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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

April 2013: Month in Review Part 2

Side note: I'm watching old episodes of Gilmore Girls while writing this post and I just love the dialogue between Lorelai and Rory. So witty! Anywhos, on with the post!

April 15th-18th: Worked every day. On the 17th, Tony and I went out to celebrate our 2 year anniversary (we didn't celebrate on the actual date since it coincides with someone else's big day). We went to one of my favorite restaurants in San Diego, Sushi Ota. Absolutely amazeballs! I have no qualms about ordering raw fish here because everything is so fresh (and so clean ;))

After work on the 18th I went to the pool for some vitamin D and reading. Really wanted to finish reading the last Hunger Games (which I finally finished and got super philosophical afterwards... I won't bored you with the details lol).

April 19th-22nd: Coachella Weekend 2

Here are some links to my posts on Coachella:

Coachella - What's in My Bag: The Essentials

Just a brief look at some essentials that were in my bag.

Bandz a Make Her Dance - Coachella: The Experience

My first Coachella experience documented

Coachella - The Music

Music I discovered at Coachella

Coachella - The Outfits

The outfits I had planned to wear and those I actually wore.

April 23rd-24th: Work

April 25th: Off. Was a vegetable.

April 26th: Work. After work on the 26th we went to try True Food Kitchen at Fashion Valley.

l to r: peacemaker (possibly? lol) and medicine man

shirataki noodles

grass fed bison burger

April 27th: After work we headed to Hillcrest to D Bar to meet up with friends.

mac 'n cheese and I added lobster

salmon salad (i think)

April 28th: Had Sunday off and was able to have some Korean BBQ with Tony's family. We went to get shave ice afterwards at Tea Garden and it was like Guppy House.

April 29th-30th: Work. We had do inventory of all the controlled substances in the pharmacy and luckily we were only there until a little over midnight. I worked in the morning and went back to the pharmacy for more fun lol. For dinner we went to one of my favorite casual Thai food restaurants EVER, Sab-E-Lee. This is the authentic stuff. My favorite thing to order is the papaya salad and I get in a spicy level 5. My mouth is seriously burning even at a spicy level 5. I like to mix it with rice to make it less spicy but still!

papaya salad (this picture honestly doesn't do it justice!)

some kind of beef soup

pad thai

And that's April for you! I know I'm super behind!

I was a bit out of sorts last month so I'm back into the swing of things now.

Until next time!

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

April 2013: Month in Review Part 1

April 1st-3rd: Work

April 4th: Had the day off so did a little beauty hauling and cleaned up my makeshift "vanity" area. I was using my Cricut box as a table but I had to keep all my make up in my closet so I decided to get a small shoe storage from Target so I could put all my make-up in one spot.

Here's the link to my post on my haul: Beauty Haul.

April 5th: Had work in the morning and then we decided to try out a new restaurant. My favorite Italian restaurant in LA is C&O's and I've been trying to find a place in San Diego to go to for Italian. We decided to go to Lorna's Italian Kitchen. Pizza was good and portions were pretty large. I had to try the tiramisu. It was interesting because instead of a layer of cocoa powder they had cinnamon. I wasn't a fan of the cinnamon topping but I did like the consistency of the rest of it.

April 6th-10th: Work

April 11th: Had the day off and I got a bunch of coupons from the last haul so I went hauling again. This time I mainly bought stuff to Coachella. Here's a post about my extreme couponing.

April 12th: Worked the morning and then went out to dinner at Crab Hut (which is like Boiling Crab) for Lan's birthday.

April 13th-14th: I was off for the weekend so we decided to make use of our San Diego Zoo passes by heading to the Wild Animal Park. I really wanted to go on the flying balloon thing but it was like $25! Why would I pay when I could ride the orange balloon in Irvine for free!

On Sunday we had dim sum at Imperial Mandarin with Tony's family and then went to this waffle/dessert place called Cafe Hue. Here's my outfit of the day.

After dim sum we went to Cafe Hue for dessert. Look at this waffle! This is just the plain waffle and it was so delish! I can't even imagine what the other waffles would taste like!

This is part 1. Still working on part 2!

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Concert: chvrches

June 2nd, 2013

Chvrches at the Belly Up Tavern

It was my first time seeing chvrches and also my first time at the Belly Up Tavern. The venue was actually really good! Sound is actually pretty good compared to some of the larger venues I've been to (like when we saw Paramore in I think it was Fresno). They did have some issues but overall it was a great show. Absolutely fell in love with the band after the show. Their music falls into my "funk" playlist which is just music I play when I'm feeling a little down or low. One of my favorites is "Lies". Love the lyrics to the song. It literally went like this during the concert (and "Lies" was the first song they played): "Did she just say 'I can feed your dirty mind'??! Must download!" lol.