Week by Week: 20th

Week 20

Jamie spent two nights in the tallest building in Fargo, North Dakota, this week. He went over there for work and the night before his flight, I quickly scanned wikipedia for some fast back pocket Fargo facts:

• The Radisson hotel is the tallest building in the city - 18 stories
• Zero scenes in the movie "Fargo" were filmed in Fargo. In fact, the name of the city was only mentioned two times. 
• It was originally named "Centralia," but renamed by the founder of Wells Fargo.

Brrrrr.

This has been the best week by far! Lowest levels of discomfort with only occasional tugging of the abdominal muscles (i have those?) and feelings of skin stretching, but while my organs are feeling pushed around, it's being gentle about making room in there. And yes, I'm dramatically aware of the fact that my organs aren't going to get along as well in the latter weeks, but let's just pretend that it's the first couple of days of a new Real World episode and that they'll be polite to each other for the duration of the show.  

Have had some fantastic catch-up sessions with people this week, including this highlight:

Woke up to a long phone convo with Piper that ended at her lunchtime. 

Mid-meal entertainment of fork-flute-playing. 

Got a super fun package from Jo & Hudson began what might be a long history of him playing with non-dog toys. 

Boom, Jamie, Colin.
Had a fantastic dinner at The Whale Wins.
Not in photo: Anne, Me, Sarah

Amy was attending a wedding in Portland and was somehow directed through Seattle to get back home to Orange County on Sunday (for non-west-coasters, that's Portland in Oregon and Orange County in Southern California). Worked out really well as we happened to be around, I was excited to see her just a few days before her bday, and she had just enough time in between flights to jump out to grab a coffee with us before going back through security.  We got to hear all about the fun wedding, she squealed to see my visible gut protrusion, we exchanged name ideas (to no avail), and as sisters do, we had an unplanned exchanged of baked goods.

Amy's mini b-day cake. Should have included something for scale - it was a 5" round.
She brought us a large box of Voodoo donuts.
p.s. kitchen in background with glass door of mini balcony #housetour

It was fantastic seeing her and I wish we lived closer to one another.

Forgot to take a photo together so this paparazzi one is the best you get. 

We had one full day of sunshine and "warmth" this week = game changer. People were out in droves, the city looks shiny & new, and it was a borderline mean tease of things not to come. According to some locals, summer doesn't hit here until the 5th of July and last year, they called the preceding month June-uary based on how cold it was. Ack! I started prematurely packing for 4 days away from Seattle next weekend and am excited to get these bones to somewhere officially warm; none of this 51-degrees-gets-everyone-outside-in-tank-tops thing. 

20 weeks + 6 days
Hey! Look who finally cleared the clutter in this room!
Have to say, not wanting to take another self-portrait amongst the madness was my one and only motivator.
So, thank you. 

Tomorrow = Start of Week 21