February: Week 3

Feb. 13-14 (mon-tue): Work



Feb. 15 (wed):

The SRS light came on in my Honda Accord so I decided to take it in to the dealership after reading comments online that said that it might actually be covered under the warranty. Thank goodness everything turned out fine. It was something wrong with the seat belt sensors which are under warranty so I got it replaced for free! They had to order the part so I actually had to go back the following week to get it installed.



Feb. 16 (thur):

My cousin Helen from Australia was in town so we had lunch at Foo Foo Tei, pretty much one of the best ramen places I've ever eaten at.

We met up again for dinner at Cafe Santorini in Pasadena. Not a huge fan of the place. I had the lamb and it really wasn't that great. WAY overcooked. The lamb lollipops I had at Parkway Grill were 100 times better!


Feb. 17 (fri): Work



Feb. 18 (sat):

Took the weekend off to celebrate the bestie's birthday!!

Started off the day by having lunch at The Crab Pot in Long Beach.

starting the day off right: mimosas in hand

us with the birthday girl!

i seriously only took this picture 'cause it had the date on it :D

this clam chowder was so dang good!!

m*ther f*ing hammer time

ahi teriyaki burger

we're on a boat! one of my favorite picture with two of my favorite people :)

cupcakes from frosted cupcakery in long beach

minor glitch as we were returning the boat lol

team no-seat-cushion-left-behind

For dinner, we went to this Greek restaurant... I forgot the name lol. I had lamb... again lol. Much better than the lamb at Cafe Santorini.

belly dancing time!

wolverine

Feb. 19 (sun):

Didn't really do much today. Went to the Grove and just walked around for a bit. Then had dinner at Katsuya at the Americana.


Feb. 20-21 (mon-tue): Work

Also got my taxes done! Woot for being ahead of schedule!


Feb. 23 (wed):

After working, I realized how nice it is to have a weekday off to run errands and just have some me time. Places are so crowded on the weekends these days. I brought my car back to the Honda dealership to get my seat belts fixed since the SRS light had gone on. The last time I went it was super fast because I had gone on a rainy day and there was no one there. Today was a completely different story. It was a nice sunny day so I ended up waiting 3 hours for my car. I just sat inside and read my book (The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks... I wanted to take a break from the 2 other books I was reading [Catching Fire and The Art of Racing in the Rain] and read something more on the "light" side.) I got a good chunk of reading done which was nice.

After that I went to buy some groceries at Fresh and Easy. I had a coupon and some money to use up on their "Friends" card program. Then my dad and I went to the AT&T store to change all of our billing information to my name so I could get my company discount on my cell phone bill. I ended up getting 23% off my cell phone bill! Not too shabby!

That night, I had RSVP'd for a drug rep dinner at Ruth's Chris for COPD Awareness. It was so delicious! I had the filet mignon and it was seriously cooked to perfection! I also took some dessert home! $4 for parking and a steak dinner. So worth it!


Feb. 23-28 (thurs-tues): Work


Feb. 29 (wed):

Hawaii time! Read all about our Hawaii Trip here!



Thanks for reading friends!!

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!

Hawaii!

For those of you who are just subscribed and don't check Facebook, my Hawaii post is finally up!

Check it out here!

Happy late Wednesday night! The week is almost over!! Can't wait for 4:30pm tomorrow!! Celebrating the lover's birthday! :D

Happy Birthday to my one and only :D

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