Monthly Archives: May 2007

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Blame The Weather

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Or the husband, or the exploring, or the city, or the internet…

I miss you guys. I haven’t even been able to barely turn on the computer, I admit it. I haven’t been perusing, exploring, driveling, okay, or anything on the computer lately. Here’s my formal apology for all those lazy posts, to all of you calling asking “What has been going ON!?!?!” I haven’t even checked email (although now that I have, I have plans for tonight!) lately. It’s too sunny, too beautiful, too fun to walk around, too much to do! MK has been bogarting the internet, but is finally hooking up the wifi as I type. Small victory.

We have been gallivanting all over. We played poker, went out to dinner, and are currently in the midst of the Seattle Maritime Festival, which began yesterday with the Seattle Waterfront Neighborhood Chowder Cook Off. For 5 dollars, we get chowder from 20 restaurants all weekend to taste and vote for our favorite. There will also be boating and free tours of the aquarium and harbor. Yipee!

I’ve been keeping up my running, been able to add weights also (it’s sunny from 5am to 9pm, I’m getting in two workouts most days) and in addition to all that MK and I walk everywhere. The only small catch is all this seafood. I’m fairly certain I’d weigh 12 lbs. if I wasn’t trying to scarf down all the deliciousness that surrounds me everywhere I look. We grilled prawns on the roof again the other night, and some kabobs. It doesn’t seem to get any better than this. The waterfront run is so beautiful, I have to say I think it beats Town Lake in Austin. We saw a seal while we were running yesterday. How many of you have had that happen?;)

I forgot to share the great story of the arm wrestling debacle, wherein the dishwasher of the pizza restaurant made $65 or so beating a friend, here’s the proof (I guess we took pictures after all):

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I haven’t done the customary, “By the way, I have a blog and your picture is subject to publication at any time” disclaimer, so let’s hope everyone’s cool…

And, in closing, for now, I’d like to let you know that I’ll be back soon(er).

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Visual Learner

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There are tons of work out magazines around my place. I always think that I will learn some new moves from them. But there’s one small problem. I don’t get it. There’s a big page of instructions with pictures and words, and I read, and reread, and read out loud, and try to imitate. I can never make sense out of what they are trying to do. I end up pulling something and throwing the magazine and pulling something else doing that, it’s not pretty.

Well, I sure like the show Work Out. After seeing last week’s episode, I checked out the website and the blogs and forums for the show, and found videos that they’ve posted of many of these moves that I can’t make sense out of. The internet has done it again.

Here’s the link to the videos if you’re interested. Sometimes they take a little while to load. Of course, you can always search on YouTube too, but those results were slightly more questionable. I thought it was pretty helpful. Or, if you’re good with magazines, let me know. You can have mine.

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Too Cool For Pictures

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…So you’ll just have to take my word for it. We went out for very yummy pizza Friday night with a new group of friends, and then to a bar called the Pig ‘N Whistle. Saturday we walked to the Art Museum. They wouldn’t allow any pictures inside, but it was great. I have nothing to compare it to, not having been before this remodel and grand reopening, but everyone seemed to enjoy it. Most people that I know would hate to be there when it was that crowded. I have to tell you, I think I preferred it. I liked to see everyone else’s reactions to the art and how it differed from mine. There were some great pieces – Frida, Kandinsky, Warhol, Rodin, Pollock, and other great artists.

After all that excitement, we were starving. We ate at a great wine bar called Purple right by the museum. We did a little shopping and before we knew it, it was 10pm and we’d missed our chance to go to a bar for Cinco de Mayo. So we skipped that.

Sunday we went to Fremont after a big pancake breakfast (I made!) and walked through their Street Festival, one of those things where people sell handmade jewelry and that sort of stuff. We drove to Tulalip and shopped at the Seattle Outlet Mall. It was crap that MK got a ski coat for $50 and Lucky jeans for $30. I got a tank top. Grr.

My favorite place in Seattle so far is this place called Shorty’s. On Sunday nights they do a pinball tournament so we headed there, where MK was quickly ousted, but we met a lot of great people and will hopefully go back all the time. Finally, we went to the Seattle equivalent of the Alamo, a downtown theater called The Big Picture, and saw Hot Fuzz. The beers were $2 and the popcorn had white cheddar on it. Mmmmm. The movie was not as funny as I had hoped.

There is a tournament for girls only coming up at Shorty’s, and the grand prize is, you guessed it:

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so I’ll be there practicing for the next few weeks, now that I know I need this pinball machine. More than anything.

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Letter To Barbara Walters

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I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, well, since TB and I had our first discussion about it. Being someone who is at home or at the gym in the morning, I have on occasion taken in episodes of The View. It was that train wreck phenomenon, I knew I shouldn’t but was inexplicably drawn to the nonsense. I never loved Rosie O’Donnell- on her own show, liking Tom Cruise, being gay, being loud. And she’s leaving. Then, that little spunky Elizabeth Hasselbeck is soon going on maternity leave. Did you know she did Survivor?

Anyway, who does that leave Barbara with? Joy Behar. David Letterman can tell you what that’s going to be like:

I thought that was pretty funny. Well, I just wanted to announce to Barbara that I’ll go if they do national tryouts…otherwise I’m suggesting Victoria Beckham and Whoopi Goldberg. 😉

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The New SAM

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Our adventures today began with me getting the most super fabulous hairdo of my life at the Quint Eby Salon. You should come visit me just for that. With that asset, we are headed down to the new Seattle Art Museum, which opens with a 35 hour marathon of exploring.

Can’t Wait!!!

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New Adventures

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These pictures are all at the Seattle Art Museum Olympia Sculpture Park, 9 acres by the water of running trails and crazy art that we explored today.

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Then we went to the Hiram Chittenden Locks and Botanical Gardens. Watching the locks in action was amazing. The boat by itself is in the small lock, which puts a boat through in 8 minutes. In the large lock, they cramp all the boats in at once and get them through. You can walk all around the water, stand on the locks, and there’s even a salmon run there to see too.
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More oysters!

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For those of you curious, it’s only really rained one day since we’ve gotten here, and that was yesterday. It was wet for about two hours then cleared up. We were actually able to go out and made some new friends that we’re looking forward to exploring the city with.