whoa.. crazy.. i'm not really used to this new blogger .. but i guess i'll have to try. :P what happens!! i don't update for a few weeks and everything gets all wiggy. but i've heard it's pretty neat. except i missed out on that gmail testing offer. dang it.. i'm still kind of kicking myself for that. but anyways..so phew... i haven't blogged for 12 days.. but really haven't updated in quite awhile.. like a little less than a month. yikes. not that anyone who really cares doesn't know what i've been up to. but anyways.. i'll quit making this blog longer than it already will be.. (because it's gonna be a doozy.. i'm just warning ya now) it'll have some pictures too so you don't have to read my yapperings as much :)
(4/23)before my parents got back i had a little shindig at my place. (shh.. don't tell my parents!) pretty small and quaint.. but still way fun! it was a potluck/fondue party.. and pretty neat. no heavy drinking for many different reasons, illness, diet, lack of interest, lameness.. but whatever.. but it was good times :)
gibbler drove down and we had a slumber party and my sister stopped in as well. plus all the kick ass torrance people :) hahaha and some lame-o chadwick loners.. haha but anyways.. it was fun, and i cried a little when i burnt the chocolate fondue.. but we still had the white chocolate (and dark chocolate.. but i'm not so much a fan). but had yummy stuff to dip with.. and the cheese dip didn't turn out too great.. but over all it was a good time :) i also volunteered to show my nerdy stint on tv in the sixth grade when i was on kidquiz.. gosh i was such a goober! (i know.. i know.. i still am) if i could do screen shots
maybe i would show you all.. but until then you'll just have to wait. haha but i did die a little bit of embarassment watching it again. hahah.. good things all my friends are big dorks too :)
(4/24)that weekend was also ann and bobby's birthday celebration. it was lots of yummy food! ann told me that if i didn't leave stuffed then her and her mom didn't do a good job.. haha.. so i
had to eat you know? i saw luz/vi there.. who i haven't seen in awhile and she's doing great as well as lots of hawthorne people that remind me of those good 'ol key club days. hahah. afterwards after much deliberating we went to amc and watched movies. i saw johnson family vacation.. it was alright. maybe cuz i had heard it was really funny i expected it to be better?
(4/25)anyhoo.. sunday i went dress shopping with my sister and two other bridesmaids for wedding and bridesmaid dresses. crazy huh!! it was partly productive.. but since the date is so near it was a little hard to get service since it takes like at least 6 months to get a wedding dress for you. the people at mon amie were kind of punks with their dresses... because it's all commission and profits. i hate that crap. that night my parents came home (goodbye freedom) but it was good to have them home again. i guess.. hahha.. jk. it's nice to have my daddy cook for me again :P but sucky that my mom is around to nag.. shackles are so hard once you've tasted freedom (gosh.. do i sound like a brat?) i dunno.. it's complicated. :P
(4/26)but anyways.. i went with nicole and armando to disneyland (nicole made me ditch work!!! she's such a bad influence i tell you!) and we went to a special annual passholders preview of TOWER OF TERROR. so fun! i went on it in orlando, but kind of forgot.. but it's still pretty awesome. :) nicole got pretty delirious waiting in line and screamed bloody murder when the lights went out and lighting struck in the waiting room.. but she's a trooper and braved the ride and even really liked it! i bought the picture off the ride.. it's pretty funny. i look retarded.. but it's funny. we saw the snow white musical and the rest of the day was pretty chill, until i almost drove down to san diego for the fox rox 100th episode party. it was sooo tempting. hahah.. but i heard it was a really good party.. so i'm glad for them :)
that week lots of working both temp job and the gap. a little bit of going to the gym (finally) and more car troubles. boo!! right before my dad left i spent $120 to fix my car and check engine light and then that week i had a flat tire! and when i took it in the salesman conned me into switching three of my tires so that was another $300. yikes. now my check engine light is on AGAIN and the mechanic says it's a problem with my transmission or something which would be $900 to fix. but then like he told my parents that if i don't get it fixed it's still safe to drive. so my parents are contemplating hocking it and getting a new car .. but i feel like i need to drive it the 85,000 miles that my brand spanking new tires complete with a new set of hubcaps are warrantied for before i do anything else. i feel jipped somehow.
(4/30)i drove down to san diego (YAY!!) as previously mentioned. i left a little early so traffic wasn't too horrendous, especially since i took the toll road. i had dinner with jill-a at ichiban's. soooo yummy. shrimp tempura rolls.. mmm... and went to the SMAC'N house to hang out a little bit with some old san diego friends. those guys are so funny.. it was good to be back in san diego :) i was supposed to meet up with kathleen carosi cuz she was in san diego for work, but we couldn't get our schedules to match and we didn't get to hang out. sucky :( plus that made us late for the show (the original reason why i went to sd) and plus getting lost and driving wrong ways on the freeways and etc etc i missed annie singing. so sad :( sorry baby! but i saved my $10 (which came in handy later that night) and listened from the sidewalk while chit chatting with friends. i semi heard j.turtle, saba, and tristan .. it was good :) they are great.
YIKES IT'S MAY!! time is flying pretty fast, but it still kind of feels like the end of june (when i'm taking vacation) is still soooooo far awaaaayyyyy. which is weird because a few weeks ago it felt so close. time is a funny thing. a lot of time in the beginning of the month was spent shopping for a good bridal dress for the entire bridal party, which is hard enough as it is. add in the fact that two bridesmaids live in taiwan, and one is on the east coast and it's a big ball of fun. but we've finally picked one, so i hope it looks okay on me!
(5/6)was the very last friends EVER!! so sad. i would get all sad and weepy when i'd watch the commercials. i thought that i was going to cry like no other.. and i'm not a crier. but erika is KICK ASS and had the bestest "say goodbye to friends with friends" party EVER. :) it was so cute and i was worried because i was late (what else is new?) but so was everyone else.. so it was okay. haha. i baked cookies and there was a ton of food and cute coffee cups and erika and her roomie made their own "central perk" and it was rad. we watched the special beforehand and me and erika started getting weepy towards the end. it was pretty funny, it was all these girls going "awwww" and this one guy who came with his wife who didn't really watch friends .. who just kind of sat there. hahah. but erika and kim (her roomie) set up a friends trivia quiz for us to play in between the special and the show (thanks to tivo) complete with rad prizes! it was so fun! i tied with this girl and we did a lightning round tie-break in a very friends style.. and i LOST BY ONE. booooo. i felt like monica. hahah. but it's all good.. we watched the finale, and it was more funny than sad, which is good :) we all kept trying to predict what was going to happen.. and fast forwarded through all those commercials that people paid $3 million to show. oops. :P it was an awesome party and erika rocks :) that was the best way to say farewell. :)
(5/8)did lots of random stuff, but at night beth and i hung out and we went to highland ground to see "the mecky stecky show" which is a chick from the play that i stage managed. it was funny and the guy who played after her forrest fulmer was really great as well. i'm excited.. it's fun to hear new stuff. the scene isn't quite the same as san diego.. but it could be interesting. but it'll never beat (the old) java joe's, twiggs, or lestats :)
(5/9)mother's day i had to work at the gap, but only in the morning, so in the afternoon i took my mom down to hermosa beach - yup.. to the bars. we got drunk for mother's day. :) jk. but it was right next to the infamous union cattle company. i took her to trilogy spa and got her a massage. she liked it, and i sat around and ate free fruit and made phone calls to plan my sister's bachelorette party & bridal shower. i'm so productive! (sometimes). but the spa was pretty cute and quaint and although pricey (as all spas are) very nice. :) you should try it out!
the following week i worked and spent a lot more time planning my sister's say goodbye to singledom shindig. i dragged beth along and made her help me pick out glasses and buy stuff to customize them for party favors for all the of the attendees. my mom and i spent forever arguing about what was the right design to etch on to the glasses while beth looked like she was going to kill us and watched the bachelor (the one where psycho trish is a date crasher!). finally beth made a cute cute "J" in a very beth-esque style and it was the primary design. so yay!! thanks beth! i stayed up until 4am thursday and friday, and then until 6:30am on saturday to finish the cups before the big 'ol weekend of bachelorettedom. it was a good weekend filled with games with "toys", cool prizes, lots of food, a bit of drinking and a few nakey men dancing. (but only on tv!) hahah.. my $5 chippendales video came in handy! we took my sister for a spa treatment, and the stayed in hotel over the weekend, and then went to dim sum for the bridal shower. in the interest of time since everything about my sister's wedding is so compacted we had everything in one. but it was good times.
last week really had nothing too exciting going on. i took beth and benji out to eat since they helped me in doing some of my sister's planning, and i listened to them drone on about relationships. ack! jk. it wasn't
that bad.. but there was a time where i could definitely feel the food coming up. :P
(5/21)friday night i joined ryan and beth, maritza, ryan billings and nicole for a midnight screening of sixteen candles! i love that movie! i felt really young cuz all the people there were probably in hs when this movie came out, so they were having major flashbacks. haha.. but it was good.. jake ryan.. yum! but i got really tired towards the end.. but i managed to survive. that night we also hung out at ryan's and played simpson's clue while watching the simpsons.. it was.. a lot of simpsons. haha.. but it was fun, even though i never won. boo.
(5/22)phew almost caught up!! i slept a LOT on saturday.. to make up my lack of sleep during the week, and that night my parents went out leaving me to fend for myself. i didn't really eat much but instead went shopping. hahah..well not really. i had only planned on spending $15 to buy the miracle dvd (yay!) and the documentary on the real 1984 usa hockey team cuz it was 2 for $20 at best buy.. vs. $15 elsewhere or by itself. but i also had a $5 coupon from my rewards zone.. so hey.. good deal right? but no.. i'm a sucker and ended up buying clerks, a cd holder booklet, and all the sex and the city dvd's that are out. because they were "on special"... yup.. i'm the perfect consumer. and then i went to target to check to see if i got a good price on the satc dvd's and ended up buying 3 more movies. ack!! but i'm not going through buyer's remorse.. because i still feel like i got really good deals. :) but just that i spent so much money. i haven't opened anything yet, just in case i have a change of heart :) so... who wants to watch sex in the city with me? :)
(5/23)yesterday. wasn't too bad.. after my shopping spree i spent a good amount of time reading hockey rule books and trying to recognize the referee hand signals because of my new job! don't get too excited for me.. it's not a "real" job, just another part timer because i am lame. but yea.. so i'm doing hockey scorekeeping for leagues in el segundo. it's very much like what i used to do for intercollegiate athletics at ucsd.. so it's tons of fun.. except i really don't know hockey at all. hahah.. i'm learning.. slowly, but i don't have to know everything.. so it's alright. i just gotta learn those penalty signals! i went to training on sunday and did the scoresheet which is easy because it's similar to water polo, but really it's just writing stuff down.. what person can't do that? (haha.. lots of people i tell ya!) but anyways..it was cool and the people are really nice.. and i got work the "mites" (8 and under) and then the 9-12 or something like that.. but little kids in oversized jerseys.. so cute :) well until they started crying because they lost. that sucked.. but overall it was good times.. except for that stench that accumulates from all the sweat as you walk through the team bench areas, and the nasty chicken caesar salad that tasted like old fish. ick. but yup.. another job where i get paid to sit and stare. :P i'm a loser i know. tonight i go back for scoreboard training.. hope i don't mess up!
yay!!! finally done updating! nicole has been bugging me lots, so i hope this makes her happy. she probably couldn't even get through all this dribble :P. but it's one of those things that i kept putting off because it was too long of an update to write, but the more i put it off the longer it became! yikes. like how i balanced my checkbook yesterday.. i hadn't done it in like 5 months.. what a headache! anyways.. i am done.. work sucks.. but only 20 more minutes! whoo hoo.. i can't wait for the weekend.
