jianantonic | (no subject)

It was awesome to spend time with my little sister this weekend, as well as lots of other friends, but omg it wore me out. I drove up to Seattle on Friday. Traffic was awful so it took way longer than it should have, but I made it. Spent almost a full hour driving around Ballard looking for parking for the Lone Bellow concert. That was super fun. I ended up parking like a mile away from the venue, and of course on the walk to the place I passed a seemingly infinite number of better places to park. Whatever. The show was awesome. They're a lot higher energy on stage than I would have guessed -- a lot of the songs on their album are very slow and mellow, but even on those tunes, they managed to completely rock.

I got back to where I was staying at 2am, and was up on and the road to Portland kind of early the next morning. Jen rode down with me, so the drive was way more fun than the one on the way up. Once we got here, I started flailing around with some of my new Realtor tools, and Jen allowed me to make her my guinea pig buyer. We went out and looked at three houses, and I definitely learned a lot about what other pre-showing work I'd need to do with a real client. I also discovered some AWESOME neighborhoods that I didn't even know existed right in Aloha. So that was cool.

We spent the evening hanging out at my house with a handful of friends. We did a late dinner of pizza while Jen made pumpkin pie and we played some games. Emily and Chris had made it down to Portland by this point, too.

The next morning was slow to get going, but we all went running at different times -- Emily and Chris did a 3-hour run as part of their marathon training, so Jen and I did 3.5-miles through the park instead of joining those two. McKenzie also ran 4+ miles, but he went out before we did because he had to be back home in time to run an online tournament. I'm really proud of how well McKenzie is doing fitness-wise. But it's also hard for me, because I'm definitely declining, and I'm not really in a mental space where I can handle going all-in on the fitness again right now. So I kind of hate my body and it's really discouraging. But I'm doing what I can, and trying to move in the right direction, bit by bit.

We had planned an 11am brunch, and some other friends came over to join us for that, but due to various delays in the preparation of said brunch, it was 2pm before we ate. That kind of ate up the whole day, and also my kitchen is a giant disaster and I just want to bury my head in the sand until someone else deals with it. But I don't think that someone else exists, so I'll handle operation cleanup, I guess. This is why I don't cook. It takes way longer than you think it will and then you've got a huge mess. And also ingredients are expensive. I know if I cooked regularly that I'd save money in the long run, but not time or energy! Yeesh. No thanks, not interested.

The traveling contingent (Emily, Chris, and Jen) all left for Seattle around 6, and McKenzie and I went to the Tracy Grammer show shortly after that. Tracy is one of my all-time favorite performers, and I always enjoy her shows. Thankfully, they're mellow and the audience is always sitting, too, because I don't think I could've handled another night of standing. Anyway the show was fantastic and I'm glad I went, but by the end of the day I was so fucking tired. Now it's almost 3pm and while I have gotten up and showered, I've still been in bed most of today. I'm going to Body Pump in a couple of hours, though, so I'm not going to be here much longer. I should maybe eat something, too.

In conclusion: fun weekend, but would rather have spread out all the activities over a longer period of time, because omg tired.