framed
After I walked home from work yesterday, and Shobhit got home from work after stopping at the Capitol Hill library, he picked me up at our building and we drove down to park at Pike & Broadway (the upper lot by Bartell Drugs) and then went to Frame Central on that corner. I ordered a new pane of glass for the framed drawing Faith gave us ages ago but got home with shattered glass; now I'll actually be able to hang it on the wall. And, I ordered the custom framing for the digital piece I made as a gift for Uncle David and Mary Ann—actually, I did purchase a standard 12 x 16" frame, in which the guy will mount the image with matting. He said he'd have it done in a week, and to my mild shock, I got a call this morning that it was already ready to be picked up. Well, that was easy!
I was able to purchase a $100 voucher for $42 on Groupon, so I saved myself $58. I still had to spend an additional $48 or so beyond that, so I spent a total of $89. Without the Groupon, though, it would have been $147. A 39% discount for the entire order is hardly anything to complain about.
The guy we spoke to was kind of fascinating. He looked to be in his forties, and had several tattoos. Nothing especially unusual about that, but I also noticed he had his fingernails polished. Even this isn't that weird in Seattle or on Capitol Hill, although it's typically seen on younger people. I realized after getting a closer look that he clearly hadn't done them himself: this was a professional job, a manicure. They even had subtle designs on them. I asked him how much that had cost and he said about $35, which I found to be reasonable. Now I'm considering whether to do this myself one of these days. I stopped paining my own nails more than two decades ago because it's just a pain in the ass. Remarkably, it somehow never occurred to me to have it done professionally. That said, with my nails typically rather long, a particularly dark color (this guy's were black) would make for a lot starker appearance. I'd want something more subtle. Or maybe my nails look fine just the way they are.
We drove home and last night we made our own separate dinners, because I felt like having a veggie hot dog. Shobhit used what little there still was left of Tuesday night's tomato soup and added his own veggie hot dog, sliced, with rice and chopped onion. It was probably pretty tasty. I just stuck with my hot dog, though. I was up 0.1 lbs this morning, clearly because I slipped yesterday at work and did a bit of grazing on a bunch of samples that got set out: part of a croissant; a tiny little yogurt cup; a few tortilla chips. Just a little each time, but that shit adds up, obviously. It's still really good that I've cut my lunch portions in half (and find myself just as satisfied by them, incidentally) so I'm still calling this a win. I'm doing no snacking at all whatsoever today at work, as Shobhit and I are going to Total Wine & More this evening for a wine & chocolate tasting.
We watched a few more episodes of Cheers. I feel like we'll burn through this season fairly quickly since it's the 11th and final season. I read about some of the unusually fun things they did as the series drew to a close so I'm kind of looking forward to that. There sure were a lot of exterior shots actually filmed on location in Boston for this season. I wonder if they did a whole bunch of them meant for the whole season all at once?
Already we've seen a couple sequences shot by the fence outside the entrance that was a stand-in for the Cheers entrance in Boston. There is a bar there, as I recall, but it was called something besides "Cheers." (I guess they have since renamed it "Cheers", in 2002.) It still has a sign designating the landmark, and I was there once, with Gabriel and Suzy. I showed Shobhit the picture. March, 2000. Twenty years ago! It does feel like a lifetime ago, that trip. I was still of the mind that he and Suzy would always be together (hahaha!), and Gabriel was working at the Boston Zoo.
[posted 12:17 pm]