Triple Threat Review

I wanted to make sure I blogged before my schedule descends into utter chaos this week. I'm flying down to Tampa on Wednesday, then driving to Orlando, then to Ocala, then back to Tallahassee, and then I take off for LAS VEGAS on Thursday!

First off, let me say that Gavin and I had such a fun weekend. On Saturday, we decided that we needed new pillows for our bed, so we hopped in the car and scooted down to Macy's to pillow-shop. On the way to the pillows, we encountered the mattresses. I couldn't resist sacking out on a few of them. I dominate sleep so this was like Clarence Clemens walking through a saxophone store, or Roger Federer walking through a tennis racquet store, or Bill Clinton walking through a store full of interns. I had to stop and sample the merchandise.

The sales associate taught us so much technical information about all the different mattresses, and it really got us thinking about upgrading our mattress to an actual name brand, or at least something I didn't acquire as a broke law school student. To be continued...

So anyway, after we picked out some pillows, we went out to one of the greenways in town and walked all through the trails. We walked by a pond and Gavin said he thought he heard an alligator and to be quiet, and to remember to run diagonally, in zigzags. WTF! Are you serious? I was terrified. We got out of there fast, diagonally.

We then encountered a couple raccoons. One of them heard us coming and froze on the tree he was climbing at the time, making eye contact with us. Gavin snapped some pictures on his phone but when I looked at them I couldn't locate the raccoon. Maybe it was a raccoon ghost and we are raccoon mediums. Media? Mediums.

After taking a walk, we went home, freshened up, and continued on our daylong date by going to dinner at a new sushi restaurant in town: Japanica. If you haven't been, definitely go. Gavin and I are actually kind of picky about our sushi, and we thought this place came to play. Check it out.

We then went to see Benjamin Button. Finally. I thought it was pretty good, but not quite as good as Frost/Nixon or Milk. The story was certainly original and the acting was phenomenal. I want to check out Slumdog Millionaire next.

Finally, I just finished a great non-fiction learny book: Shattered Dreams by Irene Spencer. It's the best kind of educational book because it's also very juicy and scandalous. It's about the author's experience living as a plural wife in fundamental Mormonism. SO interesting. After almost every chapter I had to stop and ask Gavin if he wanted another wife. I do that during Big Love, too. He always says no, so I guess so far so good.

So, to recap: mattress shopping is fun, run diagonally from alligators, we see dead raccoons, Japanica has delicious sushi, Benjamin Button was good, and check out that book about the polygamous fringe sect. Lata!