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I've already eaten too much today. Noah came out of a meeting this morning with a box of incredible, high-quality doughnuts; I took his advice and chose the "cronut," a croissant-doughnut hybrid which was superbly seasoned. I thought about how I'd have done well to, say, cut it into quarters and eat only one piece. I thought a lot about that as I went out to the kitchen, grabbed a paper towel to catch any of the seasoning that might tumble off, and ate the entire thing.
I had already eaten two bites of chocolate and a small bag of chips.
There's a guy named Bob who is one of our major contacts at our biggest distributor, and he happened to be in for a meeting today. He bought Taco Time for the entire office. It was set out like catering, something I had never seen from the likes of Taco Time before. I actually have a favorite item at Taco Time, something I have not eaten in years: the Crisp Bean Burrito. No deep fried items in this spread, though: it was a taco buffet. I made two small soft tacos and they were surprisingly tasty.
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I'm having an unusually chill, uneventful week this week, in the lead-up to my Birth Week, and I'm absolutely good with that: my calendar is so packed in the 10 days between this Friday and the Sunday of the following weekend, I'm happy to sit back and recharge for a bit.
I don't even have another movie planned until Thursday. I had no social engagements last night, none planned tonight, none planned tomorrow night. Maybe we'll catch up on some TV. I could have last night but Shobhit wanted to listen to his news programs—he's able to get the audio online of his MS NOW shows, including Rachel Maddow, even though we don't subscribe to the actual channel. I spent much of that time watching one and a half standup specials on Hulu. I chose Hulu because my one-month subsctription to that one ends on Friday. I've considered extending another month just for
Abbott Elementary, but I'm not sure it would be worth it just for that. And it's about time for me to do another month of Netflix, which is one I don't want to do lower-tier subscription for because I don't want to deal with commercials, even though I did do that with Hulu and already have to deal with on Pime Video. (HBO Max remains commercial-free, thank god.)
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Anyway! When Shobhit was done with his news programs, he asked if I wanted to go for a walk with him, and I said sure. I thought we were just going up to Volunteer Park via 15th and then back via Broadway, but he added steps everywhere he could: we walked past Volunteer Park and Lake View Cemetery to Louisa Boren Lookout, then even slightly beyond that to the end of 15th Avenue; back to Volunteer Park, where we walked to the Conservatory, then back to the Water Tower, and back to the Conservatory again; then we walked over to Broadway and walked back mostly on that street. I think Shobhit would have been happy to overshoot Pine a block over to Pike just to get more extra steps in, but while we were walking past Seattle Central College, I was finally like, "You can do what you want but I'm turning here," and we cut through Volunteer Park on the way to go the rest of the way up Pine Street to home. My toes had multiple blisters already from the
eleven cumulative miles we walked on Saturday while riding the 2 Line to Redmond and back (and getting off at every station, but also walking between stations two different times), and this was not helping.
The walk last night alone amounted to
4.2 miles, round trip. I actually took Shobhit's suggestion and put Band-Aids on a couple of my toe blisters this morning.
Aside from the blisters, though, I should note that it was a lovely walk. It was 63° when we left and the sun was starting to set; I figured I should take a light jacket since it would probably get chilly enough to need it after dark. Well, not so much: I walked with my jacket in my hands the entire way.
I have also been checking the 10-day weather forecast on my Weather app every single day for the past several days, to see what the forecasts are through my Birth Week. Right now it goes through Thursday next week, and guess what? Rain forecast for today and tomorrow, but none the eight days after that! We're looking, so far at least, at sunny or partly-sunny days with temperatures in the low to mid-sixties; currently the forecast for Wednesday next week (when Barbara arrives) is for 69°. We'll see if that holds; I just hope the dry weather holds. I know I love to yap about how much we actually need the rain (we're already in a
statewide drught declaration due to compounding years of not enough snowpack), but I'm selfish and I want the weather to be nice for my Birth Week! It can rain every day for the rest of May if it wants. It won't, and that's going to make everything worse, but at least I'll have a nice birthday!
Of course, I haven't yet reached the forecast for Saturday May 2, which is arguably the most important as that's when my party takes place at Dad and Sherri's house in Olympia. It'll be a hell of a lot more pleasant for everyone if we can hang out outside. But, I guess I won't worry about that until I start seeing the forecast for that day, which I won't get in the 10-day forecast for another two days. Granted, I learned long ago never to trust the 10th day forecast in a Seattle 10-day forecast, but for now, things are looking good. There was even one day (Tuesday, I think) showing 50% chance of rain for a few days and it's not even doing that anymore!
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[posted 12:34pm]
