Hi friend!
Back in December,
I saw this sign in a restaurant in Leavenworth that I thought looked like the one
in my grandparents' house, but Raymond didn't think theirs was in German. So I had fly to Illinois (2 months later) to
prove I was right and text him. I'm a
delight, I know.
Actually, what
happened was I had to take a trip down to LA for a quick meeting, and then that
same day, Jeremy and I flew to Chicago for another fun meeting. Actually, it was pretty fun but I can't talk
about it yet. I also got to spend some
quality time with one of my favorite co-workers. We talked in depth about religion, politics,
and other touchy topics with no problems. And then I found out he didn't like
the Harry Potter books and I'm not sure if I can forgive or forget that.
After the
meeting, I drove to meet up with my cousins for dinner and ice cream which was lovely. Pam even answered my phone call even though
she didn't recognize the number which I though was seriously incredible. The following day, I had some time before I
had to fly back, so I went to Aunt Audrye's hung out and then we went to pick
up Aunt Maureen for lunch. After lunch
we stopped by the Marina to see Uncle Bill and Billy along with all their
awesome party boats!
Aunt Audrye told
me she once visited her grandson, Sean.
He was living with a bunch of people in college at the time and it was
bit of a mess. She took a candy from the
table, ate the candy and threw the wrapper on floor. When everyone looked at her she said,
"What? I thought that's what you
guys did here."
She also recently passed her driver's test, "And now I don't trust anyone on the road." She told me she never turns left - she just keeps turning right until there is a light or she gets there. And then she told me all of the places she needs to go to are close by. I asked, "Close and to the right?" Aunt Audrye, "Exactly."
When Aunt Audrye
goes on vacation with her daughter Colleen, Colleen often mentions that her mom
is elderly so that they can get a room on the ground floor near the pool. So, Aunt Audrye has to walk in with an exaggerated
"Old Lady Walk" so that she doesn't look like a liar. Apparently, one time they were on vacation
and they had to leave fairly quickly because there was a fire... because
someone left there meth pot on the stove.
Aunt Audrye walked more quickly for that one.
Anyway, I had a really
lovely visit and was grateful for the time!
Here are some
photos!
Much Love,
T O'B
Update 2/6 - 2/12
In Seattle we got a snow day, and my coworkers made the most of
it by making a Chief snow man while I worked from home. Percy got a much needed haircut. I tried to avoid it so he wouldn’t freeze,
but I had already waited far too long. I
spent a lot of time playing with Percy, going to the park with Dawne when it
wasn’t snowing and generally enjoying not having to fly anywhere this
week.
Here are some pictures!
Much love,
T O’B
Update 2/13-2/19
Hi Friend!
Let's see Halo Wars 2 released with a bunch of amusing
commercials that I can share:
I flew to NY to celebrate Momela's birthday (we went to the
early bird special at 3:30 and I got chicken in waffles in our own private
dining room.) Oh yeah, on our way home,
there was a bit of traffic, to the point that we were able to have a
conversation with a guy while driving.
He was telling us that he was a cop and that, "No one cares that
you rear ended them - pull
over!!"
Momela tried to explain to me that Ridiculous 6 was totally kid
appropriate and then we watched it because it was her birthday. Really, only because it was her
birthday. And I don't think it's kid
friendly.
I also got to record Frita as I interviewed him and it was
really awesome. I got a good 2 1/2 hours
of material including a story about WWII.
I asked if he had any memories of wars or historical events and told me
that when he was younger he went to camp for a week in NJ. When he got back, everyone was celebrating D
day and he could see all the fireworks and party from the GW bridge and he said
to his parents, "Wow! People really
are excited about me getting home from camp" and his parents never
corrected his assumption.
Maureen was telling me a story about her students that ended
with:
You guys we should be a little quieter bc there is an American
in here.
Or because we're inside in a classroom.
Maureen and I took the
train down to NY to meet up with Chelsea and Ryan for dinner. She packed some beers in a paper bag. When we stopped at her school's stop she put
the beer back in the bag until a string of teenagers came on and passed
us. Then she grabbed the beer and said,
"Okay, only one of my students."
I was telling her about how we were meeting Ryan.
Mo: Who?
Me: Ryan, you know the guy I have lunch with every day.
Mo: Okay, just call him Lunch Buddy.
Then later, after two beers
Me: And then me and Lunchbox...
Mo: Whoa! He isn't an inanimate object!
Only now that's totally his nickname.
At New York Comic Con, I was running to a meeting and had to
stop abruptly to put my hands into this stuff call floof. And then later I took my co-workers back to
the booth to show them the floof, sand and dirt and asked them to each by me
one for my birthday and then I proceeded to tell everyone else we saw for the
rest of the show how my co-workers were going to get me awesome birthday
presents.
I was telling this guy from Mattel that we were going to Vegas
for Magic right after the show.
Nick: Ping ping ping
Me: Is that supposed to be an impression of me?
Nick: No, it's supposed to be Vegas slots.
Then I told him excitedly all about Floof.
Nick: Oh I do see how that could have been an impression.
I also got to see Jim, my favorite from DC Comics at a
party! And we did Karaoke with Dark
Horse (Chelsea was A-Mazing!), and I dragged some people down to a party that
Zach and Ray were at, and we had a super yummy dinner at Tao. And I'm sure
super fun things happened but I totally can't remember! The crazy amount of meetings definitely
balanced out with all the fun after con fun, for sure.
And here are pictures:
Much Love,
T O'B
Update 2/20 - 2/26
Hi Friend!
This week blurred with last week, but for
organizations sake I'll separate them.
Monday we had a quick meeting downtown.
Before the meeting we stopped at a little bakery for breakfast. Chelsea was walking in, but suddenly just
froze so I picked up her suitcase, and mine, and opened the door bringing all
of our stuff in as she followed in a daze.
Apparently what I missed was Alec Baldwin walking out of the bakery as
we were walking in and Chelsea losing all brain power.
Meanwhile Zach and Raymond went to my
parents' house. I had mocked Zach pretty
hard core because he made a macaroni frame for his mom for Christmas and then
he spotted a similar frame at my parents.
Zach: How dare you.
Me: I was 3, not 27.
After the meeting, we headed to Las Vegas for
Magic! We were staying in the Four
Seasons so naturally I took a bath and put all the fancy soaps in my
suitcase. It was seriously swanky, they
even wrapped my power cords with a little Velcro thing and put my glasses on a
glass cleaner cloth. Fancy. Pants.
Chelsea had scheduled a lot of dinners and
meetings - of note, she scheduled like 7 "drink" meetings in a
row. I met a couple of Chelsea's friends
on Monday night who I would see again the following day and I asked if they
could smuggle some bread to me when we met so I would survive the marathon of
meetings. Chelsea got pretty sick so
eventually we got her a hot toddy (because she kept refusing my offers of
"Two beers and Shot" that I kept reading throughout the hotel/casino.)
When I got home, I guess I missed going to
conventions so I asked Dr. Rach, Kelly, and Becky if they wanted to go to the
Train Show (Becky couldn't come but you can check out her radical starbucks
spelling of her name in the pics.) We
went to Maltby Café beforehand which was way way too much food and also
delicious. Plus I picked up some fun
gifts for Jordan's birthday, and Tom's kid walked out looking like a train
conductor!
Much Love,
T O'B
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