Category Archives: reminiscing

Goodbye old apartment!

September 30, 2013

We’ve moved but before I share too much about the new place I wanted to say goodbye to the old one (I tend to get pretty sentimental about things). Also we’re still setting up our new place but I’ll share when we’re settled in a bit more. We started moving on Wednesday with the help of friends and moved more things on Thursday and some more things on Friday and yesterday Walker and I took 2 bikes trips to get the remaining things and say goodbye-well I was saying goodbye, Walker was just getting the stuff. DSC_0485
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Our place was full of vintage charm and had 2 big beautiful windows in the living room that made you feel like you were in a tree house. The hummingbirds loved the trees out front and I would watch them fly around doing what they do. It’s easy to wonder if you’re making the right choices as you’re making them but I think we were ready for a move. It was a little sad saying goodbye to the first place we’ve lived together though. But onto the next thing right? Onto a guest room/studio, a backyard with a garden, a garage that we can do any number of things in, a quieter neighborhood for peaceful evening walks (when it’s not pouring out which is basically has been all weekend long).

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Goodbye 1 bedroom apartment in capitol hill! Maybe we’ll walk by and visit from time to time but chances are not as often as we’d like.

Labor day weekend

September 4, 2013

This year our friends from Eugene drove up to spend the weekend with us. They were here this same weekend last year but I didn’t arrive until Monday so I was only able to say hello and then they were off. This year was great because I was here for the whole weekend. Our other friend who just moved to town also joined in the fun and it was such a great weekend.

We laughed so hard, stayed up later than usual, played games, ate good food, and tasted lots of Seattle beer. I was exhausted after the weekend and happy to just sit down and relax. It was so worth it though. Spending time with good friends in the best.

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1 year in seattle!

September 3, 2013

Today is exactly 1 year since I arrived in Seattle. I had spent 2 months in Michigan with my family and finally decided I would head out to Seattle after labor day. I had shipped out a few boxes and packed the rest in a couple of suitcases and both excitedly and sadly flew out to Seattle.

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Walker met me at the airport (luckily our friends who had just moved to Eugene, OR were visiting for labor day weekend and he borrowed their car) and we drove into my new city and to my new apartment. We unloaded the car and all 4 of us went to a coffee shop before our friends drove back home. I now know the coffee shop is pretty close to our house but at the time its location seemed a mystery to me. Plus I was a little out of it.

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Our friends headed home and then it was just Walker and I. He walked me around the neighborhood a little bit and then we found a place to eat. We explored some more and then made our first meal as a couple living together. It was a big day of new things and I’m sure I was pretty emotional but here I am one year later. I made it, I even kind of like it here, and the best news- we just found a new place to live that is absolutely perfect for us! Or at least I really hope it is. There will be more details on that to come.

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For now Seattle thank you for 1 mostly good year.