Every year, I always head over to the California State Fair with friends and family. I often go twice when the fair is still ongoing. Yesterday was the first time going since it first opened on July 14th, 2010. The last day is July 31, 2010. So that means I need to hustle over again this week before it ends. I'm hoping my second time will be without a wheelchair.
Busy Friday Morning. Fridays are normally chill at work. Seeing that this is my 2nd to the last Friday before I am let go from my internship, I'm surprised by the amount of new assignments that I have to do this morning! Interesting. I have to do some research on a bill that was vetoed back in 2008 which passed every committee hearing until it hit the desk of the governator. Then I have a conference call at 11am. Afterwards, I'm back to my usual Friday routine of screening calls, looking up next week's legislative meeting and agenda, do some filing and data entry, then it's 2pm, I'm off work! Philliam is riding his bike to downtown to meet me at 2pm then we're killing time by being hoodlums until 5pm where we'll meet up with Alex and Christina J for happy hour and some much needed relaxation and reflection on where we are today. Once it's after 11pm, I'll head over to my parent's house to avoid the cold silence and angry glare from my middle sister's room and meet the sad emptyness of my baby sister's room. No worries, Hilarydilarydoo will be back on Sunday from her SoCal trip. She's currently at UCSD doing a tour of the school. Now it's back to work and watching CNN.
Another one of those busy weekends. I made three tiramisu cakes. One for a friend's birthday, my mother's birthday, and Philliam's house (Phil's cake was made from leftover batter). Not only that, Philliam and I cooked lunch and dinner all weekend. We didn't eat out at all! Which is great, but tiresome and troublesome at the same time. I need to start putting together my personal recipe book to keep track of what I've been cooking/baking. Everyone knows I don't do the conventional cooking either. I just throw things in, do a taste check, and a dash of this and that to suit my taste buds. Anyway, I told Philliam I wasn't going to cook this entire week until Friday. Maybe the only thing I'll make is the green rice everyone loves so much. And maybe some banana cupcakes.
Philliam and I threw a Halloween party on Friday the 30th. Today is Sunday, November 1. We've officially finished cleaning and his house looks great! Well, we finished cleaning on Halloween but this morning we did another thorough cleaning throughout the house. It was exhausting.
No pictures until I upload. I have a test this week. But here's a dialogue between me and him during our back breaking cleaning session on Saturday morning.
Me: Babe, I need a scooper for the debris I piled up.
Him: Sure, just give me a minute.
*Philliam leaves the master bedroom and comes back after 4 minutes*
Him: Here you go. *hands me a ripped up wheaties box*
Me: Huh??? o_O
He put some thought into making it because it has a nifty handle that scoops up the debris just fine. I guess I should be proud that he's following my footsteps in trying not to feed evil consumerism and being an environmentalist. Or is he is just being lazy?
If you're wondering, I did use that Wheaties dust pan box until I no longer had anymore use for it. I'm thinking about either: making him a dust pan from items I have lying around, buying him an organic one (pricey), pay a visit to my local thrift shop, or go the Target way (because sometimes it's alright to be a hypocrite).
That's right. I hit up Mix Lounge last night with my 40 something year old aunt. She got hit on more than Mermaid and I combined. So Mermaid and I decided that the next time we paint the town red with her, we're going to step up our game. Yes. We're going to hoochie-fy ourselves.
I'll post up pictures from my aunt's camera later since she doesn't know how to upload. I've been waiting for a picture of her and the Senator for 5 months now! She's technology challenged.
This is going to be another backbreaking weekend for me. Tonight, I'm attending a cooking showdown in which I'll be documenting between two iron chefs. Saturday, I'll be doing a walk-a-thon with my sisters at 6am, then at 10am I'm off to the reptile show at the Sacramento Convention Center; around 4pm, I need to pack up Philliam and Mermaid and take them with me to Galt for Miss USA's birthday which will involve sumo suits and wrestling. After Miss USA's birthday bash, I drop off Mermaid at her place in Elk Grove, then take Philliam home to Natomas. Then off I go for bar hopping with old and new friends. Afterwards, I call it a night. Sunday, helping my parents with the farm and try to squeeze in some time to memorize Chinese radicals and simple phrases. I don't know how I'm going to be able to log my miles this weekend.
I made my first batch of chocolate toffee bars this morning and let me tell you! They were delish! Philliam said they were just as good as the lemon bars I made before I took off to Asia. He claimed that he missed my lemon bars more than he missed me. Whatever. I was having the time of my life when I was overseas. Hah!
