Shannon and I celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary Sunday, and we decided to have a whole weekend of celebration, since we had a bit of extra money from the recent refi and could therefore do a bit more than we could usually afford.

Saturday: Vietnamese Lunch, Oakland Museum, Dim Sum Dinner
On Saturday, we stuck relatively close to home and kept ( Read more... )

Stuff I'd like to do in the Bay Area (and stuff I've done but would like to do again):

( Cut because it won't interest -- or even make sense to -- most people who read this journal )

Today:

1. lazy morning, followed by ...
2. a bus ride to the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse (described on its website as "an ecological treasure trove of art & craft materials, educational supplies, vintage furniture, home décor, paper goods, fabric, and much more"). Their raison d'être is "to divert waste materials from landfills by collecting and ( Read more... )

This will be of interest to almost no one, so feel free to skip this. Shannon and I eat out every Friday night, but our budget is tight ($20 for the two of us), so we have tended to eat at the same few cheap places. As I'm tired of those places and interested in trying out some new stuff, I've done some research, but the notes have been scattered ( Read more... )

I just finished a list of cool free or cheap Bay Area stuff for another purpose, but then I thought I would post it here in my LJ, too, so that local folks might take advantage ... and maybe even suggest additional stuff so I can add it to the list!

( Free or Cheap Stuff in the Bay Area )

Shannon and I had planned a date tonight, intending to go to the Paramount, where they were showing Back to the Future.

Okay. Sidenote. What? The Paramount Theater is showing Back to the Future? Not North by Northwest? Not Casablanca? Not The Maltese Falcon? Not Citizen Kane? Not Singin' in the Rain? Not All About Eve? Not It Happened One Night? ( Read more... )

( Naked Dreams ... Not As Naughty As It Sounds )

Busy day today.

I started out with a pleasant (but hot) morning walk to The Vault to join the casual, constantly shifting gathering for wild_irises's milestone birthday. (She's one of my favoritest people in the entire world, so there's no way I would miss it.) She sent out an email saying she'd be there (at The Vault) all morning, and that folks should just ( Read more... )

Our garage now has a sheet rock ceiling, as well as a first coat of paint on the entire outside. A garage door guy is coming tomorrow morning to talk to me and give us a quote. It's so exciting! The end is nigh ( Read more... )

A couple channels I've watched recently (BBCA? AMC?) have had these little announcements about how they're so great because they have fewer commercials, but what they always say is that they have "limited commercials." And every time, I think, "As opposed to what? Those channels with *un*limited commercials? Commercials into infinity ( Read more... )