I do not know what to write about today. I could write about the party, with the piñata, the margaritas and the Mexican food. About the plentiful presents and the wine, champagne and liquor I received. But I have no energy for it. Instead I am going to talk about the craziness that is about to begin this Friday or Saturday in Germany. As I am sure you all know this weekend the World Cup will start and for the next month or so all the young American straight men will join for the first time the world in celebrating soccer. I had always thought that soccer was of little importance in this country, but yesterday talking to our new coach (a straight guy) he said that he might fall sick when the US plays. I was impressed and I realized that football might be picking up in the US, and that is impressive. In Mexico, as in the rest of Latin America, Asia and Europe, everything will stop, and people will be talking and thinking about football exclusively. Offices will install TV’s for people to watch the games and parties will be held to watch the games over weekends. Total madness, I remember in 1986 Mexico hosted the World Cup, and even I was interested. I collected the album with all the teams, and even cheered for both Mexico and Spain. I remember classes were cancelled (I was in the third grade) and we would watch the Mexico games at school. Of course that was the beginning and the end of my love affair with Soccer, not because I have not tried, or been forced to try. It was around this time that I joined a Soccer team in the Club Asturiano – the club my parents belong to – and I have never had any coordination so you can imagine how that went. I hated every minute of it because I was terrible at it. I was short sighted but at the time no one had figured it out, so I was the blind, gay kid trying to play. Sad, sad spectacle that was.
Well in any case, I guess the world and even I will pay attention to the cup, I want to see how both Mexico and Spain do, afraid they will not go far, but hope is eternal.
Ohhh and I have a request, I just got a gift certificate to buy books, at a known establishment in DuPont Circle, and I need suggestions, please send them via the comments.
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Monday, June 05, 2006
Thank you cards
Today I left the office before noon, I had to run some errands and get lunch. I thought that 45 minutes would be more than enough, but you see I had one thing I needed to do, and that was getting thank you cards. Unfortunately in Ashburn there are not many independent stationary stores. The first thing was to go collect my debit card; I had forgotten it Friday at a Burmese restaurant, then I went to purchase a sandwich remembering that there was Hallmark store by the Corner Bakery in a little strip mall not far from the strip mall where the Burmese place is at.
I went to Hallmark hoping for some funny cards, and found 2, just 2, everything else had flowers, or pooches, or kitties or well nauseating poems and horrid early 90’s coral reef palette colors. Then I remembered that at the Mall there was a Papyrus, and at least there I could get some nice ones. So I drove to the mall, this is an indoor mall, not a strip mall. I parked outside of Hecht’s and made my way to the food court, and looked for the store, but it was no where. SO I checked if they had stationary shops, and alas, they did another Hallmark store and a Carlton Cards. I shuddered looking at the packets of cards they had. Hideous, they said 15 year old girl, 10 year old gay in training, or 70 year old wearing depends. Then I got distracted by the Gap store, they have some cute shorts for summer, and I am not sure I have mentioned this, but now that I have embraced the gringo in me, I am going to wear shorts all summer. Except to work, I will wear shorts during the day and evening when appropriate. But by then I realized I had already spent 1 hour in this endeavor.
Finally in the middle of the Gap, I realize that next to Harris Teeter, there is a stationary shop. And so I hurried out of the mall and drove to yet another strip mall and went into a not very promising store called “Zazu” and at the very end of the local, they had all their stationary. There in a little corner, among all the wedding invitations I found the Crane thank you notes. Of course then, I had to decide which model I wanted, should I try the generic card, should I get some personalized stuff, what to get. So I talked to the two women running the shop and the brought from the back some cards they had not displayed, they are off white, with embossed thank you in the front, perfect. All in all 20 USD, for 20 cards, compared to the 3 bucks per card at Hallmark I thought these were a bargain. And yet again I proved how ridiculously gay I can be. I spent 1.5 hours searching for thank you notes, and probably managed to drive 4 miles to get them.
Well that is all for today … this weekend a party was had, in my honor nonetheless, which was a bit unnerving. It was fun ! Thanks to all who attended and a little post on the festivities tomorrow.
I went to Hallmark hoping for some funny cards, and found 2, just 2, everything else had flowers, or pooches, or kitties or well nauseating poems and horrid early 90’s coral reef palette colors. Then I remembered that at the Mall there was a Papyrus, and at least there I could get some nice ones. So I drove to the mall, this is an indoor mall, not a strip mall. I parked outside of Hecht’s and made my way to the food court, and looked for the store, but it was no where. SO I checked if they had stationary shops, and alas, they did another Hallmark store and a Carlton Cards. I shuddered looking at the packets of cards they had. Hideous, they said 15 year old girl, 10 year old gay in training, or 70 year old wearing depends. Then I got distracted by the Gap store, they have some cute shorts for summer, and I am not sure I have mentioned this, but now that I have embraced the gringo in me, I am going to wear shorts all summer. Except to work, I will wear shorts during the day and evening when appropriate. But by then I realized I had already spent 1 hour in this endeavor.
Finally in the middle of the Gap, I realize that next to Harris Teeter, there is a stationary shop. And so I hurried out of the mall and drove to yet another strip mall and went into a not very promising store called “Zazu” and at the very end of the local, they had all their stationary. There in a little corner, among all the wedding invitations I found the Crane thank you notes. Of course then, I had to decide which model I wanted, should I try the generic card, should I get some personalized stuff, what to get. So I talked to the two women running the shop and the brought from the back some cards they had not displayed, they are off white, with embossed thank you in the front, perfect. All in all 20 USD, for 20 cards, compared to the 3 bucks per card at Hallmark I thought these were a bargain. And yet again I proved how ridiculously gay I can be. I spent 1.5 hours searching for thank you notes, and probably managed to drive 4 miles to get them.
Well that is all for today … this weekend a party was had, in my honor nonetheless, which was a bit unnerving. It was fun ! Thanks to all who attended and a little post on the festivities tomorrow.
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