Saturday, November 27, 2004

Pasta Night November 2004

I got a ride from Kyle on Friday cause his errands were finished early :) then him, me, chrissy, janice and justin all went to safeway to get grocerys for the pasta night :D We got back to Chrissy's house and chilled for a bit, they played DDR and I watched...I can only play around Chrissy and Janice LoL with anyone else there it's weird...

Then at 4:40 we started making the brownies so they'd have enough time to cool. That wasn't so bad...next time the marshmallows go on top of the brownies, not in them. The marshmallows just made the brownies get poofy, and you couldn't really taste them anyways. :( but Kyle likes to lick the bowl! AAAAAAAAACK of all the years my mom makes cookies and all of that stuff, I've NEVER eaten the dough or licked the bowl eeech. He licked the spoons and part of the bowl. I tried to turn a blind eye but I just couldn't take it any longer so I took the bowl and filled it with water so he'd stop LoL he didn't take all too kindly to that one but oh well it was nasty.

Then by the time it got into the oven and all of that, it was 5 so we started with the spaghetti sauce. I taught kyle how to take the casing off of the sausage so you can easily break it apart. He did a very good job :) and then he also cooked the sausage very efficiently (eh, he's a pro!) We dumped the two sauces in the pot and stirred, instant maranara sauce and meatballs LoL :) then we just waited for people to come. Phillip came, then Charlie, then elisa and tiff and benny came later at 8 ish. Pasta was good, sauce excellent, garlic bread awesome :D, salad very good. I think it was a successful dinner :)

Then Tiffany and Benny came with Cranium :) They finished watching the episode, and we started to figure out the wager. Janice and I thought of one that the boys had to plan our next event. That was iffy I dunno, then someone thought of the one that they had to wash our cars if we won :D ...I thought we went with that one, but I guess it got changed, also one that they had to cook for us was thrown out cause that could seriously backfire on us...after 50 billion hours, the guys finally decided that we would make them bacon and grilled cheese sandwiches if they won.
After "good vibrations", martha stewart, JFK, and model airplanes the girls were victorious once again WHOOT! So now the boys have to plan a sincere event for all of us :) I hope it works out.

We went on to eat the brownies a la mode with vanilla ice cream :) the brownies turned out all right...eh. marshmellows in it were a bad idea, they only go on top, or they have to go into DEEP brownies, not short ones like we made.

We cleaned up...ahem. and then people started leaving 11:40 ish? Elisa, Kyle and I stuck around for a little while longer than he dropped me off at my house, said our goodbyes and I wandered in at about 3am LoL...gotta love easy going parents. :D

for pictures, click the link at the top :)

Tuesday, November 23, 2004

Boy do I feel Crummy.

Boy do I feel crummy.

1) I have two essay's due on the days we come back Monday and Tuesday. I'm not thrilled about either. English I can either write about Wacko-Jacko (That's right, the infamous Michael Jackson) or observe guys and girls in groups at the mall...it's only slightly stalkerish. Sociology I have to break a cultural norm and then write about it. I'm honestly not thrilled to do either cause I have no ideas for either and this is my holiday too, the teachers shouldn't be the only ones to get off.
So today I went to New Park Mall to attempt to accomplish both. I was going to try to do something weird with my hair; that is until I came to the conclusion that I have too much hair to do anything coolweird with it. So I gave up on doing that. and I was going to wait until 3:30 ish to go to the food court and creepily stare at people. Within that time I went throughout the mall, I had a $30 gift certificate. I found nothing good to buy, kinda ticked me off BUT ALAS! I think I see hope! A shiny glimmer in the form of those toy dispenser thingies. I found one with these stickers of these cute animals. I hadn't seen those stickers since the last time Alex and I went to Bayfair on a Wednesday afternoon. I was fairly stoked and inserted my .50 hopeing I wouldn't get the one I already have. Well I guess I wished too hard. I got nothing. I turned and turned with bated breath only to find NOTHING CAME OUT. that machine ate my money, I guess that one probably hadn't been refilled since I got the one at Bayfair either. Well they say a sucker is born every minute....58.....59....me.
It was still kinda early, so I went to Old Navy and see if they had anything on sale...strike that..anything good on sale. Which they didn't but I remember they had awesomely big bouncy balls for only a quarter...and me, being the glutton for punishment (and food) that I am, I used my last quarter to put into a machine (of the types that had unmercifully eaten my previous two) and possibly get one nasty looking piece of rubber. I guess the toy vending machine gods had served me their wrath and found that I was worthy of one good thing. so I got a fairly cool looking bouncy ball.
I didn't find anything, nothing cool was on sale and I was still bitter about having to go all the way to Newark. I was bored of walking around and it was about 3:40pm then so decided to mosey back to the food court to see. Yeah, I wasn't feeling real stalkerish then and actually quite lonely and upset that my plans didn't work (I didn't get my hair in a mohawk and I didn't buy anything with my gift certificate) so since I was up there, I figured it'd look weird if I was just sitting there by myself staring at people and then taking notes. So I walked around and see if anything "tickled" my fancy. None did, so I went with the old faithful "Starbucks" Checked out the holiday specials and settled on the Peppermint Mocha frapp. only to find that all that was left in my wallet were two receipts. "Ah, oh well I'll just have to break my emergency $20" ...yeah. it doesn't really work if you don't have it. I had left all my money in my other pants and was only left with plastic. I figured it'd be pretty pathetic to charge $2.90 and I didn't really want that tall peppermint mocha crapp (I know it's a typo, but I left it anyways...funny how close those two words are)

so the fact that I had no cash, the stupid machine ate my .50, I didn't find anything good, and when I did the pants were too long, my plans were spoiled and I was all alone was putting me pretty far down on the "HI I'M HAPPY!!!!!" scale. : so I sat for five minutes, let all that anger and bitterness swell inside of me and stormed off in a true juvenile fashion. Only to get back to my car, begin to drive off and then sit in traffic for a long time.

Things that sucked today at the mall:

  • Not being able to stick my hair in a mohawk
  • Having to do these two stupid essay's to begin with
  • Having to stress about these two stupid essays
  • The fact that the machine ate my .50 cents
  • There weren't any good stuff at the mall today
  • I had no cash to buy ...I had no cash
  • Driving back home in traffic with crazy people...in stupid mazda 3's

One good thing..hanging in the middle of the mall (where the elevators are) is this HUGE sign maybe 7 or 8 feet by 6 feet that has a picture of this women kinda cartoonish in black and white I forgot what she was doing, but I was like...hm "i wonder what that's for" and then I looked in the lower right corner to see in big bold letters "Kotex fits. Period." CHA! I had a mini laugh over that one...

UGH I cannot wait for thursday and FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hurry. please.

Monday, November 22, 2004

busy busy busy!

Last weekend wasn't so chill as I thought it was going to be, but it was still fun none the less :)

11/11 Thursday-GAH! someone let the waterworks run! gah. pouring rain, and so of course, Al and I decide to go to an outdoor mall LoL we had lunch a Mimi's pretty good :) I had this chicken parmigana thing :) and corn chowdah!

Then we went to go to see Alfie at the Hacienda theater, OMG stupid box office outside! gr. the line was SO LONG! 20 yards or so, all the way back. It was veterians day so kids were out of school, and it was raining, the incredibles is a hugely popular movie and the polar express had just opened the day before. gah. the line moved fairly quickly...there were a couple of times where it down poured...dude. kids were playing in the fountain thingie and it didn't really make much difference it was that wet LoL.

So we bought out ticket and then we went to Any Mountain (where al bought a hat) and then Bed Bath and Beyond, we wandered around and bought some candy :) Also went to Best buy and I bought a couple of CD'S :) Snow patrol for 6.99 WHOOT!

We walked back and got to the the theater at 1:30 (showing was at 2:00pm) but they weren't letting ANYONE in! Cause people were lined up all over the place for the incredibles! grrrr so we were waiting outside forever it was madness, people didn't know what line to go in our movie started at 2:00 and it was 1:55 and STILL no one was letting us in! ugh. it was so stupid and crowded and unorganized. they needed some signs. serious signs. I don't understand why they didn't let us in! we weren't in line for the incredibles our tickets proved that, they should have just let in the people with tickets for alfie go in at 1:30 or whatever and then there would have been one less group of people out there. gah. whatever. So the movie was alright, kinda drawn out, but jude law was good...not exactly a feel-good movie though LoL

11/12 Friday: Maria and I met up at 10:30AM WHOOT! she was so on time :D Then we went to bart to go to bezerkeley lol. We walked through the campus and then through some shops, the met up with tiffany at 12:00pm :D Before that, Elisa called me saying that the rally was at 1:00pm instead of the normal 2:00pm. We were counting it to be at 2 so we could eat lunch there and then go visit the campus and tiff's dorm! :( but that didn't work. So we rushed and ate at the cafeteria, awesome :) fresh food lots of vegeterian stuff if you wanted. SOFTIES! LoL maria and I had some fun :) lol Joey came near the end so we got to talk to him for a bit too :) Gah we walked as fast as we could to get to the bart station in hopes of not missing the whole rally. We just missed the 1:20 train and the next one was at 1:40 :( so we just hung out for a bit...from the bart station to school isn't far, and we got there in time for the sophomore's skit. When we got there, it was so packed in the back of the gym it was hard to see and wasn't really worth staying there, so we tried the other sides still packed with jr. and seniors and RANK MUSTY! yech. muy apesta. Tiff and maria had the bright idea of trying to get to the top of the gym LoL ah so I just went along, we just ended up on the stage. No said anything about us being up there....none of the teachers kicked us off LoL so we just hung out there and watched the skits. they weren't that great..infact they sucked.

We crashed at my house for a little bit, tiff went to go home and rest a bit and maria stayed for dinner. Awesome video gamer maria has nearly finished my game for me! hee hee :D

11/13 Saturday: I went with my mom to the harvest festival, it was alright. I didn't find anything :( mom had tix at will-call so we got to surpass the really long line WHOOT! Then we went to dinner at this vietnamese restaurant on e14th street really good :)

11/14 Sunday: Dad, and everyone else came back from their china trip. Awesome it was like christmas LoL a buncha stuff and a new mp3 player :D whoot! That night uncle wilbur was coming over so I cleaned all my files off the computer so I could give it to him to fix cause it wouldn't register things plugged into the usb ports, so no digital pictures or mp3's. I had that digital camera for two years but never used it cause the pictures couldn't be uploaded, I had that mp3 player for less than a day before I got the computer fixed so I could use it LoL my priorities are seriously messed up LoL

This past weekend I wasn't too busy, friday I did a bunch of homework cause my computer was still getting fixed... I went to dinner with Alex, Janice and Chrissy at Denny's we went to baker's square for dessert and we watched ELF at chrissy's house. (Janice, you're FAMOUS!)

11/15 Saturday, I honestly cannot remember what I did...wow I have a sucky memory LoL ha!....
11/16 Sunday, I went to REI with my mom to spend my gift certificate uhm. yah after fifty billion hours i finally settled on a pair of Teva flip flops (not even the ones I wanted :'( and a photon light (not the color i wanted) but I was already there and not planning to make a second trip...and yeah. went to an awesome place called Barney's Burgers in albany on SOLANO ave! ha i finally remembered...after I asked my mom LoL anyway they make AWESOME burgers and root beer floats! three scoop of dryers grand vanilla ice cream and a bottle of IBC root beer who could as for anything more? ah...

Then I went to go see the Incredibles with Tiffany, Benny, Emily, Karen and Jason wow I hadn't seen them in a long time...they got big LoL it was a good movie...Jack Jack is one bizarro kid....really. Edna was hilarious LoL :) I enjoyed it :)

Gah so thanksgiving all ready! :( wow. November has gone by so fast DUDE freaking 96.5 is already playing christmas songs ugh. I can't listen to them yet LoL this sucks though stupid teachers give me an essay due on monday and one on tuesday CHA like I'm gonna acutally work this weekend! grrr. i like teachers with the philosophy that if they get the holiday we get a holiday too. but nooooooooooooo. ugh. oh well I'll probably be doing it on sunday LoL ha.

My car needs a wash...i should be doing it now, along with my psych studying...but no. i'm taking a break LoL

WHOO GO FRIDAY! we're having our own little pasta/thanksgiving leftovers dinner at chrissy's house followed by a cranium game heh heh heh :) I can't wait to see everyone :)

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Bleh things have been a bit busy, essay, tests etc. But today was soo nice and relaxing, turned in my essay and the rest of the day was a breeze :)

Tomorrow's easy, I have to sit through math, but that's no biggie, and then I get to go home. The psych class is going to the library for people that aren't going to do the extra credit, but I've done well on both of the tests and hw stuff so I'm not going to waste my time.
I do have to sign up for spring classes tomorrow, a majority started signing up today, so I hope there's still the classes I want, gah it was hard enough to organize when I'm figuring they're all free to get into, but who knows. I'm gonna try to log on in the morning and get it all done before some other people...hopefully it'll help, but who knows.

Last weekend was Janice's b-day celebration (just a little bit late LoL) We went to this cambodian restaurant which was good, it was less family style and more larger personal portions, or family style for like four people. It was alright, the food tasted good :D We then went to chrissy's house and made the most MASSIVE sundae ever! a buncha banananas, whipped cream, candy, sprinkles, cherries, chocolate and caramel sauce, and the ice cream! can't forget that LoL two different types. It was really good, we all should have gone into a sugar coma after that though LoL. Janice got some earrings, and a weight with her head over this superhero's body LoL "Funky (Wo)man" :D a necklace from me, shirts from chrissy and the Family Guy season DVD. :D we had fun times :) lots of laughing and a couple of good pictures ;)

This weekend's gonna be chill, I'm gonna hang out with al cause she doesn't have work and then Saturday I'm gonna go with my mom to this Fall Harvest festival thing pretty cool stuff. ahhhh and relax :D

Tuesday, November 02, 2004

Sock'er

...I thought some of you might get a kick outta this one LoL


Monday, November 01, 2004

San Luis Obispo

The short version...cause the long one got WAAAAAAAY too drawn out LoL

Left a little later than expected, but it was all good :) Some slight traffic, but overall good driving experince getting there...the ride was a bit long, but many odd things were said along the way. Don't put three hungry girls in a car ride for an extended amount of time. Too much comes out of that like "CHUUUUUUUALAR" "OPEN TRENCH" "chaps :( ...and all that came after that...gah ...emotional chaps?!"

Had issues finding Kyle's dorm cause Cal Poly thought..."HEY! Let's put unidentified identical buildings shrouded by shrubs so no one can figure out where they are!!!" ....yeah. no bueno. but by some luck we found his dorm...and him too LoL. (in desperate need of a hair cut..and also afflicted with the lame disease) lots of hugs and "we missed you" thrown in there too :)

We has serious munchies so we went driving around for a place to eat...not many actually....but we eventually found one...weird italian/asian food in wraps or bowls...it was okay. satisfied the hunger. Ooh then we went to Ralphs to pick up some munchies :) that took a bit of time, but in the end the choices were made and we went back to the hotel.

Before sleeping, they all decided to torture me...cause they thought it was fun...yeah like pouring salt on a snail is fun....UNLESS YOU'RE THE SNAIL. OI. gah..emotional chaps, PSSSSSSST, that horrid song that shall go unnamed...someone singing the unamed song. ugh, all in all good laughs and staying up until 2am lol :)

First thing we did (after getting up at like 10) was getting a haircut for mr. shaggy head! that took half hour, 45 minutes? went to ihop :) had some lunch, ohmygod. they made me watch it again. team america, i swear to you, it doesn't get any better...no matter how many times you suffer through it. But then we proceeded to shop around, janice and chrissy made some purchases...eh I didn't really feel there were any worth my money, so I didn't buy anything...
(small random note though, I think I saw one other asian, the whole weekend....it was a bit bizarre...)

so anyways, back to the hotel..OMG. i think we saw EVERY episode of "Pimp My Ride" made! LoL they just seemed to keep coming! ...uhm we saw a clip of a madtv skit....which was just unexplicably hilarious to them... :/ We were gonna go to an arcade..until we figured it was too far, I was sick of driving LoL, I finally caved and let kyle drive back to his dorm (only after he drove did I remember he hasn't in over a month and a half ) LoL but we got there just fine and dandy...picked up more munches (others ran low) ...then went back for bed..and lots more talking..and random leg drumming..LoL OOh and chrissy's hand juggling LoL greeeeat stuff :)

bleh then the next morning woke up (WHOOOOO GO DST!) and then went to this cafe place..eh..it was okay (they really don't have great food in San Luis Obispo...) walked around the shops one last time and then said goodbyes...wow was that depressing. yeah...but it only took us 35 minutes! LoL and we got to see the people next door LoL

drive home was quick about 3hrs. and 15 mins. not bad.

overall trip was really good :) I think we all had a lot of fun, and yeah.
el fin.