live to eat and read

More reading. This book is so good...well, I admit I have no idea what's going on in the plot right now, but at least I'm enjoying myself. The Man and I spent a lot of this weekend lying on the couches just reading and replacing our blood with tea. He seems to be enjoying the book on Steve Jobs I got him for his birthday, so that's happy. And we look up words we don't know together! Everybody all together now..."Awwww...bleaaaarghphooey."

I broke my Going to the Gym Daily Streak last week because I had crazy blisters/shoe wounds on my heels and couldn't bear to don sneakers and socks. Too bad so sad gonna get fat. I did go today, though, and watched a stupid Rihanna music video on the flat screens and decided her music and look have nothing to do with each other. Pseudo-goth + dance/hip-hop? Nope. And all her songs are the same.

Saw Tropic Thunder - laughed my pants, er, skirt off. I love Ben Stiller's characters - they're all over-muscled, ditzy males with an affinity for head bands. Comedy gold. Except the Focker ones, and Along Came Polly. But did you ever see Heavy Weights? Classic steroidal Stiller. And Disney, to boot.

Tried a new sushi place - awesome! And the tapas place down the street - awesomer! I'm eating the leftover salmon RIGHT NOW for lunch and love it. It wasn't exactly Las Ramblas though because of the loudmouth Russians sitting next to us who talked on a cell phone the whole time. Like, one cell phone, two people, talking to each other, to their caller, and ticking me off. But they did advertise flamenco events...I'll be there.

On to travel talk...I really want to visit Andrea but am trying to get my mom here to visit me and it's all too complicated. And the likely dates are bookended by important work events and I'd like to visit Pittsburgh to see my sister too (more to gawk at her living outside her natural environment)...what to do.