Today has been my day of rest. I feel as though I’ve been up & at ‘em since my work week started this past Friday. Not to mention, I kind of can’t believe that I’ve had some decent sun exposure everyday since Saturday and have only ended up with small areas of minor sunburned skinned. That’s kind of amazing since I’m so pale and I burn so easily and quickly.
Memorial day weekend was fun. I spent almost the whole day Saturday with my friend & coworker, Y. We worked the day together and spent the night enjoying each others’ company and I helped her survive the last night with her mother-in-law. Sunday was comprised of my driving alone to Costa Mesa for the Scotsfest at the Orange County Fair Grounds. I expected the husband to go with me, but after having spent the whole day on Saturday with his future brother-in-law for a bachelor party, he was spent. I met up with my parents, having missed the opening ceremonies and Memorial Day service, but I enjoyed the rest of the day. I got to imbibe in my first Scotch tasting since I haven’t been to the fair since before I turned 21. I also got my royal dose of pipe & drum bands. I can’t tell you how much I love bagpipes and drums! I enjoyed a banger with onions and was half-tempted to try some fish & chips. My mom bought me some shortbread from a different vendor than who we usually get our Scottish fair shortbread from. I also bought a few chocolate bars imported from overseas. I notice that they use hazelnuts in their chocolate like we Americans use peanuts. Can I tell you that hazelnuts are so much better than peanuts?? Fact. They are.
Monday night was spent going over to the house a friend we met at one of the bars we frequent in SD. She wanted to have a big barbecue, but everyone she initially invited flaked on her and she sent us a message inviting the husband and I. We went ahead and joined her since we had nothing else to do and no other plans, either. It ended up being a very nice night, sitting in her backyard just talking and drinking pseudo-margaritas, made with frozen juice & ice instead of a margarita mix.
Tuesday night I took the train from Solana Beach to Los Angeles Union Station and the bus the rest of the way to Van Nuys. I was late to the show, but I finally made it to Sardo’s for some much missed Porn Star Karaoke. Since the husband and I have been on opposite days-off the past month or so, we haven’t been able to make it up in forever and I finally did! It seemed slow enough compared to their other nights, but I still only managed to get in one song. I got to see my bartenders, KJ (karaoke jockey), host, security guys and some other regulars. Not to mention, the porn stars. One of the girls told me I was beautiful, which was definitely flattering. Ron Jeremy showed up relatively early! Everyone was in a tizzy when that announcement was made, of course.
Wednesday was spent with part of my Marinara group of friends, including one who’s been living in D.C. for the past couple of years. She gets to come out this way every once in a while for work and she tries to use her leave time to extend her trip to spend time with her best friend and the rest of us. I wish I could’ve come up and spent more time with them, but yesterday was a good day. We went to a family farm and went berry picking. Most of the berries were still not ripe for the picking yet, unfortunately, but that didn’t keep me from searching out some that I could take home. I managed a decent crop! Ryan got a bunch of lemons that he used in home-made lemonade that night. Nessa got herself some strawberries along with myself. Ness just spent her time trying the berries and determining they were all not quite ripe enough to keep. Maybe next month!
Next was a trip to In-N-Out, which Nessa hadn’t yet had even though she’d been back about a week. While I talked a little shop with the guy taking my order, and he was very nice, I was disappointed with the service. They messed my order up the first time and forgot about remaking it the 2nd time. They messed up Ryan’s burger… and overall they seemed to lack decent cohesion. Team work makes the dream work, people! Once they got my order to me, it was quite delicious. Animal style fries, lightly done, with extra grilled onions and mustard & ketchup instead of the spread. Omnomnomnom!
Ryan had to leave for work after that and the Nessas and I made our way to the beach. The water was way too damned cold for me to try and get anything wet above my feet. It was a beautiful day, however and the sand wasn’t too hot, so Ness and I just lounged on her blanket while Nessa enjoyed her time catching up with the Pacific Ocean. I coated myself fairly successfully in sunscreen but I still managed slight burns on the back of my knees and a sliver around the midriff part of my back when I was laying on my stomach and my shirt rode-up. Tay-Tay and Jessie joined us there and we stayed for about an hour once they arrived. The wind started getting pretty strong and causing a sandblast-effect so we decided to head back into the Valley and see a movie.
We saw the Hangover 2 and while I knew where Teddy was the whole time it wasn’t as bad as I’d heard people say it was. To be honest, I can’t really remember the first Hangover movie all that well, but the 2nd is like watching a slightly different version based in Thailand instead of Las Vegas. It was enjoyable for me, with enough laughs.
With that, we pretty much were all exhausted, including the time Nessa had before she needed to be at her aunt’s house. We parted ways with Tay-Tay and Jessie and made our way to drop Nessa off. Ness and I went back to her apartment and just lounged and talked for a couple of hours until Ryan came home from work. Houdini, Ryan’s African Grey parrot apparently has a foot fetish. She enjoyed using her beak and mouth to inspect my toes and she was so excited, fluffing up tons, as she was doing so. I have to say, it was very amusing & interesting. Ness’s cat, Gabana, was so intrigued by the parrot! She wanted to get close, but Houdini’s not the friendliest bird, so she will peck and draw blood! Ness was very concerned that that might happen. Thankfully we kept them separated enough.
Shortly thereafter, I made my way home, tried to catch up on some interwebs stuff, but I was actually tired, so I passed the eff out.
I had a very enjoyable week. It’s hard to think it’s only been just a week. I feel like I have quite the bad sense of time these days as weeks feel like months, but certain times it feels like it’s only been a few days… Kind of crazy.
