My Weekend Catch-up Posts

Okay, since I've been delinquent for about two days, I'm gonna make up for it with some really funny moments:

The OC's grocery
Last Thursday, I immersed into one guilty pleasure: nourishing my obsessive-compulsive behavior. Since we were preparing for our Colorado meeting next week, we were busy putting together binders and materials. And yes you guess, I found the OC's heaven: a whole room of office supplies just for us - from paperclips, dividers, labels to binder folders. What more could I ask for? I logged in to avery.com and downloaded some templates for my labels so I just type and print them directly into the tabs and voila...labels for my dividers: neat and so cool! I also found this really cool three-hole puncher where I just slip in the papers and the machine takes care of the punching; perfect and no more pounding on top of the table. Haha, I know my pleasures are trivial nowadays, and yes, you must be gauging my naiveté. Oh go ahead, as long as I seal my day with an OC touch, I'll be fine =)

Skaterboi
On my way to work, I found myself seated beside one of those typical skater boys while waiting for my BART train. As usual, these guys are chatty, only that he quite scared me since he was too chatty and carefree for someone at the other end of what I'd call my usual conversation. And the MUNI reminder just kept repeating in my head: "Information gladly given but safety requires avoiding unnecessary conversation. He looked okay actually, but knowing this country, dangerous creatures more than usually look okay. He told me he skateboards his way throughout California - Berkeley and back. When I asked him if he does skateboarding everyday, I got an affirmative response. He's happy with his recent acquisition of a pair of shoes (which he proudly showed me along with that joke that he shared about the weird people riding Pittsburg-Baypoint...which I couldn't laugh at since I was too wary). He promised, more like to himself, that he's gonna get this particular brand of shoes someday (the brand I now couldn't remember). When we finally boarded the train (turned out we're both boarding the Richmond train), he was still analyzing if I was a psychiatrist or not (his guess was that I am not since I had a scarf (huh?)). Good thing that I didn't have to sit through his analysis because there were no adjacent vacant seats for two, so I found my own seat and he found his. When I finally got off at my station, he was already dozing off beside his seatmate that the latter had to step over to get off (another good thing). Other than that silent scare creeping into me, my heart went out for this guy. Poor thing, I wonder where skateboarding will take him from his last stop (and he does that everyday?).

Yey it's Friday!
I'm off early since I finished what I had to do as early as 4PM. Everyone in SF gets really crazy when the SF Giants play baseball. On my way back from work to my apartment on a Friday, all crowds lead to the AT&T stadium ( a few blocks from my apartment). They have "Giants" all over their shirts and have loads of goodies to last them the entire game. Well, I still don't feel like joining in. So I just did my grocery at Safeway (discovered another ready-to-eat meal for $1 each - I took 10 'cause they're on Safeway sale; bought 20 yoghurts of all sorts of imaginable flavors for 20/$10) and had a wonderful time talking to one of my apartment's receptionist, Nita, who's also a Filipina. Then had fun watching Animal Planet. There's the tribute for Mr. Crocodile who recently passed away (stabbed by a stingray, sigh) and the cutie daily diary on Meerkats Manor.


Saturday = Laundry
It usually takes about a little over four hours for my one-week laundry from the washing, rinsing, spinning, drying and de-wrinkling. Though I would say, it's such a breeze for working gals like me. The machine is perfect: you don't get wet at all; it's so easy to operate and hassle-free. In the four hours that my laundry was spinning through this morning, I was able to:
...watch an episode of the Dog Whisperer
...cook and eat my breakfast of bacon and egg with RICE-A-RONI, toasted bread with strawberry spread and orange juice
...prepare my ground-turkey-with-lettuce lunch
...watch half a movie of King Solomon's Mines and almost finished Merlin's Apprentice (courtesy of Hallmark)
...after everything else, maybe I'm gonna have a snack now =)