Update 9/21 – 9/27
Hi Friend!
The smoke stayed all the way until
Friday night, so last week was a whole lot of hunkering down and never opening
the doors or windows, and never leaving the house. I did a lot of pacing around my tiny place
while in the phone to get my hour walks in.
At one point, my dinky air purifiers proved that they had been working,
b/c they started to not work and I started coughing and getting a major headache. Luckily there was only a 24 hour period until
the real air purifier showed up and had to work extra hard to make up for the
time. When I woke up to clean bill of
air health, I was so excited to get outside, walk and just breathe in the fresh
air! I met up with Dawne, Jordan &
Lucas at the park, and wore shoes for the first time since February. Terrible idea. My feet hated it, and I
promptly took them off as soon as I got back to the car.
Helped (by watching) Dawne put
up Halloween decorations. I thought it
was brilliant that the Christmas lights had made it until September because
then you wouldn’t have to put them back up for the holidays, and Dawne had the
opposite feeling because she told Zach he had to take them down so that they
wouldn’t take away from Halloween. Since
they were still up, I have a feeling that Zach agreed with me.
Sunday, we went to the park again
(this time in my trusty flip flops) with D&J, Nater and Lindsay and
Lucas. Afterward, we came back to the
house, watched some Gilmore Girls, ordered pizza and played a new game. I have been rewatching GG for the umpteenth time,
but this time, I keep wanting to have full on discussions with my cousins who
have also watched it a million times – but I’m bringing up the conversations as
if something just happened with dear dear friends – and I guess that’s kind of
true at this point. While we were
playing the game, Lucas brought up an issue.
Lucas: I have had a headache for
the last couple of days so I’m wondering if I should get tested for covid.
Me: Nope. We have all had the same headache.
Lucas: No, but I’ve had it for a
while and its really bad.
Me: I know, we’ve all had the
same headache. It’s the combo of smoke
and weather and allergies.
Lucas: But I have a headache
right now.
Me: I know, we all do. We’re all just trying to be as kind as
possible even though we are all miserable.
Lindsay: Are we really trying that
hard tho?
Maybe not, but I’m hoping this
week is better! Other than that, the highlight of my week was getting a Christmas
present from my mom and dad!
Me: I got my first Christmas
present this week!
Dawne: Me too!
Me: what? Did my mom send you a present too?
Dawne: Oh no, I BOUGHT my first
present.
Me: Oh, okay. I was gonna say, if getting a present in September
isn’t unprecedented… I don’t even know.
In 2019, Ryan and I went to see Elton
John. It was the first time I think I’ve
seen a concert at the Tacoma dome, and man, was that place poorly planned. Most of the audience was well into their 70’s
or older, and we had to wait in this big long line to get in / go through the
metal detector – all outside. In the
rain. There was mutual mocking between
Ryan and I because he was totally unprepared to pay cash for parking, but I had
emergency money squirreled away (which he thought was hilarious, and I thought
was brilliant.) And then I also had two
rain coats, which again, he thought was a lil much, and I thought was super
convenient. Either way, my preparedness
equaled short dry walks and waiting. Had
I also had the power of follow through, I would have written to the folks at
the Tacoma Dome and told them to get some covering seeing as it rains here 9
months out of the year. Concert was awesome,
and then someone backed into my car on the way out – partially because he totally
didn’t look, and partially b/c I never honk my horn so it took me a while to
remember that was an option. He got out
of his car and said, “we good?” I did
not think we were good, but he definitely did.
We exchanged numbers quickly and he sped off b/c the reason we were in
the parking long to begin with was to try to get ahead of the crowd. Such fun!
In 2018 I was in Chicago for
work on the Arcade game, got to make a quick trip to see Aunt Mo, Uncle Bill
& Aunt Audrye. Casper made a new
friend at the park, got to go to the fair with Emmett, and got some cool pictures
of my other godson, Kevin. Pretty exciting, all in all!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/qntpcKSyjLHmwHba6
2017
Bailey was in town for her
evacuation vacation. We saw some salmon “running”,
checked out the ice caves, made Bailey cook rosh hashana dinner complete with
brisket and potato latkes, and went up to Leavenworth!
Zach: What are you studying?
Bails: Bio Chem
Zach: That’s smarter than what I
thought you were going to say.
The following day, Lucas, Bails
and Dawne did the ducks while I went to work and when they got back, Bails told
me that Lucas spend the day listing off Chemistry facts that he knew.
We went to brunch one day at
Portage Bay, and after a lil bit of a wait, Lucas told me, “When I hear someone
say, “I like Brunch” what I hear is, “I like headaches.”
Arda came over one night and we
watched Ghost, and made homemade ice cream – each person made their own with
their own flavors and milk choices.
Arda, however, did not seal the ice / salt bag well enough, and
accidentally got a very very salty flavored ice cream. Sad face. We were on a mission to educate Bailey with as
many movies and tv shows as possible, so another night Lucas stayed over after
watching Notting Hill – another classic! Dawne took Bailey for massages. We also
tried to make as many literary puns as possible and then watched Forgetting
Sarah Marshall.
As I said, Bailey and Dawne made
dinner for the high holiday’s. We said
maybe we could do a cooking show called “Two Catholics in the Kitchen.”
We tried to make potato pancakes
from scratch once and we lit the kitchen on fire.
I did that in my apartment.
Did it stay lit for 8 days?
Bails: Apples and Honey?
Lucas: Your Catholic is showing.
Random quotes:
I’m surprised most people have
kidneys.
What’s in the middle?
Corn Starch.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/jmnR9V9CHLnh13rcA
Hope your week is going swimmingly!
Much love,
T O’B
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