Drop Kicked
Woo dang, we've been dropped kicked into summer here in Seattle, been so very hot, even had an official Heat Advisory yesterday. While to some living elsewhere, 89F may not seem hot, to us Western Washingtonians it's too much. I look forward to the cool down and return to 60'sF come next week.
Been a crazy couple of days here, what with the Husband having Thursday and Friday off (as well as tonight and tomorrow).
On Thursday we took the bus downtown in the morning to catch a matinee (@ noon) of Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith. I thought it was fucking awesome! (check out this wallpaper XD). Afterwards we walked to The Hurricane for lunch and water. Good thing we filled up too, because the trip home was a nightmare, with being caught in rush hour, at the hottest time of the day, on a bus with no air conditioning, oogie~
Though it was really odd running into an former co-worker on the bus, who somehow recognized me though I hadn't seen her in like... 11 years! What is WITH all this running into old co-workers and aquaintences lately?! Talking to her though I realized I really miss working at King County...
Oh yeah, I almost forgot, between The Hurricane and the bus stop we stopped in at SunCoast and bought the Ep 4-6 collection on widescreen DVD, and then when we got home we chilled out and watched Ep 4. Which was really cool, having just seen Ep 3, it made the minor details in Ep 4 so much more... signifigant.
Due to heat exhaustion and plans to get up early the next day we called it a retired early for the night.
And so on Friday was another adventure, this time to the Eastside, in that horrid place known as Woodinville >_< ! Husband had to go there to take a test to renew his food handlers card (as directed by the Health Department for anyone working around food... yes, even night-stalking grocers who only shelve boxes and cans XP). We drove right by the place twice because the residents of Woodinville appearently don't believe in proper street signage, let alone prominent addresses, bleh. But we knew this was going to happen anways, due to previous adventures in the same area, so we still arrived early, which was also a good thing because we had the choice pick for parking in the shade.
I hung out in the car for two hours while he did the test, reading my Colin Wilson Occult book, and keeping a tacit eye on the 10-year-old kid left alone with his dog in the SUV that parked next to us. I was more worried about some snatcher coming up and swiping the kid and that I'd have to leap out and do something, like kick ass... or something.
Anways, nothing happened, I read, smoked, drank water and used their restroom. The test finally finished and we zoomed off to stop by his work in Bellevue, but for some reason (brain fart) we ended up on 520 heading back into Seattle and cursing the lack of street signs everywhere. So we, er... took a senic detour through Seattle, got on 90 and finally around to Bellevue. All said and done we didn't get home until 2:30 after leaving the house at 8:30... and it was HOT. It stayed hot until around 8pm, when we finally decided we were going to head to the TCP and made phone calls.
TCP was fun, relaxing, and as usual, fairly inebriating -- the bar tenders have it out for us XD ! We got turned onto a new concoction having Vanilla Stoli's in it that was just so damn tasty... I must learn the name of this thing, and the receipe. Oh yes.
After last call (2am, when bars have to stop serving), we decided to all pile in Travis' car (literally, as Travis was laying over the three of us sitting in the back -- I'm amazed I don't have bruises from that, he's a bony bastard >_< !) and off to The Hurricane we went for greasy food and water XD. Sometime around 5am the night ended and sleep descended, though I'll tell ya, I woke up to an apartment that cooled not a whit overnight, very sucky. Not sure of the exact expected temp for today, but it'll be warm. We'll just have to get through XP
Now where's my spray bottle...?
(no pics for today... just too, er... lazy?)
~Liriel
Been a crazy couple of days here, what with the Husband having Thursday and Friday off (as well as tonight and tomorrow).
On Thursday we took the bus downtown in the morning to catch a matinee (@ noon) of Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith. I thought it was fucking awesome! (check out this wallpaper XD). Afterwards we walked to The Hurricane for lunch and water. Good thing we filled up too, because the trip home was a nightmare, with being caught in rush hour, at the hottest time of the day, on a bus with no air conditioning, oogie~
Though it was really odd running into an former co-worker on the bus, who somehow recognized me though I hadn't seen her in like... 11 years! What is WITH all this running into old co-workers and aquaintences lately?! Talking to her though I realized I really miss working at King County...
Oh yeah, I almost forgot, between The Hurricane and the bus stop we stopped in at SunCoast and bought the Ep 4-6 collection on widescreen DVD, and then when we got home we chilled out and watched Ep 4. Which was really cool, having just seen Ep 3, it made the minor details in Ep 4 so much more... signifigant.
Due to heat exhaustion and plans to get up early the next day we called it a retired early for the night.
And so on Friday was another adventure, this time to the Eastside, in that horrid place known as Woodinville >_< ! Husband had to go there to take a test to renew his food handlers card (as directed by the Health Department for anyone working around food... yes, even night-stalking grocers who only shelve boxes and cans XP). We drove right by the place twice because the residents of Woodinville appearently don't believe in proper street signage, let alone prominent addresses, bleh. But we knew this was going to happen anways, due to previous adventures in the same area, so we still arrived early, which was also a good thing because we had the choice pick for parking in the shade.
I hung out in the car for two hours while he did the test, reading my Colin Wilson Occult book, and keeping a tacit eye on the 10-year-old kid left alone with his dog in the SUV that parked next to us. I was more worried about some snatcher coming up and swiping the kid and that I'd have to leap out and do something, like kick ass... or something.
Anways, nothing happened, I read, smoked, drank water and used their restroom. The test finally finished and we zoomed off to stop by his work in Bellevue, but for some reason (brain fart) we ended up on 520 heading back into Seattle and cursing the lack of street signs everywhere. So we, er... took a senic detour through Seattle, got on 90 and finally around to Bellevue. All said and done we didn't get home until 2:30 after leaving the house at 8:30... and it was HOT. It stayed hot until around 8pm, when we finally decided we were going to head to the TCP and made phone calls.
TCP was fun, relaxing, and as usual, fairly inebriating -- the bar tenders have it out for us XD ! We got turned onto a new concoction having Vanilla Stoli's in it that was just so damn tasty... I must learn the name of this thing, and the receipe. Oh yes.
After last call (2am, when bars have to stop serving), we decided to all pile in Travis' car (literally, as Travis was laying over the three of us sitting in the back -- I'm amazed I don't have bruises from that, he's a bony bastard >_< !) and off to The Hurricane we went for greasy food and water XD. Sometime around 5am the night ended and sleep descended, though I'll tell ya, I woke up to an apartment that cooled not a whit overnight, very sucky. Not sure of the exact expected temp for today, but it'll be warm. We'll just have to get through XP
Now where's my spray bottle...?
(no pics for today... just too, er... lazy?)
~Liriel
posted by Ethan at 2:30 PM
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