Two lists: fun things + admin things
Mar. 24th, 2019 05:39 pmHello friends! My very quick little trip to SoCal was lovely. Some notable moments included:
There was also a real weird interaction with a dude in the bar/Italian restaurant where A and I went for dinner last night... I'd originally encountered this fellow in the parking lot of my hotel, when he motioned frantically to me to stop driving, and when I opened my window to ask why, he pointed to a piece of candy on the ground, and said he didn't want me to run it over. A day and a half later, SAME DUDE came into the bar where we were eating, sat down next to A, and darted weird intense looks at me for a while before interrupting our conversation to ask if I recognized him. "...... No?" I said, so he had to remind me of his gambit with the candy the day before. "......... Oh," I said. "And now you're... here. That's. Interesting." He went on to interrupt our conversation several more times to, among other things, tell us about the pro football players he knew and invite us out to another bar; capping his whole thing by offering us more candy, like something out of a children's PSA about stranger danger. After he finally left, the bartender was like "I wouldn't eat that candy," and I was like "WAYYYY ahead of you, brother."
Upon my return, I've encountered an extremely ill and pathetic![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
greywash (me: "How did you even have time to develop a cough this bad?? I was only gone a day and a half!" her: "I don't knowwwwww") and accomplished a whole bunch of annoying life admin tasks that had been on my list, to wit:
I'm super glad I decided to take tomorrow off as well; I did miss out on writing time this weekend so I'm hoping to make up for it then. It's good to be home!
- Seeing A again! Meeting her fiancée K! Eating delicious foods that she made, while catching up on our lives!
- Inadvertently trying a hot yoga class for the first time, which is something that I can now check off my list FOREVER, wow, why do people like it to be 95 degrees while they're practicing yoga?? I mean even bad yoga is still pretty good IMO, but I could do without the feeling of having literally all the moisture in my body sucked out through my skin.
- Engaging in the extremely lesbionic pastimes of watching old Joan Jett concert videos while drinking wine, and then, later, discussing Xena fanfic while hot-tubbing and listening to Janelle Monáe. Yes good.
- Eight-mile walk on the beach and the boardwalk! Getting to commune with the Pacific, the ocean of my heart <3 Light, localized sunburn was worth it for the experience of radiant heat coming from the sky!!!
- Temps that were warm enough comfortably to sit on the beach, chatting about books and watching the feats of daring executed by the surfers and stand-up paddleboarders.
- Was able to stay awake on the plane, which meant some nice reading time (I'm almost finished with My Brilliant Friend).
There was also a real weird interaction with a dude in the bar/Italian restaurant where A and I went for dinner last night... I'd originally encountered this fellow in the parking lot of my hotel, when he motioned frantically to me to stop driving, and when I opened my window to ask why, he pointed to a piece of candy on the ground, and said he didn't want me to run it over. A day and a half later, SAME DUDE came into the bar where we were eating, sat down next to A, and darted weird intense looks at me for a while before interrupting our conversation to ask if I recognized him. "...... No?" I said, so he had to remind me of his gambit with the candy the day before. "......... Oh," I said. "And now you're... here. That's. Interesting." He went on to interrupt our conversation several more times to, among other things, tell us about the pro football players he knew and invite us out to another bar; capping his whole thing by offering us more candy, like something out of a children's PSA about stranger danger. After he finally left, the bartender was like "I wouldn't eat that candy," and I was like "WAYYYY ahead of you, brother."
Upon my return, I've encountered an extremely ill and pathetic
greywash (me: "How did you even have time to develop a cough this bad?? I was only gone a day and a half!" her: "I don't knowwwwww") and accomplished a whole bunch of annoying life admin tasks that had been on my list, to wit:- Unpacked
- Filed and paid my taxes
- Paid off the new credit card I got in Portland in order to get a discount on a dress, and set up autopayments on it form my main checking account
- Paid my half of the April rent
- Renewed my driver license online
- Checked on the status of my car registration tags, which should arrive this coming week
- Went into the various monthly/weekly/biweekly delivery services I use and updated my delivery schedules so I don't get anything I don't want
- I think there were actually more things but now I can't remember them. Still! Pretty respectable.
I'm super glad I decided to take tomorrow off as well; I did miss out on writing time this weekend so I'm hoping to make up for it then. It's good to be home!
