anthony and i went to my parents' house for dinner tonight 'cause they cooked porkchops. this is going to sound really gross, but there's still like half a pig left in the fridge!! my dad bought a huge roast which he was supposed to cook on Christmas, but never had the chance to. we're gonna be eating lots of pork in the days to come! anyway, while i was waiting for my laundry to dry, my grandma came out to the family room to use the bathroom. a few years ago, she used to have a sleepwalking problem. anthony and i would be up watching tv, and whenever we heard her door open we would try to guess whether or not she was actually awake. fortunately, that problem has been fixed.. and so i'm no longer afraid of my grandma when she comes walking out of her room in the middle of the night. haha.
tonight we had dinner at guppy's.. for probably the 20th time this year! it was exciting all over again, though, 'cause anthony and i recently found out about their chicken wings. super delicious!!! they were so good that nicole ate a bunch even though she wasn't hungry. i already want to go back for more. haha. i wonder if i just have low standards for classifying something as delicious.. 'cause i say that a lot on this blog. well whatever, it tasted good to me!
happy birthday, vince!
oh holy night, the stars are brightly shiiiiining. it is the night of our dear savior's birth.
toni's visit to LA is already almost over. boohoo. i wanted to see her one more time before she left, so after i bought my lunch earlier, i brought it to her brother's house so i could eat in her presence. haha. before i said goodbye, we asked her two nieces which one of them wanted to pose for a picture. immediately after, the older sister locked herself in a room. man, i didn't realize this whole "face of the day" thing was going to be met with such resistance!! haha. toni ended up bribing katie by telling her she would only get her Christmas gift if she posed for the picture. haha. how sad. good thing this blog is almost over. you know things are getting bad when little girls are threatened to have their presents taken away. =D
i was in a pretty bad mood earlier 'cause i found out about yet another crazy project. even though i'm only starting today, it needs to be done by next monday. so that means i get to spend another weekend (Christmas weekend nonetheless) working!! ugh. so yeah, i was pretty pissed when i found out. to help me blow off some steam, rianne picked me up and then we went to do some Christmas shopping. while i was looking at some t-shirts at the mall, i kept thinking that some freak was standing there staring at me. i was like, "what is this guy's problem!?" but everytime i looked up, it was just this cardboard cutout of the twilight guy. haha. i must have a short attention span, 'cause it surprised me more than once.
after working all through the night, i finally took a break and went on a lunch date with gen and toni! as soon as we got to gen's house, toni asked for some water and said that she needed it right away. and then when we were on our way to thai bbq, she said she knew what she wanted to order, and again, she wanted it right away. haha!!! toni is not usually so demanding like that, so we got a kick out of it 'cause it was totally unexpected both times it came out of her mouth. anyway, lunch was lots of fun. it's been years since the three of us have gone out to eat together! and after our delicious meal, we went to guppy's where gen treated us to boba and brick toast. thanks, gen!
today we went to villa nova in newport beach for my company's Christmas party. the restaurant was right along the harbor, so we got to watch the newport beach Christmas boat parade before dinner started. for dinner, we had so much food. it started off with three kinds of pasta. that would've already been enough for me, but then the main course came out which was steak, chicken AND salmon. those weren't the options.. we got all three! geez! after eating, we got our Christmas presents. this year, the company gave each of us a digital frame. sweet. and then we received our lovely bonus checks. haha. overall it was a good night. it's nice to know we're appreciated, especially after all the long hours we've been working lately! aye yi yi!
haha!!! this is probably my worst "face" of the year!! (or was it this one?) first of all, i did not bother asking permission before taking this man's picture. because of that, i did not use my real camera. i took a sneaky pic from behind the bar using my phone instead. an unmotivated photographer + a low quality camera = a real crappy picture! haha. what can i say? keeping up with this blog is a lot of work, and some days i am just not in the mood for it. next year i need to do something that is a lot less stressful. i appreciate a good challenge every now and then, but many days i simply don't feel excited about approaching a stranger. haha. so anyway, after another tiring day of work, anthony and i had dinner at daikokuya because i felt like eating the best ramen ever. chef daiko did not disappoint!
guess where i went today?! and guess who i went with!? haha. i asked rianne to come to disneyland with me earlier because i was hoping she would be able to take advantage of the "one hour shopping pass" that i read about online. we both had something in mind that we wanted to buy from there as Christmas presents. it turns out that they no longer offer that pass, though, and so i ended up going inside the park by myself while rianne walked around downtown disney by herself! what a couple of loners! prior to going to disney, we did some Christmas shopping at lakewood mall. i can't wait to be done with all my shopping!
we went to gel & jason's house earlier to watch the UFC fight. well actually, the boys watched the fight and us girls decorated gel's Christmas tree. (= while we were there, we met their new dog, charlie. charlie and their other dog, holly, like to fight for attention.. and i mean literally fight! it's so funny that the two dogs get jealous of each other whenever the other one is being played with. you have to pet both of them at the same time, but even then they still get competitive with each other.. and so you end up being overwhelmed with two dogs jumping up at you! haha.. it's so cute!
so anthony and i tried again. after enjoying 500 days so much the other night, we tried our luck again with another movie. this time we watched paper heart. i was always so excited to watch this one. i tried so many different times to watch it while it was still playing in the theaters, but it never worked out. and now that i finally saw it, all i have to say is, "meh." haha. cute idea, but the story was just alright. we both felt that it dragged a lot of the time. 
anthony and i watched 500 days of summer tonight and we both LOVED it! it's such a cute movie. we especially enjoyed the dancing scene. haha. i highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it yet.
today was a loooong day. it started very early in the morning when rianne, ricky and i drove out to irvine for the paul frank warehouse sale. we were a little behind schedule (because i didn't hear my alarm go off) but we still got there before most of the rest of the people in line. by the time the doors opened, the line was wrapped around the building. yikes. we were kind of disappointed with the sale 'cause there wasn't very much PF stuff, but i bought quite a few Modern Amusement items. after that sale, we ate lunch and then attempted to brave the line at the RVCA sale in costa mesa.. but after 20 minutes of not moving up at all (and being surrounded by a swarm of bees), we decided to go home.
once again, i ended my busy work week with a relaxing trip to disneyland! first, anthony and i went to CA Adventure to ride Mullholland Madness. it was his first time riding that, so he had no idea what to expect. he is afraid of heights, so was nervously laughing/yelling during the whole ride! haha. it was sad and funny at the same time!
tonight was fun. for dinner, i met up with gennie at seafood town. it was nice catching up with her and hearing about all the new, exciting things going on in her life. haha. we ordered salt & pepper fish, green beans, and white rice. and even though we ate 'til we were full, we still had so many leftovers. because of that, we decided that we would bring the food to denise! we went to visit her, billy, and the kiddos at their new place. it was really cute! victoria made us smoothies, ava gave us pretend boba, and will drew our pictures. haha. you can't really tell from this pic, but he even drew my earrings in. great attention to detail! (=
