too freakin' hot
Sep. 7th, 2012 01:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisAt least in the shade there is a bit of a breeze but IF no shade THEN fuck, it's hot. Free day at the museum or no, it was stupid of me to think it was going to be anything more than an Africa hot slog.
And the quilts in the quilt show were old. I like bright, shiny, new beautiful quilts. I'll get my good quilt fix on Monday when I go to the fair.
It just amazes me how different Bellevue is from Seattle in oh so many ways - none of them particularly good. They are what, 15 miles apart? Feels more like 1,500.
But now I'm home, in front of the fan - grabbed some sushi from the good sushi place on my way home and it was excellent even though the avocado could have been a bit older.
I think I'm absolutely going to set up that air mattress in the living room (in front of the terrace door) or on the terrace tonight. I should have believed the weather forecast. Monday turns out to be the best chance of truly ending Summer. Yahooo!!!
Now I think I'll watch some podcasts I have on TiVo.
And the quilts in the quilt show were old. I like bright, shiny, new beautiful quilts. I'll get my good quilt fix on Monday when I go to the fair.
It just amazes me how different Bellevue is from Seattle in oh so many ways - none of them particularly good. They are what, 15 miles apart? Feels more like 1,500.
But now I'm home, in front of the fan - grabbed some sushi from the good sushi place on my way home and it was excellent even though the avocado could have been a bit older.
I think I'm absolutely going to set up that air mattress in the living room (in front of the terrace door) or on the terrace tonight. I should have believed the weather forecast. Monday turns out to be the best chance of truly ending Summer. Yahooo!!!
Now I think I'll watch some podcasts I have on TiVo.
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Date: 2012-09-07 11:58 pm (UTC)Ah the nostalgia.
We moved to S. Seattle in 1965. I-5 had not been built yet, let alone 405. The only real way across the lake was the Mercer Island floating bridge (it wasn't I-80 yet) because there was still a toll booth on the 2-year-old Evergreen Point bridge, and besides, EP was way up north.
One of my new classmates said "BFD". I had never heard that expression before, so I asked what it meant. "Bellevue Fire Department", he said. To New Yorker me, Bellevue was an insane asylum, which didn't have a fire department. He took hold of my shoulders, pointed me approximately East NorthEast, pointed and said "That's Bellevue".
It was a little berg just barely poking out from a huge evergreen forest.
He said the rich kids lived there. Not as rich a Mercer Island, but richer than us. And it was as close to "there's no there, there" as it could be.
Times have changed. :-)
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Date: 2012-09-08 12:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-08 07:07 am (UTC)