Sunday Crazies and Shopping

Well, The day started off a little rocky with the dream and all. I took out the trash because we had so many bags and it was high time. There is nothing like Sunday morning duties with no one around to bother you. There was one other guy who was on trash duty as well he said hello. That in itself is amazing because no one here says hello. The only guys who say hello to us are the crazy conspiracy neighbors to our right and the blonde haired couple to our left. As to what else they are capable of saying is anyone's guess.

I heard John wake up and trudge to the bathroom so I decided to go out get some coffee and on the way deposit those bags of my old clothes at goodwill. Remember those bags I talked about in April? Well they are still here.

On my way out the door I noticed that the water in the vase of flowers John bought me about a week ago was low. It was odd to have evaporated like that but I went to the kitchen to get some more water. Got back to the dining room table and realized that it wasn't evaporation at all. One of my favorite vases had this terrible crack and leaked all the water out and was sitting in an amoebic puddle on the table surface! Awwww! Now I have to clean up! Which I did and used the occasion to knock off the fine layer of dust the graced the table top.

No time to mourn the vases now I had things to do. Noticed I said vases -- the other one had a crack from way back which really made me mad.

Anyway, I loaded the 3 huge bags headed to goodwill in the car and set off. OK, I thought I knew where I was going. I drove down Adams, up Atlanta, down Garfield, and up brookhurst! I have been to this place before at least twice. Now I am angry that I did not look up the address before leaving!

I gave up went ot StarBucks for coffee and pastry breakfast and headed home with the goodwill bags still in the car. All the way home I am thinking of how much I am a dobbin.

Got home, was going to get John his coffee and head on my own to church. John caught me and got dressed in a jiff and we got there on time and heard a really good sermon. After church, home for a bit to catch our breath and headed out again because John needed new shoes and I had 20% off coupons for both Bloomies and Macy's too hard to pass up.

The Bloomies at South Coast Plaza is very new and is entirely and expensive proposition. The last time we were there we were looking at these 100 thread Egyptian cotton sheets that cost $1000. Can you imagine sleeping on sheets that cost $1000?!?!?! They would have to send me to lala land immediately or work some kind of magic to cost that much. Before we went to Bloomies we stopped at Marshalls -- wouldn't you know it John found some shoes.

We wen to Bloomies anyway and there was nothing with my name on it. Next stop Wolfgang Puck to fill up for the shopping road ahead. John has the smoked salmon pizza and I had the spicy shrimp pizza -- yum yum. The waiter took forever to serve us but I had this drink called Starburst it cost more than John's beer. It was totally worth it because it had passion fruit, orange, and mango juices with a touch of grenadine and it did feel like all the flavors came alive in your mouth. Hmmmm... I can still taste it. At the end of the meal we had coffee which the waiter said was on him and I wondered was it on him because he didn't want to be bothered redoing the bill or was he really apologizing for making us wait. Could not figure that one out. The funny part of lunch was I knock over John's empty wine glass just as the waiter was coming over and the waiter assumed it was John and mentioned it was good that I was driving! Hah!

Next stop Macy's. Well much to John's chagrin I tore up the store. I had an armful of clothes when I was done and John has become tired and headed off the bookstore. We got our little wires crossed because I was thinking Barnes and Nobel and he was thinking Borders. I was not happy about this because I had to give up my beautiful parking spot to go to where he was.

We spent a small fortune on travel books mostly, novels, and Seattle's Best coffee and decided to do our last outing for the day go see Live Free or Die Hard with Bruce Willis. John noticed my front passenger tire looked rather low so we went to gas station to fill her up. I am pretty glad he noticed because the air gauge at the garage indicated 12lbs for a tire that is supposed to have 32lbs! Boy am I glad we decided to take Jean Luc out for some exercise today!

We are back in business we head to the movie which was just the kind of action movie I love seeing. It was f-a=b-u-l-o-u-s! Before we went in, we said in the little open air amphitheatre and watched the kids play. There was this adorable little girl who kept on running around. Soo cute! She was a little blur of activity so it was hard to get a good picture of her!

Post movie it was a run to McDonalds because all respectable restaurants were closed. As we were leaving I did a great job of messing up the previously low tire by running over the curb. How much more lucky can you get?!?!