Bunny’s TMI

I finally have some time to clear out my mailbox and get somewhat up to date here. I think some of this I may have made time to blog about, but not all of it.

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Lets see… actually mailed all Christmas cards BEFORE Christmas for the first time ever!

The office is all decorated, including my desk, and people have started adding to my penguin collection.

Last weekend was San Jose to have lunch with my pirate’s parents for his birthday. Then a nice nap followed by a holiday party in Redwood City. Lots of good food, conversation and a fun white elephant exchange. Sadly I didn’t find my pirate’s bears from last year till the next day. So they’ll have to wait till next year to pass on!

The next day we had dinner with his cousin & family and had a great time. I made the slow cooker chicken again (without the insane lemon this time!) and we’ve been having leftovers all week.

I found some pilates videos I liked at the library - the Gaiam dvds by Ana Caban. So those are on my Amazon wish list to get at some point.

I also got my Amazon gift card in the mail so the last Harry Potter book should be showing up soon.

This coming weekend is going to be relax time and chore time. Which will be great after so many busy weekends! Oh, and I’m donating blood tomorrow morning. I can make the early appointments now since I can take time off work to volunteer.

I flew out Friday night after work, and arrived in Florida Saturday morning. We tried out a sushi place that had gotten great reviews, but it didn’t live up to them. We went based on this review: Tastememory.com Botan Japanese restaurant but it didn’t get updated with the info about the change of ownership till after we’d already gone. It wasn’t bad, just nothing special.

I was zonked out most of the drive back to Savannah (I didn’t really sleep much on the plane due to a sore neck) and then we all took naps when we got there. This was followed buy a fabulous dinner at Tantra Lounge - I had the Yum Yum Soup which was beyond yummy! It’s one of the best I’ve ever had, up there with the tomato broth soup my pirate’s mom made and Coco’s chicken tortilla soup.

We wandered downtown some and ended up at Lulu’s Dessert Cafe. I had the Mocha Tarts and Nagiko had the cheesecake with raspberry and chocolate (or something like that). All very tasty. Tora and I were up super late watching all 6 (?) discs of Trinity Blood. I really enjoyed it, the main character’s personality, and even some of the plot points made me think of Vash the Stampede, another really good series.

I slept in Sunday and then we had mexican for lunch and wandered downtown getting all sorts of photos of the architecture and details (I’m really behind on downloading my photos and uploading to flickr!). I think dinner that night was at the Bonefish Grill, then more anime watching, this time Tsubasa. Monday Tora took me around and we browsed the shops for four hours until I was happily exhausted. I also had some of Leopold’s ice cream. Literally the best ice cream I’ve had in my life, and thankfully safely across the country from me. Though funny enough the girl who served me used to live in Davis too!

Running out of lunch time, so gotta finish up here!

Dinner at Zen Sushi - yummy, dessert - brownie sundae at Bonefish grill, read the rest of the xxxHolic & Tsubasa manga to get caught up, sleep, drive to airport, fly home. Got pulled out of line to check my bag - the rice heat pack I brought for my neck showed up as an “organic blob.” It made me a little bit nervous, but nowhere nearly as bad as it would have one upon a time. Prior to landing the pilot thanked the military guys on board, and everyone on board started clapping. Arrived home again, passed out!

Went there for dinner last night, food is as good as the Davis one, and service isn’t nearly as bad/slow (though still not top notch either).

My pirate got me hooked on Avatar the Last Airbender, so I’m now caught up to him on that series, and getting back to watching One Piece again.

Plus, I got a fish for my office last week. Jin Beta! He’s so cute.

Lifehacker quote of the day “Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.” - Robert A. Heinlein

Mostly been watching movies, working, applying for jobs and dealing with a headache. Oh, and I donated blood last week. I’ve liked all the movies I’ve seen recently. Pirates 3, Spidey 3, Shrek 3, Surf’s Up, Live Free Die Hard, Ratatouille and we’re going to see Transformers this weekend. And later this month Harry Potter comes out which I plan to see with MM. Oh, and taking magnesium seems to have done away with the headache thankfully.

Saturday I spent in the day in the bay area with my pirate and friends. We went to Lychee Garden in SF for my first dim sum ever. I wasn’t really impressed with it, and they didn’t have the one thing I really wanted, just the plan bao rolls. They only had the pork bao. After that we went to Daiso in Daly City. It’s basically a Japanse 100 yen store, only over here it’s all $1.50. I managed to find $77 worth of $1.50 items, though I think that’s with tax. After that we headed over to Pao-sama’s place in Redwood City for a bbq. We sat around talking and eating and didn’t get home till 2am.

Sunday I got some chores done, but mostly it was making up for lost sleep day.

Monday I think my interview went pretty well, and I’m supposed to hear back by the end of the week.

Tuesday we went to $1 cone night and then to see Surf’s Up. It was good, but the previews beforehand were horrifyingly bad. (Daddy Day Camp, Under Dog, Bratz) I threw together some chicken and pasta for us to have afterwards.

Tonight I hope to get some shopping done at IKEA and Target to help with the cleaning/organizing I want to do before my party this weekend. I have everything ordered for delivery from Safeway on Saturday morning, so I just have cleaning left to do.

Tomorrow night should be climbing, and then a friend’s party on friday since he’s leaving for his summer internship soon. I might as well get my socializing in while I still have the time and energy!

Friday I got a chance to just relax with the meows.

Saturday I did some chores and relaxed a bit before heading over to AP(m) & TC’s place for game day. I got there early and TC and I had fun doing my makeup and hair. We got in some Darn before MM showed up and I actually managed to win a round! We followed it up with Settler’s Knights & Cities. I came the closest I have so far to winning so it was frustrating to come in second. It only allows for six players and my pirate didn’t feel like listening to the rules so he was bored most of the game since he and I were playing as a team. The game took a really long time too, so we followed it up by playing Dalmudi. TC’s friend suggested that we should have a lesser peon hat, so TC pulled a felt cat in the hat style one out of the garage. I ended up being greater dalmudi for a while, and the one time I dropped from greater dalmudi all the way down to greater peon… I got both jokers for a revolution and ended up back as greater dalmudi again.

Sunday I managed to unpack a few more boxes from the den and do some chores while the pirate played FF12. We made some decent progress in the game, but ended up leaving for the movie too late to have dinner at Seasons beforehand. He was nice enough to take me to see Pan’s Labyrinth (which should have been called The Labyrinth of the Faun) for our 3 month anniversary and we both actually really enjoyed the film (though he took issue with some of the elements that are traditional parts of fairy tales, and it was subtitled). There were a few really gruesome scenes, so I was very glad he was there. Seasons was closed by the time we got out so we ended up having dinner at Applebees. I even wore a skirt and makeup for the date - I’m not a total tomboy contrary to popular belief.

Oh, I also made a smoothie on Sunday. It was an experiment to use up some stuff and I like how it turned out (though the pirate’s face scrunched up after trying it). I peeled two grapefruits I was given and removed the seeds. The grapefruit went in the blender and I added a packet of lemon jello mix, a few big spoonfuls of jam & water. It was too sour still, so I added a can of peaches after I drained the juice and then some more jam. So now I’ve added a bunch of frozen fruit and some juices to my safeway.com order so I can make more smoothies and get more fruit/fiber in my diet.

I also need to hit Target soon and get more of those rolling organization bins for my den so I can unpack some more boxes. I’d also like to see if they have any penguin humidifiers left and also the headphones I decided I wanted (over the ear, single cord with an automatic winding system).

I also want to look up more crockpot recipes. I’d like to try some so I can experiment with cooking meat with alcohol and use up some of my supply that it’s obvious I’m not going to drink. Though I also want to start having spiked hot chocolate occasionally.

I also registered a new site to be my new product brand for selling stuff under and got my paypal account set up for their merchant service.

Tomorrow is my appointment with the lawyer to figure out what my options are in regards to the house, after which I plan to go to BJ’s and enjoy a brownie sundae to either celebrate or to cheer myself up depending on how it goes. Hopefully the former!

Oh my gosh! Must see this movie!!!!! DANCING PENGUINS!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, I really want this Seasame Street movie I remember watching on tv once when I was a kid.

And as usual, linkies to drool over.
These sugar decorations are gorgeous & yummy!
I have a heart one, but I want star ice cubes too! (Found one at IKEA!)

And a baby blue non-stick rolling pin! I do have a non-stick rolling pin… but it’s not baby blue silicon!
I really want this star cookie cutter too. It would be great for my stained glass cookies.
I’m not hot for white dishes, but the idea is a good one.
- Penguin mugs perfect for hot chocolate!

Cool site: Instructables: step-by-step collaboration

Wow, I haven’t been keeping up… so from the 16th till the 4th…

Sept. 16 More anime with MM, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds is awesome! I think that and Laputa: Castle in the Sky are my two favorite Miyazaki movies. I’m not a huge Disney fan, but I have to be happy that they’re bringing over so many of Miyazaki’s movies.

Sept. 17 I went to an all women cuddle party and it was wonderful!!

Sept. 18 I have no idea… I assume I played WoW and did chores since I had no specific plans.

Sept. 19 - Sept. 22 Just a normal work week, but my last week of carpooling.

Sept. 23 More anime with MM and I think the last new Battlestar Galactica till January… *cry* The last new Star Gate: Atlantis was a cliff hanger too! *pout*

Sept. 24 Helped the Princess and JP move to Davis and then had yummy pizza at Cafe Italia. My klutz moment… I put some vases the Princess gave me on top of my car so I could open the door. I open the door and BAM! two of them fall and shatter. Luckily the nicer ones were the ones left. Obviously I was not meant to have those other two. I felt pretty silly though. I blamed it on the spirit of PH trying to keep me from aquiring more clutter.

Sept. 25 Sundays seem to be chore/WoW days. I think I watched Tomb Raider 2 while doing the fishing contest in WoW (I didn’t win but I did get a rare fish) and then went to the guild meeting. Tomb Raider was ok, but not good enough to really grab my attention fully enough to stop fishing.

Sept. 26 - Sept. 29 My first week of carpooling…. late every single day, but I actually was much more productive coming in later in the day.

Sept. 30 Saw Serenity with MM & JP & Princess, it was great!
Oct. 1 Went and saw JL perform in an opera about beauty and the beast. It was actually pretty neat and he was great. The circus performers/fairies we my favorite though. Some of their acrobatics and contortions were pretty impressive. We went out for drinks to just hang out afterwards and I met JL’s girlfriend’s friend who seemed really nice, we even swapped backrubs which I always love.

Oct. 2 More WoW and chores!

Oct. 3 Got KM to come over to trade backrubs. We couldn’t get his movie to play in my dvd player though so we watched Patriot Games which I’d never seen. I thought it was a good movie.

Oct. 4 Tonight I’m going to finally get DDR set up and do at least five minutes. I want to start doing that nightly and work up to 20-30 minutes for exercise.

I finally got around to watching Never Been Kissed from netflix last night. It was cute, and had amusing parts, but really it wasn’t that engaging of a movie. It was like they were trying to appeal to teens & adults… and ended up in this middle ground that did neither. I like Drew Barrymore, she’s cute, and I don’t feel like I wasted my time, but the movie isn’t one I’d recommend to anyone. And I’m glad CS & I didn’t have time to watch it after running errands Wednesday - he would have hated it I’m sure.