This was a weird weekend for sports but somehow that happened. On Friday a bunch of a us met up at Dave & Buster's, the plan was to watch Russell Westbrook break that triple double record (which he didn't even do! Hahahahaha) so there was D&B on Friday night (no one would DDR with me but we did get some MarioKart in!)
I had a glorious Saturday when I got to sleep in and finish watching Big Little Lies over coffee. We had a lazy day, and in the evening, AJ and I took Anana down to Huntington Beach. We walked her on the shore and then we went to BJ's on the patio and had coffee and a mini pizzuki. It was a nice evening and we really don't go to the beach enough...
On Sunday our friends were hosting everyone over to watch the Masters. I was actually content to sit inside and watch the Masters (weird). They had tons of food and snacks and a putting green that I was happily playing with, but man yesterday turned wild. Crazy flip cup, baseball (the beer game), beer pong, ping pong, then games golf chipping the ping pong ball into the beer cups, crazy wrestling, pool, spa... the works.
And pretty much the whole time I was just chilling sober, tweaking out on my sugar rush, playing with the baby, and putting.
After Sergio won the Masters (yay!) I found a channel that had Home Alone 2, and then Mrs. Doubtfire on. Classics... and then at the end of the night, me and the hostess found Problem Child 2 on HBO and watched it til the end and it was SOOOOO SATISFYING. You know how some movies from your childhood you love and then when you watch you're like omg that was painful why did I like that?? That was so nottttt the case with this one - it was still just as amazing and stupid in a great way and we lovedddd it! Since I was intent on finishing the movie, AJ and I didn't leave until about 10:30, so we weren't home until about 11 and I wasn't in bed until about midnight waaaaaaah but the great news is that AJ and I are getting massages today after work so I am using that to help me get through my Monday!
Last time Khaleesi got stuck in a tree, the tree won. This time, I think maybe Khaleesi won? (Or at least I did).
After working out, I went home and AJ and I were making dinner together. We almost always leave our back door open and have our backyard lights on outside, so it's nice. At some point I heard Khaleesi meowing (she usually only meows if spoken to first) and I couldn't see her anywhere, but she kept responding every time I called her, and that's how I know it's trouble. Anyway, following her meows I found her, once again, up in a tree! Damn cat just doesn't learn!
It wasn't too high up, but it was enough to freak her out and at a weird angle that she couldn't easily get back down to the fence from (which was probably how she got up there in the first place). So I tell AJ we need to rescue a kitty from the tree, thinking he's going to need to do most of the labor, but by the time he had shoes on and was outside, I was already making my way up. Plus, it was all weird and difficult, so I had to step on AJ's back to get up the fence and then hold onto the tree and Khaleesi did come and let me get her, but her instincts had her clawing at the tree, curling around the branches and not wanting to not be secured somewhere, so most of the time rescuing her was spent unhooking her claws from the tree just to have it latch back on once I freed it lololol. Then I handed her to AJ who put her down and then I had to climb back down on AJ to get down and accidentally sat on his head lololol oops.
Anana was excitedly watching all of this and then chased Khaleesi back into the house once she was grounded again. I wish she was more shepherd and would have that tendency to corral Khaleesi haha.
Hoping that cat stays out of trees for the foreseeable future! I may not be able to rescue her next time!
Just checking in to say our girls are super precious. Here's Banana in the morning after she'd fed, been outside, and watches me get ready and make lunches...
She LOVES to be able to sit somewhere where she can prop one paw up!
and here's a midday snapshot of our place via Petcube... can you find Khaleesi??
I've been noticing that I'm either getting old, or lazy, or both, and feel like I haven't "done much" lately, so AJ and I fixed that right up by signing up for volleyball with the city's rec classes. I was veryyyyy nervous, only because I had no idea who/what kind of people would attend this whole thing. Actually, first I went on to register and there were only 6 people signed up and I thought that's going to be super awkward and weird and I'll wait to see if more people sign up. I told AJ and he said who cares, just sign us up, with us it will be 8 people we can play rounds of 2's and 4's. So I did.
Yesterday was the first one and ittttt wassssss awesomeeeee! We had soooo much fun! First of all, there were like 25-30 people there (???), a lot of people who knew each other and were regulars, so it seemed they just showed up without paying or paid through different means?? but whatever! Everyone was at least a decent skill level so there were good rallies and fun teams and it was basically just an open gym with nonstop volleyball for 2 hours.
AJ was the best one there of course, because there aren't sports that exist that AJ isn't the best at. If you think I'm bragging, I'm really not, it's actually obnoxious lololol. Inbetween games I was trying to have AJ help me with my overhand serve and people kept going up to him asking how long he played for, did he play in college, does he still play, blah blah blah and I'm just sitting over there on the other side of the court alone waiting for them to leave lulzzzzz.
Anyway it was suuuuuuper fun and we were exhausted by the end of it and I'm soooo looking forward to continuing!
I'm sad to say I had no idea what Cesar Chavez Day was or that it existed, until I started working here where we get it off each year. This year it was actually on his birthday (March 31) and seems pretty timely and relevant given the political climate and all that. Sadly, though, I didn't go out and march for civil rights, I spent my Friday off at brunch with my ex-coworker/friend Iris, and then we went to meander around Fashion Valley. She has been wanting to meet Anana for so long and I planned to bring her to brunch, and Iris was so excited that she went to Trader Joe's the night before and bought dog treats for her!
Can you tell we were bribing her with treats for this picture?
AJ had long since had plans to use this weekend as spring cleaning, which, as much as it sucked, it was still a nice weekend being around the place together, and cooking together, and having Friends on and taking breaks and having beer and AJ assembled my new chair.
On Sunday we were organizing a bajillion things and AJ came across some old baby pictures. This photo with the black balloon is just so random to me it's funny, and also, I want his mom's dress lololol.
We went to Riverside to meet up with my mom and Jim to finally have my birthday meal, at Farrell's (ice cream heaven!) I could have had five more sundaes mmmm.
I'm having a bad case of the Mondays today, but tonight is a Girls night, so at least that's something to look forward to...
Our washing machine has been out since December, and even though we've had some awesome friends inviting us over to do laundry at their places, this last batch had built up so much I thought I would have a brain aneurysm and decided that me and AJ needed to go do it immediately, last night.
He had a fantasy baseball draft (I swear, the sports never end) so he sorted and got all the laundry ready, and I went to the laundromat ahead of him. I had seen one right down the block which believe me was nothing fancy and was the only thing next to a sleezy liquor store, but I don't mind, and the machines all looked great so whatever.
I hadn't been in a laundromat since I lived in New York, and even longer really because I had a laundry room in my building in the last year. It was very nostalgic and really calming. There's something really nice about being forced to just sort of disconnect in an unusual place. And for the record I had my phone and all, but it felt like a relief to sit on the counter and just watch my loads.
AJ came with Anana in time for us to put clothes in the dryer and then fold them all. He drove back and I walked Anana back home. And that was our very productive Monday night.
We finally said goodbye to AJ's bigass truck. I'll miss that thing, but it really was veryyyyy impractical on our end. Our friends loved having access to that truck for moving purposes and AJ driving all the golfers out with the clubs in the back, but otherwise we went off-roading twice and that was the extent of us really using it. So it's sold, and this weekend we went out to Arizona to pick up a new car that AJ bought, accompanied by some friends.
Before that, I had drinks after work on Friday with coworkers for one of their's last day... moving to Europe! Oh, the jealousy.
We're four little peas in a pod and it's so sad to watch us start dispersing!
On Saturday morning, AJ's mom came over to pick up Anana and drop us all off at the airport. We had an easy breezy 10am flight to Phoenix. We landed and went straight to the dealership where AJ picked up his Mazda CX-5 (I think? I confuse them) but man am I stoked I got him on the Mazda train. So sick of American cars. His truck (a Dodge) had the check engine light come on maybe 6-7 times in the time that I've known him alone (good thing for the extended warranty on that one!) ughhhhh why do they suck so much. Anyway, no more of that!
Our plan was to go straight to the Dodgers Spring Training game, because it was the closest, but it was completely sold out. We tailgated a little and tried to go to the lawn but no success. So we tried to get tickets to the Angels, but they were playing the Diamondbacks and also sold out. So then we went to Scottsdale to try to see the Giants but it was an insane mess (no real parking!) and we were over it by that point. I hate to be "this" person, but I went to Spring Training back in 2009 or 2010 and it was NOT LIKE THIS. Tickets are now insanely expensive and the place is overrun by people. It's such a "thing" now that it's become such a headache!
Anyway we got lunch in downtown Scottsdale and then picked up drinks and checked in at the hotel. We took a nap, and then watched March Madness and then went and hung out by the sweet pool along the lake.
In the evening we decided to try TopGolf, and it was insanely busy and quoted us a 3 hour wait, so we put in our name and went to the nearby Talking Stick casino for blackjack, and I ended up $5 yahoo! Then we went to TopGolf.
This whole concept is weird to me as something with mass appeal, because golf is a very specific and very acquired skill, and who wants to go just "try" to hit a golf ball freaking far to make the targets?? I say this from my point of view because I can't recall ever having swung a golf club in my life, but the three I was with are avid golfers, so I tagged along. I later discovered this video was taken - and ignore my golf swing lololol but I think I once made it to the green target?
On Sunday we had much better luck with our lives. First we went and got brunch down near the Arizona State campus and then got lawn seats to the Angels/Royals games at the Angels' Tempe stadium.
My favorite Angel! Cameron Maybin #9!
And then we had to leave to come home. The drive was pretty long but we had Arcade Fire and then some standup comedy to listen to (including a new Daniel Tosh) and made it home around 10:30pm pretty exhausted. I'm just excited AJ can now park in the driveway and we don't have to play musical cars every time I come home and/or want to leave!
Pictures that did zero justice to the beautiful desert sunset
Khaleesi was happy to have us back, and I got to go to bed with the little kitty!
