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{ 12:41, 2007-Nov-6 } { 1 comments } { Link }

I've been in Seattle for nearly two months. Well, not Seattle- I live in Renton, but it's close. Interesting place, Washington.

I was lucky enough to find a great apartment about 5 hours after I got here, back in September. It's a mile from my work, a mile from Lake Washington, about 10 miles from Seattle. Nice place- on top of a hill, 3rd floor, overlooking the lake, one bedroom, full size washer and dryer, fireplace, stone entry and kitchen, huge bathroom, good patio space looking into a little patch of trees with a clearing that's usually full of crazy creatures. It's a very quiet complex. Couldn't really ask for any place better to spend my first few months here.

I'm keeping my eyes open for houses. Some space to rent that has a yard, that's what I want. I miss my dogs. Two fifty pound animals that are 3 years old can't do without a yard, so my entire goal is to find a decent house with a yard to lease.

I don't have many friends up here. That's different for me. I have a few though, and they're pretty decent. One is a friend of my cowboy and his girlfriend, she moved up here just a few days before I did, so we got hooked up through them. She's alright, she lives a little ways out from here but we go out every now and again. Then there's some people I met through work, kind of. They sort of hooked me up with a "mentor" my first few days, out of another office- like and e-mail buddy. She's alright too and I've met a lot of her friends and.. it's good. I've met some other people here and there also, but none I've gotten numbers or would try to follow up with and maybe befriend. I guess I don't care too much.

Besides a few weekends out with friends I've been keeping really busy doing my own things. Living close to a lake is nice. This is not a lake like the one back home- nobody's ever in it, but it's pretty and it's a lot nicer than Lake Pleasant haha. I get down to the lake a few times a week, just to be there. I've also been going to a lot of shows (two more this week- Feist tomorrow and my local kiddies The Stiletto Formal will be up here on Thursday, couldn't be more excited for both of those shows!). There's a lot of concerts up here that would never come to Phoenix, so I've been enjoying the hell out of them! I end up in Capitol Hill, Pioneer Square and Fremont a lot just going around checking things or going to random clubs or bars or other places. Other than that I've been spending my home time reading mostly, and watching movies. ---O, well reading and watching movies when I'm not busy nearly bruning my building down by attempting to cook, which I've done twice now, haha. So, maybe I don't know how to take a pizza out of a box and toss it into the oven- after all these years I thought I'd picked that one up, obviously the answer is no.

I have a decent amount of really great pictures that I'll try to hook up here soon. We'll see how that goes. I'm stealing interent from.. someone, horray for apartments. Most of the time it's really slow, when it is working, but I don't have any real plans other than just going about doing my own thing at my own pace anymore, so I'm content with it.

Lunch break is over.. cup-o-noodles is amazing when it's chilly outside. Back to work!

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{ 04:16, 2007-Nov-6 } { Posted by LauriesAsylum }
When you move to a new place and meet new people, you'll always be comparing them to the friends you left behind, so it might take awhile to build up a whole new set of friends that you feel at home with. It will happen though, it might take a little time.

Sometimes quiet time is good for you. Use that time to really get to know your surroundings, and it seems like that's what you're doing. I can't wait for pictures, I've heard it's beautiful there!

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