You may have heard of Seattle’s gloomy and depressing weather – it’s all very real and true.  With the exception of last week’s annual heat wave, Seattle is predominately overcast (nine months to be exact), but three precious months of glorious Pacific Northwest summer is what has kept me in this Emerald City for the past ten years.

That preface is meant to be an excuse for why I’ve kept mum in the blogging world. I’ve also been busy doing some spring cleaning on my blog.  Thanks to my lack of coding background, I’ve spent countless hours re-vamping my blog for simple aesthetics and social bookmarking features.  Hope you like it.

Excuses aside, I’ve decided to make my comeback post with a chance to win some free stuff from Bing^TM for their one year celebration.  If you’re not too cool for freebies, read on for more details. Continue Reading…