does anyone want to go see christina aguilera in concert at the oakland arena on thursday, march 8, 2006????  the pussy cat dolls AND danity kane are opening up/going to be there tooooooo!!!! c'mon!!!! i can't find anyone who wants to go...or rather, anyone who would want to pay $110 to go...but dude, the seats would be REALLY good.  like...FLOOR seats! hurry and let me knowwwww.  i really want to go. 

yes, i have gotten so hopeless it has come to this...advertising myself on xanga.  *sigh*.

So adorably worbaly patrick got me the platinum edition of the little mermaid that was released back on october 3 for the first time on dvd because he knows what a little mermaid freak i am (see below..."you are my faaaaaaaaaaaaavorite disney character".  shuttup tracy). 

while talking to patrick today on aim, i tell him that i'm going to watch it later on today.  then he goes:

Let me be the first to lay down the rules to my circle of friends:

Rule #1.  Marriage to your significant other is allowed once past the age of 25. 
Rule #1a.  Though you may be married, you cannot have children until you are 30.
Rule #2.  Everyone should return to the Bay Area no later than 2012 or before the ripe old age of 30, which ever comes first
Rule #3.  Once back in the Bay Area, the distance from one person's house to the other can be no greater than 15 miles apart or 15 minutes away.  This includes driving at the speed limit and during rush hour traffic.  So Sarah, this means you have to move.  Sorry.
Rule #4.  We will have game night once a week.  And it'll be fun.  Very fun.
Rule #5.  We will have dinner once a week.  And it'll be good.  Very good.
Rule #6.  We will have TV night once a week.  Desperate Housewives.  Need I say more?
Rule #7.  We will have a work out night once a week.  And it'll be high energy.  Very high energy.
Rule #8.  We will go get pedicures once a week.  And it'll be soothing.  Very soothing.
Rule #9.  We will go get massages once a week.  And it'll be heaven.  Very heavenly.
Rule #10.  We will have a drunken frenzy once a week.  And it'll be rowdy.  Very rowdy.

I need to sell like $300+ in BART tickets!  If anyone knows anyone who needs some, PLEASE let me know.  I am going broke and need money. 

   yes, i know it's been a month now since labor day weekend, but forgive me...i've been quite lazy these past few weeks.  it's draining thinking about what the hell you want to do for the rest of your life! ahha

quick summary:  saw the boos of course, ate well, slept well, saw the bodies exhibition (which was REALLY COOL!!!), was on our way to a bar when *somebody* lost my driver's license ::cough cough::, finally bought my tokidoki bag, shopped around china town, ate in lil italy, spent hella money at H&M (they have better clothes at the east coast h&m's for some reason), and went to babycakes bakery (www.babycakesnyc.com).

patrick sporting babycakes' business card

us at babycakes!  yum!  the spelt lemon was really good!  but then again, for $2.75/cupcake, it damn well be hella good. 

me outside of babycakes...uh...yeah, this place is like healthy cupcake haven...that's what makes it so cool - no wheat, gluten, dairy, casein, eggs, sugar...all the good stuff.  lol

us at the italian restaurant that ran out of bread.  bastards.  i NEED my bread, butter, and water. 

making funny faces in central park.  yes, patty watty cakes is making a funny face too. hehe

this was taken at calliea/tracy's apartment.  we grossed calliea out by being too snoooogly woogly squishy wishy.  what's new.

uhh..yeah, no photos of anything abnormally interesting i guess.  sorry!  they wouldn't let me take any pictures of the cut up bodies of those chinese prisoners at the bodies exhibit.  heh. 

 

WhooHOoooo!  After reading this past week's TV guide, I've figured out my Fall Prime-Time TV schedule!  It's going to be crazy hectic...this may be the most hectic TV schedule since junior/senior year in high school.  I had 6 TV shows that I watched religiously last season (Gilmore Girls, Smallville, The O.C., Reunion, Desperate Housewives, and America's Next Top Model.  Alias and 24 are dled after the season so that I can finish them within a week and not have to anticipate feverishly for the next episode) and this season, it's more than double that amount.  13 shows!!!  Thank god no days other than Thursday nights do they overlap one hour.  Soooo...the list is:

Monday

8:00 Heroes (NBC)

9:00 Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (NBC)

Tuesday

8:00 Gilmore Girls (The CW)

10:00 Smith (CBS)

Wednesday

8:00 America's Next Top Model (The CW)

9:00 Justice (Fox)

10:00  The Nine (ABC)

Thursday

8:00 Smallville (The CW)

9:00 The O.C. (Fox) and Grey's Anatomy (ABC)

10:00 Six Degrees (ABC)

Sunday

9:00 Desperate Housewives (ABC)

10:00 Brothers & Sisters (ABC)

 

Of course some of these shows will drop along the way, I'm thinking maybe Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Six Degrees, and Brothers & Sisters...but we'll just have to wait for the first few episodes.  Whoo HoOoOO.  I'll start watching Lost and Prison Break soon, no worries!

Yes, I'm a TV whore!  Just call me the human TV guide.  And dude, I don't even have a DVR or Tivo...just the old fashion VCR.

 

ok.  so not going to go very deep into details about the vegas trip b/c nothing outside of shopping, eating, clubbing, and sleeping occured so it'll be mostly a visual update.  i'm sure you guys would like that better ANYWAY. 

at the Forum Shops in Caesar's Palace.  don't sarah and tracy look cute???

prepartying-it before hitting up rumjungle in mandalay bay.  can you guess who's the drunkest out of all of us already? lol

here is a picture of sarah making a silly face. hehehe.  so adorable.  i <3 the myung

and here's a picture of me pretending to be a pissed off cat...uh...yah, i was really bored.

this was taken during dessert time at china grill in mandalay bay.  DOODE.  china grill is so effing good i could go there every single day of my life!!! that place is so delicious.  everything we ate was so damn tasty...especially the friggin duck and calamari salad.  i wants more!!!

group picture by the porcelin breasts~!!! hahaha.  there were a whole bunch of different body parts protroduing out of this huge wall in mandalay bay and it just so happens that the boobs were conveniently placed at a reachable height...heh.  the leg and arms and such were much higher up the wall where no one could reach.

cute picture of tina and marilyn caressing the boob.  lol

can't remember when/where we took this picture, but i like it so i'm putting it up.

prepartying again, but this time we went to tao in the venetian.  we ran out of chasers and the warm lemonade we had wasn't killing the taste of the vodka, so i remedied that situation and chased my vodka with coffee.  heh.  brilliant, aren't i?

angang and debdeb.  stupid ang missed out on friday night's festivities.  stupid ang almost didn't even come either.  stupid ang! grrrrrrr.

heh.  can you see what i'm putting down tracy's shirt?    whooo hooo!

got to love the timer function.  done prepartying...off to the club we go!

i think the girls' would have killed me if i took another shot of us on those flat escalator things like last time.  heh. last time, we had 3 very, very, very similar pictures of us on those flat escalator things, 1 at bellagio, 1 at aladdin, and 1 at caesar's i believe.  heh.  so yeah, behind us is the bellagio fountain pool thing.

who are we? who are we?!   

so of all the disney movies, i must say that my all time favorite is still the little mermaid.  i remember waking up early every saturday morning to watch the mermaid when i was younger.  til this day, i still know every line, word by word.  she was my favoritest!  in elementary school, whenever we had art projects and what not, i would always draw ariel/little mermaid related stuff.  it was insane...obsessive even.   i wanted to grab my hands on anything that had ariel on it.  i even recall getting grounded at one point because all i ever wanted was the little mermaid stuff and i think that sorta drove my mom crazy. 

but anyway, i guess my obsession is still instilled with me today.  afterall, i spend $40 on a friggin little mermaid panoramic puzzle in taiwan (tracy still thinks i'm crazy for dropping that much money on a puzzle) when i was on EAP and lugged a cool ass purple frame back from taiwan to put the puzzle in when i went back in march.  theeeeeeen, decopac, a cake decorating source for professional cake decorators, decided to have a little mermaid cake decorating contest.  naturally, i entered in it and basically all you had to do was design a cake with the given little mermaid figurine any way you like.  i don't have to turn in my creative cake design until august 31, but i decided to do it this past week and get it over with.  the results?  i am SO blown away by my creation and am totally stoked about it.  i forget what the grand prize is, (i think maybe a trip to disney world for 2?) but i hope i win something.  it would be great if my design is featured in future decopac advertisements (aka, be the background decoration for this little mermaid figure).  anyway, gonna keep my fingers crossed...i don't find out til end of october i think.  it think it's so rad that i sorta don't even want to sell it...though really, what would i do with a friggin full sheet cake?  no one important is having a birthday anytime soon.  but then again, it is cookies n' cream, and i love cookies n' cream

here's 2 pictures.  tell me what you think? some suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  i based my design off of something i would want to see on my own cake.

oh. and you had to use everything they give you...which is the mermaid figurine and that star bracelet in the top lefthand corner. 

maybe i need some colored sprinkles on the white borders?  it might make it too "messy" or "cluttered" i feel.  and the colored sprinkles might mesh too much with the background colors.  what about pink glittery sprinkles?  might be too pink...

So the weekend after Seattle, I decided to fly east.  What was originally planned as a trip out to the east coast for the Boo Boo Bear's bday became more of a 1-month-later-4th-of-July-combination-long-ass-weekend trip.  Although it was scorchering hot (can't forget the humidity either), I had a great time!  Patty Watty picked me up at the airport on Thursday night and I worked from within the Xanga office on Friday.  It was very cool to be sitting near Patrick all day long doing work.  I definitely wouldn't mind doing that again. 

Surprisingly, John Meehan and Oliva were in NYC the same time too.  Didn't get a chance to meet up with Oliva but got a chance to hang out with John.  Funny, we are both based out of SF yet the only time I've seen John since graduation (1 year ago) is in NYC!  Anyhow, met his co-worker Audrey and we had dinner at a cute Thai place that Calliea picked out and later went to Hop Devil in St. Mark's for some beer.  Jen Lee joined us up as well as some other folks from Berkeley.  Too bad Patrick was working all night.  He didn't get off til 3am!

Woke up late on Saturday and did a lil shopping.  Had stupid drama at an Express store but whatever.  Ate dinner at this pretty good lil Italian restaurant near Patrick's apartment and shared an entire bottle of red wine!  MMmmmMM red wine!  My new love.  Yes Patrick, you've been replaced. LoL.  jk jk!    Later on Saturday night, went to the same club I went to back in January..forgot the name..but definitely over that place.  Can we go somewhere new next time kids?  I convinced Dave Chen (yes, there are so many!), Boo Boo's coworker, to come with us.  He said he had fun...I don't know though.  I hope he did!

Sunday did some more shopping...but not for me of course!  It was fun to go into the stores and pick out stuff for Patrick to try on and model for me.  Heh.  NO, he did NOT model underwear for me.  hahaha.  Several times I had to have an employee at the store rip the shorts/shirt off from the mannequin because there were no more stuff in his size. It was pretty funny because I just walked around going "I want that!   Can I get this please?  I want to see that one!".  I think Patrick was scared...Watched The Breakup later on that night.  I heard it was high-larious but I just thought it was OK.  The yelling scenes seemed a bit too real.  Could have been funnier, I think. 

Went to a museum on Monday.  It was pretty interesting.   We'll just leave it at that.  Also went to go eat at Buddakan (www.buddakanny.com).  I saw this place when I was reading In Style on the plane over and was like omg! I so have to eat there!  Luckily I was able to get an RSVP for 4 (Calliea, Trace, Snugglemufffins, Moi).  Un-luckily, Snuggles and I got there an hour late and pissed off Calliea and Trace...SORRY!!!  Play Cranium for the first time that night.  Though we were victorious, Snuggles should never be allowed to sculpt stuff anymore...ever.

Tuesday was a sad day.  Back to CA I went.  We were gonna go on a cupcake excursion but all the damn cupcake places were closed for the holiday.  Damn you lazy cupcake makers, damn you.

Anyway, time for pictures.  Sorry there isn't a lot. It was too hot to take pictures and plus I forgot to bring it with me most of the time.

Me and the Boos at Breeze (a cute Thai/French restaurant)

Calliea and Tracy laughing.  Cranium is awesome.

Frog legs and Edamame Dumplings at Buddakan

A rare picture of the Boos showing some teeth and looking soOoOooO happy.  Normally he just half-asses the smiles or grins.  Heh.

The past 2 weeks have been a traveling frenzy!!!  Horray for weekend trips! 

Seattle

Contrary to popular opinion, Seattle is NOT cloudy and raining all the time.  Well, maybe it's cause I went on an abnormally gorgeous weekend, but still.  It's my new favorite place and if I knew people who lived there or there was a job opportunity there, I would definitely go.  It's so luciously green and beautiful.  I love the fact that there's so much outdoor stuff to do and see for FREE!  Being surrounded by water is a definite +.  Also, who can forget, Seattle is where Grey's Anatomy (although fictional) is "set" (the real set is probably in LA somewhere-*sadness*).  Anyhow, here's so pictures!

How cool is this picture?!?!?! It's Snoqualmie Falls-roughly a 30 minute drive from Seattle.  Apparently it's much bigger than Niagra Falls.  Twas my very first super big waterfall.  YIPPEEE. 

Me at the top, near this lookout point.  I was very happy to be there as you can see. Heh.

We had to climb down the trunks of some trees and down some rocks to get closer to the waterfall.  This is an awesome picture at the base of the waterfall...and there's Alan...being the big dork that he is.  It was fun just sitting out there, eating dried mangoes and soaking up some rays.  Very relaxing and serene.  I loved it!

A super good dessert we got at Black Bottle.  Not too sweet chocolate cake with fudge and caramel on the outside (walnuts on top) and super good vanilla ice cream on the inside.  To all you people out there, if you ever go to Seattle, you MUST eat at Black Bottle.  Serving super good tapas ($8/plate), the quantity you get is sufficient and the food is very, very, very delicious!  Gotta try their mojitos too.  The best I've ever had!

A breathtaking view of the city from Queen Anne's point.  Seriously, to get to where we were to take this shot only required like 15 minutes of driving away from the city.  What I love about Seattle is that it doesn't take an hour to go out to the suburbs or nature.  You can live in the city and it only takes a short drive before you are one with nature.  Likewise, if you live in the suburbs and feel the need to get crunked, it only takes 15-20 mins or so to go to a bar in the city. 

At the very first Starbucks ever!  I was super excited-even though I don't drink coffee and didn't get anything either when I visited this store...oh well! hahaa

The flagship Starbucks store from the outside.  Looks very different these days, huh?

Doing the tourist thing and taking a picture in front of Pike Place Market.

Jumbo lobster tails and shrimps and crab legs at Pike Place Market. 

It's a super tall totem pole!  Check out the clear blue skies!!!

A cruise liner ship at the waterfront.  Just thought the backdrop scenery was super cool.  See the mountains with all the snow on it still in the background??

The crazy Seattle library in downtown.  The whole building is like this weird geometric shape and this is the very top of the structure.  People can study in this quiet study area.  Being in this library really made me want to study...hahaha. joking...

This is the book drop off thing at the library.  What's super cool about it is it's sensor automated and so if you stand in front of it, the drop off bin automatically opens to reveal a conveyor belt where you would place the books you want to return.  The conveyor belt then moves the books up through the top and around the side (which you can't see from this picture) and dumps it into a bin at the check in counter inside the library.  How cool!!!

The Troll that lives under the Aurora bridge.  hehehe.  Isn't this cool?!  Some artists decided to build a troll underneath this bridge on Troll Ave.  I thought it was funny.

Here's the troll again, except it's sniffing up Alan's head and I'm pickin it's nose.  hehe.

Did you know Nordstrom's was the name of the brilliant dude who started the retail store and that the Nordstrom flagship store is in Seattle?  I'm pointing at him in the picture.  This was taken at the end of the Underground Tour that Alan and I went on.  It was pretty cool to learn about some of the history of Seattle and how the difference in height of the roads and sidewalks used to be about 10 feet at some point.  So yeah, basically, the sidewalks would be 10 feet LOWER than the roads and you had to climb up stairs to cross the streets.  Nuts.

And to all you Grey's Anatomy lovers out there, I saw this street sign and had to take a picture of it.  oOooOH poor poor Denny.  He was a great guy.  :::tear:::. hahaha. 

 

I think that's too much reading and picture viewing for now.  I'll update on NYC later on.