We just got back home, tonight, after our two weeks away – One week in Spain (San Sebastian, Guernica, Bilbao, Pamplona) and Holland (Amsterdam, Haarlem) book-ended by a week at my parents, who watched Nugget while we were away. I have 900+ photos to go through, clean up and post and tales to tell. My […]
My husband and I met in our respective home towns (which are only 10 minutes apart, and I spent a lot of time in the town – his town – 10 minutes away for most of my teenage years and early 20s), when we’d both, serendipitously, returned from living abroad. He in England for 2 […]
When we first announced that we were moving up North, from Santa Monica to Seattle, oh, how people scoffed. They told us that we’d get sick of it, that the gray and the rain would drive us mad. It wasn’t just people from SoCal who told us this, though the people from SoCal sneered the […]
My SECOND trip to Amsterdam was, by far, the very best & most memorable. And you know, I did that one alone. Just me. No boyfriend or friend or anyone to answer to. It was my 28th birthday gift to myself. (Well, to myself and from my parents – a plane ticket.) Good god, has […]
I had the most perfect 30th birthday ever. Truly. I celebrated in Prague, smashed shots of slivovice and becherovka. Me, some friends, and my two flatmates (who I wish I’d appreciated more when I lived with them) went out dancing and didn’t get home until well after 5 am. Sadly, I don’t have any pictures […]
I’m going through all my old photos and, in the interest of trying not to rant and complain for awhile, reposting a few and looking back on when they were taken. These photos are from my last trip to Holland – Amsterdam. Don’t get me started on Amsterdam, my first great love. Mr Nikki’s, as […]
Yesterday, we went downtown right before Pike Place was closing. (The sky was gray, it was very, very windy and it was closing in the hour – the crowds were manageable! And I hate to say, because *I* was a tourist once, but sometimes I wish Pike Place was a “locals only” kind of place, […]
See that? The moment I took the picture, he gave me the finger. He is SO my child.
We hired a professional cleaning service to do a thorough, top to bottom cleaning of the house before we move in next week. They started today, and told us that they couldn’t finish it because the house is “really, really dirty.” So they’ll be finishing it up tomorrow. We also decided to have the 3 […]
I can’t even begin to describe how much better I feel when I just get out of the apartment. (We’ll be moving in to the house NEXT WEEK!) This weekend we went to wander around Ballard (a neighborhood of Seattle) and on Sunday, we did the 2.8 mile Loop Trail in Discovery Park (up to […]
