my tet

i am back from another trip to california. this time, i was only able to go for 24 hours (yes, im nuts). it was probably the best 24 hours ever. i didn't leave on saturday until the evening so i was able to hang out friday night and saturday during the day with my visitors. then, i got to fly main cabin select with all free movies, food and booze! i also had a nice conversation with the lady sitting next to me. because of the short length of my stay, monica came and visited me and meeka's place (im very spoiled).

sunday i went to my grandma's house and helped her prepare the altar for tet. she made an awesome cheesecake and my favorite shrimp dish! i didnt get much lixi but its not about that at all anymore! it was just really really nice to be able to hang out with my family and watch old videos, look at old pictures, and just chill.

btw tet is the vietnamese name for lunar new year. chinese people are not the only ones who celebrate it and it should NOT be called chinese new year. stop calling it that people. vietnamese and koreans also celebrate (sorry other asians if i have left you out).

now let me tell the story of once upon a time when i used to live in sf and drove to concord everyday to work. this was around 2006 when i commuted 45 min everyday to work at my first job. this one morning i was going to work and turned on my regular morning show "sarah and no name" on 97.3. i listened to this show EVERY morning religiously. it was lunar new year that day and they mentioned it (of course they called it chinese new year) and were curious about what people do on that day. they asked for callers to call in and talk about the customs from their family. so genius me decided to call in and inform them that it wasnt just chinese people who celebrated it and in fact it is a huge celebration for other asians. here is kinda how the call went:

*ring ring*

hello this is the sarah and no name show

hi, i was calling to talk about chinese new year

are you chinese?

no, but other..............

sorry youre not chinese. bye

*dial tone*

ugh i was so mad at those ignorant jerks i vowed to never listen to them again....and i still have not tuned in to them since...

clothing update

my im convo with norm today spurred an update on my clothing experiment. since i obviously do not have pictures of myself each day because well, i dont think i have that much to write about in my life, i decided that i will combine them all in one so it'll be a modelish montage. yes...get ready for petite model madness!

i think that i've become much more aware of the amount of things i own and have been busting out articles of clothing that i haven't worn in quite some time. i'm very proud of myself! i also think that because i have so little closet space here, i feel super guilty for having so much stuff. maybe when i move and get a larger apartment i will feel like i don't have enough clothing because i will have more space and buy more? for some reason i thought about that children's story about the little kid (i think it was thumbelina) who was really small and wouldn't grow and her parents were really worried about her. so they took her to a doctor and the doctor said she wouldn't grow because she had no room to grow in her bed (she slept in a little shoe box). so the parents bought her a regular kid's bed and she grew to be a normal child size.

wow that was a total tangent but i think it makes sense. what if i buy more stuff to fit my new large closet?!?!

ok not going to count my chickens before they hatch. i'll have to rant about my apartment search situation sometime soon. but for now let me let out a disgusted UGH!!!

i am an addict

i started season 5 of lost last tuesday. it is now 6 days later and i just started season 6. man, i have issues.

suzy homemaker

today i tried my hand (again) at embroidering. for some reason i think ill miraculously get better, but it never happens. i think the first thing i tried to make was back in the day during kdphi times when i got into making pillows. i think i made a pillow for mon and embroidered it for her when she crossed. that was 8 years ago and i still havent gotten better. is there a class for these things? or should i just get a machine like the ones meeks has??

you cant see the yellow, but i wanted to make the threading blue-ish and gold colored. btw these are burp towels and i made them for my boss' baby. his initials are GRB and his dad went to cal, so i thought ooh since i went to cal, i could embroider cal colors! yeah...fail. epic.

ode to la

this past weekend was hopefully one of my last to la. im not sure what it is about that city that makes me hate it so much. wait, im not sure what there is about it that i would like....sorry im a hater.

anyways, james and i had a nice weekend together eating and chillin in places in la that we haven't before. i also got to take some good shots with my camera, and him with his new fisheye.

we started off the weekend on saturday by going to claremont to see jma and eat lunch with james' college roommate, aren. we thought it was funny because jan was my longtime roommate in college, and aren was james'. jan was awesome enough to give us a tour of her 'hood.

on sunday, james and i hit up his local bruncherie, auntie em's where we got the biscuits and gravy, and also an open faced turkey and egg sandwich. while waiting to get seated, i also took some shots of my hot date....asian fabio.

then we hit up this soda pop shop in eagle rock. this place had aisles and aisles of obscure sodas. james and i spent almost an hour in there taking pictures and trying to decide on which soda to try. i finally settled on a rootbeer and a flavored pellegrino and he got a fruit punch and a double cola....yumm!

we also hit up the farmer's market, melrose and then finally the long awaited sprinkles. we had been meaning to go there for the past few months but never made the trek out to beverly hills. i have to say that im becoming a new york elitist and think that everything here is just better. for cupcakes, new york cupcakes are DEFINITELY better than sprinkles. and i had to wait in line for these cupcakes...nonono.