The Weekend Report

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I had so much fun this weekend!

(I am currently downloading covers like crazy over at audiography, which is the coolest thing ever. Found it on friendsfriends. It has themed weeks! I've discovered more new bands and artists in the past two weeks than I have all year! I adore it! Exclamation points!!)

Me and fannishly and Angela's friend E went to SF yesterday! E planned out the day very well, so we got to be faux hippie alternative indie girls in Haight-Ashbury, faux uptown snooty fancy brand name girls in Union Square and faux tourists (or, er, real tourists) in Fisherman's Wharf!

I would just like to say that I adore Haight-Ashbury. Adore. Must go back soon with more money! They have vintage stores! Vintage! I found an awesome, awesome fifties-style dress with crinoline and a circle skirt that goes halfway down my shins, and I love it to itty bitty pieces. But. The absolute best part was finding this little store selling Indian things, in which I picked up not just one, but two awesome skirts. I had to get both. One is for sort of everyday wear, but one is gorgeous and fancy and I'll only wear it once or twice in my life, but I don't care, it was too beautiful to let go.

And I love all the random stores and the crepe stores and I had a lemon butter sugar crepe and it was good.

This is a stupid question, but it has been plaguing me for a while. Is it pronounced "cr-ay-p" or "cr-eh-p"? Oh well. I'll just have to resign myself to sounding abysmally stupid everytime I try to say something in French.

We also saw a tossing of the bucket fight in a shoe store, which was not quite so fun and actually rather scary.

And then we headed over to Union Square, and I had tons of fun ogling over all the super expensive designer clothes that I would never wear. I'm so bad. I love going into stores like Chanel and Gucci and the like and pretending I'm really rich and brand-conscious or something. I bet all the salesladies hate me. But it's so interesting looking at the supremely strange designer fashions! Also, soft clothes. And I adore looking at shoes in Neiman Marcus, because they are gorgeous. I would never wear them, because it would kill my feet, but they are gorgeous anyhow. And Judith Leiber made a bejeweled Hello Kitty purse! I was amused.

Union Square area also has two Starbucks per block. Swear to god.

And then we went to Fisherman's Wharf, because we are tourists! Yay for being tourists! Alas, eating giant banana splits in Ghiardelli Square will have to wait. Angela has actually never had a banana split in her entire life *cue gasp* so I promised her I would eat one with her. Well, it's more along the lines of "OMG you have to eat one!!!!" on my side, because banana split! Self explanatory.

I love the bay. I love watching the sun set over Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge, and I don't care how touristy that is. I love California and being close to the ocean, and the gorgeous weather and the sun. Yeah, it was too hot for shopping, but the night was beautiful and cool and smelled of sea salt.

And there was the romantic sound of sea lions barking on the wharf. I love sea lions! They have such cute whiskery faces, and they look like giant tubes! Actualy, I think they look like my rats, because my rats sometimes lie down and turn into these funny boneless squishy flat rats, and that's exactly what the sea lions look like! Ok, maybe sea lions do not exactly resemble rats, but there is a similarity, I swear!

I apologize for the extreme exclamation-pointiness of this post, but I am happy and it was sunny and lalalalalala new clothes!

And then, the day was not even over! We went home and tried on new outfits and ooh-ed and aah-ed over each other (I love having a female roommate! I am so girly, wah). But then we both felt like dancing, so we checked out the new club that opened a few blocks away. It's a little dinky, as is most of my city (which I love to the bottom of my heart, and dinky isn't derogative for me... it's just the right size), but I don't care because it had no cover charge! And it actually had a fair amount of people inside. Music wasn't as good as the club in SF, but I got to dance! It was good. Except now my legs are killing me. Hopefully this will be a weekly thing, and it will be my exercise, haha.

Now I want more shiny tops so I can dance. And dark jeans.

Today was the A la Carte festival! I've been to it several times before (happens twice a year), but I've never had the time to walk down the entire thing and see every single booth. So I did this year. It was fun. My budget, already unhappy from the previous day's clothing purchases, is now even more unhappy. I don't care. I'm going to eat canned soup for a week to make up for it, because honestly, when else is one supposed to get hand-embroidered skirts and vintage clothes and hand-made jewelry and the like? Also, I reassure myself by saying that I am supporting local artists and indie stores.

But honestly, it was wonderful! I wore my pretty new Indian skirt out too! And everything there is hand-made -- leather and glass and jewelry and metallurgy and wow! I wish I had the time to learn all that! It's so amazing! And I saw about a billion booths that I have to remember to save up money for when the fair comes back in September, because there was one that sold the most exquisite jewelry. I mean, I wouldn't know how to wear them, almost, they were so gorgeous and such structures of art. I want this really expensive (but not as expensive as the others) pearl choker that's just beautiful with wire and all branchy looking. I'm jealous because fannishly got a really pretty green crystal and wire bracelet there and I covet desperately.

And then there was the ear cuffs booth, with gorgeous earcuffs (I love earcuffs, even though I don't wear them that often), and a booth with really beautifully simple swirly geometric earrings that I covet. And a booth with masks! I want masks. I covet jonquil's recently bought mask. I covet a lot of things! ^_^ There are just so many beautifully made things, it's so hard not to! And then there was this nifty table that folded up into a box that I wanted for mahjongg, and blown glass and beautiful black and white photography and everything. I ended up getting a pretty candle holder with mosaic glass over it and two necklaces to give away.

And I had funnel cake! I love funnel cake! It is the best thing ever! (aside from all the other foods that are also the Best Thing Ever) It was made in a cast-iron skillet, and there was so much powdered sugar on it that my black shirt got spotted, and it was delicious and crunchy and golden brown and chewy. I think the only thing better than funnel cake is Indian fry bread, because I've only had it once, eight years ago, and I still remember how good it was. Alas, stupid me, I missed the Pow Wow this year and my chance to get fry bread.

I love fair food. I'm just sad that I had to budget more so I couldn't get kettle corn and roast corn. I love street food so much! I miss Taiwan street food and fair food as well! They used to have this spun sugar candy that looked like cocoons called Dragon Whisker candy, and this sort of honey malt that people would pour on griddles in the shape of animals and make into lollipops. And I miss Japanese street fair food (which is too expensive for street fair food), especially this little fish cake made of egg batter with this absolutely wonderful black vinegar sauce on top. And takoyaki, of course! I wish I had a corndog too, because that just seems fitting. Maybe next time.

Then we made what seems to be our weekly venture to Borders, in which I sat and read the first two volumes of Saiyuki. Everyone who has been pimping this is evil. Also, telophase has been drawing such gorgeous pictures of the guys in there that I was curious. And now I am sad because I've forgotten pretty much everything about Journey to the West that I used to know, because it used to be one of my favorite stories that I read a lot. And now, I can't remember any of it, and this greatly saddens me. I have to dig it up again from the library so I can figure out what Minekura is doing with it, because I know she's doing things with it, and it irritates me because I can't tell!

And now, I post.

(well, that, and voraciously download covers)

ETA: I am just now rereading what I posted, and I am very embarrassed at how many exclamation points there are. Er. I was very happy. Look, I am avoiding them (albeit with great difficulty). I actually wanted to punctuate the previous two sentences with exclamation points as well. Anyhow, this is a warning that the exclamatory quotient of this post is extremely high. (exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There. That almost satisfied me, after writing six sentences without any! Neener!)

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