Holy shit. Tofu and octopus.

I actually did something besides pack, clean, bitch and watch tv today!

I went to the mall with my mom for a while, just to wander around and window shop mostly. I did end up getting some earrings, though. Nothing drastic. I found something great in FYE-- an entire season of Garfield & Friends, it's my old favorite morning cartoon. Whatever, I know I'm a geek. It was only strange because I almost got the Poison's Greatest Hits to go with it. I ended up picking up Eminem's latest cd instead (Poison joins Motley Crue on my christmas list.)

Dinner was surreal. Mom and I met up with a group of women she works with, I know them all and they're cool. It's strange, I'm the only one out of the group that doesn't have a mortgage payment. One of the women turned 30 today, so we met up to celebrate the end of her 20's. The thing is, my mom feels a little awkward during these nights out because I've never heard women talk more about sex, vibrators, binge drinking and various other things before in my life. It's crazy, in a really funny way. Seems like that's going to be me and my friends in 10 years. I had my 3 rum & cokes with dinner... I think my obliterated nights are done... especially when I'm out with my mom and her friends.

We went to the best japanese restaurant in the area. It's a hibatchi-type place, and the guy cooking our food was amazing. If I ever tried that shit I'd end up looking like I'd played Uncle with Freddy. They cook everything with saki, and the guy was shooting free shots for people at the table (I passed, saki tastes like rubbing alcohol to me.) Vegetable fried rice, miso soup (yeah, tofu's not bad in that,) shrimp, filet mignon and chicken...and I tried sushi for the first time-- tuna and then octopus-- the tuna was good... I'll pass on eating octopus again-- it was like chewing on rubber bands. The food was unbelievable, but I won't end up eating there again for a really long time. It was damned expensive, it must have been close to 300 bucks for the 7 of us. They did give the birthday girl a free ice cream cake for the whole table-- there was another party of people sitting with us. Sang her Happy Birthday complete with a gong.