Labor Day Weekend Wrap-Up

This holiday kind of snuck up on me, so we hadn't made any big plans. Saturday my stepson had a little get together with some friends for a belated bday thing, so it was a bunch of 17 and 18 year-old boys in the house talking smack and playing Rock Band. I slipped out later in the evening for a game and wine night with some friends in Long beach--that was a lot of fun. We were originally supposed to play scrabble but there were too many people so we ended up playing Catchphrase instead, which is much better for a group (and more raucous). Didn't get home til after midnight, and that made me sleep in on Sunday. After a leisurely morning, Curtis and I met up with an old friend of mine for a pool party at 1pm, and then it was back to the house to meet up with a Yelp friend for dinner at Kappo Sui in Costa Mesa (good, but it didn't knock my socks off--plus, i was expecting more of an izakaya place, like Kappo Honda, and it really wasn't). I got to introduce her to Joe's Italian Ice--another convert!

This morning Curtis and I went for a long walk at the Back Bay in Newport Beach, and almost got into a fistfight with another motorist on the way down there. I was exiting from the 73 fwy at Irvine Ave, and didn't see this black mustang coming up really fast on my right. I'd looked over there a second before and didn't see him, so he must've been going pretty damn fast, or cut over from another lane or something. Anyway, we both had to swerve to avoid hitting each other, and he honked at me and did all this stuff, and then got in front of me and braked hard, just to be an asshole. So of course we're both getting off the fwy, and we're at the light, and Curtis is all pissed off, and we look over and it's this young-ish guy who's all acting like he's tough and shit, and Curtis takes off his seat belt and is totally ready to go over and there punch this guy out. I was really afraid he was going to do it! When the light turned green we made a right and he went straight and that was that, but man, I was really glad Curtis was there. This looked like the kind of jerk who wouldn't mind totally terrorizing a girl. With crisis averted, we had a pleasant walk and got back to the house by around 9:30am. I had all kinds of ambitious plans to do a lot of work on these paintings and stuff but didn't really do a whole lot. Instead, I took a nap in the backyard under the big umbrella and ended up knitting and watching the Star Trek TNG marathon all afternoon. Well, I think it was a holiday well spent--I feel relaxed and almost ready to go back to work, :P