big day

yesterday was a big day. the biggest thing for me was closing on the house that we bought. it's officially ours now, and we get the keys on monday. signing for it took much longer than i remembered it taking last time i bought a house. and they wouldn't just let us sign our usual signatures--they made us sign our ENTIRE names on each of the hundred or so lines on which we were required to sign. there was even a page where we had to sign our names every possible way we could (marissa beatty, marissa j beatty, marissa jean beatty, m.j. beatty, etc.). for me this was even longer, because it made me go through the whole thing with "macdonald," too. and, weirdly enough, there was one line where i was "marissa c beatty." i pointed out that my middle name has never started with a c, and the lady told me to just cross out the c, write "never known with a c," and sign "marissa beatty." i'm surprised they didn't take our fingerprints and scan our retinas.

the second big thing was that ninkasi went into bottles--to be sold at the actual grocery store! (j, i know. i can't just make up punctuation rules whenever i want like an exclamation point in the middle of a sentence, but i'm doing it anyway)--for the first time yesterday. this dude called the "mobile bottler" came down from washington with his machine (also called the "mobile bottler"), unfolded it like a transformer, hooked it up to the tanks, loaded bottles into it, and voila! ninkasi in bottles! i stood around the brewery (because i took the second half of the day off, knowing i wouldn't be able to sign for a house at 1:00 and then contain my excitement enough to go back to work) drinking beer and taking pictures of the process. i switched my (old, outdated, and with annoying delay) digital camera to the "black and white" setting, and i actually have a pretty good little ninkasi bottling slideshow that i was going to put up here. but alas, after all the excitement, everyone went out to the bier stein to celebrate and i left the camera there. oops.