Yes folks, it's time for me to (temporarily) break away from the reminscent blog, and fill you, loyal follower, in on what's going on in my life! This shouldn't be too exciting, but there were a few points of interest that were funny! :)
Joe and I didn't get together today, as we got together yesterday, after he spent the day in wonderful Ripon (hehe) and needed to get out of the house.
After a brief conversation in which we made our plans, Joe assured me he would be at my house between 8:30-8:45. At 8:45 there was still a noshow on the part of Joe, but he showed up arond 8:50, chatting animatedly on his cell to the illustrious Maxwell, who apparently called as soon as Joe turned on to my block. So while listening to half of the conversation between Joe and Maxwell, which was quite entertaining, Joe drove aimlessly down Oakland Avenue until we got past North. At this point, past North Ave, Joe hangs up the phone and asked where in blue hell we were (maybe not those exact words, but close enough. you get the point). The entire point of the drive down Oakland was to find an ATM machine, which they apparently don't have on the East Side. We drove back to the 'Wood, only to discover that my lanyard was at home, somewhere, including my ATM card, so Joe decided it would be easier just to pay for dinner (I now owe him Thai food, but that's a-ok!).
After dinner at East Garden, which is home of the best Chinese food in Milwaukee, just ask any Milwaukee paper, and me too, since it's the best (maybe I'm a tad biased, since it's about 2 minutes from my house, and *drool* once you have East Garden, you really can't think of anything else). Except for that whole avoiding taxes thing, East Garden (which looks more like a bank than a Chinese restaurant) is the quintessential place for fine Chinese dining. Just don't ask for the duck. The duck you're eating may have been the pet of one of the East Garden family kids.
Anyway, after East Garden, we took a drive down Capitol Drive to see the excitement that was ensuing (police cars and everything!)...and somewhere in the midst of it, we wondered aloud what would happen if people could hear us making fun of them from inside our car. Which led to the next genius idea - installing a megaphone to the top of the van!!!
So the next idea is to drive into the ghetto, singing "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts...doo doo doo doo..." But maybe that's not the best idea, since we'd like to live to tell the story.
Wait for more fun from a night at Thai kitchen!
- posted by L. @ 11:09 PM