My Sweet Pisces

Well this has been One Stellar Weekend! Even if I did have to work the short shift yesterday here at Job #1! And the fun only continues tonight, as Stefano has decided that since I've never had scallops before he will cook a scallop/shrimp/whole wheat pasta dinner for us tonight. What a man!!!

So on Fri. night we got all dolled up (I wore my tight J-Lo-ish denim jumpsuit, the one in the picture on this blog) and went downtown for dinner and the Keb Mo concert. While waiting for a table at the Italian restaurant we went next door to the bar and had a drink (Disarrono). At dinner we shared a big antipasto plate and then he had a shrimp salad and I had the linguini w/clam sauce. We both had wine. Damn, I still can't believe I'm talking about food! The House of BANG! is going to fire me from my CFO position. Anyway, then we got to the show and found our floor seats and Keb was already playing as he'd started 15 min. early, damn him. I'd snuck in 2 flasks so we got Diet Cokes and spiked 'em up good--screw you House of Blues and your jacked-up drink prices!

Keb did an acoustic show w/a young Chinaman accompanying him on guitar, harmonica, and keyboards on occasion. It was a great show! I kept yelling out "Riley!" as I wanted him to play "Riley B. King", the song I was TOTALLY obsessed with last fall when I was going through my most low period. But he never did it, although he DID do "Henry" which I also love and which made me cry the 1st time I saw him do it in Gruene Hall years ago. I was feeling pretty toasty by the time the encore came up and Keb walks out and says "No one asked for this song tonight" and launches into "Riley"!!! I immediately began loudly protesting to Stefano and anyone within earshot that I indeed *HAD* been yelling out for "Riley" all night! Then I sat back and enjoyed the song, slipping into it like a nice warm bath... ahhhh....

Saturday a.m. I had to be up kinda early-ish in order to get to my eyebrow appt., then I zipped over to Academy as I decided I finally needed to buy some of those Underarmour shirts that help suck your perspiration away from you when your Kevlar vest starts to heat you up, which is ALL the time! I also needed some new sports bras for running and while I was there perused the clearance racks and scored big time on some cute workout hoodies at $4.88 each!!! Bought 5--score!!! Went home and tried to work up the energy to clean my gun but that did not happen and I was enjoying lounging around my house so much I was a 1/2 hour late getting to the substation for a 3pm starting patrol shift but oh well.

Patrolled w/a deputy I'd never worked with before, a young kinda hotheaded cop type but a real go-getter which was cool. There was an armed robber we were hunting for but he apparently knew I was out there b/c he stayed in and behaved. Ended the night with 3 arrests for crack cocaine and then I headed home to Stefano. And BTW, the Underarmour shirt did work very well to my great pleasure.

I had promised on Sunday to go w/Stefano to the running shoe store to get his new shoes, so we did that and he got a very nice pair which I was so happy to get for him, then I ran to Job #1 which was very nearby and had mostly a quiet cakewalk day there. Finally it was time to get to Stefano's house and get to the legendary local restaurant I'd wanted to take him to for his b-day meal! It was fun to drive right under the San Jacinto monument to get there, and we had a table right by the window so we could see the water and the ferry. (Side note: my partner from Sat. had told me about a DOA/suicide he worked there once, a guy who drove his car into the water and refused to let bystanders rescue him. They basically helplessly watched him drown!) Anyway, the food was scrumptious! We had alligator for appetizer, a bottle of Freixnut, I had the stuffed shrimp w/baked potato, Stefano had the tilapia w/veggies, and we ended w/a slice of Banana Foster pie!

After dinner it was time to head to the Sunday night blues jam, all the way across town. Stefano had his Telecaster in the trunk; I didn't bring my bass b/c 1. I don't really like to play in jams anymore--being a professional musician makes me feel a little above that and also I kinda got it out of my system doing it for years when I was younger anyway, and 2. I can always borrow someone else's bass should I get a wild hair and choose to get up and play. Sure enough, my ex-boyfriend was there playing but I didn't get a chance to talk to him b/c the house band played for over an hour. There were also no jammers there, weirdly, though a couple of musicians we both knew did drop in. The real entertainment were the dancers on the tiny dance floor, a group of big legged black girls and this skinny young white kid who was doing some serious James Brown moves!

So we stayed long enough to watch the house band finish playing and then we skedaddled back to Stefano's house. And we slept in this morning, which was soooooo nice. Not sure what we're doing tomorrow night on his actual b-day but I did take tomorrow night off of Job #2 so we can do whatever he wants!