So, I am blanking on what we did last weekend. It must have been pretty low key.
Saturday, after a slow start to the day, we drove to a farm on the Eastside to look for pumpkins. We had briefly considered hitting a museum, but the weather turned out to be nice, and museums are for lousy weather days. There was a lot of traffic getting out there (getting out of Bellevue, surprisingly, and not on the floating bridge).
There were a lot of people there. It had some of the usual amusements for kids… pony rides, random animals everywhere, etc.. They even had a trebuchet that they used to fire pumpkins for fun. We took a ride on a horse drawn buggy to get to the pumpkin fields. There did not seem to be a lot of choice, but perhaps the pumpkin season is a little later here. We did end up purchasing one; it is now hanging out on our little patio waiting to be consumed in some way.
Sunday, it returned to the rainy weather. We decided to go to Ballard and perhaps check out some antique stores for yucks. We did not really find any antique stores, but we did browse through their farmer’s market. We also had a snack at Portalis… a wine store and bar. It felt kinda weird and decadent to have wine that early in the day, but, hey, that’s the advantage of being an adult.
Sometime, (Friday or Saturday?) I ran into a old housemate in a kitchen store. Crazy. The housemate, Yun, has been living in Seattle; I had known he had been living in here in the past, but only had learned a couple of months ago he still was here. He recognized me immediately from behind; I guess I am pretty memorable because he said he usually has problems remembering people. He also said it was not surprising to find me in a kitchen store.
He is married now and has a three or four year old daughter. She was there also dressed up as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.
Monday to Friday… work work work work work. We had dinner with Eve at an Ethiopian restaurant at one point since they were starving after clinic. Last night we had dinner with an OB-GYN resident whose name I am blanking on. They were going to go salsa dancing but were too tired after dinner, so they just relaxed in our apartment instead.
I make granola and bread. Woot.
Amanda bought me an ipod nano as a delayed birthday present. She used the rebate debit card thing we got for renting our apartment. I guess she knew I would never pull the trigger on buying it because it is really a superfluous purchase, and I would have been perfectly content with thinking about getting one for years. She said she got tired of me looking at them and with me borrowing hers to use while working out (which is pretty much the only time I use it). I had been taking to downloading podcasts rather than listening to music… definitely makes exercising more pleasant. If I take public transport to my future job it will also be nice.
I am a whopping twenty+ pounds lighter than when we moved here. Packing up and leaving the east coast had wrecked havoc on my exercise routine. I am in reasonable cardio shape now, although I still long for the ungodly shape I was in when I was bicycling to work all the time. We don’t have freeweights here, only machines, so I have lost a lot of muscle mass, although I still do resistence work.
OK, back to more work work work work. Amanda may be coming back shortly or perhaps I will pick her up, but she has a licensing thing she has to go to for four-five hours tonight and for most of the day tomorrow. I was up most of the night trying to deal with a major compiler upgrade in our project… translation: deal with a lot of overhead so I could get some real work done… so I feel like taking a nap. That can wait though.