memorial day weekend

Memorial day weekend is coming to a close. It's about nine o'clock, I'm getting ready to do the 'ol "this week I will accomplish"...This week, I will not gorge on donuts, chocolate covered marshmallows and pizza, which is exactly what I did this weekend. Yep, now is the time to repent and mend my wicked ways of bad eating. I'm cooking banana bread right now as I am typing this. Fruit is healthy right?
So, for memorial weekend took a lovely road trip with my boyfriend up to Santa Cruz, where we saw She and Him in concert at The Rio. Great show, great venue. It seats only a few hundred, there is no assigned seating and an incredibly friendly old man greeted us at the door. Very different than venues out here in Southern California. They did not serve beer, but they did have these yummy looking cookies.
She and him are Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward. This was my first time seeing them live and they are wonderful. They performed a brilliant version of the 1962 song"You really got a hold on me" by The Miralcles, and M. Ward plays a mean guitar in his version of "Rollover Beethoven"
Their original songs are fantastic too with a very folksy sixties vibe to it.
The first album, Volume One holds a lot of meaning to me. I bought it when I was living in Pasadena.I was in the midst of finalizing my divorce and was as they say "finding myself" (notice the quotation marks, yes that is cliched and if I were talking to you face to face, I'd do air quotes with my hands) so songs like "Change is hard" with lyrics like
"I know he’s yours and he'll never belong to me again.
I did him wrong.
So don’t brag,
Keep it to yourself.
I did him wrong.
I was never no, never no, never enough,
But I can try, I can try to toughen up.
I listened when they told me
If he burns you, let him go.
Change is hard, I should know.
I should know. "
I'm thinking of this mainly because I just found out that the ex has remarried about a month ago. It's been about two and a half years. So long enough and I wish him well, only it just feels a bit strange. Life is about moving on and dealing with things and just continuing. So onward, I will make banana bread and vow not to eat chocolate covered things and focus on my writing. I really don't want this to turn into my musings on past relationships boo hoo...yadda, yadda.
Back to the trip, so, first night Santa Cruz, awesome concert, next day, went to Monterrey Bay, ate clam chowder at an Italian restaurant, then drove down the coast on hwy 1. Beautiful drive, truly shows what a great place California is, then we had to stop for about an hour because of a douche bag truck driver who was driving way to fast on a two lane windy mountain road and drove into the side of a hill and crashed into a motorcyclist. Luckily no one was hurt and we were able to press on. There was a moment when we all parked our cars right where they were on the hi way and stepped out to see what had happend. It was like a scene in a movie where doom is inevitable and everyone leaves their cars to watch the space ship or giant tsunami wave coming towards us. Met some lovely bikers and there was a guy who was carrying a Frisbee. We thought this was funny, was he like "yes, time for some Frisbee, surely with all these people here, someone will want to play..."
Perhaps I should take Frisbee guy's example and look at life like that. Something blocks your way, play some Frisbee, it's fun, enjoyable....ah welll...

She and him Link, Change is hard on Craig Ferguson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQiy0dAhcvs

 At The Rio in Santa Cruz. A shoddy photo of She and Him on stage.

Justin staring at sea lions in Monterrey. Would have taken a picture of the sea lions but couldn't see them myself as I was not wearing my glasses. so, let's enjoy them through Justin enjoying them!

This is me smiling at the ocean. I like the ocean.

 Here's the truck that was blocking the highway. Check out guy in blue shirt with Frisbee. When is it ever not a good time for Frisbee?!