This past weekend was really interesting and super fun! On Friday, John & I were hoping to go to karaoke, but nobody else wanted to go so we stayed in.
Saturday was a really busy day. I got up early, drove to Chinatown, took a Dash bus to Spring Street and walked to City Hall for the Civil Rights Rally to Repeal Prop 8 and demand equality for ALL people.
The mayor was awesome. He flew in from the fires to speak to us. He had an amazing speech, as did many of the speakers that were there that day. Over 10,000 people showed up for this rally. Sadly, it was supposed to be one couple’s wedding day, but they were stripped of their right to marry on Nov 4th.
So many wonderful couples, happy to be together, but sad to be 2nd class citizens. We marched… we marched for equality, we marched to represent civil rights for all people.
There were many straight people, like me, marching… marching to support our brothers and sisters, marching for freedom and marching to fight discrimination!
I met up with Mel at the beginning of the march. She had an awesome “Jesus Says Relax” sign! We walked from City Hall, down to 4th Street, went South one block, then walked all the way into Chinatown, ending at Philippe’s (where Mel & I decided to have lunch). I love Philippe’s. They have 9cent coffee and a yummy cheese sandwich. I love their mac/salad too! The odd thing is, I got a chocolate cream pie, but it tasted like whiskey; so, I decided not to eat it.
After lunch, Mel & I walked back to my car, stopping for some shopping along the way. She got a kick-ass cheesy-awesome Obama bag and we both got sexy new boots.
On Saturday night, John & I went to the Towers for his and Greg’s birthday party. We played a long rotating-player game of Loaded Questions and while others played Rock Band. I tried Rock Band when the last drummer got up, and I ended up playing Cherub Rock. I sucked! It was a quick fail, but Adam got me back in the game. By the end of the song, I started to get the feel of it. Still, I looked pretty spastic I’m sure!
The party was super fun. We left around 2am and passed out pretty quickly once we got home. On Sunday, we slept in a bit, then I spent the afternoon sorting through files and cleaning up. At night, I went over to Elysia’s to watch TV and hang out. I helped her with some chores and relaxed while we ate sugary foods til I got a headache. Once home, I edited some pix, then went to bed.
Today, work went by quickly. I have to go in a little early tomorrow to finish up a project. Unfortunately, I spent the entire evening making cupcakes that came out awful. I followed a recipe I found online, and it was just terrible. I ruined all 60 cupcakes. John & David were working on writing, and they enjoyed the crappy cupcakes… which I decided tasted more like muffins than cupcakes. They were super greasy too… ugh! At least they liked em. Personally, I feel awful that I won’t have cupcakes to take to trivia tomorrow night. I always make cupcakes for people’s birthdays. Now, I won’t have cupcakes for my own boyfriend’s birthday. 🙁 Kinda sucks. I’m going to bed now.
Nov 18 2008