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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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All This All At Once

So, last week, I had nothing, but this week, I have got something.

First of all, I put in for vacation, and it was approved, so the first week of June I am hying off to TEXAS for some much needed R&R with my college girlfriends Julie, Tara, and Cindy! I’ll be gone for an entire week, and I’ll be staying with Julie, and oh I am just looking forward to it like you would not believe. There is a new yarn store in San Antonio that I am looking forward to checking out, along with all my favorite bead stores like Nomadic Notions, and Hill Country Weavers in Austin, and the outlets in San Marcos, etc.! It has been almost two years since I have set foot in Texas, and I am really looking forward to it! Mostly, though, I am looking forward to spending time with my friends.

On Thursday I went to the doctor and had some blood tests done. I was checked for diabetes and thyroid conditions, and am thankfully in the clear for both of those. Unfortunately, my blood pressure was kind of high, and I’ve gained some weight over the winter, so the nurse practioner put me on the South Beach diet. Today was my first day doing it, and the first two weeks are actually Atkins, so I have been pretty much carb free all day, and I would really like to eat a sandwich and possibly every noodle in the land. The most disappointing thing about this is that I can’t have fruit for two weeks and my dad and I went to the Nut Creek Farmer’s Market yesterday and they had some Brooks Cherries, which are soooo delicious. Instead I contented myself with artichokes, patty pans, and some delicious organic greens.

So, I am being forced to be healthy basically, which is not a bad thing, and well overdue.

On Saturday I went over to the Yarn Boutique in Lafayette and got my mom a gift certificate for Mother’s Day. Last weekend when I was visiting my sister we cooked up a mother’s day present, and we thought, what can be better than the gift of yarn? (WELL THE GIFT OF CARBS, ACTUALLY.) So Abby sent me some money and I got the gift certificate. While I was there, I perused the Dream in Color and may have made a few side purchases for myself.

New Yarn

Well, I bought the Vesper Sock on the left a couple weeks ago online, but I never showed it. Next to that is some Dream in Color Smooshy in “Some Summer Sky” and “Cold Fire”, and the green at the end is some Dream in Color Classy in “Spring Tickle”, which matches the very first Dream in Color Smooshy I bought at Stitches. Since Classy is a worsted weight yarn, I thought it would be fun to have a matching hat for socks that do not exist yet.

I have been knitting a little bit and have some pretty good progress to show on the Waving Lace Socks:

Sock Progress

I actually have less than one repeat to go before the toe. If I were so inclined I could finish this sock this week, but I’ve been bitten by the beading bug, so I’m gonna roll with that while the going is good. I did start the second Spey Valley, though – and hope I can finish that before I go to Texas (I am a dreamer. A carbless dreamer).

Anyway, that is it from me. I have to go take a shower and put some self tanner on my pale nerd legs because I bought some shorts for Texas and my legs give off kind of a radio active glow.

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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!