so i'm BORED at work... but this is a different kind of bored. since i'm going to taiwan they brought in temps to replace me... so i spent the last couple of days training them, and now they are working and i am "supervising" hahaha. making sure they don't have any issues/questions. so i'm just sitting around. but on the bright side.. today is my last day.. yaaaay!! so i thought i'd spend my time somewhat usefully.. i hope :P

sunday i went to san diego with sakura.. YAY!! i love san diego. we had it planned FOREVER that we were going to go and eat california burritos and carne asada fries.. (atkins what?) oops.. oh well. so anyways... sakura drove down as i studied my hockey rulebook since i had work later that night - my first game by myself. yikes! and we got to san diego in a pretty good timely manner. we went to el cotixan's first (after passing the new walmart off the 52) and got a california burrito and a side of rice. YUM!!! man.. i've missed it.. i think it's been a year since i've had one.. scary huh?! we thoroughly enjoyed it.. and maybe depriving myself of carbs made it taste all that much better, but it was EXCELLENT. then we went to UTC and shopped and i tried to find stuff for my sister, and we passed by this new "chocolate cafe" store.. it was very exciting.. haha.. they had a candy bar that was like one pound of chocolate for $22! that better be some good chocolate.

we got to hailes graduation but we noticed ALL the new buildings that they built. in the past year. it was madness. there was a whole bunch of new buildings by warren and revelle too. all grad research buildings. wow. also, roosevelt was done! it's SO big.. there's SO many dorms and it's HUGE. but it's very nice. it almost makes it worth it going to ERC. hahaha. but it looks very nice, but marshall is still the best :)

we went to hailes' graduation and we thought we'd have to wait until the end to hear him and carli graduate, but they went in reverse alphabetical order (by major) this year! tricky tricky. but then of course hailes and carli wanted to sit through all the majors to graduate (they're theatre and urban studies.. argh) but it was okay. we sat around and tanned ourselves. at one point sakura asked if i had her phone and she looked in her purse 5 times and i kept calling her phone to see if i could hear it and we searched all over the field.. but no phone. so sakura lost her phone, but then she called it so that she check her voicemail and i heard some beeping and i was like hmm.. i wonder if one of these people stole her phone. and then she held her purse up to her ear and heard her phone ringing!!! WHAT A DORK! i snatched it out of her hands and she dared me to find her phone because she looked all over and couldn't find it. i found it inside one of the zippered pouches. what a nerd. :P it was very funny, but you probably had to be there for it to be funny.. i guess i'm not a very good story teller.

FINALLY the graduation was over with and we took lots of pictures. we weren't able to meet up with carli because she left right away because her family had dinner reservations. sad. but we took a lot of pictures with hailes and we weren't able to have dinner with him either because i had to come back for work. boo me. but we didn't head back before going to roberto's for carne asada fries. yuuuummmm. it was SO good as well. i ate in the car and fed sakura as she drove and it was the two best meals we've had in awhile. hahaha. i got home, went straight to work and messed up a lot in the first game with all the penalties.. ack.. i felt really stupid. but hopefully it'll get better.

yesterday i was supposed to do a bunch of stuff... but i ended up just sleeping instead. i was falling asleep at work, so when i got home i went straight to bed. i slept until 10:30pm when my dad told me to take out my contacts and brush my teeth. and in my sleeping stupor i lied and told him i already did.. but for some reason i thought i really already had brushed my teeth. but i got up because i had to do some stuff for my sister. then when i finally went back to sleep at like 3 or 4am i had some CRAZY dreams. one where i was in the bathroom and it was clogged, so i lifted the back part and there was chunks of stuff floating (ewww) but then all these tropical fish came out of the drain and starting eating it. and then a snake also came out and the slithered over to the sink and went down that drain.. but it wasn't a real snake, but looked like the "cable snake" that's in those commercials on tv. and at one point i heard this loud buzzing sound and it got louder and louder and i felt trapped like i couldn't move my head.. and finally i turned my head to the other side, but then the buzzing returned and i couldn't move at all and i felt like i was being electrocuted or something. i actually thought i was going to die.. it was very very strange.

but after today i won't have to wake up early anymore so maybe that will get rid of the strange dreams. or maybe it was the large influx of carbohydrates in my system after awhile. i was going into shock. or maybe it was real... how scary.

so i was at the gym and i saw a bag of bread sitting by the emergency exit. so as sakura was leaving i told her "i think you should take this moldy bag of bread with you." then this old lady who i always see at the gym who despite always being at the gym seems kind of fit, but still hunchbacked and too tanned skin, tells me "that's not moldy honey, it's fresh, very fresh."

oops.. it looked like it had blue bits to me. why would you leave an open bag of bread in the sweaty stench of the gym?! ick.

i saw mean girls tonight with jimmy and sakura at the $3 theater. yay cheap theater! it was pretty good and pretty funny... tina fey is cool. :) i do have to admit that lindsay lohan is pretty cute.. i think my favorite line was

"halloween is the one time where girls can dress like sluts and other girls can't say anything"

it's funny because it's so true.

now my "mean girls on board" sticker on my car has meaning. do people who drive behind me think that i'm 16 years old? or maybe i really am just a "mean girl" :P

so i am pretty freaking estatic today :) i had a long long day yesterday and have been planning some stuff for my sister's wedding so today i had to get up early to go interview one of her friends for a video that my sister wants to show at her reception. i set my radio alarm to star 98.7 because i got a newsletter saying to listen to win the chance to go to the star lounge with JASON MRAZ. :)

so if you're smart you know where this is going, but i'll gush on anyways :) so lying in my bed i listen to the radio and they say to be caller 20 as they play curbside prophet. i'm dialing on my house phone and my cell phone (a little cheating.. whatever.. other people were doing it too). and finally the phone starts ringing and the guy answers:

the guy (Jason): "hello"
me: uhh.. hi.. d-do you have a winner yet?
Jason: nope.. you're it
me: SHUT UP!!

he puts me on hold and i hear the radio on the phone and he announces on the radio "we still need a winner, keep calling" and then he comes back as goes "don't worry, you're the winner, they just want people to keep calling." how mean :P haah.. so i get to go to the star lounge which will be AWESOME and then i also got 2 tickets to the concert @ the walt disney hall, sweet. BUT i already have my tickets for that show.. dang it! and i don't know whether the tickets are going to be way good or way bad.. it's always a toss up. but i am suuuuper duper excited about the star lounge. plus while chit chatting with the dj guy we somehow got on the topic of jobs and he said he needed a producer and that they were hiring for programming, as well as promotions. so he told me to apply and use him as a reference. :) not that it's concrete, but it's definitely an exciting possibility. YAY. my heart was beating so fast at first, and i told the guy.. and he said "that's a nice little cliche, but boring." hahah.. thaaanks. after i hung up i screamed, jumped up and down and did a little dance :) i hadn't been this excited since i won tickets to rock 'n' jock and got to see my middle school love dean cain. :)

BUT who cares.. star lounge with jason mraz is gonna be amazing.. maybe like a very trendy java joe's hahaha (minus all the cool ass sd people). but complete with leopard print couches and "cool furniture" in a 100 square foot room. i'm going to be smiling like an idiot the whole time :)

"hey, hey, something's different in my world today
well they changed my traffic signs
to a brighter yellow" :)

so i am lame or retarded or both. last night i only got one hour of sleep, but yet here i am typing away at 1:30 in the morning. what's wrong with me! i was taking care of some more wedding stuff for my sister and yada yada yada. my mom left for taiwan today after a hectic day of packing and calling me to come home right away because she locked herself out and what not.. she was STRESSED. we didn't leave the house until like 4:05ish or so and her flight was at 5:30. which is not so so bad because we live uber close to LAX, but it was an international flight, and security sucks up time like no other. but i think now that my mom is off she will start feeling better.. hopefully.

so needless to say i took off of work early to accompany my mom to the airport. i didn't have to because my dad was around, but it was good that i did because i helped out my mom some and she stressed out so easily and my dad brings it out in her. but i felt kind of bad because monday i took off early, but came in early tuesday to make up for it, and then thursday i came in late cuz i overslept and then today i showed up early, but left early as well. so monday i'll have to go in early to make up for that. but i guess my boss is cool with it. he's one of those mild mannered guys, so you can never really tell if he really cares or not. and since i've heard everyone in that office talk about everyone else, it makes me wonder. but i try to be cute and nice and bring in chocolate and bribe them into liking me. :P but i was SO ready to get out of there anyways. it was a hellish day, maybe because i only had 1 hr of sleep, but apparently the second temp showed up today (which i wasn't expecting and my manager forgot to tell me) so i had to run back and forth trying to train both temps at the same time. they both seemed really confused at some points so i started typing out these stupid-easy directions so that they could hopefully have too many crisises while i am gone (FOR THREE AND A HALF WEEKS) yayyers :) it was okay, but it was really draining. it's hard to write out really detailed instructions, it reminded me of all those CADA (leadership) conferences i went to in middle school. funny. but yea, i was still a little frustrated with the slowness of one temp, and then the other temp comes and she's even slower! it's interesting that there are some people who just aren't that handy with computers. it was really hard training her at first because i just felt like i had to explain things that were so simple, 5 times over. good thing i learned a lot of patience doing inner city games. towards the end of the day she got a bit quicker, so that makes me happy. the other guy i will still have to work with on monday.. but i didn't really spend all that much time really traning him, but he tries my patience sometimes as well. :P ack.. i need to stop being a brat. but it was weird to work with these people and have it be so hard to try and teach them things, when i picked up on things very quickly. and people are amazed that i've graduated college already and that i'm such a fast typist (thanks to AIM! :) ) so it makes me thankful for the opportunties i've had and that my parents have provided me with. but it also makes me wonder why i am in the same lump category as these people. ack.. i'll get a "real" job soon.. i swear. but one good thing is that when both temps were here today i felt this huge sense of freeness and was really excited :) and i got to work on one of the new laptops that was being worked on for a client. it was sexy.. i wanted to take it home with me. but we'll see how monday and tuesday go.. hopefully it'll be okay. the bad part of today was that the guy who sits next to me brought out this bag of the new guacamole doritos that i have this huge craving for thanks to nicole and her grad after party :P.. but they have such a great smell i just wanted to grab the whole bag from him and eat it all.

of course i couldn't have any because of my "diet". but you will be dissapointed in me because i broke it and cheated anyways. my dad gave me three strawberries (and they were SO good) i had a chicken burrito. sorry no-carb god. i just couldn't do it.. food wasn't tasting good anymore and there's only so much meat i can handle! (strange concept, and i never thought i'd ever say that.. but it's true). oh well, i might go back on the plan.. in general i've been eating a lot less just either because i've been busy, or got sick of all the eggs/cheese/meat dealio.. like i missed dinner the two previous nights and before my cheating.. today i only had half a hot dog (uncooked :P) and a cup of sugar free jello. oh and lots of water. yea.. that's healthy :P so who knows. i was already planning on cheating sunday anyways with sakura and my el cotixan's/roberto's feast.. so i was just gearing myself up for it so i don't blow up or get sick. i hope. gotta utilize that bally's membership! if only i had a time turner like hermione. ;P that would rock :)

tonight i watched a few hours of tivo and then my dad went to go see supersize me. the film of "epic proportions" about the guy who eats mc donald's for 30 days, 3 meals a day to see it's effects as he delves into the fact that america is the fattest nation. (if you check out their website, they have this really cool ass game that i would (of course) play at work.. but it's rad. it's "burgerman" so it's like pacman, but it's the guy eating burgers and the clowns are the ghosts.. it's fun!) it was interesting.. i basically already knew everything that happened from people talking @ sundance and whatever else my sister told me. it has some really interesting parts and other times i seemed to get really bored, i wonder if it was just me...and there are a few other issures, but it was overall good - you should check it out. but it made me really want a big mac or chicken mcnuggets. mmmmmmmm. for dinner we were going to get chicken lettuce wraps from pf changs for my no-carb dinner, but there was no time, which is how i arrived at the baja fresh next to the theatre. but it was yummerific so no complaints here.. until i can't find in my bridesmaid dress anymore. ack!! tonight was fun.. i got in a huge fight with my dad on wednesday .. so i was edgy yesterday, but my dad gets over/forgets things very quickly, so it was better today. i feel bad because he goes to bed pretty early since he wakes up so early and i work late a lot or sleep in on weekends and so i feel like i haven't really seen him much. i'm glad we got to hang out because we never really do anymore. :) i'm a total daddy's girl.

holy hell it is 2am.. i was gonna go to bed like an hour ago. my time management sucks. i gotta get up and do some video interviews in a few hours. peace out!

PHEW... so i spent a lot of time that i was going to spend blogging redoing my template for my blogger because carlene's pretty uglies site is down so she told me to find a temporary new one. so at least i don't feel like a traitor for trying out the new blogger templates. and now it is 2am and i was supposed to be in bed like 5 hours ago. damn the internet. but since i've already done the damage, why not continue. i just feel that by the end of this week i will be deathly sick because of all the sleep deprivation. and i have no time for being sick because i actually do have to go to work (for a change) to train people in my absence. (gosh i sound so important.. but really.. i'm not). so anyways...

wow... i totally suck at updating lately. sorry dudes. i thought i was doing good with all the mini posts, but they're all about nothing.. so yea. hmph. wow.. i can't believe that it's june 9 already!!! yikes! i thought june 27 was sooo far away.. but my sister is getting married in a two or so weeks! CRAZY. it's been a little crazy, not too much.. but still a little :P doing a few things for my sister's wedding, calling places, dress/shoes/jewelry stuff. she called tonight and asked me to do a whole bunch more things.. which isn't bad, and i'm really happy to help, but i just gotta find the time to do it all! the girl i used to work with at my temp job i probably TOTALLY took for granted because this new guy came, and he's okay (not the really nice hot guy that i was hoping to fall in love with and get married to, but that's okay.. jk). he seems really nice and like a good worker but he is SLOW. he tries (or maybe he doesn't .. i don't sit anywhere near him) but he isn't the best data entry-er. i sometimes end up having to do a lot of his work, and i don't know if it's the change in hours that is screwing me up or his slowness or what... but i am doing way more than i used to and it sucks. i feel like a brat because i should be complaining about "working" because that's what i should be doing.. but i feel like somehow i'm getting the short end of the stick. i dunno.

been doing a lot of the hockey scorekeeping training lately, and not so much of the gap, although i did have to work a 6am shift and then work again on memorial day.. so that kind of sucked. but yea. scorekeeping is pretty cool.. it's a lot like what i did for water polo and ICA, but more by yourself (you do stats and clock by your lonesome) and less regulated because it's recreation.. so you get a lot of angry yelling and cussing.. which i don't enjoy, but hopefully it's something i get used to, or immune to.. like that awful sweaty stench. i have one more training session on the ice on thursday and then sunday i work my very first own shift. i'm a little nervous. i get really antsy because like with everything new i always feel like i'm doing something wrong or forgetting something when everything is really okay. we shall see. oh my! it gets a little daunting with all the rules and when the games get scrappy with lots of penalties and yada yada yada.. but hopefully i'll manage. yikes. but i do like the people a lot. the girl who hired me is super nice and is a lot like me (but older) and she likes me because she can relate to my asian-ness. hahah. plus she's from indiana! and her middle name is jean. how cool is that... we're meant to be friends. hahah. and everyone's pretty super nice, a few oddballs, but you get them everywhere. i went to this going away party for the guy who trained me.. and i wasn't sure if i should show up or not.. like was it a pity/courtesy invite? or if i didn't go would that be rude? i ended up going (cuz i had nothing better to do, of course) and when i walked it i knew like two people and everyone else stared at me like i was stupid in the wrong house. after that initial ice breaking, things were okay. i just sat around and people watched.. but apparently i earned brownie points for showing up.. which is good, plus free food! (well not exactly free i brought food :P) but whatever.

a few tuesdays ago i drove up to ucla with beth to go watch NAPOLEON DYNAMITE at this place @ UCLA (melnitz) that shows free movies - mostly (or all.. i dunno) of the indie persuasion. it was good times because a)that movie is SO funny.. i cried a few times b)it was free AND they gave out free tshirts and c)i had great company with ryan, beth & emily. :) i HIGHLY suggest ALL OF YOU go watch it.. it comes out June 11 (friday!) but there may be a few more free screenings you can go watch and get free junk and be part of the cool kid club. or try and find it at the theatre near you come friday. and if you really are the bandwagoney type.. hilary duff's sister, haylie is in it :P go see it dude. and if you're nice maybe i'll send you a "vote for pedro" button that i got @ sundance. :) go see the movie, you'll totally get it and then you'll want one.

that weekend was memorial day weekend... yay 2 day weekend! it was jam-packed. saturday everyone met up at "the big sam woo" in la puente and had the big 'ol 7/10/12 course meal (we lost count) full of lots of yummy food and some (well one) food that wasn't so desirable. i bet my parents would have like them though... yay for sea cucumbers. but it was a LOT of food and so yummy and the BEST cake ever. it's like chocolate mousse, with cake and then cheesecake on top and i think white chocolate shaving on the outside...mmmmm..... nicole.. for my birthday just buy me that cake :) after stuffing ourselves we rolled ourselves over to nicole's house for an "after party" full of leftovers, more food and fruit and plenty of alcohol. nicole opened her gifts and then proceeded on to karaoke on the magic mic. i had to leave early because i had work @ 6am and i heard i missed the best part! they showed a video of nicole's 18th(?) birthday party... or something with nicole and her friends doing synchronized dancing. damn the gap. :P but CONGRATS to nicole!! :)

the next day (or a few hours later) i worked a full day at the gap doing men's new flow.. i got to do section one, redoing the shelves and doing visuals and building the "closet" (the clothes that hang for display on the walls). it was pretty cool and everyone was telling me that it looked really good so i was very proud of myself. yes i sound like a dork, but it's harder than you think. i came home and napped for two hours before sakura, carol and i carpooled up to ryan & jason's apartment for ryan & beth's BBBQ. :) it was lots and lots of fun too.. more food as well, and i brought drinks :) i tried to play bartender, but not very successfully. but it was fun while it lasted. we ate lots, played a variety of games, chit chatted, made fun of each other .. and towards the end as the crowd dwindled down the real party people stayed for a few hours of texas hold 'em. it wasn't too bad and i did a LOT better than last time. i wasn't the first to go out (and i never did).. i owe the success to my teammates ryan billings and nicole, and yahoo poker. there were two really big hands that we won, one was a flush on the river. jason got really mad because he bet a lot of money and i called it... betting a lot of my money on chance.. when i wasn't supposed to win the last card came through. everyone cheered.. i felt like a hero. i think i bet because nicole was saying "do it! do it!" although she had no idea what the cards were.. but hey.. good job nicole! i think the second time i had some sort of straight nicole told me to go for it again and it worked. nice. i won something like $6 or so.. which is not bad at all considering i think i lost like $10 or $20 last time. :P finally dragged my sorry ass home at 4am (thanks for the ride billings!) and slept almost all of memorial day away.. until they called me to go help them close the gap. blech.. i can't believe i said yes.. i'm such a sucker.

next big adventure was HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN. yaaaay. i am a harry potthead. :) ryan, beth, benji & i drove out to chino (aka the wrong side of the tracks :P) jk.. to watch the movie with nicole, carlene, sonny and her mom. :) we had this whole deal where nicole bought the tickets early so that we'd be guaranteed a ticket, but it wasn't even sold out! i guess people in chino just aren't cool enough for harry potter :P for dinner we met up at the new stand alone chick-fil-a as ryan drooled all the way there :) it had a play area that had weird noises when you stepped on a certain part of the ground and cool cow patterned cars. there was pictures of giant chick-fil-a sandwiches on the wall and i had beth stand next to it and pose like she was trying to take a bite out of it. beth is so cool and posed so well and i was laughing so hard i couldn't even take the picture. and when nicole looked at the picture we all laughed really hard, and i'm chuckling just thinking about it now. it's awesome. nicole, beth and i wore our gryffindor scarves (well beth and i finished them while waiting for the movie to start) and played a very unethusiastic round of harry potter uno. the movie started and it was good.. a lot different than the other two.. and beth and i spend forever hours on end talking about the differences from the book (while ryan plugs his ears). when malfoy first appears on screen his new "look" cuaron gave him makes him look like aaron carter. i could not help laughing everytime he came on screen and nicole and i kept waiting for him to bust out a song and dance. :) our group was very giggly and kept snickering at lots of jokes and innuendos and who knows what else. but it was awesome... harry potter rocks. i promptly re-read the book this past weekend. oh how geeky i am.

not much else ... been working some, the countdown is on to my sister's wedding.. crazyness. she just asked me to do a whole bunch more things so i might be leaving later than i had planned.. subject to flight availability. but it's pretty crazy.. i feel like this wedding is going to be so big and extravagant, and then we're also trying to plan the LA reception too. it's cool that it's in taiwan though because a lot more relatives will be able to go and a lot of the US relatives are flying back.. so my grandma's really happy that a lot of the family will be around. we got the invitations for my sister's wedding and they're so fancy! apparently her fiancee's dad is some important person in taiwan, and i actually saw his dad on the chinese news as well as his sister, and they said that he looks happy because his only son is getting married at the end of june. on the freaking chinese news!! crrrrAzy. my mom's all paranoid because she thinks there will be papparazzi or something and she's telling to start starving myself :P (not like i'm already not).. but yea. and i found out there's going to be a stylist for the wedding.. a STYLIST?! yea. i feel like my sister is trista (of bachelorette fame) and i'm her ugly sister who was sitting on the beach all lonely while her bachelorette friends jumped up and down in the water in their cute bikinis. hahah. so yea.. i hope my sister isn't the pretty pretty princess and i'm the ugly wicked stepsister with warts and bad breath. well i hope she's a pretty princess.. just not the latter :P i still gotta decide on which shoes, find some "appropriate/mother approved" dresses & clothes to wear and start/finish stuff that my sister wanted me to do for her wedding. ack! my mom is leaving tomorrow so she was pushing me a lot to go shopping for the "right" clothes. you would think that it'd be a dream for my mom to offer to buy clothes for me but for some reason i dreaded it so. we bought a bunch of stuff, but nothing quite right and now she's leaving, so... i guess i'll just have to surprise her :P. i was supposed to leave on the 18th, but now with all the added stuff i might leave on the 20th or 22nd. which may be kind of sucky because i've never flown to taiwan by myself. i hope i don't get detained in customs or lost in the airport or anything! we shall see. it is madness though.. but i am off of work starting next wednesday. WHEEE!!! i am very excited and counting down the days.. yea... sure my work isn't a "real" job.. but maybe that's what makes it so unbearable.. that it's so mundane and monotonous. i wonder how that place will fare without me since the other guy is pretty new too. oh well. :P i gotta train those foos tomorrow. after i get back i need to be on the ball with the job hunt. the other temp guy (who started after me) has left and gotten a real job too.. i'm the only loser left. the chick who i work with at healthsouth is into the "industry" as well, so she always tells me about stuff and maybe can help me out. she has "friends".. i hope something pans out. everything happens for a reason right?

time for some promotional plugs.
check out the new asian reality show.. Quest USA. it's kind of like road rule vs. real world challenge, but it's all chinese ppl and team usa vs. team china vs. team hong kong. i think i watched the first episode, and it was alright.. they had a relay race and got a bunch of free clothes and shoes. not too shabby. it's interesting though. :) they get to go to cool places, and probably get lots of cool stuff. it's funny though because i saw this awhile ago and was thinking about applying.. but watching it i realize i'm not quite fobby enough and my mandarin probably wasn't that great... but it could have been fun.. or i could have been rejected.

also pete and manny have resurrected their love child unofficial cki. either they're stupid or brave, or not scared of lawyers, or don't care or had lots of time on their hands. jk... they probably just got fed up with more bs and decided to wreak some more havoc...it's almost like a std, lays dormant for awhile, the flames back up when you least expect it. check out their kick ass handy work.. pete and manny rock.

also a belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY to nicole. she turned the big 2-4 on tuesday.. and while i meant to finish this blog by then.. it just didn't quite happen. nicole celebrated her birthday with the lakers.. they won just for her :)

man.. i really need to get back in the habit of updating more regularly. i know when i go to taiwan it'll all fall to pieces again. one last thing.. tonight i was SOOOOOO close to driving the zamboni... for the longest time i have wanted to drive one because it just seems so neat. last year when we played broomball @ UTC (awww.. my last cki event as president :P.. awww.. san diego!) and my friend brandon who worked there was doing it, i thought, "hey it can't be too hard." so i was joking around with the guy today after the last game and i asked how hard it was to drive the zamboni and if you had to know how to drive stick cuz i saw lots of levers and pedals and junk. but he said no.. all i needed was to know how to drive and have a license! he was gonna let me do it but he had to get the other one from the back so it would take too long. damn! now i gotta find a way to show up when he's working so i can do it.. haha. i don't know why, but it's a very strange obsession. i got really excited it was pathetic. but i had my little moment of glory for .5 nanoseconds. it will happen someday.. hopefully i don't crash into the walls.

so this post is for the geekiness in me.

so i was listening to kevin & bean in the morning and i heard about this guy who redesigned his apartment so it looks like a star trek spaceship!!! that's soo awesome. hehehe. i know i am a dork, how cool is that to have like consoles, and "transporters" and voice activated lighting! whoa! :) it's pretty awesome... check it out now!

the ebay page

more pictures

the guy's company who designed it

too bad i don't have a million dollars.

here are some pictures from the star trek apt.
so neato! 


how would you like to have a transporter! 


here is a shot of the kitchen 

i'm testing out my new "blogger bot" that automatically posts pictures to my blog. neato! thanks nicole for the info. this picture above is the cast of the AWESOME movie NAPOLEON DYNAMITE that i saw on tuesday with beth, ryan and emily and last january @ sundance. this picture is from the screening at sundance where afterwards the cast and writer(s)/director had the q&a session. *good times* you should check out theif spiffy new website recently re-designed and check out where there are free screenings!! free is always good, and you can get fun FREE tshirts too. this movie is pee in your pants funny, so don't drink a lot beforehand. :)  

for carlene:

carlene is nice: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/alert/?alertid=5834001&content_dir=ua_congressorg
carlene is nice: is this for reals?!
carlene is nice: being in college and fleeing to Canada is not an option
jeanyah: crazy
carlene is nice: let's contact Arnold for some action!!
jeanyah: hahah
carlene is nice: i'll text him... you email k
jeanyah: yea.. he'll kick some butt
carlene is nice: :-)
jeanyah: gov_arnie@california.org ?
jeanyah: i don't really support making everyone eligible for draft whether or not they want to
carlene is nice: yeah im flat footed
carlene is nice: i'll die for sure!
jeanyah: lol
carlene is nice: im spreading the word
carlene is nice: you should too
carlene is nice: :-)

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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.

tonight (or yesterday night) was the LAST EPISODE OF FRIENDS. and sure.. there was too much freaking promotion and too many cheesy commercials with that god awful evanescence song... but it's still sad. the episode was pretty funny and not trying to be all super sappy for the whole hour. (that's what the hour review show was for.. where erika and i totally teared up and almost started bawling!) it was pretty good. but sad in that good way.. i'm still expecting that they come back next season and i see the twins, and ross and rachel's new apt, and that phoebe's pregnant or something. but.. it ain't gonna happen. so sad. i watched it courtesy of loverly erika :) who co-hosted a kick-ass "say goodbye to friends with friends" party. (too cute huh?!) more deets on that later. just wanted to say goodbye to friends in a timely manner on my blog.

but my REAL reason for posting.. is hurry!! quick!! go donate and sponsor my awesome friend KERI KABAHEAD in the revlon run/walk for breast cancer. she's super close to her goal (but would also be GREAT if she beat it!) and it's always always for a good cause.. so go donate now!

i'll really try to do an "real" update soon.. things have been kinda crazy of late. :P

spaznik: did you go to SD?
jeanyah: yes ma'am
spaznik: oh fun!
jeanyah: yea..
jeanyah: it was.. okay
jeanyah: i wish i could have stayed longer
jeanyah: like.. forever :P

got back from san diego.. a little while ago. (there and back in one night.. crazy.. i don't know how you people do it!) missing it already. i am such a dork, once i reached del mar-ish i rolled down my windows because i was stuck in traffic, but i let all the san diego flow in through my windows and realized that i missed "the smell" of san diego. call me crazy, but it was really soothing.. and made me happy and sad and nostalgic. yikes.

i'll post some sort of "real" update later this weekend (i hope) for those of you who care (zero) and all that good stuff. i just wanted to tell you that sandy eggo is great.

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hahah.. i rock. to all those comm and DOC ta's that criticized my writing.. take that!!!! hahahhaha i probably owe it all to mr. thompson and ms. agena.. haha. sure as hell not ms. mays!!! yay cams. oh plus magruder and edison. yay torrance!! btw.. that is a kick ass picture.. i love it!

wow.. this is really awesome!

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this is the show that i used to intern for, fox rox. it's pretty damn cool and the people who do the show are awesome. the producer is really cool and he's a ucsd marshall comm grad like myself and has won a couple regional emmys for this show and other stuff he does in local programming. (see.. we're the best philly... marshaaalll!) i seriously had the best time ever interning there and learned a lot and it was just really nifty overall. i felt all special... i got to go to the new found glory/good charlotte meet and greet and almost interviewed them.. that was interesting. and although i wasn't interning while jason mraz or howie day were in studio (i probably would have peed my pants anyways)... i got to see a few bands play in the studios like the special goodness, and the buzzcocks. i really liked watching the taping and editing process and.. i dunno.. it was just over all great :P sometimes i just wanted to pick up and move back to sd and intern for them just to learn and experience doing a tv show. it's definitely better than anything i'm getting right now.

but that's really awesome that they're it's been 100 episodes.. considering they have 4 main people to do the show and have pretty crappy time slots.. they manage.. because the show is awesome :) and this party sounds awesome.. i hear the casbah rocks (i never went there in all my four years.. silly huh?) and hot like (a) robot is playing (and three other really good SD bands) and it will probably be just plain cool. i'm seriously considering going.. anyone want to come with? :)

but really congrats to fox rox :) they rule.