Lots of fun stuff this weekend.

* Marathon training at Gas Works Park
* Climbing with Brian and Brit- Brian's been climbing a bit. He's gotten comfortable belaying and climbing 5.7's
* Rat City Roller Girls- I saw the last bout at Magneson Park a few weeks ago with Brit. Awesome! Lots of families and roller skates and shoving and theatrics.
*Working at Stone Gardens
*Potluck at our house on Sunday for Brian's APA mtg

Photo is University Bridge as it opens for a boat. It goes up about a billion times a day. I work right by it and I love hearing the approaching boats signal to the drawbridge keeper.

Our first wedding anniversary!

Yes, I realize it was June 3. But it's still June!

Brian was in the middle of finals on that Sunday so I went camping with my girlfriends near Rainier. I came home and we went out for sushi on Lake Union. And we saved room for dessert. My folks saved the top part of the wedding cake and had kept it in their freezer for a year (thank you!). A week before our anniversary, they shipped it in dry ice.

That thing was huge. It took us a full 10 days to eat it all. Mmmmmm butter cream frosting....

And Brian got me (us) a climbing rope. It's a 10mm and shiny and has pretty colors.

Happy Birthday Brian! He'll be 31 tomorrow!

We had a potluck/bbq on Friday to celebrate. Yummy guacamole, hotdogs, fruit salad, rice crispee treats, fresh garden kale and sugar peas.

He's wanted a bike for a long time. So a few weeks ago, we went down to Recycled Cycles and got him a bike! He rides it to work downtown. He fell off of it for the first time last week. His elbow now has a manly scrape and bruise.

Has it really been that long since I last blogged? Goodness.

Well, lots of things have happened.

• Brian finished school.
• We went to Vancouver.
• I went to Rainier with some girlfriends.
• Brian is still working on one project for school.
• I got a second job at Stone Gardens working the front desk and teaching Climbing 101 classes.
• Team Survivor Northwest's big golf tournament is on Monday June 18.
• Our herb garden is doing really well
• My family got back from an amazing trip to Italy
• We had our first wedding anniversary, complete with the top layer of our wedding cake. Yum!
  

To go home from work, I wait for the bus across from Peace Park.

Crazy Seattle hippies.

Every few weeks, someone drapes her in paper cranes. It's beautiful in the sun. Like Janine's paper crane mobile in the sunny spare bedroom.

That's all I have for today...

This video is totally great. Doggie on the run

But, like Lost, there are so many unanswered questions.

1. Who is the doggie?
2. Where is it's human companions?
3. Why is the doggie trying to get off the island?
4. Where is the island? Italy? Greece?
5. Why is this on the New York Times website?

We have a new webcam! I'm still figuring out how it works. Let me know if you have problems seeing this.

I did a consumer research study at Microsoft this week and they gave me a new webcam.

What's for dinner?

Living in a very politically correct city, there are all sorts of food movements here.
Vegan
Vegetarian
Organic
Raw food
Glueten free
100 mile diet

The 100 mile diet is interesting. You only eat food that is produced within 100 miles of where you live. The diet ties most environmental concerns together in a nice little package. Like global warming, transporation of food, concern for the local farmer, organic farming, and knowing what you're eating. On the website, you can look up your 100 mile radius. Living in Seattle, you can eat almost any local fish, most things at local farmers markets and Yakima hops.

I'm doing the Kirkland Half Marathon on Sunday. The weather is supposed to be 65/45 and sunny.

Wish me luck!

Brian got a summer job!

He's going to work for King County Metro (the transit system of Seattle). Focusing on downtown and South Lake Union, he'll work to get residents, developers, businesses, and Seattlites to use public transportation.

For all of the planning jobs, he's been interviewing against all of his classmates. There's a limited number of planning students and planning internships. It's been totally awkward for me.
Me: "Hi, Bob, classmate of Brian. What's new?"
Bob: "Oh, just classes. And I've been interview for internships."
Me: "What kind of jobs are you looking for?"
Bob: "Only exactly the same as Brian is looking for. Oh, and I've already interviewed with them and it went really well. I'm excited."
Me: "Oh. Um, how about those Mariners?"
Bob: crickets....