vacation update
Sep. 1st, 2008 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dirtylibrarianI'm winding down from my day off at home, and realized I haven't really updated this much.
Short version: my vacation in Portland was really lovely. Got to hang out with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thisisnotanlj , snagvictim , jemale , kiplet , pfarley , colleencoover , erikamoen , nevikmoore , mudron and quirkybird . Ate a ton of great food (which I yelped about briefly, than became exhausted), read a stack of graphic novels, went canoeing and ice skating and roller skating and to an amusement park. Took lots of naps, and swam a bunch in a lovely pool. Perfect, really.
Drove home in pouring (and occationally scary) rain. Car has been making funny sounds this week, which makes me nervous. Don't know when I'll have time to bring it in. I am really thinking it is time to consider getting a newer one, but at the same time having a newer car in my neighborhood without a garage seems like a bad idea. Hmph.
What I really find myself wishing is that I could move myself - and my lovely job - to Portland, where I could become a bicycle commuter like all my lovely friends there. Man, I love it down there. Seattle is starting to feel too big and spread out to me...but I really adore my job, yet don't want to move to Everett. What to do, what to do?
Today I did unpacked, did laundry, painted the heat grill in the bathroom (and a bit of wall I missed taping off), caught up on clearing out bloglines and LJ backlog reading, touched up the edges of the lilac bathroom walls, went grocery shopping, prepared my lunch for the week, did dishes (oops...actually I just filled up the sink and forgot about it until now), and attempted to catch up on my book log. For not going anywhere today, I still feel like I didn't do enough. Arg. Glad I got a week of vacation in, instead of 8 days of that ;)
Short version: my vacation in Portland was really lovely. Got to hang out with
thisisnotanlj , snagvictim , jemale , kiplet , pfarley , colleencoover , erikamoen , nevikmoore , mudron and quirkybird . Ate a ton of great food (which I yelped about briefly, than became exhausted), read a stack of graphic novels, went canoeing and ice skating and roller skating and to an amusement park. Took lots of naps, and swam a bunch in a lovely pool. Perfect, really.Drove home in pouring (and occationally scary) rain. Car has been making funny sounds this week, which makes me nervous. Don't know when I'll have time to bring it in. I am really thinking it is time to consider getting a newer one, but at the same time having a newer car in my neighborhood without a garage seems like a bad idea. Hmph.
What I really find myself wishing is that I could move myself - and my lovely job - to Portland, where I could become a bicycle commuter like all my lovely friends there. Man, I love it down there. Seattle is starting to feel too big and spread out to me...but I really adore my job, yet don't want to move to Everett. What to do, what to do?
Today I did unpacked, did laundry, painted the heat grill in the bathroom (and a bit of wall I missed taping off), caught up on clearing out bloglines and LJ backlog reading, touched up the edges of the lilac bathroom walls, went grocery shopping, prepared my lunch for the week, did dishes (oops...actually I just filled up the sink and forgot about it until now), and attempted to catch up on my book log. For not going anywhere today, I still feel like I didn't do enough. Arg. Glad I got a week of vacation in, instead of 8 days of that ;)
