i got buzzed by the blue angels after dropping mom and dad off at the airport sunday. ok, maybe not buzzed exactly, but they flew closer to me than at any other time during the weekend. turns out, hearing very loud jet noises while still very near the airport makes me nervous! 
luckily, it didn’t take me too long to sort out what i was hearing.
we celebrated my birthday while the ‘rents were here. mom found a really beautiful pen for me. it’s a blue swirlly pattern and has a very nice weight to it. she said she looked for green, but they didn’t have a green one out right now. the company has a different person design each pen so they’re all wildly different and all limited editions. and, they write well!
she also bought me a new set of dishes. the one i have is over ten years old and i never loved loved loved it. although they are nice dishes. mom had spotted the new ones before i’d said i wanted dishes and thought they were just up my alley. she was right! classic style with mix and match colours.
we spent saturday and sunday looking at condos and lofts in both sf and the east bay. they both say they’re encouraged, but i’m exhausted! extending the search to the east bay is intimidating. who has the time to work with two realtors?
flo and i were planning to go to decompression after mom and dad left, but she was also feeling anti-big crowd so she gave me a cookie and we went to hoop and spin poi in the park. from there we went to a fabulous birthday sushi dinner and stopped for a pint of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream on the way home, where we played trivial pursuit after playing with plutoes (the corn snake) for a while. it was exactly the speed i was looking for!