Dear Frankie

... is the best movie EVER. Maybe not ever... Tommy Boy is pretty great, but this movie was really really sweet and touching and cute. Wow. Most touching movie I've seen in a really long time. It's about this mom and her deaf son. Her son writes all these letters to his dad that is a sailor and who he hasn't seen since he was a baby. And it's really the mom writing letters to her son because the real dad is a jerk. Anyway. I don't want to spoil the movie, but it's sooo good. Also, it stars Gerard Butler. Who is JUST as sexy as he is almost naked in 300.

Anyway! Updates... let's see...

Last Thursday, Friday, AND Saturday I mostly stayed home because I've been sick and lazy and sleeping. Saturday night I drove down to Pismo to meet up with Susie and Chris for a fun random weekend trip! We met up around midnight (well... side story: I got there first around 11:45 pm, but there was a light on inside the condo. I was scared because I thought someone might be inside, but there wasn't supposed to be anyone there... so I freaked out and just waited for Susie and Chris in the parking lot of the market down the street. Turns out some jerk [probably my 2nd cousin] left the light on [for two months] on accident) and just hung out watching tv and chatting.

Sunday morning we woke up and had brunch at this little place called Village Cafe. They had eggs benedict (YES!) and after a delicious brunch we grabbed coffee from Coffee Bean to get energized for outlet shopping! Well, Susie and I went outlet shopping whilst Chris watched some big important football game (colts vs. patriots or something?). Susie and I both found some good deals. I got a cute long sleeve hoodie shirt from Aeropostale for $10 and a tan colored zip up jacket from CK. Susie got a cute zip up hoodie from DC and pj pants from CK. After shopping, we watched more tv and just hung out at the condo (also we napped). Around 7-ish we headed out for dinner at Jocko's Steakhouse in Nipomo (15 min drive south). BEST STEAKHOUSE EVER. Probably because it's so cheap and homey and delicious. After dinner we were stuffed, so we walked around Walmart for awhile (I bought the Golden Compass series... it's three books in one!) and eventually ended back at the condo to watch more tv and chit chat.

Monday we had lunch at Splash Cafe then drove out to Madonna Inn (it was ol' "Uncle" Carl's suggestion) to check it out. That place is really bright, gaudy, and WEIRD. But interesting. It has like 109 theme hotel rooms (i.e., Vienna, Old Cars, Fleur De LIs, the Rock Suites with furniture and sinks made of rocks like Fred Flintstone) and is just totally over the top and kitsch. After that we drove back to the condo to clean and we departed around 2 pm. I got a coffee for the road and headed back towrds SF. Susie and Chris got a flat tire on their way home and crappily had to drive home on a donut wheel. Poor Chris's car :( I stopped at the Gilroy outlet stores to pick up a cute sweater vest from CK (for interviewing) and ended up getting ANOTHER sweater vest and skirt from BR and a button down white shirt from J.Crew. Nice. Finally got back to the apt around 8 pm and just hung out with Ellen.

On my ride home I thought long and hard about my life. Well not really my LIFE on a broad scale, but what I'm going to do about my work, money, and career situation. I had a few options... stay in SF (find an apt and/or another roommate), move down south to Silicon Valley (find an apt and/or live with Ellen & Phill), or move back to LA to live with my parents. I decided that since I don't want to do recruiting for the rest of my life and I wanted to save money... the best decision would be to move back to LA. I'll miss Ellen and my friends in the bay area, but I'll come and visit all the time. :) I think I just need to reflect and see what I really want to do. I think I'll go back to grad school for either Organizational Psychology or School Psychology or something. Hm. I feel like I just graduated college again or something. Yeesh. But that's the plan for now... unless I get a call from Facebook or something for an interview. :) We'll see.

Back to my updates... yesterday was just another boring lazy work day and at night I went to Emily's house for dinner! Melissa and I showed up at Emily's place at 7:30-ish to find a DELICIOUS home cook meal ready for us. Emily was so sweet and made us Cioppino! Yum!! And for dessert she made us apple cobbler. Wow! Such a great meal... we had a lot of fun eating and talking :)

This morning I drove down to the Palo Alto Nordstrom to see the sale stuff... but unfortch it was disappointing. I ended up only getting socks and tights. But I'll try another Nordstrom on Saturday to see if there's anything I missed. :) After that, today was yet another work day and after work met up with Evelyn, Cheech, Ty, Lucy, and Sarah for drinks in downtown Palo Alto at Nola's. It was fun to chat and drink and eat appetizers. I got a raspberry mojito and it was DELISH. Yum. After, I went home and watched Dear Frankie with Ellen. Sigh. I can't stress how great this movie is... first movie that's made me cry in a really long time.

Wow, this was a long post. Okay, that's it for now!