Yesterday (Wednesday) I took Brandy out to lunch at Over the Moon Café where we each had the grilled cheese sammitch (one of the best in any restaurant evar). Afterwards we walked down St. Helens and up Broadway and poked our heads into a couple of shops, including Trouve (which does not have the accent on the "e" on the sign outside, but does have it on some of the price tags, like "Trouvé") and the What Shoppe. I took her back to my house so she could pick up her car and then we both separately drove to the store, she to work and me to give a grilled cheese sammitch to Carrie for her lunch. I enjoy hanging out with Brandy, and seeing as how she's leaving for New York in just barely over a month, I think I'll try to hang out with her as much as possible before then.
When I got back home I cleaned out the car of a full bag's worth of garbage and then drove it to Jiffy Lube. They said it'd be 45 minuts, so instead of sitting in that hot, muggy little wainting room sniffing gasoline fumes, I walked down to the Bead Factory.
For some reason what had started out as a nice, sunny day had turned into an abhorrently humid, muggy day. A weird, low, muggy cloud settled over Tacoma for the rest of the afternoon. It wasn't sunny or particularly hot, but I was getting soaking wet without any physical exertion. One of the reasons why I really like the Pacific Northwest is that even though it rains an awful lot, it never gets terribly humid like it does on the east coast. Except for yesterday.
So I was plenny muggy by the time I got to the Bead Factory. When I walked in Gretchen was behind the counter. When she saw me she straightened up and cleared her throat. "Hello, customer," she said. "Can I help you find any beads? Or perhaps..." her posture collapsed into an excited wiggle and she practically squealed out, "Hi, Chris!" It was adorable.
I went into the back to say hi to my wife and used the restroom before heading on back to Jiffy Lube. They had my car already ready even though I had only been gone 35 minutes (they were actually quicker than their estimate—crazy, I know).
I stopped at the house very briefly to pick up a shopping list and then picked Carrie up from the store. We hit Costco, Target, and the Proctor Safeway to buy stuff for our trip this weekend as well as stuff for the up-coming evening. I also got a polish sausage at Costco.
I was very excited because we got some carpet cleaner and I used it to clean up some of the lighter-colored stains on the carpet (three or four out of the 7,000 stains on the carpet). I then used some of the groceries to put together a huge pan of nachos with such ingredients as black olives, diced tomatoes, green onions, cilantro, and cheese. At 7:45 we picked Laura up at her house and drove to Cat & Chris's house to watch that So You Think You Can Dance show.
Cat was making an absolutely enormous batch of pigs-in-a-blankets (or would that just be "pigs-in-blankets" without the a?), one of about three or four that were made during the course of the night. I baked our nachos and opened the wine we brought. Chritine and Lawrence brought lemon squares. Heather was also there but just for a little bit, and Steph showed up a while after Heather left.
There was a lot of food, and I ate far too much of it. It also got really, really hot in that tiny little living room, so at one point I had to unbutton my shirt a little bit and walk around outside to cool off. It's too bad Brandy couldn't join us (she had to work until 10:30 or some crap like that), but as I understand it she headed over there after we left because Cat & Chris are also going out of town this weekend and Brandy is house-sitting for them.
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Thursday, July 20, 2006
Ugly Mug
posted by Christopher at 11:27 AM 
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