happy leap year folks! it's that extra day of the year.. yay feb 29th. this girl in circle k's birthday was on feb 29th.. that must be pretty interesting. i think today is a pretty neat day. (yeah.. i'm easily amused).

so working at 5am blows. there are a few redeeming qualities.. lunch seems to come earlier (you take it at 10am.. before the mall even opens), you get to work for 5 or so hours without having to worry about customers who want this, that and everything else, and you get off by 2pm when you'd normally be starting your day anyways. so i guess after you get up and go it's not so bad.. it's just starting off is that hard part. now i'm a little tired too, and my feet hurt like no other.. but i get to rest and hey.. i'll have good sleep tonight!

today we were supposed to have our last softball game, but 4 guys on our team are doing fantasy baseball draft (boo..) and jill is in san diego (boo..) so we had to forfeit (booo...) i'm so bummed! no more softball until summer or something. i totally miss it already.. our last game is supposed to start in half a hour, i kinda just want to go to the field and just sit there or something. so sad... i'll miss it.. it was definitely good times. waffles, i'll miss you.

instead... the oscars are going on.. i drove by hollywood and highland last week and it was pretty cool to see the stuff getting set up. we're so close, but also yet so far away.. how fun would it be to walk on the red carpet and go to the parties... one day :P but it's exciting to watch... we're supposed to have a mini oscar party at beth's.. more like just me and her and maybe sakura watching it together so we don't seem so lonely and loserish. but it's a special occasion.. i even got a costco chicken for it, it's that exciting. :)

my new tivo has made me such a homebody... all i want to do is lay on my bed and watch tv. no wonder i'm such a lazy ass. but tv watching has become that much more exciting... i'm such a freak. thursday when "the bachelorette: after the final rose", "friends", and "my big fat obnoxious fiancee" were all on, i tivo'ed one, recorded on vcr the other and watched one (while still flipping channels between all three). insane huh.. i watch entirely waaay too much tv. but it's all so good!

so aside from all my tv watching there hasn't really been much that i've been doing. i didn't actually get to work at banana because their visit was cancelled so they didn't need the extra help, so because my manager felt bad she had me work a few hours (which i actually would have been fine with just going home.. but hey.. extra money never hurts). so i worked for a few hours and ended up buying like $90 worth of clothes.. at a discount, but still.. i spent $90 for working a three hour shift.. umm.. right. no wonder i don't save any money. :P whippin' out that plastic is just so convinient though.. curse credit cards! (no just kidding.. i love you!).

tonight was family bonding time.. it was nice.. i like when everyone's happy and together.. and as we get older it's a rarer and rarer occurrence. but it was fun, did some perusing at costco. my sister got these pictures from her motion camera developed... there was this really funny picture of when my sister had me run through the snow at sundance and i fell. it's pretty hilarious. we ate dinner at el tarasco .. it was sooo yummy. and it was back home to my lovely tv. :P

so.. the bachelorette, meredith, didn't pick matt.. she picked ian!! crazy.. i think he kind of looks like ben stiller.. haha. the finale was soooo cute and made you so want that to happen to you. i almost started getting weepy eyed and i'm so not a cryer. but seriously.. if i was to ever get engaged on a reality tv show, that's how i'd want it to be. in the after the rose ceremony matt was still pretty pissed off... poor him. so sad. :( but.. the good news is that now that i'm officially hooked to the bachelor(ette) saga... the new bachelor is quite possible the hottest ever (gasp.. even hotter than andrew firestone.. is that possible?) this nfl quarterback jesse palmer is hoTT. i want him. not like i really even have a chance, but i like to dream.. i mean.. he's only 25.. but he also had 24 probably equally hot women throwing themselves at him. but he's good enough reason to drool all over my tv. sorry i'm getting carried away, but oh mylanta!

speaking of hotness i also got the jc chasez cd today too. haha.. yes.. i feel a little bit like a big dork, but i gotta love those boys... and jc is my favorite. in a few years when boy bands have gone into hiding again, i'll be embarassed that i loved him so much, like how i would defiantly deny that i loved donnie wahlberg when my sister would make fun of me. yup.. i was a donnie fan.. none of that sissy joey mcintyre crap :P i may love jt.. but jc is my fav. i'm not shamed to admit it... for now.

just thought i'd update quickly... i'm trying to leave work early because i just got called in to go help out at banana.. so i want to go home to rest up, but i feel bad leaving early.. but i didn't take a lunch! so maybe i'll leave like 1/2 hour early after i finish all my work :) i'm a little scared about going to br to work, just because everything is so perfect, and they're getting a visit, so it'll have to be uber perfect... i feel like i won't be good enough. but anyways.

today is the hump day.. and i really just wanted to stay home and hu- i mean sleep :P it's probably bad when every morning you wake up and think about calling in sick just because you don't want to go. how am i going to ever survive in the real world?! yikes.

monday was a lot of driving. i drove up to burbank (third time in the past few days) for an interview (eh.) and afterwards met up with vivian in la for a belated birthday dinner :P really it was just an excuse to hang out, but hey- whatever works. it worked out well because i left burbank by the time i got a hold of her and she was still in century city (where she works). i drove down sepulveda instead of taking the 405.. which was fun, driving down long streets and hills with curvy streets. there were a few stop lights that were out, and i just sped through them thinking they were out on purpose so that it wouldn't slow traffic down. but then after a few more i realized it was kind of dark... so maybe power was out? and i had sped through all those dark lights... oops. luckily i didn't really see opposing traffic, but yikes.. it's scary to think what if. we met up at my sister's and had talay thai (my recent obsession). we had this coupon for buy 3 get 1 free.. it was a LOT of food. i also got my to borrow my sister's ipod.. whoo hoo. i love new toys. i haven't had a chance to really play with it yet. oh yea :P

last night it was me and beth hang out night. we went to pf chang's, beth's fav place. we always say how we're going to go there, but never do, so finally we went to go get yummy chicken lettuce wraps. beth was salivating the whole way :P we had to wait, so we went to the golf store to pass the time. playing with clubs and putters and wedges we knew nothing about.. finally we found this snowglobe of a ball and a tee and you were supposed to try and get the ball on to the tee. that thing is hard. but quite entertaining... that's everyone's new christmas gift! i could easily play with that thing for days (because that's how long it would take me to get the ball on the tee). i came close a few times, but it'd always just fall right off. argh. afterwards we drove around, shopped at old navy, tried to go to the closed trader joe's and finally settled on going to coldstone's. the closest one being in hermosa, we realized it was fat tuesday and decided to look at what was going on in the local party places. (still avoiding sharkeez like the plague) we finally found parking, went to fat fish fenner's, then beth wanted to hit up the treasure chest, your everyday cheesy souvenir shop. it was filled with all sorts of good stuff, including beth's new awesome star jewelry.. so pretty! and new flower necklace, and my new dolphin ate a dolphin keychain. huh? yea.. it's a clean plastic dolphin with a smaller dolphin figurine inside with water. so it's supposed to be cute, but it's just kind of freaky to me. it's like what dolphin eats other dolphins?! we laughed so hard, the store owner must have thought we were crazy.. or drunk. but we weren't... (not drunk anyways). it was good time. we got ice cream, went to the open mic at tj charlyz and back to my house to peruse pictures and watch the littlest groom... (grr.. my sister's season passes overrode my average joe recording.. DANG IT). anyhow.. i had a lot of fun last night.. thanks beth!

the bachelorette's on tonight.. i think she's gonna pick matt.

a few more minutes and then i can hopefully slink outta here.

yum. yum. yum. thanks honey!



sweets for my sweets! :P



*love you lots*

yay.. my blogger hit 10,000.. i missed the exact time of the momentous occassion, but it's lovely nonetheless. :)

i keep meaning to update, but it just wasn't happening.. oops my bad. not like there's anything too interesting to read. oh.. and i think i was waiting on some pictures to update with.. so there.. that's my excuse.

hmm... it's been a pretty interesting few days, interesting to me, maybe not necessarily to you. but nonetheless. friday feb 13th was spent at a pre-valentine's day/yay you got a job/thanks for making my calendar dinner with me and sakura. we had been planning to go to black angus for awhile because we just wanted to go out and eat and i had a coupon... but i had lost the coupon, but it's alright because it came to the same amount anyways.. well actually, we didn't get chocolate cake but we were too stuffed by the end to eat anymore anyways. our waiter was pretty amusing, he kept making wise cracks about "if you need anything, let me know... i'll be here all night" in his "i hate work" voice. :) but he was nice. afterwards we opted not to go party it up with the extreme wild child, nicole, and caught an almost empty showing of miracle instead. loved that movie.. it was so good :) it kind of was like the mighty ducks, but awesome as well. the entire theatre was all empty... when we walked up there was no line, and like 4 people in the theater.. very pelicular for a friday night. where did all the ghetto people who like to hang out at the galleria go?

saturday.. happy valentine's day! it was a family day.. we were each other's valentines.. awwww... my sister came home and she and my mom went shopping and returning (our family's favorite activity) and i ran errands and my sick father stayed home to rest. that night i baked cupcakes and we watched our T3 illegal dvd where you see people walking in late.. hahah. i stayed up way late to frost my cookies and cupcakes but i think they were so cute.. so :) yay. i had a very nice and fun valentine's day.

sunday i was supposed to spend time with the family, but didn't get to.. boo. i woke up to meet carrie at breakfast with the kettle.. after which i ran to my car to find stupid parking meter police man just finishing putting a ticket on my car. dang it dang it dang it. ugh.. i hate that. he was like "sorry.. if you had stopped me while i was writing it" and my reply was "i was waiting at the stoplight to cross the street" to which he replied "sorry." ugh. i contested it and we'll just have to wait. boo boo boo. i frikkin hate parking tickets! i went home to rest a little bit and then in was off to our second to last game. :( we played the best team in the league, but they're really nice and aren't big 'ol jerks and just like to play for the fun of it (but they've kicked everyone's ass without even trying.. so i'm sure it's lots of fun for them). everyone hits well on their team.. some of their girls hit better than out guys.. hahah. it was all gravy until halfway through the game one of the many huge huge dudes on their team hit a line drive right to me. unfortunately i had no time to react and i took a shot straight to the chest.. more specifically my left boob. i only mention it because jill has already kindly announced it to everyone. but anyhow.. i kneeled down to the ground and held my breath to try to stop myself from crying so i wouldn't look too ridiculously girly but people thought that i had gotten the wind knocked out of me. people told me to lay down and i could only think "but i'm wearing a white shirt!" and everyone tried to ask me where i got hit and where it hurts and if i had got any of my glove on it.. which i just replied.. it hurts everywhere. hahah. finally few ice packs later, we all decided the team should continue playing and i sat on the sidelines to ice my boob. jill also got banged in the shin from the ball earlier in the game so we had matching welts, it's cute. the other team offered me a beer and the other guy felt really bad. i felt bad that he felt bad because i know he didn't do it on purpose. but i'm sure he's over it. at least i hope. i really like that team. afterwards we ate at the elephant bar (mm... creme brulee) and then to ryan's for sex in the city and poker. good times.

jean: my boob's all red and it hurts. soon it'll be all black and blue
jill: well you can't show your boobs to anyone then
jean: damn. how am i gonna make my money?

president's day.. i had to work booo.. it seems like almost the whole world had it off.. but work was okay, i went home to eat lunch with my parents and after work i just watched tv. it was the fat suit episode of average joe 2. not quite as exciting as last seasons, but still okay. tonight is going to be pretty sad because they set up fredo to spy on a date where they knew that she'd be making out with hottie jim. sad. i think the girl's gonna pick the hot guy again this season. so what's the point of this show?

tuesday/wednesday i decided to ditch work to work on "who wants to marry my dad? 2" heheheheh. it was pretty cool.. so thursday, friday and saturday i spent with one of the contestants of the show. good thing she wasn't a crazy psycho because i had to spend a lot of time with her. i like her.. i hope she wins! she reminded me of kimmy. hahah. but it was very interesting to see some of the behind the scenes stuff, and be around the studios.. sigh.. if only it was a full time gig. the only thing is that working on production, there is such instability because once one production ends you have to find a new one. so that's where the who ya know/what do you do aspect pops up. that's why i want to work in the production office. haha. anyhow.. i spent all my time eating, sleeping and watching tv. even more than usual. (no comments) sunday i got to see the house they're filming at, it's nice and pretty big. it was starting to rain, so good things i had my sneakers in my trunk cuz i only had flip flops. got to eat the catered food that the reality stars were eating.. haha. and then it was on my way back to torrance to get ready for my hot date with sakura to the dunlap gala that night. like an idiot i took the 405 instead of the 110 to come home, and the rain was murder of the freeway. the traffic was sooooooo bad, it took me almost 2 hours to get home. ugh. got ready, and then drove back up north to burbank for the dinner. in usual fashion sakura and i were late and we got lost. hahahah. we still got our free dinner, parting gift, and lost $20 in the raffle. but there was some good entertainment from the kiwanians. we tried to steer clear of a few people.. or rather person. haaha. it was a little odd to be one of few sponsored youth at this thing... we sat with carrie and irene and we all tried to make conversation with the 2 kiwanis couples at the table... they were really nice though. we ate, said hi to a few of the people we could recognize and didn't stay for the door prize raffle. damn.. sakura wanted the little froggie toys for her kids. oh well. nicole called and from her friend's friend's art show thingymajigy, and since it was nearby we decided to stop on in. too bad i got the friggin' wrong directions and drove the wrong way on the freeway for like 20 minutes before we realized it was the wrong way. tip: consult a map before you go.. even if you have directions from someone. seems simple enough right? maybe i'm just retarded. we finally got there and drank a little, danced some, looked at art in the dark. sakura was drunk to the point where everything was funny (although she only had like 1.5 drinks.. pretty strong though). she laughed for about 5 mintues about the pizza place next to the pizza hut next to the video hut. huh? sure. drove home in the rain.. it was coming down pretty hard. it was a little scary.. but got back safe and sound. slept in late yesterday.. sleep is glorious :) went to csudh for the metro v-ball tourney at salamanca's request. i went for an hour and chit chatted, saw some people i haven't seen in a long time - salamanca, linda, billings.. yay :) i'm not sad the cki isn't my whole life anymore, but it's so weird that that's what connected you to so many people, and now your life just isn't the same. hahah. like how nicole really wanted to go to convention so she have a reason to get dressed up and go out. after winter formals and dances were no more cki gave us something to gather and celebrate for.. and now you just gotta wait for stuff like weddings or really special birthdays (or funerals.. but that's not so happy). i dunno.. beth says that it'll be better once we all have our own houses and don't all live at home, then we can invite people over and have dinner parties, and crap like that. :P we'll have dress up and come over night just for nicole :). i'll put on my own award ceremony and we'll win first in scrapbook everytime dammit! :P did a little shopping and then waited to see if we had to play softball. sadly it was rained out but jill and i still ventured out to ryan's apartment to hang out with beth, ryan and jason to watch sex in the city and the final farewell. awww.. my sissy-poo and her friend lindy came over too :) beth cooked dinner and made yummerific cookies. thanks honey! watched the simpsons and some other programs and then went to joan's to watch snl, the sag awards and pick up my new/old tivo. oh yes.. i am the proud owner of a tivo.. hand me downs are great. haha.. i may not have always necessarily thought, living a life of hand me downs as the little sister.. but this one rocks. and it has a lifetime subscription on it too. whoooooooo... too bad the reception is fuzzy from my spectacular rabbit ears. but the excitement of tivo makes me pee a little in my pants. just kidding. but i am really excited. my sister's also going to let me borrow and ipod too.. so i can try it on for size before i decide if i want a regular or mini. fun fun fun.. i love new toys :) i spent awhile setting up the tivo and set some stuff to record tonight. i love tivo.

i have an interview today.. wish me luck.

oh yea.. because i was a bad updater
feb 14- happy birthday val, keri kabahead!!! & norma!!!
feb 18- happy bday to my grandma!!
feb 19- happy bday nerdia!
feb 22- happy birthday vivian & carrie!

okay.. all caught up. pictures to come soon.

so it's the saddest breakup of all.. Barbie and Ken have broken up. and right before valentine's day too... what the heck. i don't really think it's them.. they don't want to break up, it's their "parents" giant money whores. they don't want ken and barbie together... they're trying to bring in some australian hunk and a new tanner hoochier california barbie (complete with hoop earings). what are they trying to say about california girls?! we're not homewreckers, girls who steal other girls (or other version of themselves') boyfriends... umm... right? and besides... austrailian boogie boarder blaine? how would he look different, is he going to have an austrailian accent? cuz that's the only way i can tell that austrailians are different, certainly not by their looks. i'm gonna protest, long live ken and barbie.

happy friday the 13th! i totally forgot, and the people reminded me. are you supposed to wear something? or just not step on cracks and break mirrors. can you still snort crack (har har har) and watch out for black cats too. good thing i got right of mine awhile ago.

anyhow, i think i may be celebrating an early valentine's day because all my dates have plans tomorrow, so i get the pseudo date tonight. tomorrow i'll spend at home, probably with my parents (unless they go out with their friends too) baking cupcakes... maybe i'll rent some movies :) it'll be good. in the words of the mormon real worlder julie "you don't need to have a lover, just love" and i've got that :)

wednesday i hung out with beth after i finally called her. i was waiting for her to call .. what a flake :P but it was karma because we didn't get to go to her favorite restaurant for dinner because it was too late. we argued about reality television, watched the end of america's next top model, then ate and chatted. (so much for not eating out and spending money huh?) but hanging out with beth is always fun. she always tells me funny stories, and has the best reactions to things, and makes me laugh. thanks beth!

yesterday i went to sakura's to help her make stuff for her new teaching job!!!! she's SOOOOOOOOO cute.. she bought all this cutesy teacher stuff, and is already writing lesson plans and making all this stuff for the kids. she's going to be a great teacher. she has a lot of really cool ideas... so she wanted to decorate stuff, and she got these ugly brown pencil boxes (the other kids have nice plastic ones) so she wanted me to help. cuz i like that kind of stuff.. or really she needed cheap labor and knew that she can buy me with food. but she left me this message that was like "i need some help making stuff, my scrapbook partner." hahah.. cutting out shapes, stenciling letters, decorating, all at the wee hours of the night... so many memories :P but it was fun, i'll probably go on sunday and do the pencil boxes.. i have some really good ideas :) now you think... why don't you be a teacher jean? but my theory is that i wouldn't want to do it if i had to, i do it just because it's recreational. i'm weird like that. i told sakura i'd help her grade papers and stuff.. (shhh.. don't tell my mom.)

i think it's so dumb how people hold these huge grudges.. i mean.. i've been mad at people before, but stuff over like one or two years is kind of ... interesting. i mean.. after awhile.. it just doesn't matter anymore. really. act civil, be nice, smile and fake it, it's not that hard. if you can't deal, just ignore it (in a nice way), which is i guess what happened.. so maybe i should stop complaining. but i left a comment on someone's website.. someone that i hadn't talked to in awhile, and someone that had "issues" with me, for stupid things and things that didn't concern them, i'm sure that they didn't EVEN know the WHOLE story about, and stuff that is just all in the past. my message was nice because i really just wanted to say hey.. but it got deleted! whoa.. what's up that.. you can't even say a nice hello back? wow... i didn't realize some people are just that petty. funny too is that i think i might see this person soon anyways.. so umm.. what happens then? someone's gonna get an ass kicking. just kidding. people are so stupid.

so after doing those big posts about sundance and the weekend with pete i feel like blogging is so empty. they're short and i only blog about nothingness just based on sheer boredom at work. i can't blog about what i've done when i'm blogging daily because i simply don't do anything that interesting on a day to day basis that anyone cares to read about. not like you care to read about this other crap i type, but at least it's remotely more interesting than "woke up, late to work like always, surfed the internet, ate turkey burgers for lunch, typed stuff up, went to the bathroom, went home, took a nap, watched tv, fight with mom, sleep" yup.. i am rad. anyways, here's some more out of boredom productiveness.

so i decided to re-join bmg today. (so if you want to join let me know!) i wanted some new cd's, and i just can't bring myself to buy in the stores much anymore. even though sometimes you can get them for $9.99, and yea, that's pretty cheap, but you can also get a dvd for $9.99, so shouldn't it be cheaper? maybe i'm just a penny pincher, but unless i've really wanted a cd or there was a good reason i can't really buy them for more than like $6.99, so this is my solution. (i know you're like "stupid" but anyways) i went through my sister so she cold get some free cd's for the "recruiting" it kind of sucks because they're selection big, but still kinda limited, they don't have a lot of new cd's or lesser known artists... but i did eventually find 7 cd's to get (pick 7, buy 1, pick 5 more).. so not too bad. you pay shipping and handling so i got 7 cd's this morning (yup.. shopping at work) for $20. nice. especially because i need to drastically cut down costs i just paid off one credit card bill that was a few hundred, gave my mom a check for like $800 for holiday shopping expenses and i just got a third credit card bill for like four more hundred. i need to stop with the plastic.. but it's oh so easy! no more spending lots of money, stop buying crap i don't need, and stop eating out so much, gas i think is a factor too. since when did the cost of living get so high? and i live at home! if i had to pay rent and utilities i wouldn't be able to eat. but i guess that's why i do spend so much money, because i have it. i've always been that type when i have cash in my hand i can never save it, i always gotta use it on something. awful. but i blame the holidays and the giving season... no more presents.. sorry if your birthday is coming up! jk.

i was reading ryan's blogger and he was talking about our last waffles game. he said that another team member, phil, said he felt like vomiting after our first loss and how he felt the same... and i dunno. i feel really bad. i mean.. i felt bad that we lost, especially because i think a lot of it was my fault. but i didn't feel that awful, and i guess since phil used to play baseball it's even worse for him. they're a lot more competitive than i am, and i hate losing, but i also know it's for fun. i just feel so awful that they feel that badly.. i wish i could do something.. but i guess not. i want to say that we might win the next two games, but one's a large powerhouse team that i've seen kick everyone's ass. they said they'd let us win, but it's still not the same. it kind of makes you feel stupid when people just let you win because they feel sorry for you. we don't want your pity! (so make it look like you're trying really hard. :P) and the other brooklyn pizza team (who are also huge jerks) if we brought our best out there and they made a few errors, we may win. i dunno. i do get a little angry when i feel like no one really takes it seriously (you can be serious and have fun!), or that everyone's already given up. but then again what can i do? i do really want to win on our own merit, not just for myself, but for the team morale and all. we're like the bad news bears... but we never had our comeback :(

so i was watching average joe 2: hawaii, it wasn't nearly as exciting as it was in the commercial and this second one isn't as good as the first one. they said they were going to bring another girl on the show, and i thought that meant permanently, but it was only for like one day and she was a "coach" for the nerdy guy team. the hot guy team got a hot guy coach. but they had a baywatch themed "competition" so in the beginning they had the baywatch theme song and showed all the guys and larissa in their switsuits. it was so freaking funny... i remember when angelee and i used to be rabid baywatch fans, and angelee had the theme song memorized and would sing it to me. it made me laugh so hard, ahh.. memories.

today sakura and i went to the torrance kiwanis meeting. just to check it out. the amount of people who go to the meetings each week there was relatively small, and they were pretty amusing, old people humor and all. they were really trying to get us to join (as all clubs do) but sakura starts work next week and i'm not too sure if i really want to do it. dues are super expensive, and also part of me wants to be like, no i don't want to join, you tried to sue my friends. but i do kind of miss the whole volunteering aspect. of course i can help out in other ways, but kiwanis was always a good medium (especially for lazies like me). the only thing is that kiwanis is more focused on fundraising, i mean... they have to be in order to support themselves and their sponsoring clubs, and they try to make you do all these things, join committees and go through orientation. i don't know if i want to jump through all those hoops just yet. but we'll see. i feel bad for just like ditching them so i have to keep going to meetings, but if i keep going they're just going to assume that i'm joining. eh.. we'll see i guess. sakura and i are going to this dunlap gala... we'll see what happens there too. we'll probably see some old kiwanians from san diego. that too.. the different clubs are so varying. and we got so used to la jolla kiwanis meetings and some of the other san diego clubs, it's kind of hard to transition. but they're pretty friendly. we got free lunch :) you take a slip of paper depending on what you want, today was chicken salad or chicken tacos. so i got tacos and sakura got salad, so some guy was joking around about how he thought that's what our names were. so throughout the whole meeting this guy was like.. "no that's salad and that's taco" interesting. also everyone who walked in was like "oh we have key clubbers here today?" riight. i guess if i anything we could attempt work more and bring more awareness to cki because it seems pretty universal that usually most of the kiwanians are like "what's circle k?" but yea.. do sakura and i look like we're still in high school? hhaha.. i guess that's a compliment.. right?

i so don't want to be at work.

so yesterday i just kind of glossed over the game. well, i just focused on myself. but as my ankle swells and stiffens and i feel like rigamortis is going to set in, it's all that i think about. i'm such a selfish brat. waffles, if you're reading this (or anyone else who wants to try their luck) start practicing pitching.. just in case alright? :P anyways.. i forgot to mention what a rad cheerleader.. well maybe heckler... nicole is. cyndi and kim are also rad because they brought pom poms, which i assume were old north high (boo... jk) and once nicole got there she started saying all kinds of things. the ref highly enjoyed them. my favorite was when someone on our team hit a pop fly nicole screamed "drop it like it's hot!!!" nicole is funny. and then when i told ryan to score two runs, he retorted "i'm going to score two runs all by myself" and nicole started yelling "with your hands tied! bat with your teeth!" we need that every game :) i wish she was at the first game so she could say things to piss of the other team... hahah.. it would have been great.

ps.. the bank does have my atm card... so i'm not a complete moron.. well actually i still am, but i'm a lucky moron. :)

so i was healed from my pain in the butt class today, but as murphy's law would have it i hurt myself at the game. boo. it's all ryan's fault i tell you.. haha jk. anyhow.. today was a lazy day.. i was supposed to clean my room but i slept and just watched felicity instead. my stomach hurt some and sakura's had the stomach flu this past week, and although i haven't been around her i still was a little scared. so i opted for a pre-game nap. i had a small bowl of spaghetti before i left and halfway through the second game i was getting hungry again, that wasn't helping my concentration. but anyhow.. the first game we played the team that some people on our team dislike because they're annoying. some guy on the other team didn't like how i was pitching too close to home base so he had the ump make me pitch from the mound. i don't like pitching from the mound for very specific reasons, not because i can't throw that far. i've been hit before so the ump says he didn't want me to get hurt, but ironically enough after i threw the first pitch my foot found a small ditch and my ankle went the wrong way and i fell to the ground with a little bit of a twisted ankle and a scraped leg (boo). after then i didn't have to pitch on the mound and my next at bat i didn't have to run the bases. the ump felt bad and the other team was moted, so i guess me falling was okay. (just cuz the other team was moted, i have no ill feelings towards the ump, we like him.) anyhow.. i lost my balance during another play and fell again.. i need cleats, or just need to be less clumsy or something. i felt stupid yet again, but it's okay. but my ankle still hurts :( sadly we lost both games, but we were pretty tired during the second, so we'll say that's why. the first game we could have won but we kind of fell apart, mostly due to me because i walked a few hitters and then the rest of them ran in.. suck suck sucks. sorry guys. but thanks to lyndsay, kim and cyndi for coming to watch us!! and thanks to nicole for driving all the way to the right side of the tracks to see us lose :P you guys rock!

afterwards we all went to the elephant bar to eat a late late dinner or re-dinner for some. but it was a good time to just hang out and eat and drink :) thanks guys it was fun. even though we lose every game i'm gonna be sad when our season ends. hopefully in the summer we can play again :)

so does anyone want to know just how retarded i am? i mean.. besides the obvious. but anyways.. today i went to the bank with my dad to go deposit some checks, my dad was hassling me about how i should put all the checks in one envelope and not one at a time. but dammit, i like putting them in separately. so anyways.. he's hurrying me and after i finish putting the last check in, my dad goes "are you ready? let's go" so we walk to the car to go to the mall because i have to return some stuff. sounds simple right? no.. as i'm walking away, i fail to realize that i never finished my atm transaction, LEAVING MY ATM CARD IN THE MACHINE OPEN FOR THE WORLD TO WITHDRAW MY MONEY. right.. so i am a smart cookie. and the only reason i remembered is because i was at the cheesecake factory with vivian wondering where my atm card was because it wasn't in my wallet. yea.. i'm a big fat loser. i made vivian drive me back to the bank where there was no card (duh) but the machine was functioning. i call my bank and they tell me that there have been no transactions after my deposits, which is a good thing. and that the atm just just eats the card if there is no activity for a minute or so. so i'm praying that's what happened. but there is a block on my card so if someone does have it, they're stupid for not using it earlier. :P just kidding.. i shouldn't joke about this. but ugh.. i felt SO dumb tonight. who forgets crap like that and just walks away from an atm mid-transaction? no one.. just me. i need to lay off the drugs, killing too many braincells. i used to be smart way back when.

anyhow.. tonight i thought it was kind of interesting that clay aiken was on snl, and ruben studdard was on mad tv. like how kelly clarkson and clay aiken are going on tour together.. what about ruben? it's actually kind of sad, because ruben's the "idol" and clay aiken is just the runner up. which is cool because he's talented too, but you don't see justin guarini hanging around anywhere. and i bet if ruben hadn't have won he wouldn't have all the perks and contracts and junk. i just think that sucks that's all. materialistic america. (cuz i should talk right? i peddle $50 jeans and $30 shirts to people that probably cost $5 to make).

here's hoping to my atm card being safe. and to us playing really well in our games tomorrow. we had a four man practice today (such team dedication :P). i mean.. i know it's just supposed to be for fun and everything, but i wish that it wasn't such a joke. like i don't like wasting my time to organize practices if no one shows up. i mean.. i need it, but i guess i'm just frustrated with losing ALL the time. so here's hoping we win at least one if not both of our games. (come watch us!) i'm pretty sore though after that "pain in the butt" class i went to on friday :P i hope i'm healed tomorrow.

can i just tell you how right manny was when he said that sharkeez sucks ass. and i'll probably go there again sometime... maybe... so don't think i'm a dumbass or a hypocrite when i do.. but i honestly just wasted 3 hours of my life, 2 of it was waiting in line at sharkeez.

i dislike the parking in hermosa almost as much as westwood, but not quite. but it's still pretty bad. first i let some a-hole take this really good spot. i guess i can't get good parking karma all the time. but boo on him for not letting a girl have the spot :P and double boo on me for freaking stopping to let his car go first. i'm stupid. then i finally get to sharkeez and wait in line, and vivian calls me out of line, like a dumbass, i go. thinking she'd show of her breasts to get me in, but the not nice guy of a bouncer (the same one that manny hates) wouldn't let me in, which was cool, but vivian decided to wait in line with me. she turns around and walks smack into the heat lamp, so as she's leaving the bouncer says he won't let her back in because she's too drunk, she could wait in line and maybe he'd let her back in if she had sobered up. great. so we go back to the end of the line and wait, while vivian drunk dials a million people, gets in this fight with a random guy who wanted to stand in line with us, goes to talk to her friends already in the club, attempt to make conversations with people in front and back of us, make some more phone calls.. blah blah blah. i wait in line while watching the bouncer let in groups of girls behind me and groups of people just walking up to the door. and yea you could argue that they were hot girls or something.. but nooooo .. there were tall girls, short girls, groups of guys, a girl on crutches, a girl that i'm pretty sure was a man, pretty girls and ugly girls. apparently i don't fit into any of those freaking categories. i'm cool with waiting and all, but i watched SO many people go in, it was ridiculous. and it wasn't even the people in front of me... the line was getting shorter behind me, but not in front of me.. if that makes any sense to you. it was so aggravating. finally when we were the second group in line i just decided i could not handle it anymore. i realized that i wasn't in the socializing mood anymore anyways, so i pleaded with the bouncer to just let vivian back in so i could go the heck home where i should have freaking stayed in the first place. he said he'd come get us in a second, and like a minute later he did, so that wasn't too bad. i said thanks, for what i don't know, but just to be nice i guess. hoping next maybe it'd help (although i doubt it). i went inside, danced for a little bit, but i was playing the fifth wheel and that's a position i never really desire to be in. i hate doing a lot of things by myself and dancing in crowded clubs is one of them. especially when i was already pissed off. i found vivian talking to a group of guys (the ones she was hanging out with before i came... i think) and told her i was leaving, and although she said she was going to come right back, or she was just going to use the bathroom.. i was just not in the party time mood. i walked the many blocks back to my car and called nicole to yell, cuss and vent. so now nicole will never pick up the phone again when i call her past 1am. but nonetheless thanks nicole. sorry to vivian for "ruining" your night and a big fat no thanks to sharkeez for being so craptacular.

that's another 3 hours of my life i'll never get back.

so i'm pretty excited right now.. well.. not excited, but really .... energized? optimistic? i don't know. i mean.. i know i can't get my hopes up, and i don't want to say anything because i don't want to jinx myself.. but i just had a really really good conversation that made me excited and happy. thanks.

hmm.. let's see.. what happened after sundance. we played in our softball game, that was both our best and our worst. we should have won because the other team sucked, but we sucked at first as well. we were great the rest of the game but after all the runs we let through in the first inning it was too late. boo. but it's okay.. we're playing them again this sunday.. we're going to beat their asses! (i hope). afterwards we had a "whoo hoo" dinner at the elephant bar .. more just like we're hungry.. but whatever. they have the best creme brulee that i've had so far. yum yum yum.

last week was kind of chill (wow i can't believe this week has passed by so fast already). i just hung out and cleaned some, and i had an interview on tuesday. i think they're still calling references, so we'll see. i hung out with beth some, we were supposed to go to the gym, but we just sat in my room and talked and watched tv. oops. i did some editing at my sisters and treated her to yummy thai food, but mostly... i tried to play the week low key in anticipation of my oh-so-exciting weekend :)

weeks of anticipation = 12
round of shots at union cattle = $27
dinner at the stinking rose = $30
drinks at gotham hall = $101
finally hanging out with pete holiday
AND watching nicole make out with a boy = PRICELESS

as nicole claimed it was "adopt a white boy weekend" aka PETE HOLIDAY comes to town. yes kids, it's true, he actually exists outside of our computers. we got to experience the wonder that is PETE HOLIDAY (self proclaimed "hottest" past international vice president.. heheheh) in the flesh. that's right, PETE HOLIDAY comes to california, what a *good times* weekend. unfortunately i didn't get to spend every waking moment he was here with him (well maybe fortunately for him), i had to work and clean for family house guests coming.. but i did get to spend a good amount of time hanging out, sober and drunk, watching jilll boss him around or have him hold her purse, or trying to defend how "black" he is. yea.. sure.

anyhoo.. the fun starts thursday night.. after dinner i leave to go meet up with them. after one hour of driving around and lots of mis-communication i find pete, jill, manny, carrie and irene at a boba place on sawtelle. afterwards we head over to jerry's famous deli in westwood (where jill and i exclaimed how much we hate parking in westwood) and i get to share chili cheese steak fries with pete (oh.. all my dreams). they laughed about the campus shoe repair that was missing an s.. (hoe!) and other stuff that i forget now (damn that short term memory) but jill and i ended up cutting out early because of work. but mostly because i wanted to get home before my parents got all pissy so i could go out later in the week (yea i know... be quiet).

friday night jill and i met up with manny, carrie and pete at everyone's favorite place - the union cattle co. in hermosa beach.

i wasn't woman enough to ride the mechanical bull, but jill was all over it. BUT we did get super good parking :) i made a new best friend, i had just driven by this spot that this guy was pulling out of and i didn't have time to back up, so i put on my blinker hoping i could still get it.. but i saw this other car driving down the hill EYEING my parking spot.. i could feel it. but the suuuuper awesome person in the car pulled out real fast to block the car zooming down the hill, flashed his brights to let me know to take the place and took off after i was safely in the greatest parking spot (to make up for the parking spot in BFE i got from the night before). yea.. that person rocks.. thank you! anyhow, pete and carrie were already throwing drinks down the hatch when we walked in, so manny, jill, and i had to catch up.

we got a round of drinks, and then i took another round of shots with pete and manny. i was DD for the night so that was the end of my fun :P (just kidding.. i'm not a lush, i don't need alcohol to have fun :P) anyhow. jill, carrie, pete and manny kept drinking throughout the night and after they sobered up they went off to the after party at irene's and me and jill called it a night.

saturday i cleaned most of the day (while watching felicity :P) and then spent some time returning stuff at the mall with my sissy-poo. unfortunately i also did some shopping and bought three necklaces (buy 2 get one free) that were more than my last paycheck from the gap. that's the way to save up :P. i hurried home and got ready and sakura picked me up for last night-o-fun with mr. holiday. (sniff sniff). so sakura, jill, sukhyung, carol and i got ready to head over to miyagi's until we got the last minute game plan change from quarterback cercado. we veered on over to the stinking rose instead so pete, carrie and manny could have some time to recover from the night before.

it was all good, carol and i shared this really good steak that sukhyung ultimately polished off (along with pete's, carrie's and vivian's plates). the only part that sucked it was got charged for these 2 plates of bagna calda (which is just sauteed garlic) to put on the bread that the waiter asked if we wanted and i just said yea sure, but no one really ate a whole lot of it. i thought it was free. sorry guys. so when you go to the stinking rose, say no to the bagna calda, those words will forever haunt me.

anyhoo.. afterwards we headed off to gotham hall on 3rd street in santa monica and met up with the deliciously cute april and nicole. we all got inside and started the drinking. three rounds of shots off the bat. vivian started chatting it up with some marine guys with marine friends and april, nicole, jill and i got roped into helping take over the drinks to their table. hmmm... there was some chatting and then we somehow found our ways to the dance floor, they were playing old school music (which nicole THOROUGHLY enjoyed :P) and somewhere along the way carol and i decided we weren't drunk enough and decided to get another drink. one turned into two or three (i can't really remember after this point). i do remember the marines buying vivian shot that she didn't want to finish cuz she was driving and i downed that too, and then the hurricane and the adios motherf*cker that did me in. and i did bankroll the mai-tai that did nicole in. after that i couldn't really see straight. "the spin was rooming" i DO remember dancing and wondering where nicole was, so someone points in some direction and i turn around and see her dancing with a boy. a while later i turn around and see their heads locked together! 3 shots and a mai-tai boys... heeeeey baby. if you want the gory details/drunken recall you can find it here or the weekend's recap in pictures here. aiya. anyhow.. i couldn't really see straight and the rest of the night was a blur.

i remember finally walking over to nicole after her sexcapade and we just both started cracking up and could not stop. nicole screaming something like "cosmic connection!" as i fell on the floor. i remember saying goodbye to pete (but i don't remember his face, just his voice. he was kind of one of those shadowed out blobs when someone's being interviewed but doesn't want anyone to know how he is :P) but i do recall him saying that "i'll come back" hehe.. so either it's an indication of where he's coming to law school or he really likes us :) here's hoping to both? or at least the latter. i'm sad that i didn't get to have breakfast the next morning with him (although sleeping off the hangover was real good too). i guess he's just so damn popular that everyone wants a piece of him. it kind of sucks i didn't get to spend a lot of real quality alone time with him (so that i could take advantage of him), but just mostly group settings (now i know how those guys on the bachelorette feel. :P) i'll have to take a number and get in line again, i had my thirty seconds. but thanks for finally coming out pete! i had fun, i hope you did too!

sunday our softball game was postponed for the superbowl, which i missed because i spent this whole day cleaning as well. too bad i missed spectitular half-time show. but the pictures are all over the place so i guess i didn't "really" miss out. our family friend guests for the week came and my mom insisted on going out to grand china buffet to eat. god that place is so awful. plus they play this really fobby happy birthday song over the loud speakers for each person's birthday. i heard that song like 5 times. can't they just gather every bday person into the middle of the buffet and then play the song? but that place is awful so why go there anyways. blech.

this week has been passing by kind of fast, just work and entertaining house guests. went to a pretty dissapointing dinner at claim jumpers.. boo. no chocolate cake either :P hope next time is better.. i'm gonna get the "i declair" eclair that's bigger than my head for my meal. :) yesterday i met up with nicole at downtown disney for a late dinner. beth and sakura couldn't play so it was just a private date for two. we ate food served by our not too shabby waiter who was probably flirting for larger tips. but in any case i should have left nicole's number or something. we were on our way to haagen daas to get ice cream when we decided to check out what big shindig was going on at the house of blues. we find out that it's the "employee talent show" what?!! yea exactly. i ask the security if we can check it out and he radios someone else and gives us wristbands.. aww yea. we watch "the sexy apes" play, which was girl rock band with one guy. i was kind of excited from the name but it was a little bit of a let down. well, they were alright.. just not my cup of tea. nicole did like the lyrics to one of their songs... ask her about it :) drove home and passed out. today was work and dinner from costco and friends (yes.. exciting i know).

that is what i have been up to, sorry for the uber long posts.. i swear they're be normal size now (long but not quite this long) and i'll get back to the play by play of what i eat for those of you who love that. :P i've been getting pretty apathetic about work, so i'm so thankful that it's friday. aww yea. we have a doubleheader in softball this weekend, wish us luck. or better yet!! come out and watch us play!! it'll be rad to have a cheering section for our doubleheader and hopefully we'll go out for a celebration afterwards :) see ya there! bring your pom-poms!

so sad.. i feel like i abandoned my poor little blogger, but i swear that's not the case.. i've wanted to blog about sundance, but it seems like such a daunting task so i keep putting it off.. but then i only just keep adding to what i am going to blog about because it's sundance plus what i've done after i've come back (which is nothing really).. but anyways.. you get the picture.

it's been awhile.. so i don't even know where to start. i'm also trying to figure out to do this collapse thing.. like where it says "first day at sundance" and you click on it and it expands the entry to show everything.. but i think since this i blogger i can't really control things like that. so everyone will just have to bear with the super long post. or just avoid it like the plague.

i think my audioblog this is pretty rad. i actually re-recorded it like 3 times because the first time i got cut off (yea shut up.. ha ha ha) and the second time it was stupid and the third time was the final one.. and the movie was starting so i just posted it.

so.. here is sundance in a nutshell.

5 days, 10 movies, 3 parties, and 1 giftbag later i am home from sundance (well, plus one week and one day). it was a lot of fun, and definitely nice to just hang out, not have to worry about work, or waking up early if you didn't want to, or nagging parents, or telling someone what time you're going to be home.

flight and first day - jan 20/21
i got home from work with my clean teeth and finished up last minute packing and what not. my parents drove me to the long beach airport, except we got a little lost. my parents were yelling at each other about which way to go, and after calling multiple people who didn't answer, sergi finally gave me directions of how to get on route to the airport. thanks sergi! after a mini fight with my mom (gotta have one for the road right?) i boarded my plane to salt lake city. you'd think a flight in the middle of the week at 8pm wouldn't be too full right? wrong.. crowwwded. but i guess because it was snow season and sundance.. so whatever. i got to salt lake at 11-ish and then took the half hour shuttle ride to park city and got dropped off at the cabin my sister rented.. it was pretty nice. except i had to walk up this long hill of a driveway in the cold thin air... with my heavy luggage.. haha.. i'm such a wuss. but it was cool. we stayed up kind of late.. i watched my sister and jeff-gu play scrabble until the wee hours of the morning. they were having a scrabble feud inspired by their screening of Word Wars. we were supposed to wake up early and try to get on the stand by list for Super Size Me but didn't quite make it, so after sleeping a little bit more chris, joan and i went to go get tickets for Easy. also that morning chris decided to make an cheese omelette. but as he grabbed the cheese out of the fridge again to add more cheese he carried the bag upside down and i watched the shredded cheese rain onto the kitchen floor. i tell chris and he promptly yells "LIAR!.. this bag isn't resealable" and i fall over laughing. it doesn't sound quite as funny as i type this out.. but i wanted to write it, so when i re-read this i can remember and chuckle to myself. :P

Easy was pretty good. it was lots of nekkid-ness... and the first girl from mighty ducks was in the movie and there for the q&a session afterwards so i got to meet her!! i am a huge dork and went and told her how i was excited to see her in this movie because i love the mighty ducks movie. yes.. i am a big 'ol dork. ate lunch at the way too expensive concession stand. and then caught another screening Brother to Brother at the Library (the same place as the first screening). it was the actual park city library and they had a auditorium which was pretty cool. i think it was the second largest screening venue. after that we headed over to the holiday theaters, which was three small theaters that they were using for sundance (sucks for people who live there.. where do they go to watch regular movies?) i helped pass out lithographs and fake tattoos as giveaways for the second screening of my sister's doc In the Realms of the Unreal during the screening we hung out at this cute little place two stores down called rUinTAH eggs. cute huh? :P

it was a breakfast foody type place that was open until 3am, probably quite the popular hang out. they have rad hot chocolate. we had dinner until it was time to go back for the q&a session and pass stuff out again. after the screening i wanted to go try and catch zach braff's movie Garden State but there was like a million people waiting in line to get on the wait list (on top of people who already had actual tickets) so since there was like 300 people in front of me i opted to just not waste my time. i called up courtney who i had run into earlier in the day to see what she was doing. it was pretty crazy.. i was shopping in the sundance merch booth at gateway where she was volunteering and she came up to me and was like "is your name jean?" we met sophomore year through circle k and just kind of lost touch since then (USD cki fell apart, she went abroad to spain, blah blah blah) but it was rad to see her again. and that night i got to hang out with her, and her friends ruth ann and matt. we had a good amount of fun, we first went to this bar j.b. mulligans (where i lost one of my gloves... boo) and then made the taxi man drive all over town trying to fidn where the gen art/fcuk party was.

it was on very top of this mountain in this huge cabin. pretty crazy. there was free drinks, food and the roots were playing. since ruth ann's friend was working the door she got me and matt wristbands. nice to know friends in high places. we drank and partied and danced we got free chapstick on a rope, fcuk safely condoms (they're different colors too!) and giftbags. :) nice.

second day - jan 22
slept in since we had such a full day the day before. but joan's friend was working in the box office, so we got all kinds of hook ups with tickets. sweet huh? she got us tickets to Napolean Dynamite which i hadn't originally anticipated on seeing, but a lot of people had been saying good things about it, so i was excited to see it. it was showing at Eccles Theater which is the biggest and nicest venue out of all the ones for the sundance screenings (at least in park city). but it's the high school's auditorium.. that must be nice for the students, even if they have to put up with the public coming and invading their school. it was really nice, a huge stage, nice seats and even a balcony. but anyways.. when we got to eccles the wait list line was huge and crazy, thank god we had tickets. there was also a bunch of people standing around tryng to buy tickets because they didn't want to wait in line, or just realized they didn't have a chance.

while my sister was waiting for chris to come back from parking the car she said some guy was like "who wants to buy one ticket?" and some guy jumped out from line and was like "i'll pay $100!!" crazy huh? that's where i audio blogged from, waiting for the movie to start. i saw danny glover pass by (i didn't know he was one of the grand jury judges) and there was this girl sitting a few rows behind me that looked kind of like hilary duff, and it was her sister (who was in the movie)... haha... i found myself thinking.. "man.. i wish norma and maritza were here" hahah. but the movie was super funny and entertaining and i guess it was the premiere screening so i think the full cast was there. it gave me hope for the high school dork in me :) afterwards we shuttled it on over to main street where there was a bunch of shops, another movie venue (the egyptian) and the sundance house, filmmaker's lodge.. etc etc etc. we ate lunch at this pizza place that was pretty yummy and then went to catch A Good Lawyer's Wife a korean movie. we caught dinner at this mexican food place called zona rosa. i had a $10 off coupon from a book i picked up (go me).. but it was still pretty expensive for food that was okay. we hurried back to eccles for D.E.B.S. my sister was really excited for this movie, but once it started... we were all kind of blah. it was alright.. i thought it was going to be kidn of alias-y but it was more like charlie's angels 2 but worse. guys might like it cuz there's models in short skirts and a lesbian action based plot... and i could see them marketing it really well and creating this big hype.. but really.. don't go see it. unless you loved charlie's angels 2... then whatever floats your boat.

we caught the shuttle over to the VW drive in party, which sounded kind of cool but that was also not quite as fun either. especially because my sister and chris aren't big partiers, or at least not with me around :P it was in this huge warehouse/barn thing.. and there was dirt and straw all over the ground and kinda smelled like fertilizer. there was a dance area in the middle, but it was trance/house music and all the lights were on.. not my ideal dancing environment especially since joan and chris didn't want to. i'm not also a big dance by myself type either. there was this hp station where they'd take pictures and print their out on their photo printers so that was pretty cool. and then they also had 9 of their cars in set up facing this giant screen (drive in party... get it?) so we got to sit in this bug convertible .. it was neat. (yea i know nicole... boo volkswagen boo.. but i was just sitting in it :P) too bad i didn't get to sit in the new toureg (vw suv).. that would have been pretty sweet.

third day - jan 23

and so the fun continues. we decided to shuttle it to eccles (instead of dealing with the traffic) and were a little late but still on time to our first screening of the day November it was kind of like a thriller in the sixth sense kind of style. courtney cox-arquette was in it, so that was pretty cool to see her in a different kind of thing. it was good, and i didn't really get it at first, but after the q&a i understood it a little more. i'm not that bright with thinking kind of movies :P but i'm glad i got to see it. they won the cinematography award, and my sister had really liked their work, and it was all shot on DVcam so that was pretty impressive.

chris went off to go meet with his friends, so joan and i didn't really have plans, we wanted to catch The Best Theif in the World because we were going to get free tickets, but we didn't think we could get to it in time, so we ended up watching Below the Belt which neither joan or myself thought was very good, but joan's friends really loved.. hmm.. different strokes for different folks right? it was a play adapted into a movie, so it was really talky and there was lots of cg effects. afterwards i treated my sissy-poo to the "Grub Steak House" which is where they had this great steak dinner when my sister came to sundance with BLT so she was excited to go again and was craving really good steak. i had a coupon for a free dessert (good 'ol coupon book) but it wasn't valid during sundance, and my sister just HAD to point it out to the waiter... dang it. but since my sister had let me crash in her cabin and pretty much paid for all our other meals i took care of this one. :) how nice of me huh? :P we tried to catch Super Size Me but we had thought that one of joan's friends' friends could walk us in because they had worked on it, but her friend flaked, so there went the friends' friend. joan's friend was a publicist for the movie and he could get us one ticket, but that wasn't really enough either.. boo. the other sucky part was that this guy had tickets to sell and walked right past me, and i had wanted to say something to him, but i didn't want to harass him, and then he gave the tickets to another girl boo. so joan and i went home and just chilled... but there was nothing on tv, and not much else to do, so we decided to go to walmart. fun huh? hahhaa. nicole and beth's favorite pasttime. so spent some time at wal mart, then albertson's and then back home and it was finally time for the midnight screening of In the Realms of the Unreal. i got courtney and ruth ann tickets and we all watched it, well.. kinda court and ruth ann fell asleep.. oops. hey it was a midnight screening and they had worked all day. it was good, kind of sad because they guy (henry darger) had a sad life story, but fascinating as well :P afterwards matt dragged courtney and ruth ann to rUinTAH, so i went to chit chat for a bit and joan and chris came along (since they were my ride home). we sat, chatted and drank hot chocolate.. yum :) it was fun, we were all kind of delirious.. it was a good time.

day 4 & 5 - jan 24/25
it was my last day at sundance (saaad) so i had to make the most of it right? i got up to meet courtney and ruth ann and their roommate robin to try and catch Word Wars but yet again we underestimate the craziness of people and there's like 100 ppl or so in front of us and we won't get in. boo. so we go to this place called Renee's which is a vegetarian place, but there's lots of fake meat stuff like b.l.a.t.'s and i had chicken taquitos and courtney had an omelette. my mom would have loved that place, if she ever goes to park city, we'll go there :) she hates going to "american food" places because they only have pasta or salad and she just doesn't like those limitations. but anyhoo... it was alright.. they had this really really good dessert (i love my desserts) of a fudge brownie with peanut butter mousse and fresh whipped cream.. it was amazing. we also got key lime pie (i'm a piggy.. i know) but it wasn't as great. it was very tarty... but nothing beats chocolate :P we walked around and went to the sundance house where we sat in the VW massage chairs (oohh) and checked email. i also saw all these posters of picture they took of actors/directors/musicians at sundance. snapped pix of jason mraz when he played at the cafe there (i missed it .. boo) but he played sunday before i even got there.. sucky. and snapped jessica's pix (the director of my sis' doc) and a pix of these muppets that they had in the shorts at the beginning of each movie. they'd say like "sundance myth #9: it's never too early" and then show the muppets freezing in the snow late at night waiting to get tickets to a showing the next day. they had really funny ones.. like my sister said "everything's funnier with muppets."

i met chris and joan at eccles and i waited in line to get a ticket for Zatoichi, which wasn't too hard. it was a japanese kung fu movie, pretty violent (thanks for telling me in advance joan) and i kept having to move my head side to side so i could read the caption cuz there was a pretty big dude in front of me. and i kept thinking.. man.. i wish i was sakura so i could just understand japanese and wouldn't have to keep moving around to understand what's goin' on. afterwards we got on the shuttle to the awards show, and while waiting for joan's friends to show up my sister wanted to take pictures with her motion camera. it had four lenses and takes pictures 2 split seconds apart, so you click it and it goes *click click click click* and catches your motion. so my sister told me to go run in the snow ... so of course, i did it. except the snow bank was pretty high, so i climbed to edge of the snow and 1-2-3 i stepped out to start my run. i thought maybe if i ran fast enough i wouldn't fall through and i could actually run. uh no. i stepped on the snow and my leg fell in and i fell in the snow. i hear my sister laughing and saying how she got a great shot, probably of my ass as i fell in the snow. fun huh? i tried to get the snow off me before it made my clothes wet and tore open my pack of hot hands (these all natural herb packs that emit heat.. like an ice pack, but opposite). they're like the best cold weather invention ever, they get pretty hot too. you put them in your pocket and you are happy and toasty :) my sister's publicist friend knew i had them and stuck his hands in my pockets and i was like whoa.. but i think he was gay so it was a friendly invasion. i gave him one of my hot hands and so hopefully i can call in a favor next time :P jk.

anyways, i sat in the anterior room of the awards ceremony, which was just this big room where they set up chairs and a giant screen of what was going on inside (where the important people were :P) i sat by myself when everyone else inside, and i was a little buzzed from my wine and beer and no dinner. weird huh? anyways.. on the way to the bathroom i walked by the awards ceremony room and i swear to god it looked just like international convention, rows of chairs, giant screens, podium. fun huh? so i guess i wasn't missing out on too much, except the people. my sister sat behind zach braff and zooey deschanel and jake gyllenhall hosted the awards show. yea.. that's definitely different from icon. but anyways... it was kind of sad that my sister's doc didn't win anything, but there were only a few awards and so many entries. they started describing the grand jury doc winner about the struggle of an artist, and i got really excited because i thought it might be my sister's, but it wasn't. such a let down, it was just like reliving that scrapbook blasphemy :P afterwards my sister had tickets to one last movie at 9pm, but we didn't get out until 8:30pm and we were starving. there was a party going on but my sister and chris wanted to watch the movie. but there was free food, so we tried to catch both. it was a "Rock Around the Block" party that Sundance was hosting, as the last hurrah. it was pretty fun though. it was kind of like grad night, and they took this street, set up fun lights and screens on the outside and had like 9 or so businesses as the "party places" where they had food, drinks, activities. you got a wristband and could hop from place to place. we rushed to the least crowded one, a mexican food place, la casita. it was real yummy and thankfully we got there before it was super crowded and got a plate and a table. we scarfed our food as fast as possible so we could leave for the movie. as we were leaving they had stopped letting people in, so with the taquitos in my pocket (ghetto.. i know, but i didn't want to waste them and throw them away) we ran up the hill to the egyptian. well tried to at least, with a full stomach, carrying lots of junk (i hadn't gone back to the cabin that day) and the thin air, running up hills was not in my best interest. it also started snowing on our walk up there, and that was super exciting. i was so glad it was snowing, i don't really remember being in real snow, so i was glad to hear that a snow storm was coming in (i'm a weirdo.. i know). we got to the theater and thankfully they let us in even though we were late because chris ran ahead and let them know we were still coming. we watched Last Life in the Universe which was another japanese movie. it wasn't too bad although i didn't quite get it, i think because we missed the beginning. we got outside and it was still snowing!! yay!! i took lots of pictures and videos, and played. and funny enough.. it was "snowing on main street!!!" but this time for real. funny coincidence huh? so cute. afterwards chris headed back home and joan and i went back to the parties (at my request). i just wanted to go see the other places and soak up as much fun before it was time to leave.

we went into this bar where they had chocolate fondue and fruit earlier in the night, so i saw the empty fruit plates and solidified chocolate.. boo... i waited a long long time for drinks cuz there were so many people, but i also didn't want to drink that much anyways because i had to pack and catch my shuttle at 4am for my 6:30am flight (painful!). we went outside and it had started snowing a lot harder, and i was elated. i took pictures, ran around in the snow, my sister started networking yet again, so i just played :) finally i ran into the salon, where i was hoping to get some free beauty products or maybe a manicure or something, but they had the hp thing again where they'd print you pictures, so joan and i did that again.

we left there and it was snowing real hard so we walked through the snow, took some pictures along the way next to sundance signs and finally got to the shuttle station. got back to the parking lot where we parked the car. we had to wipe the snow off the car though.. crazy!!! i had this little scraper that i had found in the car, and ended up wiping a lot of snow on to myself (stupid) but it was still fun. i was lovin' it. joan drove back and she said it was a little hard and scary driving in the snow. finally we got back home driving kind of slow on the unpaved road up to the house and joan tried to drive up the steep long driveway to the cabin. but the tires would melt the snow to ice and the car would slide to the side and i had visions of crashing into the rocks. it was pretty freaky. so my sister tried to park on the side of the street and it was kind of hard to turn around and fyi my sister is really really REALLY bad at parallel parking or even parking at curbs.. well especially in the snow. she was scared that if she parked too close that maybe it would get stuck or something.. so she didn't want to park too close, but she was parking real far away, like 2 feet, so i had to park the car. it was definitely pretty hard to drive in the snow, especially on hills. and i started to smell this slight burning smell, so i freaked. but we finally parked and i walked up to the house, and right before we went in, my sister was like "you could make your snow angel here" (the driveway in front of the garage). i had been talking all week about how i kinda really wanted to make a snow angel, and so now here was my chance. so i stripped off my jacket and lied down in the snow and made my snow angel. it was WAY fun and kind of cold. if my mom finds out she'll probably hurt me, but hey.. i ran inside and took off the wet clothes and took a hot shower, so no harm no foul right?

i made a snow angel :) i spent the next few hours sorting through all the crap i had picked up free magazines, free gift stuff, random movie postcards, movie giveaways and souvenirs, indie wires and sundance bulletins and packed. i finished with enough time to make myself some breakfast, clean up stuff in the kitchen, finish my ice cream, watch some fuzzy full house with no sound and take a ten minute nap. i saw the shuttle guy outside and they called me cuz i guess the guy had walked up the driveway and he didn't want to ring the doorbell (because it was 4am and the house was dark) so i told them that i'd be right down and i had to walk down the driveway and they said to be careful and take my time. so as i was walking down the driveway i see the shuttle guy leave and i'm like "what the heck!!!" but then i see him turn around down the street (as i'm frantically trying to call the shuttle company) and he passes the me and tells me he'll be right back cuz he has to turn around again. why were you leaving huh? i was the first stop of 5 (crazy flight schedules) and driving to the airport was a bit scary. he was going pretty fast, but i guess he was used to it. there were these girls on the corner who flagged us down and asked if they could get a ride, but the shuttle guy said that he was in a hurry, but immediately after that another shuttle drove up to get them. there was a jackknifed big rig taking up 3 of the 4 lanes of the freeway, but before we were close enough to know that i was scared that we would be stuck there for hours. btw- how do you know what lanes are what when snow is covering the freeway? that's kind of a scary thought. we were also behind a few snow plows that were kind of big and scary, but slow, so our shuttle guy sped past them. i fell asleep after that until we got to the airport and then checked in, and got on the plane. there was snow covering the plane and i figured it'd just fall off once we were going fast enough, but i guess they had to spray this "de-icing" goo on the plane to get it all off first. after that i fell asleep, woke up to drink some apple juice and water and slept some more. it was a good time. i snapped a few pictures of the clouds and the wonderful sun as we arrived back in long beach.

yay california, i couldn't wait to put on my reefs again. my daddy picked me up and drove me home and i went straight to bed. i slept all day until beth called to wake me up for the game. good thing she did or i probably would have slept right through it. so that was sundance. it was tons of fun, i'm glad that i ran into courtney because it made my sundance experience that much better. i'm glad i got to hang out with my sister again, because we hardly get to now that she moved out. and chris was great and tons of fun. thanks utah!

sundance pictures here... watch out there are 300+