Hey guys!
So I have been slacking. I apologize!! Let's recap some things...
What I forgot to tell you about Wednesday was that Tiemus got himself a spiffy new haircut! After his haircut we all went to a place called Wing Central (I usually forget this and call it Wings like the band but apparently I am on the to of my game today) and had some delicious food. They have these waffle cut fries (waffle cut fries are big here) with this garlic stuff on them and they're amazing! Anyway, I am sitting around this table with Tiemus and his two closest dude friends kind of staring into space when I realize that the conversation I am not really participating in is about hair product :S
On Friday I spent the day with Iman and his friends. We had Duke's which is a delicious seafood place that clearly has other things like burgers and fish and chips rather than just having chowder and calamari. I went with Tiemus to a Duke's the first time I was here and tried his chowder and it was actually quite good. This particular restaurant was on Lake Union (there are a few of them and so now I've been to two locations) and we sat around basically eating on a raised dock. Then we walked around Fremont which is one of the cute neighbourhoods I had yet to explore. They had a little river and a walking trail. We also walked by a Google building that looked a little sad considering how rich I imagine them to be!
On Saturday I went knitting with Tiemus' mom :D This is becoming one of my favourite parts of the week. I finished my triangles scarf and it looks AWESOME and I've started a new pattern that has already caused me to pull the scarf apart and start again three times but is pretty cool and now that I've really gotten going I am much more comfortable with the stitches. We went through the pattern book and marked a few pages on the scale of things I could do and there was one that I was quite afraid of. It was the big scary intimidating pattern that looks really cool (it's a pretty scarf made out of sock wool, it's quite nifty). I decided to man up and do the complicated pattern with all the adding and taking away of stitches including my new least favourite thing to do -- knitting three stitches together. I have since learned that if you're going to drop a stitch, this is where it will happen! Saturday night the guys were all over so we went for Chinese food and then they played video games and I struggled with my knitting (only to drop a stitch and not be able to find where this happened for several rows).
Yesterday was the day of all adventures! Tiemus promised me earlier in the week that we would go mall shopping. So we decide we're going to check Google maps for the fastest transit route (it's not set up for Timmins transit, but when you get walking or driving directions you can also get transit directions and it will tell you what time the next bus is and where to make your transfer and it's pretty cool). Anyway, the first suggestion Google maps makes is for us is to walk the 36 minutes because there is no easy way to get from here to the mall without going way out of our way to transfer so i tell Tiemus I can do that and he looks at me a little skeptically and warns me of this hill. Seattle is made of all kinds of hills, I think to myself. Not a big deal, I tell myself. So first, before the hill, we climb like a thousand stairs. LIKE A THOUSAND. So I'm going up the stairs and at first I'm kinda jogging up them and then I am kinda walking up them and then I a kinda feeling like I might throw up from the burning sensation in my lungs. From the road the stairs looks to be about half the height they actually were. After the stairs we're on a slight incline and I am trying very hard to stop stopping and taking breaks and then I see the hill. This is no hill, this is a practical joke. Cars struggle to get up this hill! I told Tiemus I would like a ski lift FOR this hill. I am still struggling to breathe from the damn steps. I am leaning forward so far I feel like I could reach out and do a push up while walking up this hill AND it goes forever. Then we went to the mall. We went shopped for hours and he was very patient and he tried on some jeans that look quite snazzy on him and are a bit tighter than his last new pair of jeans because he keeps getting thinner. We ate mall food and then we went to target and we all and all had a good time. Then we walked home. Again, I know I have mentioned this before, but downhill is always worse than you expect. Especially this hill because you have to lean back so far to be considered upright. So I am walking down this endless hill and I can feel my calves cramping. At some point, I requested Tiemus just push me down the hill and get it over with. I think I am going to walk back up and down those steps on a semi regular basis now that I know how hard they are, but this hill is going to be a shopping only hill!
When we got home, I tore out my scarf for the last time and then I completed the beginning end of the pattern and the first panel of the repeating part without consequence so I am hoping I have mastered his pattern enough and if not, when I really screw it up, I will be bringing my scarf with me for assistance.
Plans for this week -- grocery shopping tonight (we've been saying this for a week, but we vowed tonight is the night). We are having dinner with Tiemus' mom on Wednesday because she has something to do in our area and then she has an hour and a half and then we are meeting with her knitter's guild! I've got to design Tiemus' birthday surprise (he reads this so that's all the hints I am giving out) and do a lot of cleaning because the weekend does not mean happy things for this apartment. I think we are hoping to go back to bowling on Friday night and Saturday is knitting day which I will either spend in Edmonds as usual at the knit shop or at Tiemus' grandparents depending on where his grandmother wants to do her knitting that day :)
Sorry it took me so long to update this! I hope this extra long post makes up for the lack of Amanda I have been providing as of late.
Love you all and miss you terribly!
Amanda
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