{"id":90,"date":"2011-12-07T08:50:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T16:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimwetter.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2011-12-07T08:50:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T16:50:32","slug":"sex-and-the-emerald-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimwetter.com\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Sex and the Emerald City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_91\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/kimwetter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/seattle2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91\" title=\"seattle2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimwetter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/seattle2-300x224.jpg?resize=300%2C224\" alt=\"Seattle, Washington\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/kimwetter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/seattle2.jpg?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/kimwetter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/seattle2.jpg?w=604&amp;ssl=1 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-91\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It was warm that day<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how or when it happened, but somewhere along the way, Seattle became my city. I&#8217;ve never had a problem with the grey season (approximately 75% of our year) and I&#8217;ve never complained about the lack of sun. Several years ago my roommates actually had a working theory that I was a vampire because of my apparent distaste for sunshine. They were wrong, of course. I only dislike sunlight in my room. I prefer to pretend I&#8217;m sleeping in a dark cave like my good friends the bats. Point being, I had always tolerated the city and I just realized that it&#8217;s turned into love. Seattle is like the moist mold forming in the walls of your house \u2013 it just grows on you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, there are the mountains. God, I love being surrounded by mountains. On a clear day, no matter which way you look, snowy peaks will greet you &#8211; except they&#8217;re not close enough to make you that cold or give you nightmares about avalanches or Bigfoot. I like to keep a safe distance between my mountains and me. I suppose people enjoy the proximity for skiing or snowboarding or whatever active people do. My enjoyment is purely voyeuristic. (Yeah, I read that sentence aloud and I\u2019m sticking with it!)<\/li>\n<li>Then there&#8217;s the water. For those of you unfamiliar, Seattle is an isthmus. For those of you who aren&#8217;t smarter than a 2nd grader, an isthmus is a section of land surrounded by water on either side. On one side we have the Puget Sound and the other we have Lake Washington (or as I like to call it &#8220;that which protects us from Bellevue&#8221;). There are only a few days during the year warm enough to try to swim in either body of water but that&#8217;s not the point. It&#8217;s pretty goddammit!<\/li>\n<li>And if we fear what we don&#8217;t know, my affinity for Seattle has probably grown over the years because I know this city now. I&#8217;ve explored. I could give you directions. It carries a sense of familiarity that is comforting. I&#8217;ve taken this idea to such extremes; I almost never go somewhere new within the city. Therefore, I do not use Yelp and Yelp doesn&#8217;t use me. Take that non-Google!<\/li>\n<li>My beautiful, wonderful, gay, awkward, smart, strange friends live here (They would like me to note here that not all of them are gay and not all are wonderful. One probably doesn&#8217;t dictate the other. You decide). They are my Samantha&#8217;s, Charlotte&#8217;s and Miranda&#8217;s in this version of <em>Sex and the City<\/em> where I am nothing like Carrie, few people on this earth believe Seattle to be fabulous, and we rarely have brunch together. I&#8217;m sure some of us are having sex but I won&#8217;t write that here. All in all &#8211; Similar.<\/li>\n<li>Wetter is better. I&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again. This is proof that Seattle and I were meant to be. And, let&#8217;s remember, lists are better in 5s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In fairness, I&#8217;ll note the things I don&#8217;t like: coldness, the EMP, lesbians who don&#8217;t like me (you can often find them at the Wildrose questioning my membership to the gay club), Bellevue&#8217;s eminent attack on our soil, grunge music, and the lack of days appropriately warm enough for me to play Urban Golf. Also, our bars close at two &#8211; this is no New York City people.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it. I&#8217;m in love with a grey, wet, stunning (in the correct light, just the way I like it) city.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid of commitment though so I&#8217;m immediately planning my next move. Shut up, you don&#8217;t know me!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how or when it happened, but somewhere along the way, Seattle became my city. I&#8217;ve never had a problem with the grey season (approximately 75% of our year) and I&#8217;ve never complained about the lack of sun. 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