mmmm home

i've been home since wednesday, and it's been really lovely.

the flight home was a breeze and my family took me out to a new italian restaurant, Tresca, near stone oak. there is actually a website now dedicated to night spots in stone oak here. But Tresca-it was wonderful--i had fig and goat cheese white pizza with prosciutto. and some wonderful shiraz. if you're a san antonian, it's the same family who started Piatti.

thursday i was completely lazy, and it was great. i went for a run in the rainy-ness and was a muddy mess, and it felt amazing. then i cleaned up and went to meet elizabeth, an old friend and kindred spirit from forever ago, at Copa, another place that definitely charmed me and has in the past. we tore through two bottles of a really superb pinot and had "La Verdad" pizza, chocolate cake, and baked goat cheese. so worth it. then ran in to scott from high school and we caught up on each other's recent antics. was a good ole time, and ended it with a few drinks at the Back Porch. then drove home and as i was getting ready for bed, put my blackberry down on what was, unbeknownst to me, the lid to my sister's home waxing kit. that stuff doesn't let go and must do its job with no mercy. in the end i saved my blackberry; it was very heroic, and i cursed alot, and my sister ran out of the bedroom and slept somewhere else, but i did it.

today i had my first eye exam in like 6 years and they got me a new Rx--apparently i've been blind for years, and am not a candidate for Lasik ugh--and i discovered i have corneal vascularization. it's reversible, so we shall see. or maybe i WONT see.

get it? yeah that was a great one.

later adare and i went to las palapas, maybe the greatest tacos in the world, and it's all i had to eat today, and am still kinda full. i went to natasha's awesomely bad holiday sweater party after some impromptu shopping, and alongside getting to see her and catch up, i was really happy to see her be a hostess--i want to do that! i will plan a party in 2009, for sure.

i just finished packing for tomorrow; we leave way before the sun comes up and will drive to baton rouge, straight to a holiday party, and then probably out with the cousins.

so far this has been a very, very, happy holiday. and i can see again.