Arcadia

Woo! I'm back down south and it's grrreat. Well... I've only been here for less than 24 hours, but still! Let's see... what did I do last week? Hmm... it was kind of a blur...

Monday - had brunch at Squat & Gobble with my Golden Compass book as a companion, walked around Haight, bought groceries, cooked meatloaf for dinner for Ellen, Jen, and Bo

Tuesday - made myself french toast... that is it.

Wednesday - had an informative interview, picked up Ellen, went to Steve & Barry's, bought 4 new tops from the SJP Bitten line! Two button down stripey shirts, black woven tank top, navy cotton t-shirt

Thursday - met up with old teamers for Google lunch, hung out in the old office with Melissa, Emily, and Garrison, had a coffee *DATE* with a guy from eHarmony... it was weird but he was nice I guess *shrug, picked up Emily from the office, drove to SF, had dinner with Melissa and her roommates at The Front Porch (I got this GIANT pork chop... very yummy)

Friday - finally fell asleep at 6:30 am (I FINISHED THE GOLDEN COMPASS TRILOGY! WOOOO) ate my pork chop leftovers for lunch, watched tv, fell asleep from 3-6, packed, had dinner with Emily and Melissa at Luna Park, went to Do Re Mi karaoke for THREE HOURS with Melissa, Emily, Ellen, Kathy, Bo, Phill, and two of Ellen's old coworkers. So fun!

Saturday - drove down to Fresno, had a quick lunch at Wendy's, finally got to Fresno around 3, relaxed at my Aunt & Uncle's house with my parents and little sister, went to big Chinese dinner to celebrate my 2nd cousin's new baby (who is ADORABLE!), hung out at my Aunt & Uncle's... fell asleep around 1 am... which was pretty difficult as my dad was sleeping like 4 feet away from me and snoring hella loudly... aww Dad. hehe

Sunday - had breakfast at Denny's with family + Aunt, Uncle, and cousin, drove to LA with a stop in Bakersfield for some McD's ice cream, finally got into Arcadia around 3 pm, took a shower, watched Ratatouille (which is such a cute movie... I really liked it), had Chinese food for dinner, grabbed a beer with Magus at the local dive bar

Today - well! I woke up at like 10:30... and. I'm still in bed. Nice. I need to eventually get up, get lunch at The Hat (mmmm chili cheese burger), go to Old Town to return some stuff at Urban, eat PinkBerry, and then head to the LA Auto Show with Susie and Chris! YAY!

That is all for now... I can't wait for Thanksgiving... mmm turkey!

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!

Almost to Europe

Ok, not really. But we're leaving tomorrow at 4 pm for LONDON! AHHHH. I'm so excited. Right now I'm at my sister's apt in Encino ("the valley"). I was watching The Mummy Returns earlier, but Tracee turned it off because she doesn't like it. I wonder why I really like The Mummy movies. I'm a nerd. Anyway, I digress.

So this weekend back at home has been really really great. I've done a lot of fun things and met up with a lot of old friends. So my last update was Friday night. Let's see... I met up with David, Alan, and Rob at Dave & Busters. It was ok. Nice to see those guys again I guess. Alan kept wanting to talk about my ex which was stupid and weird. He said things like, "Yeah, he's got a new girlfriend now. He got over it." Weird shit. Anyway we met up with Mag and Crystal after DnB closed and then I went home.

Saturday, I woke up early to get my eyes checked (thankfully my eyes have not gotten worse, woohoo!) and then got my hair did at Regis. Sara did a GREAT job on my hair as usual, then after I walked around the mall. I ended up getting my watch battery replaced and I got a cute green skirt and plain white shirt from Express. The rest of the day I just kind of hung out at home with my sisters. We went to get Pinkberry (again) and we all went swimming. Saturday night I had dinner with Susie and Chris at Kabuki (yum, tempura california roll, BSCR, and salad) and after dinner we headed to 24 hr Walmart (of course). I just got a few necessities for my trip and Susie and I both got this cute cheap sportsbra.

Sunday, my mom had a bbq at our house and invited her teacher friends, my aunt and cousins, and Susie and Chris. I went swimming wtih my sisters and a few family friends, then Susie and Chris got there around 8-ish. Dinner was quite tasty (bbq chicken, ribs, hot dogs, pilaf rice, etc.) and it was nice to hang out at home with my family. I met up with Magus, Eric, Wei, and Richard around 1 am and we hung out at Wei's house. They played cards and drank, whilst I played Wei's DS and watched the movie Crank.

Today, I had lunch with Magus at the new Thai place near my house and after went to a pedicure with Susie. Susie was nice enough to drive me to 7-11 for a slurpee (mmmm slurpee) and the mall to get something for my DS (it's a web browser so I can get internet on my DS!). After I went home and re-packed (using Susie's big tote bag, THANKS SOOZ!) and then my family drove me to my sister's apt in Encino. Which is where I am right now. It's stifling hot in here and I think it's time to get away from this hot computer for a bit.

To all my friends, I'll miss you guys whilst I'm in Europe :) I'll see you all when I get back!!

Working on Sunday is not fun

Duh. But at least I can work from home and watch quality television while working. Right now I'm watching Maximum Exposure... the guy show that highlights amateur footage of really random things (fires, explosions, car chases). I watched Sabrina The Teenage Witch and also Miami Ink. Great TV. So this morning I woke up around 9 am, left the house around 9:30 am, got Coffee Bean (mmmmm vanilla latte), and hit the Warehouse Jean Sale at Fort Mason. At first I thought the line would go pretty fast, considering I got there at 10 am. The line wasn't SUPER long, but it did take about an hour to get inside. Luckily I brought my iPod (since I was by myself) and watched a few tv shows on my iPod. When I got inside, the sale was pretty small (as I expected) but I did find two pairs of jeans and one cute shirt! I got one pair of Diesel jeans (with a cute flower design on the pockets), a pair of Earnest Sewn jeans (really really soft!), and a cute black shirt from To The Max (BCBG's cheaper line). Very naice!

After I paid for my stuff, I went to Chinatown to get my new jeans hemmed ASAP. I wanted to make sure that I got my jeans ready to go before I head to LA/Europe. And thankfully, my jeans alteration lady was pretty free and was able to sew BOTH pairs in a few hours. I dropped my jeans off at 12 and picked them up at 3:30... for only $6 each pair, original hem. That lady is the shiz. Since 1 pm, I've been working from home. It kind of sucks because I don't have a desk to sit at and work. So I'm sitting on the couch. Which doesn't create the best work environment. Wow. I just watched a guy get shot on Maximum Exposure. Anyway, back to TV. I mean, work.

"Spring" Cleaning

I woke up at 3:30 pm today. 3:30. Woooow. I haven't woken up that late in a very long time. I had to do a double take when I looked at my clock and then I had to check my cell to make sure my clock wasn't broken. Yeesh. I did get home pretty late last night (3 am) so I didn't really sleep THAT much (like 11 hours... which is pretty long I guess).

Hmmm what have I been doing?

Wednesday - work, left a tad bit early and went to the Stanford Shopping Center with Emily and Melissa. We walked around a bit and I picked up my shirt from Bloomingdale's (cute navy halter) and bought some stuff from Sephora (Stila eyeshadow palette and a pencil sharpener).

Thursday - work, home, dinner, tv... nothing exciting. I did actually watch Alvin and the Chipmunks movie. It was pretty entertaining. Usually when I watch movies that I enjoyed when I was 7, I'm sadly disappointed. But this movie was actually pretty cute and entertaining.

Friday - work, home, drove to Pleasanton with Ellen to go to Louis' house for dinner. We got there around 9-ish and had a really yummy steak dinner (steak, baked potatoes, corn, etc etc) and hung out with the gang (Charlie, Jas, Mike, Chris, Andy, Louis). Louis' little brother had this sweet ass archery set (they weren't real arrows, but it was still really fun anyway). I actually hit the target! Not the bullseye, but no one else hit the target. HA. I told them I was Robin Hood. We then headed down to Fremont to karaoke at this ghetto-ish place called Echo. But it was quite fun :) We sang karaoke for like an hour and a half or so and then Ellen, Phill, and I headed back to SF. I watched a bit of Family Guy when I got home and ended up falling asleep around 4 am. Which explains why I had such a late start today.

After waking up hella late, I brushed my teeth, put my contacts in and then went to McD's for a "nutritious" lunch (chicken nuggets, yum). After stuffing my face and watching TV mindlessly for an hour or so, I started to clean up. I cleaned almost my whole room (with the exception of my messy bookshelf) and then vacuumed my room and the living room. I also shook out the bathroom rugs, vacuumed up the hair on the floor, and then cleaned up the living room a bit. Ahhh it felt nice to have a clean room. I give it three days before it's back to how it was before.

Anyway, I've just been semi-freaking out about Europe lately. I keep misplacing my crap and getting all freaked out. Ugh. It's very very annoying. Yesterday I couldn't find my keys at Louis' house for like five minutes, only to realize they were in the front pocket of my purse (I had Ellen and Louis crawling around the living room trying to find my damn keys) and now I can't find my Nintendo DS Lite charger. AHHH. Totally losing my mind. Also, I found my old camera charger after JUST buying another one off eBay. *sigh I'm retarded. Sometimes I just feel like punching myself in the face.

The Gizmo from Pismo

If anyone can tell me what cartoon that line is from... I'll be impressed. And not even a little bit impressed but REALLY impressed. On to the story of my life... Pismo was GREAT. It was awesome and relaxing and full of deeeelicious meals!

Thursday had work all day and mostly played with Wyzer (pronounced Whizzer). He's probably one of the cutest and sweetest little dogs EVER! Love him.

We Love Wyzer

Anyway, I also took lots of pictures with him. After work, I got gas and was OFF to Pismo! I stopped for dinner at Carl's Jr and eventually made it into Grover Beach (where the condo is technically located)/Pismo at about 10:15 pm. It was perfect timing because Chris and Sooz got there at like 10. Grrreat. We all just hung out around the condo and unpacked. I chose the downstairs room instead of the master bedroom because 1. I always sleep in there and 2. there's a TV in there. Obvious pick for me because one of my most favoritest activities is to watch TV in bed. So Thursday night we just sat around and watched tv and talked. It was awesome.

Friday morning, woke up around 9:30 am or so and left the house around 11 for downtown Pismo. Which isn't really "downtown" but is mostly just like one small street. Whatever. We had the best clam chowdah bread bowl EVER from Splash Cafe (Chris got a burger because he doesn't like chowdah... abominable) and then hit the Prime Outlet Stores of Pismo (of COURSE). We went to Nine West where Sooz got really cute heels, Pac Sun where I got a cute red tank top, Shoe Pavilion where I got navy blue slip-on chucks, Calvin Klein where Sooz and I both got plain tank tops, and Polo... which was a disappointment. Overall we were quite happy with our purchases. After shopping we went to the market (nicest Von's EVER) to pick up dinner supplies for Saturday night then back to the condo to watch more TV. We left for dinner around 6-ish and ate at Jocko's. Jocko's is this hole-in-the-wall type steak house out in the middle of nowhere (Nipomo, CA) which is about 10 minutes south of Grover Beach. SWEET. We all got the same cut of steak, which I forgot is called... so good. SO good. The meat is super flavorful and the sides are awesome. Garlic french bread, baked beans, baked potato. Yum. PLUS you get coffee and ice cream in the end. All for like $25. $25?! Wow. After dinner we were super stuffed so we just wobbled back home and... you guessed it... watched more TV. We tried to rent a movie from Blockbuster but didn't find anything interesting. Man we were boring with all that TV watching. But it was really nice to just relax.

Saturday we woke up around 10-ish and left the house around 11:30 for Solvang, CA. But first we hit up a MINI HORSE FARM. That's right people, a MINI HORSE FARM. It was probably one of the cutest things I've seen in awhile. Tons of mini horses just frolicking in this farm. So great. After the mini horse farm we found downtown Solvang and walked around for a bit. It's a really cute town... but hella boring. We rented a bicycle surrey thing (which is basically this carriage shaped thing where four people pedal and one person steers). It was a big workout but very very fun. We were quite sweaty and exhausted after our hour was up. After the surrey adventure, we went to this little cafe called the Green House Cafe where we all had REALLY yummy sandwiches. Susie got a smoked turkey sandwich and it had like two inches of just MEAT. It was crazy. I got a chicken sourdough sandwich and Chris got the chicken pesto on focaccia. Yum. We then drove back to the condo and just sat in the living room. We were all beat. Around 7-ish we started cooking dinner (aka I started the grill and then burnt everything while Susie handled the veggies). We ate around 8 pm and it was QUITE yummy and surprisingly healthy. We probably should've gotten more meat. Oh well. Next time. After dinner Susie and I made a quick stop to Von's for some ice cream sundae essentials and then of course, we just sat around and chilled in front of the TV. We're such homebodies.

Sunday we woke up around 10-ish and cleaned the condo for awhile. Then we left for lunch and had Mo's BBQ in downtown Pismo. The food was pretty dang good. Susie and I got the shredded bbq pork sandwich and Chris got the tri-tip sandwich. We also got an order of garlic fries... and they were quite yummy. After lunch, we walked down the beach and just sat around for a bit. There was the cutest mini yorkie puppy and the cutest pittbull puppy. After the beach we headed home to rest. Chris stayed behind to watch sports whilst Susie and I went to get our nails did. Woot! We only found ONCE place open on Sunday and they were understaffed so it took awhile. But no biggie, it was still a good mani/pedi. Finally we got back to the condo, sat around for a bit, and finally headed home around 6:15 pm. The drive wasn't too shabby... I've realized that I need to listen to non-music to keep me awake. Which is interesting. So before my drive to LA for Labor Day Wkd, I'm going to buy either audiobooks or comedy cds or something. Dane Cook kept me awake on the drive home even though I've heard his act like 20x. Hm. Ate dinner at Taco Bell and finally got to SF about 10:15 pm. Not too shabby.

Overall it was a grrreat weekend. I loved spending time with Susie and Chris and eating deeelicious food. And now... some pictures for everyone's enjoyment.

Pismo! 8/9 - 8/12/07

More shopping? CRAP!

Ahhh more shopping. I really didn't mean to. I practically live at the mall... and I'm not exactly proud of that. *sigh. Anyway, on to my beloved purchases (and weekend updates).

Yesterday I had work which was same ol', same ol'. After work I headed home, de-worked, and met up with Andrew and Kathy for dinner at Thai Chef. The dinner was pretty damn yummy (I was craving Thai food) and the food came out really fast. Like freakishly fast. Within about 5 minutes. It's insane. We ordered chinese broccoli and beef, pad thai, red curry, and sticky rice with mango. Yum! I love Thai food. It was pretty random/funny... Bo, Thuy, Oranju, and Jen showed up at Thai Chef for dinner as we were finishing up! After dinner, went to Andrew's place and took a Goldschlager shot and dropped our purses off. Then we met up with Bo and company at Dolce in North Beach. Dolce was okay, a nice place. There were some really crazy people dancing there. Mainly just one really sweaty guy in a blue shirt and another ugly guy in a black shirt. CRAZY. Stayed at the club until about 1 am, then Kathy and I left and shared a cab home.

Today, woke up at 10 am, was upset I woke up so early on the weekend, then forced myself to sleep till about 1 pm. Got dressed and headed out to the Stonestown Mall for errands. I went to Nordy's to get my jeans hemmed (and my poor split jeans fixed), bought four books from Border's (yay buy three get one free!), got a delicious chinese salad from Boudin's, walked around and bought some stuff, got my eyebrows waxed, and a pedicure. After my long ass mall adventure, went to Albertson's to grab some essentials (aka water, milk, eggs, ramen, spam, raviolis, and spaghetti-o's). Now I am home, watching Shrek and feeling a little bit guilty about how much I spent today. Oh well.

Tonight I'm going to meet up with Sabrina and possibly Andrew to go to Club 443. I've never been there. But I'll be sure to yelp it before I head out. I haven't seen Sabrina in a bit so it should be fun.

Things I've bought:

Gap - knee length jean skirt, blue stripey button-down long sleeve shirt

Nordys - brown eyeliner, naturally glossy mascara, free gift (yay!) that came with a mini lip gloss, mini mascara, sunscreen, face wash, cute little white makeup bag with FRUIT on it!

Border's - Swapping Lives by Jane Green, Lucky by Alice Sebold, Almost French by Sarah Turnbull, and There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell by Laurie Notaro

**Update: I'm retarded, and I've actually been to Club 443 with Cheech before. haha, I'm stupid. Anyway, Andrew and I tried to get into the club but for some strange reason it was hella crowded. So we went to Bamboo Hut instead for a beer then went home. How boring.

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.

Shopping Addictions

I can't stop shopping. Seriously. I've gone shopping like 5x in the last two weeks or so. I went shopping in Vegas, went shopping on Memorial Day, went shopping last weekend in LA, and today... I went shopping again. I meant to stop shopping for awhile, but today just happened to be the first day of the Nordstrom Half-Yearly Sale. I can't miss that?!

I went during lunch with Emily and Melissa to the Nordys in Palo Alto. Overall the sale was a lil bit disapppointing. I can't wait until the Anniversary Sale in July! That's the best sale ever. There weren't too many shoes that I liked but I found a few cute things in BP. I got a white cotton shirt (has two buttons on the chest area), a green plain tank top with lacey straps, and a really brown cute knit sweater shirt. I like it a lot. :) All for about $50. Not too shabby. I think I need to go home and clean out my drawers. It seems like I do that a lot... at least once every three months. I buy way too much crap. Oh well.

I think I'm on caffeine overload right now. I took my One-A-Day Weight Smart vitamin which has caffeine in it and then I had a medium Ice Storm from the Nordys eBar. yikes. My brain is going a LITTLE crazy right now. Actually my brain is super tired... but my body is going a little psycho. *sigh

A whole entry dedicated to shopping...

I figured the last entry was too long, but I still wanted to talk about all the crap I've bought. So here we go.

Things I've Bought:

Target - white gauzy shirt, white tank top, brown cotton skirt

Nordstrom 5/25 - Clinque makeup remover, boycut Seven jeans, really cute flats (but in bronze, not black), and a cute brown floral/butterfly bag that I wanted to use as a carry-on bag.

Sephora - Stila lip gloss in apricot, Stila's introduction to foundation kit, a pencil sharpener

Metropark - a really cute black Volcom sundress to wear to my sister's graduation (below is the back view of the dress)

Urban - cute Lux printed tank top (it's a really cute aqua/brown print), cheapy long sleeve green shirt

Nordstrom 5/28 - Nars eyeshadow in Nightstar (a really peachy light sparkly eyeshadow), Nars blush in Deep Throat (niiiice. I think either Sooz or Ellen has this color too... it's a really sparkly pinky color!)

Borders - Baby Proof by Emily Griffin