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Jun. 5th, 2004 06:12 am...from here at least. You all are lucky I don't just title this something like "Nghahrrrghugh", since I am particularly feeling the just-woke-up-still-not-getting-enough-sleep-oh-dear-heavens-am-grumpy thing. (Can I string anything more together with hyphens? Bah.) Very tired. Very zombie-grumpy. And sniffly. >p Ah, there. Allegra. Sniffly, I can do something about at least. Though I look in the bathroom mirror and wonder why my hair will never do anything but hang down straight, even if I style, even if I spend a ton on sprays and gels--but one good case of bedhead, and my bangs defy gravity? Eh.
Ok, to the point. Let's see... Went to the Alki area, and I can tell I miss very much how Mom used to live down there. Not that she's terribly far up the hill, but it's a different neighborhood, and a lot less of a view. And I miss that area down there. It's just so gorgeous, and the beachfront always has called to me the most. But we hit the bakery down there (had a cheesecake, Katkat--an individual one with raspberry puree on it covered in chocolate ganache and a bit of whipped cream <3<3 ). Then walked the beach for several hours.
Was the perfect, perfect day for walking by the sound. Gorgeous weather--not too warm or cool, just a slight breeze, very sunny. And they were having the lowest tide of the last several years (I guess it normally gets down to a level of '3'ish, but it was rated as a '-4'). So spent a lot of time just walking along the edge of the surf, avoiding incoming waves (not terribly well ^^; ), looking at shells and sealife and seaweed and gulls and such. Were a rather lot of broken up crabs, so I imagine the gulls were happy. Saw a bunch of starfish, too. I should have just waded, but didn't think to take off shoes and socks and so that all just eventually got damp and then soaked (I always forget how heavy leather gets when wet). Slopped around in the soggy sand, snooped in the tidal pools, people-watched (tons of kids there). Man, I just love the look of it, the smell, the sound, the everything. I can't describe how much I want to be around the beach or the waterfront all the time--even if I can't live there, to be able to go to it at a moment's notice... I want that so much.
Anyway. There was also one rather nice time, where we stopped to rest a bit on this cement pillar/bench. It'd gotten warmed by sun, and so were we, and eventually I just dozed off for a while, and lemme tell you, that's the most amazing thing. That's contentment. And yay for sunscreen spray--all this and I didn't really make my sunburn any worse. So the rest of the day--we'd intended to go to the Space Needle restaurant, but they decided to change to be more exclusive, so we couldn't go in as we were dressed like 'tourist' instead of in 'business casual'. Elitist gits. So instead we went back to the waterfront shops, and hit a restaurant where you could get one of those steamed crabpot combos--had two types of crab, clams, mussels, oysters, whole shrimp ( ._. heads... ), halibut and salmon skewers, corn, potatoes. Basically you eat with your hands and a mallet (seriously), and it's the messiest thing I've ever, ever done. And the whole restaurant all you could hear was the sound of wooden mallets pounding. (Gads, and I've washed my hands so many times since, and I swear I still can smell the seasoning ^^; )
So there it is, the last of it. Today we pack, and bus out to the airport. Wheefun. I hate going through security and all that. Then I have tomorrow to force myself back into the right time zone, in preparation for work Monday. I don't think I'm going to be especially cheery. ._. Especially since there will be no lazing tomorrow--have to unpack, straighten out the post-trip finances, and go to Leslie's DnD game. And of course, I don't even want to go back anyway. I love this city. Adore it. Even the fussy things, I can rant about but still just shrug off, because I just love it here. And god, I want to be around Mom, I don't like being half a country away--it's already been a year and a half since I last saw her, how long is it going to be the next time? I wish I could just move out here--I hate that it's so damned expensive so that it's impossible for me to convince someone we need to move, and like always I wonder if things will ever be if I can just come out here on my own.
But anyway, I digress, severely. >_> Shutting up now, getting back to the normal--guess I'll get Ma to burn me off a CD of all those photos, and upload some of the other stuff from the last several days once I'm back home or something.
Ok, to the point. Let's see... Went to the Alki area, and I can tell I miss very much how Mom used to live down there. Not that she's terribly far up the hill, but it's a different neighborhood, and a lot less of a view. And I miss that area down there. It's just so gorgeous, and the beachfront always has called to me the most. But we hit the bakery down there (had a cheesecake, Katkat--an individual one with raspberry puree on it covered in chocolate ganache and a bit of whipped cream <3<3 ). Then walked the beach for several hours.
Was the perfect, perfect day for walking by the sound. Gorgeous weather--not too warm or cool, just a slight breeze, very sunny. And they were having the lowest tide of the last several years (I guess it normally gets down to a level of '3'ish, but it was rated as a '-4'). So spent a lot of time just walking along the edge of the surf, avoiding incoming waves (not terribly well ^^; ), looking at shells and sealife and seaweed and gulls and such. Were a rather lot of broken up crabs, so I imagine the gulls were happy. Saw a bunch of starfish, too. I should have just waded, but didn't think to take off shoes and socks and so that all just eventually got damp and then soaked (I always forget how heavy leather gets when wet). Slopped around in the soggy sand, snooped in the tidal pools, people-watched (tons of kids there). Man, I just love the look of it, the smell, the sound, the everything. I can't describe how much I want to be around the beach or the waterfront all the time--even if I can't live there, to be able to go to it at a moment's notice... I want that so much.
Anyway. There was also one rather nice time, where we stopped to rest a bit on this cement pillar/bench. It'd gotten warmed by sun, and so were we, and eventually I just dozed off for a while, and lemme tell you, that's the most amazing thing. That's contentment. And yay for sunscreen spray--all this and I didn't really make my sunburn any worse. So the rest of the day--we'd intended to go to the Space Needle restaurant, but they decided to change to be more exclusive, so we couldn't go in as we were dressed like 'tourist' instead of in 'business casual'. Elitist gits. So instead we went back to the waterfront shops, and hit a restaurant where you could get one of those steamed crabpot combos--had two types of crab, clams, mussels, oysters, whole shrimp ( ._. heads... ), halibut and salmon skewers, corn, potatoes. Basically you eat with your hands and a mallet (seriously), and it's the messiest thing I've ever, ever done. And the whole restaurant all you could hear was the sound of wooden mallets pounding. (Gads, and I've washed my hands so many times since, and I swear I still can smell the seasoning ^^; )
So there it is, the last of it. Today we pack, and bus out to the airport. Wheefun. I hate going through security and all that. Then I have tomorrow to force myself back into the right time zone, in preparation for work Monday. I don't think I'm going to be especially cheery. ._. Especially since there will be no lazing tomorrow--have to unpack, straighten out the post-trip finances, and go to Leslie's DnD game. And of course, I don't even want to go back anyway. I love this city. Adore it. Even the fussy things, I can rant about but still just shrug off, because I just love it here. And god, I want to be around Mom, I don't like being half a country away--it's already been a year and a half since I last saw her, how long is it going to be the next time? I wish I could just move out here--I hate that it's so damned expensive so that it's impossible for me to convince someone we need to move, and like always I wonder if things will ever be if I can just come out here on my own.
But anyway, I digress, severely. >_> Shutting up now, getting back to the normal--guess I'll get Ma to burn me off a CD of all those photos, and upload some of the other stuff from the last several days once I'm back home or something.
