Week 7 in Review

Squeaks's Top 5:

1. Priceless time with old friends. Spent a couple of hours each, catching up with two faraway friends whom I've known since Middle School. Friends who were there... by my side, chorusing "trick-or-treat!" when I was Danielle Boone; at my birthday party when I first put on make-up; at the next table in the cafeteria when I was asked out on my first date. How far we've come, ladies.
2. Me gusta espanol. Two good Spanish practice sessions con la vecina y los amigas de la iglesia.* Update on #4 of "2011 To Do's": Esta llendo bien.**
3. Promising Open Houses. Keeping our cool to temper possible disappointments,... while the excitement mounts...!
4. Tasty aged meat. Birthday festivities for my guy continued with a friend's invitation to dinner at Alfred's, the oldest steakhouse in SF. Either we lucked out or the unimpressed Yelp reviewers have a different palate, but all three of us swooned over every dish we ordered, from the fried calamari, to the hearty split pea soup, to the thin crispy fries, to the juicy steaks themselves. My martini (Priscilla) and the chocolatey desserts were also hits.

5. "Free" Lucky cookware! Traded in my 70 Lucky Supermarket rewards stickers for a 10.2" Thomas Professional frying pan worth $50. Amazed by the Use & Care Instructions in 22 languages, incl. the very unfamiliar "Svenska", "Suomi", "Eesti Keel", and others with characters un-typeable on this keyboard.

Al Jazeera English's Top 5:

1. Gaddafi's hold on Libya weakens.
2. Egypt gears up to evacuate citizens.
3. Iranian navy ships enter Suez canal.
4. Quake rocks New Zealand city.
5. Cyclone Atu batters Vanuatu islands.

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*...with the neighbor and friends from church.

**So far so good.

Photo credit: Squeaks.