Last night at Duke's for Kim's birthday dinner...

September 3 babies rule! :P

posted by che @ 8:34 PM [[ 2 comments ]]

It's been a busy busy week and weekend, and it's not even over yet. It's the week to celebrate birthdays and the real celebrations don't start until next Saturday!

Thursday night, Christine organized an early birthday dinner for me at Shamshiri Grill in Westwood (Thanks, Christine!). It was nice to be able to hang out with everyone, but it made me realize how far I have to drive just to see them now! Eep... Anyway, I was able to try their ice cream for dessert. It had ginger in it and also had rose water I think. It was... interesting. Sorry I didn't eat it!!!

Tonight, I just got back from Betty's birthday dinner at Buca di Beppo. You can't go wrong with Italian food :) We had a huge dinner and some dessert that someone had brought. She opened her presents while we were there, too. As much as I get embarrassed opening gifts in front of the givers, I am also embarrassed when the givee opens them in front of me! What if they don't like it?! Always my biggest fear in both scenarios.

Today, I ran some errands before going out. After tiding up just a little and doing a couple of chores, I went out to get my FREE deluxe car wash at the car wash down the street. I love free coupons in the mail. After that, I went to go get my eyebrows threaded. I've been growing my eyebrows for a month just so I could get them shaped again. I think I'm going to grow them out again because I didn't do my research enough before going. When I went in, it seemed there were 2 choices: get your eyebrows threaded, or get your eyebrows shaped by appointment. I got confused because I figured getting them threaded means they're going to shape them, too... right? Well, what I wanted was to get them shaped, but I wasn't expecting to pay 3x as much and I didn't have an appointment. Since I was already there, I opted for just the plain ol' threading. It actually turned out ok and has a decent arch, but now I'm curious to see how much better shaping would be. I just don't know if I want to grow out my eyebrows to its hideous, unruly natural state again :\ We'll see. I wasn't expecting threading to hurt much at all, but I think since I haven't been plucking for the past month, I wasn't used to it anymore. It hurt... but it wasn't THAT bad. Anyway, after this I went home to meet Betty and Randy at my house since they haven't seen it yet. They hung out for a bit and after they left I started to get ready for the dinner. Somewhere in there, a nap would have been nice.

Anyway, tomorrow night will be the birthday dinner for Kimquat at Duke's. I guess I could talk about that tomorrow :)

posted by che @ 11:05 PM [[ 1 comments ]]

I went to home this weekend to spend time with my sister since it was her birthday on Saturday. I did my sister's hair and makeup, and I went with her and her coworkers to downtown on Friday night. We had dinner and some drinks at Moose's first, then since some of them were itching to get down and boogie we went to Red Circle for the hip hop music. I don't know, the crowd and scene that night in downtown didn't seem to be "happening". Although we did get to see a drunk, belligerent man get pinned down to the ground by a huge, over-sized hawaiian bouncer... that was interesting, hehe.

The whole weekend seemed a bit lazy and slow. Maybe it was the weather... or maybe because I wasn't out shopping all day like I usually am :) I kept falling asleep randomly during the days I was there. Taking naps is completely out of the ordinary for me. I hate to break up my sleep pattern, but I couldn't help it this weekend. I knocked out a few times during the day even after getting a full night's worth of sleep. I think my body was just catching up on some much needed sleep. I'm hoping that work won't kick my ass as much this week... and I hope I don't get as irritated with coworkers this week like I have been lately ;)

It was a nice few days though because we bbq-ed in our backyard and enjoyed being outside. The breeze was nice, and it wasn't too hot. Playing with Jer is always fun :) He's learning so many new things, it's amazing. Kids are so funny. From the funny faces he makes, I think he's going to have an elastic face like me, hehe.

posted by che @ 9:21 PM [[ 1 comments ]]

I feel like the new girl on campus.

Geez, my life seems to only consist now of work. I'm in dire need of a vaca.

posted by che @ 10:49 PM [[ 3 comments ]]

Remember how in college you're faced with all-nighters, long days, and all this work? Working for Corporate America is nothing like this. You work the normal 9-5. Yeah, right. Especially yeah right if you're an engineer. The Man sticks it to you and hard.

This week has been chaos, and it's only getting incrementally worse. Like I said before, my schedule has been pretty unpredictable but this week work was a crazy beast. Monday started out "normal". I worked my normal 9-hour day, and I had to stay a little later because I took a 2-hour lunch for a friend's going-away lunch. So sue me. I ended up getting into conversation about life with my boss at the end of the day and before I knew it, it was past 8. I didn't charge the chat. The next day turned out to be around 10-11 hours. And yesterday was around 11-12 hours. Today? Freakin 12.5 hours and I was working in 2 different counties today! I am seriously going to use my overtime because with the hours this week, I should be able to while also carrying over the 4 hours I need for my day off next Friday (which I won't be able to take). I have to go in tomorrow, and I'll have to go in next Friday so maybe I'll be able to charge a couple days worth of overtime!!! Well... if next week is calmer, then at least I should have enough for one day.

The fact that working all these hours doesn't bother me bothers me... mainly because maybe it means I don't have enough of a life to care! Waaah! Haha... but I've also been called a workaholic. That's pretty funny to me because I disagree, however I've taken virtually no vacation time yet this year. I'm on a roll. But I think the main reason it doesn't bother me is because I could really use that extra money, even if it's not that significant :) *sigh* I need to go to bed.

posted by che @ 9:47 PM [[ 0 comments ]]

Work has been making my head spin lately. The workload seems to grow more and more each day as does my responsibility for the team that I will be leaving in a couple of months. A lot of this has to do with schedules that keep shifting left and right. My hours have been unpredictable, and the work days sometimes are more than 10 hours. For the past few months I have been having to come in at 5 or 6AM two or three times a week (but everyday in the beginning), but I was supposed to be relieved of this duty as of last week! I knew it was too good to be true. But I should be relieved of this particular task come next week... I hope *crosses fingers*. I feel like my life is just work, eat, sleep... literally. I feel like I'm losing touch with friends. I just feel like I'm not happy right now. *sigh* Poo :) Ok, I just wanted to get that off my chest. Time for bed. 6AM tomorrow.

posted by che @ 8:16 PM [[ 2 comments ]]

I had my 3-day weekend and I guess it was... ok. The only thing worth noting was my coworker, Camille's, birthday party at the park on Saturday. I didn't think I was going to stay for too long, but it was a beautiful day and before I knew it I was there still there when they were cleaning up. I met some interesting people, and some really funny guys. It was a nice day.

Anyway, as a side note, I think it's interesting how people's perspectives and attitudes change after having children. I've been noticing this lately, and it's not a bad thing. People usually change for the better. Maybe when I have kids one day, I'll change my views on things and actually be content with my outlook on life :)

posted by che @ 10:28 PM [[ 1 comments ]]

The party on Saturday turned out ok. A good amount of people came, but not enough to finish all the food that was ordered! Who wants to help me finish it before it goes bad? :) The whole day was pretty much a blur for me. I felt like I was running around constantly. The time went by so fast. There was a point in the day when I thought it was around 4, but when I looked at the clock it was already 7! Phew... I'm glad that it's over, and I was happy to have people over. I couldn't have pulled off the party without the help of all my family (especially my mom, dad, sister, and aunt). They gave me so much and helped out a TON. I love them! I was happy with most of my gifts too so the day didn't turn out to bad. At least my back didn't go out :)

posted by che @ 4:10 PM [[ 2 comments ]]