Time Off, Part 2

The rest of my vacation...

TUESDAY

Had the second date at the Abbey. The meatball panini was so good! And the date was good, too! After we ate dinner, we went to Starbucks and then walked around. Hopefully, I'll see him again. We seem to have the same sense of humor. And he's cute. Afterwards, I went to the Grove. They had all their holiday decorations up. The gingerbread house is very cute. It put me in a good mood. I also spotted Michael Chiklis (from The Sheild and Fantastic Four) hanging out with his family.

WEDNESDAY

Had a productive day shopping at Brea Mall... for myself! Everything I was looking for was there, and mostly on sale. The A&F t-shirt I wanted, the Express shirt, the Madonna calendar, the socks... And then later that night, Haeran, Curtiz, Billie and I saw "Enchanted." I've been waiting forever to see this one. The movie was silly, but cute. I thought all the lead actors were great, especially Amy Adams and James Marsden.

THURSDAY

I had Thanksgiving lunch with my dad's side of the family and then my brother and his family came over for a light dinner. We played chicken foot afterwards. It was a nice day except I kept thinking about how nice it would've been if I had been able to invite Greg over. Grrr.

FRIDAY

Haeran, Billie, Ellen, Teddy and I went to a couple of bars in Long Beach. We drove by Puka, but were scared off by the vespa-riding crowd. So we went to Gaslamp (per Mark's recommendation) which was cool. They had an 80s cover band. I was horrified/amused by a strange little gay man who danced with abandon with some tall blonde girl. Later, we went to a sports bar near downtown.

SATURDAY

Billie and I had dinner at our favorite sushi place, but were displeased to find that it had a C rating. But we ate there anyway. Then we met up with Christine at a hooka bar, which was kinda cool. We got Gauva and Kiwi Strawberry flavors, but I still think they gave us the wrong flavor for the latter. Christine shared some exciting/sad news... And then Billie and I were gonna meet Hadley at the Abbey, but she ended up going home and I met him at Nate's. Nate, Max, Ian, Ryan, Ryan, Hadley and I played Mario Party (I came in dead last every time) and then played a board game called Catchphrase. Asian Ryan, Max and I won! To complete the trifecta of my favorite things, we later watched Project Runway (I love my reality tv). It was a fun night.

SUNDAY

Had an aborted encounter with some guy... and then met up with Billie for Guppy. Tomorrow I go back to work. I'm almost looking forward to it... it's been a hard time off. Why can't I stop feeling sad? And why can't I stop feeling like I can't breathe?

Since I don't have pics to go with my stories, here are two random ones from Paigie's bday party a couple weeks ago.

I like this last one because it's so random. There's Alisa behind me having herself a good ol' time and then there's Billie apparently grooming me on the dance floor. Did I have lice?