Matt and some friends from his gym did the Rugged Maniac today on a beautiful day, and I dusted off my athletic supporter skills. Here are the foursome at the start.
Matt gets an assist over the wall.
And he slides down.
Finishers!
Somewhat recently, Emperor Georgiou’s Tea Room, set up (tea) shop in Kenton. Matt decided to celebrate his birthday there so we could experience the tea.
Some pretty cups.
One of our platters of food. While no service job is easy, being a wait staff at a tea shop does have its advantages: a very limited menu; a set timeframe; the inability for people to become inebriated by consuming the product.
I grabbed a picture of Matt and his mom, Linda. I neglected to catch the rest of the table.
My 30 year–high school reunion is in July, so it’s time to find something to wear. There are two events, so I need two dresses. (Two new dresses are not actually required, but I included them in the budget for this weekend. Because who doesn’t want new dresses? And new new dresses, not new-to-me dresses.)
After flaming out at Nordstrom’s—I didn’t seem to catch their legendary customer service—I visited Amelia Boutique* to see if they had potential candidates.
*Reporting from the future, I see that Amelia Boutique has closed. I’m quite sad to hear that.
Boy, did they! Amelia brought me a ton of options, even ones I wouldn’t have necessarily chosen myself. I found a really great dress (it’s the blue one on the left).
Amelia also helped me problem solve as there was a fun dress, but not in my size. She pointed that all purchases come with free alterations, and with the dress I was looking at, I could buy a larger size and then take it in so it fit.
I did just that. It worked perfectly. What a great day of shopping this was!
Posted in the bathroom at the Flicks:
I’ve never understood why Happy Birthday was the default wash-your-hands song. Who wants to sing that song multiple times per day?
Aside from it being Pi Day, it was also a day that one of my coworkers posted a picture of the highway near her house in California.
And then we get a fun joke about pi/pie!
The Ramblers celebrated International Women’s Day with a purple party. There was great dancing and great purple.
It turned out I didn’t have any purple clothing, so I took the picture.
Surprise snow too, which is my favorite kind. I find the various permutations of “Will it snow” exhausting. (Though there are many fewer permutations now that I mostly work from home.)
I enjoyed how the snow coated the catio.
And you can see that there was a lot of it!
Matt and I made ice cream snow to celebrate. Matt says he’s not had ice cream snow before. I’m not sure if that’s true. But we both enjoyed it.
Rick Hawes brought his vest with all of his various paraphernalia. I came after the vest era of the Ramblers (sadly), so I loved seeing this. Aside from being a pillar of the Ramblers, Rick has been very active in the IAGSDC (The International Association of Gay Square Dancing Clubs, of course)
He’s currently serving as a caller for our lessons, but has served in possibly every role there is to serve in for the Ramblers.
He also has been recording callers at dances for decades, which means sometimes we get to dance to callers from the eighties and nineties when the gay square dancers were fleet of foot and the calls came fast and furious.
Rick is a treasure.
Matt and I had a good time at Portland Center Stage’s play about a modern-day Sherlock Holmes. Once the play started, those sheets were pulled down by the players and the games began.
Ashley Song and Kimberly Chatterjee were good as Holmes and Watson. I also really enjoyed Dana Green who played three very different roles. Darius Pierce also played several different roles.
