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I picked my son up from his second ever shift at PCC Kirkland* and hit lovely BBQs at chez ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
theda & balzacq and, at the opposite end of Seattle, chez ack_yeahright. I'm proud of myself for keeping the eating and drinking moderate, and for making some attempt to engage my son with lawn projectiles. It was good to get my social on, and see ack_yeahright & hubby in their spiffy new abode.
After a disco nap, m'boy & I headed down to the fireworks. He didn't want to wait for the bus, so I had a teachable moment with him: on the 4th of July there is no parking within miles of Gas Works Park, which is the best point on land from which to watch the fireworks. OK, so we drove south across the Aurora Bridge and pretty easily found parking. The walkways across the bridge were closed, and the policeman there shooed us away from the sign. We went under the bridge to the sidewalk in front of Canlis, one of the most expensive restaurants in Seattle, and watch the fireworks (as well as we could above the trees) from there. Pretty nifty. Most interesting part: somebody, a lone blonde woman as near as I could tell, was watching from the roof of Canlis.
On the way home, we realized that I didn't have any of m'boy's preferred breakfast cereal on hand, so we bopped down to the fortuitously open Green Lake PCC. Who should I see there but Side Shave, the rather cute red-haired checker who I was pretty sure was queer? Well, now I'm absolutely certain she is. I was wearing my pride dress and cowboy boots, so we talked about going to Pride, the gazillion marches I went to, and going dancing in the summer when it's hot & sticky like Florida. It turns out that she's from Tampa, just a couple of hours down I-75 from Gainesville, FL, where I grew up. And she's 19 years younger than I am. Not that I would ever be foolish enough to ask out a checker at the supermarket that's by far closest to my place. Ahem.
*He moves... slowly and confusedly. This worries me. But I guess it's up to PCC to either stick with him or not.
theda & balzacq and, at the opposite end of Seattle, chez ack_yeahright. I'm proud of myself for keeping the eating and drinking moderate, and for making some attempt to engage my son with lawn projectiles. It was good to get my social on, and see ack_yeahright & hubby in their spiffy new abode.After a disco nap, m'boy & I headed down to the fireworks. He didn't want to wait for the bus, so I had a teachable moment with him: on the 4th of July there is no parking within miles of Gas Works Park, which is the best point on land from which to watch the fireworks. OK, so we drove south across the Aurora Bridge and pretty easily found parking. The walkways across the bridge were closed, and the policeman there shooed us away from the sign. We went under the bridge to the sidewalk in front of Canlis, one of the most expensive restaurants in Seattle, and watch the fireworks (as well as we could above the trees) from there. Pretty nifty. Most interesting part: somebody, a lone blonde woman as near as I could tell, was watching from the roof of Canlis.
On the way home, we realized that I didn't have any of m'boy's preferred breakfast cereal on hand, so we bopped down to the fortuitously open Green Lake PCC. Who should I see there but Side Shave, the rather cute red-haired checker who I was pretty sure was queer? Well, now I'm absolutely certain she is. I was wearing my pride dress and cowboy boots, so we talked about going to Pride, the gazillion marches I went to, and going dancing in the summer when it's hot & sticky like Florida. It turns out that she's from Tampa, just a couple of hours down I-75 from Gainesville, FL, where I grew up. And she's 19 years younger than I am. Not that I would ever be foolish enough to ask out a checker at the supermarket that's by far closest to my place. Ahem.
*He moves... slowly and confusedly. This worries me. But I guess it's up to PCC to either stick with him or not.
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