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So, let’s move on to Friday: I need to be briefer.

Let's see. Got up and out early.

1. went to beaver street wall (that's what the pic is showing in the last post) to see if we could loosen the stuck cam with MacGyver type tools and ideas (clothes hangers, guitar strings…) we tried really hard, but the rock beat us.
2. went to best buy to purchase a new phone (we had a coupon). Our old workhorse ATT phone that I have had since before college finally just up and died. Dave and I were both very sad as we were strangely attached to this phone. Other people found it ugly. It probably was. But you know what? It worked. And it worked REALLY well. *sigh* our new phone is kind of sleek looking and very light and has a built in answering machine so we had to change our message. That was also sad. We’ve had the same message for a REALLY long time. I tell you, change is hard. Ok. I am not being brief. Okay – onwards…
3. went to sports basement to use gift certificate from figgy’s parents and get some clothes. Dave did super well and got a lot of new shorts and shirts. This back to school shopping for dave thing has been going shockingly well! I also found a couple of workout things and got to grab a bunch more packs of sharkies - http://www.sharkiesinc.com - even dave likes them. A lot. Tasty sharkies.
4. shopping makes us SO tired. And hungry. Ugh. We decide to try to go by rainbow to pick up a few quick things. Ugh! The line is around the corner - forget it!
5. Dave is REALLY getting hungry now, and we all know what that means. The clock is ticking. So, we decide to go by Lovejoy's Tea Room (http://www.lovejoystearoom.com) to see if we can just walk in without a reservation. Arwen almost forgets how to get there, but we find it. And a parking space! And it’s not too crowded! Yay! We walk right in to a pretty little table and place setting by a side window. Dave seems pleased. Yay! This is a VERY long-coming b’day present I had promised him (to take him out to a nice high tea somewhere) and as we all know, sometimes it’s just hard to find the time. So Dave finally got his high tea. :) and seemed to have a very nice time. We had the house tea blend and a black current blend as well as scones and mini-sandwiches and salad and little tea cookies and a petits four. We must take our families here. We also checked out their funny little tea store across the street and took a couple blends home.
6. Now we are both tired from our calming respite, but there is so much to do! So much to see! We stop by Valencia Cyclery to pick up tubes for Mr. Speedy (who, once again, looks and rides beautifully!)
7. Since we are in the area and have our stuff, we haul ourselves over to the climb gym. We are tired and unsure of how this will go, but we manage to stay for about 2 hours and do some top-roping. Did all new routes, which was fun, except for the fact that the route-setter on two of them was clearly an insane person who wanted to fuck around with our heads, by making them super weird and un-balancey... Ok. We persevere. Now we are sweaty and ready to go.
8. Stop by REI because 2 times in one week is not enough. Check to see if they have put any more shoes out in the used gear preview pile. They have! A lot! Our excitement makes enough of a scene that REI employees are coming by to watch in sheer awe…how many pairs will dave get? How is it that almost all the shoes are his size, no matter what the size tag actually says?? Was it meant to be? As I am camped out (literally – I’m next to a pup tent) on the floor inspecting all the shoes dave is throwing at me with a childlike abandon generally reserved for all things expensively musical, we are finally able to do the tally. I think dave came home with 8 pairs that night and I got a pair of hiking boots. All told, we figure that we got $1,300 worth of awesome shoes for just about $300. Dave will not need shoes for YEARS. He has waterproof hiking boots, normal day hiking shoes, regular sneakers, another pair of climb shoes, keen hikers, keen normal day shoes, waterproof amphibian shoes, waterproof sandals, loafers (that’s right big dave – your son can now run around the house in spandex bike shorts and LOAFERS – if I leave him soon, you will at least understand why. ;) ok. Anyway…REI is the best.
9. Stop by San Francisco Public Library to return the “After the Fall” play since I did not get cast in it…
10. ok. We are starving. We are fading. No one in the car can make any decisions because of all the shoes in the way….what do we do?!??!?! Oh! There is a parking space right in front of California Pizza Kitchen. Ok. It’s weird, but dave and I both really like CPK. I don’t know why exactly. It’s kinda wrong. But we do and we went and got all of our favorite things – PLUS – they have LAVA FLOWS!!!! Like we drank in Kauaii! We decided to go for it and be girl drink drunks. (although we only had one each cause they are SO sweet.) it felt like vacation – eating out at the end of a long day and feeling like we deserved it. Lovely. :)

Wow. I was not brief. To be continued….