Mochi

Tonight was one of the first times that I was in the presence of people who had never eaten or heard of mochi. I don't think they enjoyed it too much, most of them felt that it tasted like nothing or reminded them of eating dough. I guess because I like it so much and am so used to it, I never realized that it could be an acquired taste. I tried explaining to them that it was more about the texture rather than the taste. But I bet if we had the mochi with the ice cream inside, they'd be all over it.

I told myself that I wouldn't cry but I'm going to miss my Iron Giant insanely! Boys are stupid, they don't realize that when they poke fun and tell me not to cry, it ends up bringing on the water works even more.

Empty wallet

I just love how everything is going up in price. My parking went up and the textbooks were insane. Just one book was $95 and up, and they weren't even like huge hardcovers! Don't even get me started about gas prices, I'm in total fear about how much I'm going to be spending starting in the next few weeks. It was funny because the other day, I seriously had no money left in my wallet after paying for gas and I said to the guy, "Are you happy now? I have no money left!" The gas man responded, "I'm sorry, I can't help it!" So I told him, "Sure, you can start giving me free refills." Yeah, he didn't take me up on my request.

I've realized that I spend way too much money on cards. I always pick out the nice, hand crafted ones that cost 5x a normal card. I always tell myself that I totally could make it but I'm just too lazy to.

Clairvoyant

What an interesting night. I went out to dinner with Jess in Princeton and she was telling me that for her birthday next week she wanted to do something during the day. She was deciding between going to a psychic (just cause it was different and silly) or getting an expensive haircut (one that comes with a consultation before). Since we ate way too much, we decided to walk it off and we tried to find the location of the psychic just to see if it was shady or not. So we find the place and outta nowhere, Jess gets all sporadic and decides that she wants to get it done now & then and wanted me to join in as well. As we were walking up the stairs, I kept telling her that I wasn't emotionally ready to handle it yet. The thing is, I could imagine those readings being fun but only when they're good readings (even if they're off) but I know that I would get easily upset if something "bad" was foreseen.

We get into the place and we find out that we have to go into the little room separately. I think we both imagined it being in a big room with a giant table and we could just sit around it. Well, I think the reading room was inside the closet of this apt. I was a bit freaked cause I saw how tiny it was and I so didn't want to be shut inside of that. The psychic told us that if she read our cards together, it would throw things off. So I told Jess to go first since it was all her idea. I sat outside waiting but they left the door open so I could hear everything that was being said. Some things were a bit off for Jess but honestly, a lot of stuff really hit the mark, especially about her work issues. Once Jess was done, she came out and kinda just sent me in next. Well my readings, some really freakishly true and some where a bit off as well. I don't want to get into details because Jess & I figured we're gonna test these readings to see if certain ones happen in the set time frame (ie: monetary issues, ex-reappearances, proposal). Let's just say that she was able to read some issues with past/present relationships, the moms, negative fems, & character. She mentioned that my school/career would be good because I was on the "right" path. Jess was mad cause her life reading wasn't as long as mine. Mine was very long, longer than hers by 14 years and it would be due to natural causes.

Afterwards, we went to watch "Four Brothers". I thought it was pretty good. Mmm Tyrese. Oh, yeah, so I sat on a thin mint...yeah too bad that wasn't predicted earlier! Nothing like some silly ol' fun.

BJ's & Sluts

We celebrated Jessica's bday early last night since Beth was home from CT. So sad on our part, but we were excited about bringing the wine to a restaurant like how all the "older" people do. The bottle was the almond berry one that I picked up at the local winery, it was pretty good. We actually ended up finishing the entire bottle during dinner. After our late dinner, we came back home to surprise Jess with the cake. While she was in the potty, we quickly got the candles all lit up and ready. Of course she ended up taking forever and the candles were quickly burning out, so we screamed for her to hurry up because someone was about to crap their pants. She actually believed us and we could hear her scurrying down the stairs. The cake was good, it was a strawberry swirl one that I had made.

Afterwards, we all went to a bar. I went to get Jess a bday shot and asked for a yaegarbomb but apparently they didn't have any red bull. So I asked the bartender if he could make a red headed slut. He responded back, "Sure I can make that. But I've also had a few of those, if you know what I mean." Uhm, mmmkay, more info than I needed to know. I'm just glad I wasn't the one that went up to get the BJ shots, I can only imagine what he would say in response to that. Oh yeah, there was a live band doing covers that night too. Towards the end of the night, there was this one guy that kept doing like NSYNC dance moves to all the songs (btw, none were pop songs at all).

Art smart


So shiny, wanna touch...

Ahh! Reminder of the dreaded infinite sign from calculus!

Mmmm, candy land!

Missing Bobo & Buddy...but me and Beth know you two are getting crunked today :) 

Insomnia

I don't know what's keeping me awake, the caffeine or the sugar. Or maybe it's the fact that over an hour ago, I saw a flying insect in my room and now I don't know where it is so I'm probably subconsciously freaking out that if I fall asleep, it'll get to me.

I watched "Must Love Dogs" this weekend, I thought it was cute but then again, I always like movies like this. I don't know why I like John Cusack so much but he just seems like such a sweet guy. It's funny cause I realized that it really is a "must" for my significant other to love dogs. John Cusack's character in the movie brought up an interesting point, he noted that for every relationship, women create a script but they don't let the guy know so when the guy goes off course, he then becomes written out of it. This is so very true, I know that I've done that before where I have these unsaid expectations/wants and when it's not delivered, I get upset. I don't think we purposely set it up for a guy to fail though. Granted, I know how people say if you want something then just say it. But where's the fun in that? I think we all just want someone to know what we want without ever having to say a word.

I also went to a wedding this weekend, it was Michelle's...one of my bf from elementary school. It was small and simple but still nice nonetheless. Beth had in advance told me of what to do during the church ceremony...like how I shouldn't stand up when I saw random people standing up to receive the bread pieces. She failed to mention to me that at one point, everyone would start kissing and hugging one another. When this happened, I had no clue what was going on and I think the woman in the front pew thought I was weird when I kinda gave her this blank glance when she tried to give me some lovin. Oh this was cute, they handed out little viles of bubbles for us to use when the bride and groom came out. I've also heard that recently a lot of couples like having butterfly releases. Can I stress how much this would FREAK me out? I know I would be screaming all over the place if this ever happened at any wedding.