sorry it's been so long since i blogged. i kept wanting to blog, but when it actually came down to do it i was too tired or didn't feel like it anymore :P. not that any of you care- all three of you. i did get hounded by manny's infamous "journal nazi" but when i told him that it was sweet that he cared, he told me not to put words in his mouth. punkass.

i was going to put a happy bday message for my mom... but i forgot, and now it's not worth is because her bday has passed and she doesn't read this thing anyways (thank god). but her birthday was last friday for all of you to know (dec 19) send lots of money and gifts to my house next year.. i'll make sure she gets it :) i bought her her favorite kind of cake from this japanese bakery called bon jour (go figure).. but it's this really good coffee cake. expensive too.. $25. but it's my mommy right? joan and jeff-gu came back home and we (plus my mom's friends the kuo's) went to go eat at this chinese vegetarian restaurant "house of vege" sounds enticing huh? it's alright, and it's a place where my mom can eat everything.. so it's her birthday.. whatever she wants. good thing i had a big lunch though. we had our holiday potluck and gift exchange at work. it was good.. did even less work than usual (if that's possible) :P and ate lots of food. speaking of which, this temp job is bad for me.. i sit on my butt all day and just eat food the everyone brings in.. i had six donuts last week.. i'm going to have a bus driver booty soon. really really really need to utilize that gym membership next year... i would say that would be my new year's resolution.. but who keeps those things? no one.. :P

in other exciting news... yay!!! my cousin had her baby, lily anna wong (aww.. how pretty), last friday (same bday as my mom!). i'm sure she's cute as heck, i wish i could see her. maybe if i move to new york :P i wish i could be the cool aunt and buy her lots of stuff.. i just may be.. we'll see. baby gap!!

i got my dawson's creek season 2 dvd that i ordered from amazon.com.. YAY!!!!!! i haven't had time to watch it.. but knowing that i have it makes me tingle all over. the box is so gorgeous. :P and plus its the season where dawson and joey are together... aww... the good episodes. the only ones that beat that are the episodes with chad michael murray. hott. i long for the day that i just hole up in my room, and watch my felicity and dawson dvd's. hell yes. plus sex in the city season 5 is coming out soon. shibby. although sex in the city has warped my brain. i was at the sharper image with vivian and we were "testing out" the massage chairs and there was a table full on "interesting" massagers.. hahaha.. vivian told me that's when we know when we watch too much sitc. :P but i love it.

wednesday i went to go see rent with nicole. i LOVE LOVE LURVE rent. i wasn't sure about this cast... but it was awesome. and i have a new boyfriend... dan domenech. he was just in the swing and also "paul" but he sang really really well and was quite the cutie. it was my fourth and half time seeing it and everytime is always great. i got all the tinglies and mouthed along to all the songs (i'm such a geek). the guy who played collins was AWESOME. he made nicole bawl. it was also funny because 'mark' reminded us of joe bussiere (too bad beth didn't come) and 'angel' reminded us of pic.. interesting.. haha.. it was very spur of the moment because i had forgotten it was playing in la again (i had heard numerous commercials on the radio at work, but since them forgot) but it was advertised on my ticketmaster email that i get. so i looked it up and it was playing at the wilshire and the grove in anaheim- but the grove was way too f'in expensive, so the wilshire it was. but tuesday and wedneday were the only days that we were available.. especially due to our brokeness. but the RADDEST part is that me and nicole got rush tickets. yay!!! i actually got rush tickets... i worked through lunch and left work early, drove like a semi-maniac up there but wasted 20 minutes trying to find parking. la is so confusing! but we got the second to last two rush tickets.. (i would have cried if i had just missed it... because of freaking parking). we got number 40 and 41 out of 42. phew... we sat in the second row :) and on the edge.. but i think i prefered it that way. not as much turning my head from right to left. too bad i wasn't sitting on the right side though.. near my new bf. :P but it was excellent.. i think rent will always be my favorite.. for a myriad of reasons, but also because it rocks. thanks nicole for indulging with me. we also had dinner at the red lobster down the street. their biscuits rock my world. yum.

it did make me want to go into theatre even more.. but those are always pipe dreams... we'll see. but nicole and i did come up with a plan that i was going to up with and idea, she was going to write the show and i proofread and produce and direct, and we both star in it. haha... sounds good to me.

saturday i finally got invited to beth and ryan's infamous south bay/torrance party. now i count as a "torrance person" i guess. or maybe they just invited me so i could give a jill a ride and they just wanted her there. but in any case.. it was fun. i got to play mario double dash.. and i saw a people i went to middle school with that i hadn't seen in awhile. it was trippy ... but still fun. i didn't feel as out of place as i thought i might have, and especially because there wasn't a huge amount of people there.. but i still managed to blend in. it was good to see them again... maybe it will be more frequently in the future. we too (like every other party out there) had the white elephant gift exchange. it was pretty cool and not too ruthless. lots of corroborating among the couples (freaking couples)... and ryan had no faith in my present giving skills just because i brought in a gap bag... (no time to wrap) but he ended up with the cranium cosmo due to his wonderful girlfriend beth. shame on you ryan. i am a great present giver dammit. i ended up with some hot cocoa mix that i gave to mike and traded the spongebob magnets for this space pen with jason (ryan's brother) who is like the nicest person in the world. he is the best... thanks so much for trading with me. he traded because he said that "she seems to want the pen a lot more than i do" and i know he wanted that pen a lot. how nice is that. thanks to jason.. he's going to have great present karma and i'll make it up to him :)

other than that i just worked lots.. temp job, gap. it's been busy busy at the mall with lines going to the fitting rooms or to the front door, depending on which way they swing. it's been alright, except for some of the attitude i get... because i can fix it right? i'm sorry that it's christmas and there are a million people just like you who want to buy presents and have boxes too... what would you like me to do about it? grr.. but i do like being at the register better than out on the floor, so that works to my advantage. except i was feeling pretty shitty on sunday because i got cheated and tricked and i'm supposed to be smarter than that. i guess i'm not, but my manager made me feel a little better telling me that everyone falls victim to it. but i still feel like i should be better than that. boo. next time. it rolled over and i still have this scared sense over me like i'm constantly worried that i'm going to mess up again.. but i just gotta get over it. at least it's not as bad as that time the lady cussed me out and i went to the back and cried. maybe i have tougher skin.. oh well. at least i didn't get in a lot of trouble. :( i also love how people come up and complain about how they're so tired and how they think that i should feel sorry for them. cuz i haven't been here since 7am (and for the last few days) at the hub of craziness in the mall. right. i mean.. i know it's my job and everything, so that's why i smile and say i'm doing great, but it's just funny how sometimes people just don't think. but i really do love the people who feel sorry for us and aren't demanding but just nice and ask us how we're doing. some lady even offered me $4 "for my christmas" what a nice lady. unfortunately i couldn't accept it, but she made me happy again. people like that make it bearable.

vivian called me and wanted to meet up because she was in the area, so we had cheesecake factory (yum) and then went back and braved the mall and i actually got most of my christmas shopping done (all but 1.5 presents). yay. :) now i just have to wrap them. haha.. you'll be getting your presents in a few weeks. :P i worked saturday, sunday, yesterday and tonight, and then friday night. (in addition to the temp job of course). thanks. i hope i don't get sick again. come visit me.. it'll make my day... we'll go have dairy queen.

one last thing (congrats if you made it all the way through!!) i saw this and thought it was pretty interesting. i know nicole reads wilwheaton.net a lot, so she'll enjoy this if she hasn't already heard (which i'm sure she has).. but for the rest of you to know. i had the hugest crush on him as wesley crusher (haha.. how appropriate). what a cutie:

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