Where are we going to eat?

Mike texted me yesterday, Sunday, and I was tempted to say I wasn't free. I wanted to stay at home because how many nights have I been there this past week? I think I've slept in my own bed 4 nights last week. LOL. And mom, dad, and sis are all noticing. I haven't been naming Mike exclusively. I've mentioned The Guy's name too just to keep things cool. Minor lie on my end. Oh well. Not that I would be hesitant to introduce them to Mike...

Anyways, I texted him and said I would be free after 5. He said ok. I texted him as I was heading out and get to his place about 5:15. He is sitting on the couch when I walk in on his laptop looking at things to do at the casinos on a Sunday night- President's Day weekend. Nada. No concerts. I wasn't surprised, but he was. He looks at things to do out in Palm Springs, Orange County, and the Inland Empire. I look at ticketmaster to see what is going on on a Sunday night. I mention Disneyland, and for a moment we were going to go had my pass not been blocked out. He didn't want to go out to PS and drive an hour just for dinner. He said fish tacos would be good. I search on yelp and find a Mexican food place I bought a coupon for at restaurant.com. It has fish tacos, so we decide to go there.

I orient him in the direction and as we drive through the parking lot to the restaurant discover it is closed on Sundays. His response was "on a holiday weekend?" He said he had another idea, the really fancy smancy hotel in my city's restaurant 20 miles from his house. The bar at the restaurant was closed, so that was a no go. I mention a local bar there and he drives around, but decides he doesn't want to go. We drive through my city and I mention what is off each exit. Nothing much more than fast food and he is surprised how bad the choices are in my city if you don't want a chain restaurant. I told him I think his city has a better selection as there are more Mexican food places, Chinese, etc. We go to the mall and the new Mexican food place that opened looked to be just a loud place with a TV blasting. For a minute he said Yardhouse would be good. He asked me to check out a Mexican restaurant 30 miles away in Fontana called Pancho Villas that had mixed, almost better than Taco Bell reviews. Nope. So we drive 30 miles to Ontario to go to Panda Inn. Panda Inn is owned by the man that started Panda Express. This was his first restaurant. He has one out in Pasadena too. He opened these up first.

We go in the restaurant and go to the bar for drinks while waiting for the table. No bartender. We wait and wait. There is a loud party at one of the tables at the bar. We hang around more. He asks me what I'm going to drink and I tell him whiskey and coke. He joked I really am from West Virginia. My family is- I'm Not- I made that clear- I just like the burning and hard taste to it. Finally a guy takes pity on us and we order a drink. I said because he teased me I was going to do a complete 180 in what I got and ordered a coke and amaretto. The drinks were not great.

We are seated a few minutes later and he tells me I can order nonvegetarian if I wanted. The scallops sounded fine, so I said that would be good to me. He ordered the honey shrimp. As we were waiting he ordered the calamari appetizer. He asked for the wontons with no meat, but the came with chicken. We only realized that as we were mostly done. The food was not as good as it used to be and left a lot to be desired. I hadn't been there since I was really little. Dinner conversation was interesting. He made fun of me for my inferior California education. He is in this northeast state of mind that New Jersey is best for everything. He made fun of me for the film classes I took at my college. I did focus a lot on film. I love pop culture, which I pointed out to him was why. This lead to a conversation about old tv shows. We talked aout "I Love Lucy," "Maude," "The Jeffersons," and "Laverne and Shirley." He never watched Maude. The Jeffersons were reruns to him. He liked Laverne and Shirley. He asked if I watched ALF. He told me how lame ALF was. I was offended. I love ALF. I can recite just about every episode and found myself doing that when I got all of the seasons on DVD, and I hadn't seen them since I was a kid. He asked how I saw ALF considering it came out in 1985 before I was born, but it was on TV daily and nightly as I recall and it ended wheN I was about 4 I think. He told me how hokey that show was. We talked about the spinoffs of "Golden Girls" and he couldn't remember that it was "Empty Nest." He didn't remember "Father Dowling's Mysteries." He talked about his new obsession with "V," the 80s miniseries and the ABC show picks up where that left off. We talked about "Facts of LIfe," "Growing Pains," and he didn't remember the spinoff of "Growing Pains" was "Just the Ten of Us." Do you guys remember that one? That was another one I liked.


We talked about "Melrose Place" and "Beverly Hills 90210," which apparently I need to watch.

We go back to his place and he asks me if I want a pair of sweats. I said sure. He decides we will watch TV in his bed in case we fall asleep. We brush our teeth and I head out to my car to get some nose medicine. I was so congested. We watched "The Sweetest Thing," which I told him I hadn't seen, but as we watched seemed more familiar. I'd only seen it recently. It was fun, though, and I played it off like I'd never seen it. We cuddle in bed some. He lays his legs on me.

We fall asleep watching "The Nanny." I sleep alright until about 3a.m., then I toss and turn until 7:30 when we wake up. I'm tired of the cat kneading 2-3 times a night and needing attention. LOL. We woke up and played around some. He showered and then I did the same.

He asks if I want McDonalds for breakfast, and again this is where to eat. I said sure. He drives past the McDonalds on the highway and we go to the next city. He tells me he wants Mimis Cafe. We go to Mimis and discuss how it is just an upscale Cocos. We decide the food is not more upscale and probably worse. It was worse. We had the crepes, which were so overcooked and hard. They were disappointing. He had a soggy eggs benedict. It looked good, but wasn't he said. I wish I had brought my giftcard that I got for Christmas from there. Oh well... I didn't know because again I didn't know we were going. He paid. Next time we'll stick to McDonalds.

We go back to his place and watch "The Talk" on CBS and look into getting tickets to see that live. We look into all the tickets we can get. We watch a couple episodes of "Food Network Challenge," where the contestants are trying to make a dog for the Westminster Dog Show and some of the cakes look bad. We laugh. I take off about 4pm to head to school.