I ALSO MISS MY NON-GIRLFRIENDS! I love that somehow a highschool group evolved into a deathhouse group and then somehow into adults who have all been friends for close to a decade now. A special thanks to Nick and Andi for making us into a group that is legitimately grown up. Also, please be prepared for “omg you guys are fucking married” a lot, because I'll basically have a 6 month delay on adjusting that situation. I'm excited to come and drink beer with everyone, put money in the douchejar (I bought leather pants!) and debate game of thrones. And mostly just have an awesome fucking time together because we always do. 

Supporting Good Men and Thorough 

Plaid Night

Inaugurational Douche Jar Night

Find the Beer @Nick and Andis Wedding

Deathhouse Halloween Throwback

Okay, so I admit it, I miss Dahlia. Partly I just miss having a job instead of watching my bank account get smaller and smaller. But when I go to restaurants I literally miss waitressing. I miss learning tons of new stuff in menu meeting and wine tastings and simply being around a ton of people who really love food. I'm sure if we had ever drank fireball at work I would miss that too ;), as well as employee pours of Rose and bloody marys at Lola. And by bloody marys at Lola I mean me choosing not to discriminate a delicious beverage based on time of day and being judged for my openness.

Speaking of appreciating food, I really miss Dicks. Sometimes you just need a Dicks special and a chocolate milkshake to make your life better. I can also tell you that the google image search to represent my love for greasy burgers was a little scary, but I made it through. 

 

 

I also really miss my dog. His name is Mobley and he is ridiculous. Here is a video of him trying to get his ball out of the pool. Despite my best efforts, he pretty much sucks at swimming.

I really miss hot yoga. They only have bikram here and its retarted expensive, so needless to say those cinnamon rolls are making an appearance. Denmark loves activities and working out, but they’ve failed me in the category of sweaty ass-kicking yoga that helps me rock aforementioned leather pants.

Overall, I kind of just miss my home. I miss the view of the space needle and knowing exactly where I'm going from street name to bus route. I'm so excited to go into a store without residual guilt and awkwardness that results from me trying really hard to blend it but failing miserably the second someone asks me “er der noget andet jeg kan gøre for dig?”.

I have a few more travels to go, and I'm not ready to get on that US bound plane quite yet, maybe because it’s going to be awful trying to explain to customs why I visited both Russia and Dubai. But I am excited to see SeaTac again in December and spend some time with everyone I’ve been missing.

Also, if you miss me too, my skype is amandamorgannn