Week(end) update

The dinner at Magnus was good/nice but not awesome. They have tapas there, but I guess they plan for their tapas to serve two people. We had a seafood ceviche as an appetizer, but it really could have been a main dish. It was tasty and Duane loved it. I had a white gazpacho with fig that was incredibly tasty, but was way too much food. Duane had California sea bass as his main dish and that was very good. I had 3 different types of sashimi. One of them was very good, but the other two tasted like cold fish. We had dessert (even though we shouldn't have) and it was ok. It was a peanut butter bomb, basically a chocolate shell with peanut butter mousse in it, which definitely could have been better. It was 11 by then though, so I don't think the kitchen was trying it's hardest. The music was good, but the place was packed. We didn't feel like standing, so we didn't stay.

Saturday involved being lazy and attending a going-away party for some friends that are moving to Calgary. He is going to be doing a post doc there. I brought fruit and Duane made hummus! He is trying to learn to cook more. We ate before we went because we knew the amount of food would be limited. It was held in a park (which would make you think cookout), but it was mostly an amalgamation of store bought cookies and chips. Saturday night we played the Wii for quite awhile and had a great time.

Sunday was the day for the Pitchfork Music Festival. We went to this last year and had a great time (despite the 95 degree heat). This year the weather was much nicer, but the music was much duller. Steven Malkmus played mostly by himself. Duane said it wasn't as good as one other time he had seen him. The band started tuning up on the other stage before Steven was done, and I thought that was rather tacky. Of Montreal seemed to be the band everyone wanted to see. The music was great and the onstage antics were quite funny and strange. The New Pornographers were also there and their set was also dull. The music didn't seem loud enough to really engage the audience. We decided to wander over to see the Klaxons, who started 40 minutes late. It was really time to go by that point so we didn't see much of their show. Duane did buy two cool Hold Steady posters (there is an area with about 30 tents of posters), now I just have to get frames for them.

Yesterday was mostly fine. Duane and I hit some golf balls and hung out with a friend of his from work (side note: we hung out with them to finally deliver the baby blanket that I made). We played the brain game on the Wii, which was hard! I can see how it could help develop your brain. We had an awesome dinner of a Cajun-style pizza. It had a spicy cream sauce with andouille sausage and chicken on it. It was definitely a break from the norm for Duane and it was really tasty.

Today has brought the confirmation that a potential client made a really stupid error which means I will not get a commission on a $250,000 house. There is a builder here that requires agents to register their buyers names before the buyer makes contact with the builder. If the buyer registers with them first (as simple as entering your name on their website), the buyer's agent receives no commission. It sucks royally. :(

I did go through applying for a federal tax id and a WI seller's permit today all so I may get to purchase items from American Apparel wholesale. My Etsy shop is up (www.yourbabywearswhat.etsy.com) and running. I don't have any items posted for sale yet though.