The waning weekend
As I write this, my Saturday night is waning. In about 30 minutes I hope to be in bed and drifting off to sleep. I feel like today should be the last day of my weekend because I went out on Friday night. NEVER before have I had the chance to go out on a Friday night in San Francisco - with the possible exception of going to a Friday night company party, but that is hardly the same thing. As you might recall from my previous entry, last night I not only got to go out, but I also got hit by a car. My life is so exciting.
Anyhow, tomorrow is Sunday, not Monday, which is good. It means I have another day to do my laundry. I had so much laundry to do once I got from my 4 week trip to LA. I did have a chance to do some washing in LA, but there was a lot yet to be done once I got back up here. So I did some Thursday, some today and I'll hopefully finish it up tomorrow. Part of the trouble is that I bought a lot of clothes in LA. I bought four pair of pants and seven shirts. If you're my sister, that's what you would buy in a day, but for me, that's a substantial number of clothing items for a four week period. Tomorrow is primarily going to be a pant-washing day. I still have two shirts to do, but mostly pants.
Today was a very lazy day. I slept in until 10 a.m. and when I finally rolled out of bed, I just lounged around until about 1 in the afternoon when I decided it was time to get out of the house. So I drove down to Daly City and saw the movie Bewitched. Good thing that the show started at 2 p.m. because I still got the bargain matinee price. I only had $8 in my wallet, so the matinee was the only ticket I could afford. I thought the movie was alright. I love that TV show, so I had high expecations. While those weren't met, it was actually better than I was expecting given that I had heard so many bad things about the movie. After Bewitched was over, it was my intention to head back to San Fran and hit up Albertsons for some groceries, but I decided to take a quick detour at the Stonestown shopping center where I ended up seeing another movie at the UA theaters. It was a movie I had never even heard of, but my experience at this theater has been pretty good in the past, so I gave it a shot. It was a show called "Saving Face" and it was a beautiful film. I really enjoyed it, and recommend it to anyone looking for something outside the Hollywood mainstream. By the time that movie was out it was 9 p.m. I did stop by Albertsons on the way home and grabbed some goods for the weekend, but one of the things I wanted wasn't there. I have been seeing ads all over the place for St. Pauli Girl beer, which is a beer I do enjoy, so I have been craving it (a very effective marketing campaign!). Unfortunately, I have yet to find it ANYWHERE. No bar that I have been to sells it (I tried at three different ones last night), the convenience store down the street from my house doesn't have it (despite having a sign for it in their window), and Albertsons didn't have it (OK, they had the Non-Alcoholic variety, but if I'm gonna drink beer, it's gotta be beer). Oh well.
I didn't feel much like cooking tonight, so I just microwaved a can of clam chowder. The date on the can was Sep. 2006, but I feel like it hadn't aged very well. It tasted alright, but it looked so funky. I think I've been turned off of Cambell's clam chowder.
Oh, I got a new cell phone... what, two weeks ago now. This girl that I met named Tami is the person who really turned me onto this particular device. I met Tami in San Francisco on RENT, but really only got to know her once we were down in LA. Like me, Tami is on T-Mobile, and she had this cool device called a Sidekick. It allowed her to send and receive e-mail, browse the web, chat on AOL Instant Messanger, and use unlimited text messaging. After giving it some though, I decided that I would get a similar device. I got the Sidekick II, the next generation of Sidekick, and now for only $20 a month extra, I get all of those features. In two weeks, I feel I've already gotten at least that much value out of it, so I am happy. It turns out that two of my other new-found LA friends, Katie and Molly, also have Sidekicks, so I am definitely in good company.
Well, time for Lance to get some sleep. Until next time...