3 posts tagged “target”
It's crazy times right now. Lots happening. After the surprise birthday party last week, we were somehow more manic this week.
On Thursday, Jess and I got out of work early, went to see WALL-E and had dinner together. Afterwards, we met co-workers at a bar as it was the day of Laura's birthday. They had been there since they got out of work, so we were by far the most sober people there. Until Lindsay's Doug showed up. Poor guy. We ducked out of there early.
I... can't actually remember what we did during the day on Friday. I do know we got lunch and did a bunch of shopping at Target, but other than that, I think we bummed around. At 7pm, we met up with Laura with a mini-picnic then went to the harbour. Lindsay and Doug met us there and we all sat on the waterfront to have our picnic. Eric and Mitchell showed up shortly after, just in time to watch all the fireworks going off along the lake.
We dumped shit off at home, then went to a nearby bar for a couple of drinks.
On Saturday, we had a ton of errands to run. We paid our economic stimulus cheque into our bank account, went through the pre-approval process at AT&T (ahead of the iPhone 3G release on Friday!), then Jess went to the dentist while I took a faulty item back to Target. We were going to go to a barbeque, but after having a long nap, we just went to our favourite Mexican place and chilled out.
Today, we went for lunch and did more shopping. We needed more sporty clothing as we've been asked to fill in on my office softball team. Yes, me, playing sport. I know, right? Anyway, we got all of that stuff, got it home then got ready for our first softball practice. There were only a handful of people there, but we got a good go of it. Neither of us was as bad as we expected - I connected with the ball a lot, and wasn't a total washout at catching. Bowling (sorry, pitching), however, was another matter.
This week is going to continue the activity. We're taking tomorrow off as we have a lot of chores to do. We have Wolf Parade on... Tuesday? I can't remember. I need to listen to their new CD more. Hopefully this means we get to see The Josie after what seems like forever. Thursday is the Big Kahuna - my green card interview. After aeons, it's finally a reality. Jess is currently wading through a file of paperwork the size of Alaska so we're ready. Then Friday is possibly iPhone day, if they have enough in stock.
Busy busy busy.
On an unrelated note, one of my favourite albums of last year - Heresy & The Hotel Choir by Maritime - came with a bonus 7" featuring two songs. One of those songs was called 'Boy From School', and was pretty awesome...
It turns out, it was a cover of a Hot Chip song...
Which was also covered by Portastatic...
Oh Monday. Monday is the stray dog sniffing your butt crack as you wake up passed out on your doorstep after a heavy night of drinking. Monday is a teenage boy having sex - it comes too soon and is always disappointing and awkward. Monday is generally repulsive.
We had a good weekend, but like every other weekend, it just doesn't last long enough.
On Saturday, we got up super-early and headed out to pick up a rental car from the nearby Hertz. We got a beast of an SUV - the sort of thing NASA uses to transport rockets to the launch pad - and drove it back to our place to load it up with a desk for Josie and a ton of stuff for the thrift store.
The car had one of those little navigation computers in it (well, being an older model, the small display unit was connected to a giant black box in the glove compartment) but we very quickly discovered it sucked: somehow it lost track of where we were on a major freeway. Never a good sign. Eventually we made it to Josie's and waited till she got home to give her our desk.
From there, we bundled down the road to IKEA to pick out and pick up a new desk, lamps and other little odds and sods we needed. We spent a fair amount, but we had saved money for this occasion, so it wasn't too bad.
With the car loaded up, we then went to lunch at a place called Claim Jumper. Apparently, it is a chain from California. The food wasn't bad - my burger wasn't the best I'd had, but it was still tasty; and the baked potato I chose to go with it was dee-lish-uss.
I can't remember the sequence of the afternoon, but we went to a mall and a Target to do some shopping (Jess and I had Target vouchers, and had a list of things we wanted for the cats and the house, too). After that, we dropped people off and drove back into the city - first taking things to the thrift store as planned, then unloading our own crap before taking the car back.
Sunday was just as manic. Jess got up early to return the car keys, then we started the laundry off and I got to work on putting together the desk. I'm happy putting IKEA stuff together, it's usually only when things require more than two hands that I need help. With that and the laundry done, we got lunch, I went to pick up a cable and looking at mobile phones, then we had a lazy afternoon.
I'm pretty tired right now... and it's going to be a busy week with seeing Josh's band, turning 28, staying late Friday to launch this site (I fixed the last two bugs today!) and the rest. Eek. Pencil me in for a weekend of sleep ASAP, please.
ME THREE!
Jess came home on Wednesday. We both got paid on Thursday. On Friday, we decided to go out for dinner and a movie.
We went to a new restaurant just over the road from where we live called Forno Diablo. It was great - we both had tasty chicken-based dishes, mine washed down with a Martini, Jess' with a beer. Then we went to see the brilliant No Country For Old Men starring Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones. I won't spoil it but it was a good man-film (I don't think Jess was overly fond of it).
Yesterday morning, we woke up at Dawn's crack, collected a rental car from up the road then went to IKEA. We had an awful lot to get - a new desk chair as our current one was dying, a new dresser for Jess (we had bought two matching ones but Jess' broke while being put together), some kitchenware and decorations for Christmas.
From there, we went over to see Josie and Buster at Josie and Josh's place - we hadn't seen it before, and we hadn't seen Buster since he got his cast off. He is one crazy little pup, but ever so cute... even when he was biting/trying to hump my feet.
We then drove to see Josh at work and do some shopping at Target. We got a Christmas tree, various Christmas-y things, Jess got a dress and I got Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action for the Xbox 360. With it being holiday season, I thought a four player film trivia game would be fun. Jess and I road tested it last night and it was enjoyable.
When Josh finished work, the four of us went for food at Chilis, dropped Josie off at work then Jess and I headed back to the city. It was a long old journey as traffic was horrible. After unloading the car and taking it back to the rental place, we had a quiet night of video games and wine.
Today was just as busy. We took the car keys back to the rental place, grabbed breakfast then came home where Jess did laundry while I put together the desk chair and dresser - Jess helping when I put together the drawers as you need two pairs of hands. We dumped Jess' old dresser downstairs, brought our laundry back up and Jess has been sorting her clothes.
Now we just have to put up the Christmas tree.
And nap. Hell yes do I need a nap.
