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I took myself to a movie last night:
Piece by Piece. It was pretty good. Not bad. Nothing to get excited about.
My Facebook post sharing the link last night got a "love" reaction from Barbara. She's, like, the biggest fan of my movie reviews lately. She regularly posts a comment like, "Excellent review!"
I had a horrible dream last night in which Barbara died. It wasn't violent or anything, but rather a scenario in which I happened to be with her, and some other family, when she was on her death bed. We all knew it was imminent, and in the dream, she died. I can remember thinking, even in the dream:
She finally got what she wanted.
It was the kind of awful dream, though, where for a split second after waking up, you have to remind yourself that it wasn't real. Barbara is still alive, and very much kicking. Hell, she's still as sharp as she's ever been, which is a kind of amusing irony for someone who's been telling me she'd rather she was dead since 1996. (I'll never forget her answer when I said, shocked, "
Why?"—she said very matter-of-factly: "I've had enough.") She does love where she lives in Louisville though and she hasn't worked in several years so it's entirely possible she doesn't spend as much time thinking about that, but who knows? Barbara has always been an enigma.
She just this morning texted me her morning link to the online game we play together, wherein it provides five screenshots from movies and you have to guess the title. I'm a little better at it than her on most days. Anyway she's still very much alive. Whew!
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Something just occurred to me about the new
Overlook Walk pedestrian park and path that now connects Pike Place Market directly to the Seattle Waterfront. I don't think I have been this excited, thrilled and impressed about a new Seattle city feature or attraction since the opening of the Seattle Great Wheel. That opened in 2012, so it can hardly be considered a new attraction anymore. Not that
I have tired of it any: I have ridden it fully
ten times, the most recent with—speak of the devil!—Barbara, earlier this very year.
I've been on it so much that I haven't even bothered to add it to the list of ideas for my Birth Week next year, the theme of which will be Observatories and Viewpoints. It's technically not an "observatory" anyway, though the views are great from the top of it. I do have multiple skyscraper observation decks on the list, in spite of having been on those comparable numbers of times: the Space Needle; the Columbia Center; the Smith Tower. Those all have actual observation decks, though. I'm really hoping Shauna—who had to cancel her Birth Week participation this year for the first time ever—still works in the Smith Tower then, so I can also get a tour of her office space.
Honestly, even Overlook Walk could qualify as an observatory or viewpoint. But, I've actually maxed out on ideas for this within the confines of my ten-day Birth Week, especially given how many of the ideas will necessitate day trips outside of town (Crystal Mountain gondola near Mt. Rainier; Windy Ridge Viewpoint at Mt. St. Helens; Washington Pass Observation Site at North Cascades National Park; Portland Aerial Tram). And I only recently, while in Issaquah with Alexia, came up with a new idea: Tiger Mountain and its spectacular panoramic views of greater Seattle! Alexia said she'd happily hike up there with me, but we also had already settled on the Crystal Mountain Gondola as our 2025 Birth Week activity.
I've still got six months to figure it out.
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