The pool. The nice relaxing pool. We enjoyed our pool time with a little visit from Tomas. The missing element from our night was Roni's friend Tony. A few hours earlier Roni had started asking after him as if a bird was chirping. Tony? Tony? Tony?
No word from Tony.
We called.
We texted.
We called from another phone.
No word from Tony.
Tom drove us home to change. It took us all of an hour to completely transform from sweaty nasty pool girls to glamazons. All of a sudden as we're getting ready Heffita (is this the spelling?) belts out with "Why are the BLANK girls so f*ing ugly?" except she uses all the words in the sentence (ask her for clarification). This is our Heffita, the girl who always has something positive to say about everyone! She dropped that bomb on us and we were almost on the floor we were laughing so hard. She elaborated by asking, "I mean come on! Do they know what roots are?!" So so so funny.
Okay so we're all dressed up. Roni and Heffita respectably - me looking like a floozy. Tom picks us up and we go back to his place. Now guess who met us there? TONY! TONY! TONY!! Roni was very very happy. We went up to the roof deck and drank wine while Tom started going through what might be best described as withdrawals. The poor boy never really went to bed and never ate. So by 8PM he was slowly shutting down. We opted to leave him and grab dinner.
Tony - lucky man that he is - had the 3 of us to himself for dinner.
After dinner we stopped off and picked up 4-5 bottles of wine plus beer (why so much?!). We ended up back at my place for drinks and conversation. Now someone (Roni) made me take a large shot of Patron so by the time we got to my place I was ready for bed. It was time. Sarah snuck in to join me while Tony and Roni chatted the night away. That's right tow different ladies in two nights!
Sunday Sarah and I got up - quietly - and went down to the farmers' market. We bumped into one of the most random people right outside my apartment. Ben Funke. He was dog sitting for a friend in the area. He was very nice and talked to Sarah for a few minutes. Progress people! We then went to Starbucks before we hit the market.
oh damn!!! i totally forgot to get a picture of johnny the dog walker for leslie! i pointed him out to sarah on the way past.
okay i'm getting tired...
sarah and i ate brunch.
roni joined us and ate.
we walked back past starbucks for roni.
back to my house (up the big hill).
sarah left - sadness
roni and i got tacos - mmmmmmm
roni and i watched penelope - so cute!!
we took a long walk through most of venice where we came across a very large pool of drummers and dancers. classic venice group. so funny!
how did we get so lucky to get so many good posts from SOL in two days? maybe roni& s.mcshwindy need to visit more often. i feel so entertained.
ReplyDeleteoooh! so glad penelope was enjoyable. need to grab that for my viewage. and i totally caught johnny feeding part of a quesadilla from the trash to one of the dogs he was watching...normally, i wouldn't really care, but some dogs have NASTY dog farts after dairy consumption! can you imagine how gross that car ride was?? :) otherwise, what a nice fella. kinda crazy, but kind.
ReplyDeleteOMG--I'm totally humming Tony!Toni!Tone's 'Feel's Good' while typing this. Did anyone else out there really like TTT? I was a BIG fan and I think I lipsinked this song with a friend during a lipsinking competition at raging waters when I was in middle school. I thought I was a flygirl.
ReplyDeleteI think Sarah's post pretty comprehensively summed up the rest of our time in Santa Monica.
I will just add that yes, I did have a minor explative laden outburst related to my unhappiness with Pomona's female student body's grooming habits and failure to embrace hair care. I'm not proud.
And also, that I was body slammed by a new age-y looking dad in mandals at the Farmers Market on Sunday. That kind of sucked. But everything else we did was really fun!
who is tony?! why don't i know tony? or do i? and johnny the dog walker? how do you know him leslie? i'm so confused. and a bad word!! sarah! did i teach you that while i was visiting you last time?! :) sounds like you guys had so much fun!!
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