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Belated Turkey Day

Jes and I went to the Buena Park house today to prepare this year’s Turkey Dinner. Due to work schedules and all, we postponed our turkey eating to today. The extended family came including Jes’ uncle, aunties, cousins, and grandmother. The turkey roasted all afternoon as Jes serenaded it with his version of the “Fat Turkey” song. He also kept muttering to himself, “the best turkey ever”. It appeared that our chef was especially cheerful today. Meanwhile, Jes’ mom prepared a slew of Chinese food to accompany the traditional American fare including her yummy sticky rice stuffing. Of course we had too much food and were so full afterwards. Everyone left that night with baggies of leftovers and about 3 pounds of food in their stomachs.

another crazy night

We went to Daddy’s Lounge in Hollywood last night. The bar was dark and chill with lots of big couches and ottomans. There was an eclectic mix of music ranging from Black Eyed Peas to Jeff Buckley. We met up with a bunch of friends including Dayantha, Jimmy, Yoon, Mike (Yoon’s brother), Holly, Roy, Tinou, and Matt. They all brought friends too so it was your traditional holiday weekend gathering for some drinks.
Afterwards, some of us got some infamous “LA Danger Dogs” from the cart outside. Boy, I could smell those bacon-wrapped hotdogs from inside the bar. So good… Meanwhile, Jes pushed Dayantha to the floor for fun and that was all we heard about for the rest of the night from Dayantha. He kept threatening him back with “December 23rd”. I suppose that means Dayantha will be getting him back at the Christmas Party. We ended the night at Denny’s to sober up a bit and then headed home. It was another crazy night.

Non-Turkey Day

Jes and I met up with Bang and Vyl at the Williams-Sonoma on Friday to use Vyl’s awesome 40% discount to buy some real wine glasses. Later that night, the four of us tried out a bunch of wines that we’ve been saving for while. By the end of the night, we finished off 4 bottles of wine and lots of cheese and ended up with a very drunk, stinky Bang.
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Today is Thanksgiving and we had the parents over for a non-turkey dinner. Johnny came over early and beat us at poker while Jes made standing rib roast. What a feast…we had a nice juicy prime rib with sweet potato, corn, and au jus. Jes even made some bread pudding that almost beat the stuff that Lawry’s serves. Mmmm… Happy Thanksgiving!

finally…a 4-day weekend

I’ve been waiting for this weekend to arrive all month. November is usually a busy month for me because of the number of parent conferences I have to attend. Well, it’s almost over and I can finally enjoy a nice 4-day weekend. I finished at about 1:00 today and looking forward to some yummy food and hanging out with family and friends. On the agenda so far are the following:
1) Wine Tasting with the Miss Chans
2) Thanksgiving Dinner with the parents at our house
3) Possible Black Friday shopping
4) Another Thanksgiving Dinner with extended family in Buena Park
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Unfortunately, I’m swamped with 4 reports to write by next week…maybe I’ll get some work done over the weekend too…*sigh* it just never ends.

more shopping…

Wendy, Jes’ co-worker, scored some extra tickets to the Oakley Employee Family and Friends Sale at the headquarters in Foothill Ranch. So, this morning we got up bright and early and headed out around 8 am. There were lines for each hour and most people had a specific time on their ticket for entry. Fortunately, our tickets said “VIP” and we walked right past the lines and we had a cool carpool lane exprience as we walked to the front of the line. I almost wanted to throw my hands up in the air and yell, “weee!!”.
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Anyway, it was set up in the parking lot with tables and tents like a swap meet. People were rather pushy trying to get what they wanted in their size and buying multiples of 4 or 5 of the same things. It was insane. I managed to find a new ski jacket and matching pants along with a few other things….uh…make that 3 pairs of sunglasses, a few shirts, a bag, another jacket, a skirt, and goggles for the brother. Jes got a pair of new snowboarding pants and some other cool stuff too. Everything was at least 50% off, if not more. We spent a lot of money but came home with a full trashbag full of Oakley crap. Fun Fun Fun!

Let’s go shopping!

Since Marie is spending Christmas in New York this year, I thought I’d drop off their presents early. Well, it mostly because I got Cole a really cool toy and I was excited to play with it myself. Now that he’s able to sit up on his own, this is a really fun way to work on his motor skills too (haha – I’m still thinking like a therapist). Anyway, it’s pretty neat with lots of lights and music. The dinosaur even says “Rowr” when the ball falls through his mouth. Very cute.
Last night, I hung out with Marie and Cole again (second night in a row). This time we went on our usual shopping trip. This time it was to my favorite store, Target. This trip was fun since it was the first time Cole was able to sit in the shopping cart seat like a big boy. He was so excited and seemed to have a pretty good time. He’s up higher and isn’t strapped in as tightly as he usually is in a stoller. I think the best part was that Marie was able to shop around without having to worry about him too much and we didn’t need to push a shopping cart AND stroller. We even met this strange man who apparently LOVES children and spent a good five minutes making Cole laugh by making faces and funny sounds. It was rather awkward for me and Marie but Cole seemed to get a kick out of his antics.