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I've had quite the eventful weekend, though thankfully I have already posted about by far the most significant event: the No Kings Mass Protest - Seattle Rally & March, which was on Saturday. That also happened to be Shobhit's and my actual anniversary—12th wedding anniversary; 21st anniversary of our first date. I wrote a litte bit about that in the same post, though it was comparatively minor, having already regarded the trip to D.C. as our "anniversary trip" this year even though we returned four days prior; and the most romantic thing we did was share nachos at Taco Del Mar.

No, I take that back. The most romantic thing we did was lounge in the sun for a while at Pioneer Square Habitat Beach.

And that was precisely where Laney and I went back to yesterday afternoon as well, for our BYOB Happy Hour for this month. It's the first of several such types of Happy Hours we have scheduled through the summer. For the next, we plan to get hot dogs (veggie for me) at the Dirty Dog hot dog stand at Cal Anderson Park on Friday, July 11; the other one planned in July is Beaver Pond Natural Area in Northgate, which will occur on Saturday July 19 unless Laney finds she has time to do it over 4th of July weekend; and on Saturday, August 9 is when we're currently scheduled to take the bus all the way out to Lincoln Park (via two RapidRide lines) in West Seattle.

Anyway, the weather was quite lovely both days over the weekend, with sunny skies but temperatures only in the low seventies—perfectly comfortable no-jacket weather, but never too hot. I commented while we walked to the G Line bus stop afterward that it would be heaven if summer could just be like this all the time. I feel like Seattle summers were indeed more consistently like that in the past, but we have seen definite changes to that in the age of climate change.

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So, I guess I'm sort of working my way backwards as I account for my weekend, or at least as I account for Sunday and Friday, anyway. Laney and I walked to Pioneer Square Habitat Beach directly after seeing the 11 a.m. showing of How to Train Your Dragon, which we both kind of agreed was much better in its second half but on the whole was just kind of okay. Entertaining enough. Too long, no question. Why in the hell they made a movie like that 125 minutes, I'll never know. Anyway I gave it a B-minus.

We had met at her apartment building on Broadway at 10:30 and walked together down to the theater. We walked from the theater to Pioneer Square afterward—via the Overlook Walk at Pike Place Market—but after that, just walked to the G Line bus stop and took that bus back to Capitol Hill. I got off with her at Boylston, though, so we could both go in and look at the store-wide 60% sale at Whole Foods, which is very suddenly closing, after opening there at Broadway & Madison in 2018.

Laney looked for coconut aminos, but could not find the low-sodium one that would be the only one she would buy. I went to check out the cheese selection, and did find a wedge to buy, with tomato basil in it. I have no idea if the discount will be any deeper today, but I will probably return with Shobhit. There was a bunch of pastry or brownie-like desserts for sale, but regular price on the packages (each with like four squares) was $7.99 and I found that even at 40% that price I didn't want to spend that much. I did, however, find small frozen ice cream sandwiches with a regular price of $2.49, though, so I did buy one of those.

I walked Laney to her apartment, and on the sidewalk right outside the store, I ripped open the packaging on that ice cream sandwich and it popped out and dropped on the sidewalk. I paused for a second, and then decided to pick it up and eat it anyway. Fuck it. Laney said: "Three second rule!" The only thing that was slightly embarassing was the other woman passing us in the opposite direction, who indicated she had also noticed by saying, "Five second rule!"

I have no idea how much dirt and grime I ate but I will tell you that tiny little ice cream sandwich was delicious.

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As for Friday, that day I also saw a movie with Laney, this one at 4:30 at Pacific Place: Materialists, which I kind of loved, and Laney did not warm to as much because of how predictable she found it. (I would not deny it was predictable, but found that to be somewhat beside the point, in terms of what Celine Song was doing with it.)

This makes three movies I've gone to see just since Thursday, after a two-week break thanks to the trips to Washington, D.C. and Fox Island before that—I'll be spending a lot of the rest of this month catching up on movie-going. I have no movie to see tonight or tomorrow night, but will see movies Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this coming week; have two movies to see in theaters next week; and at least two movies the week after that, if not any more added in the meantime. I still have other shit planned around all that as well, of course, including Pride events that will preclude movie-going on the 27th, 28th and 29th.

Anyway there you have it. My weekend and much of the upcoming days, in a nutshell. Maybe a few nutshells.

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[posted 12:32pm]