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I Found My Heart in San Antone

The decision to leave San Antonio was not one I made lightly.  It still eats at me from time to time. But to be back here, with my girls, and in the state I love with near all of my heart, it’s a good feeling.

Also, the tequila here is superior:

The ladies!
top to bottom: Margie, Cindy, Tara, Julie, Me

Saturday night we went to Jacala, a restaurant that’s been around since 1949, and has been a favorite of ours for years.  My mom first heard about it on the Food Channel, and so my parents and I went when they visited back in 2001, and I introduced it to the girls.  I had a 4(b), which was a delicious cheese enchilada, a beef puffy taco, a CHIP AND QUESO, and rice and beans.  And, er, two margaritas.  A house and a blue swirl.

Then I lost my wallet!

Then I found it again in my suitcase back at Julie’s apartment.

Today I slept in, and then Julie and I headed to Walmart for groceries. We spent a long long time at the Super Walmart. I love Super Walmart.  Then we went to Sonic for lunch, and I had a super sonic breakfast burrito (tots, cheese, jalapeños, eggs, tomato) and a strawberry limeade.

Then we picked up Tara and went to the Shops at La Cantera. I bought some things at Sephora and at Lerner’s. We dropped Tara back off, and then Julie and I headed back to the apartment where we made pizza for dinner and also cupcakes with neon frosting and watched National Treasure 2.

Tomorrow Julie is letting me borrow her truck with gimp plates and I will be going to the yarn stores and Nomadic Notions, the bead store.

It is 98° and about 61% humidity, not bad at all!

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San Jose Skate

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Went OUT AND ABOUT last night to San Jose Skate with my sister Abby and my friend Malvina. My favorite indie band was playing, and I couldn’t resist the urge to go out and see them. If you have a chance, check out Goodbye Elliott and be prepared to be entertained with awesome Hawaiian pop rock.

Anyhoo, we had fun. I took Bart in to Millbrae where Abby picked me up and we went to her apartment in Burlingame. Malvina works in South SF on Saturdays, so she met us over at Abby’s place, and then we went to dinner at Hola! Mexican Cantina (?) where I had a really great chicken quesadilla, and they had enchiladas and tamales. Malvina got a margarita as big as her head, and I got what I thought would be an innocuous Cabazan, but turned out to be the Most Potent Drink I Have Ever Imbibed. Turns out, the combo of tequila/vodka/peach schnapps is almost deadly! Haven’t been that buzzed since that one time at Chili’s… To be honest, I am still recovering from the dehydration.

So, we headed down to San Jose Skate, where I saw the boys play last year, and we had to wait a bit for them to play because there were other bands playing too. But it was worth the wait – they are great live and also cute.

It was a really fun night, though I couldn’t really skate much because of the alcohol thing (you’d think I couldn’t hold the ole liquor, but dudes, seriously, what was in that drink? I guess that adage not to mix your liquors is still true) but I was able to get some fun pictures of Abby and Malvina, and those are on Flickr in a set along with a couple pictures of the band and Bart signs, what.

Now, to let the Advil have an effect, hooray!

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Avoiding the Good Fight

I’ve been avoiding upgrading WordPress because the last time I did it I have a mostly-blocked recollection of completely horking up the code and breaking the template and crying tearfully into a Dos Equis.

So, I’m waiting for my webhost to get the “One-Click Upgrade!” online before I do anything. Argh. 2.5 looks so shiny.

So I went to L.A. last weekend and had a nice time. I visited Sarah and Bill and Baby Will, and to my astonishment, had a couple of delightful conversations with Bill which doesn’t happen too often; it’s nice to talk to someone who has almost identical political views as you. As a Republican in a fluorescent blue state, that doesn’t happen very often.

The baby:

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While we were encumbered with the wee tot, there was not a lot of jaunting around, but I did manage a fly-by trip to the LYS by Sarah’s house, Simply Knitting in Santa Clarita. It’s a nice little shop, and they were having a 50% off all the yarn in the store (except the Koigu) sale. I got some ridiculously expensive Prism Saki sock yarn and some Mirasol Hacho yarn:

Mirasol Hacho Sock yarn

The Prism retails for $35 (!) which is one hell of a lot for a skein of sock yarn, so it better make the Awesomest and Most Hardy Socks ever in the land of socks. But having purchased it for 50% off, it doesn’t have to.

The Hacho, above, is just DANGED GORGEOUS, rather reminds me of the Koigu base, but softer. Not superwash but I’m thinking mitts for this stuff anyway. I accidentally bought two different dye lots of the pink, but, eh.

And now I must go, for the trifecta of perfect (ALL NEW) television is soon upon us: The Office, Lost, and Supernatural. Oh, Thursdays!

Now, if only Dexter Season 2 would come out on DVD.