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Aug. 26th, 2014
I have a toilet in a box in my bedroom and it's sitting where other things usually sit so those other things are out of place as well and, turns out, I have way more OCD than I ever thought. Having stuff in transition and out of place makes me feel really uncomfortable.
I suspect I've been this way for a few years and just didn't notice. Lately, having stuff out on the kitchen counter - like stuff I haven't put away or dishes and glasses, makes me feel anxious. Having a clean kitchen really makes me peaceful. I can see the kitchen from the living room so it's not like I can close the door and forget about it.
The bedroom situation should be fixed tomorrow morning but I think, for the sake of my sanity, I'm not going to count those chickens until I hear the cluck.
The communications at Amyworks is a little haphazard so I was completely surprised when the toilet installer called and wanted to drop the toilet off. But, whatever.
I'm pretty sure I'm responsible for making this whole toilet replacement thing way much more of a festuche than it really needed to be. I just hope the other toilet stays healthy forever. And I am sooooo glad that I have two!
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Swimming today at 11. And I am going to try to start the new breathing training. I scoured the internets for tips and accumulated some good ones I think. I think it will be good muscle training and might even help those times when swimming hurts my lower back (which actually does happen less frequently these days).
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I am going to try one errand on the way to the pool. Tomorrow the highway that has been closed since last Friday will reopen and my two main roads (which are now the work arounds for the closed road) will be mine again. Whew.
There will be really only a couple of days of freedom, however.
The football stadium and parking lot across the street starts a week of stuff this weekend. There's a 5K race and concerts and stuff every day leading up to the 4th when Soundgarden and Pharrell Williams will be giving a free concert in the parking lot in the middle of the afternoon followed by the Seahawks season opener. Translation: it is likely I will not even be able to go swimming that day as getting home in the car probably won't be possible.
If it's cool enough, I may try to bus it. There's no easy bus from here to there but, given enough time and with no hurry, it's probably doable if it's not too hot out.
After the 4th things, traffic wise, should settle down to normal. Hopefully.
I suspect I've been this way for a few years and just didn't notice. Lately, having stuff out on the kitchen counter - like stuff I haven't put away or dishes and glasses, makes me feel anxious. Having a clean kitchen really makes me peaceful. I can see the kitchen from the living room so it's not like I can close the door and forget about it.
The bedroom situation should be fixed tomorrow morning but I think, for the sake of my sanity, I'm not going to count those chickens until I hear the cluck.
The communications at Amyworks is a little haphazard so I was completely surprised when the toilet installer called and wanted to drop the toilet off. But, whatever.
I'm pretty sure I'm responsible for making this whole toilet replacement thing way much more of a festuche than it really needed to be. I just hope the other toilet stays healthy forever. And I am sooooo glad that I have two!
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Swimming today at 11. And I am going to try to start the new breathing training. I scoured the internets for tips and accumulated some good ones I think. I think it will be good muscle training and might even help those times when swimming hurts my lower back (which actually does happen less frequently these days).
---
I am going to try one errand on the way to the pool. Tomorrow the highway that has been closed since last Friday will reopen and my two main roads (which are now the work arounds for the closed road) will be mine again. Whew.
There will be really only a couple of days of freedom, however.
The football stadium and parking lot across the street starts a week of stuff this weekend. There's a 5K race and concerts and stuff every day leading up to the 4th when Soundgarden and Pharrell Williams will be giving a free concert in the parking lot in the middle of the afternoon followed by the Seahawks season opener. Translation: it is likely I will not even be able to go swimming that day as getting home in the car probably won't be possible.
If it's cool enough, I may try to bus it. There's no easy bus from here to there but, given enough time and with no hurry, it's probably doable if it's not too hot out.
After the 4th things, traffic wise, should settle down to normal. Hopefully.
There is a guy who swims very nearly every Tues and Thurs when I do. In my lane. I call him Slow Guy. He swims with his body from the waist up horizontal and from the waist down vertical and if that is not enough to slow him down, he also has very slow strokes. But, he's sweet as he can be and cute in an old slow guy way and always greets me with a giant smile. He only swims for 20 minutes so usually, I scoot over to the next lane until he is done.
Today, when I got there, Slow Guy was in the middle of a swimming lesson!! He was getting some great pointers and really giving it a good go. After his lesson, he came over to my/our lane for his swim. He had flippers on. When we met at the end, I told him that he was scaring me with his new skills and new feet. He just laughed and said in this absolutely adorable old world European accent "I've been eating your dust way too long!" It just cracked me into giggly pieces.
And he was way faster. No longer a lane clog at all!!
Then, the next pool thing that happened was that I saw Chinese Couple! A very sweet old Chinese man and his wife used to come every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 11. They spoke very little English but we swapped names (except theirs were very Chinese and I couldn't remember them) and always had big smiles and waves for each other and then they disappeared.
Today they were back! To their old routine. He does very slow laps in the free-for-all lane and she floats back and forth hugging the pool wall. For 20 minutes and then they hit the sauna. Today, when they came out of the sauna, I stopped in the shallow end and flagged them down and welcomed them home. They said they were only gone for a year but it sure seemed longer to me. They were in China. But they are back now. We smiled and waved and bowed a little. Fun to have all my peops back in the saddle.
I tried the internet tricks for bilateral breathing and ended up with a severe foot cramp and a sore neck and really no success. So I think it's lesson time. I checked the teaching book and the I wasn't that interested in the teachers available Thursday and they don't have the schedule for post Labor Day yet so I'll wait. But, I do think that's the way to do. Lesson.
But first, lunch.
Today, when I got there, Slow Guy was in the middle of a swimming lesson!! He was getting some great pointers and really giving it a good go. After his lesson, he came over to my/our lane for his swim. He had flippers on. When we met at the end, I told him that he was scaring me with his new skills and new feet. He just laughed and said in this absolutely adorable old world European accent "I've been eating your dust way too long!" It just cracked me into giggly pieces.
And he was way faster. No longer a lane clog at all!!
Then, the next pool thing that happened was that I saw Chinese Couple! A very sweet old Chinese man and his wife used to come every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 11. They spoke very little English but we swapped names (except theirs were very Chinese and I couldn't remember them) and always had big smiles and waves for each other and then they disappeared.
Today they were back! To their old routine. He does very slow laps in the free-for-all lane and she floats back and forth hugging the pool wall. For 20 minutes and then they hit the sauna. Today, when they came out of the sauna, I stopped in the shallow end and flagged them down and welcomed them home. They said they were only gone for a year but it sure seemed longer to me. They were in China. But they are back now. We smiled and waved and bowed a little. Fun to have all my peops back in the saddle.
I tried the internet tricks for bilateral breathing and ended up with a severe foot cramp and a sore neck and really no success. So I think it's lesson time. I checked the teaching book and the I wasn't that interested in the teachers available Thursday and they don't have the schedule for post Labor Day yet so I'll wait. But, I do think that's the way to do. Lesson.
But first, lunch.
Who in the hell would buy that???
Aug. 26th, 2014 04:06 pmOverheard at the grocery store this morning just before I grabbed some myself... "Who in the hell would buy that? How hard is it to slice a damn apple?? And they have to be so full of preservatives, you'd get cancer in a week."
They were talking about fresh sliced apple in a bag. I love 'em. This is, in fact, my favorite snack. Precut apples, precut cheese in a paper bowl. I do use the same bowl over and over again. I am sure the apple slices are full of preservatives and I'm very grateful. 1. It makes the apples last longer - they stay the same color and crispness for about a week (they may keep fresh longer but they are all gone by then) and 2. Maybe some of those preservatives will work on me!
Yep, I can slice an apple and yes, I can slice cheese. Would I do it every day for a snack? Nope. I can never pick good tasting apples at the store and slicing is a PIA. So, come snack time, I'd grab a candy bar or a handful of M&M's. I think this is possibly better for me and, actually more tasty.
Soooooo Mom's with strollers blocking the aisle while you judge people in produce, I buy that! So get the fuck out of my way.
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Another of my favorite hole-in-the-wall places to eat in Seattle has closed. Catfish Corner was the place my Mom always wanted to go to first whenever she visited. Even my New Zealand friends requested a stop there when they came to town. And now... it is no more.
Years ago, they had the very best peach cobbler outside of the southeastern United States. There peach cobbler was seriously delicious. You could get it with ice cream - and who wouldn't??
Then one time I went in for dinner and there was no peach cobbler on the menu. What? What's with the no peach cobbler, I asked. "Well, our Gran always made it and she passed and didn't leave the recipe."
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News today is that Weyerhaeuser is moving their 900 people headquarters to this neighborhood. It sounds like they are building a new building in one of our few remaining parking lots. Wild. When I moved here 22 years ago, this neighborhood was known for bars where you pick up chicks and/or get knifed. Then the dot coms moved in and it was geek heaven. Then the dot com balloon burst and a bunch of retail moved out it was a ghost town. Then last year it started coming back. New apartment/condos quadrupled the number of residences, 40 gillion new, hip restaurants opened and business started moving in. Now we're building new buildings to accommodate more. Wild. And, kinda fun.
They were talking about fresh sliced apple in a bag. I love 'em. This is, in fact, my favorite snack. Precut apples, precut cheese in a paper bowl. I do use the same bowl over and over again. I am sure the apple slices are full of preservatives and I'm very grateful. 1. It makes the apples last longer - they stay the same color and crispness for about a week (they may keep fresh longer but they are all gone by then) and 2. Maybe some of those preservatives will work on me!
Yep, I can slice an apple and yes, I can slice cheese. Would I do it every day for a snack? Nope. I can never pick good tasting apples at the store and slicing is a PIA. So, come snack time, I'd grab a candy bar or a handful of M&M's. I think this is possibly better for me and, actually more tasty.
Soooooo Mom's with strollers blocking the aisle while you judge people in produce, I buy that! So get the fuck out of my way.
---
Another of my favorite hole-in-the-wall places to eat in Seattle has closed. Catfish Corner was the place my Mom always wanted to go to first whenever she visited. Even my New Zealand friends requested a stop there when they came to town. And now... it is no more.
Years ago, they had the very best peach cobbler outside of the southeastern United States. There peach cobbler was seriously delicious. You could get it with ice cream - and who wouldn't??
Then one time I went in for dinner and there was no peach cobbler on the menu. What? What's with the no peach cobbler, I asked. "Well, our Gran always made it and she passed and didn't leave the recipe."
---
News today is that Weyerhaeuser is moving their 900 people headquarters to this neighborhood. It sounds like they are building a new building in one of our few remaining parking lots. Wild. When I moved here 22 years ago, this neighborhood was known for bars where you pick up chicks and/or get knifed. Then the dot coms moved in and it was geek heaven. Then the dot com balloon burst and a bunch of retail moved out it was a ghost town. Then last year it started coming back. New apartment/condos quadrupled the number of residences, 40 gillion new, hip restaurants opened and business started moving in. Now we're building new buildings to accommodate more. Wild. And, kinda fun.