Weekend!

Since the week was so stressful, I decided to spoil myself silly this weekend. Got to see some high school friends yesterday, which meant.... fooding!

( Food porn )

Then we headed down to my favorite coffee place ever (they roast their own beans), which is next to Bed Bath and Beyond. I splurged and bought myself a kitchen scale. And a little towel rack. And a new broom. Bed Bath and Beyond is difficult to resist. I also met one of my classmates' girlfriend for the first time, and it turns out she likes free food as much as me! My classmates stared at the both of us as we said things like, "But... free food! How could you not go?" Also, she likes food as much as me!

This is probably not a surprise, given that she likes free food as much as me, but it's always good to find another person who talks about food as much as me! I told her some of my favorite places around here, and she told me of a good ramen place in San Mateo that I haven't heard of. Obviously, I must go and report.

After which, I went to a co-worker's place for a barbeque and had even more lovely food there!

And then!!

( Farmers' market )

After I staggered out of the market with all my goodies, shelled, cooked and ate some peas, I proceeded to get more coffee at the favorite coffee store, have a little more lunch (to supplement the peas), and headed out to the Super Fancy Expensive Outdoor Mall so I could a) buy my third (3!) router (thank god, this one seems to work, hallelujah!), b) buy a salt cellar from the Store of Kitchen Porn (otherwise known as Sur La Table, although Williams-Sonoma also counts, as do other places), c) get a pedicure and d) sit in Borders and read Naruto.

For some reason, I can't for the life of me find a salt cellar with a flippy lid like the one Alton Brown uses.

But I did manage to get a working router (yay NetGear!) which is also really pretty because I'm shallow like that. And I got a pedicure, which I've never done before, so that was fun. Then, instead of going home, I wandered about with a hankering for seafood. Alas, the very New England-y seafood place was teeming, so I shall just have to go some other time to get raw oysters and deep-fried seafood, but I did manage to get a seat at the bar at Left Bank.

( More food porn )

It was such a lovely weekend! I just realized that I haven't felt this happy and this unstressed at home for a long, long time (WisCon doesn't count because I didn't have to worry about dirty dishes and such at WisCon). Next week I shall be responsible and fold laundry and cook and do dishes, but oh, I feel much better now.

Also, I have three volumes of Naruto to read!

In conclusion, I need to start making food as good as the restaurants so I can eat like this ALL THE TIME!

Hrm.....

So remember when I said I had the dorkiest rats ever?

Apparently I have the sneakiest rats ever.

The cage door sprung open while I was sleeping, but when I investigated, ratties were still curled up inside, all snuggly and asleep. But there were lots and lots and lots of crumbs by the door. I shrugged it off and figured that they'd somehow managed to chuck stuff out of the cage, which they do.

When I went over to feed them after work today, I discovered that the bag of rat food by their cage has quite a few holes chewed in it.

The sneaky rats crawled out, snuck lots of food, probably ate it right at the door, and then crawled back in to go to sleep!