Today's Sunday update is coming from Tampa. I am here with my sister for her homegirl's hindu wedding. Festivities started last night..
The mehndi was only on my hand for maybe an hour and a half and it came out so dark in the morning!
Just a reminder, we are catholic, and part indian, but not enough to know anything about hindus..so this is a learning experience, and so much fun!!!!
We just came back from my sister's favorite dim sum spot in Tampa..and I feel a food coma approaching...more wedding stuff tonight...dinner? and then the ceremony tomorrow. SIIIIKED
I was just going to do one big photojournal update to finish up the year, but there were too many pictures. So 2009:part 5 is up now!
I went to a Christmas party on Friday night. Unfortunately I got off work at midnight and had to arrive in work clothes when everyone was dressed up in pretty attire.
It is nice and chilly in Florida right now! and I just checked for final grades for the semester and they are up...
COOL BRAG...I KNOW. I AM SIIIIIIKED. This semester was not an easy one, and I read more than I ever did for these 4 classes. Especially "Race and Ethnic Relations". So yeah, I will brag. brag all day....!!!!!!!!!
The sky will never look the same again 'Til you show me how it could be
I spent 64 hours in Orlando from Sunday night to Wednesday late morning. This is an extreme play-by-play. Drive up, eat dinner with friends, work Universal, eat dinner with friends, drink with roommates, work universal, eat dinner with friends, finish universal employee business, ride THE MUMMY and drive back down.
Lazy Moon with Greg, Janine and Tommy. our cute friendship double date.
I stayed at Janine & Tito's apartment for a good part of the summer. We had drinks at this bar near downtown and they were showcasing holiday horror movies. We watched "Santa's Slay", drank specialty beers, and partially enjoyed this Butterfinger. For some reason, Butterfingers are so good, but have a weird texture after a few chews.
Before I left Orlando, I brought my homie Greg to the parks and rode The Mummy. Leonard was working, but on break, so he rode too...such perfect timing. But can we really talk about that little girl who is terrified? pahahahaha
My homegirl Dana got engaged on Monday!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! 2010 is huuuuuuge for some of my closest girlfriends. I have lots of weddings to attend, lots of wedding cake to eat, and lots of tears to flow. And all of them are marrying great guys. The latter part of 2010 is going to be so gnarly.
It's the mostttttttt wonderfullllll tiiiiiiiiime of the yeeeeeeeeeearrrrrrrrrr.
Decorating a Christmas tree is one of my most favorite things to do. At work we had a 12 foot tree to decorate, and I spent an awesome hour and a half assembling everything, hanging ornaments, tying ribbon, draping strings of pearl and singing Christmas carols--on the clock! the best! Then at Kiersten's they had a real tree and we prepared the ornaments while watching The Santa Clause 2.
In the Santa Clause 2, Tim Allen says, "You are a sad, strange little man"--- which he also says when he is Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story!!!!!!! Nerd talk..
Starbucks breakfast with Mom! She doesn't like being on my site, so this is food-anonymous style. Regular coffee, tall caramel frap-no whip, pumpkin loaf, and ham breakfast sandwich on ciabatta bread. My mom is a really awesome lady with tons of crazy stories, especially stories of growing up in Jamaica in the 60s. She graduated college with her bachelors degree in 3 years (magna cum laude!) from the University of Miami in 1979! 1979! old as rocks!!!!!!!! She's the tightest lady I know. My mama dukes.
Kiersten loves P.O.S. and I love Saosin, so it was a win-win situation since they played the PacTour at the Culture Room last night!
The majority of Saosin's set was from the new cd. They didn't play "Bury Your Head" which has been a staple in every Saosin show since I started seeing them live in 2003. But I guess it's just time to move on..
Afterwards I helped to set up the meet'n'greet and all went well. Chris was awesome, all the dudes were awesome, but Chris...is the best <3
I'm done with FALL SEMESTER 2009!!!!!! My last exam was monday night, and let me tell you, the freeness feels good.
When it comes to Winter, Florida is the weirdest state to live in. On Christmas, we crank the air conditioning while others crank the heater. I still to this day have not seen snow, and you bet your bottom dollar the first thing I want to do is make a snow angel. But despite the warm weather, and the lack of snow, we can still get into the Christmas spirit with holiday movies on tv, Christmas lights galore, and the seasonal goodies popping up in coffee shops. Right now ELF is on tv, and it might be the best Christmas movie of all time.
Also a couple years ago my sister borrowed my ELF dvd, and her friend borrowed it afterwards. People forgot about it, and then when the dvd case was returned the DVD INSIDE WAS NOT ELF. It was some other movie that someone "switched on accident" and to this day when I see ELF on tv, I'm bummed because I don't have it. Actually not bummed on the material aspect, but the PRINCIPLE of someone not making sure the right dvd is in its place. c'mon nowwww.
On a less Christmas-y note, and more weird story...last night at work, a dude came in and kept taking our pamphlets or any type of papers and kept folding them into shapes. It was so odd..he just kept taking them throughout the night. One time he came to my area and asked for a pen, and I said "for what?" and he said "to draw dots" and then I asked "what do you need the paper for?" and he said "for a collage" but he kept throwing the paper out! So this older coworker Brian was next to me and said he can't be taking and wasting our paper like that. Then the dude walked away, and Brian told me if that dude takes more pamphlet to let him know. Then about 5 mins later, crazy dude walked out to smoke a cigarette, came back in took a pamphlet from the front desk, and Brian told him to leave the building.
It was just so weird, because this guy came into our establishment, didn't buy anything, didn't look at the track or arcade, but just took our paper and folded it. One girl asked him why he was doing it and he told her "folding them in patterns so they are less desirable to eat"
WHAT IS THAT!
I got home and googled "obsessive compulsive disorder paper folding" and different variations of that, but I couldn't find any information on it.
Lastly, Kiersten and I went to Tijuana Flats on Friday night. I've been there twice before, and wasn't impressed..but I decided to give it another try. And it still disappoints me. I just don't find it to be good, AT ALL. Burritos, boring. Chimichangas, boring. Nachos, boring. real talk.
Thursday is my night to cook, and I would just like to mention that I made pork chops for the first time tonight. It was from a cuban mojo recipe from foodnetwork.com, and it was pretty successful. Last week was bacon wrapped chicken. holla atchya girl.
