lovely weekend!
Short: company holiday party, errands, @byronium's bocce Birthday Bash...
Friday was the Company Holiday party. byronium was my date (yay!) and it was at a place on the Embarcadero. Freezing cold, but I work the LBD anyway, with tights and a wool wrap. (turns out later the wool wrap wasnt a good idea, it didnt actually look good, but I was warm)
it was a fantastic way to meet up with many new coworkers, and I had a lovely time with my cubemates and their family as well as new team members.
The one bad thing? I wore my Fluevogs, with an odd heel. Which got caught in the rung of a stool I was sitting on and in my attempt to loosen my foot/shoe/heel, I toppled the stool, still attached by my foot/shoe and landed really hard on my knee. My elbow and hands wacked into a bunch of metal poles but I managed not to hit my face or head and had twisted so that after I hit my knee, I ended up on my back.
As I'm laying there, I think, "good thing my panties are the same color as the stockings and the dress...."
Fortunately, no one really noticed. ;) My knee and hand both have some amazing brusing tho - arnica to the rescue!
The food was good - there was more crab then even I could eat. I ate so much crab! Happy Wolf!
We spent the night at my place, after catnapping Daniel Striped Tiger from @byronium 's place. DST had been getting into some behavioural trouble, and we thought maybe spending more time with Jupiter might help expend their energy and give them company. Or at least that's my idea. They like tearing up my place, so its also a good excuse for me to Go Thru Crap and get Rid of It.
I love having them together. The best part of waking up is finding both DST, and Jupiter snuggling with @byronium.
Saturday, the plan had been to go Bicycling. But after my very first week at work, I was energetically pretty low. Also, my knee was swollen. I was icing it and keeping it elevated, but the bruise coming up is pretty spectacular. Breakfast is had, at Liberty's Cafe on Cortland, and then errands are run: cat food, lowe's for primer, and other paint items, off to Sports Basement, where B get snowboard boots, and I do not buy more smartwool (mistake. I should get more) then off to Best Buy to check out TV's. Didnt find one, got hungry and had some tacos, headed to GameStop to pick up games, ended up on the telephone with my mother why @byronium went shopping - I wanted to find out how to make this savory rice crispy treat she used to make for us as kids. By savory I mean Spicy... anyway, she gave me the recipie, thus continuing to cement how she's forgiven me and will teach me how to cook!
B comes back with a bag. a plastic bag. that smells ... fishy. Apparently the FISH monger was next to the gamestop, and there were fresh... sardines. There were two whole sardines in the bag. I was alittle wigged out by them. ;)
Off to his home to drop off fresh fish and off to get toes done. Toes done, food shopping commenced - dinner items, and cakes for the party on sunday. We get back to his place and I'm exhausted. (We did do a lot for all that it was mellow)
Get the kittehs from my place, pick up clothes, etc, and come back to his place for an old fashioned (not quite, there were no cherries. Sad, but still yummy!) .
I kind of fell over after dinner. I know I passed out during some movie with Bill Murray in it. Slept really well! But of course, woke up at 6 am. doh.
Watched some Castle on Hulu to avoid waking up the Birthday Boy (today iz yer party!! we're gonna have a good time!), and he makes pancakes and bacon and we continue to be Very Lazy, watching The Spy Who Loved Me, to much groaning and moaning on my part at how cheesy, and frankly, anit-woman it is. (I will not deny of coruse that I wanted to BE james bond when I was younger...)
Head off to pick up the cakes (left them at my place as there was more room in my fridge. ;) ) and head off to pick up @rhiannonstone and head down to Los Gatos. YAY! Mochas in hand, the drive down was gorgeous, kinda foggy and a little overcast, but this weekend has been SO MUCH warmer than the rest of the week!
Now my hand is also swollen, and my knee hurts, so I decide not to play bocce, but instead talk and hang out with everyone who came to B's party. So much fun! Glad to see his friends and to talk and hang and eat and watch people play... I tried some wine, "Testarossa," and its pretty yum. I did get it because I thought it might have a Ferrari on the bottle, but no such luck.
Before heading back up to SF, we stop at Barefoot Coffee. yum! Except for the Desi guys in the place. two of them were confused by me, and kept staring. "just take a picture, it will last longer," I mutter at one who, in his staring, wont let me get to the cream and sugar....
Head back up to SF, well fortified with caffiene! We drop off @rhiannonstone (thanks for coming!) and I need thai food for dinner. at 5 pm, Another Monkey has 2-1 drink specials, and B and I split the seafood fried rice (what IS it about pineapple and cashew nuts that take rice to another level for me? what?! I dunno. It was good.) and a spicy pumpkin curry. My mouth was happy.
Went back, knitted and fell over sort of early again. All in all, a really lovely quiet weekend. :)
Next weekend: prime the room, fix the motorcycle, bike to JR's50th!
Kittehs are back at my place, tonite I'm making bean salad and dressing to go on the salad cuttings I made already. Hopeing I wont have to buy lunch for a few days if I get some soups and salads made up.
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