Friday, January 25, 2008
hanging out with my nephews
i stopped by the mupas household this afternoon and spent an hour with my nephews, who never cease to entertain me =)
a few of my favorite memories from today:
the warm reception from griffin
griffin: opens door “oh. it’s you.” closes door
connor (having too much fun, apparently): “i’m not gonna play with you anymore today! i’m not gonna do anything with you! i won’t even marry you!!”
and just so i wouldn’t think i wasn’t wanted around, cole was there to offer me all his food, even his jello jiggler when he realized he was given the last one and i didn’t have any. he read his veggietale book to me - and he has his narration down pat, inflection and all. it was really adorable.
cole (when i was preparing to leave): “you’re gonna spend the night, right? you can’t leave yet!”
i told him he could read to me next week.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
ugh... i sprained my ankle
i landed wrong after spiking the volleyball. and darnit, i knew i was gonna land wrong after i jumped, but i couldn’t stop from rolling onto the top of my left ankle.
the doc says it’s not a fracture, and if this had been my first sprain, i wouldn’t have even gone to the doctor. but with the recurrent sprain and the feeling of a torn ligament, i just know i need to take more measures to heal properly. my ligaments are soooo loose that i rolled it far beyond what anyone else would do. so hopefully, with this ortho referral, i will be able to get some type of orthosis to help stabilize my ankles.
i’m thinking this:
or this:
or maybe an active ankle:
for some reasons the prices look much more affordable now than when i checked up on them a couple of months ago, but if the doctor prescribes them, then they’ll be totally free! and hopefully they also give me the orthotics so that when i sleep i don’t wake up with the numb feet i have been, maybe due to plantar fasciitis, but hopefully treatable…
ugh… why am i so broken so young?!?!
Monday, January 14, 2008
my camote plant is growing!
out with gus jr’s, and in with stater brothers yogurt!
my camote plant has slowed down its growth ever since that last big spurt, but i just moved it into a new container. it already looks like it’s loving the room for its roots to grow.
i love my little camote plant and i pet it every day! =)
Sunday, January 06, 2008
adorable cute puppies
these two cute little puppies were born to haley, the yorkshire terrier in the pictures. we didn’t even know she was pregnant! but if you thought yorkies are tiny, you should see their puppies! they looked liked two little stuffed animals! enjoy these pics of them:
cute, huh?
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Christmas tree shopping with perry & gigi
i stopped by perry’s house to do some last minute shopping on dec 23, right after our roomies’ Christmas celebration. we brought his sister with us to best buy, where we saw these two policemen passing by on horse!
we then decided to pick up a live Christmas tree for their house from home depot. here’s the 6-7’ tree they picked out
and then here’s gigi carrying the 4 foot tree that they cut it down to!
we went back to their house to get it decorated
it was a lot of fun getting to decorate a tree with several people! the three of us had a lot of fun pulling out the old ornaments and lights and decorating the tree, and even perry’s grandpa participated too, watching from the couch and offering advice on where to put the ornaments =)
Christmas with the roomies
we can no longer refer to ourselves as the bachelorettes from the bachelorette pad since rita got married, but we still have our get-togethers. this last one was particularly fun because we did our Christmas gift exchange at martha green’s in redlands, and everyone around us was enjoy our festivities too!
shelia gave kat these gloves in a nice purse as a wrapper
and kat and rita are leaning like cholos
while i got this present from kat, the bag imported from singapore!
it definitely was a fun time getting together and catching up on each others’ lives…
on the 395
we actually made the trip home during the day, and the scenery was beeeyoutiful!
here we are at lake tahoe at noon, right before the drive home
and a picture of the lake with the mountains in the background
i took the next few pics from the passenger seat while perry was driving… i couldn’t frame the shots the way i wanted to but i think they came out ok! the specs in the pictures are from the windshield and on one pic you can even see the dirt left from the windshield wiper. they’re still pretty good pics tho imo =)
and this last one i took while we were stopped on the side of the road right before entering bishop
pics from the tahoe trip
on dec 28, westy, meesh, kevin, perry, dean, allan, marc, and i headed up the 395 to south lake tahoe to get some boarding in. i took our mugshots at a gas station in nevada…
kevin had a fun time on the ride up…
and i think westy really enjoyed the trip too - he just kept on eating!!!
the five of us stayed behind to celebrate new years outside harrah’s and harvey’s
with the gorilla…
and with the pigs… hahaha just kidding. they were pretty cool…
this was the first new year’s celebration that perry and i got to spend together… the first time he was in the philippines and the second time i was in hawaii with family. it was nice to be together this time!
it was a happy new year celebration!
visiting temecula
on boxing day, marlene and shyla picked me up on the way to temecula and we had a lot of fun running around the south coast winery
here’s a close up of the fountain
we were so excited when we saw the little villa that we were staying in!
but of course we didn’t wanna spend all our time in the room, so we took a walk through the spa and then towards the restaurant, which was surrounded by this shrubbery
and then i had to test the macro function on my camera on a close up of the berries…
after some adventures involving taxis and other wineries, we came back to south coast and found out we couldn’t eat at the restaurant without a reservation. not a problem - we spent that extra time taking our hay ride tour of the Christmas lights! we were the best customers of the night, providing our own Christmas carols as we sang a not-so-silent, not-so-peaceful ‘silent night’
we had a bit of issues with the heater in our villa and then our keys not working in our room anymore, so chad (the manager) had to take us back to the villa with the right key. we got to ride the cart instead of walking back and forth in the cold!
the next morning we took a tour of the wineries and a sit-down tasting. it was pretty cool to sit down with the row of wine glasses on display…
our sommelier tara was very helpful and informative and made everything very interesting to us! i definitely learned alot and have learned to appreciate wine so much more!
thank you to shyla for inviting marlene and myself to enjoy the south coast winery with her!
new growth
so i came back from four day tahoe trip and found my camote plant flourishing on the windowsill. i’m so excited to see it growing so fast, especially since i haven’t watered it 4 days. i swear i will finally be able to grow something in my garden that won’t die on me in a couple of weeks!!
and just to make sure the plant continues to grow, i talk to it and encourage it daily. sometimes i even sing to it. and the other day i whistled a song to it! hahahha… i know, i’m a dork. but look at how well it has responded to me!
