Hmmmm... one day... 3 divisions. :) Do we get an award or something?

Yesterday, (technically earlier today but you know how blog works) Beth and I met up to do some CONVENTION PROMOTION! (Psst. GO TO CONVENTION!) So we started with my home club... and then it was off to UCI where we were late... but then luckily Mikie was there... and he was doing some promotion for his Magic auction so he offered to drive us to UCLA to do some more promoting! The drive over there and back was sooo awesome... MIKIE YOU ARE TOO COOL! :) I haven't laughed like that in such a long time. Who knew we can go so far on a tassell tangent. ;) Finally after our long day, it was off to dinner at In&Out and a little gawking at the Pepperdine baseball team.

I'm definitely feeling better... had a GREAT day and a kick ass night. :) Its amazing what pentel markers and pokemon stickers can do for the soul.

I sometimes wonder what happened to my life.

I don't think my dad thinks I'm funny. Our dinners mainly and usually consists of us talking about how everyone else is doing and him lecturing me on credit card bills and leadership/management skills. Every so often, I try to be light hearted and silly... but I don't think he seems to get it. He gets this "Um.. OK" look (its not confusion... more like... a "Riight" look) and then goes back to the serious conversation or on the topic where he has control of. I guess we need more dinners to really be able to get to know each other so that we're both comfortable. At least its something. And its way better than how it was 4 or 5 years ago...

Some good news... :) Found out that my dad's medical insurance will cover me until I'm 26!! Whooo hooo!! I was getting scared cause it used to be 23... and so there was REAL pressure for me to graduate... and YES I wanna graduate as soon as I can... but it takes some weight off of my shoulders. :) See.. I made a joke about how I could stay in school forever and take up every major... and my dad gave me this "don't you DARE think about that" look. He's a weird guy. He said that I should look for guys with clean shoes, clean nails, and has a wallet thats not disorganized and full of reciepts. Gosh.. I just wanted someone who's sweet, straight, funny, and outgoing. Now I have to inspect nails and wallets?? OH and keep in mind the "RULES"? Grreeat.

My family left this morning... so now the house is once again quiet. I don't know if I should be happy to have my own room back again... or sad because there's no BUZZ around the house and its cold as heck in here. My cousin Esther decided to name her stuff snake "nicole." YAY? Cute and flattering I guess... but its a neon orange and furry snake. Took a lot of pictures of her and the baby... and now they're up on the fridge. :) As well as Esther's drawings of rainbows and hearts...

I went to class this morning, but discovered that I left my developing tank at home. UGH. So I'm back here... blogging... and probably will be going back within the hour so that I can finally finish my assignment. Procrastination at its finest? I don't think so... I have all day to play in the lab so its all good. Then its off for a date with dad. :)

Since I really had no reason to watch the SUPERBOWL... I went to the Getty instead to go play with my camera and spend some quality time with the family. :) Suprisingly, there was sort of a crowd over there... mostly women, fobby asain tourists, gay men, and the straight men that they dragged along whom I assumed had no reason to watch it as well. Anyways, had a good time over there... was able to get some good shots and now I'm eager to get into the dark room tomorrow to see how they turn out. :)

Afterwards, went to Citywalk for dinner at Buca *oh my gosh...INSANE... thats all I have to say.* and thats where I saw the last 2 minutes of the Superbowl. Well... sorta. Weird thing was that when I was over there during the Laker playoffs last year... it was CROWDED. Hundreds of people were sitting on the floor in front of Hard Rock watching the jumbo-tron. But when we got there today, it was your usual number of people there.

OK.. but at church this morning... it was CROWDED. I assume it was people making last minute pleas for their Superbowl team to win. Either that... or they all saw the "light" or something.

Carlene and Esther arguing...
Esther: You! You! You!
Carlene: You! You! You!
Esther: You! You! You!
Carlene: You! You! You!.... infinity times 100!!
*silence*
Carlene: Yeah.. THATS RIGHT!

**Esther is 6 years old.

Family visiting. There are 11 people in the house... 2.5 bathrooms. Its been fun. :) My aunt brought her baby and we've basically been playing all day. Thea is adorable. She looks like a peanuts character or betty boop. Very animated. And the my other aunt brought my cousin Esther, who is 6 years old. She's really sweet and VERY talkative. Actually, its funny cause I discovered I am SOOOO my mothers daughter when I found myself teaching Esther how to roll up socks and turning it into a game with her. She was helping me fold laundry. :)

Well since there are 11 people here... and only 4 bedrooms, Carlene gave up hers and shacked up with me last night. OK... well that was sorta uncomfortable. First of all, I have a thing for sleeping on the left side of the bed. Unfortunantly, the left side is against the wall... so in order to get there, I had to crawl over my sister since I came home late. And then instead of her sleeping on the right side of the bed, she's in the middle and NOT BUDGING. So I was pretty much smushed up against the wall and Carlene. When I woke up this morning, some of the pictures on the wall were crooked cause I assume that whenever I moved.. I would hit the wall... and perhaps kicked or hit them askew.