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Feb. 8th, 2004 03:34 pmLots of errands got run this morning. We hit SuperCuts first so Dean could get his hair cut, and I came very close to matricide. Not my mother, of course, but the two mothers of two small children that were literally running all around the shop, including the haircutting area, shrieking at top volume. It was so bad I had to get up and go outside at one point to keep from tripping one of the little monsters or bitchslapping their mothers. I can handle energetic children. Wild kids trying to trip the hairstylists? Um. No. We escaped that eventually though and hit a new place in town called Matilda's. For those of you in the area, it's on 896 where Ground Round used to be, right next to the McDonalds. It's about Outbackish priced, but -far- more personal and everyone was excessively friendly. I half expected the owner's mother to come out of the kitchen and ask how we liked our food. As it was, the other (-very- Australian gentleman) spent lots of time visiting with the customers and generally being congenial. It's a touch pricey, but I definitely want to go back. I had a big mesclun salad with strips of flank steak and a few grilled shrimp, and it was absolutely heavenly. And of course, the big test of any restaurant for me...the iced tea was beautiful. ;)
Then we hit Best Buy. Dean got a game called 'Postal'.
Yeah, I didn't think I needed to say any more about that. ;) I broke down and got the Evanescence CD. We hit the mall after that and wandered about, and I scored a tiny vial of tea tree oil, mainly because...um...it smells pretty. I don't have much of a better reason. I'm a sap, yeah.
All in all it's been a really good weekend. The car is still futzing, and at this point I've taken it in enough times that I'm checking the lemon laws. We're even pondering trading the damn thing in for a smaller, more fuel-efficient beast. We'll see what happens. Dean's likely going to take it in this time and maybe speak with a manager. The problems are only getting worse, and now the gear shifting nastiness is happening even when it's a touch warmer out, and even after the car has warmed up.
Day brightening moment: the hostess at that Matilda's place went past us at one point, then backed up, gave us a grin and said, "You guys look like really fun people." Granted, I've got on tie-dye, and dean's got on his 'Why be merely difficult when you can be impossible?' shirt, so maybe we look a little eclectic, but it was a -neat- compliment. :)
Then we hit Best Buy. Dean got a game called 'Postal'.
Yeah, I didn't think I needed to say any more about that. ;) I broke down and got the Evanescence CD. We hit the mall after that and wandered about, and I scored a tiny vial of tea tree oil, mainly because...um...it smells pretty. I don't have much of a better reason. I'm a sap, yeah.
All in all it's been a really good weekend. The car is still futzing, and at this point I've taken it in enough times that I'm checking the lemon laws. We're even pondering trading the damn thing in for a smaller, more fuel-efficient beast. We'll see what happens. Dean's likely going to take it in this time and maybe speak with a manager. The problems are only getting worse, and now the gear shifting nastiness is happening even when it's a touch warmer out, and even after the car has warmed up.
Day brightening moment: the hostess at that Matilda's place went past us at one point, then backed up, gave us a grin and said, "You guys look like really fun people." Granted, I've got on tie-dye, and dean's got on his 'Why be merely difficult when you can be impossible?' shirt, so maybe we look a little eclectic, but it was a -neat- compliment. :)
