south first fridays

Made it out to South First Friday this week with Tracy, Nick, & Pam, some of my most favorite people ♥ South First Fridays is basically San Jose's art walk...it all takes place in the "SoFa" (South First Street. I think it's stupid too.) district, an area of downtown that tries very earnestly to be cool.

I'm just poking fun.  San Jose is cool...enough...

 before we even got anywhere I was already being handed religious propaganda

 the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles is always a favorite stop of mine because I think quilting is such a cool medium.  There were a few quilts by this lady who turns children's drawings (at least I hope they are children's drawings) into quilts.  Perusal of their website yielded nothing, I wish I knew who the artist is!  She had a couple of Dragonball quilts, and this awesome one...it's kind of hard to see, but it says "look at how gay this guy turned out to be when he joined the...ARMY"

Yeah, no idea

The other interesting exhibit I saw was this sculpture stuff by a one Derek Weisberg at Anno Domini.  The colors were really cool, cooler than in that photo that I took off the AD website because it was too crowded to take my own on Friday.

Downtown Yoga Shala also had an interesting photo exhibit (photos of a girl doing yoga, what else).

 nick♥

 the Treat Bot  "karaoke ice cream truck" is usually at South First Fridays so I finally tried it.  T'was good...can't go wrong with ice cream~

After our downtown meandering we hit up Cafe Quyen, which is becoming something of a favorite East Side spot for me.  For the uninitiated, coffee shops like Cafe Quyen are Vietnamese coffee places where you are served by waitresses in lingeree.  tee-hee! So, of course, no pictures from that part of the evening as photographs are strictly forbidden!

then we all went over to my house to test out my new mattress from woot~ it's a memory foam and very comfortable! I was sleeping on an old broken mattress (I broke it by jumping on it, and yes I am in my mid 20s :/) this is much better~~ this is a stock photo from the woot website

dtsj

My dear friend Kathy has a cousin who is moving to San Jose and she invited me to show the girl around downtown~ not that there is much to see.  I was kind of iffy about going out, but I'm glad I went because I made a homie.  It's kind of sad, but I realized that I don't remember the last time I made a friend before yesterday.  Probably at my last job, but even then those were only "sorta" friends, yknow?  Whoaaaaa

 kathy will do big or at least medium sized things some day!

 unfortunately, not actually a bar

our fair city hall

guadalupe gardens

I remember Julie  talking about cool places to take a date in your city of residence...Well, the Guadalupe Gardens in San Jose is a pretty decent place to spend an afternoon in San Jose.  There are some really cool flowers.  If you like photography, it's a cool place to go on a picture taking date.  Nick and I spent some time here one day ♥ I don't know why this spot isn't more popular...I guess because it is in a weird part of town, near the airport, old city hall, the traffic school, the court house...aka places one only goes if one has a good reason.

OK, so this isn't the actual garden but an empty lot across the street. There was also an old, discarded mattress mercifully excluded from this shot.  This is me in my new linen trench coat I got from old navy for like 7 bones, not a bad deal!

This picture is a poor representation of the pretty garden.

A crazy, awesome flower.  I wonder if this is natural or if it was bred to have these colors.  I've noticed at work some pretty crazy, awesome looking flowers.  Like calla lillies!  They come in all sorts of different colors now, including black, which looks pretty awesome.  I remember when I was a kid, they only came in original white.  It's sort of strange to think of strains (breeds? whatever) of flowers that didn't exist when I first existed.  Weird!  But anyway, seeing really interesting flowers at work makes me feel excited to someday have my own little home with my own garden.  I don't think I'll try to curate it to all go together or anything, but just have an amalgamation of all the flowers I think look cool.......and vegetables, for eating!

my sweetheart.

I officially hate it here

Seriously, at like 10pm it should not be impossible to find an open drugstore.  Why isn't there anywhere a person can purchase some sundries on a Saturday night?  I thought this was supposed to be a "city"?