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PapayaDog?
I know you are all wondering what is PapayaDog or why PapayaDog, so I'm going to put you out of your misery right off the bat. When my fiance were in our second year of dating, he lived in Brooklyn and I lived in Washington DC. Every two weeks, one of us would visit the other in our respected city (oh Chinatown bus, how I sort of miss thee!) for a weekend. I don't know how he felt about coming down to DC, but I loved going up to Brooklyn. Great places to hang out, awesome shopping and delicious food -- what more could I ask for. It was like living in New York without paying to live in New York. So one of my favorite things to eat was Grays Papaya hot dogs (mmm...I'm hungry just thinking about it!). One day I wanted a Grays Papaya hot dog so bad that almost considered going to have a Papaya Dog hotdog (not as good knock-off). My fiance, M (he's a secret agent and I have to protect his identity), decided that since I loved the hot dogs so much, he'd nickname me PapayaDog. Well, the name stuck and that's that. Actually M has a gift for coming up with nicknames. He gave a friend of his the nickname Sugarbowl 7 or 8 years ago and it's stuck. Actually, for the first year I knew Sugarbowl, I had no idea what his real name was!
Why PapayaDog the blog?
The dirty truth? I'm using this blog to help me with my New Years Resolution. I know it's October and this probably should have been done in January, but I wasn't having problems with my resolution until last month. What is the resolution? To try something new every month. Some new things have been more exciting (visited Ethiopia) than others (stay on budget for the whole month), but they were new things none the less. Now I've gone a whole month without doing anything new and am on the verge of extending my streak to a second month. I thought a blog would keep hold me accountable. That's it. This blog is my new thing for October and I hope to post regularly for a year.
About me
I'm a 28 year old Jane of all trades. My Mom used to call me a Jack of all trades when I was a kid. I'm not sure if that was a compliment or a way to get me to focus on one thing but either way, it's true and I'm OK with that.
During the day I work for a public health non-profit where I am the resident Jill of all trades (literally) and in the evenings I do what ever needs to be done followed by anything I have time for.
I love colors, traveling, cooking, crafting (sewing, pottery, any DIY), the Seahawks, U-dub (that's the University of Washington for any of you outside Washington state) sports, March Madness, Spin and Aqua (yes, the one where old ladies jump around in the pool) classes, design of all kinds, making and checking things off my list and of course my family and M.
Just so you know, I'm a procrastinator and am a horrible speller. I blame part of my misspelling affiction on living in England for a while and part of it on my Dad who is the world's worst speller. I will say in his defense that American English isn't his first language but he speaks it wonderfully and at times funnily (is that a word?). I also make up words -- just FYI.
This Blog
I'm going to try my best to not have this be a diary even though this first post sounds like one. I hope this blog will motivate me to try new things and share them with all of you. I also will post things I think are cool, projects I want to try (and probably won't), wedding planning (this won't be a wedding blog) and other things I think I should share.
All that being said, WELCOME!
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