Free and Broke

So Friday was my last day at work. It was definitely bittersweet. Emily was so sweet... she got me a beautiful orchid plant, a cupcake, AND a homemade card with a picture of Trooper on it. Best presents ever! We had a team lunch at one of the cafes and I turned all my stuff in around 4 pm. Eric brought Trooper in so I could puppy sit him most of the day. I think I had him for like two hours. Nice! He's probably the sweetest dog ever... very easy going. After, I went to Bld. 50 (as we call the bar down the street) for some last drinks with friends. Well not last drinks with friends... last drinks with coworkers. I left around 7-ish with Emily, Kathy, and Chris in tow. We sang sappy 90s songs the whole way home... it was great. Chris didn't enjoy it as much, but whatever. We had dinner at the Cancun Taqueria in the mission... yum! After, I dropped everyone off and just hung out at home. It was nice and very very chill.

Saturday, I woke up around 11-ish. I got my car an oil change (plus new windshield wipers, new air filter, new license plate lightbulb thingy) and then headed to the Stonestown mall. I got lunch at the Korean place in the foodcourt which was delicious, then lotions from Bath & Body Works (there's a sale! buy 3, get 1 free and if you spend $30 you get a $10 giftcard). After I checked out the Half Yearly Sale at Nordys. I ended up getting a pair of fake Nordstrom brand Uggs (short boots in dark brown), black leather pointy toe flats, and a green canvas/cotton-y jacket. Also, I got Cheech's birthday present! Yay.

I left the city around 7-ish to meet up with Cheech and company for her birthaty at Maggiano's in Santana Row. Dinner was GREAT! It was really yummy... everything is served family style in huge quantities. We got caesar salad, spinach salad, calamari, spinach artichoke dip, spaghetti with meatballs, chicken parmigian, some creamy noodle dish with mushrooms, and salmon on spinach. YUM. For desert we got tiramisu, some apple cobbler type thing, and a cake that Stef brought for Cheech! There were 11 of us total: Cheech, Chris, Stef, George, Lenny, Will, Jen, Young, George, George's gf Karen, and me! After dinner I was so stuffed and tired (it was raining so the drive down sucked) and decided to head back to SF. I got home around 12:30 am and watched Reno 911: Miami and just played my DS. Very lame but relaxing.

Today I did absolutely nothing. I had McD's for lunch, was so bored I fell asleep on the couch, read The Subtle Knife (Golden Compass #2 book), and watched tv. Ellen made AWESOME shrimp tacos for dinner and after Ellen, Phill, and I headed to the Metreon to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D!!! So fun... BUT. When we got to the theatre, there were COPS everywhere... and that yellow tape. The main entrance to the theatre was closed off... but we decided to park and see if the theatre was open anyway. Turns out there was a SHOOTING inside the Metreon. Which seems like the most terrible idea since the Metreon is super crowded on a regular day AND there is the Oracle convention going on right behing the Metreon. Yikes. But the movie thetre was still open. We saw clothes and blood on the floor near the ticket counter. Yikes. I guess I'll read about it tomorrow morning. After the movie, we got McD's ice cream and watched the show Jon & Kate Plus 8. It's about this family... they have one set of twins and a set of SEXTUPLETS. Yeesh... I don't know what I'd do if I had 8 kids... I'd probably tear all my hair out.

And now... I'm just watching tv. It's hella late for me to be awake... but since I don't have work tomorrow, I can do whatever I want! Woo! So, back to the Simpsons and The Subtle Knife.

Last Day at Google

Finally, a non-Euro post!

Yay~ So, let's see... updates! Last weekend was grrreat. I met up with Melissa, Emily, and MICHELLE (who drove all the way up from Watsonville to hang out) at Nordstrom in downtown SF. We went shopping at Nordies, Club Monaco, Bloomie's, Urban, H&M, and BR in downtown. Then we headed to the Marina and went to Sephora! After Sephora, we had dinner at this little place in the Marina called Eastside West. Melissa and I got fish tacos (which were eh, not too gross but not that delicious) with sweet potato fries (which WERE delicious). Emily got the crab and Michelle got the filet mignon. It was a really nice dinner! After dinner, Michelle had to drive back home so Emily, Melissa, and I went to the Mission to bar hop! So fun. We started out at Elixir (had one drink... well I had a diet coke), then went to Casanova (too crowded, didn't even go in), then Skylark (where there was a big birthday party and they had this GIANT delicious looking chocolate cake), and finally we ended up at Double Dutch. Ty arrived a little after 11 pm and it was a really fun little bar (with a dance floor in the back!). We stayed until like 12:30 am and finally succumbed to the tiredness. Overall, it was a great day! I bought TONS of stuff:

Nordies: bright pink semi-ruffly tank top, cream cardigan, brown top
BR: white/brown stripped sweater
Sephora: Stila illuminating moisturizer, Stila concealer stick

Sunday, I had dim sum with Andrew, Kathy, and Steven in Chinatown. We tried a new place on Broadway. It was hella crowded so we didn't get seated for 30 minutes, but the food was pretty good. I still like the ghetto place I usually go to on Pacific. Hm. Oh well, after dim sum we walked around Chinatown. I got a little dan tat (egg custard) from the famous Golden Gate Bakery and then I got some bread too! Yum. Come to think of it, I haven't even eaten that bread yet. Ooops. After Chinatown, I went to Target in Daly City to get some essentials. I just kind of hung around the house in the evening, watching Family Guy and the Simpsons. Later tho, Ellen, Phill, and I got bored... so we went to the market and got coke and chocolate ice cream for YUMMY coke floats. We were pretty dang hyper after that and were trying to do all these exercise moves on Ellen's new yoga mat. We're crazy.

Monday, it was back to work as usual. Ellen, Phill, Bo, and Lawrence came to visit me for dinner *yum and then after Ellen and I just went home and watched tv (I introduced her to Meerkat Manor... such an addicting show). Also, Ellen and I bought stuff from AE.com. Wee! I got myself a PJ dress, a really cute navy shirt, and a grey cardigan hoodie!

Yesterday, I just had work, then the gym, then dinner, then home. I actually went to bed at like 10 pm and got 9 hours of sleep. It was awesome, I'm looking for a repeat tonight! Today, again... just work, the gym, and such. My life is pretty boring. Okay! That is it for now. :) Yay non-Europe post!

Hot as Hades

Man I take back everything I said about Mountain View being hot. Holy crikey it's hot in LA. Right now it's about 10:45 pm and it's still like 88 degrees. 88 degrees at NIGHT. Wow, I'm sitting in my parents living room in just a tube dress and I'm sweating. The fan is on and everything. Yeesh. Anyway, what the hell have I been up to?

Wednesday - work, then headed to City Beach for a mini work off-site! Yay!! It was SUPER hot in there but it was really really fun. To explain, City Beach isn't really a beach. It's an indoor sports facility. So they had volleyball courts, basketball courts, ping pong, pool, bocce ball, foosball, and indoor rock climbing! We were there from about 1-4 and then went to the local bar for a bit. After the bar, I met up with Phill to borrow his big backpack.

City Beach Off Site 8/29/07

Thursday - work, a few meetings, left work at 3:30 pm and headed down to LA! I got gas and washed my car in one of those automated things and hit the freeway. I hit traffic on the way down through San Jose, but the drive was traffic-free the rest of the way. WEE! I stopped once to use the bathroom, then stopped again to eat a quick burger at Carl's Jr and get gas. I got home around 10 pm and then just spent the night doing laundry.

Friday - woke up around 10 am, drove over to Susie's house around 11, got Coffee Bean (yum!), then drove out to South Coast. I was the navigator but I kept getting Susie lost. Oopsie! Sorry Sooz. Hehe, but we finally made it to the Costa Mesa rack! Yay!!! I got lots of fun stuff... I got a really cute jersey/cotton tube dress, a really cute stripey tube dress from To The Max (BCBG), and two pairs of cute underpants. After having a "snack" at Boudin's, we walked around Best Buy, then left to meet up my family for dinner. We had Italian food at Lascalia's or something in Whittier and then after dinner, Susie and I went to Old Town for PINKBERRY *yum, I got a REALLY cute thick grey jacket (even though it's hot as hell here, I can wear it in SF), and we walked around Urban. Now it's about 11 pm and I'm going to head to Dave n Buster's to hang out with Alan and David, I haven't seen either of these guys in like 3+ years. Interesting.

Why is it so hot?

It's damn hot in Mountain View today. The air is a bit humid and the sun is blaring. Wow it's hot. I wish I could handle heat like I used to down in LA. I used to wear jeans and stuff in the 100 degree summers and I was fine! I used to sweat a little bit, but not too much. Now, it gets over 80 and I'm dying. Not literally dying or anything, but I'm really hot and uncomfortable. Maybe because I've gotten quite a bit fatter since moving up here? Maybe because I've just grown accustomed to the cool to mild temperatures of the bay area? Hm. Whatever it is, it's made the heat unbearable for me. When I go home to visit, I wear lots of dresses and try not to move while the sun is out. I usually try to avoid leaving the house between the hours of 1-4 because it's just too damn hot. I'm pathetic.

What else is new... hmm. I went to work yesterday, left early to go to REI (bought a really nice/thin/warm NorthFace brown fleece jacket, earplugs, a clothesline, and a microfiber thin towel), got my second ever bikini wax (why? I guess because I'm going to Europe. Who cares, no one will see it but me. It wasn't too bad this time but I did buy some numbing cream to try next time... bikini waxes are awesome), then when I went out to dinner with Ellen at Osha (a Thai place). Dinner was pretty dang yummy. We had chicken satay and thai iced tea. I ordered the pad thai and Ellen got the tom yum. Man we were full after dinner.

Today I just had work and a lovely massage. Now I'm just kind of killing time until the traffic dies down a bit. I need to hit up Best Buy to buy Heroes Season 1 on DVD and then I'll head home to start packing. I've been freaking out (as you can tell from my earlier entries) about the whole packing situation. I'll be sleeping, then wake up and realize I forgot to write something on my packing list, wake up and actually write the item on my list, then go back to sleep. It's completely neurotic. But if it helps me pack, then whatever. I've got lots of crap on that list.

Shopping!

Ahhh shopping. I've hardly done any work today, and I figure I'll keep that feeling going by not working now. I've just shopped online in the morning and then I went to Jamba Juice for lunch *yum. Carribean Passion and sourdough pretzel. Yum! Anyway, back to the more important subject of the day: shopping.

Yesterday I got Alloy.com clearance catalog in the mail. Actually I think it was addressed to Ellen. Anyway, I haven't bought anything from Alloy or Delia*s in over a year and I figured I'd take a look to kill time. Unfortunately for me, I found a few REALLY cute things! Fortunately for my back account, they were all really cheap things. *yay. So this morning after our meeting (where we learned about gapminder.org which is possibly one of the coolest websites of all time), I immediately went to Delias.com and Alloy.com. I didn't find anything really cute at Delias, but I did find tons-o-stuff at Alloy.

After shopping for about... oh 10 minutes, I had a lot of crap in my shopping basket. I ended up buying:

cute navy polka dot shirt, grey Volcom shirt

black sweater hoodie, Red sweater with ELBOW pataches!

grey sweater shirt with PRETEND tank-top sewn in!

All for the low price of $77 after tax and with free shipping. AWESOME. I think I got a pretty good deal. I really like the grey sweater shirt thingy. It looks fancy! It looks like you have a shirt underneath on, but it's really just a pretend shirt sewn into the sweater part. SWEET. Anyway, now I want to buy a new makeup bag even though I don't need it. But it's pretty darn cute. It's from Nordy's for like $55. I figure I can just keep it at home to store all my makeup. Right now I have like three smaller makeup bags holding random makeup. It'd be better to have one big makeup holder, then keep the smaller bags for traveling only. I'm totally rationalizing why I should buy this makeup bag. Yikes. Anyway. I still want it.

And now I think it's time for me to get work. Or something. Hm. I really just want to sit on the beanbag, read my book, and then take a nap. I can't wait till the weekend so I can just lounge. My past few weekends have been pretty action packed... more action packed than I'm used to at least. So it's time for a nice chill weekend. *wee.