If you asked me my favorite place I'd probably say Santa Cruz, Jackie likes it too and we go there often, I'd live there if I could, but we usually drive down early and drive home late. Jackie's schedule allowed us a long weekend around our wedding anniversary, so I found a place to stay and we tried to blend in. We stayed two nights, very relaxing not to have to drive home after being there all day. This place is billed as the 'Swanky West Side Studio By The Beach'. A bunch of artists live in the main part of the house, the place has fine art objects instead of the usual household stuff, and the yard has a sort of arrested decay garden party arrangement of antiques and vintage furniture, even an arbor with an old tub and a table with a sea lion skeleton. I can't find the pictures.
I mentioned we went up to stay with Jackie's Mom, that's always interesting and fun, Jackie took her Mom shopping, she needed to put together an outfit for Andrea's wedding that was coming up in August. I think it's really important for a Mom to have a daughter at those times. Somebody has to help out Mom make those decisions on pants tops and shoes, even go into the dressing room, and who knows better than her daughter ? I don't go shopping very much, hardly at all, almost never. it makes me nervous. Even going into Safeway can bring on a panic attack, even though I have my Just4U thing all figgered out ahead of time, MyList and everything, I forget something, sometimes it's the very thing I went in for, or I miss a great deal, like 2 for 1 Nathan's hotdogs for $5.00 and I'll just buy the one pack.
So I hate shopping so Jackie never takes me, but I like fashion and she goes with me to the shows at the De Young. We saw the Oscar de la Renta show twice, the first time I got a visual migraine as soon as we stepped in, so we went again. The show was open through the Memorial Day weekend. For some reason both of us had a lot of appointments in May, crowding things in before the start of summer I guess, the school year continued into June anyway and then Jackie participated in an program given by the Academy of Science for science teachers, challenging them to look at problems differently. They had a really good field trip about water, the ocean, acidity and all that and went to Hog Island Oyster Company on Tomales Bay and she brought back some and I had to admit they might have been the best oysters I ever had.
If you asked me my favorite place I'd probably say Santa Cruz, Jackie likes it too and we go there often, I'd live there if I could, but we usually drive down early and drive home late. Jackie's schedule allowed us a long weekend around our wedding anniversary, so I found a place to stay and we tried to blend in. We stayed two nights, very relaxing not to have to drive home after being there all day. This place is billed as the 'Swanky West Side Studio By The Beach'. A bunch of artists live in the main part of the house, the place has fine art objects instead of the usual household stuff, and the yard has a sort of arrested decay garden party arrangement of antiques and vintage furniture, even an arbor with an old tub and a table with a sea lion skeleton. I can't find the pictures.
So I hate shopping so Jackie never takes me, but I like fashion and she goes with me to the shows at the De Young. We saw the Oscar de la Renta show twice, the first time I got a visual migraine as soon as we stepped in, so we went again. The show was open through the Memorial Day weekend. For some reason both of us had a lot of appointments in May, crowding things in before the start of summer I guess, the school year continued into June anyway and then Jackie participated in an program given by the Academy of Science for science teachers, challenging them to look at problems differently. They had a really good field trip about water, the ocean, acidity and all that and went to Hog Island Oyster Company on Tomales Bay and she brought back some and I had to admit they might have been the best oysters I ever had.
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