Interesting charges to my bank account

My last three transactions in my checking account made me laugh a little this morning. I ran my debit card at Forever 21 (Halloween costume purchase) for $55.55. The second transaction was at Fuzio (short happy hour but long conversations with a friend) for $18.49. Lastly, the third transaction at Mongolian BBQ (dinner with a friend from high school) for the same as Fuzio, $18.49! WOW! Okay, so it's only three transaction that made me look twice. Made my morning after my hellish, tearful Thursday.

September 12th, 2nd Saturday!

This was the craziest 2nd Saturday event that I've ever experienced. We had a total of 5-tag-alongs (total strangers that followed our group) and ony 2 out of the 5-tag-alongs stuck with us until we all decided to part ways at the end of the night. Crazy, ain't it? It began with just four of us: Philliam, Venetian, Jazzy Jazz and myself. We had a scrumptious dinner at Zocalo that was absolutely fantastic. I wished Mermaid joined us but she had some busy things to do. I love Zocalo's complimentary green rice that comes with every entree. The dessert is not bad either. It's my third time eating there. The first three times weren't so significant on my memory since the first time I was having one of those ugly days where I felt, looked, and had an ugly day. The second experience, I was sick and could not enjoy the food as much. Lastly, the third time was with my brother Sunny the Bunny and Richard. Very awkward since they didn't know what was going on with Philliam and I yet (early confusing state of dating where I thought I was gay and he didn't think he'd ever date girls of my race). HAH! But this fourth time was GOOOD. I actually enjoyed the food so much better.

Of course it's an Art Walk, so we walked around and checked out what local Sacramento artists had to offer us.

The first spot we hit up was located in the apartment complex nestled between Buckhorn Grill and Ginger Elizabeth's Chocolate. I don't normally like taking pictures of someone else work just because I feel that it's a tad bit rude and tacky - unless I ask for permission. At this particular booth, Jazzy was already schmoozing her way in so I was able to talk about the materials used on the jewelry pieces and where can I purchase later. Her jewelry company is called BlissJewelry and her pieces are amazing! She also sells locally at Sugar Shack and somewhere else in Roseville, so I'm going to have to hit up Sugar Shack soon. I have yet to spend my birthday discount cards there.

Now here is where it starts to get really interesting, we decide to take the lightrail to make our journey a bit easier and ended up picking up 3 people from the lightrail! We told them they could join our group while we walk the streets. We all got along so well and that made our night so much more interesting.

Later that evening, Mermaid decides to save us from walking many, many miles back to civilization and picks us up on the corner of P and 14th like the group of prostitutes we are. This is just our growing number of group members.

Here we are in my workplace garage acting the fool! woot woot Getting out the shops around town.

This is where two random guys joined our group but we lost them later after they got some girls numbers. They are located on the very top - two white guys. Like what Mermaid said, booty call. I don't really understand how people are so comfortable with doing something so intimate with a complete stranger. I mean, I understand the thrill and excitement of it all and there is nothing wrong with that, this is the new age thing, but I don't think I would do something like that. I would honestly have to get to know someone before anything intimate can happen. Call me old fashion.

This is the end to our adventurous night and all those that stayed with us. I still can't take that green rice from Zocalo out of my tongue. Yum...

Until next time. Sincerely, VioletSnowflakes.

John Legend's outdoor concert

On Friday evening, Philliam took me to the John Legend concert. thanks Jasmine for the awesome tickets! My cousin and her girlfriend also happened to be there. Not surprised. My cousin has spent half her life at concerts, shows, etc. Lucky her! She promised to take me to see Jason Mraz 2 years ago. I need to pester her about that.

India Arie was the opening act. I love outdoor shows, I ought to attend more shows when I get the chance. I haven't listened to India Arie since my freshmen year of high school when I lived in the bay area. My, oh my. That was so loooooong ago! Her music brought back lots of memories of attending such a large high school. Sometimes I wonder how different my life would have been if I had graduated from there.

California State Fair - Weird Wild & Wacky

My short trip to the California State Fair was enjoyable as I was able to catch up with fellow friends who I haven’t seen in a month. The last time I saw SouVi and Khoun was back in late May on our crazy rafting adventure. I haven’t seen Richard since I left for my trip to South Asia. When I had gotten back to California, Richard was in Mississippi, visiting his parents. It’s funny how that worked out. Being the total foodie that I am, I was more excited about the fried goodness than the oddball theme for this year, which was “Weird Wild & Wacky.” I can’t help being a glutton. Although, this past year, I haven’t thought about food as being a pleasurable act but treating food more like fuel to energize me. This kind of behavior isn’t exactly forced, it was something that I just started doing and I noticed this behavior towards food when I was in Asia. This probably has to do with my part in giving up beef.

America, Philliam and I were the first to arrive out of our bunch. Since we were starving, there was no way that we were going to wait for everyone to get there so we headed over to the Jumbo Dog stand. Yes... It’s just what I needed (the Cars!!!! Reminisces on ‘80s childhood.) The corndog was delish, I devoured every bit of it while I annoyingly talked to someone on the phone. -___- By the time our groupie arrived, it was almost dusk. In the pictures, you can see the gorgeous skyline. I absolutely love the colors. I won’t bore you to death with the written account of what went on, so I’ll go ahead and post all the pictures so you can see what we did.