A Very Good Day
It feels like this past week has taken much longer to get through than preceding weeks. For those of you who've been paying attention, my Mondays are like your Sundays, so I usually spend them just chillin' here in front of the PC. After this entry it will be oatmeal time, and then probably work-on-the-apartment time. Things are going well with that and it's starting to look decent.
So.... a week ago. Monday. I went to visit Ivonne and saw her beautiful bebe, Miss Princess Reza. That kid is just too much, goodness gracious. Then it was time to meet with Teresa to play catch-up over food. Ivonne convinced me to go to Tajima but between my car acting up and Teresa not wanting to go, we went somewhere much closer: Rancho's. So a trip to Tajima is in the works, and whoever wants to go, hit me up.
After Rancho's my car was dropped off at the shop to the tune of a new light panel/headlight, 2 new tires and some front-end alignment. Scratch that, I didn't have a ride home so I came back on Tuesday to drop it off in the morning. Around 430 my coworker helped me out and gave me a ride over - however they didn't have the paperwork done so they let me just take the car, and said I could do the paperwork and pay when the light panel came in. SWEET! Free stuff is nice. It came in sometime on Friday, so I swung by on my lunch to have them install it.
They then discovered that one of the gasket valves was leaking some uber-flammable sh*t all over my exhaust, which apparently meant they were surprised my car hadn't caught on fire like... last week. Not sweet. They were going to have to order a valve and steam-clean my engine, which brought my total up from 250 to 370, and you know.... that sucks but I don't want to get blown up. Anyway, 90 minutes later they gave me a ride back to work and I stayed until 6 to make up the time.
Saturday I biked to work at 1130, and discovered that it was pretty freaking dark out an hour or so before I had to go home. J gave me a ride home, and managed to walk in during the middle of a screaming match in my office... between an autistic security guard and one of our event coordinators. SWEEEEEEEEEET. Got home right around 8 and prepared to go see Flight of the Navigator (DER FLUG DES NAVIGATORRRRS) with Mel. The original plan was to go to LA with her and Teresa on Sunday for a day of girly tourism, but my car being out of commission sort of stopped that. Since she lives Way The Hell Up In Carlsbad, and Teresa didn't really feel like going out much, the plan was for her to roll to the movies with me, crash overnight at my place, and then just hang out Sunday (yesterday).
Things worked out very well. The movie was great, we passed out immediately after getting home, and woke up somewhere around 11 before heading out to breakfast. Then it was a quick trip by my work to walk around before heading to my favorite beach. We hung out for a good while there, marveling over how we can never see the forest for the trees and watching a cute little family enjoy the day. We made a quick stop at my other favorite mediation spot, and although they've fenced in the houses and planted more shrubbery (NO HERRINGS THOUGH), the bench is still there and the view is still spectacular.
On the way back we picked up A Steak and some salad-makin' ingredients, then went to hang out on my roof with the food, seriously enjoying the remainder of the day. There were no neighbors out, the weather was gorgeous, and it was just like a little tiny bit of heaven.
In summary, I love George's (and totally have that same umbrella), but...
Salad of Justice, including leftover ingredients which will last me several days: under $20
Steak of Doom for Two: $6.50
Recreating a George's experience in the comfort of my own home basically for free: PRICELESS
In summary, yesterday was a very very fantastic day, and it made me really appreciate living here.
