Baby shower, round one!
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annathepiperLast night, sadly, I did not write like a crazy writing thing; I do not, at any rate, think that 17 words qualifies as "writing like a crazy writing thing". We'll see what I can do about that tonight. There were just too many distractions in play, chief among them the desire to read some more of Locked Rooms.
This morning I slept in, rather later than I expected I would, but got up in plenty of time nevertheless to go with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
solarbird to the Burlington Coat Factory (an odd name for a department store, I must note) and its Baby Depot department to purchase baby loot for jessicac's forthcoming child. That turned out to be pleasant, since the store turned out to have some architectural oddities about it that intrigued Dara, and we also learned to our amusement that baby toys are pretty much exactly like parrot toys, only soft and squishy. We were both very charmed by this one toy we found, a pretty much spherical bird-like thing in very bright shades of orange and yellow.
Dara suggested we bike to Bothell since we had enough time to do so, so we did that and it was pleasant. It's cooler today than it was yesterday, since we had some rain come through, so we had a decent balance of sunshine and breeze going on and I never got too hot or too cold on the ride at any point. Plus we were able to carry the four gifts between us, Dara with the two larger things in her backpack and me with the smaller and squishy things in my velvet bag.
The shower was hosted bykathrynt at the home of lyricae and tinlail, and we had much pleasant conversation and many tasty things to eat. And Cheryl showed Dara and me her motorcycle, which looked pretty cool. Surprisingly petite for a motorcycle, which made it about the exact right size for Cheryl. Jessica was very pleased by the gifts, especially the cute squishy soft toy bird we found, which was pretty much spherical and colored bright yellow and orange. So, fun all around!
Dara and I thought about going to Woodinville after on a quest to see about getting me a cell phone, but we found out while we were there that Working Assets is offering cell phone service now. And since they are made of 98% less evil than many phone companies, this made both Dara and me go "huh!" and opt to come home and look into this instead.
So no cell phone, but I did at least get in some bonus biking. And tonight, writing, hopefully. And tomorrow, Street Fair!
Friday evening miles: 2.4
Saturday miles: 9.6
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1018.9
Miles out of Rivendell: 560.9
Miles out of Lothlórien: 98.9
Miles to Rauros Falls: 290.1
This morning I slept in, rather later than I expected I would, but got up in plenty of time nevertheless to go with
solarbird to the Burlington Coat Factory (an odd name for a department store, I must note) and its Baby Depot department to purchase baby loot for jessicac's forthcoming child. That turned out to be pleasant, since the store turned out to have some architectural oddities about it that intrigued Dara, and we also learned to our amusement that baby toys are pretty much exactly like parrot toys, only soft and squishy. We were both very charmed by this one toy we found, a pretty much spherical bird-like thing in very bright shades of orange and yellow.Dara suggested we bike to Bothell since we had enough time to do so, so we did that and it was pleasant. It's cooler today than it was yesterday, since we had some rain come through, so we had a decent balance of sunshine and breeze going on and I never got too hot or too cold on the ride at any point. Plus we were able to carry the four gifts between us, Dara with the two larger things in her backpack and me with the smaller and squishy things in my velvet bag.
The shower was hosted by
kathrynt at the home of lyricae and tinlail, and we had much pleasant conversation and many tasty things to eat. And Cheryl showed Dara and me her motorcycle, which looked pretty cool. Surprisingly petite for a motorcycle, which made it about the exact right size for Cheryl. Jessica was very pleased by the gifts, especially the cute squishy soft toy bird we found, which was pretty much spherical and colored bright yellow and orange. So, fun all around!Dara and I thought about going to Woodinville after on a quest to see about getting me a cell phone, but we found out while we were there that Working Assets is offering cell phone service now. And since they are made of 98% less evil than many phone companies, this made both Dara and me go "huh!" and opt to come home and look into this instead.
So no cell phone, but I did at least get in some bonus biking. And tonight, writing, hopefully. And tomorrow, Street Fair!
Friday evening miles: 2.4
Saturday miles: 9.6
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1018.9
Miles out of Rivendell: 560.9
Miles out of Lothlórien: 98.9
Miles to Rauros Falls: 290.1
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Date: 2006-05-21 02:02 am (UTC)HH
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Date: 2006-05-21 02:36 am (UTC)Dara reports that they're one of the providers who was not in on the whole "hand over data for the huge database of all the phone calls being made in the country recently" brouhaha, to give you an idea of how they're made of Less Evil than many other phone companies.