The water was shut off all day at my place. Apparently they were fixing something next door. It felt weird being a house with no water. It’s amazing how many times you wash your hands or need water to wash a glass or something. We really take all these niceties for granted.

Anyway, I decided to leave the house and went to Pier 1, looking for pillows. I got a new comforter a few months ago and it had been sitting in the bag all this time. The comforter and the pillow shams are very light (Ivory. That’s what “they” call it). I thought that some nice silk pillows in jewel tones would look nice. All the pillows I had were also cream so I found myself headed to Pier 1.

At first, I couldn’t see anything I liked. There were a couple of Indian-looking silk pillows that I liked. One was an olive green and the other was a dark red. There was also a purple pillow but I hate purple. I needed three pillows. Two wouldn’t do. Too symmetrical!

That’s when I spotted it! It was also made out of silk but it had three different fabrics in a patchwork-like fashion and it went really well with the red and green pillows (it’s the one in the middle of the picture, with the yellow vertical stripe). I loved it! I bought it and I was looking forward to making up my bed tomorrow morning and seeing how it looked with my new pillows. (You might be asking yourself why I decided to wait until tomorrow. First of all, you shouldn’t be so judgmental but if you figured I was just plain lazy, you were right).

Now you might be asking yourself, where is she going with this? Well, I was watching Big Brother 2 and they have MY pillow in the Head of Household room! How awful! (Also, what are they thinking? Downgrading their props from IKEA to Pier 1?)

I like Jenny’s picture, she certainly was a “ham”.

Last time I went to Brazil, I stole a bunch of pictures from my parents. This was one of them. My dad was a photojournalist for a while. He took great B&W pictures of us when we were kids but they are all very dramatic. No cute and amateurish snapshots. I love the B&W picts but I almost wish we had some of the cheesier photos too.

By the way, he took so many pictures of us that, to this day, I still hate having my picture taken.

Fed Heidi’s cats in the morning.

Went shopping near Heidi’s house.

Saw a spider at Macys jewelry department. Saleswoman freaked out: “Our jewelry comes from overseas. The spider could be poisonous”. Saleswoman was clearly from overseas herself.

Headed to Los Gatos for a barbecue at Nathan’s. Thermometer in my car went from 93 to 103 as I approached Los Gatos.

Nathan’s barbecue was great. There was tons of food. We played Cranium. The girls beat the guys. We ate pop rock Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. It didn’t work as well as plain pop rocks.

I came home around 6 pm and rented four movies: Anti-trust (horrible), Don’t Drink the Water (typical Woody Allen), The Wedding Planner (cheesy but worth it for Matthew M.), and The House of Mirth (very good though it looked like Gillian Anderson was about to cry the whole time).

Cranium

Cranium, Toy, $24.99

Antitrust

Ryan Phillippe (Primary Contributor). MGM (Video & DVD) 2001, DVD, $14.95

Don’t Drink the Water

Julie Kavner (Primary Contributor). Walt Disney Video 1994, DVD, $9.99

The House of Mirth

Remi Adefarasin (Cinematographer). Sony Pictures 2000, DVD, $14.94

The Wedding Planner

Julio Macat (Cinematographer). Sony Pictures 2001, DVD, $14.94

I’m not as amused by Google’s graphics as Jenny.

Allow me to explain. Last year, when I was looking for a job, our search expert left Kaiser and went to Google. He was a great guy and he knew that I wanted to leave so he told me they had an opening at Google. I was a little confused and wondered why they would need a designer. I mean, look at their site. But they had a chef who cooked all their meals so, I said, what the heck! I had a phone interview with the VP of Marketing. I was driving home from the East Bay and I was on my cell phone, being interviewed by this person.

This is how she described the job: “We need a graphic artist (I HATE being called that) who can work with Marketing on this ongoing project. This is still just in the planning stages but basically, we need someone who can “dress up” our logo on a seasonal basis”. What? “For example, during Christmas, we may want to hang some Christmas light on the Google logo. For Easter, we could have eggs and bunnies around the logo”.

Needless to say, I never bothered to schedule a second interview. No chef-prepared meals would be enticing enough for me to make a career out of this. Was it a bad career decision? Maybe a bad financial decision. As far as my career, definitely not.