Okay, so catch up of what I did the week in between getting back from Prague and the SF trip. That seems like forever ago already, so this will probably be a short recap. I’m so glad I wrote down on paper before I left everything I did, cause honestly….I wouldn’t remember!
Sat., Jul 31st-Okay so I flew back from MN to SD, sick of planes and airports at this point. I wrote something down about time zone differences...the extra 2 hr difference must have really thrown me off or something (actually yes it did…just when it came time to going to bed…so lovely wanting to go to bed at 9pm, but fighting that off and getting up at 5am, joyous). Went to a surprise 40th birthday party for Karen. It was fun, she was indeed surprised. Food was catered from this Iranian restaurant I believe…it was pretty good, especially the cherry rice.
Sun., Aug 1st-Only thing to note: went to listen to music in the park at La Jolla. Got really bad blisters on my pinky toes too from the shoes I was wearing, probably some of the worst blisters I’ve ever had, ouch!
Mon, Aug 2nd-Went to work and was bored out of my mind cause I was done with everything they had asked me to do. Had my last meeting with my boss, she confirmed this, so I just had a few things here and there to clean up and then I could be done. Went running, frustrated cause my leg still hurts from whatever I did to it on the 4th of July run. I haven’t really given it the chance to recover though. Sigh.
Tues, Aug 3rd-Due to lack of work, took a few half days here and there. Today was one of them. My aunt and I drove up along the coast in the northern county of SD, so went through all the beach towns and such(though now they are more commercialized beach towns). It was fun. We had desert before dinner at Pannakin, a coffeehouse. We both got a slice of pie and something to drink. I had a slice of raspberry pie which was very, very good and a chai latte (which was very watery and not that great). We then had dinner at Double Happiness and had honey walnut shrimp-yummers! Then we saw A Midsummer’s Night Dream at the La Jolla Playhouse and it was AWESOME! Especially the set design, reality was set in a Victorian style house but when they went into the forest, everything turned upside, including a grand piano and the chandelier which turned into a tree. It was very, very good. Great theater venue too!
Wed., Aug 4th-I have nothing written for this day so apparently not much happened?
Thurs. Aug 5th-Went to work for like 2 hr. and then tried out Lestat’s coffeehouse cause it looked like a pretty cool place online. The atmosphere was great, it was a perfect blend of electric, artsy and cool. There was even a guy there with a macaw on his shoulder, surfing the web which I found super amusing. My drink was not so awesome though which kinda bummed me out, but eh…it was worth the visit. At night, my aunt planned this huge event for her friends where they ate dinner at the house and then we all went to an outdoor movie theater in Mission Hills called, Cinema Under the Stars because Harold and Maude was playing. I hadn’t seen it before but definitely knew about this movie as it’s just referenced so much in film and animation. Everyone else who went loved the movie…I thought it was meh, okay. I don’t know if was the hype around it or what, but I wasn’t in love with it like everyone else. And why is it that most cult movies that they tend to have the same feel to them?
Fri Aug 6th-Just didn’t go to work today, there was no point. My aunt took the day off too. So all of us from the house went to Mission Beach because my aunt had wanted us to go out to eat at World Famous. Things were okay until we got in the car and I could just tell there was growing tension in the air. Friday is the day that Laurie and Gladys have to work with Colleen and there is some extreme disliking from both sides (I won’t get into it as to why, just that these two ladies don’t like working together). And it only got worse as the outing went on, the tension that is. We got there, were told we had to wait so we went walking down the boardwalk at Mission Beach. Got back went into the restaurant and Colleen said she didn’t want to be there, so we got back into the car and oh boy, that’s when the tension really escalated and we all were trapped in the car in it. One was blaming the other for various things and the other one wasn’t taking that verbal abuse but decided to be passive aggressive in response which just resulted in a lot of passive aggressive comments and arguing with nothing being resolved. During the middle of it, I just put on my sunglasses, just to disassociate myself from the drama and you bet I was glad to get out of that car and go straight to Starbucks to escape that for awhile. While it was not fun to be around that, the whole situation just makes me laugh a bit because there is just so much man bashing that goes on in this house between the workers and my aunt and yet, there’s all this passive aggressive drama, control issues, being overly sensitive, not taking blame issues ect. amongst the women here and yet they all still think that women are perfect compared to men. Yeah right; we both have our issues.
~Lauren
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