We'd decided to go out for breakfast a couple of days earlier, so we both took showers (it was hard to wash my hair without looking up), and I went and got the Entertianment Book from the car. It wasn't in the car, of course, but under the chair by the front door. Carrie decided on Harbor Kitchen in Gig Harbor, because we had a two-for-one coupon in that book. Plus, we think it's probably a good idea to enjoy Gig Harbor as much as possible before the new bridge is completed and we have to pay a toll to get across the water.
As we crossed the Narrows, I remarked how this new bridge would be the third major bridge to span the gap. The first being, of course, the famous Galloping Gertie.
Harbor Kitchen turned out to be more of a Coffee Shop than an actual Café. You ordered at the counter and then sat down wherever you could, and they brought the food out to you. I ordered biscuits and gravy. Carrie got the quiche of the day with fresh fruit. The food turned out to be quite tasty; the gravy seemed to be real, and had a tonne of pepper in it, which was good for me as I like pepper. The place itself was pretty cute, and was right on the harbor. It had big open windows through which the sun streamed, and a back deck that we would have gone out on had it been warmer.
We got home and I wrapped the present for the wedding shower to which Carrie was going in the afternoon. My neck was really killing me at this time, so I took some Tylenol. I straightened up the living room while Carrie got ready to go, and then I set Roomba loose on the floor while we drove to Cat's house (Cat's mom was driving the both of them up to Seattle for the shower). I drove back by myself, which probably wasn't the safest of activities considering I couldn't turn my head to the right.
Roomba was still running around when I got back. It is so unbelievably awexome to have an actual robot in my house.
Fools Play practice consisted only of me and my brother. All we did really was come up with a better way to classify our formats, and then went through the Format Forest on Fools Play Island and figured out the classifications for all the formats we've done.
After practice was over we watched a tape of TV Carnage, which was really funny but also very draining because it just goes on and on. We think there might be a Fools Play scene to be drawn from it somehow. Carrie came home from Seattle during this time, and changed into her pajamas (Linnea's baby shower was a pajama party).
A while after Michael left, Carrie was picked up by Linnea herself and they went up to Viki's to have the Bead Factory Baby Shower. I stayed home and did some dishes and watched Once Upon a Time in Mexico. See, on Saturday a package had arrived (while Sandy, Mathias, and Mike were over) that contained the Robert Rodriguez Mexico Trilogy (El Mariachi / Desperado / Once Upon A Time In Mexico)
. I didn't have any of these on DVD yet. Why not? Because I had been waiting for the trilogy to come out in a box set like this. Be warned, though: if you already own these movies on DVD, this set offers you NOTHING new; it's just the three DVDs packaged together in one box, really. But it only cost me $10 because I had a $15 gift certificate from Amazon
. While I was watching the movie and washing dishes and what-not, I discovered to my chagrin that I was rapidly becoming sick with a cold. And my neck really hurt. By the time Carrie came home well after 10:00, I had that full-blown feeling in my face that I only get when I have a cold.
In fact, the first thing I said when I woke up this morning was, "I have sick face!"
Rowr! My body has betrayed me and injured my neck and allowed me to become sick. But considering that everyone around me has been sick pretty much constantly for the past two months, I did pretty well. Doesn't make it suck any less, though.
