Saturday

[susandennis]

I had a lovely swim. Mostly I had the pool to myself. And no need to hurry. It was nice.

Then on to Trader Joe's and then to Safeway. I had a list for each place and remembered to check the list. Gold star for me!

Then I stopped for a lox and bagel and came home and made coffee to go with. And that's where we find me now. Actually, I'm on the second cup of coffee and now just killing time. I need to get off my ass and put the groceries away.

Today I'm tracking the number of tissues I use in a day and the number of times I use the toilet. Old people and bodily functions - a natural pairing. While I was swimming, I counted how many times I got my mouth out of the water to breathe in a 30 second span. 30. I'm making homework inroads.

I noticed a lot of changes today on the way to the pool and back. Odd quirks of things. A car that has been parked across from me without ever being moved for several years - it does not even have license plates - today has a cable hanging from it's hood. Someone is charging up its battery. Wonder where it's going??

The restaurant on the corner that closed a couple of years ago, today has a fence around it. Originally they had grand plans for redoing the building but then nothing... until today. Action!!

Then coming home, I pass a corner that has forever - like years - been a giant pile of dirt with a big sign on it saying FREE FILL DIRT. Today was leveled and the sign was gone. Ch Ch Ch Ch anges...

The transportation folks are now saying they are shooting for Wednesday to open up the new interchange. This is going to be huge for my trips home from the pool. There's a Sounder (soccer) game in the stadium across the street on Wednesday night and they want it open for that. Me, too! Today was the first day I'd used the new entrance/freeway in the daylight. Most interesting.

There are still mounds of snow in places. Some of it disgustingly blackened. All if it looking pretty pitiful. One of my greatest memories of snow was the snow in Minnesota which never got ugly. Fresh snow hid whatever ugly might have been. Right up til June. I remember walking on dry pavement, in the sunshine, in shorts with between 4 inches of beautiful white snow on either side of the walk in June. I could not get over it.

But, here it is chilly and rainy and the snow piles are black and ugly down here and white and muddy in the hills.

It is also now noon and really I'm still on my ass drinking coffee. This will not do. I have tiny shit to glue which I cannot do until the groceries are all put away.

5 tissues so far and 5 visits to the toilet.

Comments

[carriea31.livejournal.com]

That's interesting.  Now I will wonder about this, so maybe I'll count my trips to the restroom as well. 

[susandennis]

ha! toilet tales...

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Where'd you get the lox and bagel?

I'm always curious when you don't say the restaurant name but I'm a bagel aficionado so I'm finally asking.

[susandennis]

Oh, so sorry. I'm going to try to remember to be better about naming restaurants. The bagel place is Blazing Bagels. They drive me crazy. They had an app that was wonderful. I could order ahead and pay and just pop in pick up. They shut the app down. Now I have to go in, order, pay, wait and wait and wait. And, during the snow, they posted on Instagram that they would be open til 1. I went at 11:30 to be greeted by a sign that said 'we closed at 11 today.'

BUT their Joe Zuckerman sandwich is heaven. The only problem it has is maybe a skosh too much lox.

And, while I'm at it. The restaurant on the corner with the fence that closed was FX McRory’s.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'd definitely love a place nearby that served too much lox.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

I tend to reuse tissues as many times as possible. Because of this, I always check my pants pockets before doing laundry. I wonder, if I had that homework assignment, would they ask me instead how many times I need a tissue.

[susandennis]

ha.i tend to wash tissues with my laundry. and always always make a mess.

[opakele.livejournal.com]

Do I want to know how often I go to the toilet?

[meathiel]

That's the thing about snow in the city ... it gets dirty and ugly so quickly!

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I read entries and think something to myself, but never actually make the comment. Today, as I read about your counting the trips to the toilet, I remembered that early this morning I reflected on what a marvelous invention the toilet is. That's probably why I don't usually make comments based on my thoughts.

[susandennis]

Well, it's only fair that I make it worth your while. THE Thomas Crapper brought his revolutionary toilet to Seattle in 1870 and installed it in a house two blocks from here. So they say.

While I agree that the toilet is an amazing invention, the evolution of the heated toilet seat with bidet is even more wonderful.

And, the tally yesterday was 7 which surprised me. I thought it would be more.