The Daily Sabs

Booooo, the iPhone ate my post before i hit send. Booooooo.

Essentially Kellan and I took the mini out for a spin, ate a boatload of ramen (after waiting for over an hour), and then hit up the fabric stores.

Then later I headed to Hayes valley where I met up with maya and her friend Scott. They were in town for the tales of the city and we hit up some ritual coffee before they hit the town.

What a day. First up off to Sausalito for the mast baby shower. Originally the shindig was going to be ladies only while the men chilled a few doors down. I heard they'd be having a round of poker, so I said I'd wear a mustache and join in. Turns out the sexes co-mingled afterall, so it wasn't needed. What was needed was an appetite. Delicious food all around including a tasty spinach dip, cake pops, and a susicake cake.

Afterwards I headed home for a nerdfest swap. Burger had braved comic-con and had bunch of swag for some of us nerds. We decided the best way to deal would be to get together to bbq and eat smores. So us nerds got together and burger played Santa. The best score was this sweet hunger games mockingjay pin. I squealed with delight. So so much delight. The odds were ever in my favor.

Once we had squealed enough and chowed down on way too many foods, we went to see attack the block (a British soon-to-be cult film). The previews they played seemed weird and childish and I started to get a little concerned. Once the movie started I realized my concern was justified. They started showing smurfs instead. Chris went and got it fixed, and after the movie got us free passes for later. Believe.

It was quiet today and somehow this meant we all had time for lunch. We decided to check out bamboo, this new overwhelming Asian food place (seriously it's like three restaurants in one) and then brought everything back for a feast in the kitchen. Gene happily took our pic and then joined us. His McDs crew abandoned him for food at their desk, so we had him join our gang.

Later in the afternoon Randall rescued me from work and we ran a few random errands over in Hayes valley. Afterwards, we headed to zeitgeist to where we met up with randall's crew. Jeff, the man in charge, bought round after rounds of pitchers and the boys taught me to play asshole. (I'd heard of the card game, but I was more of a bullshit person myself.) oh and I won. Social!

For whatever reason, I used to hate the color orange. But recently I found these great button earrings that are bright and lovely and look just like candy (probably the reason I like them). Guess me and orange are friends again.

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This afternoon Erin popped into the office to give Julie and I a special delivery. She had procured several hunger games posters and thought they'd be perfect to decorate our weight-baring posts. After we schoolgirl squealed, we all took the elevator down, bid farewell to Erin, and then hunted down some lunch. I was so starving, I would've taken a tesserae at that point.

Later, after work, I headed to 826 for the bayfarer 38 release party. It was a pretty fun time. I really liked this group of kids, and had a blast seeing them read. Afterwards I met Randall at limon where we drank mojitos and ate delicious ribs. Then we took the 33 home right into the fog.

These days I tend to get home before Randall and so I've been doing some of the random chores that have, for the most part been joint chores. Mainly, I've been dealing with the trash cans, compost, and recycling. This is okay though, he's been picking up dishes duty, and that is one of my least favorite chores. Fair trade.

Ps. Morm calls emptying the dishwasher "downloading" it.

A gang of us went over to angelica's this evening for the weekly bachelorette viewing. I still can't believe this show is two hours long every week, and I still can't believe that I know what's going on. It's not that I'm too high brow (see slight top model and ice <3 coco obsession) it's just that the bachelorette isn't my lowbrow thing. That said, how sappy and depressing was that Ryan guy today? I felt bad for him, we're wondering if they're setting him up as next bachelor.

After the episode, Angelica gave us all roses. Yes! We made it to the next round!

Ps. Someone was a sleepy bear and it wasn't me

This morning I woke up to go hang out with miss Coco Pai, the owner of cocospa on post. She's quite possibly one of the cutest ladies in the world and happens to be a fabulous esthetician too. I had a great conversation, but more importantly my skin feels awesome now.

Afterwards I headed to Saigon sandwiches to pick up some lunch and then went home to neglect some chores. Then later in the evening, I called up Anneh and planned to meet her and Dylan at little chihuahua. We nom'd more delicious foods (I had been craving tacos for about 4 weeks) and then parted ways. Randall and I walked back home and wandered through the park, taking a quick detour to play on the swings. Overall a nice kind of Sunday.

Ps. I'd never seen a good news candy bar before, I don't really have any good news.

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This morning Randall and I packed up the mini and zoomed off to Sonora. Randall grew up there on top of a mountain and we were visiting his parents today. No really, people always think i joke about the mountain, but I don't. There's a random winding dirt road that you take to the top. In fact you can't even get there without a 4wheel drive car with good clearance. And when you get to the top, the property is wild and beautiful. In one direction his dad is growing a Christmas tree farm, in the other foliage goes on for "about three football fields". When Randall was growing up, there were apparently a menagerie of animals including goats, rabbits, chickens, ducks, horses, and calves. These days it's just his folks, an old dog, and some semi-feral cats. And if the fauna and foliage and lack of cell reception weren't big enough clues that we were somewhere a little different, then the guns his dad brought out were clear giveaways. And before you jump to conclusions about his dad, let me say that he was a sheriff's deputy and also in the UN police. He's still a right leaning guy that I argue with a lot, but don't judge him by his guns. That's my job.

After a tasty brunch and good conversation with his folks, Randall and i said farewell and headed to the fisher's house. Sandy was backpacking, and brad was at the craft fair, but we managed to have a nice chat with bob. Afterwards he told us to head over to twainharte to find brad. I'd never been, so we went to check out amy's hometown, and catch the tail end of the craft fair. Brad was helping his friend out and we went hunting for their booth. Sadly, although we looked into every booth we could find, we didn't find brad (although we did find a sign for "Cron Dogs"). One bag of mini fair donuts and two lemonades later we called the craft fair quits and headed back to Sonora.

If you've never been, Downtown Sonora is pretty cute. It's A little tourist town cookie cutter (you know antique shops, cooking supplies, candy store), but it's cute. We got there kind of late so most shops had already closed, however I managed to score a cool bracelet and some old fashioned candy I'd never seen before. We walked around a bit and then decided to grab a bite to eat at diamondback grill. I got the local grass fed burger (seriously the local name dropping trend is in full swing there too) and my god it was huge, tasty, but huge.

In the end, it was a fun adventure, but now it's time to say farewell.


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Although it's really too nice out for slow cooking, I couldn't help myself. I just love the ability to throw all these things into a pot and walking away for the rest of the day. Plus if you do it right, you get some delicious at the end. Today it was chicken in a tomato coconut sauce with potatoes, carrots, and rice. Nom nom nom!

Such a nerd Friday, we ate and vegged. Pretty standard stuff really.

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