9 posts tagged “2008”

Writing this made me realize that I need to write more, I have been a little stale.  Today I am moving my desk from my garage to my sewing room... then I can sew and create and write... no more excuses.

 

To: CJ
Cc: TxK
Subject: RE: Pancake Supper Club #2

 

 

Not sure if you made it and we missed you or you didn’t  make it.  As we entered through a purple haze a little after 9:20 there was a steady beat, that continued while we stood there and people got things sorted.  There was barely anyone there and they hardly looked ready, rather than offer to help we decided to get some fresh air and skip the beer and wine in favor of some of the harder stuff.  We exited back through the haze and headed around the corner to the Bit (once the workin’ mans saloon now something about it being a dive bar).  One drink we a listened to a guy express that he liked Seattle because it is where it is ok for a black man to like country and punk, enjoyed the occasional juke box sign-a-longs, even joined in a few ourselves… we realized it was 10 so we headed back.  The haze was still strong and had shifted just slightly.  The same beat droned on.  There was no cleverness.  Chatted with a few folks asked if anyone had seen you and knowing Johnny would be there all night asked him to keep an eye out for you and to let you know we had been and gone back to the bit.  Back to the bit we had a second drink and chatted with some locals.  I love the bit.  I think it was another hour past and we headed out, back around the corner, TxK almost lost her life as a car careened around the corner with no regard for human life.  I hollered “car!” and her life was spared as she darted like a ninja out of the way.  Granted it would have been WAY cooler if she had jumped and flipped and landed on her feet on the hood of the car and gone for a joy ride, but this is real life not an action film, so instead you just have to imagine that is what she did, even though she didn’t.

We contemplated walking back in before climbing into the rig, it was a little past 11 now, and the haze had moved to the sidewalk, and was wafting like the evil black cloud in Lost towards us.  We opted for the Chariot to take out leave of that place.

Hope you had an equally as exciting Friday. 

 

My week (even having taken a 5 day weekend) has been crazy and I am tired. 
I brought Dözer back to the shelter.
Cue “booooh”.
He was not very happy about it.  In fact I had to drag him back to his kennel, he was spread eagle, head on the floor REFUSING. 
Wednesday I worked my volunteer shift.
The dogs were crazy.  Everyone barking, many peeing in their cages, tipping water buckets, pooping… Goldie climbed into an adjoining kennel.  Dozer was chill, he even shook a little.
So I took him home again.

One night a week I volunteer at an animal shelter, this past week there was a dog there that looks a lot like a dog I had as a kid.  The shelter is taking care of the flooring and wanted to get foster homes for the dogs so that they did not have to be near the fumes.  So how could I resists?? 

It is kind of crazy having a big dog at my house, but the first hour seems to be going pretty well.

Outside of that, I also recently photographed a friends wedding.  I am pretty happy with the way the images turned out.  It was nice because I was able to get another friend of mine to help out and take pics too.

 

I also went to another wedding out of town a few weekends ago and this weekend I had a bithday....

Yesterday TxK and I decided to venture out of the snowfields of the eastside and head south in search of warmer weather…

To Puyallup we went to the Spring Fair and to the Smashfest Demo Derby.  Even with the frigid tempatures (for April in Washington anyway), we had a super fun time.

Heck I'd go so far as to say: Best $20 I have spent on live entertainment in a long time.

I also found a most wonderful wool hoodie sweater and a carmel apple, both of which have been on my hunt list for a while now.

I need to go on another trip... *sigh* 

I dumped all of my photos in my flickr account but I did very little editing... here are a few of my favorites that I do not think I have already posted...

In a blender add:

 

1 Jeep

4 friends

1 dog

300 Miles

1000 tons of sand

34 Petrified Logs

1 closed malt shop

1 waitress gone mad

14 wild horses

1 bridge

 

Sprinkle with laughs and road bugs and blend for 6 hours.

 

So I did it.  I traded in the Snaab for something newer and better. 

Things were just starting to go mysteriously wrong.  Things that no one could pin point exactly and I for one and not about to just start paying money for a hunch of what could be wrong.  Things that felt like the front wheel wanting to fall off, so I turned her in.

I got myself a new car.  I have had my eye on it for a while.  A distant cousin of Url. 

It is really quite lovely, the clutch is a little different, oh heck, everything is a little different, but that is ok by me.

mmmm love that new car smell...