"Harima-kun!"
YA'LL. I had an amazing weekend.
This is the birthday cake I made for David! It's his favorite character from a love/comedy anime series we've been watching, School Rumble. We actually finished it (the first season) last night, and OH MY GOODNESS, it was so good. I absolutely loved it. Here is the picture of Harima that I modeled the cake after:
In other news, we went to a Korean barbeque for David's birthday dinner. They have these little stoves that are embedded into your table, and you cooke your own food on it. Really our waitress cooked ours because we were so new. But the point is, it was really yummy.
Saturday, Emily and I went shopping for dresses and shoes for the INPO Holiday Dinner Dance which is coming up. It was so much fun. I think we were gone for like five hours. Although an hour to an hour and a half of that was spent at California Pizza Kitchen for lunch. No one will ever go with me there! So I was way excited, and I finally satisfied my craving for California Club pizza. Yum.
I vacuumed my car today! It was actually kind of relaxing. I like cleaning and organizing things, especially when life is being mean to me; it makes me feel like I'm in control again.
One thing that makes me happy: David invited me to go to his house (in Texas) over Christmas break!!! I'm sooooo excited. :) I hope I can work it out and go!
I couldn't take it
No, I couldn't take it. I took down that horrible survey. Never again.
gingerbread houses and holiday parties
WHAT a busy weekend. I was barely home for a single second.
On Friday, David and I went to see a comedy hypnotist. He was quite comical, but I'm not so sure a hypnotist. His name was Joshua Seth, and he reminded me of my Calc II TA. The end.
Yesterday was the INPO Holiday Dinner Dance. I have to say, it was QUITE boring. No good people were there, meaning I wanted Chris and Angie and Kevin. AND ALSO Tyler and Emily ended up not being able to come because Tyler's uncle got robbed or some such story. However, the crab cakes were good.
Also, I found this boy:
I picked out that tie myself!!!
Then we had a gingerbread house making party today. :) It was a lot of fun. Some people made houses, some people made bricks, some people made planes, and some people made ROBOTS (David):
Other good houses (that I managed to take an un-blurry photo of) include:
Ma's tank:
Whitney's:
Mine:
I didn't feel like finishing mine.
I wanted to post pictures of everyone's, including Emily's frosting house, but my pictures were too blurry. :(
I also got to get to know one of my new roommates better. She seems sweet. :)
Ok, so now I'm exhausted, and about to go to sleep. I'll be working overtime every day this week. Gross.
Oh yeah, I also have some serious plans to make some Christmas sugar cookies. The end.
is it over yet?
One thing that sucks is that my boyfriend is going home to Texas for three weeks on Saturday.
Another thing that sucks is MSI packages. I got home from work at 8:10 tonight. Tomorrow shall be the same. And I'm sure the rest of the week will match. And next week too.
So I've basically accepted the fact that my life will suck for the next two weeks.
Things that are seriously stressing me out right now:
* the upcoming end-of-semester performance review with Kevin
* no money for Christmas presents
* I need a couple thousand dollars by January 11th to pay for school
* why am I cursed with MSI packages
But some things that make me happy are:
* Tyler and Whitney
* Anais Nin
* eleven days off from work
* I get to visit David for a week after Christmas!
* I feel some serious free time coming up which shall be filled with arts and crafts
lucky
*Lucky and thankful* I owe zero dollars.
site updates
Well I've spiffed things up around here today. The most notable of changes is that I finally upgraded to XHTML which means this darling layout is now compatible with Internet Explorer. *bows to applause* But it STILL looks better in Firefox. That update is for people who shall remain nameless...but who like to buy me pink kitty staple-less staplers for Christmas...that's right, Glen has told me about your complaining!!! Tee hee. J/k! Thanks for my stapler. :)
Also, I've provided links at the bottom of this page to the W3C validators for XHTML and CSS. So you can validate my site if you want, and see that I made zero coding mistakes. :) Please don't try to validate the individual archive pages though...I don't wanna talk about it.
I plan next on getting rid of that horrible scrollbar on the archive pages. I know you all hate it. Let's not think about it for now.
Bring me to Christmas, please
Let me just start off by saying that I hate baking sugar cookies. Not doing it again.
It's almost Christmas!!! We only just bought our Christmas tree on Sunday. I don't even have lights up in my room. I did, however, take care to put my Sailor Moon ornaments on our tree. It's only one of the most important things about Christmas.
So something is wrong when I start checking my work email at home. SOMEONE STOP ME.
Anyway, life has been pretty good these days. Nothing from the usual, I guess. Yesterday pretty much sucked though.
Sunday I got to see Darren, Sophie, Jewlia, and Glen. We all hung out at Starbucks (the usual!) for a little bit and discovered that pretty much none of us will be here for our usual New Year's gathering. SAD. We're all getting seperate lives...it's bitter-sweet to me.
Tomorrow we get free lunch!!! Kevin and Chris are taking the CAD co-ops (Whitney, Tyler, and myself) to Cheesecake Factory for our End-Of-Semester lunch. Lovely.
Also, the most exciting news which I keep forgetting to post, is that I've lost 9.5 pounds! AMAZING, I know. I've almost lost all the weight I gained from studying abroad over the summer. I just hate how there's a constant flow of holiday cookies, cakes, and candies around. Make it stop!!!
Anyway, this entry pretty much sucks, doesn't it? That's ok, I only wanted to post that picture up there. I had a vision in my head, and I wanted to see if I could pull it off. I pretty much did, except the lighting is a little off, and I didn't feel like photoshopping it. :)
Kthxbai. (Got you.)
Can I be done eating yet, please?
Listen. I cannot fit any more food into my stomach. There was so much free food today at work. And yesterday. And the day before. Like honestly. First I brought in home-made christmas sugar cookies. Then we had a small celebration for Chris which involved chocolate covered pretzels, a yule log, some fruit and cheese. THEN Kevin and Chris took us to Cheesecake Factory (where I got Orange Chicken and a slice of Original cheesecake). Then Tommy's mom brought in some cookies and some kind of other thing. Oh, and Chris made cupcakes. OH YEAH, and Whitney got me two Cadbury chocolate eggs which I HAD to eat. It's insane! Mind you, I didn't have one of everything. But honestly. This was all in one day. I'm sick of food.
In other news, today turned out to be AMAZING despite my pessimistic expectations. I finally got to have my semester performance meeting with Kevin where he said tons of positive things about my performance and gave me an amazing bonus. I was extremely pleased. I'm not even sure what I was expecting, but I'm just happy it was more than last time.
Another highlight is that Whitney, Tyler, and I exchanged Christmas gifts. :) I love my friends so much. Whitney got me an entire can of three different kinds of hot cocoa mix from Starbucks (tee hee!). Tyler gave me a copy of The Sound and the Fury, which is funny because I gave him a book of Faulkner's stories. Hehe. I am so excited about both of these presents. They know me so well.
Oh yeah, and Ma (quite unexpectedly) gave me a Hello Kitty puzzle!!! It's way cute, and it's the exact one I saw in Target the other day and wanted. Ma wasn't there though, so HOW did he know I wanted it? Oh, apparently he was stalking me. K.
Tomorrow is Thursday which means that this week is finally wrapping up. Finally! I need to finish buying Christmas presents and start packing for Texas. I don't really need to start packing for Texas (leaving Wednesday), but I'm way excited, and if I start packing, that means Wednesday will come even sooner, right?
A Christmas Eve tradition
Tee hee awwwwwww. I love giving people presents.
Well every family has its own Christmas traditions. One of ours has been to open one present on Christmas Eve. Over time this tradition evolved into opening all "family" presents (presents from me, Ash, Mike, Mom, and Dad). We just exchanged gifts. :)
I love giving people presents. I made my Mom cry twice! Once when my brother opened the gift I gave him, and once when she opened the one I gave her. Tee hee.
I'm so excited. My brother loved the present I gave him. I almost cried because he was so happy. He got exactly the expression on his face that I hoped for.
I love giving people presents. I love my family.
That's all I wanted to say. :)
December 02, 2007 :: Sunday
YA'LL. I had an amazing weekend.
This is the birthday cake I made for David! It's his favorite character from a love/comedy anime series we've been watching, School Rumble. We actually finished it (the first season) last night, and OH MY GOODNESS, it was so good. I absolutely loved it. Here is the picture of Harima that I modeled the cake after:
In other news, we went to a Korean barbeque for David's birthday dinner. They have these little stoves that are embedded into your table, and you cooke your own food on it. Really our waitress cooked ours because we were so new. But the point is, it was really yummy.
Saturday, Emily and I went shopping for dresses and shoes for the INPO Holiday Dinner Dance which is coming up. It was so much fun. I think we were gone for like five hours. Although an hour to an hour and a half of that was spent at California Pizza Kitchen for lunch. No one will ever go with me there! So I was way excited, and I finally satisfied my craving for California Club pizza. Yum.
I vacuumed my car today! It was actually kind of relaxing. I like cleaning and organizing things, especially when life is being mean to me; it makes me feel like I'm in control again.
One thing that makes me happy: David invited me to go to his house (in Texas) over Christmas break!!! I'm sooooo excited. :) I hope I can work it out and go!
Posted by Amanda at 5:48 pm in life
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I couldn't take it
December 04, 2007 :: Tuesday
No, I couldn't take it. I took down that horrible survey. Never again.
Posted by Amanda at 7:55 pm in website
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gingerbread houses and holiday parties
December 09, 2007 :: Sunday
WHAT a busy weekend. I was barely home for a single second.
On Friday, David and I went to see a comedy hypnotist. He was quite comical, but I'm not so sure a hypnotist. His name was Joshua Seth, and he reminded me of my Calc II TA. The end.
Yesterday was the INPO Holiday Dinner Dance. I have to say, it was QUITE boring. No good people were there, meaning I wanted Chris and Angie and Kevin. AND ALSO Tyler and Emily ended up not being able to come because Tyler's uncle got robbed or some such story. However, the crab cakes were good.
Also, I found this boy:
I picked out that tie myself!!!
Then we had a gingerbread house making party today. :) It was a lot of fun. Some people made houses, some people made bricks, some people made planes, and some people made ROBOTS (David):
Other good houses (that I managed to take an un-blurry photo of) include:
Ma's tank:
Whitney's:
Mine:
I didn't feel like finishing mine.
I wanted to post pictures of everyone's, including Emily's frosting house, but my pictures were too blurry. :(
I also got to get to know one of my new roommates better. She seems sweet. :)
Ok, so now I'm exhausted, and about to go to sleep. I'll be working overtime every day this week. Gross.
Oh yeah, I also have some serious plans to make some Christmas sugar cookies. The end.
Posted by Amanda at 8:12 pm in holiday
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is it over yet?
December 10, 2007 :: Monday
One thing that sucks is that my boyfriend is going home to Texas for three weeks on Saturday.
Another thing that sucks is MSI packages. I got home from work at 8:10 tonight. Tomorrow shall be the same. And I'm sure the rest of the week will match. And next week too.
So I've basically accepted the fact that my life will suck for the next two weeks.
Things that are seriously stressing me out right now:
* the upcoming end-of-semester performance review with Kevin
* no money for Christmas presents
* I need a couple thousand dollars by January 11th to pay for school
* why am I cursed with MSI packages
But some things that make me happy are:
* Tyler and Whitney
* Anais Nin
* eleven days off from work
* I get to visit David for a week after Christmas!
* I feel some serious free time coming up which shall be filled with arts and crafts
Posted by Amanda at 8:50 pm in life
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lucky
December 11, 2007 :: Tuesday
*Lucky and thankful* I owe zero dollars.
Posted by Amanda at 10:08 pm in life
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site updates
December 15, 2007 :: Saturday
Well I've spiffed things up around here today. The most notable of changes is that I finally upgraded to XHTML which means this darling layout is now compatible with Internet Explorer. *bows to applause* But it STILL looks better in Firefox. That update is for people who shall remain nameless...but who like to buy me pink kitty staple-less staplers for Christmas...that's right, Glen has told me about your complaining!!! Tee hee. J/k! Thanks for my stapler. :)
Also, I've provided links at the bottom of this page to the W3C validators for XHTML and CSS. So you can validate my site if you want, and see that I made zero coding mistakes. :) Please don't try to validate the individual archive pages though...I don't wanna talk about it.
I plan next on getting rid of that horrible scrollbar on the archive pages. I know you all hate it. Let's not think about it for now.
Posted by Amanda at 7:16 pm in website
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Bring me to Christmas, please
December 18, 2007 :: Tuesday
Let me just start off by saying that I hate baking sugar cookies. Not doing it again.
It's almost Christmas!!! We only just bought our Christmas tree on Sunday. I don't even have lights up in my room. I did, however, take care to put my Sailor Moon ornaments on our tree. It's only one of the most important things about Christmas.
So something is wrong when I start checking my work email at home. SOMEONE STOP ME.
Anyway, life has been pretty good these days. Nothing from the usual, I guess. Yesterday pretty much sucked though.
Sunday I got to see Darren, Sophie, Jewlia, and Glen. We all hung out at Starbucks (the usual!) for a little bit and discovered that pretty much none of us will be here for our usual New Year's gathering. SAD. We're all getting seperate lives...it's bitter-sweet to me.
Tomorrow we get free lunch!!! Kevin and Chris are taking the CAD co-ops (Whitney, Tyler, and myself) to Cheesecake Factory for our End-Of-Semester lunch. Lovely.
Also, the most exciting news which I keep forgetting to post, is that I've lost 9.5 pounds! AMAZING, I know. I've almost lost all the weight I gained from studying abroad over the summer. I just hate how there's a constant flow of holiday cookies, cakes, and candies around. Make it stop!!!
Anyway, this entry pretty much sucks, doesn't it? That's ok, I only wanted to post that picture up there. I had a vision in my head, and I wanted to see if I could pull it off. I pretty much did, except the lighting is a little off, and I didn't feel like photoshopping it. :)
Kthxbai. (Got you.)
Posted by Amanda at 8:41 pm in holiday
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Can I be done eating yet, please?
December 19, 2007 :: Wednesday
Listen. I cannot fit any more food into my stomach. There was so much free food today at work. And yesterday. And the day before. Like honestly. First I brought in home-made christmas sugar cookies. Then we had a small celebration for Chris which involved chocolate covered pretzels, a yule log, some fruit and cheese. THEN Kevin and Chris took us to Cheesecake Factory (where I got Orange Chicken and a slice of Original cheesecake). Then Tommy's mom brought in some cookies and some kind of other thing. Oh, and Chris made cupcakes. OH YEAH, and Whitney got me two Cadbury chocolate eggs which I HAD to eat. It's insane! Mind you, I didn't have one of everything. But honestly. This was all in one day. I'm sick of food.
In other news, today turned out to be AMAZING despite my pessimistic expectations. I finally got to have my semester performance meeting with Kevin where he said tons of positive things about my performance and gave me an amazing bonus. I was extremely pleased. I'm not even sure what I was expecting, but I'm just happy it was more than last time.
Another highlight is that Whitney, Tyler, and I exchanged Christmas gifts. :) I love my friends so much. Whitney got me an entire can of three different kinds of hot cocoa mix from Starbucks (tee hee!). Tyler gave me a copy of The Sound and the Fury, which is funny because I gave him a book of Faulkner's stories. Hehe. I am so excited about both of these presents. They know me so well.
Oh yeah, and Ma (quite unexpectedly) gave me a Hello Kitty puzzle!!! It's way cute, and it's the exact one I saw in Target the other day and wanted. Ma wasn't there though, so HOW did he know I wanted it? Oh, apparently he was stalking me. K.
Tomorrow is Thursday which means that this week is finally wrapping up. Finally! I need to finish buying Christmas presents and start packing for Texas. I don't really need to start packing for Texas (leaving Wednesday), but I'm way excited, and if I start packing, that means Wednesday will come even sooner, right?
Posted by Amanda at 6:20 pm in life
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A Christmas Eve tradition
December 24, 2007 :: Monday
Tee hee awwwwwww. I love giving people presents.
Well every family has its own Christmas traditions. One of ours has been to open one present on Christmas Eve. Over time this tradition evolved into opening all "family" presents (presents from me, Ash, Mike, Mom, and Dad). We just exchanged gifts. :)
I love giving people presents. I made my Mom cry twice! Once when my brother opened the gift I gave him, and once when she opened the one I gave her. Tee hee.
I'm so excited. My brother loved the present I gave him. I almost cried because he was so happy. He got exactly the expression on his face that I hoped for.
I love giving people presents. I love my family.
That's all I wanted to say. :)
Posted by Amanda at 8:52 pm in holiday
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