A Change is Coming

Each Autumn I become optimistic about life.  Much more so than in the warmer months.  I think walking has something to do with this feeling.  I adore walking. And now that I live downtown, I can pretty much walk to wherever I like.  I mean come on, The Metro pretty much sucks in Seattle.  But just being able to walk in the slightly chilly morning air, alone with your thoughts, to me is some kind of magical.

A cool new restaurant finally opened up below me.  Since moving to my downtown location, the restaurant on the ground level has changed many hands. But now a very fun funky Pizzaria moves in and the neighborhood has approved.  The old mob hangout Vito's also re-opened with many assurances that no one will be shot (that's always good!) So my quirky little neighborhood continues to be surprising and vivacious!

Come to think of it, life can be that way at times as well

September Comes

I think there is a song that goes by that title but for the life of me I cannot recall who sang it. No matter.  Seattle is gray once again and I am somehow very appreciative for it.  While the sun was definitely enjoyable, one starts to feel claustrophobic in the heat and brightness. Or at least I do. Work is about to pick up so I will be no doubt quite busy. Busy enough that I won't have to wonder about love and all of that nonsense. A full work schedule will make you forget almost everything!

Happy Birthday!

My beautiful daughter turns 24 years old today! Gosh, time really flies by.
It seems like it was just days ago that I was reading her a story at bedtime.

A Very Gray Summer

Although it is officially summer. it is still very dark and gray and rainy here in Seattle.  That happens from time to time.  Last year we had a blissfully hot summer that was filled with non stop activity.  This year however is proving to be the opposite. Barely 52 degress right now on June 21st when most cities are well above 70. Am I jealous of those ofther cities? A little bit. But weather like this does have its benefits.  You become reflective.  And hopefully resolute in your decisions to lead a purposeful life.

The Coolest Thing Ever

The Seattle Museum of Mystery!  All things UFO, Sasquatch and Ghost related!  I couldn't believe this existed in the city I live in!

http://www.seattlechatclub.org/museum.html

Happy Anniversary!

10 years! I acrtually made it.  Some of my friends back home said "Oh you'll be back"  or "You won't make it a year on the West Coast"   But here I stand.  Now what?  After you have done what seemed impossible, what do you do for an encore? 

The Countdown

10 days and counting to my 10 year anniversary.  On June 4th, it will be officially 10 years that I have been living in Seattle!  It's been a very crazy adjustment.  The fascination with coffee will forever baffle me but other than that, I'm glad I made the move.  Living in Ohio my whole life had not prepared me for life outside of it, so I would say it took me the entire 9 1/2 years just to fit in here.

Life

I am finally at the point in my life where I feel the need to live more purposefully. A deliberate path. After a while you begin to see what doesn't fit and what needs to be disgarded. So I now weed out my personal garden and plan to cultivate only that which makes my heart and soul sing.

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Pyrmids of Egypt

Very Cool

The Brothers Bloom!

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Really?

More and more it has been brought to my attention that I am somewhat hard hearted when it comes to relationships. I don't really think of it as being that way. I'd say I'm a realist. When something is over, its over. Just because I don't spend my time eating a pint of Hagen Daz and listening to John Mayer cd's doesn't mean I'm hard hearted. It's just that I know that life goes on. And what good comes from dwelling? Society already thinks of women as these fragile creatures, who are always writing in their journals about some man who did them wrong. The best revenge is the revenge that is served up cold. How much better it is than for an ex to see you happy, healthy, going on with your life and totally forgetting about him? That's not hard hearted. That's practical. And that's how I live my life. With both feet on the ground whether I'm walking towards you or walking away from you. Life always goes on.

A Movie

You know sometimes you can sit down and watch one movie and suddenly you feel your life is better because of it. That movie is The Brothers Bloom. The funny thing is that when I first saw it, I thought it was just okay. But after giving it another chance, I began to see the genius of the film. It's so odd. I want to talk about it, but I don't want to talk about it at the same time. perhaps I feel that my talking about it won't do it justice. And let's be honest, my talking about anything never really does the situation at hand any justice. Its just lip service.

It is one great movie. I guess that's all.

Work and Old Age

I love to work. I really do. I love the act of getting up early and working for a living. Contrubuting to the Gross National Product. Doing something productive. But here I am at the age of 42 desperately saving for my retirement. Trying to earn enough so that when I am finally old and tired, I will have enough to live on. But I don't think that people like me get THAT tired. I will most likely be one of those old people who are still working at the age of 68 as a greeter at the local Wal Mart because I am bored. As I often am when I have nothing to do. I think boredom will kill me as surely as cancer. In Seattle the elderly simply go off to live in retirement communities (tell em' Stuart sent you!). Where I'm from, you're born working and you die working. Can I change and become one of those retirement home grannies? Only time will tell.

Seattle Men

I've lived in a quite a few cities and I have to say that I have had the most luck in Seattle. The men in Seattle are for the most part friendly and gregarious in nature. They all have that slightly disheveled "just got out of bed" look that is so very cute. They are in short, a lot of fun. Like an epeisode of show Friends. Entertaining but not to be taken seriously. For all they display on the surface, they can also be somewhat shallow, and seriously lacking in any long term goals for the future. Let me tell you, I have supported more wanna be chefs, musicans, writers and painters than the United Negro College Fund. So I continue to be on the lookout for a hard working, independent, intelligent, funny man in the home of "pot smoking slackers"

10 Years!

It was 10 years ago that I left my hometown in the middle of nowhere for the shiny newness of Seattle and I don't really regret my decision. I have had opportunities here that I would have never had back home. But as always with the sweet, comes the sour. Seattle is pretentious! I mean really pretentious. When people aren't trying to tell you how to live your life (and its done in the patented passive agressive way that you can only find in Seattle) they are ignoring you (as only a city so entralled by technology could) Like that omnipresent social misfit in high school. Yeah, he was the smartest, but he was also socially inept, rude, and surpassing in asshole tendencies that would make any jock bully cringe.

So, I love Seattle and I hate Seattle in equal measure.