Weekend report.
Took off from work early on Friday to meet 
texmorgan at the Inner Harbor. We got caught up over coffee, then wandered about for a bit before meeting Julian for dinner at Edo Sushi. The Harbor Roll is pretty good there-- tempura shrimp, pine nuts, spicy crabmeat. Good stuff. We then proceeded back to my place, where the three of us watched Resident Evil: Apocalypse, talked bellydance, oohed over shinies, and I gave Julian his late gift of ninja socks. Plus, there was good ice cream-- I highly recommend Häagen-Dazs's Aztec Chocolate... yummy cinnamon chocolate goodness. After Julian left, Tex and I watched more zombies and got in some cuddling. In fact, I managed to see all three Resident Evil films this weekend, and I have a few notes on the third installment, Extinction: The only thing this movie had going for it was Milla's kick-ass outfit of ultimate badassery. Aside from that? No. This thing was just bad. With the suddenly running/climbing zombies wearing conveniently matching jumpsuits, Olivera dying, Johnny Cage dying, the plotholes you could drive a tanker through, Ali Larter's complete inability to act, the usual horror tropes, and random airbrushing of the divine Ms. Milla J's face... I call re-do.
Saturday, I got up for class, and noted with some pride that I'm finally doing the Suhaila squat presses with a flat back as intended, and my glutes are getting stronger. I also got called on to demo chest circles, which made me very happy, as I had real problems with chest circles as a newbie. It's so odd... some movements you get on the first try, and others take months to get in your body. This was one of my problem areas, and I'm excited that there's definite improvement. Next things to improve include: walking shimmy & walking taxim. I also need to build up more shoulder endurance.
Met up with Nora after class to size her ear cuffs and extend her belt with carnelians. Chilled out more with Tex after that. I'd told people to show up for dinner around 6, and I intended to take a shower around 5, but Tex pulled me back down and we fell asleep on the couch, him sitting up, and me curled up on his lap. This is how Sarah found us when she knocked on the door at 6... I had big sleep lines on my face from his jacket, and his hair was sticking straight up. I managed to shower and put on some pesto pasta, with a side salad of romaine, walnuts, tomatoes, and cranberry walnut vinaigrette. Chris saved the day by picking up ingredients for cookies, and Agnes/aggiebell defied the integrity of my brie and ate it on panne. We watched Hairspray and Tex made cookies of ultimate ultimateness, of which there is now one left out of approximately three dozen.
Slept in like lazy people on Sunday, after going to bed nearing 4am. I made hippie breakfast, and Tex wrote his Rabbit Hole Day post about me turning into a zombie. We met up with Ariel and trekked down to Tribal Cafe, where we met up with Abby/tamnonlinear, Ruthanne/leimon_malakoi, and Greg/gsh to see Kallisti Tribal, Asharah, and Belladonna perform. Abby told a very funny anecdote about horseshoe crabs that totally broke Greg. But there was good dancing and ubiquitous shiny, and that was good.
Overall, I got a good amount of Tex time and friend time, with a bonus of a big heated male body pillow to warm my bed at night. Win!
I did get some sad news this morning. Chad Kardell, a college acquaintance and choir-mate, passed away last Thursday.
Now, to get through my day. I am very sleepy and wishing I were still in bed snuggling my manpillow.
texmorgan at the Inner Harbor. We got caught up over coffee, then wandered about for a bit before meeting Julian for dinner at Edo Sushi. The Harbor Roll is pretty good there-- tempura shrimp, pine nuts, spicy crabmeat. Good stuff. We then proceeded back to my place, where the three of us watched Resident Evil: Apocalypse, talked bellydance, oohed over shinies, and I gave Julian his late gift of ninja socks. Plus, there was good ice cream-- I highly recommend Häagen-Dazs's Aztec Chocolate... yummy cinnamon chocolate goodness. After Julian left, Tex and I watched more zombies and got in some cuddling. In fact, I managed to see all three Resident Evil films this weekend, and I have a few notes on the third installment, Extinction: The only thing this movie had going for it was Milla's kick-ass outfit of ultimate badassery. Aside from that? No. This thing was just bad. With the suddenly running/climbing zombies wearing conveniently matching jumpsuits, Olivera dying, Johnny Cage dying, the plotholes you could drive a tanker through, Ali Larter's complete inability to act, the usual horror tropes, and random airbrushing of the divine Ms. Milla J's face... I call re-do.Saturday, I got up for class, and noted with some pride that I'm finally doing the Suhaila squat presses with a flat back as intended, and my glutes are getting stronger. I also got called on to demo chest circles, which made me very happy, as I had real problems with chest circles as a newbie. It's so odd... some movements you get on the first try, and others take months to get in your body. This was one of my problem areas, and I'm excited that there's definite improvement. Next things to improve include: walking shimmy & walking taxim. I also need to build up more shoulder endurance.
Met up with Nora after class to size her ear cuffs and extend her belt with carnelians. Chilled out more with Tex after that. I'd told people to show up for dinner around 6, and I intended to take a shower around 5, but Tex pulled me back down and we fell asleep on the couch, him sitting up, and me curled up on his lap. This is how Sarah found us when she knocked on the door at 6... I had big sleep lines on my face from his jacket, and his hair was sticking straight up. I managed to shower and put on some pesto pasta, with a side salad of romaine, walnuts, tomatoes, and cranberry walnut vinaigrette. Chris saved the day by picking up ingredients for cookies, and Agnes/
aggiebell defied the integrity of my brie and ate it on panne. We watched Hairspray and Tex made cookies of ultimate ultimateness, of which there is now one left out of approximately three dozen.Slept in like lazy people on Sunday, after going to bed nearing 4am. I made hippie breakfast, and Tex wrote his Rabbit Hole Day post about me turning into a zombie. We met up with Ariel and trekked down to Tribal Cafe, where we met up with Abby/
tamnonlinear, Ruthanne/leimon_malakoi, and Greg/gsh to see Kallisti Tribal, Asharah, and Belladonna perform. Abby told a very funny anecdote about horseshoe crabs that totally broke Greg. But there was good dancing and ubiquitous shiny, and that was good. Overall, I got a good amount of Tex time and friend time, with a bonus of a big heated male body pillow to warm my bed at night. Win!
I did get some sad news this morning. Chad Kardell, a college acquaintance and choir-mate, passed away last Thursday.
Now, to get through my day. I am very sleepy and wishing I were still in bed snuggling my manpillow.