this is why i shouldn't put off posting. and this is actually shorter than it could have been.
To preface: JK;LAFEJIAGL;KEAGJIEL;GA wakikaki thank you so much for the card!! it came today and made many nomming noises and i kind of love it. but love you more ♥♥ also, i hope to send out your birthday present soon-ish. by which i hope to mean before christmas
pixisticks The post card you sent arrived today and i read it happily in the elevator safe in the knowledge that the person running the camera wouldn't be able to read it over my shoulder :DDDDDD ilubb!
As annie says, the pens redefined the fuzzy pile.
also, someone needs to introduce the idea of 'indirect kiss' to hockey :Dv there were an awful lot of mouths on that cup.
So my family (sans sillyandmorbid) came into town for my birthday this weekend, and it mostly made me v v happy. They arrived Thursday whilst I was at work, and left sometime today also whilst I was at work. We ate out a couple of times. I took mum to Chinatown Express because she loves mienmien, and everyone likes shao long bao zhi. Dad opted out of the movie saturday, and church on sunday (where I was recognized as a member in front of the church, so that was nice to have family there for), but drove me to walmart sunday afternoon to buy picture frames (though the picking was left to me and mom).
Sunday we also went to La Tasca for birthday-dinner, and it was mmm very good. Dad got one dish--a plate of two chicken kabobs, while annie, mom and I split their 60 dollar tasting menu, and wow, there was a lot of food. My favourite might have been the apple-cheese salad. wasn't too impressed with the salmon, but the asparagus was amazing, the tortillas espanola was to die for, and the calamari was like. amazing. no words.
After dinner, we came home, waited a bit to recover, then invited Patrick (the landlord) down for icecream cake and told him to bring a hammer. the 'rents and patrick talked about beijing a lot while i chilled with anniecita, and then around 10 pm, mom convinced me it wasn't too late at night to do a little bit of hammering, and i put all my pictures up. I shall have a picture of the pictures soonish because they please me greatly :D
Mom did a lot of cleaning up, which, to her dismay, did not bother me at all (mom: other people get upset when their mothers do this, you know; nikki: not me~) so my kitchen is currently tidy, and i don't have any dirty laundry. She also brought down her wii fit to make me try it out. it's a lot of fun! i like the hula-hooping one, mostly because it's a lot harder for me to drop the digital hula hoops than it ever was for me irl. I can't keep an actual hula hoop up to save my life.
T_T i miss them~ they were kind of noisy and sometimes made me a little cranky (mostly when they were being cranky with each other, and occasionally when i felt like they did something stupid) but i was really happy to have them come stay with me for a little bit. ♥♥ my family.
Today I went to practice Japanese with rocksizedheart and after, we walked to her place so she could drive us back to mine. Then we made gnocchi and some miso chicken (not together), Tego came over (not in that order), we watched Dark Angel, and I made them eat icecream cake. The cake is like, the ugliest thing I have ever seen, no really. When mom picked it up, she came back to the car and was like 'it's really ugly. we didn't tell them to decorate it like that. it's wow. ugly' and i was like 'lol ok?' but really, it is an ugly cake. whatever, baskin n robbin's icecream cakes are still tasty. i always peel the frosting off anyway.
Saturday, I dragged people to see Up as my birthday-related activity. I laughed, I cried, I didn't get a headache from the 3D goggles. All in all it was a good time, and I hope everyone else enjoyed the movie as well (but feel free to tell me if you didn't). Thank you for coming!! It meant a lot for you to be there.
Today I came in to work an hour later than usual, having worked an extra hour on friday and found
and
my cube all decked out, and a pile o' bagels on my desk. I seriously like, wibbled all over the place for probably 2 hours ♥ Plus, I'd forgotten to make myself a lunch this morning (and wondering at what an hour later (not an extra hour) of sleep did to give me so much extra time), so the bagels came in handy. Though basically all i ate today was bread till dinner XD but yes. i ate about 1.7 bagels, and pawned off as much of the rest as i could and wibbled a lot.
Speaking of birthday things. Thank you all for all the sweet, thoughtful birthday wishes! The text messages, emails, PMs, journal entries, facebook wall posts, cards, all of it. Thank you so much! You made my birthday pretty much awesome, and i love you all! ♥♥♥
pixisticks The post card you sent arrived today and i read it happily in the elevator safe in the knowledge that the person running the camera wouldn't be able to read it over my shoulder :DDDDDD ilubb!
As annie says, the pens redefined the fuzzy pile.
also, someone needs to introduce the idea of 'indirect kiss' to hockey :Dv there were an awful lot of mouths on that cup.
So my family (sans sillyandmorbid) came into town for my birthday this weekend, and it mostly made me v v happy. They arrived Thursday whilst I was at work, and left sometime today also whilst I was at work. We ate out a couple of times. I took mum to Chinatown Express because she loves mienmien, and everyone likes shao long bao zhi. Dad opted out of the movie saturday, and church on sunday (where I was recognized as a member in front of the church, so that was nice to have family there for), but drove me to walmart sunday afternoon to buy picture frames (though the picking was left to me and mom).
Sunday we also went to La Tasca for birthday-dinner, and it was mmm very good. Dad got one dish--a plate of two chicken kabobs, while annie, mom and I split their 60 dollar tasting menu, and wow, there was a lot of food. My favourite might have been the apple-cheese salad. wasn't too impressed with the salmon, but the asparagus was amazing, the tortillas espanola was to die for, and the calamari was like. amazing. no words.
After dinner, we came home, waited a bit to recover, then invited Patrick (the landlord) down for icecream cake and told him to bring a hammer. the 'rents and patrick talked about beijing a lot while i chilled with anniecita, and then around 10 pm, mom convinced me it wasn't too late at night to do a little bit of hammering, and i put all my pictures up. I shall have a picture of the pictures soonish because they please me greatly :D
Mom did a lot of cleaning up, which, to her dismay, did not bother me at all (mom: other people get upset when their mothers do this, you know; nikki: not me~) so my kitchen is currently tidy, and i don't have any dirty laundry. She also brought down her wii fit to make me try it out. it's a lot of fun! i like the hula-hooping one, mostly because it's a lot harder for me to drop the digital hula hoops than it ever was for me irl. I can't keep an actual hula hoop up to save my life.
T_T i miss them~ they were kind of noisy and sometimes made me a little cranky (mostly when they were being cranky with each other, and occasionally when i felt like they did something stupid) but i was really happy to have them come stay with me for a little bit. ♥♥ my family.
Today I went to practice Japanese with rocksizedheart and after, we walked to her place so she could drive us back to mine. Then we made gnocchi and some miso chicken (not together), Tego came over (not in that order), we watched Dark Angel, and I made them eat icecream cake. The cake is like, the ugliest thing I have ever seen, no really. When mom picked it up, she came back to the car and was like 'it's really ugly. we didn't tell them to decorate it like that. it's wow. ugly' and i was like 'lol ok?' but really, it is an ugly cake. whatever, baskin n robbin's icecream cakes are still tasty. i always peel the frosting off anyway.
Saturday, I dragged people to see Up as my birthday-related activity. I laughed, I cried, I didn't get a headache from the 3D goggles. All in all it was a good time, and I hope everyone else enjoyed the movie as well (but feel free to tell me if you didn't). Thank you for coming!! It meant a lot for you to be there.
Today I came in to work an hour later than usual, having worked an extra hour on friday and found
and
my cube all decked out, and a pile o' bagels on my desk. I seriously like, wibbled all over the place for probably 2 hours ♥ Plus, I'd forgotten to make myself a lunch this morning (and wondering at what an hour later (not an extra hour) of sleep did to give me so much extra time), so the bagels came in handy. Though basically all i ate today was bread till dinner XD but yes. i ate about 1.7 bagels, and pawned off as much of the rest as i could and wibbled a lot.
Speaking of birthday things. Thank you all for all the sweet, thoughtful birthday wishes! The text messages, emails, PMs, journal entries, facebook wall posts, cards, all of it. Thank you so much! You made my birthday pretty much awesome, and i love you all! ♥♥♥