Happy Birthday to me

For my birthday I slept in. Ok, I got up at 6am to deal with a diaper, and THEN I slept in, until around 9:30. bliss!
Then, C took me here:

It's the Well Within Spa, and it is fantastic. I got an hour in the hot tub, and then 2 hours of massage, facial and scalp treatment.
Then we met my parents and sisters at the Laughing Monkey Cafe for lunch. Dad and I were the only ones who enjoyed the meal, but that's ok. I think I'll be going back for their samosas. delicious!
I was dazed for the rest of the day. I finally recovered just in time to go to bed. Best Birthday Ever.

Now it's back to the real world, and the realisation that our rent is late. oops. c'est la vie!

10 months, and Happy 4th!

Since all the fireworks displays around here have been cancelled (fires and such) we went over to Gilroy and had a little backyard bbq with my parents. It was really, really nice. E played with the little inflatable pool, but didn't go in as it was already too cold, and then we watched the fireworks from around the fire dish. Even the traffic driving home was nice!

jumping back in...eventually

Wow, things have been a bit crazy around here! E has 6 teeth now and can crawl, we had Mother's Day and Father's Day, graduations were last week, I switched my minor from East Asian Studies to History, passed my Japanese class and got an A in my Ling class (despite the prof...ugh...I'll tell you later), applied for a year extension at part-time, which I am waiting for approval on, had The Final Garage Sale with my mum...except that after clearing out all the garage sale things there is still a garage full of more things (who knew they were so densely packed? Besides the termites, that is), so we may have a ...denouement garage sale? In addition, 3 very large fires all within 10 miles of us all within the last few weeks have added to the festivities (including the one burning right this moment set by some idiot motorized arsonist). Anyhoo, going to get back into the swing of things with posts soon, as well as actually publishing a few I have already done and waiting for photos. Main comp is still down, so I am making due with the laptop. This means download pic, edit pic, move over to external hardrive so that my laptop can still function. stupid Windows. I'll be back soon!

9 months

oooooh, a meeeeeeme

Whilst browsing today, I saw a meme and decided, hey, why not? I have 5 minutes to kill before jumping on a bus, so here goes:

it's about me me me me meme

Now if you really want to know...

what was I doing ten years ago 1998

I was still being homeschooled; or rather, reading and studying whatever I wanted. I as taking a few courses over at the community college, probably theatre, perhaps tennis, maybe the anthropology course? I was going up the line in Rainbow, moderately involved with youth group (this may have been the year I went to Mexico? seems right.)

5 things on my to-do list today
-babysit Dovid and Feiga
-finish cleaning up the bedroom
-study for my Japanese oral final
-do some laundry (esp. those diapers!)
-actually sleep

snacks I enjoy
-queso fresco+guava paste
-cashews
-crunchy dill pickles
-gefilte + olive dip
-grapes

things I would do if I were a billionnaire
-travel
-get a nice little house
-pay for my siblings to go to college
-buy my dad a little plane :)

places I have lived
San Juan, Puerto Rico - Estate Tiperary, St. Croix - Corpus Christi, TX - Gilroy, CA - Ingleside, TX - Port Aransas, TX - Edinburg, TX - Sacramento, CA - Arcadia, CA - Santa Cruz, CA

6 people I would like to know more about?
I already feel like a voyeur as it is, but I suppose mostly relatives that I didn't get to learn much about. My Bibita, my great grandmothers and grandfathers, my grandfathers...I suppose that's already more than 6 :)

8 months

Daring Bakers:April

I did make the cheesecake pops, and they were FANTASTIC, but I made them back around the 12th and my main computer promptly died so I don't have any pics right now. Gah. Once I get a card reader I'll upload my bouquet-o-cheesecake pictures, but in the meantime I am going to make some more for a bbq coming up, since they were a hit with the neighbours and at Avi's going-away-to-Israel-again party. :) So good.

Hooray! I finally just got out the card reader for the laptop, as the main one is still defunct. Here is that pic of those yummy, yummy pops! DL and I are going to make them for Shavuot. whoo hoo!

Pesach!

I've just been plugging along, 1/3 of the way through the quarter and I passed my first Japanese test, have been engaged in very productive family therapy, and went to two seders. It's been intense, but really great. Too bad I don't have time for much else!