today at the ortho the woman at the make-a-new-appointment counter asked me a question. the words didn’t quite process so i had to ask her to repeat her question three times. finally:
me: [lightbulb flickers on. weakly.] oh! “perfume“
her: yes – what kind are you wearing?
me: [slowly, still confused] uh i’m not wearing any perfume.
her: oh. …really?
me: [resisting urge to sniff own armpit] …uh. yeah?
i’ve been really into peanut butter lately – i think girl scout cookies are to blame. i decided to make these milk and honey peanut butter balls (i use the word recipe loosely because it was so simple) and OH MY GOD they’re INCREDIBLE! i highly recommend. only suggestion – use a little less honey and a little more peanut butter.
i splurged and got panda express for lunch – oh orange chicken, it’s been so long! i’m making it last as long as possible – sort of snacking on it all afternoon to prolong the orange chicken nirvana. i decided to eat my fortune cookie (when i go back to the orange chicken afterwards it’ll be more delicious!) and when i cracked it, my fortune read: BE CAREFUL NOT TO OVERSPEND.
wow. i mean – wow. ok. good advice, yes, but seeing as this was my food-related financial extravagance for the week…well gosh panda express. i guess i’ll take your advice and skip you next time. my arteries will thank me, anyhow. so there.
there is a film shooting on my block today, and the honey wagon is parked right in front of my apartment. great.
usually the ‘unknown caller’ texts i’ve received since getting my LA number have been vaguely offensive – messages that have led me to believe that the former owner of this number switched it due to some fallout from her questionable lifestyle. but this is what i received a few minutes ago:
im selling a puppy for 150… its a miniature pinscher mixed with chihuahua if u want a pic let me know… i bought it but cant keep it where i live…
what do all of those ellipses mean?? is there some sort of veiled threat here – if i don’t take this allegedly real puppy, will said puppy be euthanized or sold to an underground dog fighting ring? maybe i am just hyper-sensitive to animal-selling schemes due to pet store/breeder horror stories, but for some reason, this text is really bothering me. it’s bothering me even more than the text that was just
[blushing face] [alien head] [sassy lips] [surprised eyes] [princess head] [angel head and wings] [red footprints]
today i stopped by corner bakery to pick up lunch for maria and me. i parked in the ikea lot since the corner bakery lot is small and a pain even during off-hours. i noticed ikea had their tent up in the courtyard so i decided to stop by on my way home. and – one stop shopping! in one five-minute tent odyssey i got all of the things i’ve had a mind to find over the past few months.
solig pitcher in blue – has a little freezer insert in the middle to keep things cool! now i can make iced tea and stuff like that.
solig serving bowl – thin milky glass, and the perfect size to serve pasta/salad for two or a giant ice cream sundae. …just sayin.
solig tray in green – since my bedside table is full up with magazines and books and sometimes my laptop, i needed something for next to me on the bed, to keep drinks and maybe snacks in easy reach, without getting crumbs or spilled liquids everywhere.
got home from the big road trip about an hour ago and it was a success! trip outline below:
i’ve pretty much unpacked (i always unpack right away. i know.) now i’m catching up on the internets and rachel maddow and trying not to break down and eat the rest of those donuts. nothing big planned for the week, and i’m actually in LA this weekend – insane, right? perhaps i’ll actually have the energy to run this week or look for a bike my size. we’ll see.
update: photos!
this weekend i drove up to san francisco, ostensibly to try out this bike eric found for me. sadly, it was too tall, but the weekend was fantastic anyway. friday night eric and i ate at a thai place around the corner from his new apartment, chao thai, then played video games. THEN jon drunk-dialed me so eric and i talked to jon on speaker for a good half an hour. the next day i found out jon drunk-dialed mike right afterwards. today i found out jon was so hungover the next day, he was two hours late for a recording session with mark.
but anyway! saturday eric took me to 900 grayson and i had the ‘demon lover’ – a very delicious and gourmet version of good ol’ fried chicken and waffles. we poked around urban ore for awhile then went to the mission to get bacon maple donuts from dynamo (we ended up getting half a dozen assorted) and ice cream from humphry slocombe. i got olive oil and balsamic caramel (the olive oil was my favorite) and eric got salted licorice and ‘secret breakfast’, which was cornflakes and bourbon flavor. was it bourbon-y? and how!
after ice cream we drove to golden gate park and met up with dan and some of his friends, who were demoing dan’s new iphone game. we played a few games – got some unexpected exercise in, what with all of the running around – then headed to soma. we ate at ‘wichcraft with mike and tiffany and a couple of mike’s friends, then walked over to the metreon. we all saw ‘watchmen’ in IMAX (good, but there’re these things called ‘editing’ and ‘pacing’ that zack snyder needs to study some more), then eric and i drove mike and tiffany home. we hung out at eric’s the rest of the night, with dan and eric’s roommate, emma.
sunday morning we ate the donuts from dynamo – bacon maple and ginger orange and apricot whatever-it-was were good, but the coconut was the best. after some wii, eric, emma, dan and i piled into eric’s car and went to sea breeze, at the berkeley marina, for fish and chips (or chicken and chips or a whole crab). then eric took us on a driving tour of little-known areas of the east bay like point richmond. there was more wii-ing, then my plans to drive home were thwarted when i fell asleep. no worries, this gave eric a chance to make me a panini. we walked to the store and got ingredients – fontina, roasted red pepper, pepper crusted turkey, sourdough then ate like kings. there was some more wii, then we watched all of ‘wizard people, dear reader’ which is a dude narrating over “harry potter and the sorcerer’s stone”. have you seen this? if not, you should.
so, this morning i drove back to LA. i’ll be here for three days, then maria, clayton, elaine and i are driving back up to SF for a little road trip. winchester mystery house, hearst castle, big sur, rugby store, more ice cream and donuts!
…speaking of sandwiches…(via eric)
i just spent $25 on english muffins and i’m not one bit sorry. have you had a wolferman’s english muffin? they’re the english muffins god eats.
traffic was pretty gross today (as usual) and i let a bmw make a left turn in front of me. to my delight, as it went by the youngish new-wave-hipster held up a little sign (like one of those cardboard promo fans) that was a big yellow smiley face and had ‘THANKS!’ printed across the bottom. i laughed out loud. it made my day.