Not sure what my body was telling me this day, but the message was clear: rest. May be it's the return to the gym, increased activity, et al...not sure. But my body shut down like it hadn't slept solidly in a long ass time.
And it was good. lol
Aside from passing out most of the day and having a West Wing Season 2 mini-marathon, we didn't do a whole lot of anything. Does cleaning out the fridge of leftovers count? I felt like Sam - The Cooking Guy who makes bomb ass stuff by throwing things together. The fridge got raided for pasta, leftover Chinese, BBQ and whatever else. Everything got tossed into the microwave en masse, thrown on the table and killed family style.
Truly a day of rest.
Over the past 2+ years of living in San Diego, there have been some pretty cool places I like to frequent and would recommend anyone to go and visit. Today we showed Neisha and Tony a couple of those spots and eateries.
First we headed off to Bibby's Crepe Cafe in La Jolla for some of the best crepes I've had. Thus far I've sampled crepes from about 6 different locations, and it will be interesting to see how they stand up to the real deal whenever I get around to going to France. That'll be around when the dollar isn't get it's ass beat by the Euro, like Oliver Twist begging for more. The savory crepes are incredible, but the sweet dessert crepes are ridiculously good. Save room, or try to split one with your table!
Then we headed to the La Jolla coves, which were uncharacteristically empty due to the inclimate weather. It was overcast and nipply, but it's still an awesome place to visit. Frankly I would recommend going there when the weather is shitty, to have a run of the place. There was a wedding underway when we showed up but, there weren't that many guests seated. Surrounding the guests was a pack of squirrels...at least 10 by our count. LOL! And the little buggers were BOLD! They would walk right up to the people seated and eye them, as if to say, "you in MY house". haha! We did the obligatory visit to the Children's Pool also. I thought it amusuing that all the seals were facing ass-first to the people watching. It looked like seal-talk for, kiss my ass.
After the Coves we headed for OB for a bit of BBQ. Yes, Ocean Beach has some of the BEST BBQ in San Diego. The restaurant is called the BBQ House on Newport Ave, about 1.5 blocks up from the beach. Get their pork sub in whatever bbq sauce you can handle, with a side of fries. You will not be disappointed.
Neisha and Tony stopped by for a bit of R&R. We all took advantage of the pool, which was BOMB! When I first moved into my place I thought it odd, how often the pool people would come by and tend the pool. They tended the pool and jacuzzi on a daily basis. The huge upside is, it's generally very very clean. The other benefit we discovered was that the HOA heats that sucker to almost bath water temperature!
The jacuzzi is also immaculately maintained. This time around there were some chatty folks in the jacuzzi. It was fun trying to think up a back story for them...haha! This older dude was hanging out with the younger married chick. Her husband we were told was away on business a lot. The dude turned out to be a marriage counselor...and we surmised he was making a house call. haha!
Afterwards we headed downtown to Visions, which was bumping! The DJ did a couple of reggae sets that made me hella happy. It was another fun affordable night downtown...mwhaha!
On a few occasions I've come across people who frequent the jacuzzi who are just either really bizarre or flat out rude. There was the older guy who insisted jacuzzi conversation should be light and fun, but then started in on us about if women should be in politics. On top of that he started in with this line of leading questions, trying to discern our political affiliations. The most common occurence are the people who just sit there and don't say anything. No hi, bye, acknowledgement or anything. They'll look me in my eye and pretend like I'm not there. Every now and then, I'll greet someone by the mailboxes and we'll chat it up and usually the conversation will turn to people who have NO social graces whatsoever. Predominately it seems the older folks are much more civil than the younger ones. No one is suggesting we all sit around dish out our life stories.
Tonight I worked out and did legs. I could've stopped at the weighted lunges, but no, silly me did the whole lower body circuit - in record time no less. And on top of that did 30 minutes of cardio. Yea I was hurting. So jacuzzi here I come! I go to the jacuzzi and there were a couple of towels hanging on the fence, but no people in the jacuzzi - how odd. And the jacuzzi was running to boot. I was praying to God there weren't body parts or something in the water - and there weren't any. So I'm lounging, and this couple comes down the path and I glance up at them and they both see me and we glance away. Then they round the corner, grab the towels and made it for the gate to the jacuzzi. I watched them open the gate and the dude was looking everywhere on the ground, but in my direction. The chick was looking all the in trees and about the sky, while feeling for the fence to not bump into it and not falling in the jacuzzi fully clothed. It was the most ridiculous thing I have EVER seen. So I sat there and didn't say a word to them, and they didn't say a word to me either.
What the fuck?
I think this is a sad indictment into declining social graces. Are people THAT out of touch with dealing with strangers that the only response is to act like people don't exist??
So they leave and I'm quite happy with that. I sit in there for another 15 minutes or so by myself and get up to towel off. Behind me this pasty old guy, quite frankly creepy looking, steathily opens the gate. I glance over at him to nod, and the man is wearing what can only described as a man-kini - the bottom part of the a bikini, worn by a man! And I am like, wtf is this shit!? I quickly make my exist. Last thing I need is an image of senior moose knuckle burned into my brain.