Victorville

Ahhh laziness. Let's see what I've been doing this week... hm. Sunday night I stayed in but made homemade cookies! Susie came over and we (plus Al) hung out in the living room watching tv. We also watched the Real Dolls Documentary online. Creepy stuff. Monday I pretty much stayed in all day until about 10 pm when I met up with Alan, Kenny, and Peter at AU for tea. We sat and chatted for a few hours then I was back home around midnight. It felt weird hanging out with those guys... felt like I was at PCC and 18 again. I haven't seen Kenny in 2 years and I haven't seen Peter in probably like 4 years. So crazy.

Tuesday I stayed in again since it was raining until about 8:30 pm when I went to Starbuck's with Susie. After we got our drinks we went out to the Laemmle Theatre in Pasadena to watch Juno. It was the CUTEST movie ever! The dialogue was great and the story line was sweet without being super sappy. Awesome awesome movie. :) After we just went home since it was raining and I ended up watching American Pie: The Naked Mile with Al. Terrible movie. Wow, what a contrast. Haha. I only watched it for like 30 minutes and then I left.

Today I woke up early-ish (um, like 11:45 am), packed, and measured my pants to be hemmed. Al and I got to Victoria Gardens in Rancho Cucamonga around 3 pm and walked around for a few hours. I ended up getting a brown hat for $10, a blue v-neck shirt from Urban for $10, and a cute khaki Billabong purse for like $30. DAMN. I was trying not to buy anything since I just spent like $300 for jeans on Saturday. Crap. I really need to get a job soon... I'm blowing thru my savings like NO TOMORROW. Yikes. It's okay... I'll get some money for Christmas that I can use in Hawaii. Wee! HAWAII! I'm pretty excited. I want to swim with dolphins!

After Victoria Gardens, we drove to Victorville to Tracee's apt. We hung out there for a bit and then head out to dinner at a local Mexican restaurant (it was decent... but I've been suffering from some serious heart burn and stomach problems since I got back from dinner). Al and I tried to find a fun movie to watch at Hollywood Video, but we couldn't agree on anything. So since we got back to the apt we've watched Borat, Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, and now we're watching Ron Burgandy. Such a funny movie. Okay, I'll go back to watching the movie and dealing with my terrible heartburn.

Tomorrow I'm going to Tracee's little work holiday party and then Al and I are meeting up with my parents and family friends for dinner at some Italian restaurant in Glendora.

Christy + Arcadia = Lazy

Really really really lazy. Wow. Friday I drove from SF to Arcadia... it wasn't a shabby drive. What did suck was that the elevator in my apt was broken. Which made loading up my car a horrific experience. I made maybe 5 trips up and down the stairs with lots n lots of CRAP. I left SF around 11:30 am and made it home around 6:30 pm. It took longer than usual but that was probably due to the traffic in Oakland, my three stops (lunch, gas, starbucks), and the traffic in Pasadena. But overall it wasn't too terrible. Friday night was pretty uneventful, dinner, TV, sleep.

Saturday I went to the Jeans Warehouse Sale with Al and Susie at the Convention Center. I ended up getting THREE pairs of jeans. DAMMIT. Why did I do that! ARGH. But the jeans are pretty damn cute. I got a pair of Hudson, True Religion, and Antik jeans altogether for less than $300! After I had lunch with Susie at the thai place up the street from my house and then I ended up taking a nap for a few hours (since I woke up at 7 am to go to the jeans sale). I hung out at home with my family for a bit and then went out to Cerritos for my dad's work holiday dinner thingy. Dinner was yummy (crab cakes, salad, filet mignon, and CREME BRULEE) and my dad's coworkers are all semi-old and friendly. I got home from dinner around 11 pm and after just hung out with Tracee at home. Man I'm boring.

Today I accompanied Tracee to Rudy's Barbershop in Silverlake and then to Ulta in Pasadena. I got this awesome lotion warmer thing! Now I can feel like I'm in a spa... uh at home. Yeah, okay I know it was a pretty lame purchase, but STILL. Pretty awesome. I've pretty much been doing nothing for the last three days. I had CPK for dinner (take out at home... just how I do in SF) and now I'm watching Kenny VS Spenny on Comedy Central. If you haven't seen this show yet, well you're lame. I'm just kidding. It's a pretty funny (and gross) show.

I feel weird about moving home... I really want to save money and get my life on the right track. I don't know, I just feel conflicted about moving. I feel like more people want me to stay in SF than people want me to move back to Arcadia. Bleh. Right now I'm more concerned with moving I guess. It's possible I'll go to school up in the bay area and leave Arcadia again anyway. We shall see... I think I'm just majorly PMS'ing and I need a hug. Lame! Okay, time to do like eight loads of laundry. Bleeeh.

Hide & Seek

Hot Pocket!

Paranormal State

So! What exciting things have been happening in Christy world... hm.

Friday - BAKED! I woke up around noon-ish, which is quite on par with an average wake-up time for me, went to Stonestown to eat lunch at the food court because I am lame and then I went to the market to get a few things. I got a big thingy of water and ready to bake cookie things. I got a gingerbread one and a sugar cookie one. Yay! The sugar cookies had little snowmen pictures on them. Adorable. So then I spent about 3 hours baking baking baking. WOW. I felt so domesticated! I made two batches of homemade chocolate chip cookies, the gingerbread cookies, and the sugar cookies. Overall I think I made about... 100 cookies? After baking, I showered and got ready for Emily's party. Melissa showed up at my place around 6:45 and then we head over to the Mission together. Before Em's party, we went to Ambiance for their Customer Appreciation Sale (10% off regular price stuff, 20% off sale stuff). I ended up getting a REALLY cute dark grey silky dress that I can wear to my Dad's work holiday dinner and Melissa got a really cute necklace. We showed up to the party around 8:30 and it really got hopping around 9:30-ish. The house was PACKED! Ellen and Bo showed up around 11 and we all hung out until about 1 am. AWESOME party :)

Saturday - woke up around 11, met Phill's sister and baby niece (who is the cutest baby I've seen in a very long time), had lunch at Brain Wash Cafe (basic breakfast: 2 eggs, potatoes, yummy thick sourdough toast), and then got my nails done at this really cute little pace in the city.  After I went home, took a nap, then left with Ellen for our friend Oranuj's birthday. We ate this little Korean place in the city and then hit up a bar in Nob Hill called Sugar Cafe. Nice. Sugar Cafe was pretty nice... pretentious but nice.  My tummy wasn't feeling 100%, probably due to an overload of kimchi, so I didn't get anything to drink.  I did try Bo's pomegranate drink and it was REALLY good.  OH. I also got fed the best line I've ever heard.  We were outside and this guy starts talking to me, Ellen, and our friend Olivia.  I give Ellen the WTF face and the guy notices so he says to me reassuringly, "I'm not trying to get into your hole or nothing." WHAT. REALLY?! Nice. It was the highlight of my night.  All night it was, "Hey can you hand me my purse? I'm not trying to get into your hole or nothing" or "Can you take a picture of us? I'm not trying to get into your hole or nothing." Yikes. Best line EVER.

Sunday - woke up early (10), got to Santa Clara around 12 and met up with Aaron at the Country Inn Cafe.  I thought the place would be semi-decent and it turned out to be quite the greasy spoon ghetto cafe.  Cheech and Chris showed up at like 12:30 and we had lunch! I got eggs benedict... YUM and it was pretty decent.  After lunch, Aaron and I continued onto the movie theatre (minus Cheech and Chris) to see Golden Compass.  The movie was actually pretty entertaining but of course the book is 10x better. But yeah, the movie was visually very entertaining. :)  After the movie I parted ways with Aaron (I had to get my ass to Target) but NOT before having a totally awkward situation.  Yikes. This is how it went:

Aaron: Do you want to go somewhere for ice cream?

Me: Actually, I have to go run errands... sorry.  But uh, I'm going out of town on Friday and I'll be back in January so I'll talk to you then? I had fun today though!

Then I lean in to hug him, which was a little bit too much of a deep body contact hug but whatever, and then as we're parting our hug he kind of leans in for a KISS. A KISS?! Seriously. Yikes. I not-very-subtly back away and leave him with a...

Me: Uh, yeah. So... I think I'm moving back to LA in mid-January... but uh, I'll talk to you online? Okay BYE"

Then I high-tail it out of there. Wow. So awkward. I feel bad for shooting him down like that, but it felt so wrong to me! Very sad. He's a really nice and sweet guy, but I have absolutely no interest.  *sigh. I have terrible dating luck. Yeesh.

After our date, I went to Target and got lots of presents! Yay, a game for my mom, a game for my little cousins, bed sheets for my parents, and a container of milk for me. :) Very nice.  For dinner Ellen and I ordered Chinese Chicken Salads from CPK. Yum.

Today, it was a pretty chill day.  I woke up and went to Chinatown to satisfy my pho craving and then I picked up a few egg custard tarts, a few little jewelry boxes that my mom likes, and hot almond milk tea from Ten Ren.  I got home around 3:30 and just hung out at home for the rest of the day.  Ellen and I made dinner (pasta with spinach artichoke dip as pasta sauce! yum!) and then we watched Paranoral State! The show is actually pretty creepy.  I got chills the entire hour we watched that show.  The two episodes they played tonight turned out to be only semi-creepy... the previews of next week's episodes looked muuuch scarier. Yikes. Okay, I'm tired updating for now...

Feral: Having returned to an untamed state from domestication.

Wow. I've been out of work for less than a month, and I'm becoming feral. I didn't leave the house at all on Tuesday, yesterday I just left to get lunch, and today I left for like 30 minutes to go to the Apple store with Ellen. WOW. I'm so gross. I didn't even shampoo my hair Tuesday OR Wednesday. I'm disgusting. I'm so bored during the day that I actually take a NAP in the middle of the day... even though I get like 12 hours of sleep at night. What the hell is wrong with me?! Bleh. Anyway. This weekend I have some fun plans I think! Tomorrow it's Emily's fun HOLIDAY PARTY at her apt! I'm making homemade chocolate chip cookies (wow, wish me luck on that one) and bringing a bottle of Framboise. Mmmm raspberry beer.

Saturday afternoon I have plans with Melissa to try this reflexology place in the Inner Richmond and then Saturday night it's dinner and a bar for Oranuj's birthday! Yay plans. Sunday I'm going on a double date with Cheech, Chris, and AARON. One of my eHarmony boys. Okay, let's be honest. My only eHarmony guy. I was chatting with another guy on eHarmony and he friended me on FB... and his profile says he's in a relationship! So random. Then he msg'ed me on gChat and I asked him about his FB relationship status. And then... he stopped chatting. Haha... not even ONE response. WOW. So classy... and it's not like I was being creepy and friended him... he approached ME on FB and asked to be friends. Does he think I'm not going to look at his profile? Why must people be stupid and assume that everyone else is just as stupid? Yeesh.

Anyway. Yeah. Double date on Sunday with Cheech... brunch and GOLDEN COMPASS. I'm pretty damn excited. :)

Okay, I hope tomorrow is going to be more interesting than Tuesday, Wednesday, and today. Yeesh I'm a loser. Also! I think I'm driving back to LA on Friday, Dec. 14th. Might as well... I'm not doing ANYTHING in SF right now...

Random stuff...

I'm going to just post random crap that I find online... haha!

Cute happa boy! Sounds a little like Jack Johnson... I just want to put him in my pocket.





**UPDATE** They removed the SV Tech Bubble video... LAME!

Overheard in New York City

A few blurbs from one of the funniest websites I've come across (www.overheardinnewyork.com):

Customer: Um, excuse me, I ordered a root beer float, but you gave me a beer float.
Burger girl: Oh my god... I'm sorry.
Customer: I mean, I like your custard, and I like beer, but...
Random guy: Hey, can I have it?

--The Shake Shack

Young Asian man to Asian woman with baby, while touching baby's foot: She is so soft. Does she have bones yet?

Asian mom: Yes, she has bones!

--L Train

Old guy: Hey! You respect your elders! Don't be disrespectful to your elders!

12-year-old boy: Shut the fuck up! Come here! Come over here! I'll fuck you up! Fuck you!

Passerby: I'd love to see an old man and a little kid throw down in the middle of Union Square.



--Union Square

Drunk NYU girl: So, what I'd really like to do is help the innocent... [Drunk friend laughs.] With, like, fireballs!



--Bowery & 4th

Girl: Ugh! Can I hang myself with your tie, please?
Guy: No! I love this tie!

--110th & Manhattan

Fat lady #1: Excuse me, could you move over?
Thin woman: Well, I can't move over anymore.
Fat lady #1: Excuse me, could you move over?
Fat lady #2: There is no way you're going to fit in that space.
Fat lady #1: If you moved over I could. I'm not fat like you.
Fat lady #2: Not only are you fat, but you're crazy. You think I'm fat? Get away before I eat you.

--E Train

Mother: Oh my god! I just saw a bird fly by the window! Isn't that neat?
Teen: Don't be ridiculous, Mom. Birds can't fly that fast. It was probably a bullet.

--LaGuardia

Older brother: Ha ha, you look like a mice.
Younger brother: You don't even know how to speak. You're supposed to say I look like a mouse.
Older brother: No, a mice is a mouse when it's still little.

--Gristedes, Henry Street

AND FINALLY... this is one I've actually said before to those register to vote people outside of WalMart:

Young woman: Hey, would you like to sign up and register to vote?
Man: No, thanks. I'm an illegal alien.

--Grand Concourse, the Bronx

Golden Compass!

Man I am so geeked about the Golden Compass movie...



I'm a loser. :)