Plans Are Over-rated - My Saturday Off

I had 2 "plans" yesterday. Plan #1 was to go have breakfast with a few friends. Plan #2 was to take said friends to look at a few apartments for opinions on our upcoming relocation. Anything else was playing it by ear. So here is what actually happened.

6:38am I wake up, shower brush teeth
7:02am Check email, take pills, Facebook update
7:05am Text Phil. He is usually up early. We can start planning breakfast locations
7:07am Still no response from Phil
7:59am Text Phil again. Getting hungry, figure time to call Cat. She should be up.
8:03am Call Phil. Conference with Cat to decide on place for breakfast.
8:44am Leave house to meet at Galaxy Cafe on West Lynn.
8:57am Arrive at Galaxy Cafe.8:58am Phil arrives
9:01am Cat arrives
9:06am I place my order for the Big Breakfast (it has the home fried potatoes with it...yumm!) and my coffee.
9:08am Preparing my coffee while a bitch in a pink polo with a very bad haircut pushes her way in to fill her coffee cup up. "What, really? Can you just wait a minute while I stir my shit?" I think. Her bitchy look makes me think of other names for her other than bitch. Later find out the drives a Subaru and is not as special as she thinks she is. Oh, and the people she was with, well, none of them went with her...bitter old single bitch, now wonder.
10:06am Finish chatting, drinking our coffees. Time to drop Phil's car at Cat's house and off the the apartments.
10:21am Arrive at Oak Run Apartments. Leasing office in a really cute old house. The complex is HUGE and offers apartments, duplexes, and townhomes. Crazy. Older, a bit old and not so great for the price. The size of the one checked out was great, but not super impressed, even at the discounted rate.
11 am Arrive to next apartment complex. Cute, but can see the model because the agent cannot seem to find the key to it. Oh well. Not really worth the time spent.
11:24am Arrive to Sundance Apartments. These are the ones we like and are a great price to save money so we can play more and save for a house too. I want to show Cat to get her opinion and to also do a little space planning. Julie in the office I work with at Whole Foods too. All roads keep pointing back to this place. I decide I want to paint, regardless of it having to be painted back.
12:03am Leave Sundance and just go to check out some woody looking apartments on S 1st St. Show up to find that the office is closed on weekends. Look around at the places and notice I would prefer the others anyhow. No need to return.
12:09am Driving across to S Congress and checking out neighborhoods along the way.
12:15am Arrive at Ruta Maya coffee shop. Inside a yoga class is going on while we order coffee. To not seem weird, we go out to the front patio to enjoy our beverages. Located on the patio are two very loud men speaking politics, a sort of crazy looking girl sitting alone but joining in with the political conversation, a sort of cute guy in a very bright orange shirt on his laptop, Phil, Cat, and I. Enter a guy in the worst outfit I have ever seen. So bad I have the picture to prove it. Cut-off brown slacks, a shirt that is too short for a tall guy with massive rips in it AND paint all over it, and black tennis shoes. You could not even claim to have rolled out of bed and just threw this on....really. Then after about 15 min the badly dressed guy and the political banter guys leave, but not before one of the political banterers give the crazy girl a peacock feather from his car. "Odd" I think to myself, but it was entertaining. Que the cute coffee bar working starting to carry in supplies from his car. Yay for eye candy! Then as we all are talking to look around only to see scary girl staring at me. She smiled queerly and went back to reading her book. Walter should be done around 1pm, and I want to hit Home Depot for some bug killer. Time to take our finished drink cups to the wash tub and head off.
1:04pm Arrive at Home Depot. Locate bug killer. Walter still not called so we start browsing. We really need a new rug for the living room. Some cool rugs. Then I find some carpet remnants. There are some cool ones that will work as a rug until we move. Cheap too. Less than $20! I pick one out just as Walter calls. "Do you think?" I ask him after telling him of my find. So I buy it. It is burber and showing in the pic here. Not bad. Off to Guerro's for lunch.
1:22pm Looking at Guerro's, there is a huge wait. "Shit, it is a big UT game today. Of course it is busy." We find Walter in the parking structure and head off to another place, one not so busy. We are all hungry by now. We find El Mercado on S. 1st St and there are not many cars. "Perfect". We are immediately sat. Lunch at last. I had to try the shrimp and cheese stuffed bacon wrapped peppers appetizer, and so glad I did! Yumm! I also got a brisket taco and cheese enchilada. It was all good.
2:54pm Time to take Walter back to his car, Phil back to his and Cat and I would meet Walter back at home. Phil had a work meeting to go to.
3:45pm Arrive home. Time to relax a bit and decide what to do next. We watch a little TV. Cat makes some coffee. I look at potential movies to go see (with no success). Walter is upstairs making Cat some CDs.
4:37pm Mom calls. Needs ideas what to do about her carpet dilemma.
5:02pm We sit and talk about what to do next. I assure that we will figure something out.
5:28pm Renee calls. Something to do is happening. Jon's car broke down, ironically, outside of Sears Auto. They need a ride. I say "Of course" and quickly vacuum the dog hair from the back seat.
5:57pm We all arrive at Sears/Barton Creek Mall. Jon looks pissed. Renee is smiling. We are the rescue team. We wait a few minutes for the tow truck to come. Dinner ideas are figured. The rest of the day is happening. Yay! I knew something would come up!
6:08pm Tow truck arrives.
6:21pm We leave to go to Cover 3 for some dinner.
6:32pm Arrive at Cover 3. 2 1/2 HOUR WAIT? Oh, yeah, the UT game again! Call Phil to alert of new plan. The Domain...Daily Grill.
6:55pm Find Phil and head to finally eat. To our surprise, it is Restaurant Week in Austin. Our option...$25 three course meal and a $10 3 glasses of wine sampler. FABULOUS! I thank Jon for his car breaking down. He was not drinking enough yet to find it too funny. Course 1, Blackened Shrimp Cocktail. I did a white Spanish Albarino with my starter. It was great. Course 2, Parmesan Crusted Halibut with grilled vegetables drizzled with a balsamic glaze. I did a Pinot Grigio, Maso Canali, from Italy with it. Again, fantastic. We all sampled each others dishes as well and they are all fantastic. Course 3, “Daily Grill” Fudge Brownie Pie their signature brownie, topped with vanilla ice cream, warm caramel and chocolate sauce and candied pecans. I paired this with a Washington Riesling. Talking, eating, enjoying. It was a night. We left the restaurant at around 10:30pm then walked around the Domain looking into shops and still chatting it up.
11:21pm Got into the cars to head home. Stop #1, Jon and Renee's place. Stop #2, Cat's house. Stop #3, home. We were however diverted from Riverside up to Oltorf because, well, who knows. The cops had it blocked off at the student apartments. Who knows what the crazy kids did on a game day. But it took about 20 minutes longer to get home.
12:21pm Walk in the door grateful for such a wonderful day off. Food, friends and fun. Gotta love living life!