i didn't do anything spectacular or anything, i just have been fantastically happy since friday.

i have had so much fun and seen so much of the city and laughed so hard and felt so good.

i am so glad to be around water again and have such a fine companion to see the city as vika, who is funny and intelligent as hell and never makes fun of me when i ask questions and seriously knows something about just about anything i ask her, and she has fantastic taste and enjoys going out to eat at fabulous and cheap (and sometimes not so cheap) restaurants and makes amazing manhattans and gets along with niki and is just so fucking cool.

she teaches me things! she has the most fucked up sense of humor! she rides a motorcycle! she's a pervert!!

ahem

anywho

she came over on friday night when my co-workers came over to "get loose". that was totally fucking surreal. not bad, just...surreal.

then yesterday i took her out to lunch at this boathouse cafe on the sound and it was gorgeous and we had an amazing conversation and then i got to have creme brulee (my new very favoritest thing, other than maybe tulips)!

and last night we hung out and watched strangers with candy and jason was there and tony too and we were up so so so late.

and then today when i woke up at like 3 she was around and we went to this vegetarian cafe down on roosevelt and probably the hottest girl i have seen in ages was working there, curvy body, tight neon pink and red shiny skirt, tight red shirt, bob hair cut, dyed yellow then orange, with pink/red tips, and dark roots. dark skin, big dark eyes, wide mouth.

driving around the neighborhoods in seattle, finding the best video store in the universe and renting an amazing movie which breaks my heart and tears me in two.

drinking french table wine and eating salt and vinegar chips. shoving sweet cereal in our mouths.

more strangers with candy.

now i am alone, listening to whatever kexp is playing and i am just so fucking happy.

for the first god damned time in my life i feel really good.