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...
