Anyway, in the afternoon I filled up at the gas station and then drove to the bank on Mildred and opened up a savings account with my stored-up tax cash. On the way home I realized that when I had put Carrie's handout on the computer on Thursday I had forgotten to date it. If I don't put a date on it, then Melissa won't know which handout is the most recent handout and might print out an older, more crappy version!
So I swung by the store and fixed that. Heather & Cat told me to tell Carrie that they missed her. And Brandy gave me a kickass birthday card! Check it out:
Click picture for larger versionThe card was made by a company called Uncooked, which has some really cool things. And they're in a store in Seattle (though Brandy found this one in NYC, of course).
I came home and made a huge batch of potstickers because by this time it was well into the later afternoon and I hadn't eaten lunch yet. Whoops! Carrie went down to a store to see about them maybe carrying her jewelry, but they were closed for the day. Boo!
At almost exactly 5:00 I packed up my Nintendo DS and all six of my games and drove up to Seattle. You see, there was a big get-together of a whole bunch of people who have the Nintendo DS, including Leia, Sandy, & Mathias. There were also a whole bunch of people I'd never met before. It was all part of the Nintendo DS Connection (hey, something good actually came out of MySpace? No way).
We played a lot of Mario Kart DS (I pretty consistently got either third or fourth; I'm so WAY out of practice on the Mario Kart DS. Carrie & I have been playing so much of Mario Kart Double Dash, which has much different controls), and at one point even got ten people together to play Tetris DS. Tetris DS was surprisingly a lot of fun, but I can't see myself buying it because I don't enjoy playing Tetris by myself, and only one person needs to have the cartridge for up to ten people to play. Mathias & I played some verses New Super Mario Bros. And Sandy & I played some Bomberman DS. It was really hard because we kept on killing ourselves before we even got to each other... until I found Zombie mode!
It was held at Oasis Tea Zone, a bubble tea place just across the street from Uwajimaya. At one point during the evening Sandy, Mathias, Leia, and I all took a stroll through Uwajimaya so they could buy things in order to get their parking validated (I had parked up a couple of blocks near that awexome Maneki restaurant... I really like Seattle's
It all lasted until about 11:00 when Sandy, Mathias, Leia, and I all called it quits. I drove back home and appropriately listened to Cibo Matto in the CD player. When I got home I was starving; I'd eaten lunch so late that I hadn't been hungry enough to eat dinner while at the bubble tea place. So I made a big batch of nachos and ate them in bed.
