My Weekend

I had a fabulous weekend with Mr. Broadband.

Friday night we went for dinner at a place The Lobster Bar. It's downstairs from a steak restaurant called Chops, and offers all of Chops' meats, plus fresh lobster and seafood. It was really cool. The decor is kind of like Lex Luthor's subway mansion in Superman II. After dinner, we went for a drive through a Christmas lights display put on by a University.

Saturday morning I made breakfast for us. Steak and eggs with red and green bell peppers, onions, garlic, and 2 kinds of cheeses. Hashbrowns, bacon, fresh fruit, OJ. I had a blast making it. His kitchen is much nicer than my own.

After lunch he took me to a sports shoe place called Phidippides. All the shoes are in the normal range of $80-$130 (man, that's normal???) but the service is excellent. They watch your gait as you walk for them. They notice if your feet come down in certain ways, and then recommend shoes that will help correct that. FINALLY! See my post here, if you want to know about a previous experience elsewhere. After pinpointing what my feet were doing, she brought out a variety of shoes, watched me walk some more. Once we got the right correction, she brought out still more so that I could judge purely on comfort. I finally found the right pair for me, in New Balance brand. And surprise surprise, Mr. Broadband bought them for me as a gift, to help with the walking. Now I don't have sore feet just from walking. Yay!

We drove to Helen, visited Habersham Winery. Got a case for my dad of his favorite muscadine wine to take with me when I go home for Christmas. We went into the kitschy part of town, which was wonderfully decorated for Christmas. Alpine architecture and Christmas go hand in hand. Oddly enough though, it was pretty warm out. Mid 60's I'd say. Hopefully we can go back when it's cold. Kudos to us for not stopping to get fudge!

We drove back a different way, driving through mountains and it was beautiful. We stopped in Blairsville and saw the end of a Christmas parade, and drove by the town square where they were auctioning off a woman's devil food cake. Small town fun :) Wholesome. Good to find out about it, perhaps next year can go and enjoy it for a day.

We got back into town late, and instead of eating out (which I didn't feel like) we went to the store and got some stuff to take back to his house. We ate in front of the TV watching Sci-Fi channel, and then BBC at 9 for Torchwood, and at 10 Graham Norton.

This morning was full of wonderful laziness, laying about in bed and talking. Watching the leaves fall from trees in his yard. Breakfast at La Madeleine's. Afterwards we went to Barnes and Noble. He bought 2 books for me based on discussions we'd had. I'm reading the first now- Brave New World. It's supposed to be a faster read than the other, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. On the way back to my place he remembered that my Christmas tree lights needed a new bulb, so we stopped and picked up some replacements. Unfortunately, there was another issue and we had to scrap the whole string. He went and got another for me, and put them on the tree. He's very thoughtful.

All in all, I feel like I had a "vacation weekend" because of the roadtrip. I came home and relaxed, but later had kind of a chilled feeling so I took a hot bath. I hope I'm not coming down with something. I drank several packets of Emer-Gen-C, and will prolly take some Nyquil before heading to bed early.