Behind on blogging...

My standards are slipping. It’s already Thursday and there’s been no blog until now! Perhaps because I’ve had a lot going on, without it being wildly exciting. I don’t know – let’s see.

Well, last weekend I accepted a colleague, Martin’s invitation to go to Cobb’s Comedy Club. It’s in the block just in front of our flat, so we’ve been meaning to go for a while. We went out for a burger at a cool diner in North Beach, then to an Irish pub (at least we were with real Irish people – Martin and his wife!), then it was off to the Comedy Club. The featured performer was John Oliver, who’s actually a Brit on an American programme called The Daily Show. It was – thankfully – very funny, then it was a very short walk home after that!

Started quite late on Saturday, then went for a jog and did some chores. In the afternoon I had a baby shower to go to at another colleague, Elizabeth’s place. She only lives a few blocks away, so I walked, but it involved scaling one of San Francisco’s famous gradients. Still, it wasn’t raining (for once! We’ve had lots of bad weather recently), so I enjoyed the stroll past all the lovely Edwardian buildings and the streets leading off to bay views. The baby shower itself was fun – played some games, ate lots of food, drank lemonade and listened to all the baby advice being given.

On Sunday, we were supposed to be going on a whale-watching trip, but it was cancelled due to the storm forecast. In the end, the weather wasn’t that bad. We took the opportunity to do some shopping and bought ourselves some ski boots from REI. A good time to go, because they have sales on now. We also tried out a new café for lunch, topped off by coffee and a cake from Mara’s Italian Pastry shop.

On Monday night I had a date with my friends from Italian class. One of the party – Yana – had a baby in November and invited us around to her place in the Richmond district to speak Italian and see the (very cute and very small) baby.

There was no rest for the wicked, as on Tuesday night I had my Spanish class to go to. This was my third one. The first two were awful, but then I moved up to a more advanced class, which is a lot better, even though the teacher is the same.

This weekend we’re off to Yosemite to try snowshoeing. I hope the journey’s going to be OK. One of our friends skidded off the road on his way back from Tahoe last weekend and wrote his car off – in spite of it being a 4x4. Fortunately, they were both OK. We’re renting a four-wheel drive to avoid (hopefully) having to fit snow chains.