Finished a movie with our Michael in it last night. "Shame"


I didn't like it all that much at first and it took me a few nights of falling asleep to see it. It was dark, bleak and quite disturbing so actually it ended up being a good movie. 

Woke up tired and again thought about not going in today but of course I did. 

Repaired more tools and cords. Loaded Robbie's Knaack Box into the van for the delivery to the Temple. 

I went in and chatted to Julie about the insurance and the 401. The life insurance as well. I am covered now for a while. Or soon at least. 

I made me Holy Communion around 40 years ago this month.

Anyway went home early to work on the house. Stopped into Safeway to stock up on provisions.
Once home I ate and became a bum. Fucking lazed around. Had a good chat with American cousin Sarah on the Facebook. Got to listen to some new music. 

Ate dinner as a bachelor as me good woman was off to see the Sounders with Phil. 

Terrell came by to continue on with the gardening. Where is Natasha when we need her.

Donegal John came over for the visit later on. We had tea biscuits and a great chat for many hours. 

Now late to bed for the early rise. 

Woke up tired. Went down to Greenlake and met Bridget. We ran around in a hurry.
Headed down to the shop. Went to work for a few minutes. Then met up with Loren. He gave me the info and I headed up to Everett to look at his job that had a roof leak. Met with a nice fellow named Brent there. I went through the roof completely but no visible sign of a leak. I will have to go back with a hose and a helper later this week. 

Back to the shop and worked on mending more tools. Well stopped off at Acme and Home Depot for parts first. 
Had planned to leave earlier but Ron turned 50 today and there was a party for him. We sat around and chatted. Ate.

Home

Talked to Mary back in the old country for a while. Saw Ireland getting through to the Eurovision on RTE. 

Started in on baking some bread. Mix, knead, 2 rises and 3 hours later it was out. 

Watched The Saturday Night Show on RTE.

Shay and Keith arrived spot on time. 

A spinach salad with cheese, pecans, strawberries and a fine salt free dressing to start. A hearty vegetable soup for the main course. Both with the multigrain bread. Ice cream with strawberry compote for dessert. Tea and cookies to wash them all down. A great chat as always and loads of thought provoking ideas. 

3 hours later our friends were gone and all the dishes in the dishwasher.

Should have a nap but I am so fecking full.  

Woke up tired and a bit fecked. Thought about staying in bed all day but got up shur. 

Headed down to the Office. Talked with Alan for a while and then went over to the shop. Met Pat O'K there along with Sapo.
I worked on repairing the tools and then headed home. Had planned to start in on working downstairs but got distracted. Maybe tomorrow. 

Watched the part of Downton Abbey where I had missed it. 

Tasha cooked Portabella Mushrooms in a sandwich along with fries for dinner. 

I headed down to Greenlake and met Bridget for a run. We ran up around the zoo as well to make it a bit further. 
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/180812309

Home
Now a nap

Woke up grand after 6 hours of napping. 

Had the breakkie. Terrell came by and started into the garden. I ran to Home Depot to get what he needed to make the garden grow and kill parts of it. 

Home and Natasha hadn't done what we talked about with him so I invited him inside. Tea and Figaloos.  Angela got me on the Skype for a while. 

Tried on my suit. It was tight but just a little, I am fucking fat. Headed over to the Mall and bought a new suit, shirt and tie. Oh but first we went into California Pizza Kitchen for the lunch. 

Home after stopping off into Walgreen's,

Relaxed and ate some chocolate. Then had tea and toast before we left for the wedding.


We drove down and boarded the
MV Skansonia   http://www.skansonia.com/#1    for Aaron and Victoria's wedding. Once inside we met Alan. He introduced us to his wife Sue. Met their friends Michael and Peggy. Also met the brother. Met Ian and Ashley and last but not least the flower girl McKenna. 

The wedding started off half an hour later. 


IT was a lovely wedding with well written words from each of the happy couple. The 100 plus guests were mainly in tears. Fecking Americans. Well even the Russians were choking up. Man and wife and kiss the bride came at 6:55pm exactly.





We had a great meal there. Then a load of speeches. Talked to a few people. There was toasting and welcoming to the family and dancing. Then the cutting of the cake. 


Had a grand talk with Ashley before I chewed down 2 slices of cake. 
Said our goodbyes and snuck out the door. It was a really nice night. Good job Aaron and Victoria.

Home

Stuffed and waiting for a dizzy spell to kick in. 

Woke up grand.
Lazed

Oh here is the run Bridget and I did yesterday. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/179920135
Had the breakkie. 


Then headed off down to The University District Street Fair for a look around. http://www.udistrictchamber.org/StreetFair/index.html





Saw a lot of the same stuff. Some good music, shops, stalls and the like along the way.
A fine harpist with a Celtic flare;


A new state of the art pop machine at Pagliacci's where we had a slice and Coke during the visit. 

Bought Chocolate Truffles made with love from this nice fellow.








Headed back up home after a few hours.  http://connect.garmin.com/activity/179920115 

Then headed downtown to see Realta for a haircut. http://www.thecollagesalon.com/artist-realta-fennessy.html
Natasha went shopping.

We chatted away as she worked on me and another girl. Lisa came over to say hello. I really like her humor. After up on 2 hours of hair work, chatting and tea I left there. Natasha was outside just in time. 

Then we headed over to Whole Foods for provisions,

Home and Natasha made a pizza. Then we had two pieces of dessert that we got at Whole Foods for dessert. Topped of by the truffles made with love fro the Street Fair. Too much but no harm. 

Now a bed calls

Continued working on removing the ceiling tiles and grid. Removed the steel walls and drywall. A lot of overhead work from the scissor lift. I notice the fellows humor decreasing as the night wore on. I kept pushing the job ahead until we had it all done. Cleaned up and put everything back in it's place. Tim and Ken went home after 5am. I stayed on to get the Jacob the drywaller finished. 

He worked away on the drywall for a few hours more. Then gave it a second coat. I swabbed the floor and by now it was 10am so time for me to get home. It was a long night well the morning was long. The night flew. I was now going on 30 hours without sleep so I drove home careful in case I nodded off. 

Chatted on the Facebook. I nodded off to sleep for like 12 minutes. I woke up wide awake. Had a cuppa and some toast. Then back on the computer. 

Called Mary back home. She gave me the good news about Rachel and Carrigoran House. Then she let me know the terrible bad news. Shocking too. We chatted about that for a while. Then off. 

I watched some more of Downton Abbey and then Angela got me on Skype. We talked for a couple of hours about the bad news and life. Natasha came home and cooked a great Thai dinner. 
Ate the chocolate covered berries for dessert. 

Watched some more of the Abbey.

Now I will depart this world and nap.

Woke up feeling tired. 

Had a call from Dale too let me know he passed his pee test. I was happy for him. He was so stressed about it and all.

Today I lazed away the day feeling tired really. Watched a DVD "Seven Below"

It was shite really but kept my interest.

Worked on setting up the sprinkler systems for the gardens. Mowed the lawn. 

Watched boxing on the computer for a while . 

I put the pops in the oven and grilled the veggie burgers and pineapple on the barbecue. Topped with Swiss and a pile of dressings. 
Ate way too much but it is grand shur I have to work the night and may need the energy.

Watched some more Downton Abbey. 

Then headed up to Edmonds for me night of work. I got there and waited. Tim showed up a while after. He looked tired already. Then when I got out Tim H.who had called earlier and arraigned to meet here  came over for me to sign over a very very large sum of cash out of me American Funds 401. We chatted for a while. Then inside we go. Ken shows up later on and the introductions are had, We get ready for the hour before the Bartell's closes for the night. 

Once closed we put plastic over everything and went to town removing the old Photo Center there. Worked like mad and midnight came. 

Woke up very tired today but got up and went for it. 
Dale was there when I arrived. I moved all the tools up to me truck on top. Loaded them all up and headed down to the shop to drop them off. 
Back home for me car so I could park in the garage. Had some oatmeal at the Whole Foods. Tidied up the parking garage and then headed down to the office and turned the paperwork into Charley. Finished out me day at the office and then headed over to Bridget. 

We ran 5 fast miles on the Burke Gilman and the weather was hot for a change. Lots of water to hydrate today. 

Home

Dinner was a barbecued pizza. Very good Tasha. 

Watched some more of Downton Abbey.

Now I should go to bed but I need to throw off my sleep pattern so I can work from 9pm to 5am for the next two days.