The Green Room

Please, don’t mind me while I sob quietly in my little corner over here. Ryan and I took a break from our packing to go watch UP at the Laurelhurst. I’m sure my face will dry out eventually.

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I picked up The Last Gentleman Adventurer at the library book store because with a title like that, how could I not? It is the memoirs of a young man (Edward Beauclerk Maurice) who joined the Hudson’s Bay Company as an apprentice straight out of his English boarding school in the early 1930′s. What better [...]

Star light, star bright, you’ve got the lovin’ that I like all right

…and the lease is signed. Kim and Linda (and their daughter, Abby) just came over to our apartment to get the papers signed and out of the way, because they’re leaving for vacation tomorrow. They’ll be back on the 30th, and we actually get the keys (and give them the rest of the deposit) on [...]

Two weeks. In two weeks we will be moving out of the basement and into an actual house. I got a phone call this morning from my new landlord giving us the good news, and asking when we wanted to get together to sign the lease. I’m going to have a garden! And a fireplace! [...]

Today is our first wedding anniversary. That is such a strange sentence to be writing. Anyway, we both took the day off work, so after sleeping in, we went out for breakfast at the Roxy, and then we went out browsing. We only actually spent money at Powell’s (the new volume of Fables came out [...]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is playing at the Laurelhurst. I know what I’m doing for the rest of the week!

Also, happy 21st birthday to my baby sister! I guess I have to stop calling you ‘Kid’ now.

Ryan’s birthday present just arrived! Now comes the hard part, which is not giving it to him until October. I may crack and just decide that it’s an anniversary present instead, since that’s coming up in just a week or so. That’s a weird thought, that I’ve almost been married for a year. After we [...]