Weekend Recap
Ugh Monday again.
Had a super weekend. Max and I planned a "date night" on Friday night. We decided to go out to dinner at Marix, a Tex-Mex restaurant, and then maybe go see a movie or get some drinks afterwards. I got out of work early on Friday, and came home to a beautiful vase of long stemmed roses (aww, isn't he sweet?!) and then headed out to the restaurant, early enough to catch happy hour. The meal was pretty good and the margaritas were great. Unfortunately, the thing about "date night" is that you really can't start it too early. By the time we were done with dinner, and a second round of margaritas, it was only 7:30 p.m.! There wasn't a movie we wanted to see, and neither of wanted to go bowling/putput golfing/bar hopping so we mutually agreed to end our "date night" and meet up with our friends at our usual watering karaoke hole - Boardwalk 11. Which was fun of course. Thode and AD challenged these two frequent karaoke-ers to a sing-off and did an excellent job on "Promiscuous" while the rest of shook our asses off on the dance floor. Later we got Taco Bell and headed back to AD's for general goofiness, which included more dancing and pretending we were models in a Victoria's Secret commercials (fake accent and all) while preening in front of AD's gigantic fan.
Saturday morning I woke up with a hangover. I was completely fine by the time I went to bed the night before, so the headache and nausea made for an unpleasant surprise. I spent the day as follows:
Woke up. Ate breakfast. Took morning nap. Woke up. Ate lunch. Watched Monarch of the Glen. Took afternoon nap. Woke up. Ate dinner. Watched Monarch of the Glen. And then got ready to go out. The life of a Lady of Leisure!
Later, I met up at Josh's apartment and then carpooled over to a bar called Blu Monkey. We had been promised a "second floor with dancing" but the "second floor" was non existent. It was an okay bar - good music, make-shift dance floor by the entrance, weak drinks, good patio and what I described as "Trading Spaces" decor - pretty budget-y and homemade. But I was just glad we actually went to a different place. There has to be thousands of bars in LA but we seem to always go to the same two weekend after weekend, so the Blu Monkey was a welcome change.
Yesterday when I should have been exercising or doing errands, I spent the day watching - what else - Monarch of the Glen. I'm sad to say the show has jumped the shark, but I really can't stop watching it. I've added a whole bunch of other BBC shows on my Netflix queue so hopefully I'll have something new to obsess over as soon as I finish the available MOTG dvds. I'm thinking of trying either "Good Neighbors" (recommended by Max's mom, which also stars one the leads from MOTG), "Ballykiss Angel" (another small village town type series) or "Jeeves & Wooster."
Had a super weekend. Max and I planned a "date night" on Friday night. We decided to go out to dinner at Marix, a Tex-Mex restaurant, and then maybe go see a movie or get some drinks afterwards. I got out of work early on Friday, and came home to a beautiful vase of long stemmed roses (aww, isn't he sweet?!) and then headed out to the restaurant, early enough to catch happy hour. The meal was pretty good and the margaritas were great. Unfortunately, the thing about "date night" is that you really can't start it too early. By the time we were done with dinner, and a second round of margaritas, it was only 7:30 p.m.! There wasn't a movie we wanted to see, and neither of wanted to go bowling/putput golfing/bar hopping so we mutually agreed to end our "date night" and meet up with our friends at our usual watering karaoke hole - Boardwalk 11. Which was fun of course. Thode and AD challenged these two frequent karaoke-ers to a sing-off and did an excellent job on "Promiscuous" while the rest of shook our asses off on the dance floor. Later we got Taco Bell and headed back to AD's for general goofiness, which included more dancing and pretending we were models in a Victoria's Secret commercials (fake accent and all) while preening in front of AD's gigantic fan.
Saturday morning I woke up with a hangover. I was completely fine by the time I went to bed the night before, so the headache and nausea made for an unpleasant surprise. I spent the day as follows:
Woke up. Ate breakfast. Took morning nap. Woke up. Ate lunch. Watched Monarch of the Glen. Took afternoon nap. Woke up. Ate dinner. Watched Monarch of the Glen. And then got ready to go out. The life of a Lady of Leisure!
Later, I met up at Josh's apartment and then carpooled over to a bar called Blu Monkey. We had been promised a "second floor with dancing" but the "second floor" was non existent. It was an okay bar - good music, make-shift dance floor by the entrance, weak drinks, good patio and what I described as "Trading Spaces" decor - pretty budget-y and homemade. But I was just glad we actually went to a different place. There has to be thousands of bars in LA but we seem to always go to the same two weekend after weekend, so the Blu Monkey was a welcome change.
Yesterday when I should have been exercising or doing errands, I spent the day watching - what else - Monarch of the Glen. I'm sad to say the show has jumped the shark, but I really can't stop watching it. I've added a whole bunch of other BBC shows on my Netflix queue so hopefully I'll have something new to obsess over as soon as I finish the available MOTG dvds. I'm thinking of trying either "Good Neighbors" (recommended by Max's mom, which also stars one the leads from MOTG), "Ballykiss Angel" (another small village town type series) or "Jeeves & Wooster."
posted by S at 12:14 PM
7 Comments:
I like "Jeeves & Wooster." Did you ever read the books? I read one and the TV show seems to follow it closely. I'm a big Hugh Laurie & Stephen Fry fan myself. The shows I've seen are cute. Each show follows the pattern of dim Wooster gets into trouble, clever Jeeves figures out a plan to save him. It's cute amd amusing.
I haven't read the books, but they totally sound like something I'd like. I actually did not know Hugh Laurie was not an american until recently!
i'm so glad there are other people in the world who include much napping in being ladies of leisure.
I thought all the napping was due to my pregnancy--little did I know, I'm simply a lady of leisure!
I asked my british co-worker to reccommend some BBC programs for you. I'll let you know!
The guy I work with said you should check out Stella Street.
Two more suggestions from another British guy I work with-- Inspector Morse, and Midsomer Murders.
He also told me that Ballykiss Angel is the Irish version of MOTG.
Thanks for all the suggestions!!! I think I will definitely check out Ballykiss and Inspector Morse, which I think is a detective series.
And, this goes without saying, but I think napping is one of the finest ways to spend a lazy afternoon. Or morning. Or early evening. ;)
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