Yes, we’re slacking

Ok, maybe I should say I am slacking. I have been meaning to write a blog post for the past three days but either time constraints or plain laziness have kept me away. There isn’t one subject I want to focus on for this post so get ready for a grab bag of memories.

Colleen and I were back on the geocaching trail this Saturday when we went down to the Clairemont/Kearny Mesa border. How did we come up with that particular area to hunt? Well, we’ve been talking about going to Sipz for what seems like ages now so we decided to finally take the leap and try it out. Too bad only 50% of our trip was a success.

Things started off badly when we couldn’t find any of the geocaches we had programmed in our GPSr. We got totally off track to begin with when the waypoint I picked wasn’t correct and we ended up going way too far west from the 805. After getting the waypoint straightened out, we wandered into some residential area looking for an entrance to (what I think was) San Clemente Canyon. We ended up in about 500 cul-de-sacs before giving up on that cache and heading for another one. This one happened to be in a parking log behind Boomers and it was rated as easy so things were looking good. Of course, things wouldn’t be so dramatic if we had found it so we didn’t. Well, it wasn’t like we purposely didn’t find it but it was still really frustrating. I was in a foul mood, which put Colleen in a foul mood and everything went downhill from there.

Having become completely bewildered with caching for the day (and being hungry, to boot!) we decided to head to Sipz. There was just one problem: we didn’t know where it was. Colleen swore it was right off the 805 on Clairemont Mesa Drive but I never remembered seeing it so I had this strange feeling that it was on Balboa Dr.. Again, things weren’t looking good but you, our intelligent reader, will have remembered that I said we had a 50% success rate and breathe a sigh of relief. So, what got us to our destination? None other than GOOG-411.

As it turns out, Sipz was on Clairemont Mesa so after a couple minutes of looking around, we found it and there was much rejoicing. There was even more rejoicing after we got our yummy, yummy food. I had the “Siamese Shrimp” while Colleen went with the lo mein. She was in love with the lo mein and my dish was pretty tasty too. On the way out we grabbed some chocolate chip cookies and a slice of banana “cake.” The cookies were fantastic (Colleen even loved them!) but the cake wasn’t the best thing I’ve ever had. It actually wasn’t so much of a cake as it was a banana pie with some cake-like tendencies. I didn’t think it was bad but Colleen hated it, mostly because she hates bananas. Overall, our Sipz experience was a win though.

While we are on the subject of winning food, I want to mention the peanut butter pretzels that Colleen found on vegweb.com. She made them as a “dessert” for our meal tonight of tofu “chicken” nuggets and squash. They were fun to make, easy to make, and fast to make so they get good marks for that. I’ve included a picture to show the final product (well, some of the final product… we had gotten into them before that). The peanut butter taste was subtle but nice. I tried them plain, with some raspberry preserves and even with my homemade hummus. They were good any way I had them

Well, I am starting to lose steam so before I do I will leave you with one final bit of news. As Colleen mentioned in our last post, I went to the optometrist last week and got a prescription for reading glasses. I got a call yesterday saying they were in so I picked them up and the rest has been history. When I first put them on (at the doctors office) it was a little strange, almost like they were the wrong prescription. My eyes adjusted though and I’m slowly getting more and more used to them. I used them all today while I was on the computer/reading and they did seem to help my eyes. I remember growing up dreading that I would have to get glasses one day but now that that day has come, it wasn’t a big deal. I guess at least I didn’t have to deal with being called “four eyes” in school though, which is what I was the most scared of

On that note, I am out of here. See you in (hopefully) a few days.

- Sat