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[Weekend] Long Weekend Relaxation!
May. 24th, 2009 09:24 amAh...I'm quite happy that I don't have to go to work tomorrow...it being Sunday already, it seems this weekend is going by too fast!
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emmalyon and I drove up to Napa for the day. I'm still amused by the fact that we can consider wine country as a day trip for us... :p Anyhoo, drove to downtown Napa and did some shopping and whatnot. They're doing some big-time renovating there, as a good number of stores have shut down (including a really good bookstore *snif*), but some new, shinier stores are going up. Emm and I have a feeling that the plan was to jack up rent to kick out old stores and replace them with other stores once they retrofit/revitalize/etc. the place. Sad, but expected (and I think this is why I kind of enjoy Sonoma more). On the plus side, Emm got to stop at Yarns on First, a really nice, well-stocked yarn store that we stopped at last time we were up there.
OH! OH! Interruption here--THERE'S A SONIC ON THE WAY UP TO NAPA!!! SQUEE!!!
*ahem*
Anyway, after that, we checked out the new Taylor's Refresher (the same Taylor's up in St Helena and also here in SF at the Ferry Building) and had a really fattening lunch, and next door they have The Oxbow Public Market, which is basically a shortened yet equally crowded version of our Ferry Building, full of food stalls, stores and nifty things. Much food was eaten, enough that we had to forego stopping at Sonic on the way back as we'd planned.
Last thing at Napa was stopping at Bel Aire Plaza, which had a HUGE Copperfield's Books. Huge in the sense that it was very well mapped out--I love a bookstore with a lot of floor space where you're not running into people/things/bookcases. As usual, I picked up two (including the new Christopher Moore! Yay!) but Emm picked up four. Yeah, we're bad. The plaza also had a Target and a Whole Foods, so we picked up a few needed things both places as well. Including some flavors of Rachel's Yogurt that we can't seem to find anywhere else! :)
By the time we got home? SO. TIRED. We got back around 5pm and proceeded to sit around and watch random stuff on TV and reading before we passed out. Such was our Saturday!
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Today? Not much going on...it's been a cool overcast weekend so far--LOTS of fog and a slightly chilly breeze--but we don't have much planned. We may go up to Rogue for lunch (where I will most likely have the first of this season's hot dogs--Kobe beef, mind you!--though Emm already had hers at Taylor's yesterday), but other than that, we're probably going to do our food shopping tomorrow. I may stop for more quarters for laundry, though. Yeah, I know, I'm obsessed with laundry. ;)
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Completely random, off-topic thing--I just found out the other day that my cellphone has Ms Pac Man on it. The temptation is great, so I'm going to do my best to avoid playing it when I should do something more productive.
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ANYWAY.
Tomorrow? Not sure what's on the schedule, aside from possible food shopping. Either today or tomorrow I'll be working more on the Trilogy Project again. Expect ajonchaisson post about it soon, as well as a long-awaited edencycle update. It's weird, but I'm feeling oddly blissfully happy that I've picked the trilogy up again...I think it's time again. :D
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OBLIGATORY MUSIC UPDATE:
Yesterday at Target, bought the new Green Day and Airborne Toxic Event CDs...haven't listened to them yet, but I love what I've heard so far.
ALSO:
Continuing on the transferring of "radio tapes" to mp3, and it's kind of fun. Every now and again I've been finding a song I've completely forgotten or didn't know was on the tape, and being pleasantly surprised. Also, a number of my non-radio compilations have some tracks I don't have that I'm also transferring to mp3, and those are also interesting. One of the amusing things is realizing that I now have the b-side to M's "Pop Muzik" in my collection, but not "Pop Muzik" itself. Go figure.
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Other than that...hope everyone's having a good long weekend! :D
EDIT Good god, I had way too many smileys in this one. Edited to cut most of them out. Man, that's a bad habit!!!
Yesterday
emmalyon and I drove up to Napa for the day. I'm still amused by the fact that we can consider wine country as a day trip for us... :p Anyhoo, drove to downtown Napa and did some shopping and whatnot. They're doing some big-time renovating there, as a good number of stores have shut down (including a really good bookstore *snif*), but some new, shinier stores are going up. Emm and I have a feeling that the plan was to jack up rent to kick out old stores and replace them with other stores once they retrofit/revitalize/etc. the place. Sad, but expected (and I think this is why I kind of enjoy Sonoma more). On the plus side, Emm got to stop at Yarns on First, a really nice, well-stocked yarn store that we stopped at last time we were up there.OH! OH! Interruption here--THERE'S A SONIC ON THE WAY UP TO NAPA!!! SQUEE!!!
*ahem*
Anyway, after that, we checked out the new Taylor's Refresher (the same Taylor's up in St Helena and also here in SF at the Ferry Building) and had a really fattening lunch, and next door they have The Oxbow Public Market, which is basically a shortened yet equally crowded version of our Ferry Building, full of food stalls, stores and nifty things. Much food was eaten, enough that we had to forego stopping at Sonic on the way back as we'd planned.
Last thing at Napa was stopping at Bel Aire Plaza, which had a HUGE Copperfield's Books. Huge in the sense that it was very well mapped out--I love a bookstore with a lot of floor space where you're not running into people/things/bookcases. As usual, I picked up two (including the new Christopher Moore! Yay!) but Emm picked up four. Yeah, we're bad. The plaza also had a Target and a Whole Foods, so we picked up a few needed things both places as well. Including some flavors of Rachel's Yogurt that we can't seem to find anywhere else! :)
By the time we got home? SO. TIRED. We got back around 5pm and proceeded to sit around and watch random stuff on TV and reading before we passed out. Such was our Saturday!
----
Today? Not much going on...it's been a cool overcast weekend so far--LOTS of fog and a slightly chilly breeze--but we don't have much planned. We may go up to Rogue for lunch (where I will most likely have the first of this season's hot dogs--Kobe beef, mind you!--though Emm already had hers at Taylor's yesterday), but other than that, we're probably going to do our food shopping tomorrow. I may stop for more quarters for laundry, though. Yeah, I know, I'm obsessed with laundry. ;)
----
Completely random, off-topic thing--I just found out the other day that my cellphone has Ms Pac Man on it. The temptation is great, so I'm going to do my best to avoid playing it when I should do something more productive.
----
ANYWAY.
Tomorrow? Not sure what's on the schedule, aside from possible food shopping. Either today or tomorrow I'll be working more on the Trilogy Project again. Expect a
jonchaisson post about it soon, as well as a long-awaited edencycle update. It's weird, but I'm feeling oddly blissfully happy that I've picked the trilogy up again...I think it's time again. :D----
OBLIGATORY MUSIC UPDATE:
Yesterday at Target, bought the new Green Day and Airborne Toxic Event CDs...haven't listened to them yet, but I love what I've heard so far.
ALSO:
Continuing on the transferring of "radio tapes" to mp3, and it's kind of fun. Every now and again I've been finding a song I've completely forgotten or didn't know was on the tape, and being pleasantly surprised. Also, a number of my non-radio compilations have some tracks I don't have that I'm also transferring to mp3, and those are also interesting. One of the amusing things is realizing that I now have the b-side to M's "Pop Muzik" in my collection, but not "Pop Muzik" itself. Go figure.
----
Other than that...hope everyone's having a good long weekend! :D
EDIT Good god, I had way too many smileys in this one. Edited to cut most of them out. Man, that's a bad habit!!!
