a nice weekend...
Friday-day rocked - pretty much went as planned & all went well. Friday night Jane & Sarah came over and we all watched Frida. We'd been wanting to see it - and I'm glad I finally did. Matt was right when he'd said he thought some of the accents were pretty bad - which made some of the acting bad, too. But, I enjoyed the art history aspect of it - as well as the motion graphics and symbolism throughout. Salma is beautiful, huh? Oy! Sadly her & Edward have broken up? Did you hear? And *gasp* he's already dating someone new! Ok - enough of that.
Saturday I worked all day on a freelance deal I've been trying to wrap up for way too long now. But I'm psyched cuz I made GREAT progress yesterday and it was quite fun at the same time. Animating bunnies, birds and squirrels :) not such a tough job, eh? It's fun (but time consuming!). Around 5 I took a break to sit out on my deck & enjoy the last of the beautiful day (but a tad too breezy for laying out much to Jane & I's dismay as that had been the original plans for the day). I read a little of the book I'm reading, The Corrections.
After a little more work, I made myself some dinner and sat down to watch Talk to Her: A foreign flick that was well worth watching - I recommend it. I really liked the characters... the acting was excellent and I liked how it ended.
By 10pm I showered & got ready to meet my friend (another new music buddy!) Kristin out for birthday drinkies in North Beach. The biggest relief being that I was finally getting out of the house for the day! Besides grabbing my morning coffee anyway. It was great to see her and meet some of her friends... whom, Kristin included, are total athletes! They race (mountain bikes) and train all the time. Her sister, Lisa, is visiting - and she's on the pro-snowboarding circuit! Cool, huh!? I, being a long-time snowboarder myself, loved talking to her about that - and may do a business card illustration for her of her on her board, too... which would be sweet. She's a TOTAL sweetheart, very humble and non-threatening, too... which was refreshing after growing up with some fairly pretentious snowboarders in Steamboat. Her coach even joined us - who's living out here doing conditioning/training for the Raiders now.
This morning I went for a wonderful hike up the hill and then went downtown to check out The Sounds play at Virgin! They were great. Live they sound just like they do on the radio or their album, which doesn't always happen - and I can't really decide if that's a good or bad thing... just is.
I did a little shopping and I had an absolute blast! I haven't gone shopping in along time and was psyched to actually find a few things I fell in love with. However, with all that shopping I did, I still need to go to Origins & go buy a new bikini!!
