Category: Daily Life

They’re so cute. :)

Brian is headed back to Wisconsin for the holidays. I’m going to be here in Torrance. Almost 2 thousand or so miles apart. This is going to be a lonely break.

Luckily, I’ll have things to do to keep myself occupied. Like cleaning my room. And bunnies! And of course… Final Fantasy XI. Seriously… it’s not going to be as fun. :(

Normally, guys aren’t that romantic. Movies portray men having soft romantic sides and you think, they don’t exist! Oh, how wrong I was. Somehow I managed to end up with a boyfriend who is romantic, caring, sweet, cute, handsome, funny, smart, silly and just about every other word that describes something you would want in a guy. I’m still reeling from it. Whenever I look at him, I can’t find anything negative. Just a lot of plusses.

One of my coworkers invited me to Pandemic’s holiday party. I’m like, yeay. I’ll go to check it out. ^_^

Treyarch’s holiday party is actually not at the company! It’s at club somewhere in Santa Monica. I’m allowed one guest, so invited my sister. ^_^

My anime club friends are having a holiday party, too! I want to bake pumpkin pies for it. :3

Three parties all in a row (Thursday, Friday, Saturday). How am I going to survive? @_@;

Two people at work said I have a valley girl accent. :( No, I don’t. I asked Franklin. He said I have an Erika accent. … >.>;

Tomorrow is the day where I meet Pikko, Imperial Ninja, Tomec, and Pachichachi in real life. I’ll also be meeting Brian’s friend Kidaa.

Plans for the day:

6:30 AM – Wake up.
7:30 AM – Clean inside of car.
7:45 AM – Go get car washed. Oil changed if there is time (probably not).
8:15 AM – Be on road to Anaheim.
9:45 AM – Arrive at the giant ‘O’ in CALIFORNIA on the Disney’s California Adventure side.
12:30 PM – Go to Blue Bayou for lunch.
3:00 PM – Be back at the Anaheim Hilton. Meet up with Brian and Kidaa.
4:00 PM – Check into the hotel.
6:00 PM – Registration.

I’m going to be gone from work on Thursday and Friday. I think I’m a workaholic. I miss work. I feel like I’m ditching work. I feel I am violating my work ethics. :| I also kinda checked in stuff without making sure it cleared the autobuild machines… >.>;;

Er… So my check ins didn’t clear the autobuild… Luckily, and by extreme dumb luck, Brian was at work showing the office off to Kidaa. I made him check in the missing files. I also gave him my last can of Dublin’s Dr. Pepper.

Now I need to seriously sleep.

For Halloween, I dressed up as a Japanese ghost. There was a costume contest, with a lot of good costumes. It was pretty cool. Some of the people (including me) on the 2nd floor created a haunted house. It was a pretty darn cool haunted house. A lot of work went into it.

We started creating the haunted house at around 7 PM on October 30th. I had to go home at midnight so I could sleep. Woke up at 6 AM with only 4 hours of sleep and went back to work again. I put my costume on at around 9 AM at work. After getting some work in, lunch was served and so was the costume contest. I didn’t win. Robert said that I was docked for not putting makeup on my legs. Meh, I don’t care. Around 1:30 or 2 PM, more preparations for the haunted house continued. We were finally ready around 4 PM. My job was to open the door when the knocking sound effects were played. After the 2nd group of people, Anna asked me to scream when the lights went out. There were some dorks that would try to force open the door, and then ram the door into me. If the door doesn’t open, then don’t force it. Geez. >_<

After everything was over, I helped out with the clean up, but there was some stuff due that day, so I had to get back to work. I ended being there until 9 PM. >_>; It was well worth, I think. A lot of people liked our haunted house. It was a success. ^_^ I can’t wait to do it again next year. At least, I hope to do it again next year. ^^

Yesterday, a coworker and I went to Burbank to join the hundreds of people trying to become an extra on the new Star Trek movie. We got there early and there was already a line. After wandering around gawking at the people (and finding a restroom for me), we lined up to await our fate in the Star Trek universe.

Ok, it wasn’t that glamorous. It was a line that moved little by little. The sun was a bit hot when it started at 2:30 PM. It was almost 5 PM and rather chilly when we finally got inside. There were 3 people taking head shots and body shots of the wannabe extras. No smiles when taking photos. I look like a retard when I don’t smile. We turned in our gender color coded piece of paper with our information, and that was it.

I might have a higher chance of being chosen because of my marching band experience, but seriously, overall the chances of me being picked is still rather slim. Not to mention, I would have to ditch work, which I don’t definitely want to do. Health insurance > acting gig.

Afteward, my coworker and I ate dinner at Pinocchio’s. It’s a very good restaurant. I have left overs. I should eat it now.

I’ve been on a strange cooking kick… While in Kaede Shobo, I was hit with the compulsion to buy Kyou no Ryori (きょうの料理) magazine. I picked up the October 2007 version. It has how to make various Japanese dishes that most of the English cookbooks don’t carry.

For lunch today, I brought a bento box from home. I made it! (Insert gasping horrified sounds.) Last night I made some tamagoyaki and Kikkoman gyoza. For veggies added asazuke kyuri (Japanese pickled cucumbers) and cherry tomatoes. Just in case I wasn’t full enough, I put a ready-made chawanmushi and some instant miso soup packets. Surprisingly, I was full by the time I finished my bento. I didn’t want the chawanmushi to go bad, so I ate it, but I couldn’t fit the miso soup into my tummy. The miso soup became my late afternoon snack.

Aaahhhh!!! This is a travesty! Well, it’s pretty normal when you have a cold, but still sucks. :(