Off for the week

I have the week off from work. Originally, I had hoped to take a road trip with The Boy for a few days, but his parents are going out of town so we got stuck are housesitting instead. I was disappointed when The Boy told me we wouldn't be able to go a trip. His parents told him just a few days ago that they were going out of the country and need him to house sit. I'm thinking, "thanks for the heads up." Granted, The Boy and I didn't have concrete plans for our trip. We were just going to head up the coast to stop along the way. Play it by ear, you know. Since that's out of the question now, I figured we could make the most of it. We're going to use this week to visit places in LA that we've been wanting to go, but just haven't had the time to go to yet. Try some new restaurants. Visit with friends that I don't see regularly. Hit up restaurants that I used to frequent when I lived there and now miss. Things like that.

In those jeans

Last week, I went to another sample sale. It was a William Rast/People's Liberation warehouse sale. Samples sales are hit or miss. Sometimes there are good deals to be had and sometimes it just sucks ass. This was not an ass sucking sale. It wasn't crowded AT ALL. Usually, people line up an hour ahead of time and it is super crowded inside. I was so happy when I showed up 20 minutes before the sale started and saw somethingI've never seen before at a sale - ZERO people waiting! At first I thought I was in the wrong area. I double checked that I had the right address and did a little happy dance that there was no line. Then I started wondering why no one was there. Maybe the sale was canceled and I didn't know it. Maybe everyone knows the sale is going to suck ass. I was hoping neither was the case. I did see a few other girls driving around and looking at the building. At 9:00 I headed inside and found out that there was a huge selection. In my size, there were probably 4 or 5 big racks to look through. Granted, many of them were the same styles, but still. There was a huge selection and a good amount of each style so there was no fighting over a small selection. Not only that, but the prices were unbelievable. $50 for a pair of jeans. Can you believe that? $50 for jeans that normally retail around $189 to over $200. That price is just too good to pass up I say. I got myself two pairs, which I was happy with. That's 2 pairs for less than the price of one. It really doesn't get any better than that.

Here's a picture of what I brought home with me that day. Both jeans are William Rast. The one on the left is a pair of skinny jeans and the pair on the right have flared legs.

Updates

I haven't posted in awhile. Sorry about that. I have a bunch of half finished posts that I've written and never got around to finishing. Until then, here's a few things I've been up to lately:

• Went to the Alicia Keys at the Sports Arena in San Diego with The Boy, Lana and her boyfriend. The show was SOOOO good. Jordin Sparks and Ne-yo were the opening acts. I'm not too familiar with Jordin Sparks and I don't really follow American Idol so her stuff was all new to me. She has some pretty decent songs. I've been a big fan of Ne-yo since he came out. I love all his songs. Alicia Keys put on a great performance. She has an amazing voice and she looks so good right now! I know some people give her a hard time about her weight and say that she looks big, but whatever. She looked good. She put on an amazing show. Before the concert, we ate at Phil's BBQ. When we first got there the line was way out the door. Not to worry though, the line moves super fast. We were seated and got our food within 20 minutes. Even if it had taken longer, it would SO be worth it. The food is that good. And the onion rings! Ah-mazing! Here's a pic I snapped. Please excuse the craptacularness of it. It's from my camera phone.





• Had the most wonderful dinner at Nobu inside of the Hard Rock Hotel in downtown. My friend's brother works there so we were given special treatment. We didn't even have to order. We just sat down and course after course was brought out to us. We seriously ate for 3 hours. 3 hours! A lot of the stuff we had wasn't even on the menu. All of it was super yummy. I don't even know what it was. The food just came out to us. Probably one of the best meals I've ever had. I do remember one dish we had was lobster salad. I'm not a real big fan of lobster. I like it just fine, but I don't love it as much as others do, but this lobster salad was definitely a winner. And the bill, oh $60 each. There was 5 of us at dinner so that's only a $300 dinner bill. Pretty good for Nobu if you ask me. I know most of our bill was comped and the rest of the meal's price was discounted. Nobu is a great restaurant, though a little pricey. The atmosphere is nice, very young and trendy. I wouldn't mind going back.

Other than that, it's just been work and school, work and school. I'm sure there are other exciting things to share, but at the moment I just can't remember.