Tuesday 08-10-04/ Day Off with James

[anam_moon]

These seem to be happening more and more frequently recently. Of course, that is partially due to James' hours being cut. At least we've gotten to do some stuff together recently. We had plans to go to his friend, Jason Butler's house in the evening, but our day was free otherwise. We decided to go out to lunch and ended up inviting my Mom and my Grandmother to come along with us. We decided to take them to Macaroni Grill and drove over to pick up my Grandmother. She gave me a present...sigh...it's a small statue of a little nude boy urinating. My Great-Aunt Millie (my grandpa Furlong's twin sister) brought it back as a gift to her from Belgium when she was an Army Nurse during WWII. The story goes that a little prince went missing and the king decreed that whatever pose he was found in would be erected into a statue and he was found nude and urinating. She kept telling me I had to put it someplace where people could see it, how cute it is. Look, I love my grandmother and appreciate her thinking of me, I love children, but I really, really don't want a statue of a nude peeing child in my room! What the heck am I supposed to do with this thing?! I intend to hang on to it since it was a memento from a relative, but still...ack! It was nice having lunch with my Mom and Grandmother, even if my Grandmother almost always makes at least one inappropriate comment. In the middle of lunch, rather loudly, Grammie commented that she could see my cleavage. Great...thank you. After visiting for a while after getting back to Grammie's house we headed home and hung around till it was about time to go to Jason's place. We stopped by James' house so he could pick up some more clothes, pick up a Cd that he wants to loan Azurdragon, and pick up "Eddie Izzard-Dress to Kill" since, apparently, I've been driving him a little nuts with my incessant quoting of Izzard. (heheehehehe....) I got to see one of the little feral kitties that lives outside their house, Clementine. She brought James a leaf the other day. Very pretty little orange/light beige tabby cat. Then we headed over to Jason's and brought along the battery powered swimming Nemo that James picked up for Jason's pool at Toys R Us. Swimming was wonderful! Got to "christen" my new swimsuit, it was very comfortable and I felt pretty. WooHoo! I wish I could swim every day, my legs would be in such good shape! There is nothing quite like paddling along, floating on your back staring up at the stars. Even if you can only see a few with all the Fremont Light Pollution, it's still pretty. James gave me a piggy back ride in the pool! =D (heheehe...it's been a long time since I had one of those!) I got to meet Jason's lady friend, Tina, try something called a taco pizza, and watch Jason play some Doom 3. Eek! I felt like a bit of a doofus, but there were a few times that I really jumped when a zombie came lurching at us when we rounded a corner. At least everyone else did too so I didn't feel quite so stupid. Didn't really care for the Taco Pizza. It is a regular pizza crust with taco sauce, cheddar cheese, cold tomato, and lettuce. Tina only eats hamburger meat if it's really fresh so she doesn't trust the pizza place to have super fresh hamburger meat. The pizza was...uh...interesting. I personally really like tomato sauce. Cheddar cheese is a good thing, but....eh. James and I stopped by Safeway on the way home so we could pick up a few things to turn the ice cream I had at home into a sundae. We decided to be indulgent for the evening. =) They didn't have hot fudge! How lame is that?! They had chocolate syrup and that chocolate magic shell stuff, but no Hot Fudge! I'm of half a mind to write their corporate office! Who ever heard of such a thing?! (sniffs indignantly) Jason seems to keep the chlorine levels in his pool really high so it felt wonderful taking a shower when I got home. I still thought I smelled faintly of chlorine, but it might have just been an after fragrance from my lotion. Despite that, I still wish he would go on vacation for something like a month and have James and I housesit. =D