2 years

I tend to do things in two year increments. As I'm coming on two years in Seattle (about three months away), it has me thinking. I have never lived anywhere longer than two years in the last 13 years. Even now, I find myself itching to just get away from here. I like certain aspects of my life right now but mostly I hate life right now. In fact, I despise it to my detriment. Why can't I just be okay here? What does that say about me always wanting to move? Does it mean I cowardly leave when I can't take it anymore or does it just mean I like learning new places and when that's done I'm done? Am I destined to be one of those people that people lose track of because I just up and move when I grow tired of the world around me? This is something I really can't figure out about myself. As a psychologist in training, I learn to take in perspectives about the self in an ecological way. But it is hard to see it from my own inner-world. Will I eventually grow out of this and just move houses instead of locales? I honestly can't say. But I'm way craving to move on but I know I'm stuck until at least Spring of 2011 which will put me here in Seattle for 3.5 years respectively. Maybe things will have changed by then.

Old School Vinyls

Jim has inherited an old school record player from my father and we are obsessed with it! We go to half price books numerous times and find old vintage vinyls. It is so fun to listen to it. Last night Jim bought Tommy by The Who and two Frank Sinatra albums, along with speeches of JFK. It was so cool. Then I broke out my Clash vinyl and was in, what I would consider, a little piece of my heaven.

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If I had six wishes...

I have had a list of things I have wanted for years. In fact, I have a folder in my email tagged "TO BUY" in hopes that one day thousands and thousands of dollars will fall from the sky and I will be able to buy them. Here are some of those things on the list.

What happens in Seattle when it reaches 102 degrees

1. We break the all time record for Seattle by two degrees. The last time it was 100 it was in 1941. We folk over here in Seattle are not used to this!
2. EVERYONE CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER. INCLUDING ME!
3. On the way home from school today I counted 16, yes 16 overheated vehicles. 12 of them were within one mile from each other.
4. Also spotted was a fire in the median due to the dry dry grass which left me stuck in traffic in my VERY cool (I mean that both ways) car for about 1.5 hours.
5. The air-conditionedcar or the movies is the only place to go for some relief.
6. You go to bed with iced soak washcloths all over your body.
7. You think you might melt.
8. You stop doing your makeup, hair, and also stop accessorizing all together (well maybe not Whitney, though I think she succumbed to the heat finally).
9. Everyone gets cranky.
10. You forget all modesty and start wearing skimpy little dresses to survive and don't care what you look like in them.