17 JAN 2010

Well, hello! It's Sunday morning and, as predicted, it has felt like a strange weekend. It has been really fun, though.

On FRI night, Colin, Kim, Rachelle, Sean, Jake and I went to the Kingdom of Vegetarians for a giant dim sum feast. It was indeed quite fantastic. We were presented with WAY more food than we could ever hope to eat. It has been a while since I've had a food-consuming experience like that! Oof. After dinner, we hung out at the 20-Sided House, drinking Four Loko, which is possibly the gnarliest malt liquor on the market, listening to music and playing cards. The rest of the group went to some bike messenger event at Elena's around midnight but, having been to more than one bike messenger event at a bar before, I decided to instead go home and catch some sleep.

I woke up fairly early on SAT and headed to the farmer's market at Clark Park. There were fairly slim pickin's, but I ended up getting enough good stuff to conjure up and extremely delicious omelet when I got home. Sean, Benn and I were going to get together for Gaga practice, but Benn had been up for something like 36 hours straight working on getting Redcap's ready for the grand reopening, so we remanded practice until TUE. Since I was feeling a little stir crazy and it was an absolutely beautiful day, I headed to Fante's to pick up an Arkansas bench stone, which I have wanted for quite some time. Man, I LOVE that store; I was in there for a good half hour just looking at stuff after I picked out which stone I wanted. I then headed up to Whole Foods and stocked up on some groceries, stopping at Trader Joe's on my ride home to re-up Santa's nutritious food supply. I headed to Redcap's around 6pm to see the new space and play some games. The store looks wonderful! I ate way too much tomato pie and played a few rounds of a game where the players are a team of scientists trying to stop the spread of infectious disease around the globe (the name is totally slipping my mind). The players are competing against the game itself rather than one another, which is neat. Around 10pm, a big group of us all headed to 20-Sided house to watch "The Faculty", which I had not seen since it first came out on VHS. I straight-up passed out on the couch when I got home and only crawled into bed when Santa knocked something large off of the dresser in the bedroom.

I woke up pretty early again today and have just been bumming around so far, picking things up here and there. The house is kind of a mess and I'd like to have it looking good by the time Carrie gets home tomorrow night. It's cold and really rainy right now and I am debating what to do with my day. I was considering trying to head to the Y soon, but that is seeming rather unappealing to me right now. I am probably going to whip up another omelet (why am I loving these things so much lately?) and read some of the Sunday Times and see where the day leads from there. Two things I am definitely doing today: the draft at Redcap's new space and watching "The Hurt Locker", which I had been sitting on for a few days in hopes of the new projector getting here. Hopefully some inspiration strikes me at some point this morning.