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Fisty’s Bog on World of Goo (Day 30), originally uploaded by laurenipsum.

I (and my houseguests) struggled with the Fisty’s Bog level of World of Goo a lot over the past couple of days, but I finally got it today. One thing that really helped me was building up as my first move, instead of out, as well as learning that I could put the balloons on any goo ball, not just ones on the top.

My TV isn’t quite wide enough to show both ends, but on the left, the frog is just barely cut off, and on the right, the pipe is close enough to the last point of the last triangle that it was able to get all the goo balls.

So my sister is posting a happy thing every day this month, and I thought it might be fun if we traded happy for photo for one day. So we did! Although she posted a picture of a thing that makes her happy, I will not be posting a happy thing that’s represented by a photo, just a happy thing in general.

DAY TWENTY-NINE: this weekend. I had four days off and had people and dogs coming and going, and lots of delicious food, and fun hanging out, and a walk through the market, and time to sleep in and cook and knit and read books and play video games, and a trip to the library, and lots of relaxy time. Yay, this weekend!

I am totally running out of steam BUT tomorrow is the last day!

A bunch of folks came over and we played Apples to Apples (Day 28), originally uploaded by laurenipsum.

Arlie and Jonathan and Robin and Jonathan are all in town so we drank a bunch of wine and played Apples to Apples.

Shamelessly back-dating yet again.

Skip and Oliver came over for Thanksgiving, originally uploaded by laurenipsum.

Rocky came too, but he wasn’t as cuddly so he wasn’t fully in the shot.

Also, yes, I am totally unabashedly back-dating this post so it shows up in the calendar as yesterday.

Shiny new pot rack (Day 26), originally uploaded by laurenipsum.

We are hosting some folks for Thanksgiving tomorrow and then we also have a couple of friends staying with us for a few days after that. We also just hit one year in this house (!). All of these things are conspiring to urge us to finish some projects that have been languishing for a while now. My sewing machine came out so I could sew some shower curtains, for example, and today G. put up the pot rack he made a couple weeks ago in welding class (which was his Xmas present from me).

The pretty garlic braid is from Laughing Crow Farm!

The Owl & Thistle Irish Pub is right by the ferry terminal (Day 25), originally uploaded by laurenipsum.

I missed my ferry so I stopped at the library to drop off overdue books (but I already took a picture of the library) and then I stopped at the Owl & Thistle for a super-cheap happy hour drink (well drinks are $3 including tax).

As I was leaving I panicked a bit about not having a photo yet, so I took this silly shot of the front of the bar, including the ugly ?Jameson’s? sign and the super bright light in the middle of the frame. AND the glare on the sign on the left.

Anyway I am trying to convince myself that I can post crappy pictures … NaNoWriMo is about writing whatever, whether it has a plot or not, right? So I am posting whatever, whether it’s in focus or not.

Garth was in the middle of making dinner when I got home (Day 24), originally uploaded by laurenipsum.

… he approached me as I entered the front door, holding this smiley-bowl full of grated cheese and two eggs.

(We had a variation of carbonara, with cubes of roasted squash and bacon. It was delicious.)

I broke out my sewing machine today (Day 23), originally uploaded by laurenipsum.

I haven’t sewn anything since before we moved, which was a year ago now. But I am making new shower curtains since we have houseguests coming and our old ones are super gross so I want to replace them. I am happy to have my sewing machine out again. I love my sewing machine.

This is a big bag of onions, sitting in a chair. (Day 22), originally uploaded by laurenipsum.

Today we went to get our turkey at the Port Townsend Farmers’ market, which was AWESOME. Someone there had this enormous bag of storage onions; we have been unable to get good storage onions at our market because of the wet summer — folks are selling eating/cooking onions but no one wants to say they will store. So I was super excited to find this HUGE bag for $40 (we didn’t weigh it but figure it is ~50 pounds?) that was advertised as storage onions. Now we have onions for the winter!

George Tsutakawa sculpture in front of Seattle Public Library’s Central branch (Day 21), originally uploaded by laurenipsum.

Coincidentally, after the museum exhibit yesterday, I was at SPL today to pick up several holds. As I was leaving I remembered that I had not yet gotten a photo for today, and simultaneously remembered that some of the George Tsutakawa exhibit dealt with the SPL fountain, which was (I think) his first fountain (?). It moved with SPL to at least two locations. And here it is, now, with a background of people frantic to check out as library staff call ten minutes until close.