Birthday Party Photo Story

Mimi's Café
Dublin, CA

Home Life, Safeway, Shopping, and The Cat

Back with the rents and Churro, life is pretty good. Today I got new tires put on the Volvo- it rides pretty smoothly now! I also got tips money today, so I went to Old Navy and got some new clothes. I then went to try on shoes at the outlets... but everyone knows how yucky the outlets are- so no shoes for me! My dad and I had lunch at El Amigo, and it was super good.

Today was my mom's first day of school, tomorrow morning MHUSD goes back to school, and tomorrow morning I get to sign up for classes... for next month!

Tonight we went on a trip to Safeway, to return the DVD of Dreamgirls that I watched, but unfortunately the movie was late, because the Safeway DVD machine now requires the movie back by 7 pm!!! unheard of.

Here are some pics, my mom making me try on a kid's penguin backpack and a lunchpail, and Churro kitty hanging out with us:

Late Nights, Early Mornings...

It is far too late right now for me to be blogging. However- A full night of barista work does not get by without some caffeine. Unfortunately, this causes problems falling asleep, especially when I have to be at work by 4:30 tomorrow morning!

I really need to cut back on the caffeine, it's giving me supreme headaches on my days off! I sometimes think it's all part of the Peet's master corporate plan for employees: Free drinks and coffee and tea all the time you're working, but then on days off, it costs you! It's some kind of profit/ sacrifice equation. I might figure it out someday, if the mass brainwashing doesn't get to me first! haha... but I really do love Peet's though. It's an awesome job, an awesome company to work for, and the perks are pretty good as well.
I'm just listening to Fort Minor right now, trying to mellow out as much as possible. The parents are back, and it's been interesting getting back into the swing of all living together.

1 month, 4 days until Move-In San Diego!!!

I'm currently in the process of registering for classes for fall quarter. The classes that I need to take:
DOC 1: a writing course centered around diversity and cultures
Math 10C or 20C: the last math quarter of my life! one course is for engineering majors, one for all other people, i haven;t decided which one to take yet
Chem 6A: the intro to Chemistry
TWS 26: Third World Studies Indian Literature class
and a still unkown Freshman Seminar class, a 1 unit class for fun... I'm thinking about this one called Math in the Movies, or possible Love and Sex in the Middle Ages, or maybe Darwinian Evolution

Fun Times

Churro kitty in a rare still photo

What an amazing past few days! After almost passing out of Wii exhaustion, getting a sore wrist from gallon after gallon of milk, and having a night out with some friends, things are getting relatively back to normal.

This afternoon, at 4:20 pm, to be exact, I'm going to be picking up my parents at the airport. Hopefully, they won't be too worn out- from the looks of it, they were working the entire time. "Vacation?" yeah, right... but it will be nice to see them again, anyways. I'm finishing up some laundry at the moment, moving myself back into my house, and starting to read "How to Be Cool," by Johanna Edwards, one of the books loaned from my awesome Aunt Kelly.

On Saturday night, my sister cam down and picked me up, and we drove to Aunt Kelly and Uncle Reza's house for a super Wii party. My uncle has this fantastic projection system with a screen the size of the room ( no lie!) and so we thought the Wii would be perfect there. And it was!!! We played Wii sports (tennis, golf, bowling, baseball, and boxing) and WiiPLay ( neon air hockey, wild cow racing, mii finding, catch the bubbles, fishing, billiards, ping-pong) and Happy Feet the game. It kept us busy all night, and into the morning!! We were some pretty hard-core Wii Players!
After the all-night game fest, my sister and I were treated to iHOP by our lovely aunt and uncle, where we had the delicious breakfast fare (at 1 in the afternoon : )

Last night, to add to the weekend's fun, I went out with two of my good friends from high school, Mike and Ricky. They had never been to Peet's, so of course we had to stop there first- and we had some yummy drinks to start the evening off. Afterwards, we stopped at Nordstrom park, and ran around on the playground for some old-fashioned fun- I hope we didn't scare all the little kids away! : ) Then we went to In-n-Out for dinner, which is always good, and where no matter what, you see people you know. It's really inevitable in such a small town! Then we got tickets and saw the Bourne Ultimatum. It was a very exciting movie, and i'm really glad i got the chance to see it with my friends.

So for now, I'm just getting ready to retrieve my parents- that's all for now!

Looking up

Time for blogging! It's one of those incredibly relaxing Saturday mornings (okay, totally lying, it's 2 pm) with no responsibilities on the agenda. Nice. I got to start the day with some of my grandma's blueberry heart-shaped waffles, and i made a full 8-cup French press for myself of my personal favorite dark roast reserve coffee, whiskey strength! Sitting here in the dimly lit computer room, it's just a lovely day. I've been thoroughly enjoying this quality time with my grandparents, because it's not often i get so lucky to stay with them!
Last night, i had the wonderful experience of going to a colleague's birthday party/dinner in downtown San Jose at the Old Spaghetti Factory. I got her a cute "clubbing" purse and some of her favorite gum, for her milestone birthday! It was really a fun dinner, with most of our core Peet's family in attendance. I had the mizithra cheese, which always is excellent, with the creamy pesto salad to start. yum.... And our waiter even brought us out a dish of the contraband croutons!!!
The most interesting thing about the dinner was the fact that there were about 50 cops swarming around the restaurant all night! It turns out that the San Jose Police were fundraising for the Special Olympics, and the officers were serving our drinks for tip money for the Special Olympic team. There were even some Olympic athletes carefully serving drinks. Overall, the OSF dinner was awesome- and a really great time spent with the Morgan Hillbilly Peetnik family.
After dinner, we walked a little bit around downtown. The nightlife scene was "poppin," in the words of one of my fellow baristas, and it was very crowded on the streets. A short distance from the restaurant was one of the venues for the San Jose Jazz Festival, so we all got some wristbands and watched one of the bands for a while. They were this foreign band, maybe from Canada or Europe, who had about six violins and really rocked out! It was ridiculously fun- and fascinating to be at the center of so much activity!
Well, that's all for now- more coming soon : D

i know, i know, I haven't "blogged" in a while, but well really that's just because not much happened. I've just been working and such, as well as trying to catch up on laundry. It got to the point where I actually lost clothes in the laundry pile, and then upon washing up, I found them again! I forgot about some of the things that I own! Unfortunately, six loads of laundry is a very time-consuming task... so while waiting on the slooowww dryer (blechhh!!), i caught up on some movie watching:
Neverwas
The Astronaut Farmer
Catch and Release
Music and Lyrics
Ghost Rider
and last night,
No Reservations

All good movies!
Anyways, this morning we all got up at 4 to get ready for the airport... always a harrowing trip in airprt traffic and security and whatnot. They are on the plane to Colorado, for two weeks, as I write this! As for now, it's just me and the cat- who dearly misses her old folks as well
More later as the story develops.... as well as a blog about traffic/driving coming soon