My weekend was a little unproductive.
I saw a bad play on Friday with Niki. She had suggested it, and the
listing in the Chronicle made it look entertaining, but it was not.
It was also supposed to be improv, but it was not. They took audience
suggestions at the beginning for the main character's name and a
couple of generic places (which they did not use, I don't
think)...anyway, I told her *I'm* picking the next show we see.
Saturday a.m. I went to yoga w/e.. I thought she'd stood me up
because she didn't get there until very late, like the instructor had
entered the room & was telling people to scoot in so the last minute
people could come in. She brought her friend Vince. After class, we
went to breakfast at a pretentious little coffeehouse, and then I
went home. e. shared with me her 'quintessential Austin' moment
when she was on her laptop using free wi fi and talking on her cell
phone and I just kind of went 'bleh'--I'm so not tech. (anti hipster?
I dunno...I just don't get all the gadget worship & obvious use of
all gadgets possible out in public while ignoring the humans
nearby...)
We had to get stuff notarized for the city, so I kept waiting around
for Sweetie to get up and dressed, and finally about 3, it happened. That
was a little annoying. I needed to go to the grocery store and check
the po box, and I also wanted to do some mall ratting & such... We
did get to the PO box after the notary, but that was bout it.
Went to the GWNN munch Saturday evening. All the girlfriends had said
they weren't coming, so I decided to invite thewordnerd the blind guy. And
then the girls showed up. And left for the after-munch play party
together. That kind of annoyed me. thewordnerd got his membership card & we
were waiting for the board member in charge of new members to give
a 'new member orientation' which supposedly happens after each
munch, and it never happened. We finally left--the acousitics in the
place are very bad, it was noisy, and thewordnerd was getting cranky as a
result. He is so very negative, whiney, and ungrateful. I don't think
I really want to spend much time with him anymore. *sigh* I certainly
sympathize with his situation, I have a lot of the same issues re:
meeting people, doing what I'm interested in doing, etc. but....egh.
On the plus side, J (the rope dom with the little tiny young
subbie girl), introduced himself and they visisted a bit, and he had
job leads for thewordnerd AND may possibly give him rides to GWNN stuff.
cool.
I visited with M, the older guy in the yellow tinted glasses,
who also goes to Poly stuff. He's very cool. He does square foot
gardening, and was in Vegas same time as us (he was wearing
the 'bite' baseball cap! He said the souvenir booth was open AFTER
the show and manned by the cast. dang, I wish I'd known that. Oh
well. next time) He said we just missed the big floods in Vegas, it
rained like 2" on the strip and since the city has no drainage, it
was a huge problem. Anyway, it was cool to chat with him, he's a very
nice person.
Sunday, Sweetie was busy, which was good, but it was in my 'sphere' which
kept me from doing what I wanted to do (laundry & dishes, cleaning
kitchen)--he replaced valves & hoses on the washing machine (the hot
and cold were both leaking),and got a new faucet for the kitchen
sink, & installed it. It's nice having a guy who is capable around
the house. No idea why he decided to do the sink this weekend, maybe
a 'while I'm at it' kind of mindset?
I did finally get to the grocery store (mostly because we were out of
catfood) and I made dinner--pasta with a spinach & cream sauce &
shrimp marinated in chipotle marinade. Max came over. That was nice.
This a.m. I got back on my good behavior: up at 5:30, a.m. Yoga
video, then breakfast-- oatmeal with berries, 1 egg w/cheese, Emergen-
C, & hot green tea.
I had a salmon filet (in the microwave--yay for stinkin' out the
coworkers!) and salad for lunch today. It was yummy.
Yahoo travel has air fare to cancun for $173 (travel has to be
completed by March 18 though)...*sigh*
Not that I've got the cash to do it, or that my boss would remove the
stick long enough to give me a week off from work or anything...oh
well.
I'm having an unpleasant thing today where I'm urinating fairly
frequently and always feel a good bit of urgency when it's time to do
so. Not cool. Wonder if it's an infection, or just a 'more
water/getting old' thing...