Attention Target shoppers

I love Target. I'd live there if I could. Just like that one movie where Natalie Portman lived in a Wal-mart - except I'd be living there because I heart it so much, not because I had nowhere else to go. I probably go to Target two or three times a week and each time I'm very excited to be there. Tonight I went there to return a storage bin I purchased the other day (it was too big).
Since I was there I just HAD to take a look around. I decided to scope out the live Christmas trees in the garden center. Can I just say OH MY GOD! As soon as I stepped in the garden center it was like Christmas heaven. It smelled all piney and Christmas tree-y. If you couldn't tell by now, I love love love Christmas. I walked around and looked at the trees. I didn't buy one though. I need to go back when I am prepared to bring a tree home (read: 4runner and a male companion to carry the tree). I did purchase some Christmas decor. Here's what I got:

Stocking holders


Some gold ornaments to put in a cylinder vase.


I also got some garland like this, but with lights.

Lions and tigers and . . . cockaroaches? oh my!

I posted last month about my excitement to go to the East Coast. One reason I was so excited was because I would be able to go back to Serendipity 3 and have some yummy yummy frozen hot chocolate. About 2 weeks after I get home from enjoying some yummy hot chocolate I saw this article online. Oh the horror! I'm sure everything will be cleaned up and that most places do have roaches and mice and rats of some kind. Just not this many roaches and such. Oh well. I hope they clean themselves up real fast and that they never get this dirty again (fingers crossed).

Cute Picture of the Day

This is my dog. He's a 6 year old yellow lab. Isn't he the cutest

California Wild fires

It's been awhile since the wild fires, but I still wanted to post about it. The fires began Sunday night. Early Monday morning I left for my trip to the East Coast. I left before we realized how bad the fires were. Homes just 3 miles from my house were evacuated. Being so far away from your home may be in danger is so scary. You are helpless to do anything. It was so scary, it dampned our trip. All I wanted to do was stay in the hotel and watch CNN. Looking back at it though, the fires weren't that close to my house. Although they were evacuating, it was just a precaution. I was told by friends and family that the smoke was really really bad. They said it was like it was raining ashes.

I was lucky enough to be spared from the fires. Many families lost their homes and businesses. Please help them out and donate if you can.

http://64.165.23.58/firerelief.aspx

East Coast Here I Come

I leave this coming Monday for a week long trip to the east coast. I'll be in Philadelphia for a few days before heading to New York for a wedding. I've been looking forward to this trip for awhile now. I can't wait to head back to the east coast and visit all the restaurants that I love. Cheesesteaks - yum! Frrrrozen hot chocolate at Serendipity - double yum!



Good food plus no sales tax on clothes. What more can a girl ask for?

Thank you card

As promised, here is a picture of a thank you card I made recently. I made it for my Uncle, so it's a little plain. He doesn't like anything too overly decorated so I made it with him in mind. Simple and plain.

I'm a crafting machine - not really, but it was fun to say

My sister got married recently. I was very involved in helping her plan the wedding. We did some of the stuff ourselves. We made the table numbers, rehearsal dinner invites, menu cards, and favor tags. I also threw her bridal shower and I made the decorations and shower invites. We got a lot of our inspiration from other brides that were getting married. I read bridal magazines and frequented sites such as theknot.com and weddingbee. Boy, did those sites give me inspiration. People had such great ideas and everything looked so pretty. I thought, I can make stuff like that. It made me want to start making my own, well everything! I bought all these tools such as rubber stamps and ink, card stock, punches, etc. I really want to buy a gocco, but they are so expensive. Some day I'll buy one. I figure, I'll start off slow with rubber stamps and stuff. Once I get better at paper crafts I'll buy a gocco. Its fun making your own things. I've spent so much money buy supplies that my sister said that she never wants to see me give anyone a store bought card again. While it is expensive, the cost per card is so cheap.
Plus, people are impressed when they find out you made them yourself.

I'm not nearly as good at this as other people. I'll post some pictures of things I make every now and then. Right now I only have 2 cards that I've made that I can share with you. I don't have my camera with me so you'll have to wait (not that there is anyone reading this right now, but there maybe some day).

San Diego Super Chargers?!?

Being from San Diego, I'm a Chargers fan. The boy, however, is a Raider's fan (boo!). This makes for some fun friendly arguing when our two teams play each other. I tease him about being part of the Raider Nation. He tells me that the Chargers always choke. I tell him that if we get married and have kids some day that I'm going to dress our kids in little Charger jerseys. How cute will that be! He hates the thought of that and says no child of his will wear any such jersey. I'm sure I'll be the one dressing the kids most of the time, so unless he changes them after I put the Charger jersey on them, my kids will be sporting Chargers gear.

This football season has been a disappointment to say the least. This last game was especially disappointing. The first quarter had some promise, but it was all down hill from there. It was like turnover city up in there. Rivers has been throwing way too many interceptions this year. I don't know what it is. He needs better protection or something.

I had a pretty chill weekend. Saturday the boy and I went shopping. He bought a suit for a wedding we're going to next month. Then I took my new dress to the cleaners. It was a little big in the waist and the straps were too long. I also had the hem taken up a little bit. I'm quite short and the length was just too long. We went home after that and studied and watched tv all night. Exciting, I know. Sunday we watched football all day and did more studying. Not the most fun-filled weekend, but we got a lot done.

What's for dinner?

I was at home with my sister tonight. We couldn't decide on what to eat for dinner. I wanted pasta, she wanted chinse. I would throw out a suggestion, she wouldn't want it and vice versa. It took us an hour to come up with something to eat and all we decided on was Panda Express. It was late, we were hungry and Panda Express is right across the street from us - fast and cheap. What did you eat for dinner?

99 Questions

I'll post random surveys as I come across them on myspace as a way to let get to know me a little bit better. Here goes the first one.....

1. Do you wear a name tag at work?
No, but i have to dress business casual

2. What kind of car do you drive?
4runner

3. What do you order when you go to Taco Bell?
um, i don't go there. i like authentic mexican food from small hole in the wall places

4. Have you ever had a garage sale?
no, but i do sell suff on ebay

14. What color is your iPod?
i have a mini and a shuffle, both blue

15. What kind of dog do you have?
lab

16. Has your older brothers or sisters ever told you that you were adopted?
all the time when we were kids

17. What is your favorite keychain on your keys?
um, i don't know

18. What did you get for graduation?
nothing

19. What is your favorite Dane Cook quote?
i don't know any

20. Who introduced you to Dane Cook?
good luck chuck

21. Who was your prom date?
r

22. Has someone ever made you a Build-A-Bear?
no, how sad for me

23. What DVD is in your DVD player?
none, i haven't watched one in awhile

24. What did you do for fun today?
ate cake

25. What's your myspace song and why?
i don't have a song on my page

26. Has your house ever been rolled?
couldn't tell ya

27. What do you think of when you hear the word "meow"?
stupid cats

28. What are you listening to right now?
kelly clarkson on the radio

29. Who/what is/was your highschool's mascots rival?
titans

30. What is your favorite aisle at Wal-Mart?
none, i like target better

31. When is your mom's birthday?
sept


33. What's the area code for your cell phone?
619

34. What did you get for Valentine's Day?
flowers, candy, and dinner

36. Where did you buy the shirt you're wearing now?
nordstrom

37. Is there anything hanging from your rear view mirror?
nope

38. Favorite class last year?
business communications

39. how many states have you visited?
12

40. Which ones?
washington, nevada, illinois, wisconsin, pennsylvania, new york, new jersey, virginia, hawaii, dc, florida

41. What kind of milk do you drink?
1% or soy

42. What are you going to do after this?
work

43. Who was the last person you went shopping with?
me, i like going alone so that i don't feel rushed

44. What's your favorite dessert?
as long as there's chocolate in it i'm happy

45. What is something you need to go shopping for?
a new dress for a wedding

46. Do you have the same name as one of your relatives?
nope

47. What kind of car do your siblings drive?
bmw

48. Do you like pickles?
if they are crunchy

49. How about olives?
sure

50. What is your favorite kind of gum?
when i was a kid it was juicy fruit, now i don't have one

51. What is your favorite kind of juice?
cranapple

52. Are you married? If not, when?
not yet. when the boy asks

All about me

Hello blogging world. This is me in a nutshell. I am a twenty-something year old first generation filipino, Southern California girl. Raised in San Diego, I moved to Los Angeles after high school where I attened a private university. I met a boy during college. He went to school at UCI. We did the whole long-distance thing. Now I'm back in San Diego. Still in school, working full time at a medical office. The boy is in school too (med school). We are still doing the long distance thing. Hmmm, what else. I guess that's all there is to know about me for now. You can get to know me more through the rest of my posts. Enjoy!

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