what's happening hot stuff

so we've been here a month now, and we've only got a snippet of new news to share. pete is plugging away at his internship, and he is hopefully going to take on some new projects that will bring even more networks and more experience. after all, that is what it is all about.

the ward is great. we're in the seattle first ward, which meets in the magnolia neighborhood. out of all of seattle that i have seen, it is the one that i would love to live in if pete got a job out here (that made millions). we currently live in the first hill neighborhood, which is right next to downtown and capitol hill. i walk practically everyday to things--library, park, grocery store, restaurants. i even made a friend who has a lil' girl izzy's age at the nearby park. we are going to have an accelerated friendship here, but i am excited to have a nearby playmate for the biz. i have a giant list of things for us to see while we are here, so i hope our new friends are game.

i found a gold's within walking distance that i can do yoga at, which is great. i was really afraid to not be able to do yoga the whole summer. the walking is helping me do some exercise, but not enough to stretch out my old teeny muscles. i think i might be getting a little tone from all the walking, but who knows. i haven't been measuring.

our apartment is not the best. it sort of reminds me of my old college apartment (the katy) in provo. they weren't terrible, but they were kind of old and blah. that's what it is like in these apartments. i think these here in seattle are way dirtier though. the location if fabulous though, so i can't really complain too much. it's mostly the bathroom and kitchen which everyone knows is the most important parts of a dwelling (to a woman).

i found a monkey replacement for izzy. he looks a tad different, but he looks the same to her. and she's happy. so that's all that matters.

i did break my passenger mirror on our car, which totally sucked. i drove around for over a week without it, and it was really hard to manage around some of the streets here. stupid thing cost me $200 to order, but it only cost me $10 for the repair. *note: i did not take it to the dealership. they were charging $100 for labor and such. i found a reputable and honest auto repair place in the international district, and the guys spent 10 minutes working on it and charged an awesome price. i also loved it, because all the guys that worked in that auto repair shop were asian or asian-mixes.

well...i'm sure that post was totally boring. oh well. i'll try and be more interesting the next time. maybe.