Four Things From Yesterday/Saturday:

1. So I was reaching into my bathroom closet for my supply of allergy nasal spray yesterday/Saturday afternoon.  I grab the bag, but when I pulled it out, I knocked over a nearly empty plastic bottle of conditioner and my sister's bottle of (and I didn't know this until I actually looked at the label) massage oil.  What?  Whatever.  Anyway, the important thing was that the bottle was glass.  Somehow, it did not shatter when it hit the floor.  Unfortunately, the bottlecap did, and bits of it went all over the place after it somehow dislodged itself from the top of the bottle, so massage oil went spilling.  I was able to Swiffer it all up, but for some time there was the sick smell of lavender.  Also, even though the very top of the bottlecap is still intact, one side of it is gone.  It's back on the bottle, but loosely.  And it sucks that I have no way to find and/or buy a new replacement cap.  Well, there's one way, but I don't have time to just run there with the bottle and find a cap size that fits it.  My main takeaway from this is I did this all without my glasses.  And yet you would think that if I didn't knock the bottles over when I thrust my hand in the closet, I would make sure not to knock them over when I took it out.  But that thought never occurred, and look at what happened.  Would I have done it if I were wearing my glasses?  Is this is a sign I'm getting clumsier in my old age?
2. The USWNT Match was a success, of course; they defeated China, 3-0.  My friend gave me great seats: Field level, which meant that before the Game began, we had the run of their, uh, Field Club restaurant (or whatever it's called), where all the food and tap beers were free.  I have been down there once before, for a Loons Match, and dammit, I miss eating and drinking like rich people do.  I had turkey with Grand Marnier cranberry sauce, beef bourguignon, mojo pork, prime rib sliders, nachos from their nacho bar, charcuterie, BBQ and sea salt chips, this long and girthy sausage on a bun, hot dog on a bun, a dinner roll with butter, popcorn, a Modelo Especial and a Wild State Wild Apple, both of which were on tap.  I skipped lunch because I knew I wanted to be damn hungry to eat everything without skipping a beat, and I managed to do so.  And I missed the lemonade, fruit punch, and desert, darn it.
3. And yet, knowing everything I gorged myself on, I still had plans on going to Bang Brewery to have a pizza from pop-up place Farina Rossa Kitchen.  They were great -- so great, in fact, that by the time I got there, they ran out of their margherita pizzas and sausage.  There were some pizzas that could be made that had jalapeño, and that's an automatic no from me, so what was left was a pizza made with ricotta, asparagus and lemon.  That seems to be a light and airy pizza.  Moreover, there were no strong flavors that my palate deemed in conflict.  I don't know if I blog posted about this, but I once had a donut with bacon on it, and I got so nauseous I barely finished it.  Well, I'm here to say that lemon does not belong on a pizza.  It just doesn't work.  (I didn't say that to the guy who took my order; when he shouted from his tent, "How do you like your pizza?" I said, "It's fantastic!)  Now, that assessment may be based on me being beyond full stuffing myself at Allianz Field.  Turns out I didn't finish the personal pan pizza I bought; I brought home the final two slices, and some time either today/Sunday or tomorrow/Monday I will eat them and maybe I'll change my mind.  But, maybe I won't.
4. I am charging my phone a second time right now.  To be fair, I didn't charge it last night while I was sleeping, so it was running dry till just before I left for the Match.  But I used a lot of the juice at Bang watching FC Dallas play The Philadelphia Union to a scoreless Draw (and eating slow, and wondering why in the hell did I order food when I'm beyond full), and I just got done talking to my sister for 51 minutes, so it needs to be recharged again.  I think I said before that the battery on this phone has been substandard ever since I needed to buy it the day after Easter 2024.  I use it heavily, and I still think it's bad.