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.

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.