Exciting week!

• Recall efforts against our Gov. started this week. Hurrah!




• I went to physical therapy for my neck at 8:30 this morning. Considering my pain comes on later in the day, this was kind of silly. It became the "how bad can we make Kim hurt in a few minutes" show.




• I fly to Boston on Friday and will be there for the weekend. I only have to give a poster presentation, which is mega easy, so it's low stress.




• I'm buying turkey breasts tonight for next week's Thanksgiving. We are just doing turkey sandwiches Saturday night with my family (with Chris's family on Thanksgiving day), so I thought breasts made the most sense, especially since most of us eat white meat. Target has them on sale for .99/lb, which is cheap for the breasts.
  
  


• I'm going to buy several non perishables this week for the food pantry. There are a lot of good sales.
  



• I treated myself to Starbuck's in the cafeteria this monrning instead of making my own coffee.
  
  

Ok, so maybe this wasn't very exciting.

Going blonde.

Last weekend I took the plunge and went blonde.

Woops, forgot to add a few words in. Let's try this again. Last weekend I took the plunge and went TO SEE THE blonde. Yes, that one. The one in San Francisco.

I hadn't seen any OTers in awhile, and my boss gave me a $200 flight voucher that needed to be used by mid-Nov., so I watched airfare some desirable locales. San Fran was the cheapest, so we made some last minute arrangements for me to go see Carey and Michelle.

And when in Rome, you do as the Romans do. So, Michelle took us to bingo where Carey and I ate a hot dog and donut for dinner. :-) I was a bingo version and really hoped to be able to yell Bingo. Well, I got to do that and more!

Did you know Bingo isn't just like a few games of straight vertical, horizontal and diagonal wins? Oh no, there were like 30 games, each with a twist. Sometimes you were looking for a "postage stamp," sometimes a "kite" shape, etc. Cripes it was tough to keep track. I think bingo will be too confusing when I get old. My favorite game was when they pulled a ticket (you got entered when you bought your bingo cards at the start) for the "Bingo Queen." The bingo queen gets to pick a number, and everytime that number comes up, she or he wins $10. Carey was the bingo queen! So everytime her number came up we got to yell, "Pay the Queen!" And later, Michelle and I each hit a bingo and we all got to yell "Bingo!" Big excitement! LOL!

Saturday was our "Lush and LUSH" tour in the city. We hit the Gold Dust and had drinks with their newly engaged friends. Then it was across the street to LUSH, where I was for about an hour, doing hair product research. I ended up with some free samples and am loving the Recon conditioner. Carey came over with Michelle's credit card for her belated birthday shopping and bought the store. :-)

After that, we went to the Rouge Ale House, as some friends told me it was great. Well, did you know Union Street isn't near Union Square? And there are A LOT of hills between where we were and Union Street. So we hopped a cable car and it began to rain. The cable car took an unexpected turn and we ended up still having to walk the same distance, but it was all downhill. :-) At Rouge, we got a VIP visitor: Tabitha (motormouth)! Despite the lousiest service ever, we still had fun chatting and decided to head back to Carey's instead of searching for another bar in the rain. Tabitha was a trooper-staying late and driving back home in the rain at midnight. Ten years ago we'd have probably been super sloshed and loud. Instead, we just had a great night having some cocktails and telling stories.

Sunday was super lazy football day. Carey made a really yummy fritatta for breakfast, despite the burning smell that took over the house at one point. :-)

I really hope to make it back in 2012. I love these girls and love San Francisco. Thanks to Carey and Michelle for the great hospitality and good luck in Vegas this weekend!

Distracted Today

I'm in one of those moods where I can't focus on the work that needs to be done. Argh. So, you get a new blog post.

I'm getting grumpy about the amount of tv our household watches. The number of mediocre hour long shows is getting on my nerves. Can't we just read sometimes? I say "we" because we have no good spot for quiet reading in our house when the tv is done. It's reason enough for me to want to finish the basement, but that's like a $10K solution to a minor problem. So, I downloaded a free app that plays rain, wind, waves, etc. and listen to that while I read in the four season room. I can't listen to music and read very well. My brain gets too distracted.

Nolay is watching the following hour longs (I know I'll forget some):
Terra Nova
Body of Proof
Hawaii 5-0
Grimm
Pan Am (I also watch this)
Sons of Anarchy (again, I watch this)
NCIS sometimes (or as I call it, Hawaii 5-0 lite)
Survivor
The Mentalist

I think he's given up on Blue Bloods and thank goodness didn't get into TAR this season. Thank goodness Charlie's Angles is over, as he was also recording that. This is in addition to about six half-hour comedies. That's a lot of tv, even with a DVR.