Last night I looked up what was the best rated 1$ place on Yelp for Mountain View and Palo Alto. It was a Vegan/Vegetarian place in Mountain View called Garden Fresh (Yelp). Steph and I went there for dinner and it was pretty tasty. We split some stuffed tofu, scallion pancakes, and mixed veggie noodles. The place was also nicely quaint. I’d like to order out of there, or go back again.
Last night I gave Steph her birthday present of a Paint Nite at Willow Street Pizza in Saratoga. I was doing it as a surprise, and she was guessing what it would be until she saw the canvases in the window of the restaurant. She really enjoyed it, but I’m not sure she liked the surprise aspect. The food and drink was good, and we both decided not to just paint the basic painting. The painting that was taught was more or less what you see below, but the trees in the background weren’t given the red leaves. I also added in a bit of a sun ray coming into what I made to be a clearing. Steph and I were doing really well compared to most of the rest of the class. I also noticed that there were 3 men and 27 women at the paint nite. The painting on the left is mine and the painting on the right is Steph’s.
Steph’s birthday was yesterday and she didn’t want to go out and do anything big, so we stayed in and had dinner at her place. I went to Oren’s Hummus to pick up some food, and got the vegetarian’s delight and a falafel wrap with some labane and hummus. I met her at her place when she got back from martial arts. The food was really tasty. She broke out some good sake and that surprisingly complimented the meal well. After eating we watched David play through some of a Far Cry spinoff game. It was over the top and hilarious.
Jeff took me to Yeah! Burger for dinner on Sunday since Leslie couldn’t join us. We did an order to go since I was planning on meeting up with Derick at 8pm and we only had an hour to get the food and get back. The meat and produce were really well documented for where they came from, and most of it was local farms. There was a chalkboard saying which farm each type of meat had come from. I really like that kind of food transparency. It is one of the philosophical things I’ve been working through. Jeff took great care of me throughout the week. I know he felt bad about having me come out there, but I think he had a relaxing time. I hope it is what he needed.
I hung out with Derick at Famous after picking up dinner with Jeff. I ate the Yeah! burger on the walk from Jeff’s place to Famous Pub. Derick and I talked about all sorts of stuff, mainly just catching up on life. I brought up some of the philosophical questions I have been struggling with lately. We had a few beers and split some fries with amazing toppings.
Friday night Jeff made a fantastic pizza. It was have pesto with mushroom and broccoli, and half pimento cheese with bacon. It was amazingly tasty. We played games until about midnight, then I stayed up working for a while on getting up the Beta to CloudBurst. The next day we didn’t do much besides watch the GT game and play video games. He introduced me to DOTA 2 and we lost pretty badly. I was absolutely terrible. We also played a lot more GTA V. We stayed up until about 2am playing the GTA V. Jeff made a delicious cauliflower casserole with bacon. I ate far to much of it. Sunday morning we did pretty much the same, playing GTA V and watching the Falcons game. We are planning to go to Taco Bell for dinner to get all sorts of Doritos tacos.
After helping Mom out this morning with loading the car with Good Will items and then mowing, Kim and I went out to lunch. We went down to The Commissary and it was tasty. I love their sauce and their deviled eggs. We talked about all sorts of things, and mostly relationships since that is the crazy part of the last month. I’m grateful to have such an amazing woman, and not to be caught up in all the drama that has been happening. Mom was nice enough to cover lunch for the two of us. When we got back I helped out with some more packing.
After the motorcycle class Adam, Tina, Amit, Jeremy, Steph, and I went to the Counter on California Ave. Steph and I got there first with Adam showing up just afterwards. Jeremy took another 10 minutes to get there, but Amit and Tina took somewhere between 45min to 1hour to show up. They stopped by Amit’s and got all cleaned up. It was soooo nice to be in the air conditioning and have some nice cold beverages after the day out in the sun with the Motorcycling gear on. I got the contradiction burger on spinach instead of the bun. It was delicious and I ate more than I should have. I didn’t feel too bad about it since I had had a long day and was pretty light for what I normally like to weigh.
On Friday I biked over to the San Antonio Shopping Center to get the boots for motorcycle riding class. I was able to get some cheap ones that were comfortable, along with a new set of sneakers. The old set of sneakers were falling apart and I could start to see my socks through the holes in the top of the shoe. They lasted a long time for $15 used shoes.
I met up with Steph outside of Milk Pail and we went inside for some tasty foods. We went back to my place after that and had some dinner of cheese and crackers with fruit.
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