Perpetual Motion
Jul. 20th, 2009 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offbalanceI think I'm on my fourth wind at this point.
Lemme summup.
Thursday night,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
redesigner and I celebrated Restaurant Week at Butter. It was...okay. Nothing terrific. I think the best thing I could say about it was that it was trendy, but tasty. (to borrow from S1, E1 of Buffy). The staff was nice and the cocktails were strong, though.
Friday was a short day (hurrah) and after a few errands, I met up with J and J's family for their birthday celebration. (J's family all has birthdays in July, except for him. He's March, like me.) It was a definite good time.
Saturday was two parties, one a birthday, one a gathering of friends. Both were excellent - full of good food, good people, and rollicking good times. All things one should have in a Saturday, really.
Sunday was a day of win and awesome. The win was for the Yankees, as I watched a fantastic pitcher's duel at the Stadium withtrebleahead. The weather was seriously perfect, and a day it was almost a crime not to be outside. It was one of those games that causes me to be utterly baffled at people who call baseball boring. (And I was so proud of Joba!! 7 2/3 innings with 8 strikeouts and less than 100 pitches?? Attaboy!!) Afterwords, I met up with j_bkl, teany and selftoken for Harry Potter, which was awesome. I didn't mind too many of the story changes they'd made (there was a lot of ground to cover, after all), but I liked the story they did tell, and thought some of the shortcuts and tricks were quite clever. However: Was HBP the book where we find out that Harry's dad was a tool at Hogwart's and Snape was in love with Harry's mom? In one of Snape's memories? I know it was the book with "Weasley is Our King" and all that nonsense, but I could have sworn up and down that it was the one where Harry found out more about his parents' lives and realized that they weren't the perfect, sainted people he'd thought them to be. (Well, except his mom. Lily Potter was a SAINT.) I just remember this being when Harry found out how conflicted Snape was to meet him. Of course, this could all have happened in Deathly Hallows, but I don't remember clearly. It's been awhile. If it was HBP, I'm disappointed they cut that. I thought it was very moving.
Today, since J and I were both off, we decided to give our apartment a good straightening. It was perfectly clean (a bit disorganized, but that's what happens when you're two busy people in a small space). After several hours of hard work, however, the place looks excellent, and I'm proud of us. And now that I've had a shower, I'm going to drag my exhausted carcass to bed. I'm just glad I don't have to be back at work until Wednesday.
Lemme summup.
Thursday night,
redesigner and I celebrated Restaurant Week at Butter. It was...okay. Nothing terrific. I think the best thing I could say about it was that it was trendy, but tasty. (to borrow from S1, E1 of Buffy). The staff was nice and the cocktails were strong, though.Friday was a short day (hurrah) and after a few errands, I met up with J and J's family for their birthday celebration. (J's family all has birthdays in July, except for him. He's March, like me.) It was a definite good time.
Saturday was two parties, one a birthday, one a gathering of friends. Both were excellent - full of good food, good people, and rollicking good times. All things one should have in a Saturday, really.
Sunday was a day of win and awesome. The win was for the Yankees, as I watched a fantastic pitcher's duel at the Stadium with
trebleahead. The weather was seriously perfect, and a day it was almost a crime not to be outside. It was one of those games that causes me to be utterly baffled at people who call baseball boring. (And I was so proud of Joba!! 7 2/3 innings with 8 strikeouts and less than 100 pitches?? Attaboy!!) Afterwords, I met up with j_bkl, teany and selftoken for Harry Potter, which was awesome. I didn't mind too many of the story changes they'd made (there was a lot of ground to cover, after all), but I liked the story they did tell, and thought some of the shortcuts and tricks were quite clever. However: Was HBP the book where we find out that Harry's dad was a tool at Hogwart's and Snape was in love with Harry's mom? In one of Snape's memories? I know it was the book with "Weasley is Our King" and all that nonsense, but I could have sworn up and down that it was the one where Harry found out more about his parents' lives and realized that they weren't the perfect, sainted people he'd thought them to be. (Well, except his mom. Lily Potter was a SAINT.) I just remember this being when Harry found out how conflicted Snape was to meet him. Of course, this could all have happened in Deathly Hallows, but I don't remember clearly. It's been awhile. If it was HBP, I'm disappointed they cut that. I thought it was very moving.Today, since J and I were both off, we decided to give our apartment a good straightening. It was perfectly clean (a bit disorganized, but that's what happens when you're two busy people in a small space). After several hours of hard work, however, the place looks excellent, and I'm proud of us. And now that I've had a shower, I'm going to drag my exhausted carcass to bed. I'm just glad I don't have to be back at work until Wednesday.
