Between Thursday and Sunday the following happened at least once but sometimes more:
Drank beer and ate free popcorn at the Lucky 13 (discovered that they had a back patio and a black and white photo booth)
Bought a waffle maker
Drove to Oakland to retrieve and drop off my cooking club ladies (the Divas)
Received a stuffed goat
Got up between 5am and 530am every morning because we couldn't figure out how to turn off the alarm clock
Watched the sunrise over the hills of Napa
Had coffee by 6am
Had champagne and/or (but mostly and) a bloody mary by 7am
Made caramelized onion and jalapeno waffles
Rode around Napa in a limo with the Divas and previously gifted stuffed goat
Took said goat to every winery we visited
Drank wine at chichi Napa wineries for free because "I'm in the industry"
Spent $250 on two (2) bottles of wine at one of the above wineries
Watched more TV than I've ever seen in my life which included but was not limited to Bring it On Again and three (3) hours of "Yes to the Dress"
Macerated strawberries
Laughed so hard that I peed my pants (in public)
Cried
Watched Bridesmaids
Ate about a zillion pounds of buttered popcorn even though I was completely and painfully stuffed from the above waffles
Ate brie baked with caramelized onion jam
Ate a pasta dinner followed by macerated strawberries with basil
Never stopped drinking
Found a water glass from Tyler Florence's Rotisserie & Wine restaurant in my purse on Saturday morning (one of the Diva's also found a jalapeno from Florence's store in hers--Sorry Tyler)
Went to a scary train and dollhouse store
Drove over the Bay Bridge for the first time
Attempted to park my giant-ass truck for an hour in San Francisco
Purchased Invisible by Paul Auster at City Lights Books
Read the above at Vesuvio's
Walked to the Ferry Building because I really wanted a samosa from the farmers' market there
Found out the market was closed
Bought a coffee at Starbucks even though I wanted a coffee at Blue Bottle or Caffe Trieste more because I needed the free wifi to find a place that sold samosas.
Walked to an Irish bar that sold Indian food
Ate Samosas back in my car while frustrated people waited for me to pull out so that they could take my parking spot
Drove south from San Francisco to Monterey on the 1
On my way out of San Francisco, drove by the Blue Bottle coffee shop on Jessie street and cried a little because there was no parking
Made regular waffles for a hungry small child as soon as I got home
Made a fava bean soup for the hell of it
It's amazing what you can get done in a day if you get up at 5am.
The art of being Californian, it seems, is to cultivate a loose-limbed insouciance while secretly working away like a frantic ant.
--Richard Fortey The Earth: An Intimate History
--Richard Fortey The Earth: An Intimate History
Monday, May 23, 2011
My weekend (in a list)
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ha! Great list. Sounds like a good weekend.
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