Since I’m staying with Matt for a month, I have all day to myself while he works. So that means I’m back-blogging! Don’t ask me why. Nothing makes sense here. I never have rhyme or reason for doing anything. Anyway!

I wanted to share a cute picture of Bug and her friend at Harbor House Cafe. Back in the olden days when Bug’s dad and I were dating, we hit up this old spot because it was open 24 hours a day and a great place to hang out all night. Sadly, it’s not open that late anymore! I think they close at ten now. I don’t usually stay up late anyway, but it makes me kinda sad that one of the last great hole-in-the-wall diners is no longer a solution to the problem of where to go for food when everything else is closed.

Harbor House has so much character and charm.  I love how you can stay here for hours; they never make you feel like you need to eat your food and get out. You can stay and chat the night away, kind of like Paris, but not. The food here is mid, but that’s part of the charm of greasy spoon diners. Huge menus with everything on them but nothing very remarkable. I know that burger above looks good, but it tasted like frozen Costco meat. Which is also not the worst thing in the world, and it has its own charm. I’m sure we could have a long conversation about things that are mid-range but beloved for sentimental reasons.

This is a pretty good segue to laundromats.

Laundromats are not very high on my list of fun places to go late at night, but they are a bit sentimental for me and Bug since I’ve been taking her there since she was a baby. Bug needed to do laundry after our dinner date. The laundry rooms at her apartment complex with her dad had been broken down for months, so her laundry was seriously piling up. We found this fantastic laundromat in Costa Mesa that had so many machines! There were huge blocks of machines in all different sizes. Anywhere from one load to eight loads with run times as quick as 15 minutes! Crazytown! It was perfect for us to finish her laundry before they closed at 11 pm. We got everything washed and dried with just minutes to spare. It was a lifesaver since I had to drive back home to my parents (1.5 hours away) after our late-into-the-evening mother-daughter date, and I am not the best night driver.

Sigh. I miss my kid.