We arrived in Tacoma today for the sole purpose of using up our Go Seattle card at the Glass Museum. The museum is closed on Monday. Figures. So we went here instead:
The view from our Tacoma room:
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I’ve Been To Paradise
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Score!
Our flight out of Richmond (and one of the first morning flights out of Richmond) was cancelled. A hyrdaulic problem–on the first plane out of that gate. How lame is that? So, we all got off the packed-to-the-gills plane. I was able to reach someone at the special 800 number American provided and switched our flight to St. Louis and then to Seattle. The person on the phone was very nice and apologized for having me on hold so long. I had to go back through to the ticket counter to get new boarding passes. Those people? Not so nice. Also, people in line changing their story and weeping on the phone to get sympathy points? Lamer. I don’t understand how women do that…cry at the drop of a hat to get their way. Me? I’m a cold-hearted bitch and can see through that stuff. I’d send the whiny baby’s bags to Timbuktu for lying to me.
Anyway, we finally got to St. Louis on a kiddie plane and then discovered we’d been bumped to FIRST CLASS to Seattle. I ate and drank soda and wine and sank down deep into my big comfy chair. First class rocks.
We arrived in Seattle early. We’re staying at Hotel Max which also rocks. Small rooms but hip and cool and modern and artsy to a crazy amount. In other words, perfect. We had dinner at Etta’s, which was also perfect. The wine with dinner was super–Elk Creek Pinot Noir.
We’re thinking of having a nightcap downstairs to cap off what started off as a crappy day. But, we were bumped to First Class and our luggage actually made it here the same time we did. W00t!
A view from our window:
ride like the wind to be free again
I absolutely had to mow the grass out near the road because it looked like a scary nightmare. If you have scary nightmares about large hunks of grass following you around, that is. Plus, I wanted it to look like we’re around for next week when we’re not going to be around.
It takes me at least a half hour to cut all of that and, frankly, sometimes I think there’s more grass out by the road than there is in our yard.
Anyway, I don’t normally cut it very quickly because there are some areas where the ditch is pretty steep and it always seems like I’m just about to fall off the mower. I finished most of the scary falling off places when I noticed that the sky was getting really dark, the wind was really picking up and it was getting cooler. If that doesn’t spell thunderstorm, I’m not sure what does. So, I threw it into 6–the fastest speed. There’s a reason why there are flames on my lawn mower and I drove like a good girl from Mechanicsville. That is like a bat out of hell.
Just as I was finishing the last little bit, big drops of rain started falling. I raised the deck and hauled butt back to the garage. I pulled halfway into the garage–I hate pulling all the way in and then shutting it off because of the loud bang it makes–and then got the push mower back in its place and then moved my car back into its normal spot in front of the garage. By the time I got into the house the rain had stopped. The sun came out. So much for cutting the rest of the yard today. I’m hoping that no one will notice that the front yard gets shaggy while we’re gone.
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Don’t Steal My Soul
Putting the brakes on free expression over the internet isn’t cool. Join the fight, man.
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Please No Kumbaya
Thursday is my last class of the semester and I’m happy to say that both of the papers I have to turn in are done and ready to go. I just need to read a handful of pages and I’ll be done with everything except attendance at the last class.
One of the professors told us we’d be sitting on the floor for part of the class. It was everything I could do to not ask if we were going to have to sing Kumbaya. I figured if she’s the one who ultimately decides if I qualify for the program I should keep the sarcasm to myself.
I have a bottle of St. Peter’s Ale chilling to celebrate the end of the semester. We leave for the West Coast bright and early Friday morning. I’m really looking forward to our trip.
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Gonna waste some time with you and let this world go
The better-half and I were looking around to see what’s going on in Seattle next weekend since we’ll be there. We found out Hem and Over the Rhine are playing at Neumos on Sunday. So, we extended our hotel stay for one more night and have tickets at Will Call. The total cost for both tickets is $50. I can’t remember the last time we paid so little for a concert. TWO BANDS we like. TWO.
Today at lunch I saw one of the professors from the class I’m taking. We said hello and went back to conversation at our respective tables. As he was leaving, he asked me how I was doing on the final paper. I said OK. He said “you’ll do fine”. Then he turned around and asked if a specific section of our group project was mine. I laughed and said yes and thanks for noticing (the group paper was a nightmare and we were lucky to get a B). He smiled and said “we both noticed” (as in he and the other professor could tell which section was mine). I know one of the points of the group project was to write as one voice but that could never happen which was part of the problem with our group paper but I nearly jumped up with joy that he could tell which part was mine. I think I need to tell that professor to stop talking to me because he’s making me feel like I could actually do well in the graduate program.
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I Don’t Want To Work, I Want To Bang On The Drum All Day
I’m off from work today. Hip, hip, hooray.
Earlier in the week, I ordered three CDs from CD Baby. I’ve never ordered from them before; have only lurked to see what they have to offer. I specifically went to the site to find a Mary Gordon Hall CD after seeing her perform a song at the Christine Lavin concert back in March. You know what happens when you go looking for just one CD; you come back with more.
The CDs arrived yesterday and I’m highly recommending Mary Gordon Hall if you like your folk with a bit of country thrown in. And, if you like good songwriting, good guitar playing and a beautiful voice you should check out Kim Taylor. The other CD is also good but it’s in the Trip Hop fusion genre.
Yes, all over the music board here at F&G.
The whole CD Baby experience was excellent and it’s as if they knew me with their shipping notification email:
Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing.
Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.
We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved ‘Bon Voyage!’ to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Tuesday, April 25th.
I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did.
Your picture is on our wall as “Customer of the Year”. We’re all exhausted but can’t wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!
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My Very Best Friend
I’ve been using my laptop at the kitchen table lately because there’s more room at the table than on my desk and with research and paper-writing to do, it just makes sense.
The cat loves it. Usually when I get home he barely lifts his head to acknowledge me and then he sleeps until I come back downstairs to fix dinner. For the past couple of days he’s been sitting right next to me and the love my feet have been getting is truly remarkable. As long as I occasionally give him a pat on the head, he stays put.
Right now, he’s sitting next to me and his bag of Kosmic Kitty Katnip. All is very right with the world.
Soakin’ up the Sun, the Drugs and the Freaks
This little guy has been sitting on our back steps all day. I guess there’s a perfect combination of sun and shade.
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For They Were Crunchy On The Outside
When you get way too many peeps for Easter, what’s the best thing to do? Skewer them and hold them over a flame:
Of course, I realized that fire was, well, fire. So I put on a glove:
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