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ikka

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About Me

I'm 25.
I'm a teacher.
I love Portland.
I love life :).

... and jonah

My Interests

music, art, traveling, playing my cello, going to concerts, fashion, ballet, teaching ..

Music:

onelinedrawing, far, bright eyes, iron and wine, interpol, ariel kill him, death cab for cutie, counting crows, pretty girls make graves, the shins, the faint, cursive, beautiful mistake, bloc party, zoot woman, the notwist, massive attack, neutral milk hotel, coheed and cambria, elkland, mates of state, fischerspooner, belle and sebastian, pinback, the knife, teddy bears stockholm, mandalay, bebel gilberto, the decemberists, styrofoam, copy, mum, joanna newsom, junior boys, stars, architecture in helsinki, cansei de ser sexy ..

Movies:

anything by the marx brothers, the princess bride, science of sleep, little miss sunshine, kiss kiss bang bang, that thing you do, spaceballs, will farrell in general, broken flowers, anything christopher guest, pan's labrynth, motorcycle diaries..... ..

My Blog

portland in the winter

so i was keeping track of what makes me happy in a few of my other blogs and decided to renew that. this world is filled with so much sorrow and sadness, it's important to take a minute and think abou...
Posted by ikka on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:44:00 PST

adios a barcelona

as i get ready to leave this place (in 2 days..), i'm faced with mixed emotions. i will certainly miss lots of things/people.. but i'm so glad to be going back to portland.what i will miss about barce...
Posted by ikka on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:24:00 PST

barcelona, part 2

yesterday- uneventful. last night- amazing! we (sara and her ex and i) went to a bar called picis copa... we were lured in by the brightly colored flashing christmast lights. music changed between tec...
Posted by ikka on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:26:00 PST

barcelona

barcelona is amazing!!! i'll update this with pictures, etc.. but so far here's what i've experienced:i'm living in an apartment with 1 girl (from uruguay- her apt.) and 1 guy from canada. they're bot...
Posted by ikka on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:05:00 PST

cruise '07

if you haven't already looked at my photos, there are several from the cruise in its own little album...i ended up making tons of wonderful new friends, but in the beginning i spent a lot of alone tim...
Posted by ikka on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:45:00 PST

happiness is...

road tripping with my brother, singing hall and oats.the smile of my 10 mo. old nephew sriped/polka-dotted/argyle socksunexpected packages of delight and love in the mail (thank you jess...)any mail b...
Posted by ikka on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:59:00 PST

because my other blog got too long.

i had to start a new happiness list. "why?" you say. well, i like to focus on the positive. plus i'm home sick and bored, so this is what i come up with to occupy my time.so on to the blog. happiness ...
Posted by ikka on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:35:00 PST

my brother

so for all of those that know my brother, and even those that don't, he is an incredibly talented and amazing graphic designer. he owns his own design firm in phx, az, and they just recently won a sup...
Posted by ikka on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:27:00 PST

I'm an aunt!!!!!

this evening, at 6PM (in phx, az), my brother and his amazing wife, lindsay, gave birth to their son, Kieran Emmett. both mom and baby are healthy and so incredibly adorable. i'm really sad i couldn't...
Posted by ikka on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 10:39:00 PST