Hi, I recently found out I’m pregnant. I’m my partner and I work full time. I would like to continue working, but like most of daycare expenses don’t make sense, then I’m okay with staying home.

I am still in my first trimester, so I don’t necessarily want to start calling daycares and filling out a million forms for a quote.

I live in the crossroads area, but if I keep my job my start time is very flexible, so okay with some travel.

Would anyone be willing to share daycares they prefer and the monthly rate? This would be for an infant (4 months - after maternity leave).

TIA

On Thursday afternoon I was playing piano by the art museum, turned around to head back to work, and there was a lovely gal clapping for me and smiling.

That had never happened to me!! I was so shocked and nervous I just said “Thank you! Hahahah” and kinda hurried away. I almost turned back to say hi, saw her checking out the art museum, but got too nervous. I’m a coward ik. :)

Anyway, thought i’d try on here, I would love to buy her a coffee or something. If she’s even single. Am I crazy?

She was blonde with a slender build, black thick rimmed glasses, and was wearing teal baggie shorts. I could just kinda tell she was a genuine person, ya know?

Anyway, if you might know someone that matches the description maybe there’s still a chance I can say hi. I was wearing a brown suede jacket. Sorry if this is insane, it probably is, but I gotta try!!

Thanks for reading!! Have a good day.

Hi everyone,

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Thanks!

My buddies will be in town for week 1 of the NFL season. I normally watch from home, but we want to go out since were all together. Somewhere we can get a nice booth with a good view of a TV that we can camp out for hours eating and drinking. Wondering if anyone knows the best places in town for that?

Sharing a Bellevue hardwood refinishing project from our team, but I’d also like to hear about the part a finished-floor video doesn’t show: living through the work.

If you’ve had yours done, what was the biggest hassle? Moving furniture, being out of the house, picking the color, or knowing when you could use the rooms again?

Feel free to ask me any question on hardwood refinish!

I’m wanting to funny picture from the office on a cake but Fred Meyer and Walmart are unable to do the cake as they say it has to be a personable photo and not something found online or of celebrities. I assume QFC and Safeway will tell me the same thing.. is there anywhere in Bellevue/Seattle area that I can get a photo printed on a cake? Or even just get the photo printed as a cake topper and I’ll put it on my own cake? Looking to spend under $50 if possible

Thank you!

Looking for a roommate to lease an apartment in Bellevue downtown. Budget: about 1500 from my side. 26 M, hygienic and sociable.

I scheduled a USPS pickup and left my package in my building’s designated outgoing package area. I received confirmation that it was picked up on Tuesday, but it’s now been five days and the tracking still only shows “Label Created.”

Has anyone had this happen before? Is it possible the package was picked up but never received an acceptance scan, or should I be concerned that it was lost after pickup? What would be the best next step to locate it?

Hey I’m a regular guy in my 30’s living and working on the Eastside looking for a chill male housemate to split the house I’m renting.

I made a post on r/eastside about it, message me if you are interested.

You’d have 2 bedrooms, you are welcome to turn 1 into a home office, gaming / hobby room, etc. whatever you want haha

You would also have your own private bathroom and there’s space in the common living areas if you have a couch or coffee table or dinner table etc.

Looking for a November 1 move-in.

Thanks!

We started seeing tagging showing up so I decided something doable to help the neighborhood would be to clean or cover the tags before more appeared. Been doing that in about a mile radius of our home for several years now. Takes under an hour most times and once it gets nipped in the bud it rarely reappears. Well, lately, seems like more areas are getting quietly cleaned up by other volunteers and I think that is so cool! There is hardly any tagging now beneath I-90 and around Crossroads Park. Keep it up!

Hello everyone! I just want to say Luna has been found safe and sound. I want to thank anyone that kept an eye out for her, it’s very much appreciated. I hope everyone has a great day!

Hey, i know this is the most first world stupid problem ever, i acknowledge that, and i wanna start by saying if your business DOES prioritize in-person orders, that is totally understandable and okay.

Now let me paint you a picture.

Let's say, I wanna try Sally Sue's fresh sandwhiches, but only have time for a quick stop before work. I use the business recommended online ordering platform and get a turkey sub and chips.

Online ordering says it will be ready in 15 when i order, it takes 12 minutes to get there. I head out. Let's say, it is 1pm.

I arrive, Sue's is PACKED, super busy, there is no customer accessible pick up area, so I go up to the counter, don't see a bag with my name on it, so wait a bit but eventually i have to grab an already super busy employee, ask them if my order is ready by name, they are doing a million other things.

Then they tell me they prioritize in person orders, look mine up, say they will start on it, but it will be ready in 30 minutes. It is now 1:15

I gotta get back to work but don't want to ask for a refund over this, or waste my money. It is actually 1:45 before my order is ready. Now I'm late getting back to work.

This has happened multiple times to me.

I am not saying it is not okay to prioritize in person orders, but i am asking, why no heads up that they do this? Why are the pick up times so inaccurate, or worse, bait and switch you. Why not refuse to take online orders in some cases if it is too busy?

Why am i seeing apps claim your order will be ready at 1:15 when you are ordering, suddenly changing the ready time to 2:00pm after i placed it?

What is the point in ordering ahead, when in some cases it seems restaurants only start making orders when you go up and ask in person for them to start making it? I used to work in customer service, though not in food, and imagine its not fun for the employees either.

i know this seems impatient, but can someone in the restaurant industry explain why this happens?

I managed to get pretty close to it, which makes me think this might be a house cat, but sadly it was not wearing a collar.

Photos were taken next to Interlake High School, between the student parking lot and the 1800's wing.

Golden British shorthair, around 10lbs, 4 years old neutered male, microchipped, no collar, green eyes, very skittish
Last seen 8/29 near St. Madeleine Sophie Catholic Parish
Any clues would be greatly appreciated 🙏
☎️(425)732-9341

Hi! I’m looking for someone to take over my private bedroom in Kirkland starting September 1, 2026.

💰 Rent: $1,200/month + shared utilities
📅 Available: Sep 1, 2026 – Jan 31, 2027
📍 Location: 12935 NE 130th St, Kirkland, WA 98034
🚗 Parking: Free parking available

🏠 About the space

The room is located on the downstairs level of a house.

The downstairs has:

• 2 bedrooms
• 1 shared bathroom
• Common living area
• Separate private entrance

🛏️ Your space

You would be renting one private bedroom and sharing the bathroom/common area with one other roommate.

💡 Utilities

Utilities are shared by headcount and include:

• Electricity
• Water
• Natural gas
• Garbage / trash
• Internet

🎥 Video

The video shows the actual room and downstairs space.

📩 Interested?

Please DM me if you’re interested or would like more details.

Hi, If you are able, can you keep an eye out for ShiShi. We tracked her this morning via the AirTag on her collar. Originally, the air tag placed her by the overlake golf course then it showed it moving into town near Gilbert’s on Main Street. We followed it there but then it showed she was back by the golf course. We can’t find her but my husband just found her collar on the side of the road. Any information would be really helpful. Thank you!

Lifelong Bellevue resident. Never imagined potentially seeing a day without the Freeman family in this town.

https://downtownbellevue.com/2026/08/28/freeman-family-explore-sale-bellevue-collection/

been teaching myself some French n Italian via YT, but was just wondering if there were any classes/language schools I can attend as an adult in the area? Easy to learn from the books n vids, but learning the colloquial French/ italian is quite different from them.

Please delete if not allowed. Hello, my wife and I just recently moved to Bellevue a couple of weeks ago and our cat got out on 08/26/2026 and was last seen around 129th Pl SE of the Factoria area. Her name is Luna and is extremely friendly but very skittish. She has a very high pitched meow almost like a soft squeaking door and chirps more than anything. She may be injured so please be careful if you find her and get her to come to you. She also is not a fan of being held. If you see her please message me asap. My wife and I are worried sick and miss her dearly. Ive scoured the immediate area, put up, and handed out flyers but have had no luck finding her. Please keep an eye out for her, we’d truly appreciate it.

Who has a good weekday happy hour in downtown-ish Bellevue. Think bounded by 90, 405, 520 and lake Washington. A bit east of 405 is also good. It can be high end, dive bar, whatever. I am looking to find something I don't know about.

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Looks like the registration is back up, register to get your 4000+ (hopefully) free miles with Delta again this year

For anyone that doesn't know, if you live in WA state you can get 1 free Delta miles per yard we pass every Seahawks game - it's pretty easy, all you have to do is enter your Delta account number. Over a couple of years it's enough to get a free one way flight to SF or somewhere else.

You can also get some discounts on the team store (12%) and higher boarding priority.

Large 2 story older house in 151st across from robinswood park.

Looking for temporary roommate. I am a very easy going roommate, I don't mind noise anytime day or night, you can have visitors anytime and they are more than welcome to eat sleep and shower. Bring your brothers, bring your girlfriend bring your brothers girlfriends brother! Prefer no kids unless just visiting ! Feel free to bring your pets as well. We have plenty of activities to keep you busy and having fun is what we like to do. If you have a lot of stuff it's fine, we try to keep it tidy but there's just so many cool things to play with.

Key isn't needed we use a code lock and just give everyone a code of their own. 2 story older home so plenty of room, large backyard complete with disco ball and horseshoes and a basketball hoop and court. Large double garage, one side recently became available. Bring your rowdiness but not your alarm clock, as long as you pay half of everything, anything goes.

If this sounds like you or someone you know please don't hesitate to respond.

Temporary can be longer term if wanted, I'm the best roommate you could ask for because nothing bothers me. I do work 4 days a week but I don't care if you're into partying all night. We are adults so we do what we want. 2 rooms available downstairs or 1 bedroom available upstairs, have one other roommate who is disabled and a great cook.

No smoking in the house please

Rent is 1800 plus your half of the water and electricity which usually runs about 300/no and 300 every other month for water.