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Rick’s Day

This weekend has been kind of odd / rough / busy / fun / crazy… Friday night Kevin and I had dinner with Matt and Brian and two of Kevin’s friends from Atlanta at a nice French (La Suite) restaurant in South Beach. Nice if you like french food that is – if you don’t like french food don’t go (Matt had Bone Marrow as an appetizer for example).. Dinner was nice though pricey and I was in a bit of a mood cuz of a frantic week… After dinner we all went to the Powerhouse only to find that Michael Brandon was doing some sort of auction at the bar and Kevin walked away with a Gift basket and DVD (imagine what kind of both) ;)… After about a half hour or so I was done but Kevin and the rest stayed to go on to the Endup. Late night for most but not so much for me..

Saturday was largely work with a break to go climbing again which was nice (though DAMN I’m sore today – this time we went climbing and also lifted weights)…

Saturday night we went out for dinner with Randy and Rick at Ozumo which was Really nice.. I’d never been to the restaurant.. The sushi was fantastic, location was right on the bay, and atmosphere was great. Oh.. and the company wasn’t too shabby either – we don’t see those guys very often unfortunately (aside from passing Randy at work which doesn’t really count as quality time).

And.. at dinner Rock informed me that I don’t update my blog enough and recommended that I dedicate days to folks.. So in honor of him today will be Rick’s on SwimFinsSF! 😉

And today.. Well today I’m in Cupertino working… Wee fun… 😉

Happy Sunday

My man is the man

Kevin got promoted to ‘Associate’ at work.. Very big deal and for the occasion they took a cute picture of him to post on the public website. So now i’m not sure which one I like better – the Associate picture or his picture with Audrey (though he HATES that picture – so don’t tell him I posted it! 😉 )

So regardless – Congratulate him if ya see him.. He’s earned it! 🙂

Wow…

A little over due for a post here huh? I was checking out what my blog looked like on Matt’s Crackberry and whining about how crappy it looked.. Then I looked at it this morning and realized its been SO long since i’ve posted that the content area has gone blank… So I guess its not so much the Crackberry as much as its the fact that i’m a LOOSER… Anyway.. Here’s a post for good measure..

I’ll try to post a little more but no promises cuz when I get busy (which I am now) its hard to come up with clever things to post (and posting about work is largely off limits for confidentiality reasons and posting about relationship stuff is usually off limits for fear of pissing off kevin! ;))

Anyway.. happy new year.. 🙂

A new pastime

I’ve discovered a new pastime that i’m loving. Matt and I went to Mission Cliffs yesterday to go climbing and, while I sucked REALLY BADLY, I had a great time (and i’m sore today). We went down at 10:30 yesterday morning and took a saftey class that taught us how to use all of the equipment ( it seems there is more than one use for a harnass 😉 ) and then we spent about 2 hours climbing walls. The whole thing was a WHOLE lot of fun though it requires two skills which I am VERY bad at – namely comfort with heights and trust. I’m TERRIFIED of heights and i’m bad at relying on others for things. So, as much as I trust Matt for pretty much anything, dangling from a rope a story or two in the air from a rope is kinda.. well.. um.. petrifying for me.. But I still loved it.. And DAMN is it a good upper body workout.. I’m sore today! :)..

So I’ll be going back.. hopefully a lot! 🙂

Analyze this

I had two of the strangest dreams last night. The first one undoubtedly was much longer but the part I remember had me swimming around like a fish in my shorts in a very blue swimming pool while my sister and Kevin sat on the edge of the pool with their feet in watching me. The weird part was that I remember not needing to come up for air and that my cell phone and my camera was in the pockets of my shorts. When I finally came up for air my sister told me what a nice life she thought we had…

The second one started with me in an operating room with about 6 other people unfolding and inflating an alien that had been deflated and folded in the 50s. I remember ducking out of the room thinking this could be bad and when I came back the alien was attacking the people in the room. At that point a ran to the mall (yes – there was a mall) to warn people the alien was coming and then on to the baseball stadium. People were running panicked when the alien showed up until he picked up two twin girls and threw them like base balls. At that point the crowd got mad and chased him down and took turns punching him in the gut. And the alien was green and brown! 😉

I told you.. Fuckin wierd.. don’t ask me… Just had to share! 🙂

Christmas things to do in SF

In my ongoing list of little things to do in San Francisco I’d recommend hitting the Hyatt on Market Street for dinner at Equinox. The food is actually reasonably marginal (expensive hotel food including things like prime rib) however it is actually really nice to have dinner in their rotating restaurant and have a view that switches between the bay and the buildings and lights of downtown. Kevin and I had dinner there the other night after his art opening and it was a REALLY nice time.. Sun had set and we watched the fog roll in as we looked out on the bay, ice skating at Justin Herman Plaza, and watched the lights of the buildings downtown.. Really nice…

However my FAVORITE part of the evening was standing in the atrium of the lobby and looking that the long strands of lights hanging probably 10 floors from the ceiling… SO DAMN COOl.. And you HAVE TO TRY THIS: Stand right under the lights so they’re all around you and then spin around. The people all around thought I was INSANE but it was SO COOL. 🙂

Have fun!: )