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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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Scotch Tape and Spit

Just a quick update – I used the power of widgets to revamp my blog template.  If you subscribe with a feeder, you wouldn’t have noticed, but I was able to add Twitter updates, archive pages, categories, etc., to the sidebar. Also, the image at the top of the page is now random, and is different every time you load the page.  Very cool! I like the changes – and if you use WordPress, I would highly recommend checking out the widgets, though be careful if you use K2 as your template; you’ll have to deactivate some K2 features in order to fully use the widgets.

Now: shower, and LOST SEASON FINALE, which I had totally forgotten about.

Tomorrow: work, pack, dye hair (maybe).

Saturday: TEXAS!

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Beads and Yarn… it’s always beads and yarn.

DUDES!

At Joann’s they are having a mighty mighty clearance! On some of the stranded beads that hang on the wall! I mentioned this previously, but now I must show you the bounty that I purchased for a mere MERE $7.56:

Sale Beads

Um, hello $50 worth of beads? Hellooooo. I do like a good clearance. You can find this rack up by the magazines in the front. From left to right is pink resin, red resin, turquoise resin, black painted wood, green resin, wood, and glass.

What will I make with this? I do not know! But I have been wanting a lot of the black wood for months. I didn’t know they were going to clearance it. I used all my other ones for a Christmas present (sob).

Also at the Beverly’s they have the new Lion Brand sock yarn, Sock Ease:

Lion Brand Sock Ease

I know, I know, I don’t need more sock yarn. But so what. I liked all the other colors too and I refrained from buying them, so that shows some small semblance of restraint, yes? Yes?

They do not have the Sock Ease at Joann’s or Michael’s. I know this because I looked. I do these things for you.

Okay, I don’t, I do them for me.

And finally, fun with Photoshop!:

In Vitro

I amuse myself in many ways.

Tomorrow: Thai Food! The Big Ross in San Francisco! And! DSW!

The fun never stops around here. Oh by the way, I am two weeks off carbs and I officially do not miss them.

Say it with me now:

WTF.

I KNOW, right? I personally never thought I would see the day. But I have been feeling a lot better and I don’t even WANT bread or tortillas or noodles or whatever… I just want half a spaghetti squash and chicken.

Let me say it again: WTF.

While bizarre, this is a good thing! I’ve been looking forward to having carbs again, only to realize that I don’t really want them. Was my two weeks of cleansing successful? Could very well be! Now I am afraid of rice, nice.

Remind me not to post when I am all tired because it is like drunk posting apparently. No cabazáns here! (they have carbs.)