for our lunch break, C and i headed to valley fair mall. he got a pair of black leather florsheim shoes, and i got two pairs of boxers from BR. we had a really quick meal at ivar's at the food court. yay for deep fried clam strips! there were lots of people at the mall... what are these people doing there? don't they have JOBS? (yes, i know, we were there, and yes, we have jobs too.)
anyways, i saw that there was a santa there already. wtf? thanksgiving isn't even over yet, and there's already a santa? wow. i also noticed on the drive back that some radio stations (well, at least one of them) were playing christmas songs.
i've had two coworkers bum cigarettes off of me today. i guess i'm known as the smoker of the company, which isn't quite fair because there are a lot of smokers here. but i guess i might be the heaviest smoker because i have one every hour in the afternoon.
i have a friend who started work at a new company today. it's a startup, and they ordered prime rib for lunch. wow! that's pretty sweet. i've been at three startups, but i've never been at one that ordered free lunches. i've had free dinners though, but never free lunches. that's pretty posh, especially prime rib.
i'm looking forward to tonight's episode of _the class_. the shit's going down! i don't particularly like the show, but tonight, richie's wife is going to face lena, richie's girlfriend. confrontation! richie's situation is one of my big fears: being caught in a loveless marriage and then finding someone else to love.
ting mentioned a few weeks ago that some of my t-shirts have outrageously large neckholes. i claimed that it was the fault of the violent movements of the washer. does anyone else have this problem? i used to put my t-shirts in webbed bags to prevent their neckholes from getting stretched out. but now, i have a gentler washer, so the problem seems to have gone away. but still, some of my older t-shirts are so badly fucked up that they look like they belong in the movie _flashdance_.
my dump today was deceptively large. i sat down, and i thought i just had a "fart with mass." but after i was done wiping, i looked down and saw that the toilet hole was filled with a large coil of stuff. amazing! i always underestimate my dumps, and it's always a nice surprise to see how much stuff i can generate.
i got home late both friday and saturday nights, past midnight. i popped two xanax each night to knock me out for fear of not being able to sleep until too late.
friday night, we went to the restaurant where paul's sister aimee was waitressing. the place was in campbell, and it was called restaurant O. it was a fancy place, but placed smack dab in a small run down strip mall. i was way underdressed. the food was decent (i got four large sea scallops), and not too overpriced (around $20 for an entree). we also got mussels (i didn't like them) and escargot (i refused to try them) to share. dinner lasted THREE hours, and we got there at 8:30, so by the time i got home, it was past midnight.
saturday, nelson and i had lunch at 2pm (i got up at 1:30pm) at denny's. i had the country fried steak (bliss). we headed over to his place afterwards and watched the past thursday's super-sized episode of _the office_. later, we picked up john and headed over to fry's. i was hoping that they would have a playstation 3 kiosk, but that was nowhere to be found.
later, we headed over to chevy's for my birthday dinner. grace was there already with her beer and nachos, and john and i got some whiskey and started drinking. the group soon ballooned to 12-14 people, and my birthday celebration got started.
i was talking to jimmy about his new car (which he purchased the day before), and before you knew it, all the guys sudden stormed out of the restaurant to the parking lot to check out his new lexus IS250. funny, guys and cars. i wanted to check the color out during the day because it was a light blue, but at night, it looked silver.
anyways, i got ambushed with the chevy's hat by the waiters. i was talking to jimmy on my left, and they snuck up on me on my right with the hat and startled me, to the point where my heart started racing. i almost had a heart attack! :)
afterwards, we headed to nelson's house, where i proceeded to drink more. overall, i had *6* whiskey's, but i didn't feel buzzed at all. hm. maybe my meds keep me from getting drunk? i dunno.
sunday, we went to the 49ers/seahawks game. the first half was pretty good, as the niners got up to a 20-0 lead. the seahawks came back with two touchdowns in the second half, but the 49ers held them off. it took us a long time to get out of the city, and for dinner, i joined paul and leeya for some taiwanese food at southland taste. and that was it.
when i got back home, i immediately logged onto espn.com and happily found out that my cowboys beat the previously undefeated colts. GO COWBOYS! and that capped off a good weekend.