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I already
posted yesterday about my Friday, my Saturday, and my Sunday—yesterday was a work holiday, so now all I have left to catch you up on is Monday. And I did two things, both of them with Laney, one of them with Shobhit as well.
The first one is tricky, in terms of Social Review points. Much like we had done with
28 Days Later and
28 Weeks Later on Saturday, instead of Laney coming over to watch in the Braeburn Condos theater, we simply coordinated viewing in our respective locations, and texted through the movie. This time we watched
M3GAN. Laney is still getting over a cold that turned out to be pretty bad over the past week; she was really run down on Saturday and not up for going out. She wanted to keep our plan for Happy Hour last night, though, but was not up for going out to two different places—she was feeling better, but still run down, she said; she took a cold medicine that she knew would give her some energy for a couple of hours. I'll get back to that.
Anyway, I decided not to watch the movie in the theater downstairs this time. I figured Shobhit would enjoy
M3GAN, and I was very much right. I had to sign up for a one-week trial of Starz through YouTube in order to see the movie without paying for it, and for the first time ever, I figured out how to log into the YouTube app on the Xfinity box, which allowed me to watch the movie via YouTube on the TV. As we had done with the movies on Saturday, I got on the phone with Laney briefly and we started playing on the count of three. We then texted, quite a bit, as the movie played. She told me later she enjoyed it a lot more than she was expecting to. Even I found the second half to be even campier—and thus funnier—than I remembered.
So, Laney clearly gets a Social Review point for this. But Shobhit? I would almost say this, except that I never give Shobhit a Social Review point for something we do at home, unless we have a guest over. Otherwise I might as well just give him a Social Review point for any time we happen to watch a movie or TV show at home together, which makes little sense. Had Laney come over, this would meant a Social Review point for him. But she did not, and I was the only one interacting with her over text during the movie. Shobhit never did. So: no Social Review point for him for this.
Not that it matters. Shobhit and I went for a walk shortly after noon, to the north end of Broadway and back, and also browsed a few stores on Broadway. He's dying to buy a kilt. I haven't brought up how many times over the years I have posted about how dumb I have historically thought utilikilts are—I don't want to "yuck his yum." If he likes them, then he should get one. I'd sooner walk down the street in a two-piece string bikini than wear one myself, but you know, tastes vary. Anyway, all that is beside the point here: I
do give Shobhit a Social Review point when we go for a walk. So, he still gets a Social Review point for yesterday anyway.
Anyway! Shobhit made his own dinner yesterday because I was going out, and while he was chopping vegetables in the kitchen shortly after the movie ended, I heard him giggling to himself. I said, "Are you laughing about the movie or something else?" He said, "The movie." This was a pretty good indicator of how much he enjoyed it. Laney and I plan to see the sequel,
M3GAN 2.0, on June 30. If Shobhit's available I think now he might actually want to come. With that in mind we might actually want to move it to Tuesday July 1 just so we can get the discount Tuesday ticket price, but this depends on whether he actually joins us or not.
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So, not long after the movie finished—maybe forty minutes—I walked down to Broadway on Pine to meet with Laney, and do our first in-person social outing since we saw
Things Like This (a
not very good movie) on Tuesday last week. We actually sat next to each other unmasked at that movie, but so far at least, it doesn't seem she gave me whatever she had. I only recently fully recovered from the cold I had the week after my Birth Week myself; I was mostly recovered from it after a week but had this faint echo of it still detectable for a good two weeks after. It was only by the end of last week that I was truly feeling full normal again, even though I felt
really close to normal for a week or two.
Anyway, Laney and I then walked the rest of the way, about four blocks, down to Pine and Summit, where we went to the new rooftop bar
Cantina del Sol. Laney, Shobhit and I all went to this same space under its previous ownership in September 2021, when it was called
Patio Cielo, above what was then called Mercado Luna. The restaurant space on the ground floor still isn't reopened; Laney said she heard that will happen in three or four months.
Here's the disappointing part. Cantina del Sol is so new, they have no Happy Hour at all. Their regular prices are a bit too much, but hey, they have to do what they have to do to stay in business on Capitol Hill I guess. They didn't even open until 5:00. I had a nachos dish for $15 and a margarita for $14.50. With tax and tip my total for just those two things came to $39.07. Normally I have two cocktails but that's also normally with Happy Hour prices; without that, a second coctail would have taken my total above $50. I liked coming in under budget at $39 much better.
I will say the nachos were very tasy. Laney also really liked the quesadillas she ordered. That said, we also agreed that our dishes were Happy Hour portions, but not Happy Hour prices. We really like the ambiance up there though, especially the new couch seating we sat in, so we'll be happy to go back one day. Hopefully when they actually have a Happy Hour. We were just so excited to see this new place opening as a rooftop bar, even though we'd already been to the actual space once before, we actually did some rearranging of our schedule to make it so we went here now. Well, Laney's cold was also a factor. At first we were going to walk down to Rainier Square for the Happy Hour at Fonté Bar and play ping pong at the tables on their terrace. But Laney had no energy for that; we rescheduled it for later this summer.
We didn't even stay longer than a couple of hours. It was nearly 7:00 when Laney said she was winding down. I was fully good with leaving anyway—neither of us had ordered anything more, and by that point we were basically just loitering anyway. At least it wasn't super busy so we weren't preventing anyone from grabbing any seats.
I walked home, and Shobhit was gone, at his first major rehearsal for a stage reading of a play he'll be doing next month. I was in bed before he got home. Although it took me a while to get to sleep thanks to some asshole playing really loud and awful music on the street below our windows. It's only at times like this that I fantasize about owning a gun. I had to shut the window just to cut the noise even a little. People with their blaring speakers in public places they have no business blaring them—on trains, on the street at 11 p.m. wherever—this happens a lot these days and they can all fuck right off. Have none of them heard of headphones?
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[posted 12:36pm]
