Sunday, November 14, 2004 06:30 p.m.

Kai is teething. He is now extremely crazy in the middle in the night. My sweet dear baby used to sleep through the night, but not anymore. That is not due to the teething but i'm sure it doesn't help. He is now getting rice cereal mixed into milk. It fills his tummy nicely.

I worked a half day yesterday. I have two reasons for this, however it was only suppose to be one but due to the lack of sleep it turned into two. First, on Friday night Kai would not sleep! He kept waking up with ear piercing screams! So both T and I had the worst sleep of our lives. Second, I had a baby shower to attend. The shower was fun it was for an old friend of mine who is now an actress here in LA. I had a great time even if I did feel like I was swimming in a pool of blondes. That's a slight exageration but there were a lot of blondes. There were tons of recognizable faces there, from TV and Film but I won't list them.

Except for one two gifts I have completed my Christmas shopping. It was virtualy painless this year and I am so excited I will not need to hit the mall during prime shopping season. T and I are forgoing getting each other gifts but rather get something for us. Although we say this every year and we ultimately get each other one gift. Probably out of guilt. Regardless, T has been forwarned and I will be getting myself a pair of True Religion Jeans.

Today was the cash in for my gift to the hubby. He spent the morning/afternoon at Burke Williams Spa. He has a fabulous relaxing time. I told him treat himself to whatever he wanted. He opted for a massage and a facial and then made use of all the facilities. Im jealous. Im hoping while in Hawaii next month we can squeeze in sometime for a massage. Since grandma will be around she can babysit, oh I mean, bond with him.

While driving to work yesterday morning I was stopped at the intersection of Colorado and Orangegrove Blvd. Those of you not familiar with Pasadena that's the televised corner of the Rose Parade. Anyway a bunch of bike riders peddled past me. Each rider was a senior citizen, definetly all over the age of 65. It was so cool. They had on the wet-suit type bike gear with flourescent reflective stuff all over them. The funny thing was they all were riding modern 10-speeds, the type with the curled handle bars. what's with that? They still make bikes with curled handle bars, you know what i'm talking about, right? I remember kids in my neighborhood having those 10-speeds. I thought they were so incredibly cool. Now I don't. They are a little geeky. Were they suppose to be more ergonomic? I don't get it.

Thursday, November 11, 2004 08:14 p.m.

I'm not a confrontational person. Not at all. Situations that may turn in that direction are totally bypassed by me. I just don't want to deal. But the other night in a dazed, very dazed state I wrote an email. I don't think I meant to send it but sometimes just writing it out helps. But after almost an hour of reading, rewording, reordering, re-reading I inserted the e-mail addressed and clicked on the Send button. Why did I do that? I woke up the next morning and was glad I did what I did. The thing is I have, well had, this friend. I liked her, I really did, we got along well (at lease I thought we did. For the last year she has been totally avoiding my calls and e-mails. A few months ago I basically said f*ck it, I don't have the time for the highschool BS. That is exactly what was going on, H.I.G.H.S.C.H.O.O.L. BS! The thing is normally I wouldn't care so much about this kind of stuff, because normally there is something that sparks this type of behavior. In this case there wasn't, at least not one that I was aware of. So I sent an e-mail basically saying What's up? Are you Ok? If you are, let's be adults and lay it all on the table because I have no idea what's going on. If you don't reply have a great life but i'd like to know you have the balls to explain everything. Yeah, well, she pussed out and I got no e-mail. So you know what I have to say to her, FUCK YOU! I frankly don't need immature crap like that in my life. I don't have the time or energy for it. I'm now over it and just wanted to share it here. I have my friends that I can trust, rely on and have fun with. With my friednships thats what I look for and I have that in my group.

The dryer finally died. There is no heat. I've been air-drying my clothes in the dryer which means it takes like 8-hours to compeletly dry anything. Forget about drying denims and towels. I pray for a dry day and put it outside on the clothes rack and it dries in about an hour. Sucky, sucky, sucky. We have a practically brand new Washer and Dryer in the garage. We bought it a few months prior to buying this house. Its a nice big set. Our house is from 1928 and the length of the laundry room is six inches to small for a modern day side-by-side wash/dry. So we bought the smaller ones from the previous owner for a couple hunderd, no biggie since it worked. Now that we have to replace the wash/dry we cannot find this specific size set. So we opted for a refurbished full-size stackable. Neither of us could even fathom buying a new stackable because we have the new full-size beauties in the garage. We plan on extending the kitchen at some point and that would mean enlarging the laundry so until then the full-size remain tucked away in our garage. The new-used set will be delivered on Saturday and will be hooked up for us. They will even haul away the old set. I'm sure the fix is an easy one, we paid almost nothing to us and wanted to ivest in a new-used set with a big full-size dryer. We are putting off laundry until Saturday night.

Tomorrow is Friday! Yeah. Although it is technically my Thursday it still feels like Friday to me. Saturday's are freebies and in no way feels like work. Gotta start thinking of my outfit. I want nice, neat and comfy. Oh yeah, and I am now obsessing over Myspace.com like I used to when I first signed up for Friendster. I've had this damn account for awhile so not quite sure what sparked this renewed interest.

Wednesday, November 10, 2004 06:11 p.m.

Today’s dress:

Tuesday, November 9, 2004 09:11 p.m.

Can I just say I love, love, love Yahoo! Instant Messenger. I use it at work all day long. To chat with co-workers and friends across the US and Atlantic. For instance, today I chatted with my long-time friend Amber today. It’s a nice distraction from the normal workday. I frequently chat online with my mom. I think she is moderately addicted to IM, even if she won’t admit it. She eve created an avatar and changes its clothing frequently. It’s really funny. Once in a while I chat with my dad and I chat with T. It’s a quick and easy way to say hi and to shoot over reminders.

It’s the first day of the weekly grind. No big deal. I don’t’ stress over the start of my work weeks like some of us may do. I honestly don’t mind coming to work. Sure, there are nuances in my day that make me pissed but for the most part it’s pretty chill and the days typically fly by. I think I’ve reached a point where my priorities on work have changed. I come in I do my job, sometimes I even do a little extra, no big deal. I think once Kai was born a lot of the daily BS just didn’t matter anymore. My job is no just my job now. Its our sustenance. My job pays our bills. My job buys us stuff. My job keeps a roof over my head. My job lets me own a BMW. You get the point. Its funny how these things play out.

I had to go to Sears this evening. I haven’t been in a Sears in a very long time. T had to pay a bill and I had some baby stuff to return. I took the store credit. Since there wasn’t much of a selection of baby stuff at this Sears I took the store credit. We headed down to electronics. Since the DVD player in my bedroom is on its last leg we picked up another cheap DVD player and a remote. So long store credit.

T cooked dinner this evening. I love when he cooks and I can just chill out and play with Kai or do my own thing, which is usually cleaning or laundry. So he has been seriously jonesing for lentil soup. Can you believe that, Lentil.Soup. How random is that. Hot fudge sundae, I can understand. Steak I can understand. Hell, spaghetti I can understand. But, lentil soup? Very strange. Anyway, it turned out great. I think he'll spice it up more tomorrow. Soup is always better the second day. Normally we would have some bread or something to go along with the soup, but tonight our starchy side was cheese quesadillas. Yum! We're planning on freezing half of the soup so we're not eating it for the next week and a half.

So I have this My Space thing. I used to be all about the Friendster until it just got to damn slow to deal with. But Myspace, okay, I have this thing and sometimes I log on just to "browse" how addicting. It satisfies this weird voyuer urge in me. Looking at these profiles is like secretly peeping in someone's life. Its weird. I know i'm not the only one that does this. I can do it for hours and hours. There have been times when I'm on there looking around, posting messages to friends or updating my profile and next thing I know like three hours have passed by. What the hell? How sick am I? UUUgggghhhhh.....I found all my little cousins on there and added them to my friends list. If you're not on My Space, stay away, it is highly addicting and will consume your free time. Why does it do that? You don't do anything on the site. It's stupid. I'm stupid for obsessing on about it. Can't stop....can't stop....

Okay, here's another picture of my cutie pie

Monday, November 8, 2004 12:16 p.m.

I have come to embrace the breakfast burrito. To be honest with you the concept of the breakfast burrito was not even a spark in my mind when I live in Chicago. But, now I love them. They are very user friendly. You have eggs, cheese, and meat if you want, nicely rolled into a tortilla. Fits perfectly in your hands and is not messy at all. Breakfast on the run has never been easier. I have taken to throwing together a breakfast burrito at home before leaving for work. I found that if I roll it up in some aluminum foil it will stay warm during my 7-mile commute.

I will need to make it down to Costco today. We are low on the staples, juice, eggs, cheese stuff like that. And I need to buy some bagels and cream cheese.

Earlier this afternoon, Kai had a bath and some food and was calm and cool so I took the opportunity to get dressed. I decided to wear dark Diesel jeans, black turtleneck, Burberry headband and my Dansko clogs. No sooner was I completely dressed that Kai just started wailing. Man, he was pissed off. I got him out of his overly drooled on onesie and into a striped, long pant outfit, fed him and he passed out. Now he is asleep and my Costco field trip has been momentarily post-poned. Actually he is crying now....so I regretfully come to an abrupt end.

Sunday, November 7, 2004 03:51 p.m.

What a lazy, hazy day we've had. As usual I was up at the crack of dawn. Playing with Kai. Then woke T up when I was hungry, so I could make us some pancakes. It's amazing how long days are when you have a child. We wake up about 3-4 hours earlier then we would have a year ago. I love it.

As I cooked T played with the baby and watched landscaping shoes on HGTV.

We knew we had to get out of the house today but didn't know exqctly what to do. The fact that it was going to rain made us really consider what we could and couldn't do. We just decided to hit the Crate and Barrel in Beverly Hills. We wanted to take a hundredth look at the console table we're planning to buy for Christmas. It matches the dining room table, side table and sideboard we already own. We're also planning on buying a couple of new sofa's, two loveseats and a sleeper sofa, to be exact. Our furniture now, matched our place when we rented but not anymore. When we rented our place was kitschy, for lack of a better word. It was very swank but not what we necessarily want to live in now that we own our place. It's hard to put into words but if you own I think you may understand.

Has anyone been watching that show Drawn Together? It's an animated reality show, ala The Real World. It is so funny! It's crude, its rude and it is definetly not for kids. I watched it for the first time this week and I could not stop laughing. Someone sure had some time on their hands creating this gem. So tonight there is no Charmed. *sigh* The WB will be airing The Lord Of The Rings instead. Alas, Desperate Housewives is on, something to keep my sanity. Of course, i'm only kidding.

I took a picture of Kai sucking his thumb. Normally he tries to cram his entire fist in there so to catch him with only the thumb in there was quite sweet.



Amber you are so funny! You know great minds think alike! I do need a partner in crime when it comes to shopping, its so sad we live so far apart. For now I have recruited the hubby, luckily he's a shopper as well. I think he may be more of a snob then I am. Although sometimes I wish he was clueless to fashion/designers/et al because that money could be routed my way. Instead my man is buying himself, Juicy for men, Marc Jacobs and AG Jeans. I'm ok with that though, it's not all fancy schmancy for him, he's like me mixing the thrifty with the high end, that's the best! But he won't give up those Samba's. I swear, he wears them everyday! Amber, once your tyke is born and he's a bit hefty, we'll have to make it into your neck of the woods, or you can come out left or meet in the middle and we'll have to catch up.

My brother-in-law called to let us know he just bought his airline ticket to Hawaii. We'll all be flying out there for the holidays. Should be a nice get away for all of us. I'm thinking of renting a car while we're out there. We normally never do but with the baby and my parents having to work I don't want to have to ask for permission or do the drop off pick up thing. T and his bro are planning things to do. I on the other hand just want to hang out and maybe do some shopping, surprise, surprise. But....I do want to do some shopping prior to going out there. I want to pick up a pair of True Religion joey jeans and a burgundy velour (new for this season) Juicy strapless dress/top thing to wear over pants and buy itself. If I buy one thing this month and one thing next month i'll be in good shape. Can't wait!!!!

Friday, November 5, 2004 09:57 a.m.

Tomorrow the building I work in and it’s sister buildings will be having a planned power outage. You would think that any normal, sane business would just close and call it a day. Oh no, not my company….we’re open. Business as usual. UUUGGGHHH….That sucks! It would have been so awesome to stay home tomorrow, considering it’s suppose to rain again. I should plan a to-do list of sites I want to visit, Christmas gifts I need to buy oh yeah, and work I need to accomplish.

This will be our first weekend without any family visitors. Ahhhhh…..peace and quiet. I just want to watch my Netflix rentals and read the stack of magazines I have put off for the month. I started to watch Man on Fire weeks ago and I still need to watch the ending. Actually I want to watch it tonight and return it tomorrow. I added some dumb movies onto my Netflix list: White Chicks and Ali G In Da House. I had to do it.

Kai has such a nice babysitter but I really hate her neighborhood. I felt like I was in such a bind at the time of hiring her. I didn’t really have a choice because I had no other childcare options. She’s a nice woman, takes good care of Kai but I am so very skeptical of her surroundings. Now that it’s daylight savings it’s light outside when I drop him off, I feel a little better and T and I get off of work so early that it is still light out when we pick him up. T has been passively looking for a new sitter. The thing is childcare, especially for an infant is so expensive and our sitter is so cheap. I feel so trapped, like I don’t have an alternative and have to stick this out until I can afford someone else. I probably am dwelling on this more then necessary. I should be happy with the fact that I have a sitter, she is inexpensive and I have not seen or heard of anything bad happening in her neck of the woods. Maybe it’s just me being overprotective and paranoid, which wouldn’t be unusual.

I went to Target on Monday to buy a bunch of extremely discounted Halloween goods. I bought some cute placemats, a couple of table runners, some decorations, a big pumpkin looking candy basket, some costumes for my dogs, and a Frankenstein rattle for the baby. I love post-holiday Target clearance. I’ll make another trek either Sunday or Monday and see if anything is left and hopefully it’ll all be ninety percent off. After work yesterday I stopped by Crate and Barrel while waiting for T to get off of work. They had some cute Christmas ornaments. I need to get my Christmas bin down and take inventory and see if I need to buy anything. I guess it wouldn’t be a “need” to buy anything more of what I “want” to buy.

I still need to find me some nice comfy wintery boots. I’m debating if I want a pair of Uggs but they are so last year but really they are timeless classics that Cali blew out of proportion. I may get either a pair of Ugg boots or Ugg clogs. But I may want a pair of dress boots too. Something to wear with jeans, pants and skirts.

Wednesday, November 3, 2004 11:30 a.m.

I’m happy to say, I did my deed as a United States citizen and voted. I’m not going to say who as it does not matter here. I’m not one to discuss politics nor do I enjoy spewing my views on anyone. So that said, I voted so if my candidates or propositions don’t pass, I am allowed to bitch!

It took T getting a job here to show me where all the discounts are on our Intranet. We have a ton! I guess that’s one of the great perks you get form working with a large company. We get discounts from Apple, Phillips, American Airlines, Delta, Norwegian Cruises, AT&T and so much more. Yeah for savings! T is attempting to convince me that I need to switch to AT&T. Being a girl I want to switch to the company with the cutest phones. But I need to be thrifty not have a cute phone. My only requirement is that I want a camera phone. I have a digital camera but I don’t always carry it with me. For the most part, I take photos of the baby, houses, front yard landscaping. I have a huge library of house, plant and landscaping images. I have photos of houses not exactly for the house but for things like hardware, awnings etc…I’m a dork like that.

I bought some new jeans from the Gap. I know, if you read this blog frequently you’ll know I bought K-mart jeans a few weeks back. The fact of the matter is I love jeans and this is my first Gap jeans purchase. I was looking for jeans with flaps on the butt pockets and found a great dark blue pair. So I’m wearing them today and loving it. Today’s outfit is: New dark blue Gap trouser looking jeans, green ballet Juicy Couture long sleeved top, dark purple t-shirt knit long scarf, black fitted suit jacket, black Dansko clogs. I think I could wear a scarf every single day. It’s turning into a security piece for me.

So the company has finally chosen a new location for our overpopulated offices. B.U.R.B.A.N.K. Yeah!!!!!!!! I think my commute will be closer then it is now. I’m now driving 7.7-miles to get to work, actually, its more if you factor in the drive to the sitters house. I bet my commute will be 5-miles and we’ve been told there’s professional daycare across the street. Yipppeeeee.

Monday, November 1, 2004 08:46 a.m.

I have been a little neglectful of my poor little blog. I've been busy with family visiting and all. Let me recap.

Mom and dad left this morning. Actually they are still here, they don't leave for another 30-minutes. We all woke up at the crack of dawn so we could get them to the Burbank airport and then I could drop T off at work on time. But now i'm home, obviously, chatting online with Amanda and Kai is talking to himself in his stroller. And yes, he's in his stroller next to me. He is happier in his stroller then in his swing and he is banned from his bouncy chair ever since he through the top half of his body out of the chari (no baby was injured!)

Sunday: We went to Sunday brunch at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. It was nice. It wasn't super crowded which was fantastic. Saw some awesome celebrities there for brunch as well. Janet Jackson cooed over Kai calling him a super cute baby. Mark Whalberg rolled up when we did. I guess he had 11.30 reservations as well. In case you are wondering he was driving a navy blue Bentley with ex girlfriend and baby daughter in tow. Owen Wilson was also there. I actually mustered up some witty comment to say to him when I saw him hunched over the kiddie buffet scooping mound after mound of mac and cheese on his plate. He actually commented back followed by his funny Owen Wilson laugh. Sunday was all about the brunch. I was super tired so I slept in and after brunch mom, dad, and baby went shopping and T and I came home and slept.

Saturday: Work as usual, then par-tay at night. We met up with friends at Beauty Bar, where I drank more then I wanted to. Actually we went to White Lotus for sushi then walked down to Beauty Bar. Very trendy restaurant but had to try it out. If you watched the first season of Punk'd they did a lot of their shows there. Okay, anyway, we went to White Lotus then headed to the Beauty Bar. Two doors down was a tatoo shop called True Tattoo which is owned by T's friend Clay. So as Amanda and I went to the bar T stopped in to talk to his friend. Sorry not Web site for the tattoo shop, that's T's job, serioiusly. After Beauty Bar, we tried to get into the Ivar but to no avail. Unless you're famous or a size 0 with huge tits you're not getting in. So we opted for Rage, a gay bar. It was a ton of fun! Even if it is all a blur now. After dancing we went to Canters where I made a huge mistake eating corned beef hash and eggs at 2 in the morning. Yuck!

I need to head over to Target and Costco today. Need to buy Kai an exosaucer and make some returns. I better go, he's fed and completely unhappy about being in his swing.