February: Week 2

Feb. 4 (sat):

Started off Saturday with the breakfast of champions! There aren't very many Chick-fil-A's around me in LA so whenever I'm in San Diego I take advantage of the fact that there's one close by to Tony's house. Chick-n-mini's and their little hash browns! Yumes!

We ran some errands and decided to go to Seaport Village since the weather was so nice. This was my second time going to Seaport Village. Love all the street vendors they have there but I've really lost my touch in bargaining since I haven't been to Chinatown in awhile.

arghhh matey!

my best picture of the day with my iPhone! sho schek-xee.

extremely large kite? lol

After walking all over Seaport Village, we were ready to get our grub on. One thing you should all know about me by now is that I don't really like Mexican food UNLESS it's cooked by someone's mom/grandma/aunt/anyfamilymemberthatcancook lol. Tony's been trying to get me to try more Mexican food. The poor dude is deprived these days. So we went to Lucha Libre. Apparently it wasn't really that busy until it was featured on Man vs. Food. I think I had the Surfin' California. Their shrimp was so fresh and delish. Like you could literally feel the crunch when biting into the shrimp! That shit cray! (too much Coke & after work high).

TJ corn (before I ordered this, I thought it was going to come on the cobb...
like the way the people in my neighborhood sell it haha..
I was slightly disappointed but still good)

our burritos

our burritos

After stuffing our faces at Lucha Libre, we went back to Tony's house and just watched movies. We ended up watching Tokyo Drift and Gran Torino. Holy crap Gran Torino was a freakin' great movie. At the end of the movie I just started sobbing (I always say it's not a great movie unless I'm crying lol). So freakin' sad! Gahhh.


Feb. 5 (sun):

Superbowl Party with Tony's friends. I don't have pictures. Just my love handles to prove I ate lots of good food and made cake pops!


Feb. 6 (mon):

Decided to stay an extra day in San Diego since I didn't have to go back to work until Wednesday. We decided to take Tony's mom and grandmother to Seaport Village where we ate at Sally's Seafood on the Water, one of his grandmother's favorite restaurants. I was seriously surprised that their food tasted so delicious!! Off of their lunch menu, I had the King Crab Club Sandwich (see picture below). There were so many choices that sounded delicious but I decided to go with King Crab Club Sandwich because the waiter said that the cook or manager (I forget which one) has one every day haha. If it's good enough for the person cooking or working with the food to have one everyday, it's good enough for me! The sauce that comes with the fries is literally TO DIE FOR. And the fries are seasoned so they are super tasty.

Feb. 7 (tues):

On Tuesday, my friend and I had a little date at Disneyland! It was supposed to rain so the park was pretty deserted. It was super awesome because we even got our own boat on "It's a Small World"! So romantic :D so we had to take a picture! (too bad you can't see that we're the only ones on the boat lol)

gabrielle and zena (with a z and not an x)

i'm losing my touch on this ride! haven't been on enough to practice :(

Feb. 8-11 (wed-sat): Work

Friday was one of the intern's last day on her rotation and she got us Dots Cupcakes! Dee-lish!

Feb. 12 (sun):

Didn't do much this weekend since I worked on Saturday. On Sunday I was feeling like a complete bum so the only thing I did was go on a walk with Sophie and then went to Walmart.



Tis all for now friends! Trying to get back into posting regularly. Yay to having Easter off! It's my weekend to work too so I end up only having to work 1 day! Can we say awesome?! Although the holiday would've been WAY nice lol. Have a great weekend everyone!


*edit*
side note: Refinery29 just came out with their list of sushi places with the freshest fish and I want to try all of them!!! See them for yourself here!

March: Part 1

Being that the first couple weeks of March was consumed by vacation (and there's a separate post on that), I'm just going to break March up into several part. Now that I'm working 40 hour weeks and most of my weekends are spent traveling, there's definitely less time to post.



Mar. 8-9 (thurs-fri):

After coming home from Hawaii, I was rushed off to work the next day 2 days with closing shifts. I took the weekend off (March 10th thru 12th) for the Drake concert on Sunday at SDSU.


Mar. 10 (sat):
On Saturday, we started off the day by running errands. I had some stuff to return at the Container Store, Target and Nordstrom's and I also had to go to the bank. We still had some time to kill before my eye exam at 3:30pm (Tony's friend is an optometrist and I was in dire need of new contacts so I had made an appointment to see him), so we decided to have lunch at Slater's 50/50.

pretty damn good burgers. my only complaint was that the burger was cooked wayyy too well.
i like my cows still moo-ing. our waitress didn't ask how we wanted our 
burgers cooked so i'm not even sure if you can choose :/

they had this pick 3 appetizers thing and we got the
panko fried mac 'n cheese, beer battered onion rings,
and french fried potatoes. i absolutely LOVED the onion rings
(but then again, I love almost all onion rings lol)

After stuffing our faces, we went to my eye exam. Sadly, my vision has gotten a lot worse :(. I blame my darn gene pool! My mom is practically blind and had laser eye surgery, not once, but twice! It started out as a really nice summery day so we tried to walk around Coronado but it got pretty cold so we went back to Tony's house before heading out to dinner. We had 7 courses of beef and fried catfish which was delicious! I haven't had the stuff in such a long time. I mostly enjoyed the 7 courses of beef. I don't really like the fried catfish that much just because of my fear of fish bones.

We spent the rest of the night at this new bar (maybe just new to me? lol) in Downtown San Diego called The Lion's Share. It's a really nice bar/restaurant and the decor reminds me of the American Revolution lol . Since we just had dinner, we mostly went there for the drinks. Their drinks are super unique and actually tasted pretty healthy (at least to me lol). My favorite of the night was "Monks Gone Wild". Absolutely delish for someone that doesn't want a drink that tastes like you're straight chugging rubbing alcohol.

lovers con amigos

tres amigos

wish i could remember what drinks these were lol

After drinks we headed home to rest. Plus we were losing an hour to daylight savings :(.


Mar. 11 (sun):
Sunday funday. We went to have dim sum with Tony's family and then I went back to Tony's house and took a nap lol. I need naps! We got ready for the Drake concert and went to pre-party at John's house. We then headed to grab some dinner at Tokyo Sushi near UCSD.

dinner before our first concert together!

oyster shooters

spicy tuna salad. holy moly. so delish. looks so healthy too lol.

fishie balloons! with lips like mine lol

Drake concert was a complete blur. The fact that we got home safely was a miracle. Tanks got. lol.

getting some refreshments before the concert

25 sittin' on 25 mill

Flashback to November 2010 when I saw Drake at Universal Amphitheater with special guest Nicki Minaj

i love your sushi roll, hotter than wasabi

That's it for now! Hope everyone has a great weekend!

February: Week 1

Jan. 30 (mon): "Cleanin' out the closet"

So I added 3 shelves to my Ikea closet so that I could fit some of my shoes in there. I found that my shoes were getting out of hand since they were either everywhere or nowhere to be found. I had some of my shoes in boxes and those haven't been touched since I bought them :/. Hopefully this will help me see all the shoes I have so I can make use of some of them more often.

Jan. 31 (tues): Date w/Cat
After a long day of cleaning my closet, and having to go back to Ikea to pick up some parts for my shelves, I was ready for a dinner date with my friend Cat from pharmacy school. We decided to go to Parkway Grill in Pasadena for dinner because they seemed to have the largest selection of dishes on their DineLA menu. I ended up getting the Lamb Lollipops, Filet Mignon and, of course, the creme brulee napoleon.

l to r: st. tropez martini, lamb lollipops, creme brulee, filet mignon

Feb. 1 (wed): Work

Feb. 2 (thurs): Errands and Hang out with Christina
Spent the morning running errands with my dad to Costco and Fry's. After that, I went to the mall with my friend Christina and had a little talk. It's always amazing how we can not talk for the longest time and just start wherever and whenever and it'll be like we never had a hiatus.

Feb. 3 (fri): Work

January: Week 4

Jan. 23 (mon): Work, Chinese New Year
Worked the closing shift today but it wasn't too bad. This pharmacy has its off days but all in all a good day.


Jan. 24 (tues): Off
Didn't do much on my day off besides call myHR. Spent maybe an hour on the phone with them. They are a complete fail.


Jan. 25 (wed): Work and Bottega Louie
Worked the morning shift today and was super excited for a date with the bestie! We decided to try out Bottega Louie since those macarons have been spotted everywhere! I bought a few home myself and I have to say, they are quite delicious with coffee for breakfast! I hope that I'll be able to have macarons for breakfast in bed on those lazy Sundays in the future.

such a beautiful box! I still have it in my car... (signs of a hoarder :/)

macarons!

penne gamber

outfit of the night

bread and butter (that looks like a candle)

Jan. 26-29 (thurs-sun): Work
Seriously had a really good Saturday at work considering I wasn't working at my normal store. There are certain days I love my job and this Saturday was one of them. Customers were just extremely grateful to have us there filling their prescriptions. We had one lady that yelled at us for not transferring her prescriptions over from Walgreens but she was so grateful when we called and got the prescriptions transferred over so quickly.

Sunday was another good day. It got super busy at the end of the shift but all in all, great day. Spent the rest of my night doing laundry.

Thanks for reading loves!

january: week 3

Jan. 16 (mon): MLK & Work
Because of the horrible weekend I had, I decided to treat my coworkers at my regular store to lunch. I appreciate so much their hard work in making the pharmacy run smoothly. I'm one of those people that believes in teamwork and I've told them this many times but this store is a well-oiled machine.


Jan. 17 (tues): Errands
After receiving my Naked palettes in the mail, I didn't have the time to send it to Lauren yet so I was able to make my way to the post office today. I actually was able to post about today in a separate post (here) so you can check that out if you haven't already. I was starting to wonder why I sounded so redundant lol... then I realized that I had already blogged about that day lol.


Jan. 18-20 (wed-fri): Work
Yay for another Friday working the morning shift! Tony came up for the weekend and we had dinner at Ichima Sushi in Pasadena. Their sushi is pretty affordable and the place was pretty popping on a Friday night. It seems to be a great place to celebrate a birthday or for large parties.


Jan. 21 (sat): Adventure Date!
So before we left my house, Tony gave me my early V-day present :).

It's actually for us to use for water sports (lol... not those kinds, nasty!) that we may do in Hawaii when we go at the end of this month. All the pictures taken at the Griffith Observatory were taken using this camera.

Anywhos....

1. turkey omelette? lol I forgot. 2. hickory maple waffle
3. chai latte 4. cornbread melt 

Tony and I seriously have the hardest time picking places to eat but just the sound of Peach Cafe had us salivating. Ever since Judy introduced me to this place, I've been coming back time and time again and I don't think I've ever been disappointed... oh wait... just the time I ordered their Chicken and Waffles... that was a fail... But other than that lol, every time I've been there, their food has been absolutely delish. And it's weird because every time I go, I'm actually not afraid to order something different. I'm usually one of those people that look through the entire menu and end up ordering the same thing but not here.

After lunch, we were pretty stuffed so we decided to walk off the food. We walked around the shops in Monrovia and also checked out the Monrovia Public Library. It's a pretty nice library. Wish I would have known about it when I had stuff to study although it probably would have been too far anyways.

It had been raining the entire night but the sun had started coming out so the skies were super clear. I've been wanting to go to the Griffith Observatory since they remodeled it but I hadn't had the chance to go  so we decided to take our chances with the rain and go check it out. I had no idea how close to the Greek Theatre it was! We had to park super far and pretty much hiked up the entire mountain lol and yes I admit, I was completely out of breath :(. I'm so out of shape!

Here are some pictures from the Griffith Observatory:

from where we parked

its going to be a long walk lol. and this is zoomed in a lot too lol.

Here are some panoramic shots using that function on the camera. It's kind of like the stitch function on the old Canon cameras except you just sweep across what you want to take a picture of. It's pretty cool.

and of course no trip is complete without a jumpy picture lol

Jan. 22 (sun): Chinese New Year's Eve
Started off the day by going to eat dim sum with my parents at Top Island. Their dim sum has actually gotten really good. Their tripe was so fresh and their dishes were piping hot and stayed that way so you know it's not microwaved (I think I've been watching WAY too much Kitchen Nightmares because that's what Gordon Ramsey always say, "Has this been microwaved?!" lol). We were super stuffed afterwards so we just rested at home and watched the two football games. We got pretty hungry in the middle of the 2nd football game so we tried this new fast food/fried chicken chinese place in El Monte called "Louisiana Fried Chicken". We only tried it out since it has 2 of my favorite foods: fried chicken and chinese food lol. Their fried chicken is actually pretty good. It's in the Home Depot plaza incase you guys were wondering. The fried chicken is really different from most of the fried chicken I've tasted. The batter is crunchy but not oil ridden like some of the other chain fried chicken places. Their portions were GYNORMOUS! The lady kept giving us more and more. We spent maybe $15 (plus I got a boba drink) and had enough food for 2 meals. We'll probably be going back there when we're craving both fried chicken and chinese food... that is if they stay open. They are actually right next to a Popeye's so there's some massive competition.


And that concludes week 3 of January!