Friday:
-Kimmie’s bday - got her some cupcakes from Frosted Cakery & a polaroid-style picture frame set from Urban Outfitters. I hope she likes them.
-Hadn’t been home in two weeks, & I had ordered a bunch of stuff and they all happened to arrive while I was gone, so when I got home, there were 12 packages waiting for me, mostly stuff maintenance supplies for the Mini, but also some camera stuff ("new" wide angle lens, lens cleaning kit, & gorillapod). It totally felt like Christmas.
Saturday:
-Donated double red cells at Blood Centers of the Pacific in Fairfield. They wanted me to donate platelets, but that takes more than 2 hours. They say platelets are used for cancer patients and burn victims. I didn't plan on staying that long, so I said I'd do it next time.
-Met up with Jay & Owen afterwards, & had lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings. We also walked around the mall, and doing that with them is always interesting because of all the stuff they say they want to get, as if they can afford it. On that note, they're not going to the annual cousins Battle of the Bay game (A's vs Giants in Oakland), cause they say they can't afford the $30 tickets. But this weekend Jay wanted to watch Thor in IMAX 3D, which is about $20, an extra $12 off a normal Costco ticket price. So much for saving money, right?
-Stopped by the Costco in Green Valley to pick up some sweet potato fries to bring to Brentwood for the fight. Near the entrance, there was a family with a sign saying they needed food. So when I was inside Costco, I picked up a salad & a hot dog at the food court, and gave it to the family. Why not, it was less than $5 and I didn’t have to go out of my way or anything. They were really happy and it made me feel awesome.
-Tested out my "new" 24mm wide angle lens (it's actually 25+ years old). It’s pretty cool. Need to get ISO 800 film now. And a flash, cause I'm still having some lighting issues. Here are some of the pics I took:
Cyrus thizz face, road rage face, or he's dropping a huge deuce.
Jay smokin' some babies.
Cyrus admiring my new lens. "Oww, soo pretty.....I wanna touch" (twss)
Jacqueline and Crimson's "???" (umm, I don't know what to call it) face
Pre-fight grubbin at the dining table pic. Way too bright, I know, I know.....
Mid-fight group pic. Yup, now it's too dark (or the background is too bright, foreground too dark). I have to work on that. Oh, and blur at the bottom is Cyrus running around.
- Watched the Pacquiao / Mosley fight in Brentwood. Mosley's girlfriend is pretty hot. That was more or less the highlight of the fight. Note to all other fighters: don't push down Pacquiao, that'll just piss him off and make him punch you more and harder.
Sunday:
-Volunteered at the SF Food Bank. We sorted oranges. It was fun.
Yes, I'm wearing a Giants hat. I have an A's hat too, but I was in San Francisco, and they were playing that day, too, just a couple miles from where I was. So what? I'll wear the A's hat next time.
One Brick group pic. Photographer apparently didn't know how to work the zoom. Or step forward.
-Mother’s Day dinner at Auntie Minda’s house. We as a family have come up with this conclusion: family parties makes us all fat(ter).
For the most part, it was an unexpectedly awesome weekend.
