i picked up my check for TA-ing OMM this semester… and it was more than i had expected. woo hoo! time to go shopping!! or sushi! who’s gonna visit me?

and then… my mom called and told me she found my PDA for cheap. ooooh. time to shop for a nice SD card and time to find a good ppt program for my pda. microsoft doesn’t make one. poopy.

now… i have to go to my bioterrorism lectures. oh joy.

friday morning, the mom and i dragged ryan out of bed at the crack of dawn to pick out new glasses for him. later that day, he showed up at my house with the new glasses, a new haircut, and nice nice clothes. hel-lo, handsome!

the rest of the weekend was spent shopping and playing video games… and just a very little bit of studying.

yesterday: laundry [with annie], tennis [with little ryan, jenny, annie, and the mom], video games [with annie and jenny], food [at jenny’s house], food [at andrew’s house], shrek 2, more food, gossip, some kind of shady tasting pumpkin pie. this year it was homemade madness. bac tram made homemade yams, green bean casserole, cornbread, artichoke dip… mmmmmmmmm. so good!

today: the mom and i woke up early and ran down to compusa to try and get me a nice PDA[the HP2215] at a nice price. unfortunately, by the time we got there, they were all sold out and were substituting a lame-o supremo one instead. we declined, and ran off to starbucks for brekkie. afterwards, we walked across the street to best buy and braved the crowds for…nothing. then, we walked a million [or 4] blocks to fry’s electronics, where we found a super cool HP iPAC [supposedly] on sale for $349. i smiled and pouted with the nice salesman and got $25 more dollars taken off the price. we then waited in a like that zigged and zagged through half the aisles in the store all the way to the back– one that put every line at disneyland and a hot summer day to shame. while my mom kept our place in line, i ran back and forth– fetching a lightbulb, then a PLATINUM [shiny!] package nintendo gamecube[with a mario cart racing game!], then an extra controller for the gamecube. finally, we paid, and made our way to the mall for some lunchy and light shopping/wandering. at the abercrombie store, we saw two models [one floppy haired and topless] posing with customers at the front of the store. wierdness. then, we went to express, where i got a FREE cashmere scarf! woo hoo!

at home, i opened up my PDA box… and to my dismay… it was… just… plain… ugly. wrong color, wrong features, no happy. so the mom searches the HP site for what may have gone wrong… and we finally figure it out. fry’s put the wrong PDA on display. AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH! so now, we’ve got to return it, and i’m back on the hunt from my HP 2215. hmmph. a big thank you to ryan and his dad for trying their luck down in san diego. too bad the only place that actually has them is in fricken encinitas. boooooooo.

bac dam, missy, jenny, mom, and i went to ken of japan for teppan and sushi. we missed annie, though. it’s just not the same without my poopy! after dinner, we plugged in the new gamecube and played games until we were exhausted. whew.

i’m on vacaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaation! the barrage of exams has passed, and i’m sitting on my futon, brain numb, not doing my laundry. i might just have to postpone it until tomorrow. i’m just that lazy.

instead, i’ve been fussing with the blog again. bye bye leaves, hel-lo circles. the cartoon is from a notebook that annie gave me as a happy friday gift. preeeeeeeeeety. we’ll see how long this design stays up before i get the urge to change it again.

and… my fish had babies! there are four new guppie babies hanging out in my tree-plant thing. coooooo. and my mollies are looking fatter– mebbe they’ll pop soon, too.

found via boingboing: a book by Hiroyuki Nishigaki

If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?

i wonder how many people are going to find this book in their stocking this christmas. it’s gotta be the gag gift of the year. available at target.

vacation plans are finalized!

first, a resort in san diego. then christmas at home with the people… and ryan! then, off to big bear for snow [hopefully] and hot cocoa. and then…. off to vegas to celebrate a very, very, very belated twenty-firth(sic) birthday, get pampered, and see the blue man group [i think. if they’re still there. i really don’t know].

oh, and eat. there’s always some sort of food involved.

ok, so the sclera of one of my eyes has a strange, erythematous bulge. it’s not puritic, not painful, just ugly. bleh. i’ve been so groggy/spacey/pukey all day, too — i can’t believe i got through 8 hours of studying.

i had my first experience with a bidet today at cat’s house. there’s nothing quite like listening to the the whirr of the motor while you wait for a spray of water to hit your butt…. and then there’s the blowdryer. lol. of course, everything’s funny when you’ve been studying all day, your eyes are f-ed up, and you’ve had about 20 cups of tea.

and, in the spirit of one of my cousin missy: 143 ryan! i miss you!

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

found at glarkware.com. i’m particularly fond of the two shirts shown above– the first one reminds me of annie, the second reminds me of ryan. they’re on my xmas list for sure. i just don’t know if i’ll be giving them or recieving them. hmmmm.