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Well, I’ve slept away most of my day away, the only one I have this week, other than Monday. But that’s okay, since I don’t have much else to do and need rest to get rid of this sickness I have. I do think I’m feeling better. The mucous is definitely loosened and easier to cough out and I’m not dying so much overall.

As promised, I would provide a retelling of my week up in L.A. with my friends & family that was more positive then the last two posts I provided.

Tuesday was one of my best friend’s 25th birthday. Her boyfriend planned a wonderful surprise party for her at a sushi bar. I was late, unfortunately, and she was already wasted, but the night was fun nonetheless. After that was over, her older sister and I went to the bar I frequent up there to finish up with Porn Star Karaoke and she was a hoot. She loved it.

The next day, my friends from the Marinara group got together to do our Secret Santa gift exchange and make a Hanukkah dinner. We called it Chrismukkah, of course. Our out of town Vanessa was in town from DC and she, along with the other Vanessa, Ryan and Alissa, provided quite a delicious dinner of tri-tip, latkes and matzo ball soup! The rest of us just stayed out the kitchen since we wouldn’t know what we were doing. We lit the menorah for the 3rd night of Hanukkah and exchanged gifts. Of course, we finished up with some highly offensive and questionable rounds of Telestrations.

Christmas with the family was different. We celebrated with all the extended family on the 25th, instead of the 24th like we have done for forever. So, for Christmas eve dinner, it was just the parents, brother and I and we enjoyed tri-tip¹, homemade mashed potatoes ², Yorkshire pudding³, and baked asparagus. The brother and I watched most of Forrest Gump before receiving our traditional Christmas Eve presents of PJs from mom & dad. He got a set of Angry Bird PJs and my mom got me a 3-piece set of pink ones with pants, shorts and a long-sleeved top. I tried trading my brother for his, but he wouldn’t go for it

For Christmas day, my brother woke me up around 8:30 in the morning after he started making coffee. I started the day with some coffee & Bailey’s, followed by champagne. After opening presents and finally drinking the Civet coffee I bought my dad for Father’s day⁴, we got ready and head over to my uncle & aunt’s house. We were the first there in regards to those who weren’t already staying there. Over the course of several hours, my grandma counted at least 37 people in the end, who’d gathered to share Christmas in that house. We had our usual tamales, refried beans, salad & ambrosia dinner and a lot of wine. Nobody suffered from any accidents, there weren’t any fights, everything was very nice as usual. That’s why I love my family. Although, I do wish I still got presents from everyone like I did when I was little lol! That’s okay, I was able to give most of my close extended family something and that made me happy

Now, here’s my Christmas haul:

• Navy scarf (from Sandra)
• Lindt Lindor chocolates (from Sandra)
• Handmade necklace & earrings (from Vanessa, my Marinara secret santa)
• Handmade bookmarks (from Vanessa, my Marinara secret santa)
• Tiltpod (from Jenn, my Lavish secret santa)
• Box of liqueur filled chocolates (from Jenn, my Lavish secret santa)
• USAF sweatshirt with the Hap Arnold on it (from dad)
• Pink PJs (from mom & dad)
• $15 iTunes giftcard (from brother)
• Burt’s Bees lip balm, tic tacs, coffee mug, lotto scratchers, nail files (from santa)
• Check for $$$ (from mom & dad)
• $30 cash (from grandma)

The end

I’m overdue for the Thanksgiving post. What can I say? I just haven’t felt like posting. I’m lazy. I would’ve actually posted last night, but my host decided to go down for who knows what reason. So here we go…

I spent the long weekend up in Los Angeles with my friends and family. I actually got to celebrate Thanksgiving two days in a row since we had a small gathering for dinner on Thursday with just my mom, dad and grandma. Following that on Friday was the big gathering at my uncle-in-law’s house¹ which included at least 30 immediate & extended family members. The spread was delicious in both cases and I have to admit, my dad’s smoked turkey beat out Kevin’s². It was SO dang juicy! Apparently my parents brined it the day prior.

For the small dinner, my mom did a lot for just us four people. Mashed potatoes³, sweet potatoes, salad, green bean casserole, stuffing, rolls, cranberry sauce and the turkey. Everything was pretty much from scratch except for the can of cranberry sauce, rolls and technically my dad took care of the turkey as it smoked. I’m surprised I didn’t go for seconds!

I had taken the train from San Diego after 3 hours of sleep and waking up at 5:45 in the morning. I didn’t nap at any point during the day, until after dinner. It was served around 3pm and I was pretty much passed out on the couch by 3:45pm, complete with drool. After not seeing my grandma for a while, I felt bad for not actually spending more time with her before my dad took her home. I was still passed out by the time I should’ve driven her. Woops

Saturday was spent with my friends, playing our board games, eating and just talking. We also drew names for our annual secret santa I’m really going to have to concentrate to get just the right thing for the person I drew… While, in the mean time, I’ve been adding stuff to my Elfster wishlist like crazy. I posted it to my Facebook and Twitter just for the record, not that I’m expecting anything from anybody. FOR REAL! I’ve actually had a tough time trying to figure out what I actually want, if someone were to ask. This has helped a little. Just finding random things online and adding them to the list has been fun.

If you hadn’t seen or heard, I chopped my hair off! I’m very happy with it! I took in a picture of Dianna Agron (Quinn from Glee) as a guideline for how I wanted it done. The stylist was very good and I’m very pleased that it came out so well, especially since I wanted something pretty specific. Huzzah! I just have to remember to use less shampoo & conditioner in the shower and practice different style techniques with it

I missed a day of NaBloPoMo. After being ditched for wine tasting yesterday by the husband, I was feeling the cabin fever after spending almost 2 straight days of watching TV shows online and not doing much else. Thankfully, while my friend Jessica and her friend James were hanging out at her place being sick, we were all hungry so I went with them for some Chick-Fil-A. We then went to the bar near by and spent a couple of hours watching James cockblock.

I had 1.5 drinks, but I smoked and so I’m quite feeling the decrease in my immunity system right now. Serves me right. I was feeling better and now I’m feeling worse off. I’m primarily suffering from drowsiness¹, coughing up phlegm and congestion. At least my throat doesn’t hurt too much as that would make my job that much harder. It sucks to have talking as a predominant part of your job when you’re ill.

On another note, I’m finally figuring out how to improve Gunny’s diet. The husband picked up some Iams since we ran out of her good diet food² and I noticed she starts whining for food almost immediately after finishing it off. I can ignore her for the most part when I’m awake, but it’s the most infuriating thing when I’m trying to get as much sleep as I can before work or while I feel like poop! I don’t know why I never Googled it before. It seems like such obvious knowledge that I should’ve had a long time ago³. Needless to say, I’m more aware of what she needs in her food and what to stay away from, in regards to the main ingredients. Thankfully I have two cans of the wet good diet food that I can give her in the meantime until I can make my way to Petco for more of the dry stuff.

Only after getting home from work around 11pm, browsing around, getting sick & tired of the itchies and taking a shower to cure them did I realize that I hadn’t blogged today.

I had a very nice half-hour-long conversation with one of my best friends, Amber after work. We talked about our respective relationships and/or marriages. I miss spending time with her. That will be rectified soon enough, I’m sure!

I walked to and from work today, thanks to the husband having a very busy day at work. I was bundled up in my pea coat and scarf and while it was relatively freezing while walking home, I picked myself up a venti salted caramel hot chocolate to keep my hand(s) warm as I made the ~15 minute walk home. By the time I sat in my chair, the hot chocolate was the perfect temperature to just down and enjoy without worrying about scalding my tongue. Did I mention that on my way to work I got myself a grande peppermint mocha? That’s the danger of having a Starbucks conveniently placed right along my route if I walk. There’s also a Jamba Juice which has had its share of my business as well.

As far as the itchies are concerned, I was suffering from them for a good amount of my time at work tonight! I think I had a reprieve at some point, but then I had another attack. I got fed up enough that I took a shower¹ and slathered on some aloe lotion immediately after getting out. I really hope they were just random attacks and not because I’m allergic to anything. If anything, it might be from dry or dirty skin. So far after the shower, so good, though!

I’ve recently had some drama come into my life again and it’s absolutely the most annoying thing ever. As oblivious as I can be, I absolutely know that I do very little to warrant such things, especially recently, to occur. Haters gonna hate, but don’t FUCK with my shit. I am tired of not being able to stand up for myself against this stuff though. I don’t know how to do it without being the one to “start” shit. This kind of drama I end up in always involves people who claim they’re so forward, so strong, so aggressive, etc. etc. but they’re they most passive-aggressive little craps ever. I don’t want a fight, so I won’t talk about wanting to start one, but these people… Christ. If you want to talk about, then just do it. I’m fine with just venting to my friends because you actually did wrong and I’m hurt and angry. Eventually it’ll be just a figment of a memory to me, though. I’m not going to go around and talk shit about you, though. Nothing that isn’t true and I don’t tell everyone what’s going on either. They can ask, it doesn’t mean they’ll get shit from me, though. I don’t like to propagate drama when, really, it’s totally unnecessary and immature.

But hey, what can you do about them bitches? Nothing. Unless you want to throw the first punch and then, that’s just stupid. I’m doing what I can within the walls of what matters to me to set things straight and right again. I don’t need to further involve myself with someone else because they want to talk shit.

On a positive note, I may be closer than I thought to my next raise at work. I just need to be observed and succeed during a rush and with my manager watching, but she said if I do that, I should be ready for it! I do feel like I need more time in the position then I’ve been getting recently. I’m eager to get the level boost!

Another positive is I’m sure I’ve been losing weight. I don’t keep track, I don’t even own a scale, but I’ve been walking so much more since we’ve moved to our new apartment because I’m about a 15 minutes walk to work and 25 minutes to my friend’s house. I have no problem with walking and I don’t know why I haven’t done more of it. Oh, probably because we were living in such a hilly area before and that’s just no fun. Too much of an incline and I die :lol:.

Because so much as happened in the past month since the blackout, I think a bullet list will suffice for now.

• Had friends from L.A. visit
• Went snorkeling for the first time. Took a while to get used to, and ended up with two mouthfuls of sea water. It was fun while it lasted, though!
• Have had more food truck experiences
• Went camping with my friend Jess overnight. Fun and madness was had.
• Kobe Bryant came through my work and I totally served him his food while the boys where jizzing themselves over him.

I’m sure there’s more, it’s just kind of hard to remember smaller details.

I’m so excited it’s fall, though! I just hope it gets cooler in the day sooner and even better, drizzle and rain! I love gloomy weather. Love love love.