Sunday, July 18, 2004

All Shopped Out!!!

Two long one-week-trips within a month to SF is a little too much, as much as I love that city. The amount of shopping, the amount of food, the amount of laughter with old friends.... wow, a little overwhelming!!!

It is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO nice to be home. Gawd, it's so unbelievable how much I have come to love it here. Memphis or not, this is where our house is, where our good friends are and it's always nice to come home. Our bed... I don't care how awesome those beds in the hotels always claim theirs are, ours is the bomb!!! :)

We flew back on the red eye and arrived early saturday morning. Slept the afternoon away and was invited by our good friends out to sushi last night. YUM! It's always so nice to get together with another fun couple. I only wish there were more of them around. I guess I shouldn't complain. Some of my friends don't even have one cool couple to hang out with and we have THREE (even tho' one couple is moving away to the east coast SOB SOB SOB). Oh well, another friend to visit on one of my travels I suppose :) Plus I like their kids so it'll be nice to see them as well.

So six bags with matching wallets, one cool hand-carry for my future travels, some new clothing, stuff from crate and barrel and five pairs of shoes later, I'm ALL shopped out. I don't want to see another store or salesperson for a long long time. I'm not going to be in saks.com or neimanmarcus.com for awhile... I'm contented and I love everything I purchased but holy crap, there REALLY is an extreme end of buy buy buy! No more... nore more shopping for me... till... Japan... in 10 days!!! Hahahahaha!

Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Return to Shopper's Paradise

We took Nancy to her first dim sum meal at Yank Sing and she absolutely loved it! We thought it might be a good way to start her experiance; then again, we had to warn her never to expect the same kind of standard anywhere else in the US. Melissa and Ben joined it and it was very nice to see them again. Imagine the meal was that heavy we couldn't eat anything for dinner. Of course, dinner was merely two hours later ;)

Yesterday, Nora took the day off work and hung out with me all day. It was nice to be able to just gossip and laugh and SHOP - ok, that IS my life everyday anyway hahaha. Still, just to be around an old friend and talk about old times and hilarious memories. The shock of the morning was to see Nora drive. Yes, Nora who sat on my passenger seat constantly when I drove her around back home is now a two year graduate of driving in the streets of California. Hard to imagine. Of course, I was nervous many times but it was still pretty cool.

Dinner at Scotts in Oakland at Jack London Square was nice. I had the crab encrusted swordfish and it was absolutely wonderful! Even the white chocolate cheesecake was to die for. Bruce loved his sole and nancy enjoyed her salmon. I think mine was the best hee hee.

Today I'm going to San Francisco. I'd meet Mel after she gets off work which means I have quite a few hours to shop - surprise surprise. I'm TRYING to go slow but there really is very little diversion in the city. Oh well... and if we're lucky tonight, we'd get to have dinner at 'Slanted Door' again. It's been two years since we had our first meal at their old location (and it was awesome!) and since we've been reading so many writes ups since then, we simply have to go back there - granted we get an early reservation.

Got to start my day now!