Housewarming

Hello all.

Well I had my housewarming this past weekend and it was a great time!

I got most of my errands (for booze, etc) done during the week so the weekend was fairly free to do things like... go buy more booze (cause you can never have enough vodka - at least for my friends). But the one must-run errand for the day was to Macy's for the one day sale! I had a gift card to use up and figured since I had a party and a (gasp) date with a nice person (who just happens to be single -- read last week's blog) I had better buy 2 new outfits. Macy's was packed with people but I pushed my way through to all the 75% off racks. Its gotten to where I don't even bother with the 25% or 33% off racks. I can't figure how Macy's makes money selling $80 shirts marked down to $10, but maybe there are actually people out there who pay full retail (suckers....).

So with shopping done I went home, took a nap and then went out to dinner with my new friend to La Lomita down the street. Ivan and his friend Melba came shortly after (randomly) and sat right behind us. We had fun texting back and forth to each other about how the evening was going (luckily I suppose, my date just found it amusing...). Then we took a walk. So there you go - two separate activities, one of which involves food.

I woke up Sunday to have the shower curtain bar fall. Off to Fragers for a new shower curtain rod. I swear I go in there everyday! I now have my own account, and just drop my name when I get the register and its all just taken care of. Supposedly a bill will arrive in my mailbox some day.

The caterer arrived with food around 3pm and I had a bit of "to-do" work in setting up food. We had chicken wings, sausages with dipping sauces, asparagus, stuffed cherry tomatoes, gazpacho shooters and fruit skewers with a vanilla sauce. Everything was pretty good, tho' I wasn't impressed with the gazpacho. It tasted more like salsa to me.

So without further ado, lets just throw in lots of photos shall we.....












I had about 50 people over, including several of my new neighbors. Turns out two UA flight attendants moved in upstairs - small world! We wound down around 11pm and then headed over to Trusty's - a bar around the corner that tries to be a dive bar (they serve tap in mason jars) buts its just a bit too hip (the draft is YingLing and IPA). They threw us out at 2am. Glad I had the day off the next day