Wednesday

Today is hair cut day... finally. It actually looks ok, most of the time. Just a little shaggy and, towards the end of the day it looks like I forgot 'get hair cut' on my todo list. But, it's getting all tangled in my goggles and caught on my earbuds. I would have gotten it cut a month ago but I got an email asking me to be a pixie haircut model today. The price is right (free) and it will be kind of a mini adventure for the day. I'll take the street car and walk. It will be fun.

I got to the pool today at 7:20. The first thing I noticed was that the guy who has been there every single weekday from 7-7:30 wasn't there!! And while usually, when I get ther eat 7:20, it's him and maybe one other guy. Today there were 5 people swimming. The one who had a half lane free stopped to chat a bit and told me she had just joined. She came from the other gym in West Seattle that has a pool. She said that pool always has 6 to 7 swimmers PER LANE! She said ours was so quiet (which is one of the things I love about it, too).

About 7:50, the 7-7:30 guy came in - whew. He's not chatty. I'm lucky if I get one 'good morning' out of him a week. He got in and got out before I could even give im a hard time about changing schedules without notice. Oh well. He knows what he did.

After my swim, I dropped my Zappos returns off at the UPS store. I didn't like any of the three pair of shoes I bought so they all go back and I save $! And got tortillas at Safeway next door (I'm addicted to breakfast burritos these days) and still managed to end up in bumper to bumper traffic on the way home. Oh well. I made it. No biggie.

Last night's sushi was amazing. We had perfect seats at the end of a small chef's counter. The staff was really nice and the place was very comfortable and fun. But, mainly, the food was really really excellent. I did not put one thing in my mouth that I didn't love. There was one sake (out of maybe 8 that we tried) that I didn't like. It was just really all amazing. After, we needed a bit of a walk, a coffee and a little bite of something and we got all three. It was just a really nice evening all around and... we're going to do it again!

Next week we're going to a different sushi place - again chef counter seats. Very fun.

My arm and elbow continues to not feel perfectly well. It's not debilitating at all but it feels like it could be any time now. And it gives me flashes of ouch now and again. I think I'm going to go ahead and keep the doctor's appointment. It would be good to learn how to avoid in the future and how to fix now and if it ever happens again.

I logged onto the My Chart app this morning to double check the time and it now tells me what my co-pay will be ($15) which is very nice info to get ahead of time.

We're having big winds here today. I need to remember that when I leave for the street car.

But, first, I think I'll go give that loaner sewing machine a little workout.

all my hairs are cut and ...

So my new weekly adventure was to be Friday but I think I'm going to move that (museum visit) to January and just made a little mini adventure out of my hair cut. I took the street car which is very slow but a block away and dirt simple and very pleasant. I got there early so I killed some time in Walgreens.

The class this time was a big one. The last time I was a model for a class there were only 2 students (and the hair cut was really bad). Today there were a half dozen students and mine was slow but she did a really good job. I'm happy with my free haircut. I do wish that the young people who cut hair would not automagically assume because I'm old that I need an old lady haircut. But probably it's ok.

Speaking of old, my brother just told me that his wife (who has been my sister-in-law for 2 decades) is turning 60 tomorrow. My first thought was 'OMG, I had no idea she was so young!' Everything - I mean everything - is relative.

After my haircut instead of walking up two blocks to the street car, I decided to walk down a dozen blocks to the center of town and catch a bus, but there weren't any so I just walked. 2 miles. And, amazingly, I was never out of breath once. For so long doing anything required so much breath I didn't have and now I can walk so far that my feet hurt and never even have a single breathing problem. So cool.

It was a lovely walk, too. I stopped on the way and got a sandwich for lunch/dinner. I brought it home and probably will have it for an early dinner. ljtourist gave me some amazing potato chips so I figured the sandwich would be an excellent accompaniment.

Before I left on my adventure, I made two dolls. I couldn't figure out if I wanted the gingham for the dress or the stockings so I made one each way.

A while back, teragramm was kind enough to send me a whole bunch of fabric and trimmings for doll making. In the package was an enormous batch of shoe strings. I mean I have shoe strings to last many lifetimes. They are blue and red. Pulled apart, they make amazing red hair and blue hair. For these two dolls, they also made a great necktie.

I need to find some darker blue felt. I finally found what look like good bundles of felt sheets and ordered them - there will be some navy in those, I hope. Oh and my felt eye vendor is back in business. Order placed. Whew.

I need to go to Portland, Oregon

There's an art gallery there that I love and haven't been back to in ages. In fact, it's actually moved to just outside Portland in Camus, WA. Close enough.

There's a giant fabric shop that I'd love to lose my mind in.

And now, ljtourist has introduced me to Olive Oil Ice Cream which is heaven and at Salt and Straw.

So... I need to go to Portland. It's the rule of three's.