I'm freaking out...

Like it says above. I leave less than twelve hours from now. My place has hardwood floors, windows everywhere, a claw foot bathtub, huge mirrors, cute neighbors, a Victorian neighborhood....and it's beautiful. So like I said in the title...I'm freaking out

AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! :D

Prepare for Departure

"I move in two days." That is the thought that was going through my head earlier this morning. The day has passed me by and my thoughts are now "Oh...My...Gosh! I move in ONLY 2 DAYS!!!" The soft spoken, matter-of-fact tone has turned to complete excitement and anxiousness. I cannot wait to drive off on my own. Watching the sunrise break above the mountains and know that I have a new life waiting for me only hours ahead. The first day I get to Tacoma I'll be moving into my new home. Jed is helping me unload boxes. I will have to buy him dinner or something. We have LOTS of boxes to push and shove up three flights of stairs. I said I wanted to work out, but this wasn't exactly what I had in mind. There are so many new ideas, possibilities, opportunities and wonderful things I can't wait to begin.

Well, I need to make sure I have all that I own. I've checked, double checked and triple checked. One would guess I'm excited ;) Here we go!!!

Seattle and Alki Beach

Seattle is by far my favorite place to go. The sights, the people, the smell...well of the market that is. Never have I felt like I belong in a city as much as Seattle. This place pulls me in everytime. I hate to leave, but love to return. Alki beach is a place that is quietly tucked across the bridge. The town is beautiful and calm, quaint in it's own right. The sun was high and the wather was hot. A perfect day to pace the city and the beach. When we return we plan to use kayaks and go crabbing around in the waters. We also got to tour the Red Hook Brewery Mmmmm The tour costs $1. For $1 you got a pint glass to keep and a pint and a half of fresh beer. Not bad, not bad at all. This town is too much fun!

Notice the hands




The Red Hook Brewery





Alki Beach, Washington





My favorite picture ever








Tulips are my favorite







....What The Hell?!?!?

Happy Birthday Jed

I'm not a very good liar, but I can do it when it's needed. I love to surprise people. My favorite thing is see a smile brought upon someones face, knowing that I have made them happy for only a moment. I had secretly sent out a bunch of emails to his friends in Washington. We decided to meet at this place called Chopstix in Tacoma. Well I told them to meet me at Chopsticks in Kent. We got all dolled up for his birthday dinner. When we started driving in the direction I told him we began to wonder. The surrounding houses and towns became more ghetto and sketchy with every mile. Obviously I had chosen the wrong spot. All in all we had a great laugh over it. From now on I will ask a bit more questions when planning a party from another state. Once we finished dinner we headed over to the real chopstix for some fun. This was a dueling piano bar. The waitress would bring pencils and paper to every table. You wrote your song down, since magically these two pianists knew every song under the sun. We told them it was Jed's 30th birthday...even though he threatened to disown us. They brought him up on stage to sing a horrible, yet oddly romantic song about Jed being the piano players prison lover. I have never laughed so hard. After that we all sang Happy Birthday. We had so much fun! It was truly a great birthday. To be honest I'm a little afraid. Jed has told me that I should get ready for my birthday...I don't think I'll leave the house for fear of what he has planned.

Silver Falls, Oregon

Jed is probably going to kill me for this, but the story is just so great I must tell it. So, Jed and I decide that we need to go on some sort of adventure. We decided to head to Silver Falls Oregon to hike around the woods and see the beautiful waterfalls. Well the days roll buy and Jed swears "The weather will be fine." When we wake up, the sun is nowhere to be found. The weather will be fine soon turns to "It'll burn off". We go to the store to get some food. Sandwhiches, crackers, cheese, salami, cherries. All the makings of a great picnic. So we hop in our car with grins on our faces and head to the hills. We drive and drive...and drive. Needless to say we eventually found the park just as it began to rain. By this time, I cannot stop laughing and soo it spreads to Jed. We sat there, freezing in my car, waiting out the rain, in hysterical laughter. The day was wonderful. We had so much fun tromping around in the forest. The smell of the rain mixed with the mud of the earth. There is no better smell in the world. When you add a great person to hold your hand on the trails, the day could not get better.

Our Musical Adventures

Please forget how badly formatted this blog is. I'm still getting used to the whole thing. To be quit honest, we're obsessed with music. That's right I said it, obsessed. If I had a choice I would spend almost all of my money on shows. Throughout the last few months we have seen many shows. Oh and we have fun, it's true :D I will say this. I love to take pictures. Well maybe love is an understatment. Here are some of the show's we've been to and the stories that go along with them.

We love to get wild and excited at an Amadan show. Punk, irish, rock music!

Meese is one of my favorite bands! This summer I was able to go see Meese open for The Fray. I can't even tell you how excited I was. The drive was Awful because it was hot, we were in dead stop traffic...oh and we were playing beat

the clock with my gas tank. This was a show i'll never forget.Oh and the best part was that I got to MEET MEESE! That's right. They are the nicest guys around!

Jed has earned massive brownie points (which i'm sure was planned :D ) and purchased tickets for us to go to my Favorite artist Colbie Calliat. I can't wait to see her live. She is truley amazing and has a voice that can only be experienced with closed eyes and something in your heart.

The Beginning of an Us

Gee where do I start. Hmm there is just so much to write about I guess I can't cover it all. Music can do many things. One of them was to coax us together :D I sent this to the author and singer of our favorite song by Jason Reeves.

They say that everyone has their own interpretation of a song. That there are personal meanings, emotions and connections one may not see. I don't know if this email will get to you, but I thought you should know. The song you wrote meant the world to two souls who found each other with a little help from your simple notes. This is my story, our story, about our someone somewhere.

Our paths had not encountered and yet our lives fallowed the same chapters. Two hearts were devastatingly broken by the actions of the ones we gave ourselves wholey to. Our supposed to be forever’s, our supposed to be I do’s, our supposed to be loves. The worlds we lived in came to a crumble, ending the journeys we had made. To us, hope had been lost, destroyed, a simple dream never to be found again. And through our pain and sorrow unbeknownst to us, fate had finally stepped in.

Our paths seemingly crossed at work. With similar trials and journeys a bond blossomed into a friendship. Through the storms and pain we stood one another up again. Taught the other what it meant to laugh, to move on, to hope. Hope… something that had been lost deep within our hearts.

Music fueled our friendship. A shared passion that turned the hours into seconds, seconds into instants, instants into memories. Each new song was a simple hint to the crossroad that fate had planned for us. This was your song.

An evening well into the hours was halted when the notes began to play. I clicked on the song, curious by the title. The first note played, then the second, then the third. Each note pulled at my heart and something deep inside began to soften. As I listened to the lyrics I began to realize that this hope, these dreams of love, this fantasy of forever was not that far away. The notes moved me in a way that I could not explain. All I wanted to do was share this with the one person I knew would understand. So I sent him the lyrics and the link during a conversation.

I waited…and waited…and waited. My heart was racing, my mind spinning with a million different outcomes. What if I was wrong, what if this was not right, what if I had made a mistake, what if I was about to get hurt all over again.

The words appeared on the screen and made time freeze. My breath drew in, my heart paused, only for a moment. I read it as if it were spoken in a dream...

“You are my Someone Somewhere”

We have been together ever since, madly in love. A love that I cannot explain or put into words. A love so pure and deep it can only be felt. My love, his love, our love.

If nothing else comes of this I would just like you to know that your song gave two broken hearts the courage to learn to love again. The notes melt my heart; no matter how many times the song plays. This is the gift you have given.

I would love to thank you in person because you will never truly know how grateful I am. For now this simple email will have to do.

So for everything, for your talent, your notes, your words and your hope of a someone somewhere; I say to you:

Thank you.

So here we go. These are the adventures and misadventures of Edith and Jed.