| The Phillys? Are they a baseball team or something? |
[Oct. 21st, 2008|09:27 am] |
So I flew back East to Philadelphia for a super short trip to visit my older Brother [1]. It was his birthday and we spent the time wandering around on bicycles, shopping, picking up presents for him, provisions for a party Friday and generally hanging around.
Highlights:
- Sam's Morning Glory - I'm pretty sure I had an extended foodgasm from the Monkey French Toast. [2]
- Manayunk - To pick up this print as one of his birthday presents.
- Daffy's - Excellent overstock store, think Nordstrom rack. I picked up a nice new Merino wool sweater for $30.
- Chinatown - To pick up a birthday cake.
- Ikea - Things for Macaire's apartment. Since the new building owners repainted, tiled and carpeted his place is looking pretty swank.
- Picture hanging (FAIL) - I think his walls are made of paper-mâché. Sorry about the hole in your wall. :-(
- Party - Rock Band 2 with the really nice drums [3]. Lots of people, lots of socializing, lots of video game playing.
- Happily Ever After - A super nice toy store. Very friendly owners and some incredibly neat things.
- Touscher Chocolates - Veeeery nice Swiss chocolates.
All in all a very successful visit.
[1] I landed Thursday morning and left Saturday afternoon.
[2] Challah French Toast with mango and banana's and caramel sauce.
[3] And a 108" projection screen, and $300 dollars of downloaded songs. |
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| Sing Sing Sing! |
[Oct. 5th, 2007|02:32 pm] |
On Tuesday I went out to a Swing dance lesson with T. T has been dancing for a little over a decade and (obviously) enjoys it greatly. I on the other hand have never been a dancer. Partially this is because I used to be very overweight. Now that I'm at a more normal weight I still have body image 'issues' that have never made me very interested in doing that sort of group activity.
T has been interested (but not obnoxiously so) in me learning to dance for most of that time. I recently decided I might theoretically be interested in that sort of tom-foolery and before I knew it we were enrolled in a five week class. It was the beginners 6 count Swing class nearby in Capitol Hill.
I'm not uncoordinated (though I'll never be an Olympic gymnast), so I didn't have too much trouble doing the basics. I did decide that I enjoyed it. With the disclaimer that while it was fun, it wasn't my kind of fun (yet). Time will tell. |
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