Wandering in the Woods

Hmmm...I'm giving some serious thought to buying some extra user pictures. I'm entirely too visual and have been enjoying making icons to portray my various interests, moods, etc. so I want more! More! More! More pretty little pictures!


(edited to add): Alright, I couldn't resist. I went ahead and bought more user pictures. Heheeehe. Couldn't resist. This is what happens when I'm left unsupervised. <=)

"What sounds are those that gather from the shores, The voice of nymphs that haunt the sylvan bowers, The fair-hair'd dryads of the shady wood, Or azure daughters of the silver flood?"


Homer : Odyssey

Ack! It's so hot in here right now! It's almost nine in the evening and I think it's still around eighty degrees in here. I despise hot weather. I don't end up feeling like doing anything and under a blanket of suffocating, smothering heat hanging in the house it is very easy to just nod off.
I don't want to go to work tomorrow. I just don't. This week of vacation went by entirely too quickly. What's more I feel like my allergies are starting to get to me, don't know why, but my throat hurts. I really don't feel like dealing with an allergy attack right now.
I ordered a Rosewood Hurdy Gurdy for James for his birthday. My credit card company is going to love me. Well, maybe not, I'm going to pay it off right away once I get the bill.
My Mom and I were out and about today- we went to the vet's office to pick up the special kidney failure food for Jean. The little shops around the Mission were having a quilt walk today and there were lovely quilts hanging outside of all the shops, we also wandered into a couple of gifts shops up there that we've never been in. From there we walked over to the Olive Hyde Art Gallery to look at their watercolor show. I liked the watercolor work by an artist named Hal Booth, but the other rooms didn't really impress me. I picked up a notecard for James' Mom of St. Joseph's, the church next to Mission San Jose that they attend, and one of Notre Dame Cathedral at night for me. I also picked out one of antique bottles for Mom and Rodie at night for Dad.
After that we went to the Hub where I picked up some various things I needed from Longs and Lottery tickets (fingers crossed), went to Target and to Ross (I really, really don't like that store). We also stopped by Cost Plus and I found a few cute little things to give James for his B-Day. I'm not sure that he really needs more rubber ducks for in his car, but I know he still enjoys getting them and I will leave it up to him what he decides to do with them.
Soooooo...hot.

This time around we were successful! There were no car problems, aside from Dragon ending up running a little late since her family needed to use the car for a bit in the morning, but we were headed out in plenty of time. Our friend, Maria Raimundo was also able to join us. Yay! I love getting to see Maria and hadn't had a chance to enjoy her company since around Christmas. That is entirely too long, but she and I have known each other so long that a little time really doesn't make a lot of difference. She and I have been friends since we were in the YMCA Father/Daughter group called Indian Princesses. I have no idea now if the organization still exists or if it's called some new PC name now, but it was a wonderful group. She and I started in it when we were about five so we've known each other over twenty years by this point.
Dragon picked me up (Thank you!) and we headed over to Maria's to get her and then were off on our way to the city. It was very foggy in there that morning. The exhibit was very interesting, although I was surprised that there were only two Tamara de Lempicka pieces featured in it. I would have liked to have seen some more examples of her work in person, but ah well, c'est la vie. The rest of the exhibit was well worth looking at anyway so it was worth the trip. I wasn't feeling terribly well since I hadn't hardly slept the last two nights and it was starting to catch up with me physically, but I managed to muddle through. I certainly wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to traverse about through SF with a couple of good friends just because I wasn't feeling one hundred percent. Life is too short for that. It really was a great day. After the exhibit we went to Mel's Diner for lunch. Mmmm...hamburger and milkshake. While eating we debated about what to do with the rest of our day. We were debating between going to see "Troy" to enjoy some eye candy or going to China Town or Japan Town. We agreed that we could go to "Troy" any old time really and headed into Japan Town. It was a little bit of an adventure trying to find parking, but we were able to locate a parking garage. I realized that I had never been to Japan Town before! How weird! I've been through China Town many times, but had never made it into Japan Town. The shops had an amazing, slightly overwhelming array of cute stuff. There were cute little plush things everywhere! Everywhere we went there was a wide selection of cute novel little Japanese style tourist trinkets. For the most part I was able to resist. Maria, because she's sweet, bought me a plush keychain Kuro Maneki Neko (Black Luck Cat). I bought a pair of chopsticks with a Kuro Neko on them at a dollar store and found a cute little magnet of Jiji from Hayao Miyazaki's "Kiki's Delivery Service." Obviously I was focused on black cats. At one shop I was able to find a proper belt to go to James' Kimono that he inherited from his friend, Liz. When I say inherited I mean that she gave it to him since she no longer wanted it, not that she passed away. Liz is alive and well! While wandering around a little shopping plaza I heard a ringing and discovered that my purse was ringing! I'm not used to leaving my cell phone on and it really caught me off guard, to Dragon's amusement I think. Imagine that, Dragon being amused by something. I actually lifted my purse to my ear to see if it was me! It was James checking to see if I was still in SF and was a little disappointed to find out that we weren't going to get to see each other that day. We wandered around for a bit more till I was starting to really crash so we headed back to Fremont and Maria and I ended up napping a little bit in the car. After getting back in to Fremont a little after six we headed over to my house so Maria could visit with my cats and we ended up deciding on going to a movie. Went to see "Shrek 2" at the Great Mall. Bought our tickets and went to the food court to get some dinner and then rushed back to get seats. It was so cute! It was a very pleasing sequel! I was actually laughing out loud at some of the jokes, that's pretty rare for me. Puss in Boots was an adorable character! So cute and vicious! It was a fun end to a great day off.