Monday

The gym is in West Seattle which is at a fairly significant elevation from my house. This morning, when I left my garage, it was a little overcast, not much. The gym, 4.5 miles away, was shrouded in mist. It was kinda cool. My swim was good.

Today I am having lunch with jwg and rsc who are on the correct coast from Boston. Not coincidentally, the Boston Red Sox are in town to toy with the Mariners.

At the end of this month, I'm meeting with my financial adviser. It' a regular meeting but we're thinking of making some significant changes so I'm digging around and collecting info and conjuring on ideas. I need to figure out what money I need for the next 6-8 months. Some I know for sure and some I can only guess. Our condo association is going to get a special assessment for some work to the outside of the building. I don't know if it's going to be $1k, $5k or more.

Tonight is the HOA board meeting and it's on the agenda so, hopefully, I'll get a clue. If not, I may just email the treasurer and ask.

And speaking of money. TiVo sent me an invitation to join an Olympics survey deal. They put an app on your phone (or tablet) that watches you during the Olympics and asks you questions. $100 plus swag. I'm in! Then Microsoft sent me an invitation to join a study they are doing on memory. It's filling out surveys every day for something like 10 days. $100. I'm an opinion whore.

But now I think I'll go make a doll.

No doll day

This morning I finally made it back to the sewing room but then decided it needed cleaning up before sewing so no dolls.

Then I went out to lunch with jwg and rsc. We went a couple of blocks over to a fancy schmancy Korean place I'd been wanting to try forever. It's gorgeous inside but the menu is kind of funky. They were game so off we went. We got a multi course spread for 3 that turned out to be pretty darned good. Weird but good.

Mainly the visiting was excellent. And they had a spare ticket to tomorrow night's baseball game and invited me!! They gave me the ticket in case our schedules get confusing tomorrow and I just checked the seats. Holy Crap. We are practically ON 1st base. I mean if either team needs help, we're a hop, skip and a jump from the actual field! I'm totally jazzed jazzed. I don't go to games often because it's one of the few things that I just don't enjoy by myself. Tomorrow will be perfect.

After lunch, they went to explore and I came home to sew but, I never got to a doll. I made a bag - pocketbook. The last one I made, in December, I think, has held up well but I needed it just a couple of inches wider and an inch more shallow and I needed the cellphone pocket a bit bigger to accommodate either the cellphone OR my sunglasses. Done. I like the new bag and it's just what I needed by the day was shot when I was done so... no dolls.

I got the pfaucet part today in the mail. Just the part. No explanation, not information, no nuthing just a funny looking cartridge. On the up side, Amazon sells it for $30. And, also with no info. But I have the video that my brother found so the next time that drip annoys me...

I had enough lunch that I think dinner is not necessary.