Category: Daily Life

I visited LA’s RenFair for the first time today. It was held in the city of Irwindale at the Santa Fe Dam. There were a lot of activities and events going on all over the place, so I enjoyed myself quite a bit. We saw a few comedy shows, drank mead, and watched a jousting event. I even bought myself a Legend of Zelda ocarina (which I’ve been wanting for a while) and several cute earrings. Adam bought a mug, but he didn’t check the price before buying it. It was expensive. Ouch. :(

The raspberry mead is tasty, by the way. I’m going to have to see if BevMo has any in stock.

There were a few incidents that marred an otherwise fun day. First was the amount of dust flying about. By the end of the day, I was blowing out black snot and my hair felt dirty. My camera was not spared either as it was covered in a good amount of dust. :( The other incident was while we were watching the last comedy act of the day, there were a group of drunks who wouldn’t shut up and watch the show, or leave. I really wanted to tell them to shut up, but I also didn’t want a fight on my hands. Oh well.

Overall, I had a lot of fun and I can’t wait to go again next year. :)

This past Saturday was Armed Forces Day. Torrance has a parade and event every year. I thought about going to Torrance Blvd to check out the parade, but I ended up hanging around the house cleaning.

Adam came over in the afternoon and we went to the Del Amo Fashion Center to check out the event there. There was a M1A1 Abrams tank, helicopters, various vehicles and such. They were even military guys dressed in Vietnamese army uniform. Pretty cool stuff.

I really want to fly a helicopter.

And an airplane.

There were no airplanes there.

Dinner was at a Korean hot tofu restaurant next to Gablehouse. Adam never had Korean hot tofu before, so it was new to him.

We also saw Iron Man 2. It was a good movie. I wasn’t disappointed.

On Sunday, one of my coworkers invited me and Adam to yoga. I left my house a little late, oops. I fail my Japanese ancestry. Punctuality not my forte. We got there about 15-20 after class had started. It was donation based, so I didn’t have to pay a lot to attend. The yoga place even had a store with expensive merchandise. I bought a yoga towel because my feet get sweaty on my mat. Probably could have gotten it somewhere cheaper.

After yoga, we wandered around the area. REI is having a sale starting this coming Friday, so I’m going to have to go back and purchase a few things before the Memorial Day rafting and camping trip.

And that is another boring update by yours truly.

PS – Can’t sleep, drank coffee at 8:30 PM. Doh!

Saw Kick-Ass this weekend with Adam on Saturday. I figured it’d be hard to get good seats to see Iron Man 2 and there were only 3D showings of Alice in Wonderland, so Kick-Ass. It’s a good movie, however very gory.

So I found out what that weird white stuff was that was growing in the bag of dirt. They’re mushrooms. I found out by opening the other bag of soil and out popped mushrooms among the mega-colony white stuff. I have no idea what kind of mushrooms they are, but I don’t think they’re edible.

On Sunday, Laura and I celebrated Mother’s Day by taking our mom to a restaurant for lunch. My mom wanted to go to Black Olive, so that’s where we went. The service was slow, but it was because there was only one chef in the kitchen. Ouch. The restaurant isn’t normally open on Sunday for lunch, so that’s probably why there was only 1 chef in there. We didn’t hold it against them as the food was very good and the servers were very friendly.

Yesterday, I decided it was time to plant my cucumber plants into real pots. I dragged out the bag of soil I bought last year and tore a small hole open. That’s when I noticed something strange… Instead of dark brown dirt, I saw spongy white. What the crap?! Like, EW! The entire bag was full of the strange white stuff.

Gross.

I’m afraid that the other bag of soil I have in the garage is full of the same white spongy stuff. I haven’t opened it yet.

I also found a small lizard in my watering can. I let it go in my neighbor’s backyard. She has a bigger yard that’s not cemented over. >_>;

Drama sucks.

My sister is pregnant! It’s too soon to tell what the gender of the baby will be, way too soon.

I told Laura, you better hope the baby is a girl, because I’m only going to be knitting girl clothes. If the baby turns out to be a boy, he’s going to be cross dressing for the first few years of his life every time I get to baby sit.

A day or so later, I read in a manga that all shoujo manga readers dream about dressing boys as girls if they don’t get a girl. LOL.

Currently waiting for my very full flight home. It departs at 8 AM. It’s currently 6:50 AM. I think I have time.

Homeland security threat level is orange, whatever that means. Should I start screaming at every suspicious person that comes my way? I’m sure there are a few shady people that I can panic around.

Wireless internet here is called ShakaNet. $7 for 2 hours. I think I’ll post this blog entry when I get home.

I already got ripped off for the ride here.

My stupid shuttle didn’t arrive when it was supposed to, and when I called about it, the guy was like, you’re not on the list of pick-ups and you’re supposed to call 12 hours before. I’m like, the website said 8 hours. Also, I signed up online 12 hours and 30 minutes before the time I wanted to be picked up. I’m going to have to call them on Monday so I can at least get my money back.

==Saturday, April 10, 2010==

I spent the morning just putting around in my room. Playing Mafia Wars, Vampire Wars, and Restaurant City. >.>;;

I finally decided to go get some kona coffee (my last one on the island as it turns out) and check out the book signing at Barnes & Noble for the Descendants. The book store employees made me buy the book before I was able to get it signed. I was like, what?! What if I want to buy other books?! I’m not going to run off with the book. Geez! This line is short, and I would like to be in a short line now than get in a possibly long line later. Grr. I didn’t buy any other book. Crystal later told me that that bookstore made her buy a DVD to get a signing when she went for BJ Penn because they wouldn’t allow for free autographs.

After my trip to the mall, I hung out with Crystal and her two kids. We ate ramen and played mini-golf. Her kids are cute, but quite a handful.

I shoulda taken pictures of my food! Doh! I had ume-shio ramen. It was good. Thinking about umeboshi is making my mouth water. So goood.

Mini-golf kinda sucked. It was indoors and in “3D”. Just florescent paint on the walls, black light, and loud music. By the end I wanted escape. Seriously, that place sucked. The girl attending the place disappeared, so we had to wait at least 10 minutes to get in.

After mini-golf, we went to a really good Hawaiian snow cone place called Waiola. It was like powdered snow. Soft. I had the Obama’s Rainbow. It had passion fruit instead of banana. Yum. :9

I also got some girl scout cookies and other junk food from Crystal.

Later one, Matt stopped by with lots of stuff, too. Mmm, chocolate covered macadamia nuts.

I also went last minute shopping at the mall again. Got suckered into buying a hair straightener. It’s cool, but I paid way too much for it. Grrr. I knew I was getting suckered, too, but I didn’t know what the fair price was. I shoulda said, hold on, lemme go find the price for it online, and run to the Apple store to find out. Damn you sales lady! *shakes fist*

Dinner was pickles, natto, yogurt, and a crepe. The crepe wasn’t that good. It was more whipped cream and less fruit. -_- Darn you Shirokiya crepe store! *shakes fist*

Went on a submarine ride today. It was really quite cool and I’m glad my friend recommended it to me. I got to see lots of different kinds of Hawaiian sea life such as the milletseed butterflyfish and the spiny puffer. There were quite a number of green sea turtles as well. To anyone reading my blog, if you go to Hawaii, definitely go on a submarine ride. I think it’s well worth it.

After the submarine ride, I went to the Outrigger Photo to look for a USB cable. The store didn’t have any for sale, but he did give me one for free. Wow, that was nice of him!

I also found the puka dog stand in the International Marketplace. My physical therapist told me about it and that they were quite delicious. It was. Pricey, too.

When I got back to my hotel, I still didn’t get in contact with my friend from FFXI, so I went and sun bathed for a while. Two hours in fact. I was using an SPF 15 sunscreen, so I all good. :D

At around 4 PM, I finally got in contact with my friend Matt, and I tagged along with him and his mom to Good-to-Grill restaurant. Very good food there.

I skyped with Adam when I got back to my hotel room. Since it was a Friday, we got to talk and surf the web together for a lot longer than normal. Happy~

Thursday morning I had breakfast with my friend Crystal. She was in the area to do some extra work for a movie with George Clooney called the Descendents. We talked about stuff, bento, FFXI, etc.

After breakfast, I went to Shirokiya to buy some Salonpas and Advil. Thought about getting a knee brace, too, but didn’t go through with it. I also stopped by the bookstore to look for a book to read since I finished Fool Moon a few days ago. Didn’t find anything I liked. More like, didn’t want to spend the money to buy a book that I may or may not like as I want to read more of the Dresden Files books.

I also signed up to go on a submarine ride. I figured since walking around hurts, trying to snorkeling or scuba diving might not be a good choice at the moment.

Which leads me to my next smrt decision. I wanted to pick up a USB cable, so I decided to go to a camera store to see what they had. It took me a while to get there, and it turns out that they were closed. I didn’t actually get to the store, someone told me that they closed and I called them after I found a telephone book. I had to walk a ways back to get to a bus stop with busses that actually run.

For dinner (before my trip on the bus), I ate at the Pineapple Room. I thought the food was alright, not anything to write home about. Overpriced, too. The waiter was kinda creepy and didn’t smile much. He also tried to short change me by $10. I flagged a waitress down and told her I was short changed. It took longer than it should have to get it straightened out, but I got the correct change back. I tipped and left.

I should check on yelp for what that restaurant’s review is like.

Wednesday was Stacey and Mark’s Wedding. It was quite a full day filled with fun, embarrassment, injury, and poisonous snails.

After eating breakfast at Shirokiya, I met up with Matt and Margaret for lunch. After wandering around for a bit, we ate at a Korean restaurant near the International Marketplace. Pretty good stuff.

The wedding took place at Ko ‘Olina. Very beautiful place to get married at. Unfortunately, it started raining really hard and it was an outdoor wedding. Large puddles everywhere. I was very glad I wore platform wedge heels. At least it wasn’t cold rain like SoCal rain.

One one of the trips to the restroom, one of the girls at the wedding party pointed out the large snails that crawl around the area. I was like, cool! Snails are cute! I picked one up and poked at it’s eyes and antenna. Later on, she comes up to me with a paper towel covered in liquid soap and tells me that they’re poisonous snails. Um. I already ate food with my hands. Yikes! I go back to the restroom to wash my hands off with the soap. Didn’t die or go into paralysis, so all is good.

When it was time for the wedding, Stacey looked stunning in her dress and make-up. Mark looked good wearing khaki pants, button up shirt and a leafy lei. I guess the guys don’t wear the standard tux like in mainland weddings. They really looked snazzy together.

When it was time for the couple’s first dance, a few of us agreed to go onto the dance floor after 20 seconds to take the focus off of Stacey and Mark. I did a good job on that. As soon as I stepped onto the dance floor, I slipped and fell right on my butt. I also injured my knee and big toe. More alcohol please!

So now it seems, I’m going to be known as snail girl and the girl that slipped on the dance floor. Oh well. At least I had fun!