catching up on the weekend
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rowanfDespite my late night, by 8am I was awake. Argh! I pulled my computer into bed and saw that WorkerofWood had put up the third possible date for his polymer clay class and I can't make it. I realized I could go watch his 9am-11 Saturday class and hopped out of bed, grabbed a Dr Pepper and a pumpkin paratha and headed to Saratoga. The habit of geocachers of giving *all* directions as coordinates rather than street addresses is, ehrm, quirky. I suppose I'll get used to it. The class was incredibly inspiring! I haven't done any clay work in quite awhile but I still have my dedicated cuisinart and pasta machine out in the studio somewhere. I would love to make a geocoin with my gypsy on it. And I think I could do it. As ususal it is a time issue. Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket. *grin* I was talking to Steve (WoW) after class as we have a geocache appt at Wednesday lunch. He said he, his young son and Motobug were going out to the Baylands after lunch and would I like to join them. So I found myself out geocaching with two guys with something like 6,000 finds between them! I didn't have a lot of time before I had to bail on them and go to Petra's shower but we did make two finds and I set my Sailor TB on his way.
I got to Petra's shower right on time and had a great time celebrating with Petra & Chris and their friends and family. Fontain's Muse showed up to do live music! I was really starting to fade though from lack of sleep and from being incredibly sore. We had a fainting couch for our victims at The Hunger and so I spent hours bending over. I was sooooo sore when I woke up. I asked![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mr_kurt and saffronrose if I could come over for a hot tub and since they were feeling fairly tired themselves we soon decamped. I soooo needed that hot tub.
Sunday morningmr_kurt, saffronrose and I met for breakfast than then a day of movies. We wanted to go to Country Gourmet but hadn't left enough time for the length of the wait. So we had crepes at Posh Bagel on Castro and then went to the Shoreline Century 16 to see Dreamer. I really like horse movies and I thought Dakota Fanning, Kurt Russell and Kris Kristofferson were great. I really believed they were family. I left the movie happy and choked up. *happy sigh* Then Marina and I went to see In Her Shoes whilst Kurt went to March of the Penguins. I loved In Her Shoes! I admit it was a schmaltzy chick flick. But it was a well done, emotionally truthful look at siblings and families and love.
Naturally, Russell's plane was 15 minutes early in arriving since we had *just* enough time to get there after our movies. *laugh* And the Shoreline exit dumped us on 85 instead of 101! We did get there fairly close on to when his plane *would* have arrived, but late enough that he had gotten his luggage and was waiting on the curb. We went home and ate spinach parathas and then headed off to listen to Deborah Anapol's talk about her new book. It was a small reading at a private home and the other attendees were quite interesting. Particularly charming was a bird belonging to one of the guys. It was some kind of parrot, whose species I am having no luck googling. Started with a "C", I think? It had lovely sherbetty colors and was very outgoing. It hung out with me much of the evening. Much of Deborah's talk was quite interesting but her Judeo-Xtian worldview kept distracting me. A course in miracles interests me not at all, for example. We did by the Seven Natural Laws of Love and maybe I'll have more to say once I have a chance to read it.
Monday morning I got up bright and early and got into the horrible southbound traffic (not too bad whilst there were still carpool lanes) and wound up behind a huge accident (or something) south of San Juan Bautista. I eventually got to Monterey about 11:30. I walked into register for my exhibits pass only to be told they didn't open until 5pm. Arggh! Who would expect a conference that goes from Saturday to Wednesday doesn't have exhibits until Monday night!? I got back in my car (after scoring some Uncle Ben's Korma sauce from the British food store next to the convention center) and looked at my GPS. I had loaded two Monterey area caches just in case. Most of the caches in Monterey are hard, multi-part puzzle caches or waaaaay out in the woods somewhere. I found one of these two that I had deemed doable. Then I went to Rosine's and got my german chocolate cake to go (and a slice of a yummy looking lemon cake and a slice of rhubarb pie) and headed on back to San Jose, stopped for two "101 Excusion" caches on the way home. I got back to Campbell about 3pm and shopped for Tuesday dinner. I got home around 5pm and collapsed until Russell got home. Driving is tiring! Driving in horrible traffic is very tiring. We ate dinner (cake but also turkey and mashed potatoes) and watched last weeks CSI and movie reviews. That is about the energy level I could manage. Now it is bedtime and I have finally finished writing up the weekend! Go me. G'night.
I got to Petra's shower right on time and had a great time celebrating with Petra & Chris and their friends and family. Fontain's Muse showed up to do live music! I was really starting to fade though from lack of sleep and from being incredibly sore. We had a fainting couch for our victims at The Hunger and so I spent hours bending over. I was sooooo sore when I woke up. I asked
mr_kurt and saffronrose if I could come over for a hot tub and since they were feeling fairly tired themselves we soon decamped. I soooo needed that hot tub. Sunday morning
mr_kurt, saffronrose and I met for breakfast than then a day of movies. We wanted to go to Country Gourmet but hadn't left enough time for the length of the wait. So we had crepes at Posh Bagel on Castro and then went to the Shoreline Century 16 to see Dreamer. I really like horse movies and I thought Dakota Fanning, Kurt Russell and Kris Kristofferson were great. I really believed they were family. I left the movie happy and choked up. *happy sigh* Then Marina and I went to see In Her Shoes whilst Kurt went to March of the Penguins. I loved In Her Shoes! I admit it was a schmaltzy chick flick. But it was a well done, emotionally truthful look at siblings and families and love. Naturally, Russell's plane was 15 minutes early in arriving since we had *just* enough time to get there after our movies. *laugh* And the Shoreline exit dumped us on 85 instead of 101! We did get there fairly close on to when his plane *would* have arrived, but late enough that he had gotten his luggage and was waiting on the curb. We went home and ate spinach parathas and then headed off to listen to Deborah Anapol's talk about her new book. It was a small reading at a private home and the other attendees were quite interesting. Particularly charming was a bird belonging to one of the guys. It was some kind of parrot, whose species I am having no luck googling. Started with a "C", I think? It had lovely sherbetty colors and was very outgoing. It hung out with me much of the evening. Much of Deborah's talk was quite interesting but her Judeo-Xtian worldview kept distracting me. A course in miracles interests me not at all, for example. We did by the Seven Natural Laws of Love and maybe I'll have more to say once I have a chance to read it.
Monday morning I got up bright and early and got into the horrible southbound traffic (not too bad whilst there were still carpool lanes) and wound up behind a huge accident (or something) south of San Juan Bautista. I eventually got to Monterey about 11:30. I walked into register for my exhibits pass only to be told they didn't open until 5pm. Arggh! Who would expect a conference that goes from Saturday to Wednesday doesn't have exhibits until Monday night!? I got back in my car (after scoring some Uncle Ben's Korma sauce from the British food store next to the convention center) and looked at my GPS. I had loaded two Monterey area caches just in case. Most of the caches in Monterey are hard, multi-part puzzle caches or waaaaay out in the woods somewhere. I found one of these two that I had deemed doable. Then I went to Rosine's and got my german chocolate cake to go (and a slice of a yummy looking lemon cake and a slice of rhubarb pie) and headed on back to San Jose, stopped for two "101 Excusion" caches on the way home. I got back to Campbell about 3pm and shopped for Tuesday dinner. I got home around 5pm and collapsed until Russell got home. Driving is tiring! Driving in horrible traffic is very tiring. We ate dinner (cake but also turkey and mashed potatoes) and watched last weeks CSI and movie reviews. That is about the energy level I could manage. Now it is bedtime and I have finally finished writing up the weekend! Go me. G'night.
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Date: 2005-10-25 08:36 am (UTC)Theres a small cafe called Tillie Gortz in Pacific Grove off of Pacific street. Right nextdoor is a small womans clothing shop. There is a woman that teaches bellydance there. There is also an array of bellydance items for sale there.
Tillie gortz has the best alfredo sauce ravioli. They are named after the big coffee machine they use to make espresso.
The only occult bookstores I know of out there are in Carmel. Kind of small. Pilgrims way is one of them. The other place is called the Thunderbird at the Carmel Valley shopping mall. Geez its been forever since I've been to those places. If I could afford it, I would be living there.
Artemis Imports is in the Monterey area. They are a distributor for bellydance items.
Hope you feel better!
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Date: 2005-10-25 06:28 pm (UTC)I'll keep those Pacific Grove places in mind for my next visit. I don't get down there anywhere as much as I used to when my frien Denise had a book/magic shop called Raven in the Grove. Now it is mostly for this conference that I almost got to this year. *rolls eyes* I'm still feeling like an idiot over that!
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Date: 2005-10-25 08:28 pm (UTC)Blessings!
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Date: 2005-10-25 11:32 am (UTC)So is Uncle Ben's British? we've always assumed it's American! Remember, if there are weird UK things you want we'll be over in a week! Place your shopping order now.
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Date: 2005-10-25 06:26 pm (UTC)I liked it. Have you seen Elizabethtown? I would like to go but no one wants to see it with me. *laugh*
Parrot
Date: 2005-10-25 05:04 pm (UTC)I haven't seen Dreamer yet but I would like too. I like the actors in it.
Re: Parrot
Date: 2005-10-25 06:25 pm (UTC)K&M and Russell and I were trying to think if there were "horse movie plots" other than "a horse is injured/loses heart but make a big come-back" and "a horse of no breeding shows up those breed horses". This is an excellent exemplar of the former. I'm glad I went.
Re: Parrot
Date: 2005-10-25 06:34 pm (UTC)Oh well
Happy Tuesday!
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