Yes, I was at Oktoberfest today. I was totally excited! I love a good Oktoberfest! But I also love a street fair with all the shopping… It was a win-win!

So anyhoo, I had this wild hair last year, and went with a friend I had at the time. Apparently the Oktoberfest in La Mesa is a very big deal out here. So this year I gathered up some of my Idol boys and THE Idol girl and we hit La Mesa like Paris, Nicole, and Britney out on the town! Okay, not really. First we had breakfast. But not all together. The breakfast part of our plan turned out to have guests that weren’t doing the ‘fest. But it was fantastic anyway. Now breakfast is NOT a social event for me, so even tho it was my idea, Richard did the prep. I just tried to wake up and look pretty. He did an amazing job. Then our Idol girl arrived with homemade banana bread. With no nuts. It was then that I knew that I loved her. *wink*

Then it was time to catch the public transportation to La Mesa! We parted ways with the party poopers not doing the ‘fest (after they dropped us off at the trolley station, sure it is only like 2 blocks away but, yanno.) We rode like 3 stops and then got stuck in what will forever be known as the mysterious ‘trolley traffic’ and it took like an hour to get there. It’s 5 miles away. We were at the fugly Grossmont Station forever. It was there that we realized how many trolley folk were actually headed to our same destination. We were afraid. I felt sooo bad since I had been ‘Julie Cruise Director’ on this one. And now, stuck at a sweaty dusty trolley stop for 30 minutes? Gah!

Eventually we arrived, hit a beer tent, and all was well. We met up with the rest of our Idol boys that were doing the ‘fest and the rest is on Flickr, yo. It was a blast!

I do love Oktober. Maybe I’ll do my Autumn Decor Home Tour soon.

tagged: san diego beer idol boys la mesa brats weenies oktober fest '07 oktober fest '07

daniel · evening · 1 comment · ping it

At Oktoberfest ‘07.

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daniel · early evening · say it · ping it

So anyway. I made it through the day. I was fine until our management meeting. I mean, we were warned that it would be a long one, but when they said ‘long’ I figured like an hour. Maybe an hour and a half tops. Well guess how long we sat there. Guess! Three hours!! Oh my freaking GAWD. I thought I was gonna DIE in there. Bad enough to be talked at so long, and my boss is a pretty good speaker. I wasn’t that lucky though. It was training broadcasts by non-actors. Can you say YAWN? I seriously was dozing off. In fact every time I looked up folks were looking at my smiling and mouthing something. It wasn’t till the end of the meeting that I realized the gal next to me was actually SLEEPING. It was that bad.

Other than that? Well. Not much going on. Sunday was the bowling thing for work. It was fun, and I really do like bowling… Sadly though, I do not have a sporty bone in my body and come of kind blase during a team activity. I was the team caption, and I actually think I might have brought down the team spirit. Sad. I just haven’t the slightest idea how to behave in that situation. I know I suck at bowling, and the whole yelling and gesturing thing after every throw (?) is just not me. So I clam up. Meh. I am clinging to the idea that I was fun and engaging at the table when I wasn’t up. Plus I bought beer. So that helps right?

At any rate, I totally want to go bowling more. Too bad that it is in a place riddled with naughty snacks and beer.

tagged: work sleep meeting bored beer sports snacks yawn bowling boring

daniel · late evening · 1 comment · ping it

Okay, so in this one Betty and I went on an adventure! I used my voice recorder so there ARE, as usual… quality issues. I think you’ll see hear that we had a very good time.

Mentioned: Betty, food, oxygen, beer, and there were llamas! not mentioned… but pictured at Betty’s!

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daniel · evening · 3 comments · ping it

So I’m at the grocery (day before Easter, bad idea, I know). There was this man there with his kid. He had him in one of those giant carts that has a little car thing on the front for the children to play in. First of all, hi, that thing barely fits down the aisle in the crowded store. Let alone turning it around…

Anyway, I felt really bad for the guy. This kid was a BRAT. An all caps BRAT! He was constantly reaching out, knocking crap over. Whenever the cart stopped he was trying to escape. The poor man was trying so hard to control him and get the shopping done, how could ya not feel for him?

So we finish in the store and are driving out of the lot when we see the man again. He was wheeling that cart to his car. I noticed that he had a case of beer. I said to Richard “With a kid like that he should’ve got two cases of beer.”

Okay, I guess you had to be there…

There was another guy calling his wife to let her know he'd be longer than he thought. He had lost his cart and had to start over. He was trying to tell her someone took it. Looser!

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daniel · early evening · 4 comments · ping it