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define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true);{"id":3685,"date":"2011-06-25T20:13:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T03:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2011-06-25T20:13:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T03:13:24","slug":"where-ive-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/25\/where-ive-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I&#8217;ve been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long time no post! At least not a public post, heh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\";><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3686 aligncenter\" title=\"2011-06-25a\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-06-25a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-06-25a.jpg 452w, https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-06-25a-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday (18th), I got up at an awful and early time to head to the Greyhound Station. I was in transit from 6:15am until about 10:40am (or so) when I arrived in Seattle, WA. From there I had a 3 hour &#8216;transfer wait&#8217; time before my 2nd bus of the day to arrive in Portland, OR at about 5:30pm. So I spent my time in Seattle eating lunch (food!) and I spent most of the time in the waiting area of the Greyhound Station just (not-so) patiently waiting for the time to arrive to board the bus.<\/p>\n<p>Portland is amazing. I had gone down because it was the location of BlytheCon 2011. It&#8217;s incredibly <em>clean<\/em>, haha, and the transit system was fantastic. The buses looked the same as they do here (the same company logo on the side, so I can only assume that the insides were the same as the ones I&#8217;m used to), but I <em>loved<\/em> the light rail system that they have down there! It was convenient and easy to use, which is great for a newbie to an area. Bus drivers don&#8217;t talk very much at all, but at least they were both fairly nice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\";><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3686 aligncenter\" title=\"2011-06-25b\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-06-25b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>^ My view from outside of my hotel room at La Quinta Inn in Portland (Lloyd District). It was a decent hotel at a fantastic price. Plus it was close to everything I needed (access to the light rail system, close to a mall, lots of restaurants close by).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\";><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3686 aligncenter\" title=\"2011-06-25c\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-06-25c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>^ Oodles of customized Blythes (and another doll, can&#8217;t recall the name of him at this moment) at a small Blythe meet that happened on Sunday June 19th (day before BlytheCon) at Director Park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\";><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3686 aligncenter\" title=\"2011-06-25d\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-06-25d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>^ A photo from the cocktail party the night before BlytheCon. I got to meet so many fantastic people! It was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\";><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3686 aligncenter\" title=\"2011-06-25e\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-06-25e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>^ The MAX line stop closest to my hotel. Such a convenient stop &#8211; plus it was in the free rail zone so I got to ride for free!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\";><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3686 aligncenter\" title=\"2011-06-25f\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-06-25f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>^ A table full of dolls at BlytheCon! It was a lot of fun getting to see all the different types of Blythes and getting to meet people who like Blythe like I do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\";><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3686 aligncenter\" title=\"2011-06-25g\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-06-25g.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>^ Lots of people! I loved the balloons (my chair had a blue balloon on a brown ribbon).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\";><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3686 aligncenter\" title=\"2011-06-25h\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-06-25h.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>^ My BlytheCon loot! There&#8217;s a few things that I bought in there, some cards that I had gotten from people, a dress that I had won in the raffle, some cute things like postcards and bookmarks in the swag bag and swap items from a Blythe friend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\";><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3686 aligncenter\" title=\"2011-06-25i\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-06-25i.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got back to Canada on Tuesday, June 21st. It was so great to be home and to be connected again! I had wifi at the hotel so I was able to get in touch with people, but it&#8217;s a lot nicer being able to text without worry of a huge cell phone bill or just hopping onto the network&#8217;s internet without worrying about roaming data\u00a0 charges!<\/p>\n<p>I was back to work on Wednesday June 22nd, I had to get caught up on work (and oh my gosh, they had left me way too much to do!) and I started working in a new department as well (which was fantastic!). I now split my time between doing customer service work (taking phone calls from customers and entering orders) and doing data entry for another department.<\/p>\n<p>The Ataris played in Vancouver (!) on Thursday, which I just had to go see with my friend K. It was a lot of fun, my throat hurt a little bit Friday morning (mostly because of all the singing along that I just had to do with the songs that I love). There were three openers, which took a long while to get through but it was totally worth it to listen to Kristopher Roe sing.<\/p>\n<p>And then Friday was a bit of a wash &#8211; just work and going out for lunch with coworkers. And then today (Saturday) was a dentist appointment day and trying to figure out what I&#8217;m taking next year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long time no post! At least not a public post, heh. Last Saturday (18th), I got up at an awful and early time to head to the Greyhound Station. I was in transit from 6:15am until about 10:40am (or so) when I arrived in Seattle, WA. 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