Feelin' Kinda Classy

I realized that a lot of my blogging silence is due to the fact that 99.9% of the time, my camera is either dead or too far out of my lazy reach. So enjoy my large boring block of text... cause I still cant find my camera charger.

Alright, let's see here:
School-wise, I went with RSS to a taping of America's Funniest Videos. We use it as a fundraiser, since they pay you to come watch. A little sad, but I'll go with it. This is the second time I've been, and hopefully the last... since they use the exact same jokes every time, and I get bored quickly of responding enthusiastically to the "applause" sign.

Raquel was down here this last weekend for a wedding, which was really exciting. I went to Disneyland with her family on Sunday (the first time I've been since living down here....) And on Monday, I drove to Anaheim again to pick her up and bring her to UCLA for a few hours, to see my apartment and meet a few of my friends. It was pretty late, so I had to give her the whirlwind tour- no more than about 5 minutes with each friend. Which probably was safer... that way she didn't have time to start telling stories.

In my kitchen... A friend of mine from work has been bugging me since last quarter to cook for him. When I asked what he wanted, I never got more than one word: "meat". And so I cooked him meat. As the title suggests, I was feelin pretty classy, so we rolled on over to Costco to pick up a few steaks, and I settled in my large platter of beef front and center on the fridge shelf I share with my vegetarian roomie. I really like irony. Anyway, I called Brent and told him I had never cooked any meat more complicated than hamburger, and he needed to take pity on me. A crash course in spices later (cumin? what?) I had a pretty sweet marinade: Worchestshire sauce, olive oil, apple cider vinegar, black pepper, and cumin. I also learned the broiler serves a purpose other than storage. Andrew didn't want anything green touching his steak, so I compromised and chose red potatoes- not a real veggie, right? (Susan, I promise I'll take a picture of our freezer. I buy veggies. Just not fresh ones... baby steps man, baby steps.) I'm still full.

Oh and I'm working... that's the only reason I'm up at this ungodly hour.

Middle of nowhere

This last weekend was retreat for RSS, so about 40 people drove up to the middle of nowhere in the snow to "bond". Sad thing was.... it looked exactly like Magalia. So I wasn't quite as amazed as the others, but whatever. It was still a ton of fun, and we played a bunch of games and went "hiking", which just turned into an excuse for a snowball fight.

It was pretty amazing overall... We all want to go back pretty much every weekend. My mountain skills were put to use, too... Turns out I was the only one with the faintest clue how to get a car out that was stuck in ice.


On another note, my impulse buying strikes again... This is my newest toy. I got it Friday, and have been playing with it ever since.


The internet works really well, and it comes with some really cool applications, so I'm still figuring out how everything works on it.

I'm back!

I'm back in the land of fast internet! Thankfully, Susan has been faithfully documenting all of my updates... car... tattoo... presents... I didn't miss anything! Here's some of the stuff we were up to over break that Susan was NOT around for...

We all went over to Raquel's house before Christmas to be cute and festive and bake cookies. Very few of said cookies actually looked good enough to eat... but that's beside the point.

We also trekked to Kory's house for an intense game of pictionary...

This would be one of the losing teams... not us.

But mostly, we just ate a ton of Hula's and watched a lot of movies. The usual.