Despite waiting in a stupidly long line this morning, before the Drivers License office even opened, I was able to get a Washington ID card so that solves most of my issues right there. I still need to replace my TX license, mostly so I can get a WA license without having to take any of the driving tests, but I don't drive very often at all as it ( Read more... )

I have had one hell of a bad weekend. Friday night I lost my wallet. I'm going to go ahead and say lost, not stolen, because when I called to cancel my cards, several hours after I noticed my wallet was missing, no one had tried to use them ( Read more... )

I just purchased this cookbook on Amazon. ladypuppy recommended it for those of us who can't get Tex-Mex in a nearby restaurant, which really is my biggest issue with living in Seattle.

Hopefully this will help stave off the Chuy's cravings until I can get home in December.

I've been having Tyler related frustrations again. They're actually pretty much ongoing but this is a specific irritant. When we moved in we had a deal to share chores. Tyler was going to cook meals, I was going to do dishes, and Truong was responsible for taking out trash ( Read more... )

Wee! I am the proud owner of two new leather sofas. Well, a sofa and a love seat. Truong and I went shopping this afternoon and found exactly what we wanted. Super comfy couches that you can sink into and nap on and we got them for a good deal thanks to the Labor Day sales going on ( Read more... )

I made tsarina's Baked Rotini recipe for dinner last night. It was a winner. Neither Truong or I like mushrooms so we substituted green beans (because ladypuppy insisted that we had to have a green vegetable). Unfortunately there was way more food than the two of us could eat so it looks like we have leftovers until Friday ( Read more... )

The Texas Exes Puget Sound chapter has an arrangement with the South Lake Hooters to show every UT football game, even those supposedly not televised. I am happy about this, because otherwise I might only get to see the OU and A&M games, since those are nationally televised. However, in one of those "it truly is a small world" sort of moments I ( Read more... )

Truong and I are going to Ocean Shores this weekend. Our hotel is on the beach about 2 blocks from the boardwalk! I'm not sure what we're actually going to do there, but it sounds fun no matter what. Apparently the largest lighthouse in Washington is there (second largest on the West Coast!). From what I can tell on the map it's a peninsula ( Read more... )

I went home this weekend for the first time since I left for Washington back in October. Most of the trip went as expected, with a few surprising (to me) exceptions ( Read more... )

I was standing outside my building on my lunch break today, smoking a cigarette, when a fire truck raced by, sirens blazing. As I watched it pass I couldn't help but wonder how fires could start in Seattle at all, seeing as it never stops raining ( Read more... )