50/50

When I first started processing the move, I had a grandiose idea to blog individually about 50 things I'd miss about Houston, and 50 things to look forward to in Seattle: one of each for 50 days. I quickly lost steam on that idea and saved in it a file called "whatever.txt." The next couple weeks are shaping up to be pretty crazy, so I'll present what I have here in full and perhaps go into more detail in future posts. A goal was to experience each of these things in Houston before I left. Maybe I'll get to a few, and I'll have memories (and the future) to sustain me in the rest.

Without further ado:

50 Things to Miss about Houston

1. Alabama Ice House

2. Ninfas

3. The Orange Show

4. President Heads

5. TX Junk Store

6. Discovery Green

7. Aurora Picture Show

8. Menil

9. Rothko Chapel

10. Dirks/Diedrich

11. 100% Taquito | Tacos a Go Go

12. Art Car Parade

13. Big Bag of Books Day

14. Allen Parkway

15. Main Street Theater

16. Bombay Sweets

17. Brasil

18. Half Price Books

19. Bombay Pizza

20. Alley Theater

21. Inprint Reading Series

22. YES / KIPP

23. Fitzgeralds

24. PPG

25. House of Pies

26. Central Market

27. Rice University

28. MFA 

29. Houston Center for Photography

30. Blue Bird Thift Center

31. Chuy's

32. cost of living

33. Yar!

34. Domy | Brazos

35. Rodeo

36. Bluebonnets

37. My House

38. H Mart

39. Galveston

40. Sam Houston statue (driving to Dallas)

41. Saint Arnolds

42. Galleria

43. Heights

44. Moody Towers

45. Jackson Middle School

46. Numbers

47. Proletariat

48. Grand Prize

49. Blue Mambo

50. Miller Outdoor Theater

50 Things to look forward to in Seattle

(I only got through 36...)

1. That place where they throw fish at you

2. Hills

3. Asian food!

4. Duck tour

5. Game night

6. Go on a boat

7. Lightrail

8. Japanese garden

9. Bookstores!

10. Coffee!

11. Big warm coats

12. Co-working

13. Take your girlfriend to work day

14. Being outside in the summer

15. Cool umbrellas and rainboots

16. Visitors

17. Islands

18. Theater

19. Chihuly Garden and Glass

20. huge nerds

21. Old friends wut

22. something called "Seafair"? Maybe there are airplanes?

23. You can see Alaska from my house!

24. Bumbershoot music festival

25. That place where you can watch the salmon swimming upstream (Ballard Locks)

26. It's where the apples come from, right?

27. How did I get this far without mentioning the Space Needle?

28. Find and visit someone who lives on a houseboat

29. Sasquatch & Decibel 

30. Being in a city where both Josh and I can work

31. Hiking

32. Roses

33. Go local

34. Mt Rainier

35. fremont soltice day parade

36. whales