Friday, I'm in Love!

Kyle and I went out to dinner the other night at Twin Gardens (one of our favorite restaurants) and it was just an ordinary night for us, nothing special was going on. We had just looked at an apartment, and decided to get some dinner.

I ordered the Mu Shu Vegetables, he ordered the Pad Thai...we both ordered a Thai Iced Tea...when all of a sudden, our waitress surprises us by bringing out our drinks with napkins that had been cut into hearts!

And as if that wasn't nice enough, she also brought us spring rolls on the house!

Maybe we just looked like we were having a special night, or maybe she recently fell in love and decided to be extra nice to people who're in relationships...or maybe she was just in a good mood for no particular reason!

We were very thankful, whatever the reason! I love it when people are extra nice, because kindness is contagious! :)

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Other things that I love:

This new line of Raw Chocolates we're carrying called Fearless. Not only is the chocolate (especially this one in particular) wonderful...the packaging is so cute! And so is the chocolate! The squares have stars and elephants on them, and the top right chocolate square has a little missing "bite"...it's too cute! :)

this little black dress is just too adorable :)

isn't this Chandelier just so pretty and cool? :)

i just love these pillow cases!

Music Makes the World Go Round

Oh how I love to feel the bass shake my rib bones to the beat of a song! There is nothing quite like the feeling of being encompassed by music at a concert. I feel like very few people know the feeling I'm talking about, or at least, can have the same feeling drug/alcohol free (like me).

I just looooove going to live shows :)

Even if it means I can never see the stage because I'm short.
Even if it means I'm surrounded by g-r-o-s-s sticky, icky, sweaty bodies.
Even if it means inconsiderate girls (or guys) with long, bushy, gross hair, stand directly in front of me, and their hair gets all in my face.
Even if it means I'm in a crowd of fans who aren't really fans, and don't really care about the music (and often spend the entire show just yelling really loudly to their friends)

Despite all the things I hate about concerts, I'd go to one every day if I could.

Just to feel/hear/experience the music!

I spent this past weekend at the Capitol Hill Block Party, and I had a blast! Best veggie dogs/kettle corn/music festival experience I've had in a while (though really, nothing could compare to SF Outside Lands '08).

Musical highlights: Francis and the Lights, Yeasayer, Holy Fuck, MGMT, The Dead Weather!

{all photos are credited to Suzie Pratt of Seattle Show Girl, I didn't think I could sneak my camera in, and I totally should have!}

Dreams

I have bad habit that I don't think many people share, I refer to all my dreams, even my nightmares, as dreams. People think this is funny, because half-way through my sharing my dream from the previous night they say to me, "that doesn't sound like a dream, it sounds like a nightmare". And to be honest, they're right, but, to be honest, I have a lot more nightmares than dreams.

I've always wondered why this was so...I'm a happy/optimistic person...it takes a lot to kill my everyday happy-to-be-alive buzz...but when I lay my head down at night, my mind is often full of these crazy, often cinematic nightmares, involving me running for my life...Here's an interesting confession, although most of my dreams are me fearing for my life, I have actually died in my dream...but that only happened once.

Last night's dream was especially notable. I never remember the beginnings of my dreams, but from the beginning of what I remember, Kyle, my immediate family, and I are sneaking into this secret room in the attic of this huge victorian house, and my mom is telling us to be as quiet as possible. We get inside the attic and it's this huge area, and some of my extended family are already up there. My oldest friend Michelle and her family are also up there. Somehow, the sense of fear dissolves, and everyone's voices start getting louder and louder. We eventually have a full blown party going, with music, and food.

Without notice, these police officers (or another authority figure, I couldn't tell you) start breaking into the house beneath us, and we can hear their footsteps coming up the stairs. But the partying continues, no one gives it a second thought, everyone is just laughing, and talking loudly and joyously. Then the police start banging on the secret door and start breaking through the walls and doors. The start asking everyone for their identification, and afterwards, they take the passports or ID's, then shove them towards this hallway. No one asks to see my identification, but Kyle, Michelle, and my immediate family have already been looked at, so instead of waiting alone, I follow them down this hallway. Somehow we're not in the house anymore, it's a dark dirt tunnel, but I can see the opening at the end. We end up outside, and over to the left, (this is where it gets disturbing) they're lining up all the children who are illegal immigrants (they all look somewhere between 3-6) and there's another line of children of the same age who aren't illegal immigrants. The soldiers are tying the illegals up to top of this machine, which looks like a carnival ride, the kind that lift high up in the air and spin around...and then the machine starts, and the kids are pulled up into the sky, while the legal kids are throwing rocks and shooting them. I'm shocked and horrified, and I can't stop weeping at the loss of all the innocent children. But we're still in line being pushed along the way and we have to watch. My family keeps telling me to quiet down, and that if I have to weep, weep silently because I'm attracting attention to us. But I can't stop crying, my entire body is shaking with this overwhelming devestation.

The line leads to this bus stop area, and my family/friends get into this strange bus, and the bus driver is at the back of the bus, and since I'm first into the bus, motions for me to keep going towards him. But it isn't a normal bus, instead of seats, there are these lumps of cushions that you have to climb over to get to the next row. He takes us to another area, and it's this big obstacle course, where we're only allowed to walk on this little path made up of puzzle pieces. There's this military general who's watching me cross the obstacle perfectly, but I'm still crying. He pulls me aside and asks me if I like Rihana, and I saw that I do (even though I'm indifferent, really), and then he lays out more puzzle pieces and tells me to dance back and forth across them. So I'm dancing, and dancing, and I wake up.

I'm probably the only person who has weird dreams like this...haha. Oh well, I just had to share it.

7.21.10

You might be wondering what's been going on with me as of late, to be honest, nothing too exciting to report.

Just going to work, as usual. Looking for a new bedroom apartment (for us and Jenny & Diego), and looking for tickets for the Capitol Hill Block party...

Thankfully, I'm 90% sure I have secured 3-day passes for the CHBP! Which would be really, really, awesome considering I REALLY wanted to go on Friday, but because Ruines was suppose to play a show up here on Friday, I didn't buy the tickets because, well family comes first, ya know? But, now that my weekend has cleared up, and this is one of the few weekends that lines up with a music festival worth going to, I'm pretty darn excited! :D

There are very few things in the world that I love more than experiencing live music! Something about the rib cage rattling bass, and the deafening music, that makes me SO happy! And the dancing, and the singing! I love it all! I bought my SF Outside Lands Tickets thinking I had that weekend off from work, but I don't, and really, I can't afford to fly down to SF for the concert anyway...So I'm just going to sell those, and use some of that "live music money" to pay for this weekend!

Friday, I'm in love!

Here are some things I've encountered this lovely Friday that I simply LOVE:

{I love coming into work and finding a box of cookies with my name on it! These are the newest addition to our products, and they are dddeeeeelicious!}

{This little coin-purse wallet is SSSOOO adorable! Another new product at the store, and really, I want it/need it sssooo bad! Please, be mine?}

I am bad!

I'm not flaky when it comes to doing something that other people rely on me for...like waking up early to give someone else a ride somewhere, or dragging myself out of bed to go to work...anything like that, I find some motivation because I don't want to disappoint anyone.

But when it comes to myself, I'm a big, huge, flake!

I start projects and never finish them, or simply come up with the idea to start a project and never even start it, lol...I'm pretty bad.

Working out, Roller Derby, Sculpting, Sewing...these are just examples of things I said I wanted to start and/or started but never kept up with.

Sigh...what am I going to do with myself? Aside from forcing myself to keep doing at least one of the above hobbies...but the whole forcing thing takes away from the fun of it, lol.

My go-to solution is having other people do the aforementioned with me, because if I had a work out buddy or a roller derby buddy who was relying on me, I'd actually do it on a regular basis!

But really, is that the only solution for me? Convincing other people to start up my hobbies just so I don't quit? I think not, I need to find the motivation within myself...and just do these things if I really want to do them. Roller Derby is the only thing I'm having a really hard time doing alone...just because I need to be able to skate around a rink without falling down before joining the practice team...and Kyle's not one to roller skate :/ lol I'm going to throw the idea by some friends who might also find it interesting/fun...let's hope one of them will at least be willing to help me practice skating, lol.

But everything else, I really just need to DO...otherwise I just end up being bored/disappointed in myself, and that's no fun.

However, speaking of disappointment (and to end this on a lighter note), doesn't this picture just crack you up?

{let's hope I can find the motivation to keep up with my hobbies/projects, m'kay?}

Hello Stranger(s)!

It's been a while, I know. I've been busy, kind of, lol.
June 30th-July 6th I was in lovely San Diego for Sahar's quinceanera. I'll post pictures eventually, I'm still in the process of processing them. It was a really busy "vacation" running from one place to the next.

So let's start at the beginning, I landed, and went to lunch with Kyle, my mom, Omied, Sahar and Ryan. We went to the Big Kitchen, where we stuffed our faces with too much food. Afterwards, we held a short waltz practice where really, nothing was accomplished, lol. Then we (Kyle, me, Sahar, Olivia, Claire, Chrissy, Omied, Simone & RC, Anders, Daniel L., Sean and Scott) all went to Sipz for dinner. It was a joyous feast, and somehow our dinners turn into these huge feasts, even if it's not a special occasion, lol. Afterwards Sahar, Chrissy, Claire, Olivia and I headed over to Grossmont Mall to watch Eclipse...and the boys went on a man-date to watch Toy Story 3 (which I sadly, still haven't seen!)

The rest of the trip was variations of that day, holding waltz practices, going out to eat, lots of time with both family and friends. Saturday, the day of the quinceanera many, many things went wrong, but in the end it all worked out, which is what's important, right? The quinceanera was a total sucess, Diego took a lot of amazing pictures, with me mostly just positioning the kiddos, we're actually a pretty good team, haha. Lots of eating and dancing occurred. Linda and I had our first drinks together :) we ended up buying two handles of Pomegrante Margarita ready-to-serve mix from Costco instead of another case of beer like my mom asked, hahahaha :D

Sunday consisted of a lot of vitamin D absorption, we had a picnic atop Presidio Park and had a perfect view of the fireworks. Fenris came out with us, and destroyed Claire's frisbee in 3 swift motions, lol. We got a little BBQ going, and lots of food and alcohol was consumed, as it should be on the 4th of July, lol. Kyle and Diego left that night for Seattle. I hung out until Tuesday morning. Monday we went to the Del Mar Fair for a little bit, walked around, had a falafel burger, watched the Swift Piggy Race, as well as the Hypnotist, then rode Magnum before selling the rest of our fair tickets, and bolting over to Chris' parent's house for dinner. As usual, dinner was delicious, and it was my first night at their house being able to enjoy their lovely, lovely wine. The best was of course, the champagne mixed with pomegrante juice :)

{Seriously, Pomegrante was the flavor of the weekend!}

After getting home around 12am, and then spending a good hour or so packing, I passed out around 1:30am, and then had to wake up at 4:30am to get over to the Esh house to pick up Linda & Chris for our 6:45am flight...what's kinda funny is that it was our first time flying together, and we didn't even plan on it! We just ended up being on the same flight, which was hilarious...unfortunately, Chris' kind gesture of buying us all coffee went a bit south when I spilled coffee myself MULTIPLE times anyway, because my boss is honestly the sweetest person on earth, I didn't even have to go into work Tuesday. Instead, Kyle picked me up, and we headed home to nap, lol. Then we picked up Diego from work, and in order to avoid an idiot driver who cut us off, Kyle had to slam on the breaks, which then caused Diego to spill his tea on my head/hair/back of my shirt...looking back, it's pretty hilarious, because really, it should've just gone right onto the seat, but no, it went right through the hole in the headrest, lol We went to OK Noodle and pigged out because we were all hungry.

And that pretty much summarizes my weekend in SD. Since then I've just been too lazy to write this all out, lol. Seriously, this is one of many attempts to write more and post it, but I think I've said everything this time, so I'll finally post this entry :)

Pictures are on their way, worry not!
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