July 21, 2007

• Jeff and I went shopping down Union Square. We needed a new toaster oven and I'm looking for a new fragrance what to cover my stank. They're awful breezy with the samples at Sephora and I've got testers of Prada, Yves Saint Laurent and Hanae Mori. I tried the Prada in the afternoon and it's light and fresh smelling.

  Jeff had to get his Harry Potter book so we headed over to the Borders in Westfield Center. We got cornerned by these strange Israeli cosmetics salesmen at the Dead Sea Salt kiosk. And they were slathering my arms with caustic compaunds before I could stop them. Note to self: avoid Dead Sea Salt products.... The salt scrub was kind of nice but the rest of it was messy, irritating, and gross. And they put this exfoliator on my arm that stung and the guy couldn't tell me exactly what was in it that was doing the exfoliating and I get a little nervous when the #1 ingrediant on a skin care product is called something like "proprietary ingrediant" because that usually means it's some horrible caustic chemical that would scare you away from the product if you knew what it was. We also went to the Bath and Body Works to check out their Kose Sekkisei line. I've become obsessed with Japanese skincare for unknown reasons but it's kind of hard to figure out what a product is and what it does from the website for some of them. None of their products had any fragrance whatsoeverand some of them were kind of neat. The coolest was an Awake powder that turned into a liquid when you touched it. What it was for I can't tell ya but it was cool. Jeff was rewarded for his patience with a Wetzel's Pretzel with a hot dog inbedded in it.

  We picked up my friend Nathan and then headed over to my office where I had to pick up a docking station for my laptop and a monitor because I'm working a lot at home these days and need a bigger screen and a full size keyboard. I totally got hassled by the building guard because I didn't have a "property removal" form completed. What the hell is that?? A coworker tells me she had the same problem a couple of weeks ago. Have they not realized that people stealing stuff would go out the BACK door?? And he was such a jerk about it. I guess there's a reason he doesn't work during the week....

  We went home and had lunch and then Nathan and I took Rufus to the park. There were tons of dogs there and he had a great time. There was this TINY keeshond puppy that was about the most adorable thing I'd ever seen. Here he is:

  

  And here he is with Rufus sitting on him. Don't worry. No puppies were injured in this prank but there was some foul language exchanged:

  

  Here's Rufus mingling with the rest of the gang:

  

  

  It was really hot and Rufus was getting tired so we walked a bit more in Corona Heights and then Nathan and I walked back to Ord Street where Nathan headed for the Castro and I went home. Jeff was napping and he slept with the dogs for a while and then we headed over to Stowe Lake to walk around the island in the center of it. It's very pretty:

  

  Here are Jeff and Rufus:

  

  

  And one of me with him as well:

  

  The Chinese Pavilion was full of people tangoing which seemed kind of random and we didn't go in. But it looked beautiful in the afternoon light:

  

  We headed home for dinner and an early bedtime. It was a long day.

  • 11:18 pm
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