11 pounds

hello,

everyday more and more christmas appears. the top of the space needle is a christmas tree and one of the three t.v. towers in queen anne is a giant lit up tree at night (i always wonder why only one of the three?). the bellevue buildings (and cranes) are christmas themed. and the christmas music has arrived on the radio. its a beautiful thing.

thanksgiving was a great traditional meal with all the usuals. it was a nice, slightly later than expected meal (does any one else think their red turkey-is-done popper is defective?) with jamie and mattia. we finished it with pandoro (probably the best christmas cake of time) and some super mario brothers 3, which is not as easy as i remember it being.

for friday we dropped jamie off at work and mattia and i went to the macy's santa parade:



after some shopping for mattia's italian friends and family, i picked up something that will bring me months of happiness. a five kilogram (11 pound) giant container of Nutella. as we were walking it back to the car through pike place market, i could only hear partial conversations. "oh my gosh, that is the biggest container of...", "man, look at that giant..." "nutella is my fav.." and in a way i felt like an extremely large breasted woman. all of the glances and second glances and double takes were all looking at my body and what was in my hands. they weren't seeing me as a person.

since it was an amazingly clear day, mattia and i went up to the space needle where the lighting was perfect and we could see all the mountains. these cold crisp days are good to get as much vitamin d as possible before the clouds roll in.

perhaps

hello,

the new computer has arrived! this is relevant to me for a few reasons:
1. i am no longer location limited to an electrical outlet (my battery power life was approximately 12 minutes if i did nothing on the computer, about 3 minutes if i decided to actually use it).

2. i now have the space to fully explore music and store all of my photos. the 30 or so cds that have been on hold at the amazing seattle library are now on their way.

3. it takes about a minute to start up and have already checked my email. this compares to about 8 minutes to my old one. a 7 minute difference really isn't that much, but was a pretty good deterrent since i could always find something else to do instead of waiting for everything to load up.

this may be relevant to the two readers that are left that still check this web log:
1. perhaps there will be more posts.

i say perhaps because i don't know really if there will be more posts or not. i think of this as an extra for my life. if i have to choose between experiencing something new or writing about a previous experience, i'll go with the first one. so we'll see.

jamie picking out her pumpkin at the pumpkin patch.