Shopping ban FOR REAL

Okay, all my other shopping bans were simply put in place so that I stayed within a budget of $200 a month for shopping, food, and anything else I spend money on. NOW, this shopping ban is in place because I just dropped quite a bit of money on an iMac and an iPod touch. My last big purchase until I get my M.A. and a full-time job! Sigh, goodbye new clothes and other luxuries.

My bank account is crying as it hemorrhages money.... but I really need a reliable desktop! I would have bought this some day, but I figured it would have been a few years from now, not today. That iPod touch rebate really pulled me in.

Random thoughts

• Happy early birthdays to mis amigas Hanna y Allie! (25th and 30th, respectively.)

• I miss Darryl :( Saw him for one, maybe two hours out of the last 9 days.

• CSULA is shady and horribly run. Why can't the Cal States be run more efficiently and less biased??

• I want some delicious food!!! Cook's Tortas without red fries was not enough to satisfy my cravings. Excited for shabu^2 lunch tomorrow :)

• I haven't cooked very much lately. That needs to change. First on my list: chicken pot pie.

• Tempted to do the 30-day challenge at Bikram Yoga La Cañada starting on July 10. Must clean my body of its toxins!!

• I keep bruising my left leg... random. I only know where some came from, and no, I haven't been drunk lately.

• eBay has been quite good to me lately. I've listed three things in the past month and they've all sold at good prices! Now if only I could find the things I want at cheap prices, too...

• Driving up to NorCal soon. I'm excited! Maybe we can go wine tasting again. If only I could prevent myself from getting tipsy after one tasting...

• I got straight "A"s this past quarter! Now I finally get to have a 4.0 haha.

Done!

I just turned in a paper and took a final exam today. Thankfully that was all I had this quarter, so I am officially done with my first quarter as a post-bac! Due to budget cuts they are NOT accepting any more post-bac students, so I am super happy I applied when I did. I feel like this will also make getting into grad. school a lot less competitive. I'm feeling more hopeful every day that I will get into a good program next year :)

I celebrated being done by watching the Laker game when I got home. Sadly that was not something to celebrate...

I also just watched He's Just Not That Into You, and I must say that it was really annoying. I'm not sure how it got such good ratings on Netflix; I guess it's because it is pretty true to life and people respected that. It seemed to just perpetuate the idea that marriage is bad. Movies always make marriages seem so life-sucking and love-sucking. Most married couples I know (granted they're old people) seem to have really solid relationships, and some have been together since their teens. These real-life couples give me hope :)

In the end, I gave it three stars on Netflix, meaning I "liked" it, but only because I liked 75% of the ending.

On another movie note, I saw The Hangover this past weekend with Darryl after eating at Yard House, and I LOVED it. It was such a ridiculously hilarious movie, everyone should go watch it! *Warning, it is a bit crude.

Helpful Bus

Rarely do I enjoy Spike TV, but I found this skit featuring The Office's Craig Robinson and got a good laugh out of it.

PG Porn: Helpful Bus

Old Town Pasadena Restaurant Week!!

OMG, I can't wait to try one or more of these places.

June 1-8, 2009

http://oldpasadena.org/restaurantweek/

Places I want to try or revisit:
1. Cafe Santorini (delish)
2. redwhite+bluezz (I heard it's a great date place AND they have really good food... also considered a great concept restaurant--jazz bar, grill, fine dining, and wine tasting, I believe.)
3. Scarlet Tea Room and Fine Dining (great for a mother-daughter date)
4. POP Champagne and Dessert Bar (Angus sliders, TRUFFLE mac and cheese, and strawberries and chocolate galore??? Where do I sign up?)
5. Sushi Roku (Darryl and I had a great experience there the last time they had a prix fixe menu. SO MUCH SASHIMI!)

Some of the other places sound good when it's NOT restaurant week. For example, Elements Kitchen's restaurant week menu appears to be lacking... :(

Fail.

I'm up still because I attempted to go to sleep early (10:30 p.m.) and couldn't actually fall asleep. I got out of bed at like midnight and I've been up ever since...

It doesn't help that Windows updated tonight and caused my sound driver to fail. I had to use system restore to get back to a point before stupid Windows updated, but before that, my computer blue-screened about 10 times before I could get system restore to stay open. MICROSOFT FAIL. Time for a Mac?

One positive is that I worked on my paper and I have it at 5 casually written pages. I'll make it more formal tomorrow and add a couple more pages, and then I will be halfway done with my finals! I love papers in lieu of tests, especially when it's for a professor who makes horribly written/unfair tests.

I'm excited for this weekend even though I have to study a few chapters for my other final. I think I'm going to watch The Hangover with Darryl and then eat a delicious dinner, or vice versa (lunch then the Hangover.) I like it when we go on dates haha. Even though it can get expensive, it's slightly more exciting than playing Rock Band and cards at home and harassing my dog :) haha.

I'm also getting He's Just Not That Into You from Netflix tomorrow! I'm excited to watch it with my mom. Hopefully it doesn't make me too cynical about relationships...

MbMJ Faridah bag.

Now selling on eBay. Pictures provided per request by interested buyers ;)

The first two pictures show the spots I discovered while taking pictures. I might want to use another MbMJ dust bag because those spots were not there before I put the bag in the dust bag :(

SO BUYERS BE FOREWARNED, there are tiny white dots (possibly 3) on the bag. All three are on the lower portion of the bag (bottom of the pockets)