Hello!

Here I sit, in Roommie's new apartment in a one of the cuter areas in lovely Seattle. The drive up was very easy ... I'm sure Eugene would have been a lot of fun, if we hadn't spent the night there on New Year's Day, when everything was closed. And we're still talking to one another, so you know it wasn't that bad. And, as everyone knows, it rains here all the time. Except when she's here. Really. Every time she's come here, to interview for her job, to look for her apartment, and again for her company's Christmas party, it's been sunny. Even now, I'm looking out her window at blue sky and a few sun-gilded clouds. Yup. In the middle of winter.

One thing about the road trip (as we wait for the movers to show up, again): We felt very conspicuous as Californians driving through Oregon and Washington (do they really dislike us as much as everyone says they do?): we went to a very nice restaurant the other night in Eugene and felt like everyone had seen our license plates as we drove up and knew where we came from. We talked and laughed and got some very strange looks from the other diners in return. Same deal at every place we stopped along the way. At least we were having a good time.

Her house has more "character" than any I've been in in a long time. There are little windows set randomly in various rooms - even the pantry. From the inside, it seems the house slopes away from the middle running down the length of the apartment. When you look at it from the outside, it looks as though it slopes from the middle of the house widthwise. Most of the windows are double-paned, some are not. It's yellow ... and we've just found that they have started tearing up the street out front ... and we're waiting for the moving truck to show up. Argh. The longer it takes them to show up, the longer we have to wait till we can run away and start exploring this great town.

So on that note, I probably won't be blogging till I get back. I feel guilty about taking up her dialup as it is.

I hope everyone had a wonderful New Year's celebration!