my own worst enemy

The Key to a 2,000-mile Relationship

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

or "Investing in produce"

Two weekends ago my super-awesome girlfriend came out to the City of Angels for some good ol' quality time. Which was a good thing, seeing as how it had been 7 weeks since our last weekend together. Granted, she was planning on coming out here sooner, but that's a story for another post. So get off my back, already!

We decided to start the weekend off right as soon as she landed, so we headed straight to the bar for 2-for-1 pints. Awesome! And I bet you thought I was going to say something naughty. Sicko. This is a child-friendly blog.

I finally got fed up with my old laptop that weekend, so I decided to go looking for a new one with Ginger. Sure, it might not sound like something a long distance girlfriend would want to do on her first visit ini 7 weeks, but Ginger's not your average girlfriend and I didn't tell you all the details. I've been interested in Macs for a while and Ginger's a huge fan of Macs, so who better to take with me? Long story short, I bought a MacBook and left Microsoft out in the gutter to rot. Take that, Bill Gates! Well, technically, I still have to use it at work and everywhere else, but at home I'm free! FREE!! (Okay, so sometimes I still miss XP, but I'm sure it'll pass, right? Time heals all?) Afterwards, Ginger finds a pair of earrings that look uber-hot with her new dress she brought along. She didn't want to buy them because they cost as much as a steak dinner, so I told her I would buy her a steak dinner if she wanted to get them. She couldn't resist the lure of a free steak.





Ginger's sufficiently excited now, so we jump in the car and drive up to the Ventura County Fair to see Big Bad Voodoo Daddy in concert! Plus, we're at the fair so there's delicious food EVERYWHERE! Oh man, I love fair food. Italian & Polish sausages, funnel cakes, roasted corn on the cob, the list never ends! Ginger and I get a funnel cake and devour it before the show. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy takes the stage and rocks the joint. Ginger and I get up and do a little swing dancing -- which was more like spinning around in circles there for a bit, but we got better with a little practice. Needless to say, I need to take some lessons. Oh, the pictures above are Gingersnaps (left) and Ginger snaps (right). Her idea, not mine (surprisingly).



Sunday we head down to the beach where Ginger catches some rays while I catch some waves. The waves were pretty big and I actually got wrecked -- one wave pushed me face-first into the ocean floor giving me a nice bloody lip. Now, I've never heard of any shark attacks in the South Bay, but I wasn't going to risk bleeding in the Pacific. Later I cooked up a nice juicy steak for my girl like I promised. Good times, all around.

Next installment: "Teach your parents well"

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