DISNEY'S 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION!

*the happiest homecoming on earth!



*the crowds, leann rimes, the castle, my perfect view




*disney photo mosaics


*the cool brass ball reflection


*riding the matterhorn!


*the castle @ night.. look at the mickey shadow on the side!


*stolen from beth (you can tell the quality is MUCH better :P) yay for fireworks!


*buzz lightyear ride.... my pitiful score :P

more of my disney's 50th pictures can be found here

hope you enjoy the pictures. sorry i've been too lazy to put them up earlier. :P my feet are cold... probably because i'm a little (or a lot) sickie. it's getting progressively worse on the outside (more sniffling.. etc etc). does that mean i'm healing? i slept the moment i got home yesterday.. all night until midnight or so where i got up to take out my contacts, take some medicine and try to go back to sleep. but i had gotten 5 hours of sleep and it was hard getting back to sleep.. so i watched some tivo'ed joey and after that finally was able to go back to sleep. this morning i thought i could make it through the day, so i'm here at work. i'm sure i could make it through the day........ i'm not completely miserable... at least not yet. i hope i get better.. but this weekend isn't a real good weekend for that.. since i won't be getting a lot of rest. wedding in san diego tomorrow (but i'm really looking forward to it!) and then work and our first softball game on sunday :) woo hoo!! cheer us on.. i hope we win.. or else we might start losing players :(

happy friday.

yay for 20,000 visits. congrats bloggie. i know 20,000 is a small feat for some people.. but i like it :)

makes me feel a little better while i'm sick. BLEH.

so here are some random shorts....

i'm going to apologize in the beginning of this story for the excessive gross girlyness of it. with that said.. if stuff like this grosses you out, stop reading. it's not a lot of details or anything.. but just the mention of it. i generally like to stay away from topics like this.. but this is pretty entertaining.

so... last night i went to into the gap after work because i had to get something. i technically still work there, and go to traning meetings every here and there, but haven't really worked a real shift in awhile. so the mgr tries to rope me into working because there aren't really any closers, and there are a few no shows or people who called in sick. whatever. she is begging me to stay and work, despite that i just got off of working a 10.5hr day and hadn't eaten dinner yet .. i was thinking about doing it.. just because i like my mgr, i felt bad for them, and i have a hard time saying no. i delay my answer a little bit, and right when i'm about to go say yes and clock in... i realize something is not right. i go to the bathroom and check and confirm that my monthly visitor "flo" has paid me a visit. i tell my mgrs that i can't stay because i have begun to surf the crimson wave at that very moment, and although i have emergency supplies in my bag, i don't want there to be any permanent stains. talk about perfect timing huh? although i was willing to stay, i wasn't really excited about it, so while these girly shenanigans are usually so dreaded, i was quite thankful to have a reason to get out of there and not look like i wasn't trying to be helpful. although i'm not loving these pains so much today.

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today i tried to have lunch with beth. and i say tried not because either of us flaked... we spent my lunch hour together, but we didn't have any lunch. i got my discounted entertainment book in the mail yesterday and decided i wanted to get as much use out of it as possible. so i picked a place near my work that i had heard about before and heard was pretty popular. so we walk down to the beach and get a table and peruse the menu. things seem to be fine... we wait a little long to get our order taken, the water tastes a little not so great, beth wanted the street performer right next to us to die, and we sit and chat in the beautiful sun and have a lovely conversation. i figure this food wouldn't be too fast, but didn't expect it to be fantastically slow. even with only one waitress and a helper guy... it should not have taken THIRTY FIVE MINUTES for us to not get our food. after 20 minutes or so i ask the guy to check on our food because we need to go. he serves other people their drinks, brings out some food.. all not ours. finally we decide we should just get out of there because we still have to walk back to my work... and i go inside and tell them we're going to leave. the guy asks if we want the food and i ask him if it's ready.. if it's ready maybe we can take it.. if not then we're just going to go. the girl comes in like ready to give us the check, and beth says that she isn't paying for the food. so the girl goes "so you want to cancel it?" in this nonchalant attitude like it happens all the time. maybe it's not the place to go when you're on an hour lunch. i saw a few co-workers of mine there... maybe they were there just to drink. but the girl really didn't seem like she cared.. she wasn't even a tiny bit apologetic (not like the awesome pat and oscars lady who was super nice, really sorry, refunded my money and still gave me the food we ordered...) but was just like.. okay bye. probably pissed off thinking it was our fault. but we sat there for 45 or 50 mintues and only got water... because i asked the guy for them. so.. On the Waterfront Cafe in Venice.... booo to you for being so heinously slow.

but i am thankful to beth who went out and bought me lunch, and came back to drop it off, even after i told her to go home. what a sweetheart. :)


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so this guy at my work was wearing drawstring athletic rayon type capri pants. with these pants he was wearing simple brand shoes and black socks. the CEO says to him "hey... why don't you have a party and invite your pants to meet your shoes?"

flippin hilarious.

*WARNING* do not read if you don't want to know who won the amazing race. :)




SO.... i'm am soooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy that uchenna & joyce won. i think they are good hearted and have a great story - on top of being great competitors and deserved to win... and if they hadn't won.. joyce would have cut off all her freaking hair for nothing?! yikes. but i almost (almost i say) cried at the end.. because i think it was great how happy they were, and how the race had brought them back together... from the verge of almost a failed marriage. you know? my mom.. who never watched the show before - i got her into it with all most ranting and raving at the tv.. she was even grinning at the end. i kept trying to explain to her my disdain for rob & amber... and she was like "well... if they let you do that.. why not" and it's not so much what they did.... but just that they're so smug. i'm sooooooooo glad they didn't win.. or else i would have felt like i wasted a whole season watching this show. much like carlene's dissapointment with average joe 3 guy adam. :P i liked ron & kelly in the beginning.. and i liked ron at the end still.. hahah.. (maybe because i have a little crush on him.. :P) but that sucks that they got lost on the way to the airport. i feel your pain!! hahaha.. if i was every in the amazing race.. i could drive.. because i'm good at that.. and squeezing in, speeding, picking the right freaking toll lane (oh yay what LA traffic has taught me)... but someone else would obviously be the navigator (because i'm driving.. and because i suck at that)... hahahah. yes yes.. save all your snarky comments (beth).. i know i suck at directions. but i am good at driving. and not just for an asian female.. (pete.. i know what you're thinking!)

so anyways... there's all these thoughts about conspiracy theories on the internet amongst the message boards (yes.. i'm a dork) about if the producers had meddled with the getting uchenna and joyce on the plane that was leaving (with rob & amber) aboard.. just so there'd be a race. these thoughts did run through my head after the show was over (because i am in the hyper thinking editing can change anything mode).. because if rob & amber had that lead, on a relatively short course race (probably even with the not being able to find the shop.. which was so disgustingly enjoyable to watch).. there really would be no race at all. BUT.. i think it was luck, and maybe the persuasion of knowing they were on the race (and that they would be on TV ... ) because if the show involved themselves in the outcome of the race.. there would be a riot... and i don't think they'd risk it.. fake reality tv or not. i mean.. i've heard a lot of stories about how reality tv isn't real.. and of course you know that on those dating shows - it's mostly actors. but you can't affect the outcome.... didn't you watch quiz show?! hahaha. maybe ken jennings was a fake too :P jk.

SO ANYWAYS...

so very happy, i am. :)

*(that was a little yoda speak for ya.. as i was so eloquently reminded that stars wars is in 7 days.... angelee is going to see it with MY boyfriend. curses!)

so.. funny thing that happened on the way to bed.. i hear about some small commotion on the internet... again. hahaha....

Mondo's Best of the Last 6 Years of CKI or.. "the mondo's"... as he has dubbed them.

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dammit!!! will i NEVER make any of armando's lists?! hahaha..

< /cki nerdery >

so.. as i open the internet, my home page, the apple site, comes up... and it lists the the top 10 downloaded songs off itunes. so... number 6.. is incomplete by the backstreet boys. BOY.. have i been missing out... i kind of knew they are back together because i think they are playing at wango tango.. but they have a new song out?! where the heck have i been??? apparently under my rock to not know that the BSB has a new single. man.. i feel "incomplete" har har har.

just thought y'all would like to know :)

*now i'm just waiting for *nsync to be revived.... :P

i LOVE disneyland.

without fail, even with crowds, even when i was angry about the whole passport thing last year.. i still love it. that's what they are so good at... making you follow them in a cult like manner almost. getting thousands of people sitting around, waiting on the ground, through cold, and rain.. just to see some fireworks?! but they aren't just any fireworks, they are disney fireworks, and that makes it alllll worth it. they have people taking off work, ditching school, traveling far distances to celebrate their 50th anniversary, on a date that's not really even their actual anniversary, but you go anyways.

it's like cki convention almost, you come away feeling re-energized, and refreshed for your love of whatever it was. after conventions you always come away with this feeling of purpose or excitement and renewed sense of how you want to do good in the world. in the past month or so that i haven't gone to disneyland since i've renewed my pass, i was always "eh.." about the fact that i hadn't been in a while. but after going yesterday i am like "i want to go every weekend forever!!" which i'm sure will fade off in a few. but seriously.. it was awesome :P

wtf am i talking about? as if you didn't know. hahah.. yesterday beth, jimmy, sakura and i all took the days of work .. called in sick.. whatever to trek out to disneyland for "the happiest homecoming on earth" their 50th anniversary, which all the disney freaks who know waaaaay too much about the park for their own good (referred to as "the crazies") are quick to point out that may 5th is not the actual day the park opened, but it was actually in july. waking up and leaving earlier than i usually do for work (just a tad) and hoisting beth out of bed way earlier than she's used to, we were off to disneyland. thank goodness for the carpool lane because we made excellent time. where we were not making excellent time was the parking structure, the entrance to the park, and main street. beth is excellent for yelling obscenities at other cars who don't know how to merge (in the privacy of our own car of course). the park was PACKED... and trying to get through main street to where jimmy and sakura and his aunt were.. was impossible. i was all set to shove through the crowd.. but beth was not for being as rude as i was okay with. we finally got some sort of spot where we could somewhat hear, entertained ourselves with people watching, complained about how hungry we were, and they finally started. we saw little tiny leann rimes, and listened to some boring boring speeches and left as michael eisner was being introduced and booed. beth had to go to the bathroom and i was over it. but of course.. in that park your patience will always pay off (most of the time) and i left before christina aguilera and then julie andrews came on stage. not a huge deal because i couldn't really see them from the original position anyways.. so i traded being able to hear what was going on, for a partial view of the screen projections. i couldn't have both.. i had to pick one. they showed the commercials that have been airing where all the characters are racing to get to the park (which i was giddy to see since our company made them) and then ended it with the characters, and the little boy from the commercial, coming out and having this celebration on the stage. it was cute. fireworks shooting up from the castle.. the whole shebang. totally cute.

afterwards, beth and i rode on the new buzz lightyear ride.. (since we are smart and got fastpasses when we couldn't cram ourselves in at first), *insert picture of beth and jean on buzz lightyear ride here*.. guess what too bad i can't. because when i cut and paste the code it says it can't find it. dang it. oh well.. the picture is nasty and beth totally schooled me.. so i don't mind that no one will see it. hah. after that we ate some lunch.. FINALLY! and roved around the park doing things beth hasn't really done yet and trying to find special 50th stuff (including the 50 smashed pennies...!!! i was in penny heaven!!!) autopia, the disney train, mark twain riverboat, jungle cruise. it was neat.. they added a lot of stuff to some of the rides and it's definitely more spiffy. i love what they did to the jungle cruise. we got to watch this kid pull the sword out of the stone and looked at the different mosaics in the park (disney pictures consisting of pictures of people at disneyland throughout the years). we finally met up with jimmy, sakura and his aunt. looked for his cousin in the mosaics, rode matterhorn (which i think they definitely made faster!) and discovered that those turkey legs they sell are super yummy. later sakura, beth and i were off to search for the 50 mickey 50th logos hidden around the park, look at mosaics, penny machines, and souvenirs. while walking through the castle we saw people starting to camp out for the fireworks show and i decided i want to too. based on the warnings from nicole about wanting to be able to see the castle... i figured that right in front was the best place. everyone though i was nutso, and one of the crazies, but they are too.. so they didn't completely mind waiting with me. plus we were a little tired too. wanna know what time we started waiting? guess...

5pm :P and the fireworks started at 9:25pm... if it didn't rain... which it had been sporadically in the morning and was forecasted to in the evening. i wanted to wait anyways. beth, sakura and i waited, took turns going to get food, and it started raining at like 7pm or so... and people were miserable and wet, but still sat there. beth and i huddled until my umbrella and after awhile it stopped raining.. and people were judging the skies, seeing where the clouds were coming from... seeing if it was going to rain some more... sakura came back from getting food and jimmy joined us and we had an entertaining wait for a while... it was nice. we heard fantasmic going off and we were pretty sure that we were going to see the fireworks, that the perseverence had paid off :) and it did. we saw the new fireworks.. it was awesome.. so cute, and it was funny how into it everyone was. especially the people who waited 4 hours.... but hey.. if you're willing to wait that long, you'd better be into it right? it was good.. thought.. definitely worth the wait :P

afterwards we were going to leave, but spent some time doing penny searching and looking at more souvenirs. there's this photo album that i adore.... but the whole "retro disneyland" style of products they came up with are totally adorable. and i think i'll have to get it.. but i couldn't get it just yet. who pays $18 for a photo album?! i guess i will.. especially since i already paid $18 for my umbrella :P

trying to get out of the parking lot was a little bit of a mad house, but not too bad.. and finally we were on our way home. totally exhausted. i wanted to fall asleep so bad while i was driving home.. i hope beth didn't notice. it's okay that she knows now because we home safe and sound. :P the exhaustion has carried over to today.. and i am just plain tired. but i loved it.. i wish i could have seen some of the footage and what they showed on the news. my boss said he was thinking about me while he was watching the news. hah.. so he knows i'm a total slacker.. but that's what vacation days are for huh? :P

*and you thought you were rid of my long "this is what i did and ate today" posts huh. hah!

i am too tired to be original.. so here is a blog copied from myspace.

today is just a super sluggish morning. i don't know what it is. i didn't go to bed super late and got a good.. 6 or 7 hours of sleep.. which is not the greatest, but decent. i haven't had breakfast yet, maybe that's what slowing me down. maybe i should have opted for that bagel and injected the carbs in my system. does that really wake you up and give you more energy? i just tried to drink some water out of my sport top arrowhead bottle, and tried to pull open the top and it slipped from my mouth and water got everywhere. luckily no one saw.

*oh man.. another person just walked by with their bagel... mmm. it had smoked salmon on top.. good thing i don't really like that or i'd be super jealous*

last night i almost got into a car accident. not my fault at all.. before you start making snap judgements and snarky remarks about female asian drivers. i was driving to work and there were three lanes, i was in the middle, a big van truck on my right and two cars on my left. the first car on the left went in front of me, and then the truck followed him.. when i was right next to him. i dunno if he was following the guy and just didn't look, but i was so petrified for a few seconds. i'm glad that i didn't immediately swerve out of the way because then i would have slammed into the van truck and been S.O.L. i tend to swerve sometimes, and maybe it's because i subconcious know that no one's in the lane next to me, and i didn't this time because i knew the van truck was there. i just braked and honked so the guy didn't keep coming and just moved forward while i was standing still. what gets me is that he wasn't even getting off the freeway ramp, so there was no BIG hurry to get into my lane because they merge up ahead anyways. dummies.

before i left my mom gave me all these warnings about being careful when i'm driving by myself.. and if someone wants to squeeze in, just let them, and if the car/driver looks no good and that they might have a gun, call the CHP and get away. hahah.. maybe i am taking this too lightly... maybe it's because i'm not watching the news that i haven't been freaked out. but it just doesn't seem like a huge deal to me. i was listening to the radio and they said that the number of freeway shootings is actually lower than previous years. but i guess it's just a bigger deal now because there are deaths. or maybe it's just more publicized. like all the "finger" in foods incidents.. that's probably not anything new :P and i bet you child abductiosn are still going on.. but just because they're not in the news every 5 seconds people just forget about them. freeway shootings are the new child abductions :P

on one more saddish note.. driving to work i sometimes take lincoln instead of the freeways.. and i drive by where the cop got killed because some crook tried to hijack is car and there was major drama. there's a lot of flowers, stuffed animals and candles on the side of the road, and it always makes me a little sad when driving by. i remember last friday when they closed lincoln off.. i didn't know what had happened.. and i was all like "wtf.." i had a little trouble getting home, trying to figure out the side streets... but i got home okay and watched a lot of the news. sad sad stories.

i am happy though because tonight i have a hot date with kimberly, and then tomorrow is DISNEYLAND!!! for the 50th anniversary. hell. yes. it will be crowded like no other.. but i am hoping it will be fantabuloso. i can NOT wait to ride space mountain.. FINALLY.. and watch the fireworks... i love fireworks. i hope we get in :P

my hands smell like garlic.. it's kind of good, because it's a yummy smell, but bad bceause it's like.. what's wrong with me that my hands smell like garlic. it's just everytime that i cook with it.

i am becoming more and more enamored with the new mraz song. it's catchy.. very user friendly :) it'll probably be another remedy sized hit. it caught me off guard at first, probably mostly because i had heard all his produced songs on "waiting for my rocket to come" before in some sort of earlier version... but this was all brand brand new. but it's good... i think i will love his cd no matter what.

i am wearing these new shoes i bought awhile ago, was going to return, but sakura told me they were cute and i should keep them... so i decided to wear them today.. i never realized how high the incline is and how thin the soles and support is :P i usually have just platformy shoes... i guess everyone has to grow up sometime.

i want to go back to bed.

i just wanted to let you know that i'm home and safe.. not that anyone really cares i'm sure.. (i mean in the sense that they weren't really that worried.. not in the nobody loves me kind of sense. it's not that kind of day.)

anyhoo. coachella was way fun, even if i only went for one day. and yesterday i got to go to my sister's screening and hang out with my fam.. so it's all good.

i'm feeling a little under the weather, i thought i had recouperated yesterday.. but i guess not. i hope i don't have mono or something. bleh.

before i embark of my weekend of cooooaaaccchhheelllaa.. i wanted to say a few quick things... first off...

happy birthday kathryn and ellie!!!

i have not talked to either of these girls in forever. i don't even think ellie knows i have a blog, and kathryn knows, but i don't know i she reads it anymore... but in case today is the day the decide to stop by, happy birthday girls :)

so i FINALLY found someone to go to coachella with me. i almost was going to sell my tickets because the hassle of going, and trying to figure out where to stay (which still has yet to be determined) was kind of not worth it to me in my lazy state. i got cheaper tickets for day 2 because vivian sold me her tickets for cheap.. so even if i sold them below cost, i could have still broken even or made $20 or something. but at the last minute i found someone to go with me... and.. it's a friend of a friend. a friend of a friend that i haven't met yet. technology is great huh. :P i kid. this guy has been a better friend to me than a lot of other people besides being internet friends, and so i trust his choice for me and his friends.... that may be my downfall - so if i dissapear and don't show up on monday or tuesday.. send out the search parties. :P

thanks to beth, nicole, heather and tracey for you support and comic relief and offers to help me out if i get stranded and ditched. i know they care by requesting hourly updates and phone calls to make sure i'm alive. hahah.. i am seriously over thinking this. you have to meet new people all the time.. and this is just another way. he's not TOTALLY random.. and please.. i know a great couple who met on the internet :) he's probably thinking the same thing as me .. like "what the hell is wrong with her that she doesn't have a single person to go with.. she must be a freak of nature"

nicole makes me feel the safest about this ...

me: well he sounds like a really nice guy, plus he's an editor.
nicole: of what? "how to kill your girlfriend, 3rd edition"?
me: no, of movies...
nicole: well.. then "red asphalt 1, 2, and 3"

hey.. it's kind of like the time that me and vivian started talking to some random boy on the internet, and then ended up at his house... hilarious. beth and nicole were also there to be worried for me and chastise me when i called them from the bathroom.. hahhaha.. i think i called them with his name and address and what i was wearing, but i didn't want to talk to loud .. but i remember after we had left, i had beth and nicole in tears (laughing) because it was so idiotic. ahh.. good times. those girls are too good to me. hahahah.

but seriously. over. reacting. i'm sure... :P i will be home safe and sound late sunday night.. (unless my parents kill me for getting home so late!) and if not.. i will leave you a final audio blog. if my hands aren't tied up and my mouth isn't taped shut ;P

i stole this poem from a friend of a friend... i haven't ever heard it before, but i bet it's one that everyone already knows about. i'm always missing the boat. apparently it's been attributed to mother teresa. i like it a lot, and it makes me feel better about how i've been feeling lately.. so i'll share it with you :)

People are often unreasonable, illogical,
and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, People may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank,
people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone
could destroy overnight.
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness,
they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today,
people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis,
it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

also.. here is a fun game... guess the google.
*it'll show you pictures, and you have to guess what word was googled to produce these images :) good times.

i forgot to say this earlier... but my co-worker mentioned it to me.. that in katie holmes' imdb bio.. she has a personal quote saying "I think every little girl dreams about her wedding. I used to think I was going to marry Tom Cruise." hahaha.. now maybe it'll happen. dreams do come true! (for katie holmes at least) aww... this is the best thing to happen to her, something she wanted her whole life. just like another young (soon to be) starlet who has netted her hot musician boyfriend that she's been lusting after forever ;P maybe tom cruise saw her imdb profile and was like ..."hmm.. katie digs me... maybe i'll give her a call" haah.. does that work? if so.. I USED TO DREAM THAT I'D MARRY DEAN CAIN. :) call me.

vivian: maybe i can get lemonade with a shot of vodka. nah... i'll just get a raspberry mojito
jean: hmm.. do i want a strawberry margarita or a killer cool aid?
vivian: a killer cool aid, it's been that kind of day
jean: you're right.

:P

so i heard a snippet about "tom cruise bring his new girlfriend katie holmes...." and i was like "whaaat" and was going to google it when i got to work. but i forgot. thanks to philly she graciously reminded me, saved me the googling effort and provided me with the best pictures ever.

so yea.. tom cruise is indeed dating katie holmes. awesome. (sorry pete).

i think they look really cute together. ordinarily i might be a little pervyied out by at 42 year old dating a 26 year old.. but i like tom cruise.. and he's a super nice guy. i like katie holmes too... and like me and philly have agreed it's steps up from chris klein and joshua jackson. (see.. i told you that pacey thing would never work out ;P) but her previous boyfriend's are not too shabby either. damn that katie holmes for being so hot.

here are sites for pictures:
http://katieholmespictures.com/news/headlines/1139.shtml
http://www.katieholmespictures.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=814

here are some of my favs.

so my really shy quiet cousin and possibly his snotty ass brother are going to come here and to live in our house around june. our house is not necessarily small.. but the lack of space comes from the immense amount of clutter. we have 4 bedrooms, which should be great... but it's not. we have crap everywhere, we even built and extra room, and now it's filled with junk too. we have 4 bedrooms and only 3 of them are sleepable, and sometimes still my mom sleeps on the couch. probably more so when we have guests and visitors. she says the couch is more comfortable, i say we have issues.

so anyways.. my mom was talking about how she didn't know how sleeping arrangements would go when my two cousins come to live and they'll share the master bedroom (not master really.. just the biggest room in the house). she said she didn't know if they should have 2 twin beds, or sleep in the one queen size bed currently in there. i say that they should sleep in two seperate beds, and my mom asks what will become of the queen. i say "i'll take it" and she says "where are you going to put it?" (since i currently stay in the smallest room and if i put a queen size bed in there there will be room for nothing else). i say "in my new apartment" half joking, but half serious. a lot lately i have been thinking about moving out. about a year and a half ago i was actually apartment hunting with a friend and i thought it would be nice.. fun maybe.. but i didn't have any sort of job at all and just wasn't ready for it. my mom plays the game well and she started treating me SUPER nice.. so then i think "eh.. living at home won't be so bad" i'm so easy, i took her bait. more recently beth has been talking lately about moving in together.. and i have been apprehensive... maybe i still wasn't ready for it (when i was still temp jobbing too) and scared about the amount that we fight over petty bs and didn't want living together to ruin our friendship because everyone says the quickest way to ruin a friendship is by living together, and i have the roommate curse. but more and more i've been thinking that it's time for me to be moving out. it's hard because almost all of my friends live at home.. it's more convenient, it's easy, it saves money (which we just spend on frivolous things anyways). most of my friends are in the enar vicinity, so i wouldn't want to move too far away, but it seems absurd to pay rent to live down the street from my parents. i think everyone who lives in torrance, lives at home. maybe torrance is just a great place to live? haha. but seriously.. i have been feeling like such a little kid. maybe it's being around all the people at my work. i don't think i know anyone at my workplace who lives at home. and i feel like living at home.. i won't grow up, i won't learn things, i won't do things for myself. true.. i can definitely set myself apart and do those sort of things while i'm living at home.. but it's just too easy. i need to jump in the water and sink or swim. my parents still take care of so many things of mine, and still cook for me - which is definitely nice.. don't get me wrong... but it's too easy to just let them. so.. back to the story. so my mom like flips out about how if i want to move out, then FINE i can move out.. but i should say it's because i want to, and not because my cousins are coming to live here. and how if i feel that the house isn't good enough for me, or that my mom isn't a good enough mom... then that's fine as well.

and it's SO not about that. i mean.. i guess my mom comes from a different time. you live at home until you get married.. or maybe sometimes even when you are married (my uncle lives with my grandma.. or more like my grandma lives with my uncle)... but.. then my mom started saying how her friend's (older than me) daughter still lives at home with her mom.. and maybe that's because she's a better mother. blah blah blah blah BLAH. argh.. the one thing that keeps me from moving out is the money. if i made tons of money.. i would be living it up. me moving out has nothing to do with trying to get away from my parents because they're unfit. but they are overbearing. they care what time i come home, what chores i do, who i hang out with, what i do, and my mom even opens up my mail sometimes (like credit card statements) and make comments on my spending habits.. which annoys me to NO end (the opening up of the mail). the people at my other job make fun of this guy, nicknamed baller, about how he is over 30 and lives at home. he seriously is lacking in social skills or something... but the guys there are like.. "yeah.. we're going to call you baller #2" that drew a little blood from me.

i tried to tell my mom that she shouldn't think that it is about her, that i want to learn how to live on my own and be responsible. her response is that i can start paying her rent. that would do no good... and i'm sure as hell not paying rent to still be yelled at and told what time i need to be home. she can be so negative and thinks that she is not a good enough mom to be able to keep her daughters at home. she just doesn't get it. and so what do i do? do i not move out to spare her feelings and lose my own life. i couldn't imagine dating someone while i lived at home. "umm.. my place or yours? well... can't go back to my place cuz a)my parents are there and b)my house is too messy that my mom doesn't let anyone come in our house. well... stay the night at your place? let me just tell my parents." yea.. that's going to happen.

i dunno.. it's frustrating because i am so eager to please people in this loserish, craving approval necessary kind of way. i have already been told that it makes me seem desperate. i think it roots from my mom and me always needing to please her. i have become that person in every facet of my life. always thinking i'm not good enough. i realize this and yet i can't do anything about it. i worry about hurting my mom's feelings and not wanting to move out... but i can't do this forever. i know. i feel like i need to have a "really good" reason to move out.. like i'm going to another country. i hate this feeling. wanting to do something for yourself, but not wanting to dissapoint other people. in the end.. so many other people will choose themselves over you anyday. i experience that all the time - and i wonder if my mom is the same way.. will she always choose herself over me.. or does it pain her because she thinks that i am the one always choosing myself over her. i know i know i KNOW i can't live my life to please her.. because a)it's impossible to acheive and b)in the end it's my life and i'm the one who is happy or not. i figured that out in college.. when she wanted me to do a certain thing and i chose not to. i think it was like majors or something trivial to that. but i did was gung ho about going to carleton college in minnesota, and would have ended up there if my mom hadn't threatened to cut me off. and not think it's better than anything else.. but i am not sad that went to ucsd.. because i loved going to school there.... and she will forever hold that over me.. that i should listen to her because she knows best.

this is a whole big jumble. last night my mom asked me if i was going to come home for dinner tonight. i don't know if it's just me, or if that's the way it is, but sometimes she makes me feel so guilty. for not being home all the time, for wanting to go out with my friends. i mean.. she doesn't always make me feel this way.. but when she asks me if i coming home for dinner.. i know it's because she wants me there. and if i have made plans otherwise, even if it's to hang out with my sister.. i still feel bad. i don't get it. i do know that i don't want to live at home forever. and sure as heck not until i'm 30. maybe by the end of this year, another year, maybe 2 (although that does seem like too much time).. but i feel like i would be severly lacking in several areas if i did. not because home is a bad place, but my parents are just not conducive to the kind of lifestyle that i want to live, and i don't think that wanting to have fun should be so bad.

i constantly feel like i am like chandler in that episode of friends where he got stuck in the ATM vestibule with the model cuz of the power outage. and she asks him if he wants gum, and he's like "yea.. gum would be perfection" and then turns around "perfection?!!!"

that's me... all the time.

idiots... GOSH!!!!

i am so bored. today has been one of the longest days... even lunch was "too long" for me. that seems crazy right? but i was so bored during lunch.. i felt insane. i was going to talk a walk down to the beach, but i didn't want to go walking in the shoes that i have on. so i aimlessly meandered around. watched some soap operas. nothing important. just trying to pass the time until things are over. my next goal... 7pm.

don't you hate it when someone says something to you.. and at the moment you can't think of anything good to say? and when you walk away or immediately after a million different "good" things to say race through your head? and you're like DAMN! why didn't i say that.. or this, or that.. and then i envision whole conversations in my head of "how it could have been" right? you do that too? oh it's just me? okay.

pete holiday is a quick thinker.. well at least on IM.. which is better for me too .. since it gives you a little bit more time to respond without looking like a dumbass for taking a beat. but.. pete is good in person too.. real witty. so i don't think he's just hiding behind the IM... but here's what he has to say. (in a really cool text box which i stole from his site which is oh so witty (and sometimes mean.. but funny) as well. :P)

jeanyah: can you teach me to be quick thinking and witty like you?
jeanyah: hhahaha
TooMuchPete: For your first born.
jeanyah: well.. without your help, i may never get married or have the chance at a first born... so maybe
TooMuchPete: lol
jeanyah: although i don't think your wife will appreciate you coming home with an asian baby
TooMuchPete: Unless she's asian.
TooMuchPete: I can still hope on that one.
jeanyah: unless she's asian... but i think she'd know it wasn't hers
TooMuchPete: "Oh c'mon honey! You match!"

what a funny monkey.

you know who is also a crack up? my dad.

me: hey dad, we should go on the amazing race
dad: what's that
me: where they travel around the world and go to foreign countries and have to complete tasks. they go to countries like africa, spain, mexico...
dad: yea, i could do that.. i speak spanish.

it's funny because my dad makes up spanish words like "no problemdo" ... it's probably funnier if you knew him too... but i just want to write these down and archive them.. so i can remember it all :)

last weekend we had to move a family friend's stuff out of his apartment in san diego. one of his posessions was a bike.. which my dad and i tied to the top of our minivan. upon arriving home my dad had this to say. (kind of weird because i had to translate it from chinese).

dad: yea.. i can drive down to the beach and ride my new bike
mom: why don't you just ride your bike down to the beach and come back?
dad: because when i'm at the beach i can look at the pretty girls
mom: why don't you just walk, and then you can get a better view
dad: because then i won't see as many

hahahahah.. that made me laugh for a good five minutes.

sooo... i need someone to go to coachella with. or to buy my tickets. i haven't been gung ho about it.. so i'm not really sure.. but i'm kind of leaving everything up to the last minute.. hoping something will work out..and it's just... not. not yet. the lazy side of me is saying just to ditch everything, stay at home and veg or something. but the "fun" side of me is like "go!! it will be awesome!" but i still need a partner in crime. who's down? i've gotten lots of "i would go but.... (insert excuse here)" and by excuse i don't mean anything negative, but just that it's another reason why i'm still a loner :P oh well.......... i gotta try and figure something out. and in the end.. it's not life and death.. only like $200 at the most. but that is a lot of money.. don't get me wrong, but it is money i've already paid off on my credit card... so.... i just will be brown bag lunching it for awhile (which i should be doing anyways.)

it's weird to have crushes. i forget where i read it.. but someone was like "they're called crushes because they hurt" or something along those lines. i'm sure i mangled that too. in all senses you "hate boys" but you still want one. and while it's fun to have a crush, it sucks to be rejected.. and maybe sometimes to cut it off before you can ever be rejected. and while it's fun to "flirt" with people (is that even what i do? i swear i'm useless when it comes to this), it fun to get those feelings, but sucky to find that they're not based on anything. and then it's also a relief to know that a crush "has no interest in you" because you don't have to agonize over "does he like me" "what does that mean?".. but it's also sucky because you're like "why doesn't he like me" hahah.. it's a double edged sword.. and i definitely don't want to be stupid and girly all the time... but i just wanted to babble a bit.

a few last funny tidbits.

*talking about abercrombie & fitch*
kimmy: you know what my roommate calls abercrombie & fitch? the skinny bitch's store. and i told her "yea i bought some clothes there today" and she says "skinny bitch"

and one last one..

ASS STUDY

**Women's Ass Size Study** 
There is a new study out about women and how they feel about their asses! 

The results of this study are pretty interesting: 
* 85% of women think their ass is too big... 
* 10% of women think their ass is too little... 
* The other 5% say that they don't care, they love him, he's a good man, and they would have married him anyway.* 

har har har...

i brought up blogger because i was going to post about something. now i think i have nothing to post about... nothing interesting at least. bleh. it's that kind of morning.. it's cold and dreary. i was freezing in my bed this morning as my body refused to come out from under the covers.

yesterday i had a weird weird incident. i was waiting at the stop light waiting to make a left turn. and looked in the rearview mirror to fix my part. (yes.. i know. could i be anymore girly?) all of a sudden i hear a little crunching sound.... and i look and my car is up against the car in front of me. like a dumbass i immediately am like WTF and honk at the guy.. who i think just looked at me through his rearview mirror. maybe he didn't realize anything was wrong? maybe he didn't hear/feel anything. but i wonder if it's possible that i let my foot off the gas and rolled slowly into him, as opposed to him backing up into me. what seems more likely right? but i was so befuddled, because, wouldn't i notice the car moving? even slowly? was i that distracted? or tired? it was the weirdest sensation. he drove off and there was no damage done to his bumper, and when the light turned yellow on me i stopped to avoid some sort of confrontation with this guy in front of me. if he had really wanted i'm sure he could have pulled over and waited for me.. but by the time i turned he was long gone. so.. i don't know. no damage was done, so i guess it's just another incident forgotten... except i've immortalized it in my blog.

i'm going to highland grounds tonight to see .pete. do his thing. :) i've been trying to get people to come with me so i'm not such a loner, but people are busy or have no interest. oh well.. i think some of the good time SD friends are driving up so that will be fun. i forgot the button/present i had for pete... like always... oh well. he'll get it next time. unless i go home to get it.. but i'm not sure how much driving i want to do.

here are pictures from oakland last weekend.. because i'm too lazy to blog. but i am feeling caption-y.

*driving into the city.. look at the fog!

*(dinner and) DESSERT at bella in the city for dan's birthday! the BEST tiramisu evar. i still like the profiteroles from trader joe's better.

*the bubble lounge for dan's birthday part 2!!



*yay CAMS99. haha.. dude.. we're gonna have known each other for 10 years!!! crraazy. look.. it's me and dan with the dom. hahhaha.

*happy birthday dan!!!

other pictures from the weekend can be found here

i also had dim sum with my cousins (and angelee and her roomie) on saturday.. but no interesting pictures there. but it was yummy. :P watched sin city. it was interesting. not really my kind of movie, but i didn't hate it. and yea.. jessica alba is hott.. i'd totally do her.

i want to start playing softball in the spring again. i'm trying to get a team together again.. but i feel like some people might start flaking.. which makes me sad. but what would make me happy is if you wanted to play :) so... if you have any interest.. let me know :) you'll make me a happy girl.

i had some other random crud that i was going to post about, but i forget now. oops. maybe i should start taking ginseng pills to boost my memory.

happy friday.

Your Linguistic Profile:

70% General American English

15% Dixie

10% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

so i stole this quiz from pete. and i took it just because i was bored.. not that it was actually super interesting.. but i got the same results as pete and this conversation ensued (which is why i decided to post the results)

jeanyah: hey we speak the same englihs
jeanyah: english
TooMuchPete: Really?
jeanyah: yea
TooMuchPete: Awesome
TooMuchPete: Except they don't have an option for "Valley Girl"

har. har. har.

speaking of pete.. read this SUPER funny entry about another foot in mouth moment of pete's. but it's too funny. "swear to paris." hahahhaha

i have this 80-something year old neighbor. maybe pushing 90.. i'm not really sure... but when i was little i think i used to go over to her house a lot, play with her a lot, keep her company sometimes. mostly i think i just wanted to play with her dog, and she'd ask if i could come over. i always hated going to her house though because it reeked of cigarettes, and also that "old" smell. mostly it was the cigarettes though. as i got older, i stopped "hanging out" with her as much and sometimes it seemed as if she was more a nuisance ... but i always felt bad for her. her husband died a long time ago, she didn't really have friends, and her kids seemed as if they didn't want anything to do with her. she always told me stories about how her son only came to visit her once a month.. just so that he could get his inheritance when she died. but that his wife was a "nasty woman" and wouldn't let her see her grandkids, etc etc etc. she would tell me stories about how caretakers she'd hire would steal things from her, and how the guys who'd deliver the groceries (since she doesn't drive) would feel her up and try to take advantage of her. i sometimes thought she'd exaggerated a lot.. but i don't really know. i felt bad that her kids treated her like that, and that she was alone... even or especially on holidays. she refused to go to a home because i think they treated her husband's mom badly, and he left her money, so she'd never have to go to one.

when i went to college, i think she and her fading memory kind of forgot about me. our family friend who lived in our house would give her dog baths sometimes, and maybe hang out with her.. i don't really know. when i came back i never really hung out with her, but sometimes she'd call our house and i'd help her do menial tasks like write checks for her since her hand was shaking too badly. my dad will help her on occasion when she calls, but not as often as he used to. i think that had some sort of falling out when my dad refused to buy her cigarettes for her, and said that he wouldn't shop for her if she continued to smoke. but old habits die hard and she smokes all the time.. i think. when i didn't used to work it was easier for her to ask me for help, now that i work all day long, i think she's usually asleep by the time i get home. her dog died awhile back, and i only found out recently. so now she must be really lonely. she used to tell me that her dog, foxy, was her only friend. aside from our family and maybe a few neighbors, but not really friends, just neighbors. recently this car has always been parked in her driveway. i thought it'd be nice if it was a relative or something, but i think it's another caretaker she hired. i was always scared, because my neighbor could die in her sleep and maybe no one would find her for awhile. so someone helping her out would be good. i thought it would have been cool if my friend jill could live with her and take care of her, since she worked in this old person's home in san diego, but she is too far away and had other plans with her life. bit i thought it would be fun because i knew jill would take good care of her, and i think jill would have had fun getting to know my neighbor and the fun stories that she seemed to have.

tonight the fire department and the paramedics came to "help her breathe" and finally took her to the hospital. she hates going to the hospital because she says that they treat her badly and cheat her out of her money. when i was in middle school there was a time when the ambulance and paramedics showed up on a regular basis. she'd come to use their breathing machines and she'd refuse to go to the hospital.. and sometimes they wouldn't make her, and sometimes they would. but i always knew she hated going. i think the firemen know her by now, and think of her the same way.. as sort of a nuisance, but also feeling bad for her too. tonight they made her go to the hospital although she was complaining the whole time. part of the reason it's hard to deal with her is because she's like 99.9% deaf. i stood by my doorway and watched. i wonder if the firemen just thought i was a rubbernecker or something. i care, i feel bad.. and it soudns trite or hypocritical because i never go to visit her or anything and i don't really take a vested interest in her, but i do really feel bad. i wondered (before i had the jobs) if i could live with her and take care of her. i didn't know if i could handle it. they took her to the hospital in the ambulance and the lady who lives with her didn't bother to go. i mean.. she hasn't been there that long, and maybe she's not the type to get attached. i wonder if the stories are true and she's starting to go through her stuff and find the goods while she's in the hospital. i don't know what i'm trying to say really. i feel bad that she suffers so much. i feel bad that she's so lonely. and it sucks because i don't really do anything about it. i heard sirens in the distance after the ambulance had left out street. i hope that nothing worse happened. i was going to go over to the house to see who was still inside, but i saw the alleged caretaker reach for the door and just close it. i don't know if she saw me, but she definitely doesn't know who i am and has no real reason to talk to me. i feel bad because.. i don't know why... i just do.

so that was my sunday night.

i'm a little freezing. when they leave the door open.. it creates this wind tunnel. and while it looks nice and bright and sunny outside. it's not.. i'm freezing. i feel kind of gross right now... i've been looking at too much porn. kidding. i ate lasagna that my boss bought for us. i had it late and thus it was cold.. which was not the yummiest.. but it was free lunch, and i had none other wise because i had to run an errand during lunch. but.. since it was lasagna.. i feel overly greasy right now.. and i think my stomach is churning trying to pump it all out. bleh. i don't feel like working on this project.. so while i'm hoarding the paper cutter for my project, i haven't actually used it yet. and i'm not really in the paper cutting project mood. oops. i have been on myspace all day... checking lack of interaction from my friends :P and checking my blogger to see if anyone's guessing more songs.. and they haven't. boo... i knew it was a bad idea to play the game.

oh well.. had a fun saturday in san diego. here are pictures because i'm too lazy to type.

if you want to see captions (and more pix) - imagestation it.

new music to check out...
pete thurston - www.petethurston.com
isaac cheong - www.sheblondeswede.com
tim corley - www.iliketim.com
saba - www.sabamusic.com
aaron bowen - www.aaronbowenmusic.com

most of them.. if not all have myspace pages as well.. where you can hear their stuff (if not found on their site). someday they're going to be huge.... HUGE.

my mom came back from taiwan and brought me lots off goodies and treats like i asked for.. egg custards (which are a lot like creme brulee which i've just realized... must be why i like it so much) and pineapple cake. yum. it's so good when you get it from taiwan... there's something about it that makes it yummier.

funny thing is.. is that the egg custards (in the six pack) my uncle bought from KFC. serious... KFC... the chicken place. they also have like noodles and stuff.. and egg custards. awesome.

so i stole this little game from pete. i missed the boat as far as everyone else doing it on their blogs at the same time.. because i'm lazy.. :P well not lazy.. but i just got busy. i wrote down the songs and said i'd finish the post later... didn't do it until now. thanks. i don't know if i even have enough readers who like to participate ... but please do.. so my blog doesn't look pathetic and unloved. :P even if you don't know... leave a comment and tell me i have horrible taste in music :P ahhaha.. i'll admit though.. some of these songs are pretty bad... but i just took the first 20 songs on shuffle. except for the song i had for the fantasmic show at disneyland.. i didn't think too many people would have known that.. so maybe it wasn't a "real" song. :P okay.. here are the rules.

1. Load up your playlist and put it on shuffle
2. Pick out a line from the first 20 songs and post them
3. Commenters should try to guess the title & artist of the song that the lines are from
4. I'll let you know, when they've been correctly guessed
5. NO CHEATING. (Yes, Googling the lyrics is cheating)


1. don't, be ashamed to cry, let me see you through, cuz i've seen a dark side too
*the pretenders - i'll stand by you (pete)
2. i'm warning you, don't ever do, those crazy messed up things that you do
*call and answer - barenaked ladies (pete)
3. you're the air that i breathe, girl you're all that i need, and i want to thank you lady
*all the i need - boyzone (linh)
4. sharp disaster in a fresh new coma, was it worth it when it was over
*am i missing - dashboard confessional (pete)
5. she'll let you into the parts of herself, that'll bring you down

6. i can use my tears, to bring you home

7. how can i help it if i think you're funny when you're mad
*one week - barenaked ladies (pete)
8. i want to kiss your lips and hold you close if that's alright

9. make the man within me, desire the woman in you

10. now we can swim any day in november
*sleeping in - postal service (luc)
11. call to you so clearly, but you don't want to hear me

12. too many, things i do not care for, but thing that i adore

13. the reason i breathe is you, boy you got me blinded
*baby one more time - britney spears (linh)
14. well in case you failed to notice, in case you failed to see
*foolish games - jewel (pete)
15. we're the coolest kids and we take what we can get
*soco amaretto lime - brand new (luc)
16. tonight i wanna dance with someone else
*into the groove - madonna (pete)
17. the wind is gone, asleep at dawn, the embers burn on

18. there was a time when i was all alone, waiting for someone to call my own

19. your love is what makes my heart break

20. the way you kiss me crazy, baby you're so amazing
*eighth world wonder - kimberly locke (linh)

yaaaaay. leave guesses in the comment box... i'll come back and see which friends are the smartest. you don't want to be a dumb friend do you? :P send your friends over too... i'm desperate for this post to be loved.

free ben & jerry's!!

on aprl 19th. sounds yummy. and probably crowded. but maybe worth it.

mmm.. half baked, phish food, chocolate fudge brownie. mmmm.....

so.. i guess they let you pick usernames on myspace now.. so it's not all complicated when you want to post a link to your myspace :) the ones i wanted were all taken over by 16 year olds (which is sad that i'm either hanging out where all the high school kids are or they're trying to crash our party :P) but it's funny that a lot of them were asian too. like.. is jean a really popular name about asian parents? because i always thought my name was too plain.. nobody had my name growing up. except my favorite 3rd grade teacher. ahhaha. i wanted a "cool" name like jennifer or kimberly.. they were like princess names.. hahahah with more than one syllable. but this is a tangent. so anyways... jean and jeaner were taken.. and jeanh seemed to plain, and i didn't want to put jeanyah out there, just in case the wackos went on a googling spree. i try to keep my blog hidden from myspace/friendster... just because i don't know who's out there. i've had some creepy experiences. haaha. but it would be cool to have a monopoly on the name. i already have that girl on webdate trying to be me. hahaha.

anyways.. if you're on myspace.. add me (if we're friends that is.. :P) and if we're not.... maybe we will be soon :)
www.myspace.com/jeanish

do you like the name?

so.. i have a few posts that are in draft phase.. waiting to be finished and posted.. delayed by new projects and busy work at work. but this trumps them all.. so i had to post about it.

Spears Reveals Pregnancy on Her Website

hahaha.. i totally called it in my last post. hahah. thanks to sakura for the news :P

and while i'm here.. if you applied/attended berkeley grad schools in the past few years.. or received doctorates from cal you should check out this site. http://idalert.berkeley.edu/. i guess info was stolen .. so you should check if you're one of the groups. it kind of sucks.. i got a letter saying that my info was stolen from UCSD. what's up with that? and then like a few month later sakura got the letter.. but what's with the big gap in time. it's weird.. is this the new fad in ID theft.. stealing from college databases.

yikes.

posts and pictures coming soon.. i hope :P

boooo.. sucky. i've been waiting up because my sister is coming home from vegas today. my dad asked me if i wanted to spend the night at my sister's... and i said sure..since a lot of my stuff is there - including my much needed to be done laundry. so my dad was going to pick her up and bring her back home and then i was going to take her up to her house. i asked him if he wanted me to just pick her up, so then i could just take her home, and there wouldn't be this back-tracking. and he says.. no.. it's okay.. i'll pick her up.

so he leaves for the airport, and i wait around.. wasting time on the internet, loading pictures, myspacing it, trying to dig for dirt... so i get a call from my sister.. and i'm like "well my dad left awhile ago.. she shouldn't be calling to ask where he is" but then she tells me she's at home and i'm like "you got a ride home and daddy's circle the airport looking for you?" but none of the above. my dad took my sister home and she was calling wondering if i was still coming over. i like going to her house because sometimes we'll watch tv together and it's really fun and funny.. and better than watching tv by yourself. but the maiin reason why i like it is because the commute isn't a killer in the morning. i take local fairly uncrowded streets and it takes me like 20 minutes. it's very nice.. and i get that extra 30 minutes of sleep. so anyways... i've been waiting up for the past hour because i thought i had to wait for her to come back and i had to drive her up there. but no... everything went askew. and the reason it sucks is because i am DEAD tired... and i really wanted to take a nap.. but i didn't.. because i knew it would only be more tired. so.. i stayed up.. tired.... waiting.. and she's already at home (i guess my dad just took her home because she was super tired too). it just sucks because i totally could have went to sleep at like 9:30. grr.

and now i'm blogging.. wasting more time of course. well.. now i'm uploading pictures so i'll have sometimes semi-interesting to do other than than the ultra tedious new task i have. i'm so over it already. grr. :P

night y'all.

one last thing.... speaking of y'alls.. i was reading the latest USweekly mag. argh.. i can't believe that brad and angelina are together. i totally think britney is pregnant. and mandy moore and zach braff. wow.

got this from a guy at work. now i understand :P

so i stole this from kelly.. who found it here it's like a test to see how observant you are... it's interesting... you should try to take it :) no cheating.. looking at stuff around you/on your desk to figure out the answers. and of course.. no internet :P hahahah.. the average is 7.. which i think is actually really low. but.. hmmm... i got 15.. haha. well like 14 and two half answers. hahaha. what about you? the answers will be in my comments. :)

1. On a standard traffic light, is the green on the top or bottom?
2. How many states are there in the USA? (Don't laugh, some people don't know)
3. In which hand is the Statue of Liberty's torch?
4. What six colors are on the classic Campbell's soup label?
5. What two numbers on the telephone dial don't have letters by them?
6. When you walk does your left arm swing with your right or left leg?
7. How many matches are in a standard pack?
8. On the United States flag is the top stripe red or white?
9. What is the lowest number on the FM dial?
10. Which way does water go down the drain, counter or clockwise?
11. Which way does a "no smoking" sign's slash run?
12. How many channels on a VHF TV dial?
13. On which side of a women's blouse are the buttons?
14. Which way do fans rotate?
15. What is on the back of a Canadian dime?
16. How many sides does a stop sign have?
17. Do books have even-numbered pages on the right or left side?
18. How many lug nuts are on a standard car wheel?
19. How many sides are there on a standard pencil?
20. Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy,Dopey, Doc. Who's missing?
21. How many hot dog buns are in a standard package?
22. On which playing card is the card maker's trademark?
23. On which side of a Venetian blind is the cord to turn them up and down?
24. On the back of a Canadian $1 coin, what is in the center?
25. There are 12 buttons on a touch tone phone. What 2 symbols bear no digits?
26. How many curves are there in the standard paper clip?
27. Does a merry-go-round turn counter or clockwise?


other random stuff... i was going to post about google maps but pete beat me to it. boo.. now it just doesn't seem as exciting if i do it now.. just the second hand post. or as carlene likes to call me "poor man's" haha.. so yea.. it's neat because you can view stuff and search for nearby restaurants and stuff and it'll show you visually where everything is.. which is good for people who suck at directions (like me :P) ahhaha. i was going to post where my house is, and post my friend's houses.. maybe i'll do that later. but it seems super neato. go to pete's post for a "better" review and a view of his hometown :P

i also forgot to say that i had a lovely dinner with beth at c&o cucina (italian for kitchen?) near my work in venice. it was yummy and we both got plates enough for 3 or 4 meals... plus all the garlic balls we could ever want. it was fun and i'm glad that when beth happened to be in my area around the time that i was getting off she called me and we hung out. i did get that free dessert coupon that i haven't used yet.. so we'll have to go back. if what i'm saying all sounds like nonsense (which i'm sure it does) visit beth's recap, because it's a lot better than anything i could muster up. i meant to link to it awhile ago.. instead of posting my own of course, but the hand off post even got put aside. hahah. you can even read about the lady who tried to hit and run.. but got caught. hah.

also.. my friend pete is stirring up trouble again. he must be bored or something.. but he and his posse are back with a vengeance. hehehe.. visit the action at http://www.unofficialcki.org pete is my muse.. i already told him i was going to make a movie about all these shenanigans. we just couldn't decide who'd play him in the movie :P hi-larity.

i think is this pretty interesting... someone got arrested and is facing jail time for SPIM - which is spam, but through IM.. so i hear. this is the "buzz" at myspace. or really just some link i click off my bulletin board. but it's about everyone's friend - tom :)

and netflix is only $11.99 now.. maybe i really should join! especially now that i have discovered my comp at work has a dvd player. har har har har har.

i LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE that it's 7pm and i'm off work and it's still nice and bright outside!!! yaaaaaay. :)

now i don't feel like such a work wench.

yay for sunshine :)

gosh.. i don't even know when's the last time i posted about "my life" like a this is what i did, there is where i went, and this is what i ate. (i know you miss that last part, especially pete :P) but don't worry.. i won't bore you with the long saga that would take forever to read and write (more importantly).. or maybe that would just make me even more tired than i am on this monday morning. grrr... monday.

last week this guy left our work, and we had had previous conversations about how he doesn't really like sweets, or cheesecake that my boss buys everyone for their birthday. but he did like big macs.. so i made him a "cheeseburger cake" i forgot that burger patties shrink when cooked, so it didn't turn out to be the 9inch masterpiece i had hoped for.. but it basically came out a giant cheeseburger. but it was fun and the guy liked it.. so everything works out eh? i took pictures for your viewing pleasure as well. or maybe i just wanted a giant cheeseburger on my blog :P

my biggest dilemma was how was i going to get a "giant bun" i thought about just using pieces of white bread fitted together, but that would be messy. or i thought about buying that pilsbury dough in the tube and trying to make a bun out of that. i had my moment of eureka when i saw the giant sourdough buns. i ideally wanted to make the burger that big, but since i over estimated the size of the patties, i actually ended having to cut off the bread all around the bun. but... the patties was over a pound of meat, so i figured it didn't need to be any bigger. i think maybe i didn't keep them super thin, and maybe that's why the patties becamse smaller, because they were thicker. anyhoo.. it looked good.. who's birthday is coming up? :P

my dad came home last night. my mom was supposed to come back as well, but decided to postpone it i suppose to do some more stuff, hang out until my sister comes back. me and my dad had this "tiff" over time change and he said that i was late in picking him up because i forgot about the time change (not true) and on his itinerary and ticket it said 8:35, but he wa like "no! you should have come at 7:35! all these are wrong" hah.. sure daddy. his plane actually did land early (8:06) which is what caused him to wait - wasting his 50cents to call me to see where i was, and $3 for the parking structure fee (i miss the metered parking). if he had just called me earlier i could have just picked him up curbside.. but he thought he'd wait around. nerd.

angelee (my best friend from hs) came to town last weekend because her fam was going on a cruise to mexico. niiice. :) she came in earlier and i took the day off (slacker.. i know) so we could hang out. it was tons of fun, just driving around, seeing familiar places and just catching up. had a mini high school friends dinner and then tried to catch my work party.. but didn't quit make it in time for the free booze.. just the social company. hahah.. boo. i dragged angelee to my sister's house and made her wait for a bit for the water heater people to fix it, but she made me steal salad dressing, so i think it's fine :P

went to dave and busters last friday night. hung out with some of the old cki crowd, and of course when you put old cki'ers together, you inevitably begin talking about "the old days." haha.. it made me miss circle k a little bit, and missing volunteering and all that stuff. sure i could go candy stripe or someting (wait.. with what hours of the day?) but i do miss being in that kind of organization and being able to do all different types of projects (with my short attention span and all). and organizing stuff to do. i don't know what it is exactly. i think the project i miss most was working with the kids at the battered shelter. aww.

my gmail account now had 2gigs of space. now if only i had people who emailed me :P

i'm tired. i would love nothing more than to go home and just sleep. and it's so freezing cold outside.. despite it being super sunny. what's up with that? i miss my fleece pants. this day can not be short enough for me.

RIP jeff's mom.

"nothing worth having comes easy"

aww.. as quoted on tonights scrubs.. along with howie day's collide. awww.. i would cry if i was that type of girl. like beth :P it was weird though because it was back to back episodes about parental death. it was like a sign or something. interesting.

*sigh*

i don't know why i always wait until the last minute when i get these urges to blog. why didn't you do it when you needed something to do? this won't be long or comprehensive. i haven't posted about what i've been doing in awhile. if i decide to it will be one of those HUGE long ass posts that everyone complains about and probably won't read anyway.. so we'll see. but.. i did turn in my papers for benefits today. yay. as of the end of this week i can go see the doctor. yay.. not that i've really gone in the past year and half or so.. out of lack of insurance and lack of necessity (except that time i got beaned with the line drive to my chest.. but i'm alive right?).. i can go to the dentist, optometrist, doctor paid by my company.. and if i die i get $20,000... who wants to be my beneficiary. hahah. i have a eye doctor appt on apr 2nd.. my second day of coverage. hehe.. i waste no time. yay for new glasses.. finally. and contacts.. although i'll probably have to pay for one.

ooookay.. time to go home. finally.

having a three day weekend makes work on monday that much harder.

*oops* sorry to the people who caught this post times six. haha.. it kept not posting, and i kept trying over and over again (as you saw).. i guess it was working, but on a delayed schedule. hahah.. but now it's fixed. hurrah.

happy birthday joan!! :)

naaasty.

kabahead: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/24/chili.finger.reut/
kabahead: that is NASTY
jeanyah: i think i just heard about this on the radio!!
jeanyah: ewwwww
kabahead: haha
kabahead: SICK!!
jeanyah: yea... the guy on the radio said it was fully cooked but not decomposed
kabahead: ewwwww
kabahead: fresh finger
jeanyah: yuk
kabahead: this puts a new meaning to "finger-licking good"
jeanyah: ew keri...
jeanyah: gross

today this guy said to me "i heard a lot of people died in the tsunami because they didn't know how to swim."

omg. are you serious? genius.

i opened this window up 1 hr and 44 minutes ago.. but have been wasting time on other windows since then. oops. so now i have 13 minutes to write.. this will be quick.

did you feel it? i did... it was a little rattling. haven't felt one in awhile.. but it was a sharp jolt. short though. some people thought i was crazy at first.. but i'm not. don't doubt me man :P it's kind of scary that the earthquake was in the ocean.. so near my house. it wasn't as big... so not too much to be worried about. and a lot of people didn't even feel it.. so no biggie.. but jarring a little. at least i'm not sitting underneath the stairs like my counterpart in the other building. hahahaha.

rain, thunder and lightning oh my!!

in addition to the small earthquake we had a fast on coming storm that probably totally messed up the freeways for my drive home. (because it's ALWAYS about me :P) it was decently nice this morning and then the grey rolled in, and then the sprinkling and then LOTS OF IT.. pouring down. it was funny to watch everyone come in through the doors with the same "argh rain!" expression on their face. everyone asks me "where does that rain come from?" or "oh my it's raining so hard" like this is new to me, or the person before them didn't just say the exact same thing. but i just smile, grin and bear it and laugh like i am really amused because it's new to them. see.. my job is important :P

SJP is no longer the face of gap.. her contract is up and now they're going to use joss stone. blech.. i don't know why but i am not a fan of that girl. i don't get it. this article makes it sound worse than it really is. but i think the posters have been SO awesome lately. cuteness.

starting saturday and for a week+1 i'll be by myself ... someone come hang out with me please. i need the company.. i'll cook you dinner! who wants to come over and play? i will be sad and lonely.

a lot of theivery has been going on lately. sucks.. sakura lost her phone and some korean lady and hispanic guy who answered wouldn't really talk to her or pick up the phone afterwards. and then someone at my work stole this guy todd's jr kings jacket and wallet from his equipment bag while he was playing a game. BOO.. i hope karma gets you people.

the water heater @ my sister's house conveniently didn't want to leak while the plumber was out there to check it out, but now the problem has come back.. of course. gotta deal with the insurance and plumbing companies again.. grrr... trying to get it fixed before they return. its hard when you work 8:30am-7pm.... who's gonna want to help you outside of those hours?

lois and clark the new adventures of superman dvd comes out june 7th... WAHOO!!!

okay... enough babbling for now... time to goooo hooooome!

stay safe and dry kiddos.

ugh... i just finished doing my taxes. i feel so sad. before i've always gotten back money.. but this year i have to pay. yuk. i hate being a grown up.

and most of all... when you're using turbo tax.. and it says "balance due".. i was thinking.. 'due to me'.. not i "due" to them. they should not make those numbers green.. like it's a good thing. it's totally misleading... they should be red.. blood red... cuz it's blood money.. yuk.

ps... i've only saved like 1/4 of the money i earned from last year.... what is up with that?!

argh... no fun.

guy from my work jim: what's that really bad smell?
me: apparently it's some sort of sewage smell coming from the stage
jim: really, it's awful
me: i don't really smell it
jim: no?
me: yea.. i can't tell at all
jim: well maybe that's because you smell like poo anyways.


gee.. thanks.

happy st. patrick's day!

i drove by this bar called "brennan's" on main street in marina del rey/venice and at 8:30am it was already packed with more girls in green tube tops going in. i don't know if they're there to drink green beer or what.. but really.. it's 8:30 in the morning!! and don't you have work? hahaha.. maybe i'm just jealous. but i never realized that it was such a big deal to some people. one of the guys who works here took today off i know that :P but i just thought it was hilarious that from the street i could hear the crowd inside... i bet it was busy last night and will be PACKED tonight.. if people can even get in. yikes. 8:30 in the morning though? can't you sleep in and then drink green beer?

eh.. oh well... they're having fun though i bet.

there's also a lot of people at my work not wearing green. i thought people would totally get into it here.. but they're just kind of whatever about it :P i asked this one girl why she wasn't wearing green and she said because "she wasn't irish" .. so where you have the super st. patrick's day people, you have the extreme opposite. i guess it makes sense, but st. patrick's day was always such a fun holiday.. i don't know why i'm so compelled to wear green.. but maybe i'm just a sucker for hallmark stuff like that. :P

if i didn't have so much junk to take care of .. i'd totally tell linh that we should meet up at henessey's for "irish donuts." mmm.. yummy.

alright... move on to easter already.. i'm eating chocolate eggs right now :P

*excited for*
-benji coming back
-angelee coming to visit
-a week by myself

*sad for*
-jeffgu's family
-untaken trips

*stressed out by*
-all the stuff that needs to be done by tomorrow
-water heater troubles

*need to*
-go to disneyland
-finish recording american idol (plus others)
-go shopping for stuff to take back to taiwan
-catch up on sleep
-clean my house
-stop eating these chocolate eggs

"If anyone was still wondering what happened to the overzealous 'tween fans of 'Nsync and Britney Spears, the answer is now obvious: They grew up (just a bit) and became enamored of pop-rock artists like Gavin DeGraw."

this was the opening sentence of a review of the wb one tree hill concert in last friday's variety. friggin hilarious...