Archive for October, 2004
We spent a chunk of the day driving around with our realtor today. Finally, we’re finding some houses that are fitting our style…but we’ve extended the budget by about fifty grand since we first started looking. It’s a good thing though, the extra room in the budget is allowing us to look at […]
We finally have high-speed Internet to the apartment! Had to jump through some hoops between the relocation company and the cable company, but it’s well worth it. I no longer have to get dressed and haul downstairs to use the horribly slow computers in the lobby or walk a block and a half […]
I’m having kind of a rough morning. No particular reason, really…just 6 1/2 months pregnant and feeling a bit physically cramped. I awoke this morning to a soccer game inside me. Not sure what the heck the baby was doing, but jesus I was waiting for it to kick a hole through […]
It has been an incredibly long week, but we finally arrived in Seattle and have been settling in.
The last few days have been stressful, as one might imagine. Although the movers had allocated one day to pack and one day to load, they grossly underestimated the amount of crap we own. After arriving […]
It’s been a busy few weeks and we find ourselves in the final stages of goodbyes. The moving company arrives tomorrow to pack the house and will load the truck on Tuesday. We’re off to a hotel that night with a few suitcases of our things and Wednesday morning we’ll board a plane […]
As our departure nears, I’m reminded of all the things I’m really going to miss about DC….so many of them I’ve taken for granted. In no particular order:
Metro: Washington has got kick ass public transportation.
The Smithsonian Museums: At your fingertips and entirely free.
The Kennedy Center: Incredible. Convenient. and the […]