Settling in

Hey everyone! 

our new rug

Brooke here. Just wanted to update everyone on how our lives are going. Everything is finally unpacked and put in its place in the apartment. Yay!!! Our little home is becoming quite cozy and the geek chic living room is coming together. Our galaxy rug just got in the other night and after yelling at the cat for about an hour we finally convinced her that her carpeted cat tree was a better scratching post that the rug. It ties the room together pretty well seeing that the War of the Worlds poster didn't have as much blue in it as it did in the online picture. 
The city is full of artists who are also nerds themselves so it has been had not to buy every Doctor Who or Firefly picture we see. We did meet a really cool artist at the market on saturday who we got to talk to for a while. His art was really cool and Lew and I are thinking about maybe having some of these pieces in the apartment. Here is his etsy page for other nerds  
On the topic of never growing up, I just got tickets to my first Comic Con! Sadly there will be no cosplaying because JoAnn fabrics decided to wait a week before shipping me the fabric and it wont get here in time... womp. I was planning on going as Fionna from Adventure time but i guess its my Doctor Who shirt and jeans. Lew will be working so I get to run around the Portland convention center all by myself geeking out about meeting Jewel Staite (Kaylee from Firefly)  and sitting in on some really great panels. Later on that night there is a after party and cosplay contest that I want to check out. 

The next day is Lew's triathlon that he has been trying to train for but his gym membership does not start till school starts so he hasn't had time to swim lately. He says he's not nervous about it because he is strongest at swimming. 

We have been learning about the city more and more. Lew has been running and biking around and getting lost so he always comes back with a cool new place he saw while he was lost. lol We also have taken up swing dancing and that has been really fun. Due to kicking the concrete stairs barefoot last week We didn't go on sunday but are planning on trying out a lindy hop place on wednesday night.  That should be interesting.