TeamSD: Adventures of Lawyer Girl and Demian Man

Another excellent Valentine’s Day, if I do say so myself.  I’ve decided (and I think Demian has discovered) that Valentine’s Day really means “Shower-Siu-with-gifts-and-do-things-she-wants-to-do-that-you-wouldn’t-otherwise-do-in-a-million-years” Day.

V-Day actually started for me on Friday the 13th, with a delivery of beautiful roses and a choc-o-late box   I didn’t remember to take a picture at the office, so here is a crappy camera-phone picture of the roses after I’d brought them home:

The best thing about Valentine’s Day being on a Saturday is that I can get Demian to do a bunch of stuff haha.  First up on the agenda – drag Demian to “He’s Just Not That Into You.”  It made me giggle to myself when Demian asked the ticket lady: “We’ll take two tickets to see…’He’s Just Not That Into You’…*sigh*”  It was, as Demian will tell you, a pretty crappy movie, but one that I thoroughly enjoyed!  It was like watching “Sex and the City” – which is a terribly written, totally cliche kind of show, but riveting because women just eat this junk up.  I was pleasantly surprised by Justin Long’s performance, since usually I hate that guy…I’m a PC, dammit!  Basically, the movie was about how stupid girls are and how big a-holes men are.  Like I said – “Sex and the City.”

After the movie, we went to CostPlus to see if we could find some decorative throw pillows for the house.  Demian pretty much hated them all, so we left empty handed…(until today woohahaha)

For dinner, we went to The Village Pub, which has become our old standby for Valentine’s Day – since I didn’t want to punish Demian too much by forcing him to drive to the city.  A really great 4-course dinner overall – very refreshing lobster, golden beet, and blood orange salad, following by a Jerusalem artichoke soup (very truffle-y and smoky), with an entree of petrale sole (really perfectly cooked and seasoned) accompanied by seared hearts of palm and red grapefruit sabayon (love the tropical flavors), and rounded out by a cute little baked Alaska.  The Kabinett Riesling I had with dinner was also verrry tasty – just sweet enough and ice cold, which is the way I like it.  Very satisfying overall.  Obligatory restaurant picture!

So glad my hair is finally growing out…so much for quarter-life crisis haircuts.

Today was also very relaxing, and much more productive too.  Went to La Tartine for a little breakfast, then to the Nissan dealership to check out the Skyline import that Demian has been drooling over.  No no, don’t worry – we’re not going to buy it.  At least, I’m not going to buy it!  Then hit up Pier 1 Imports, where I did end up finding some very cute pillows to go with our couch in the “piano room”:

I’m still looking for some cute blue and white pillows to go into our entryway, on the rattan chairs there.  I found these perfect pillows online, but they’re $150 each, and there’s no freaking way I am spending that much money on a throw pillow…so the hunt is on.  Here’s the inspiration:

I’ve found a couple of inexpensive alternatives online, but it looks like they’re all temporarily out of stock…figures.  Ah well!  I’ll keep looking.

Since Demian had some sort of World of Warcraft thingie tonight at 7:30, we decided to stay home for dinner, so I made some chili – perfect rainy day food, if you ask me.   Cleaned up and then came upstairs to do some work, since this week will be pretty busy with me having to report for jury duty on Wednesday.  Hrmmm…I feel like there’s something else productive I did today but I can’t quite…OH CRAP, forgot the laundry in the dryer!

Gotta go!

I am so used to writing in bullet-point fashion at work that it’s starting to bleed over into my blogging.  A pretty jam-packed, but satisfying weekend:

• Tony and Jenn, good friends of ours from L.A., swung by for a quick visit.  Tony and I met at Hastings in Corporations, and he quickly became like a big brother to me.  Jenn is his awesome wife   Tony stayed with us Friday night after his tax conference concluded and we stayed up ’til 1 a.m. just chatting.  So nice to have him back in the Bay, even if only for a short time.  The next morning, we picked up Jenn from SFO and had some great dim sum at Hong Kong Flower Lounge.  Turns out 11 a.m. is primo dim sum time – no one’s there yet, and so we get first dibs on everything!

• Went to Gary Danko on Saturday for Mom’s (as in Demian’s mom) b-day.  Gary Danko is definitely our favorite restaurant in the city, so it was nice to be back.  I was the teensiest bit disappointed, since I didn’t think the food was as good as it’s been in the past – not sure if it was just the particular selections I made or if the chef was having an off night.  We’ll have to go back again, just to make sure hehe.

• Just got back from Michael’s, where we put our 55% off custom framing coupon to good use – I’m framing a couple of custom comic art pieces that Demian bought for me, which I’ll hang in my office.  I’ve decided that everyone at work is a big nerd like me anyway, so it won’t matter much that I have a bunch of comic art.  After all, my neighbor is a Trekkie heh.

• Just YouTube’d how to cook chorizo.  I have one more pizza crust to use, and Demian insisted that we have chorizo on our pizza this time.  I’m thinking pepperoni, chorizo, mushroom, and red onion pizza?

Off to Houston on Tuesday to defend my first deposition.  It’s going to be in the high 70s over there!  And probably as humid as a sauna…oh well!  I’m looking forward to next weekend – Valentine’s Day at The Village Pub (fav restaurant down HERE), “He’s Just Not That Into You” (woohahah – thank God for Hallmark holidays…Demian can’t refuse!), and a much-needed long weekend.

Well, better get started on that chorizo!