Buffy

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Hey I saw Sarah Michelle Geller at Target today. Neat.

I only realize Vancouver people are rude when...

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Travelling makes me realize that Vancouver is a very tough town. I the first day or so of being in Austin, Caro and I have had conversations with random people while we've been out and about. And I had some great little chats with people in shops and restaurants in San Francisco. Mostly about being from Vancouver, whatever is in the shop, the weather...you get the picture.

But if that happens in Vancouver, you get treated as if you're a crazy person with hair on fire begging for money for crack. Get away! Get away! I'm just as bad too. When someone talks to me, I wonder what they want and how I can get away. Must change my ways.

What I wanna do in Austin

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This is already looking like an ambitious list:

Have at least one Pearl Light every day.

Eat ribs.

Two words: patio time.

Target & Sephora.

Waterslides!

Hit the gym while Caro knits her head off.

Go see Fever Pitch - I hope it's at the Alamo.

I need an intervention

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Semi-raining Sunday

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It's OK for me to sit around all day in PJs painting my nails, playing Bejewelled, watching Sex and the City DVDs and shopping on eBay while eating cinnamon toast and drinking Diet Pepsi right?

Responding to shopping habits

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One thing I noticed and mentioned to Craig when we were in SF was that there were lots of chain and mall stores located on neighborhood shopping streets. Stores like MAC, Benefit, Sur La Table and a few American chain stores that I didn't recognize but saw in a few locations. Turns out it's part of a strategy for getting people away from malls and get them thinking that they're shopping in neighborhoods and supporting the local community and economy. Smart.

I'm not the only one who noticed.

We don't have much of this in Vancouver. Yet. There is Park Royal village but it's pretty mall-like. When I see a little Gap or MAC store on Main Street, then I'll know Vancouver is a significant enough market to support an 'undercover mall'.

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One neat thing about Tivo is that I can scan through 2 weeks of the movies that are going to be shown on TV. I get a kick out of this feature cause there are a surprising amount of good (and horrendous) films shown on TV and how else would you know about what on and when? A couple of things I've noticed:

80s teen movies are always on. Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Less Than Zero, Pretty In Pink...you get the picture. You won't have to wait more than a few days before some station shows one of them another time.

TV is where bad comedies go to die. I just scanned through and in the next 14 days Little Nicky, Krippendorf's Tribe, MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate and Major League: Back to the Minors are just a few of the horrible movies that get air time. It's stunning how many unmemorable crappy movies are on TV.

Although the classics get shown, there just aren't enough of them. I just watched Gentlemen Prefer Blondes a couple of days ago. I'd never seen it, even though I know the Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend number thanks to Madonna. When are they going to show some Audrey Hepburn movies? They're never on.

I've also had The Big Lebowski in my wishlist since last September. It has yet to be broadcast. Sucks.

Shopping Adventure: San Francisco

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If I had known SF was such great shopping, I would have been there sooner! And we should have made the trip sooner to visit friends anyway. So many trips, so little time.

I was floored by the consignment stores in SF. It seems like everyone there buys fab clothes, wears them once then sells them. Goodie for me, because the first store I checked out on Sacramento Street had a great pair of Manolo Blahniks. (My first pair of Blahniks!! Cheaper than eBay and waaaay cheaper than getting them at Holts.) I couldn't leave them there now could I? And to go with the shoes, I got a cheapie pedicure. So while the boys had a nap due to our super early flight, I had already shopped and had my toes done. Weee!

Later, off to the SFMOMA. There's so much to see that I can totally understand how people would justify having memberships there. I'd go often. My favorite installation was a little round room with tvs inside showing the moving views from revolving restaurants. Was cool, but got dizzy and had to leave. Oh, and the shop there was pretty cool. Lots of design-y finds.

Friday, I was in shopping heaven. Visited Filmore Street - full of boutiques and interesting looking cafes. You could spend all day in the 5 blocks we were in...get your nails done, do a little shopping, have some lunch and then find an outfit for later in the evening. How perfect. Picked up a pair of AG Angel jeans at another great consignment store and also got a Marimekko umbrella. It came in handy that day.

Then off to Berkeley. We stopped at 4th Street. Found a Sur La Table store, which I only thought was in Seattle and beelined for the glitter spatulas. Pink!

We ate at a super tasty taqueria while we waited out the rain. Then on to the Cheese Board. I have never experienced anything like this cheese shop. I bought a goat chesse (the smoothest ever) and some brie (the richest ever) and a baguette. Came in handy for the traffic jam on the way back to our hotel.



Saturday was spent at a wedding. The church and reception venue were really unusual in that they were dark places but seemed really inviting. (The church had a fireplace in it) All the touches were very thoughtful and the whole afternoon and evening was lots of fun. And yes, I shopped there too. The village where ther reception was had a fantasic consignment store - bought an amazing pair of red slingbacks and a cute pink H&M sweater. Everything wound up a little early so on the way home, we went out for chinese food on Clement Street which is supposed to be the new Chinatown in SF. We went to a place that had 'Numbing Noodles' and 'Fire! Burst! Mongolian Beef' on the menu. It was just a wee bit spicy!

Sunday was the day we left. Did a bunch of touristing and had a good time. Drove down Lombard Street, walked Chinatown and Little Italy and went to Coit Tower.

So we did the touristy, went to a lovely wedding and shopped. What more could a girl ask for?

Daylight Saving

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K - even though it's raining and not even warm, it's so cool that it's still light out at 7pm. Can't wait until it's actually nice enough to enjoy the late light.

This is a strike against living in Queensland cause they don't do daylight saving at all. Imagine living in the sub-tropics and never being able to enjoy a super late sunset when it's nice and warm out. Ohhhh, I get it now. I still don't want to live somewhere where it's never going to be light out till 10pm.

Vegetarian delights

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What the heck did I do this week?

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Not much but lots...one of those weeks that flew by without me even noticing.

Went back to spinning class after an 8 month hiatus. My butt hurt the first couple of times - thank god for the gel seat tho.

I spent 3 days tiling at Jason's place. After the tiling, we went and picked up some extra stuff at Ikea, Home Depot and Homesense. His living room looked amazing by the time we were done yesterday.

I think I'm turning into Debbie Travis cause Justin and I headed out to Park Royal Village for housey stuff for him.

I only realized yesterday that I have a case study due tomorrow for a class. I banged it out in about 2 hours. Thanks SFU, for my ability to BS a paper in a short amount of time.