When last we left our intrepid heroes, they were planning on a visit to Porter’s City Tavern on Friday night. We did indeed go (a party of eight, eventually) and the food was excellent. And reasonably-priced, too. I’d like to go back, though a few of our group mentioned tummy troubles afterwards. Odd – not sure if it was directly related, but still, not a happy thing. I had a duck lasagna with caramelized onions and spinach and goat cheese that was simply fabulous, and the chocolate-espresso crème brulee for dessert was excellent. It didn’t hurt that we all agreed that the owner, who was working the dining room most efficiently, was a complete babe. He had the most artfully-mussed hair, very cute.

Anyway. On Saturday, we had friends over for gaming and burgers, which was lots of fun. I was tired all evening so didn’t really join in the games, but it looked like folks were having a good time, so it’s all good. On Sunday we stopped by wildmouse‘s and she introduced us to the joy of Product (in the Queer Eye sense of the word). From there we went over to Crabtree Valley Mall and went on a small shopping spree. We picked up a nice facial scrub, a daily facial wash, facial toner, and moisturizer from The Body Shop, as well as a clay facial mask and a peppermint clay mask for the feet (heavenly!), then replenished our supply of shaving lotion at Bath Junkie – a mixture of forest pine and forest rain scents in this one, to replace the eye-watering eucalyptus one we first got (I still like that one, but it’s a bit strong for takaza). We also stopped by the gelato joint ad I officially put in my two-weeks’ notice. Yeah, I wimped out and cast it in terms of needing more time to find a job, but to be fair the owner was dealing with a couple of other crises and that just wasn’t the time to bring up some of the complaints I have. Maybe I’ll bring them up after I leave, I don’t know.

Yesterday was the one and only day I’m working this week – 6.5 hours of retail fun. Given that the bottom fell out of the temperatures yesterday (it barely made it up to 45 F, after having been in the 60’s), it was understandably slow. Still, with days like that, I can’t see that she’ll be keeping the doors open much longer.

So, we have the rest of the week. I’ll be spending more time on job-related stuff, and looking into what possibilities are available through the various temp agencies. It sucks, but it might just pay the bills. We’ll see what I can dig up.