I haven't blogged for 3 weeks. What?
I'm moving back to Boston in a little over a week. What?
Did this summer just fly by? Yes.
I'm sorry to disappoint you blog readers. I have asked so much of your blogs and you've carried me through many times when I had nothing to do at work. Thanks for your dedication. So here's a post for you. I've had a lot of ideas for blogs bouncing around in my head but nothing that really materialized.
I've had a couple weeks to chill out here in Seattle. While I have been doing very little, I actually have been getting some important things done. Mike and I set a new date, which then of course involves getting everything started back up again wedding-wise (I'm not so happy about all of the extra work and stress that brings into my life, but I'm quite excited at the same time). I went to Utah with Mike's family to drop Mike's brother off at the MTC. I went to an amazing Radiohead concert last night. I had dinner with an old middle school friend who I hadn't seen in years. We giggled a lot about the old days and what a spaz I was. She told stories that I didn't remember at all. Mike commented, "you know, not a lot has changed..." Tangent: Something quite hilarious that was brought up was that I was on drill team in high school my sophomore year (I know haha) and we had an invitational at Mike's high school. Mike said he would have been there at the same time at swim practice on that particular Saturday in December. I had completely forgotten about it. I was 15 and my first boyfriend was coming to the invitational (we weren't official yet, not until I was 16) and I was so nervous. I think its incredible that 10 years later I still remember how nervous I was that he was coming to the drill invitational. And little did I know Mike was there too.
I've had developed kind of a nasty habit -- playing solitaire. I downloaded the free version from the iPhone app store. I think it might have been a bad idea. I confess I have played over 800 games in a week. I signed up for netflix and received my first 3 movies in the mail. Mike and I watched Strictly Ballroom and half of Raising Arizona. We still need to watch Persepolis. I've watched the Olympics every single night and I've been avoiding ESPN.com during the day as to not spoil the results for me. I've had time to watch a couple of old reruns of the OC on the SOAPnet channel and Gilmore Girls on ABC Family. I've gotten through a little chunk of Crossing to Safety and I'm absolutely loving it. I went to the Seahawks pre-season game on Saturday. We scored awesome seats thanks to a friend who does the Seagals makeup. NFL games bring out a totally different sports crowd than any other major league sports event. We had a good time laughing at the makeup and costumes. I've had Mac n Cheese and Dick's Deluxes too many times to count. I've been constantly looking for a room for Mike to rent in Boston for a couple months. No dice yet, but hopefully soon. I got the cutest fleur de lys skirt at Club Monaco. I shopped the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale and got one of Mike's sisters handbags for a good price. Did I ever mention that Mike's sister designs all of the Nordstrom brand handbags? Yeah. I've been trying to hold off from buying a L.A.M.B. tote that I have convinced myself that I must have. I have a gift card to Nordstrom that would cover most of it...but I'm trying to be good. I've had Chinese food with Mike's grandma who doesn't speak any English and made myself look really American by putting soy sauce directly on my rice. I went to IHOP for breakfast one morning with Mike when we were out of cereal. I ordered my usual when I'm at IHOP -- chocolate chip pancakes. The waitress told me it was her favorite too and then brought out the pancakes with a mountain of whipped cream. It was heavenly. I got my first bill from AT&T for our family plan with iphones. Turns out the Apple store people were even more incompetant than I thought. They signed Mike and I up for two separate plans instead of the family plan, making the bill twice as much. AT&T is lame. But the iphone is awesome.
I think I've about updated you as to what I have been up to. As much as I want to go back to Boston, I'm torn. There's so much to do in the next couple of months and I'm really enjoying my semi-lounging life I've had for the last 2 weeks. Once again to the land of paying for laundry, food & parking, homework, cold Eastern air, the sun disappearing way too early in the day, and moving all of my loads of crap to yet another Boston apartment (4 for 4 folks). I am looking forward to the red sox being on everyday as opposed to only nationally televised games, fall crispness and gorgeous September that is Boston, being across the street from Fenway, rejoicing with friends, the joy of being on EST and reuniting with my Jeep.
Here's a gem for you. A photo filled with some of the people I love most in this world.
I know I'm biased, but I really do have the cutest nieces and nephews. I'm really glad they adore Mike.
