ironymaiden | (no subject)

i had a sweet kind of weekend. lots of hanging out with friends at home, indulging hobbies and talking and playing. good stuff. sometimes i wish we could all live in one building (like a dormitory! and someone would make us three meals a day! and someone would clean the toilet every week! damn it, college is over.) or neighborhood so that i never have to be awake and/or sober to drive home or early enough for the bus. C keeps me from my natural tendency to stay up all night, fueled by diner food and coffee :( still, more quilting and girltalk done, i've seen some great television, and done enough X-Box time that i have blisters on both thumbs (i button mash with all my strength).

i have my new glasses, and i'm slowly establishing a relationship with them. i also, at C's request, have a new hair color for the first time in several years. i like it, but it's darker and less red than i intended. (what i get for refusing to go with a permanent color. when C met me i was a redhead, and i think he's always been a little sad that cuffs and collar don't match. the Shireys carry true auburn and the Smiths strawberry blonde, but all i got were highlights.)

we are so oblivious that we nearly tried to go for a walk in Seward Park during Seafair. fortunately the traffic on Rainier Ave slowed the car enough for me to read the "welcome race fans" signs, and we turned around and headed to the locks instead. (for the non-Seattlites, Seafair is a summer-long festival that includes hydro boat races and an appearance by the Navy stunt fliers, the Blue Angels. much drunkenness ensues.) we had a picnic lunch, there was nonstop "lockage," a closure of the railroad bridge to pass a freight train, a stupid tourist on the gates as they opened, teeming salmon climbing the fish ladder, a jazz band, and a book sale.

while C tried to raise his word count for the week, i went to catch Battlefield Baseball with

frabjousdave,

the_monkey_king, and a couple others...and i was the only female in the theater. i think i would like to see it on DVD where i could skip together the musical interludes and the absurdly gory action scenes. did i mention that the hero had long hair and a dirty school uniform? adapted from the manga, of course.