Foggy Morning

This morning on my walk to Westlake I witnessed a cool weather event. The fog was rolling up from the water, but just along the streets perpendicular to the bay. So at the end of each block I would get hit with a thick cloud of fog. It was pretty cool. 

Space Needle

Despite living in my apartment for about a month, I just now realized that I can see the Space Needle from my window. At an angle, but there it is:

IKEA

The Ikea shipment finally came! Wish me luck putting it all together. 

You Know it's the Weekend When

You know it's the weekend when this is in my fridge! 

It is so nice to be able to swing by pike place market on my way home from work. 

There is this Italian gourmet market called DeLaurenti that has a ton of imported specialty foods. And lots of pasta. There was so much pasta that I couldn't decide between several and ended up not getting any. It is good to know that this place carries my priest stranglers. The selection of ravioli is fun with items like lemon ricotta; goat cheese and carmelized onion; and carmelized Anjou pear and goat cheese. This is the place to go if you want to struggle with things like a choice of mustard. They even have an authentic Bavarian mustard (first ingredient is sugar). Apparently there is a wine selection upstairs, but I avoided it for the sake of time. You know, so I could swing by Ellenos yogurt before closing :)

When Shopping for a Mattress

Never ever ever ever ever ever buy a Mattess from Macy's. 

Sofa

My sofa has finally arrived! 

90.3 KEXP

I listened to KEXP a lot when I was living in NYC. Now that I am here in Seattle and can tune to it on my radio, KEXP is on all of the time. It's kind of like my life soundtrack. I hope Rocco is cool with it as he hears it all day long!

Good Riddens Time Warner

So far after one month I have not had one issue with my internet connection on Wave. Had this have been time warner, I'm sure I would have had to call them several times by now. Oh no, wait: I would still be waiting to set up an installation appointment!

Pizza!

Found some good pizza* (thank god) at Serious Pie: Fennel sausage, roasted pepper, pecorino:

* good but not as good as Pizza Maria in Portland!!! 

A Beautiful Day in Seattle

One More Week

Until my alleged mattress delivery. In the meantime I assembled my bed frame. I am actually kind of proud of my box hauling skills. 

Oh also: Still excited about the dishwasher. 

Three Things I'm Missing

Three things I am really missing about New York right now:

1. Speedball (and its host equinox)

2. LREI

3. Cafe Pedlar

Wardrobe Issues

Figuring out what to wear today has been quite the challenge. In the morning when I leave it is 53 degrees. There is a high of 90 today. A 40 degree difference! I am going to freeze on my way to work and sweat on my way home :/

Airport Security

The TSA totally missed the giant kitchen knife I forgot that I had in the outside pocket of my carry-on suitcase (both ways). 

You Get What You Give

One of the things I regret leaving behind is my clothing iron. It was pretty awesome, but since I hardly ever used it, I thought it wouldn't be worth bringing. Yesterday I was wishing I had it so that I could wear a certain blouse that became wrinkled in my suitcase. 

I did laundry this evening and what did I find in the laundry room? A sign saying "free" next to a bag of three random items: a bird house, wind chimes and the same exact damn iron I left behind! I gleefully scooped it up :) As for the wind chimes and bird house... Huh? 

Good-bye Storage Unit

Today was moving day part two. I managed to get all of my stuff out of my storage unit by carrying it or granny carting it three long blocks. It took about four hours and I have a few bruises and broken nails. Note to self: Always cut nails before moving. 

I planned on riding my bike from the storage place to my apartment but I, being in a rush to empty my unit, forgot to put more air in my bike tires. Oh well. 

Moving wasn't my only big project of the day. I also had to pick up my bed frame from West Elm. This frame came in three awkward, heavy boxes. Needless to say, there was no way they would fit in my granny cart. So what is a city gal to do? Call an Uber! My UberXL SUV came and the driver was kind enough to help me load up the car with my boxes. When he dropped me off, I was a bit concerned about getting them from the street up to my apartment. Guess I packed on the muscle from my move because I was somehow able to get these boxes upstairs all by myself. As for putting the bed together... There are better thing to do on a Saturday night. Like laundry and drinking wine. It is seriously fun to do laundry here.

Weather Wow

And here I was thinking the weather out here wouldn't be exciting...

Dinner

I am so excited to finally have a real kitchen! That was a big downside to living in a hotel for a month. 

For my first dinner I am making salmon crusted with horseradish, parsley and shallots.

Before photo:

Random

I was walking down 2nd avenue yesterday and this guy coming at me from the other direction held out his fist and I fist bumped him. No idea who he was or what that was all about, but it just felt like the right thing to do. So random (in a good way).

Home :)

I finally moved into my new place! It's pretty rad. You can tell there was a woman involved in the design or construction of the building because there is a TON of closet and storage space. I'm pretty sure that my walk-in closet is just about the same size as my bedroom on 43rd Street back in NYC. After living in a hotel for a month, it feels great to be in a place where I can move around (hello Speedball!) and have natural light. Rocco seems pretty excited, too. He exhausted himself with all those chin spins and is now passed out on my aerobed.*

This evening I called the rep at Wave (the main cable provider here) and not only did he answer his phone at 6pm on a Saturday, but he was able to set up an installation appointment right away on Monday. In the evening after work. This sort of thing would never in a million years happen with Time Warner Cable. 

*Mattress is supposed to arrive in 5 days and furniture will slowly arrive over the next month or so.