To the coast!

Again. I had nothing to do today, so I went to the coast. I stopped into Seaside but I have grown tired of it lately...too touristy.
I continued on to Ft. Stevens. My absolute favorite place in the world.



I stopped by the Peter Iredale shipwreck first. I always try and imagine it back in its hay day.









I don't always go to this battery, because I want it to stay special and because it costs three bucks to park.













I didn't actually know this was a staircase until I took the picture. It was pitch dark in that room and I was curious what was in there.

Zoo

I babysat the D kids for the last time today, so I thought I would take them somewhere special. THE ZOO!!!!!

In a nutshell: Tons of things could have gone wrong...for example, I could have had a hard attack from the sheer stress of corralling 3 kids around a crowded zoo. But thankfully nothing bad happened. It went surprisingly smooth. Thank goodness. Thank goo-ddd-ne-sssssss.

Anecdote Time!

A funny thing happened right outside the sea lion exhibit. There was a lady on a motorized scooter who was trying to maneuver past all the kids...Lailah moves out of the way and comes running over to me. She asks me what that thing is that the lady is riding on. I think she wanted one for herself.

I was trying to pay attention to the whereabouts of the other two kids, so my answer came out fast and without thought.

"It's an electric chair, sweetie." I didn't realize what I said until I heard a couple of guys behind me snickering.

"No, let me rephrase that...It's a motorized scooter...It helps her get around easier." Much better.

Lailah, probably not paying attention anyway, said "oh, ok" and ran back to the sea lions.

Yay! I have an excuse though. I had had only one cup of coffee.

Literal Dust

I literally had to dust off my scanner. It made me sneeze.

I took in THREE roles of film to be developed...and I would say only half turned out well.

I was quite disappointed. But then I realized that I can't expect too much with a old PENTAX film camera.

Here are the scanned photos. (Click on picture for detail)

Bird Lady

I think I might be heading toward a life as a bird lady.

So, this morning I did nothing, then I went to North Portland to get a textbook for my summer class.



This is the book. It cost me $80. I am slightly bitter.













After that, I went to this beautiful place. It is called Hebb Park. There were no geese...so I left.










I came home and washed the car. I was pretty much told I was toast if I didn't wash the car today. It was pretty bad, I have to admit.





Yay! Shiny!

I even vacuumed.







After that, I had some energy left over so I started on my room.




This is my room. It really looks worse than it is.













I decided to quit at 830pm. This is how far I got.

Sheets and Balloons

Why is it so hard for me to find good sheets? Either they are too small or too bunchy or too slippery or too bright or too hot.

I found some dark red sheets a few years back for my full size bed that I loved to death, but when my parents got me a new bed, they got a queen. I reluctantly gave up my favorite sheets. I still use the top sheet and just deal with the smallness.

I long for those perfect sheets...

Today, I went down to the Balloon Festival. No Balloons. I left.

I went to some garage sales...came home...had dinner...and convinced the parents to go back to the Balloon Festival with me.

Balloons this time. Pretty.

Pictures

Some pictures with my new camera.
I am too tired to dust off the old scanner.

No TV

So, after work my parents like to veg out and decompress in front of the TV. Last night, the TV started acting funny, so my Dad called the cable guy. They came this morning and told us that it wasn't the cable. It is apparently our TV (which is new) that is the problem.

I came home from the Library this afternoon and found this scene:


Little TV moved into Living Room...Dead TV to the left...Dad sitting on a tiny chair eating dinner...

I found this quite hilarious.