01-31-20

A brother, as sister.  A dad's birthday.  A few pots of chili.  A new dog Obi.

01-30-20

Tonight I bake.  Made brookies and the raindrop cake from Shanna.

01-29-20

The mobile notary came tonight and we signed paperwork to buy the duplexes.  What a busy week!

01-27-20

The lights in my building all go on at 6am.  Today I was right outside when it happened.  Good morning Weyerhaeuser!

01-26-20

We walked at Leschi today for a change of scenary.

01-25-20

Our crane is being dismantled this weekend!  But, it's our crane!  It's been here the entire time we've been at Viktoria... life just keeps changing!

01-23-20

Color and cut this evening.  The gal in the shampoo station next to me was asking about copper.  That's me!

My stylist is moving, I am going to miss her!

01-22-20

Big shooting at corner of 3rd and Pike and we're off looking for gluten free dessert.  As Mom adjusts to living on Queen Anne, consulting the GPS on best route home.

01-21-20

Hi Oddish!

I went into a local florist and explained that I needed a tall plant that looked like Oddish.

She just looked at me and said "you pick the plant, I plant it for you".

Oh, OK, I decided this was the most spiky and easiest to keep alive.

01-20-20

Happy Martin Luther King Day.

Bruce met me at worka nd we walked home together.

Bruce found this neat image of the Smith Tower in a puddle.

01-19-20

Happy Vietnamese New Year!  

We wandered down to the Seattle Center to check it out, and got to see a lot of fan dances and these impressive dancing lions.

01-18-20

We moved the 3 Muskateers from Laurel Cove to Queen Anne Manor today.  The top corner unit is Mom & Jerry's new home, looking forward to enjoying that huge deck.

01-17-20

TGIF.

Love this city, love the things I come across.  The musician outside Target had lights today.

01-16-20

The Great Wheel has been stangely subdues lately.  Winter blues?

01-15-20

Snow day!  Plenty of productivity loss this week as we watch the forecast, the weather, and the windows.  Not nearly as much of a dump as we expectied, at least downtown.

01-14-20

So, in 2019 my Collecting Rent book collected about $29 in royalties.

01-13-20

Made for Mondays.  Here's a pic of my workspace.

01-12-20

I gave Bruce tins for Christmas with stips containing new resturants on them.  We've pulled strips twice now and found 2 new good places.  Today it was Donor Box, with German Turkish food.

01-11-20

Management always sends a lot of notices when people are going to be hanging off the side of the building.  It always feels like overkill.  Until a body is suddenly right there.

01-10-20

Made it to Friday!  First full week back to work after the holidays, pushing hard on mid January deadlines, longest week ever!

Packed home my PC just in case snow really falls.

01-09-20

Anastasia: "Why do you have skirts in your planned wardrobe?  You don't wear skirts!"

I do, but I think I won't in the future.  I'd be really happy wearing slacks the rest of my life, I think.  :)

01-07-20

Walked by Target, and things are really different.  A whole section of checkouts, gone.  What's up?

01-06-20

Uh-oh, I’m hooked on a new reality TV show for the new year.

The Circle is a game based around social media, with the concept that "anyone can be anyone in The Circle."

The contestants, or "players", move into the same apartment building. However, the contestants never meet face-to-face during the course of the competition, as they each live in their own individual apartment. They communicate solely using their profiles on a specially-designed social media app that gives them the ability to portray themselves in any way they choose. Players can thus opt to present themselves as a completely different personality to the other players, a tactic known as catfishing.

It’s a really easy show to binge watch.

01-05-20

Guess who got a new mini nativity?!?

It was the cow who captured my heart, he is so stinking cute!

I thought maybe I' only be able to afford the cow piece from the boutique florist in Amazon land, so I about fell over when she said it was $23 for the set, on after-Christmas special.  Score!

01-04-20

It's the Dittman-Penter gang!

Four brothers.  Four cousins.  Three fairly recent deaths.

But today we laughed, reconnected, and enjoyed old photos.

01-03-20

This alley near my office is photographed often, but I never noticed these cloud murals before.  Everyone seems a little blue today - weather is better, but everyone is warn out working again after a nice break.

01-02-20

Free First Thursday at the art museum with Anastasia and Mom, then our last book club at Barned & Noble.

01-01-20

I was not feeling very inspired to choose a focus word for 2020, so SLOTH seems perfect in a lot of ways.  I’m ready to coast for a bit.  I still want to make progress on goals and self improvement, but at a more leisurely pace.

My specific intentions:

• More work-life balance
• Less focus on hard work at work, get more comfortable with place and skills
• Hanging out with relatives and new friends
• Grateful for financial blessings, continued giving and saving
• Travel and vacation more
• Continue to read a lot

11 years of choosing a focus word to guide my goals and intentions.  Some made a bigger impact than others.  I can’t even find any evidence of 2016!

• 2009 – Relinquish
• 2010 – Shape
• 2011 – Refine
• 2012  - Deeper
• 2013 – Vitality
• 2014 – Fallow
• 2015 – Catharsis
• 2016 - ?
• 2017 – Enough
• 2018 – Alter
• 2019 - Nourish

Typically New Years is a day for me to rest and read... a sloth kind of day!