welcome to my mind ...

I accidentally missed the entry from Wednesday ... oops. I ended up going to a friend's place immediately after work and got home much later than I anticipated.

Saturday morning after I finished laundry, I headed over to the tattoo place to look at the initial drawing for the new piece I'm getting. I've decided on the colors that I want; now to just decide on the shading style. I'm thinking a combination of stipple and traditional, to give it some contrast.

After that, I still hadn't heard back from the friend that I was supposed to meet up with so I came back home and was trying to figure out what time to go donate blood. I heated up some food, so that I'd not be donating on an empty stomach, and received a message from another friend in the group with the time and location of where to meet. So I scarfed my food down and headed out.

I met up with them at Seattle Coffee Works, which is a cafe right by Pike Place Market. After that we met up with another group of friends at Pike Place Brewery, hung out there for a bit, before parting ways and heading to get some food. We decided to go to the Pink Door, since neither of them had eaten there before, and it was just the right amount of food to satisfy the hunger.

After that, we wandered up to 1st and stopped at an Umbrella shop before heading back to the Coffee Works for more drinks/snacks. One member of our small group had to catch an Uber back to Seattle Center for a prior engagement so my friend and I started to walk around. We ended up going to Vons, which is a bar on 1st that I'd never been to, and each had a drink there. We were in there longer than anticipated because the weather took a turn {as it tends to in the spring} and waited out the sudden hail storm.

The other group that we'd met up with before messaged that they were going to a German bar by Seattle U so we decided to meet back up with them for dinner and a few more drinks. After finally figuring out which bus to take back up the hill, we finally met up with them and hung out until around 9ish.

Half the group needed to leave due to work the next day and, after saying goodnight, the rest of us made our way back to our respective vehicles. Another friend of mine who'd wanted to hang out Sunday, text me saying he was back in town early and wanted to know if I was cool to hang out then, so I called him and made my way over there.

We hung out, watched a bunch of random videos and shows on YouTube and Netflix, ate some food that he made and had some drinks. By the time we realized what time it was, I didn't feel like driving home so I just crashed there. I had to set an alarm, though, since I had plans the next morning.

Sunday morning I stopped at home just long enough to shower and change before heading north to pick up one of my friends before making our way to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. Once up there, we decided to eat first and stopped at the Skagit River Brewery. The food was amazing! It was soo good! I'm definitely going to be going there again ... just don't know when I'll be up in that area. But when I am, I'm totally eating there.

Once we had our leftovers boxed up and the bill was paid, we made our way to the tulips. The variety of colors in the flowers were so pretty. If you're friends with me on Facebook, I posted the pictures there. We wandered about, but not really in the fields; they'd chopped a good chunk of them already. I'm perfectly content with the amount that I saw. And I'm also perfectly happy if I never go back again. It's not worth seeing every, single year. They're just flowers. . .

After we'd taken our fill of pictures and heard enough screaming children who could give two fucks about the flowers, we decided to head out. A spontaneous decision was made to go to Anacortes, since I'd not been out that way. Once in the city, I saw a sign indicating the ferry and asked my friend if she was up for an adventure.

We made our way to the ferry dock, decided on the San Juan Islands and chose Orcas Island. It was my first time out to the islands and her first time since she was in grade school. The ferry ride out was really nice. There was cloud cover, it wasn't too cold and there were plenty of photos {that are also on my Facebook} to be had. Once on the island, we realized that it was going to be an extra hour longer than we thought before heading back to the main land, due to the fact that we misinterpreted the ferry schedule and didn't realize the time we chose was just among the islands and would not be making a stop at the main land.

So we made our way around to pretty much the other side of the island and had dinner at the one major resort there. The place was so quiet! I'd go completely stir crazy being stuck on an island. I have no idea how the inhabitants do it. Even just knowing that we'd be there an hour longer made me instantly want to go back. Despite that little hiccup, we had a great time. I do like the peacefulness of the place and the scenery is so pretty. I just don't like the idea of being stuck on an island and having to plan everything around a ferry schedule.

We finally made our way back to the main land. The almost hour long ferry ride back to the main land, it finally hit me that I'd gone the whole day on only about 4 hours of sleep and I was suddenly very drained. I had to stop to put gas in my car before I dropped my friend off because I only had half a tank of gas and wasn't anticipating a joy ride out to the San Juans. I felt kind of bad because when I get tired like that, I become very quiet so she was talking and I wasn't terribly responsive. Next time I'll try to make sure I get more than 4 hours of sleep.

This week has been a crazy week at work. It's been busy and there have been a lot of asshole people calling in. I'm so glad the weekend is here. I only have a blood donation appointment tomorrow, but otherwise I'm in for the weekend. After barely being home last weekend, I'd like to have a weekend of not much.

I'll likely update on Sunday what I did or didn't end up doing for the weekend. I'm anticipating the entry to be short and quite boring.

Until then. . .