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[05 Jul 2009|10:49pm] |
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So, today I met with the landlady to sign the lease on OUR NEW PLACE! For those of you who were curious, since the craigslist listing has (of course) been taken down, the address is here:
824 210th PL SW
Lynnwood, WA 98036
You can google map it and go to street level view for a glimpse of the outside... It's a pretty new house, which is always good, and there should be plenty of room for the four of us. More importantly it has a REAL KITCHEN! and allows CATS!
I'll be moving in sometime during August -- I'll be paying double rent over that month, so I'll have lots of time, and I need to contact my current lady to make arrangements for when my last day here will be.
HOUSE!
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| Happy Fourth, everyone! |
[04 Jul 2009|04:04pm] |
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And for the Americans, happy Independence Day as well!
Today is sunny, clear, and hot in Seattle... and if it's like that in Seattle, imagine what it's like in normal places!
Go out and make the most of it!
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| Unexpected visitor |
[28 Jun 2009|12:31am] |
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It has been a pretty good weekend so far. Yesterday I went to look at a house and all signs are pretty go. Today I worked a 7 hour shift in Auburn, which is less fantastic except it means I earned 7 hours of overtime, and money is never bad. After which I had a delicious salmon and asparagus dinner with friends and went to see Transformers, which was enormously fun, despite being a terrible movie.
Now I am home and somewhat perplexed, because there is a cat in my apartment.
She is not my cat. She was hanging around the back door to my apartment, waiting for someone to let her in, and slipped around my feet when I went inside. Then she followed me up the stairs and into my apartment.
She does not have a collar or a chip (that I can tell) but she is very obviously tame, a pet. She immediately started wandering around the apartment exploring, and purring and rubbing up when she is petted. I gave her some water and some warmed up ham and she ate them, but it's hard to tell from that whether she is really starving or not.
In approximate order of probability, she:
-belongs to someone around here and either escaped to explored the outdoors, or goes outdoors regularly and got locked out (I have not seen this cat around before)
-belongs to one of the new tenants who moved in today, and was ditched when they moved out of housing that allowed pets into housing that doesn't;
-belonged to a college student or resident who thought she was cute when she was a kitten, and was ditched when she started to grow up (I'd put her at about six months to a year old.)
She is very charming, and I would very much like to keep her, but I am probably going to have to put her outside before I go to sleep tonight.. Leaving aside the business of her not being my cat, this apartment has a no-pets policy, and even if it didn't have such a policy, I don't have any cat food or a litter pan.
If she continues to hang around my apartment unclaimed for the next few days, I might make inquiries to the local vet and pound, and if nobody claims her, I'll see if I can put her up somewhere until I move into my new pet-friendly home. But I'm probably getting ahead of myself here.
Picture of the cutie.
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| Houses! |
[26 Jun 2009|07:16pm] |
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We may be getting a house! This one!
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| Home is where the heart is, but hopefully not the mold |
[19 Jun 2009|09:35am] |
So signs are pointing to this august I will be moving into a house shared with a few other girls. They are looking for houses in the area, and are going to check out one of them today.
When looking at a house that you may be moving into for a year or so, what things should one check for? Aside from obvious things like "mold coming through the walls," what are the tell-tales?
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| Don't get angry, get better |
[01 Jun 2009|06:03am] |
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As you no doubt have heard before, Dr. George Richard Tiller was murdered yesterday in his church, in what can only be described as a terrorist act. Coming on the heels of a recent article about increasing death threats and harassment of judges, this depresses me more than I can say. What a country we live in, where we shoot doctors and judges.
Regardless of your feelings on abortion 'as a method of birth control,' late term abortions are exceedingly rare; and while early abortions can occur for any number of reasons, late term abortions generally take place for one reason and one reason only: that there is some medical reason why the baby will not survive the birth, or has an extremely short and painful life expectancy. It is the hardest choice for an expectant mother to make, but when it is necessary, it is absolutely necessary, and Dr. Tiller was one of only three doctors in the US who would do what is necessary, and do so in a compassionate and caring manner.
I'm not going to get angry, because if I started to get angry, there would be no bottom to it, and it would accomplish nothing. So instead, I'd prefer to do something vaguely productive, even if it's not much. I haven't looked at the I'm sure numerous posts celebrating his murder; I haven't googled Dr. Tiller, but I think I can guess what the top result for him is right now. Dr. Tiller, mass murderer, baby Kevorkian. So I'd like to start to change that with a little good old fashioned Googlebombing. (Does googlebombing still work?) I'd like to push something else to the top of the google list, so that the world will remember him as he truly was, not as the scapegoat for blind hatred. So please, if you care about these issues, consider posting this or something like it in your blog.
Dr. Tiller was not just "an abortion doctor," he was a doctor who performed years of compassionate care for the women he knew. Dr. Tiller had standards and protocols and if they were not met, he would on some occasions refuse to perform a late term abortion when it was not a medical necessity. Dr. Tiller kept on working after years upon years of death threats, after actually having been shot once, because he believed in protecting women's rights and women's safely, and because he wanted to make sure that these women didn't end up like these women.
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| It's not what you do, it's who you do it with |
[27 May 2009|12:18pm] |
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As a sort of second half to the birthday experience, my parents visited Seattle this weekend. I had to work on Friday and Tuesday, but I had memorial day itself off, so we had three weekend days to go about Seattle and see stuff. We went hiking on Cougar Mountain (I did not get eaten by a cougar,) went downtown to see the Science Fiction Museum and the space needle, and went to see the star trek movie. (Still good the second time!) But they flew back to Austin today. Sad to see them go.
It was a fun weekend, and very good to see my parents again, though also tiring. Fortunately this week will be only a four-day weekend. And I can chill with my new speakers and mouse and other goodies.
For a while I had been putting things off until after my birthday/Memorial Day, so now that that's past I've been getting things done. At some point soon I'm going to have to buckle down and get my car repaired. The insurance claim seems to be tied up in an endless morass of not doing anything. My insurance company is waiting on the other guy's insurance company, which has apparently decided they're just going to do nothing and wait for it to go away.
At this point, if state farm wanted me to go to a specific place to get the damage estimated, they should have told me -- I asked if they wanted me to, and they said no. So I'm just going to get it repaired. And maybe some time in the next 80 years they'll get back to me about it.
I also went ahead and bought one of my bridesmaid dresses, and am looking into the other one. Will have to look into buying plane tickets soon, too.
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| Birthday fun! |
[18 May 2009|11:19am] |
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So, I had a wonderful weekend.
My birthday weekend more or less coincided with Tassa's, since hers is the 15th and mine is the 18th. On Saturday night we went out and did karaoke till we dropped. Dave and Doug and Hikaru and Ruby all came along, so therer were enough people and rowdiness to fill out the otherwise pretty desolate undecorated karaoke booth rooms.*
Also on saturday I gave Tassa her birthday gift, which was simultaneously a gift for her, a gift for me, redeeming a promise I made way back in September to the rest of her housemates; in lieu of paying rent for the 3 weeks I stayed at their place, I would buy them a grill. So that's what I did. I was worried for a time about waiting so long into the spring season to give it to them, but the weather seriously only just now got nice enough to make cookouts enjoyable, so it worked out.
Which meant that on Sunday night I got a delicious birthdya dinner of grilled steak, marinated chicken, and smores. Mmmmmmmmmmm. The weather was seriously gorgeous, high 70s the whole weekend. (And yes, I got my first sunburn, walking between the hardware store and my car.) There was even some kind of street fair going on down on University and 45th, although that turned out to be more of a nuisance than a treat because we had too much else going on to check it out.
And then we went to see star trek. Awesome movie! I approve of the AUness.
So all in all it was a fantastic weekend, and I haven't even gotten any presents yet. :)
*Seriously, the only reason that place gets away with being "seattle's best karaoke" is because they are Seattle's ONLY karaoke, only booth-style anyway. Their prices are very high, their rooms are completely undecorated, and their equipment is going on the fritz steadily more frequently over time. Oh, and they don't allow beer or serve food.
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My parents are coming to visit in two weeks yaaaaaaay. \o/
Edit: And I am apparently the last person in the world to not have yet seen the new Star Trek movie
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| Back by popular request - birthday list |
[08 May 2009|04:20pm] |
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As has been my habit for the last few years, and for the same reason, there are very few books or DVDs on this list. Partly because if I asked for new books for my birthday, I'd have to ask for new shelves to put them on, and then for a new apartment to hold the shelves. So, no books, but there is an amazon list anyway.
*warlock shirt
*husband pillow -- the type of pillow that looks like this, but preferably not hideously ugly.
Gift certificates for...
*itunes -- since apple gave up their awful copyright protection habits, I feel more inclined to actually buy from them now.
*new york and company
*fredericks of hollywood
*computer speakers -- nothing too big or fancy; just enough to get a slightly less tinny sound than my laptop speaker.
*new mouse -- old mouse crapped out on me a few days ago. :( Ideally, I need a mouse that is small enough for my hand and light enough to move easily. Wireless seems to be more trouble than it's worth, in my experience. the mouse I really loved was the logitech tiger mouse that sukino's cat mistook for a real mouse and chewed on -- although of course it doesn't have to be the same pattern.
*external keyboard (ergonomic) -- preferably in conjunction with a laptop stand
*george foreman grill
*cell phone face plate -- samsung A437. I have no idea how it is I always manage to buy the only cell phone model in existence that has no pretty cell phone faceplates available, anywhere ever.
*okay, *some* books: Girl Genius vols 2-7
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| What happened to "Quiet please, people are on the phone" ? |
[29 Apr 2009|10:53pm] |
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Work today was... nerve-wracking. Calls no worse than usual, bu they were doing some sort of construction in the cubicle next to ours. Involving power tools. It was very stressful. *is still a bit twitchy*
Other than that... nice spring weather is nice, when it remembers to actually be spring. It's almost may, which means I should think about birthdays. And rent. I still haven't gotten my car fixed, since the other guy's insurance agent was on vacation all week, but I hope to get hold of them tomorrow.
My disaster haircut has grown out into something that doesn't look terrible, so I feel better, although I should probably go trip it into a better shape sometime soon.
And that is my thrilling life.
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[17 Apr 2009|12:59pm] |
A somewhat more wordy account of my doings lately:
The major event in the past few weeks has been the collision. I hesitate to use the words 'accident' or 'crash' because they imply a much greater degree of seriousness; this one was pretty much the definition of a fender-bender.
Last Tuesday, coming out of the mall, I was turning right (going west) at the same time someone going east tried to do a U-turn. He whacked into the front left fender of my car; it looks very crinkly now, but it does still run just fine. Somewhat unfairly, although his bumper was torn off and fell in the road, his car was otherwise completely unharmed. >.> That's what you get for driving a plastic car vs. a hunk of truck steel, I guess.
Insurance companies are battling it out. I admit I'm somewhat confused by the proceedings. But since I don't have collision on my insurance policy, the whole thing is rather depressing. Depending on how things go, I may have to put off buying a bike or traveling anywhere this year. Boo to being poor!
Aside from that, things have been quiet. Spring is creeping into Seattle, but very tentatively. We have some days of absolutely lovely weather, shiny skies, bright sun, temps in the 60s and even up to the 70s! -- and then the next day it'll be back to cold, cloudy, and dim.
Easter Sunday passed pretty unobtrusively; it was raining (again) so I went over to a friend's house. We had an egg hunt inside, it was fun. >.> Easter Sunday dinner consisted of a turkey sandwich, woot.
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Happy belated Easter, everyone! Go forth and enjoy after-easter candy sales!
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Well, this does put the bad haircut into perspective, in terms of things to be upset about.
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So.
I think this is the worst haircut I've ever had in my life, not excluding the time when I was eight and cut my bangs off in the mirror.
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| Fun day of many activities |
[29 Mar 2009|09:00pm] |
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Today was a gorgeous day for once, so I got my DDR pad out of storage and took it over to Cryo's house, who has a PS2 and the DDR games but no working pad. We flailed about to the music for a while (Cryo's friend Dave is totally pro) bedfore deciding that, since it was a gorgeous day out, we should go throw the frisbee around for a while. (The boys apparently didn't even know that there was a park on 50th street.)
Then we retired back home and played hackeysack, which requires much less space but comparable flexibility, in her back yard. And then we walked to Pam's Kitchen for dinner.
I won't go so far as to day "I'm ready for the work week" but it was a good day.
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| robe and slippers makes two... duplicity! |
[28 Mar 2009|09:05pm] |
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Today was a flufy robe and slippers, drinking tea kind of day. I suspect switching pills has thrown my system out of kilter for a bit.
However I will muster myself out of the house to go see Duplicity.
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| death and |
[27 Mar 2009|11:13pm] |
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Thinking about doing taxes. I have the 1040 and the 2555. That seems to be what I used last year. Do I still claim bona fide residence in Japan in 2008 if I only lived there for eight months...?
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| Funny how eating a new food can change the way the world smells |
[26 Mar 2009|06:55pm] |
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Today was a good day despite the wankery on ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) ontd_political. On my way home I stopped by cryo's house and had ice cream, and then I went to dr and got my prescription changed, and then I went and had dinner with athena and cryo at Pam's Kitchen. Pam's Kitchen is an ind...onesian... I think... sorta place, they serve curry and caribbean dishes and play really bouncy music. Anyway it was very tasty and fun and now I smell like spices. Mmm.
Also I gave in and ordered a light box, because I got sick and tired of the gloom on Monday. So maybe soon I will be better. Yay!
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