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Motown Feeling back again...

Alright my birhday has gone and past and I had fun. Planning it wasnt the highlight lol actually it was all worth it. Actually evites get a high five from me cuz they got info out and I got R.S.V.P.'s, driving directions were available, so yeah big up to evites. Anyway I got my nails done and then went about running a million and one errands ya know when is there one day when there ain't something to do? Well flahing forward I went and picked up Subha, it's so great seeing her, I miss her so much I dont get to see her so much anymore I think it had been a year , yeah Im a bastard I need to make time. The thing I love though is that it never feels like it's been long. Well anyway I failed to mention that we were running late. I finally get to Brissa's house damn near 7:50 and reservations were at 8:00, yeah so much for being there on time. Well anyway after getting Bris' we get on the freeway only to find that there's traffic yeah that was the kind of luck I was having nice huh? well we were about an hour late. We got lost. See I think it was something about being distracted by Louis Vuitton and Gucci that we seem to keep missing the restaurant that was right on the corner. And then Subha thought it said "Motown" so she didnt mention it. We're dorks and we do ish like that. I think Subha just wanted to Tiffany's and didnt mention it until she did ( I'd say j/k kidding but I think it's partly true, which part? the part that she wanted to see Tiffany's but she really thought that's what the sign said "Motown")It was the bestest to see all my friends there. Oh and Mary was there. Gosh it's been so long since I had seen her, there are so many things that we need to catch up on. Well my food was good, I mean lobster ravioli what more could I want? I had my first legal drink, good times. Artut showed up about 10 something which was also great since he had to work and he still came , he kept his promise, I have such great friends. I had the bestest time and I got high fives and everything, I even got alled a ravioli, yeah not the slickest move I mean italian is so close to spanish that you can deduce what the hell they're talking about and in anycase if ther was any doubt I got Bris' to handle that...
I think the only crackheaded part of that place is that some person cant hold plates because they kept dropping them or something in the kitchen, who knows maybe they were playing frisbee. We stayed til closing basically and then decided to freeze our asses outside trying to decide what to do afterwards as oppose to doing that inside. But wait that's no fun, we always do that. So anyway Mary had to go home and Agnes also left. Eugene and Cheli had left earlier but Im so happy that she was able to come, Subha needed to be home so we decided to drop her off and decide there.
We get to her house, we say goodbye and then we're just hangign out side her house kinda stalkerish, with any luck cops would be pulling up but no sprinklers get turn on soaking our cars and catching some of us a bit as we ran off in a slight panic lol . We end up at Denny's for hot chocolate/vanilla capuccino's ( free refills :) )
Artur hadnt eaten so he et food we hang out for awhile and then it was near two I think and since I have to go to work I decided to call my night a wrap to my dismay though. Nah but Marc and 'Lys offered to take Hiromi home and Artur took Bris' home and I was able to catch a few extra ZZZ's before having to get up for work ( ok so it was like 2 hours sleep so what it was fun). SO Anyway thanks everyone for coming and making it so special for me I love you all, high fives to all!!!!!!!!!
posted by Shaistie at 12:39 AM

 
How about I put it all in a lockbox... a camoflauge lockbox....
Yeah It's been a bit of a stress thing with the whole birthday thing, yeah note to self: cut back on the planning ish . Nah you'd think it would be so hard but it does get a lil "sticky" wait does that make any sense? "hard" doesnt fit well oh well fuck it. Thinking involves work and Im in serious debt with the brain. Figuring where to go, especially being on this trying new places kick is a bit hard, this involves "Stra-te-gery" (thanks SNL ) Anyway there comes the issue of picking a place that everyone can find something they'd like to eat and then price and then distance. Now that out of the way, calling everyone and their mothers, that's a whole 'notha thang, especially if your like me and with cell phone half the time I can t get it so yeah Im a big fan of the text message. Okay Im a REALLY big fan of the text so many uses for it, text message I owe you on sooooooooo many accounts lol. So then there's the R.S.V.P part actually I found a slightly slick approach ( here I go thinking Im the real dooky now) But apparently they have a planner and you can send e-vites and that takes care of directions, time, everything. Nice. Reservations. Now that gets to be a toughy, I dont think in all the times we've gone out had we ever had the right amount of ppl under the reservation. But the bestest part of it all after a million phone calls, some jokes cracked is when you see everybody around the table . Good food Good people Great times .... hope my attempt for this Friday turns out high five worthy.....

posted by Shaistie at 1:45 AM

 
Oh crap it's my birthday .....
Wow it's a little funny how you start to not be so excited when these come around anymore but what the hey yep it's Damn official no more sneaking, lying, pretending my ass is finally 21....... NIce huh? well come to think of it it might really be true that you do most of your drinking by the time your 21 but then again Im up to be proven wrong. LOL. BUt yeah my ass is getting old lol Im an old fart so yeah I think I should stop pattin my own back on this whole birthday thing. Im a dork. Anywho what kind of self-absorbed bastard have I become to write this before morning class , anyway happy birthday to me? Yeah what a bum... more to come..........
posted by Shaistie at 7:18 AM

 
BJ's Lip Gloss
Long ass mofo day. Long list of to-do including darkroom time to make prints for my photography class. Anyway was suppose to meet roxy for lunch at 12 but I ran an extra 20 minutes because my damn fiber paper takes longer to dry ... The night before she was craving Pizza ( craving sounds pregnant woman-ish) BUt anywho I get to her house to find her doing some yard work with her mom. We head to Bj's there's a it of a traffic problem and mandatory Valet conspiracy? I mean they only parked my car like a foot away. So anyway even though we initially had said pizza we still looked over the menu lol and Roxy gets her "weird" pizza, Okay it want that wierd she's the one who mentioned it somthign like green peppers and sundried tomatoes and olives was it? I had mushrooms olives and artichokes very good. We're talking about next Friday and stuff, I dont want to decide, Im in such a lazy mode now. Anyway towards the end food there's thos stand up things on the table and it sells BJ's teeshirts and stuff and I say that I want a Bj's big glass and for some reason or another Roxy hears Lip gloss, now what typw of beer flavor is that? LOL always making me laugh even when Im drinking lemonade and near choke on it. I swear you repeated exactly what I said verbatim as if it were new even though I said it a few second before, you deserve a high five for that.....insert high five here... Man Roxy we dont hang out as much as we used to but man it's always fun. SO when we go to get our car the guy is confused or something and doesnt look like he's gonna get my car and it's like 2 feet away so I ask if I can just get it being that it is right there walking distance and all, and being that I didnt need it Valet in the first place yeah I know but whatever . Highlight of the day Thanks Roxy for lunch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by Shaistie at 11:23 PM

 
My 8 miles.....
I didnt work today. Feels wierd to just state that but it wasn to stay home , when does that happen? But anywho I was at the L.A marathon and fourtuantely I didnt get suckered into promotions I had a bigger mission at hand that day. See it's been a couple years now since my dad's incident and he has been working at building himself into running the marathon under our encouragement . See Im not a runner. I play basketball . How much sense does that make? See just plain running isnt appealing. But yeah I sucked it up al in the name of moral support. 26.2 miles for fun? who does that ish for fun? apparently my dad does along with all his running buddies. But anywho we were all there at the start of the race and then we all split . My brother would be at the finishline my mom would be meeting my dad at mile 8 and I would be at 16. So after he ran by and I got a glimpe of Big Boy who gave me the fist in the air and a smile I dropped my mom off at mile 8 and then I went to 16 where she would take the car to the near the finish. So my dad ran ran the first 8 alone and then my mom ran the next 8 with him . I was a little scared of missing them but then again my dad was wearing that brightass highlighter yellow shirt and my mom was wearing a more subdued shade of yellow herself. It was so hot that day but yeah after a brief exchange it was my turn, what the hell was I thinking? It was for encouragement and to keep an eye on him but he did it , all 26.2 miles of it. He was beaming at the end, I was thinking Im not a runner Im a basketball player lol though I dressed the part. But I shouldnt complain I failed to mention that at the start of it there were people who were blind, there was a man with one leg on crutches, and others that show us the meaning of determination. May be we dont have it so bad after all..... Congrats Dad you finished oh and he beat Oprah's time too lol 4:17:32 ....
posted by Shaistie at 11:09 PM

 
Unjigglin' JELLO, tossed salads, and a Very Happy Birthday to Eugene and Cheli!
OKay so change of plans and our Saturday took a backward trip to Friday. Long day, actually a bit of crazyness on Thursday but overall I think it was a good time had lol. We had our celebration at Cheli's house. She's so great she made food, although we're tripping where the Chicken came from since she disappeared from the kitcen hmmm, Marc suggested the front seat of her car lol. Plan to make a cake fell through with time constraints, so I bought Oreo cake. I had about 30 minutes to get their presents but sometimes we work well under pressure. When I got there Aly and Marc were already there, but Eugene wasnt so I wasnt that late.... I think Ive been pretty good at it for the most part. Anywho Eugene gets there and a short while later Justina and her boyfriend gets there with salad needing to be tossed. The Jello Queen (cheli) made jello to go along with all the other food that was really good. The Ice Queen (Aly) had the responsibility of ice and mind you she's excellent at it ;) . The cake queen ( me) isnt a title I think i deserver being that I didnt make it lol. The soda queen (marc) was responsible for the soda. Yeah all night there were random jokes of eugene looking like Marc's gay classmate, the salad Justina brought needing to be tossed, oh but the one that took the cake wa the Jello. See cheli made it with milk so it's jiggleness and see-through-ness was missing, see it's not so crazy for cheli carlos and me but it was funny teasing her about it but for the record and we reassured her troughout the night that it was very good because it was and that we were just joking. We played gestures, that was fun but that point that we gave you for free tied if and so we went into sudden death round and but of course we won , insert high five here.It was a lot of fun we laughed and I think that Cheli and eugene had a good time and that's the most important, Happy Birthday you guys !!!!
posted by Shaistie at 12:39 AM