talk about a birthday week.

thursday, cherie treated me to lunchy and gossip.

friday, italian food with the kids [william, cat, steven].

friday night, ryan and i went down to old town to pick out my b-day present [right].

saturday, lunchy and cake[!!!] from steven [again] at wheatberry… AND a special visit from maggie, who gave me a gift certificate to amadeus. oooh. now i get to pick from facials, massages, and pretty smelling aveda stuff. decisions, decisions.

and now, on my actual birthday day, i get a free hour to slack off before i go study. ha! i accidently forgot my renal [pee] notes in pasadena last night, so i’m making the trek back there today to fetch them and find a place to study.

breaking news: annie just called. she’s meeting me for dinner at todai! sushi and sister. hahahahahahaha. today will be fun. fun like britney spears. ’cause i’m spoiled like britney spears. and apparently, a little bit dumb like britney spears. time to fetch my notes.

coming on the tail end of the success of lance armstrong’s livestrong wristband, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation has introduced it’s own for breast cancer, sold at target . i want some! i love love love the pink. but…. they’re sold out right now. i’ll just have to wait a couple weeks until they come in. or find one on the street.

of course, i’d love my own, personalized, powder puff pink ones. i wonder what they’d say, though. livehungry?

above: a holga shot from way back in september– when we all went out to toro sushi for steven’s birthday. you can see the ice cream cake in the corner. mmmm. ice cream.

What do you give to the girl who has everything?
Broad Spectrum Antibiotics

hahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha. someone else is geeky like me!

after playing at the arcade on saturday, we had accumulated a ton of tickets– annie picked out a dart gun, and i picked out a potato gun [the packaging was cool… and hey, it said potato]. i had bought a potato yesterday to try it out, but had forgotten about it until tonight, when ryan fished it out of the fridge and started pelting my screen door with starchy little pellets. we ended up shooting potato bullets over my balcony and at my plants while laughing gleefully at each successful pop.

right now, the gun is clean and waiting for the next time i feel like being a 6 year old, and the potato is full of holes and waiting to be thrown out.

that i was dropping annie off to play a tournament at my upland tennis club… and we were warming up on one of the top courts when she suddenly left, and in comes two other people to take our court. i introduced myself to one of them, and before i know it, i was tickling a very hot-looking todd martin [until he said it was too cold and left]. i left the room to look for annie, and suddenly i was in jasminchristine’s house, except, christine’s room was a tennis court, and downstairs, there were more tennis courts. …and something about a large pyramid of sake boxes.

sleep is fun.

friday: the lecturer went OVERTIME and kept me in class cranky and tired while my family anxiously waited at my apartment. upon my arrival, i was showered with gifts: pomegranate soap, a notebook with a cartoon that looks like me and my ryan [thanks, annie!], and a $50 gift certificate to BR [thanks, ryan!]! we had a little mishap on the way to dinner [the car stalled out and had to be towed], so we got a quick bite at olive garden and then drove down the traffic-filled freeway to knott’s scary farm. turns out, the halloween haunt wasn’t worth the drive and parking headache. we were surrounded by teeny-boppers all night, and were herded through the park like cattle. moo. annie and ryan didn’t care for the mazes, where people in strange costumes jumped out from behind every corner. my mom and i, however, laughed through the whole thing. funny, i thought she’d be the one we’d have to take care of. it was fun hanging out with the family, though. we’ll just have to pick a happier place next time.

saturday: world toy camera day! my holga, diana clone, izone, and pop9 cameras were with me all day. i was loading and reloading film like a madwoman. annie came with me to PCHAT to see what all of the fuss was about, and ended up staying with me the entire time to play with the kids. afterwards, we drove down to newport beach for lunchy at sushi 21 [salmon, tuna, yellowtail, oh my!]. the plan was to take some pictures at a photobooth nearby, but we ended up spending half the afternoon at the arcade. annie and ryan dominated the basketball game, my mom played skeeball, poker and skateboarding, and i… well, i took lots and lots of pictures. dinner was at chakra, the new indian restaurant at the university center in irvine.

and now, we’re home, and i’m tired. i’ve been driving forever.

i just got this flash… of me… trying to give myself suboccipital release and inadvertently popping off my head [and having it bounce onto the floor, and roll away], as i did with so many barbie dolls in my youth.

such is karma.