Archives - June 2019

When I was in SLC during June, here's what I was doing.

Checking on little H's teeth.

Hanging out in brother's backyard.

Tried Bok Bok chicken in Utah County. Pretty good. Small joint, limited menu, only go if you're craving Korean fried chicken and you want to eat while standing or in your car. But quite delicious.

My old condo got a big facelift! And a price raise!

Stopping to smell the roses.

New dresser for the new casa.

Auntie Kimber came to town and all the girls (plus baby Archer) came over to play.

We had dinner at Mellow Mushroom in a rainstorm. And dessert at Dough Co.

Dance recital time.

Getting internet at the new house took quite awhile. We had Google Fiber at the old place, and sadly it's not available in the new neighborhood and probably never will be. I tried to avoid Comcast and signed up instead with CenturyLink, however, after making an appointment online, they called the day before and cancelled it. Why? Because my neighborhood wiring was messed up and they were re-running lines everywhere and couldn't tell me when it would be done. Days? Weeks? Months? So yeah, I signed up with Comcast. And had to get a new modem since they end-of-lifed the one I already had.

Desk shopping for the new casa.

New place opened around Murray. Beirut Cafe - it's delicious.

It's not fall, but I guess I made some amazing chili.

And then enjoyed it on our back patio with our new outdoor chairs. Yay home ownership. 

 This terrifies me. The internet is already terrible enough.

Finished the 1500 piece puzzle at work! this one was a doozy.

Nice backyard sunset.

We went to Meghan's one night before art walk. I tried to get in the 4th of July mood.

Art.

We went to World Refugee Day in Murray, had some delicious Syrian food, watched some dancing, and took in a soccer match.

Tanner and Kimber took some photo shoot food out to Ashley, who just moved to Texas. Love when I can connect people in other cities.

New hairs.

Our first little housewarming party! It was a low key Sunday evening thing and turned out really fun.

Packing Up LA

I accepted my SLC job on January 6 and asked for 3 weeks to transition, plus flexible time to be back and forth for a bit. Roommate Haleigh was getting married in April, so we decided to end our least at the end of March.

It was such a relief to have some time and flexibility, but I still had to get going on wrapping up my LA life.

I'd miss these sunsets and temperatures, and even living in Utah, I will never live this close to a temple.

I started looking for winter clothing. After seven years in AZ and southern CA, I don't do winter anymore.

I started listing things for sale on Craigslist. Kinda wish I'd kept my bike, but I'll just have to get one here next summer. I got a call from a cute-sounding nun who wanted to buy my bike. She came over with a handyman from her convent to check it out. One happy nun customer!

UCLA students bought other stuff of mine, and one kid continued to text me for awhile to see how my move was going. Cute.

I crammed in a visit to Disneyland with Rebecca. It was a non-crowded evening and when she heard that I'd never been on California Screamin, she practically dragged me into line. I'd never been on a roller coaster with a loop in it, and for my birthday last year I decided I'd just say yes to things, so I sorta had to say yes to this. The line was short so I didn't have time to change my mind. Somehow she snapped picture during the ride! I will say I tolerated it, but I didn't relax enough to scream and enjoy. Not really my thing. But I did it!

Dill pickle popcorn and a delicious grape drink in Carsland.

I had a semi-going away dinner with some of my favorites. Cher and Mike and Kimball, Carolyn, and Dallin. We had that awesome chicken at Versailles in Culver City.

We decided to grab dessert at Sprinkles, and since Cher has a minivan, we all piled in! Guys, minivans are really fun.

Not the most flattering for everyone, but we sat in the window and ate our really expensive ice cream cupcake mashups. It's good, but not my favorite.

Georgetown Cupcake is more like it.

There was that one last night dancing at a club in Silverlake. Where the lines to get in were hours long, and someone opened a side door and my company rushed in and I didn't. There was a big fight that night and a bad taste in my mouth, and a guy in a tiger suit followed me around all night and tried to cheer me up. Sums up my LA experience.

I'd debated where and when I would see Volcano Choir, but Cher and I grabbed tickets for LA and walked down to the Fonda. It was marvelous.

I went through boxes and cleaned and threw things away, but found this gem of a memory from the college days when I worked at the volunteer center, coordinating huge passenger vans for students to drive around the city for service projects. It was a hilarious time. Van J was a huge 15-passenger that ended up with a lot of dings. Who can easily drive something that big?

Missionary letters. Ha. I had the mailing address to the MTC memorized.

Rob may love me, but he married Tashina a couple weeks ago, and they're cute.

Twice is awesome if you want to make some money when you clean out your closet. 

Christmas 1983?

We had a final documentary night and watched Blackfish.  Appropriately we ate salmon bites and some goldfish.

I'll miss having this gang over, but I've just started the tradition again in Utah. It's next week! I hope people show up.

In honor of my departure, JWelch brought us some Boston Coolers. I miss this guy.

Trevor and I had a last meal at Pono. It's so good. We took a lot of photos, but I don't ever feel photogenic.

Later that night we found a pretty good electronic music scene in a stripmall in Burbank. Good DJ, good crowd, and I rallied to stay up late. I'll miss this part of LA, I think.