sweet, sweet saturdays...
Lastnight my friend Elana had a night free of hubby & the kids and so we got to hang out for awhile! I already had plans with Rick to hit a show later, so Elana & I met for dinner in the Marina (a good compromise location wise since she lives in Mill Valley) and ate at a really yummy Greek food restaurant called, Mezes. Her & David had actually gone on their honeymoon years back to Turkey & Greece - so she was really excited to eat some of the authentic food they loved and practically lived on during those weeks there. She's really excited to take David there now - and I'm excited to take Rick there, since he's the biggest lover of Turkish & Greek food, too!After dinner I picked up Rick and we hit a show at the Fillmore: Old 97's. I used to be a fan of theirs probably 10 years back, and Rick plays a lot of their stuff on guitar - so we thought it'd be fun to check em out.
We got right up front, which was awesome - since the last couple Fillmore shows we've been to have been really packed - or if we are up front, it gets so crazy or the moshpits break out so hard we soon end up back in our old comfy spot of off stage right (conveniently near the bar)
The first couple songs were fun, but I have to admit I got bored. That and this fan was blowing right on me - so I just wanted to move. I wanted Rick to stay up there & enjoy it though, as he was hoping to hear Time Bomb and wanted to be front row if they did play it.
I hung back, ran into the drummer from Replicator and chatted w/ him a bit about their Halloween show coming up at the Hemlock - and about my drumming (or lack thereof for practicing I should say).
Rick & I hung back and watched some of the encore songs and then called it a night.
After getting back to my house Rick made one of his super amazing grilled creations. You may remember my skillz in the area of sandwich making with melted cheese and all the fixins? Well, this is truly yet another area of how Rick & I are *made* for eachother because the man never ceases to amaze me in his late night melted heavenly creations!! :)
Lastnight he put in toast with mayo, grilled chicken strips (I had leftover from a salad), and then melted the cheese on that. mmmmm!!!
The other night he did sliced up (Claussin!) pickles under the cheese and THAT was amazing!
The best part is even though while he's making it and asking me if I want one, and I'm all "no, no I'm fine"... or the night of the pickle-melt creation I opted for only toast w/ butter... that he doesn't get mad and instead openly shares his yummy melted creation with me after I realize it's. so. incredibly. amazing. I. must. have. another. bite! :) he's such a good honey.
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So today Rick & I had planned to take a "creative day" together. Meaning, all the things we keep saying we're going to put time towards, today we're going to set aside a couple hours and DO THEM!!! So we lazed around this morning, and then had a TASTY breakfast at one of my favorite breakfast joints: Just for You - and then headed over to this cafe to work on our respective projects.
I even have another creative evening set up on Monday night over at my friend Rebecca's! I'm looking forward to getting in the swing of dedicating more time to my creative ventures (putting my illustrations on products, painting, etc) and see what comes of it.
Tonite it's movie night - we might hit the Parkway in the East Bay & then go over to Graham & Pat's show @ Cafe Van Kleef in Berkeley... but we'll see if we even get our arses over to the East Bay - funny how it seems like such a treck and it really doesn't take long to get over the bridge once we end up going.
Tomorrow I'll be working to get a head start on the week, but I'm feeling great. I'm soo happy in my life right now!!
