day off

so i finally, finally have the day off work, and everyone else and their dog is working today, so i'm bored. i slept in until 9, had some ice cream for breakfast (chocolate sensation - very nice) and now i'm bloggin'.
yesterday was a very long day. we got up really freakin' early to go to an interfaith kitchen to make breakfast for homeless people. at least, that's what i thought would happen. so many volunteers showed up, they had some of us make brown bag lunches for the homeless as well. i bagged apricots, cheese sandwiches, and potato chips, while some other people bagged cookies and stuffed the whole ensemble into the brown bags. this happens every morning - what with that and the decent climate, it might not be so bad to be homeless out here... of course, i would miss showers, and a bed and such.
so after the breakfast, i worked all day. i'm training the new lynda, who, it turns out, is also an animal freak. yay! the more the merrier! after work, i drove out to carlsbad to join shaggy and michael for some barbequeing and fireworks. of course, they weren't actually at michael's house when i got there, but they arrived soon after on their bicycles (they had gone down to a concert at the oceanside pier). in the meantime i was able to play with the roommate's cat, monty. he's pretty social, and he drinks out of their decorative little rock fountain, which i find adorable.
so we walked down to the beach and it was still warm-ish (6pm) so i got some bodysurfing in, which was lots of fun, even though the water was all dirty from the red tide. and then we went back to michael's, and watched him assemble his new grill. by the time we had eaten, it was quite dark, and there were loud popping noises coming from outside. so we hightailed it back to the beach, fought our way through crowds coming the opposite direction (one would hope that would have given us a clue) and then arrived at the beach as the last few people were lighting their roman candles. so we missed the big show, but it was really cool to see lights on the waves - they were reflecting this awesome glowing blue color.
and, for the record, michael had a good idea (after 3 beers, no less). so now the boys are in a contest to see who can get the most signatures from me that they had good ideas... i wonder if shaggy will win, considering he lives with me, and we see michael maybe once a week...
and so ended the 4th for me.