Condensed
Wednesday – Worked; Best Buy (Purchased TV); Cleaned
Thursday – Cooked; Dinner w/John, Dad & Grandma; Played Tetris
Friday – Relaxed, Walked on Brand; John – New Frames; Mall; Santa Monica w/Lyse & Anne; Jump Peter’s Car; Blockbuster; Men at Work; S’Mores
Saturday – HDTV Delivery; Downtown LA w/John, Lyse & Anne; Chinatown w/John; Saw Australia in Burbank; Dinner at Home; Relaxed; Karaoke in Hollywood
Sunday – Slept In; Cable HD Hook-Up; Mitsubishi Contest; Edited Pix; Bolt at El Capitan
The Whole Story
Wednesday – After work, went to Best Buy to get dad a birthday gift card. Ended up buying a 46″ LCD Samsung 1080p 120hz HDTV that John & I have been wanting for a while. They had 3 year no interest payment plans in place. Hooray!
Headed to Albertsons to buy Thanksgiving foods and ingredients, then home to clean the apartment. After cleaning, just chilled and watched TV, edited pix, relaxed.
Thursday – Woke up pretty early, worked on the apartment some more, relaxed for a bit, then started cooking. Dad and Gram came over around 2:30pm with turkey, gravy, rolls, pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce. I made yams with shmellows, green bean casserole, and vegetarian stuffing. John made fancy mac/cheese with havarti and guyere.
We had dinner at 5pm, then played Tetris Party on the Wii. Taught my grandma how to play too. She never excelled, but she started to catch on. She’s 93, so I’ll give her a break! My dad really enjoyed Tetris. We then had pie. I got a Key Lime for my dad and John (who don’t eat pumpkin). I LOVE Key Lime, so I had some too!
After dessert, dad and gram left. John & I just relaxed on the couch, roaming around online and watching random TV.
Friday – John & I walked up Brand Blvd, looking out for a place to fill his glasses perscription. We found one, and they had some good sales! He got some sexy thin black frames! They’ll be ready in 10 days.
After that, we walked to the Galleria in search of an iSkin for my ipod. Apple didn’t have any. Boo! First, though, we had lunch at Sbarro. It was tolerable and I was starving. Once home, we rested a bit; then, I headed over to Lyse’s to pick up her and Anne. We went to the Santa Monica Promenade to have dinner at the Tudor House. We finished a pot of Vanilla tea and had some yummy dinner pies! We then walked around the Promenade for a bit before heading back to the valley.
We picked up some s’mores supplies and headed to Lyse’s. John came over to join us. We had to jump Peter’s car (battery died twice) nearby, so we all went for a ride to the parking lot of Tony’s Italian. Then to Blockbuster to find a movie. They had a buy 5 movies for $20; so, Lyse got Men at Work and some others. We made microwave s’mores and watched Men at Work once back at her place. 🙂 I love that movie!
Saturday – Best Buy’s delivery people came at 6:45am, way too freakin’ early! Glad I heard my cell phone! They didn’t even want to set up the TV, but we told them they had to (since I was promised that). They barely took it out of the box and plugged it in before they were out the door! Ugh!
The picture was awful, there were wavy lines and buzzing coming from the TV. We decided to go back to bed and deal with it later. Once awake, we got ready and headed to Chinatown, where John & I hopped on a Dash to the Jewelry District. Lyse & Anne met up with us there. Lyse got KC a present and I bought myself an awesomely beautiful silver ring for $20. They had to resize it for me, but that was included in the price. My ring finger is a 4.75 (pretty small). Most rings they had were a 6 and above.
After a bit, Lyse & Anne headed out to meet Bobby for lunch. John & I walked down Broadway in search of new shoes for him. We found a great pair for a great price, then headed to Chinatown for lunch. We had $4.95 lunch specials at the famous Hop Louie! It was pretty good, considering I don’t like Chinese food. Unfortunately, we ran out of time to shop and had to rush home to put the left-overs away before meeting up with Lyse, Anne and KC to see Austraila at the Burbank AMC 8. It was fantastic! Very long, but very very good!
Once home, we had left over Thanksgiving food, then tried to set up the TV. It was a disaster. I was so mad at Best Buy for abandoning the TV on us without setting it up! We tried to troubleshoot the problems, but had no luck. We decided to wait for Charter Cable to see what they could do on Sunday. Later in the night, John’s friend came for our old TV, but she didn’t bring strong men with her. There was no way she was getting that heavy sucker out of there; so, we told her to come back on Sunday with some big men. John & I spent some time relaxing. I did some editing of Greg & Katy’s wedding pix for a bit. Later in the night, we headed to Koji’s in Hollywood for Karaoke. Nick, Paul, Lillian, Danielle, Kyle, Heath, KC and Lyse were there. We got there around midnight. KC bought em a Lotus Blossom drink. It was quite yummy! Lyse & I sang 18 & Life by Skid Row, then I did Toad’s Whatever I Fear a bit later. John did Superman’s Dead by Our Lady Peace. We closed the bar at 2am, then headed home to get some sleep.
Sunday – Slept in til 11:30am, when the Cable Guy called. He put in the HD box, but couldn’t resolve the issue with the lines and humming sound. He called a supervisor to come out, but that supervisor never showed up. I called Charter to find out what was up. They said someone would be here in 20 to 30 min. Nobody showed up. I called back, they said the ticket had been closed, but they would reopen it and send someone out in 20 to 30 min! Ugh!! I was going to scream! Finally, two Charter reps showed up, put in a new box, changed the cable out, changed the splitter, and got the TV working perfectly! Thank god!
After they left, John & I went to Mitsubishi to try out the key he got in the mail. Sadly, we didn’t win a new car. His key got almost all the way in the Galant, but it didn’t turn. Boo! We were given a voucher for a 2gig mp3 player with a $10 shipping charge. We probably won’t be sending that in… Once home, we watched Lord of the Rings – Two Towers on HD. Beautiful! We also surfed the web and edited pix while watching. We had our Chinese food left-overs for dinner, then headed to Lyse’s after the Simpsons (which was quite awful).
Picked up Lyse, drove down the 101 to Gower (Hollywood was closed due to the Santa Parade). We went to see Bolt in Disney Digital 3-D at El Capitan, stopping by Koji’s to get Nick. Vanessa was there! Bolt was freakin’ hilarious! I loved it! We all really enjoyed it! I want to own this. It was so cute and funny!!
The movie ended pretty late. I took Nick home, then took Lyse home. John & I got home just before 1am. I passed out immediately. What an awesome weekend!
Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!!!!