I've got a one-bedroom apartment in the lovely Seattle neighborhood of Ballard. As far as hunting for apartments goes, I got lucky. Very lucky. Thanks Craig's List. I looked at a couple of places before finding mine. Mine? It was basically love at first sight and it didn't hurt that I've also got a covered parking spot and a washer/dryer in my unit.

don't know where the name Ballard came from but for a while every time someone said Ballard, I thought of ducks. It wasn't until later that I realized I was confusing/mixing-up/interweaving Ballard and Mallard. Ha.