Here I sit, in the library, writing my first blog in over a week. I've been finding myself wanting to blog so much recently, but there's been an issue with the internet at home so I haven't been able to.
My trip home to Virginia was really great! I got to see almost everyone I wanted to see, and I got lots of great pictures.
Today was River's first day of kindergarten and Hunter's first day of middle school. I wonder how that went for them? I bet they were both really cute, and I bet little Mason was feeling very sad and left out!
Keith and I went to the Mission Theater last night and saw the best movie ever. We saw Up, and it was a Disney movie. I'm not going to say anything else besides it made me laugh and it made me cry and you really should go see it.
This library is neat. I think I will get a library card before I leave.
This is my second day off in a row and I have to say that I am very much enjoying it. It has been about two months since I had two days in a row off. Yesterday way my day of relaxation. Keith and I walked up 23rd and went in some shops and then we went to see Up, then I came home and fell asleep at 8:00 while reading Yoga Journal. I slept for 13 hours! I guess I needed the rest? This morning I woke up and did three loads of laundry and then I ran a couple errands. I caught a glimpse of Mt. Hood that stopped me dead in my tracks. Literally! I was standing almost on the corner of 21st and Burnside in front of Fred Meyer, and there it was. Beautiful, snow-covered monster of a mountain that it is! I could not believe it. It's a pretty clear day, but I have never seen it from right there. When I was shopping in Williamsburg with my mom, we were in Esprit and I was talking to the sales associate and he got all offended because I said the mountains on the east coast were more like hills compared to the mountains out west. He was like, "Well, I climb them, so I know they are huge mountains." You know, I have climbed them on many occasions too, buddy! I wasn't saying it was easy to climb them, hike them or bike them, I was only saying that the mountains out west are far larger than anything I've ever seen back east. We can see Mt. Hood from Portland and it's over 100 miles away. That is a damn huge mountain. That is like being in Richmond and being able to see Wintergreen (the resort, I don't know the name of the mountain. Maybe it's just called Wintergreen?). Anyway, he got all offended. Whatever.
Saturday I worked at the Clogs n More store on NW 23rd. I like that location because it's less than a mile from my apartment and that street is really cool. It reminds me of a bigger Carytown. Some people call it 'trendy third". Anyway, I was working there on Saturday and a totally nutty woman came in yelling and Shannon and me asking where Harrison Ford was, and very passionately screaming about how he murdered her brother in prison. She said that Harrison Ford then made $25 million off of the murder was insistent that Shannon and I knew where he was? "Does he live on the avenue? He is in a red house down the street and you know exactly where he is!" Shannon used to work with mentally disabled people, so she knew how to handle the situation. She started walking toward the woman and kind of hustled her out the door, all the while the woman was steadily screaming about Harrison Ford and then told her to tell her dad, Robert Redford, hello for her. We told Ahmed about it and he said he sometimes thought people like that led pretty good lives because they really had no idea what was going on around them. She was crazy. With a capital C. The whole situation really left me wondering how I would handle a situation like that if I were alone. At the Streets of Tanasbourne location, we can call security and say, "I have a package for Nora" and security will come rushing over. I told Shannon if I had been alone and at the Tanasbourne location I would have had a package for Nora!
It's a beautiful day in Portland! I am also listening to TV on the Radio on my headphones. I love this band! Check them out if you don't already know who they are. Keith and I saw them at the Sasquatch Festival.
I love living out west! I don't really care where I am out here, as long as I'm still here. I don't know what it is, I really just love it. It's beautiful. I can't say for sure, but I don't think I will ever move back to the east coast unless I really have to. I love my family and friends and I had a great time visiting, but I love it here! It is quite doubtful that we will stay in Portland forever, though. Who knows where the wind will take us next? I guess that element of uncertainty would freak some folks out, but I love it! The only thing that would freak me out is feeling stuck. I felt that way in Virginia.
I really have to pee. I wonder where the bathroom is in this library?
Have you ever wondered who 'they' is? They say you are supposed to spend less than a third of your monthly income on mortgage, they say you are supposed to spend three months salary on an engagement ring. That has got to be two different groups of 'they' right?! Who the heck is 'they' anyway?!
I have now switched from TV on the Radio to Nine Inch Nails circa The Fragile. We saw them at Sasquatch too! I now love Jane's Addiction and Nine Inch Nails EVEN MORE than ever since I saw them live! That whole Sasquatch experience was awesome! Minus the sleeping in the back of the vdub part. But who cares?!
Sarah will be here in about a month. I wonder what we will do? I'm sure I will be working some. I work every Friday and Saturday at Clogs n More and I really can't take that time off because Shannon is going to Los Angeles to see her nephew. We will figure something out. I work 11-7, so we will at least have the mornings and nights. Whatever. We will have fun no matter what we do. I wish I would get more visitors out here!!
I'd love to blog more but I really have to pee!
xoxo,
T
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