3 posts tagged “socal”

for the labor day weekend we took the trip down to my moms. 6hrs there and 7.5hrs back. it was lots of fun but filled with ups and downs. mostly due to me ending up acting like a bitch, to put it bluntly. we left friday after the hubby got out of work. we packed up the ford we rented and headed off. we decided to take the ps3 since we had received it right before the hubby got home. i wanted to take it to make sure it worked. even if i was only checking to see if the bluray was working. we got to my moms around umm 8 i think. it wasnt that bad of a drive. let me tell you stopping to eat in the central valley was bad. you opened the door to walk outside and it is a sauna. friday was spent unpacking the car and having dinner with my family. it was yummy. mike (my sis' bf) made tacos. my mom wasnt there when we got there since she went to bingo with her friends.
saturday was interesting. chris and i went off to franks. it was boiling in there but i got hugs from bobby and got to walk around. after we went to franks we stopped at walmart and then the mattel store. got some things at walmart but nothing of significance. we went back home after picking up some food. i wanted to go back out and thought my mom was going to take us. but she already had plans to go to the bingo. so, i basically ditched my mom because i wanted to go to the club. yolie, the hubby and i ended up going off to brea after we ate. i was already in a mood because i had gotten a call that was basically, 'sorry but we are not going to the club. yes we know you came 400 miles but sorry'. the heat was not helping matters. so i was snippy all the way to the mall. chris went off and my sis and i went to torrid. i found what i was looking for. a beautiful black corset that was on clearance. there was a skirt that went with it but i looked like a stuffed sausage in it. so i put that back. the corset came out to $22. which is awesome. after we were done at torrid we hit hot topic. then we were off back to home. chris ended up not wanting to go to the club. i took issue with it. it seemed like my trip to the club was falling apart. it ended up not falling apart though. it ended up that my friends decided to go after all. i even got to drive and carpool to the club. pics were taken before we left to pick up that last of our party for the club.
i had not been to either of these places before. so seeing peoples new dwelling was cool. i had not seen these friends in ages. so it was very good for me. i also looked pretty cute. *giggle* i've had a bit more self confidence lately. losing weight and getting complimented on it and getting clothing in smaller sizes helps that a lot. i got hugs from tony and then it was beth, my sis, mike, robert and myself piling into beths car and off to the club. on the way there it was robert, my sis, and myself in the back seat. it wasnt a tight squeeze but it was umm close quarters. we stopped at the ampm so robert could get smokes and get beth a locarb rockstar. then it was finally off to the club. i hadnt been to Skandal. it was pretty cool. patio outside and then a small inside. it was so hot though. i only danced to 2 songs due to it being a sauna inside. we ran into some people i have not seen since before i got married. found out later on that chris didnt even recognize me. that was kind of funny. i hung out outside for a while. met a guy named bob who was cool. found out he had been to the castle in florida when he used to live down there. stephen was there and taking photos. he took a couple of me, chris and adele. he wanted me to stoop down slightly so the other girls could be behind me. hopefully they will be up soon. beth had taken a few before we left her place and i should have those sometime tonight. at least that is what i am hoping. i need to get photos with that new top. the club closed at 2am and after that we hung out outside. i got to talk to talon and robert a bit. it was interesting. but fun. it was also great hearing the compliments from the both of them. i had some issues at the club since i knew i was getting a cluster headache. so at one point robert helped my rubbing my neck. after shaun and beth were done talking and robert said all of his goodbyes we went back off to his place to drop him off. instead of leaving right away we talked for a while. that was cool. although im not sure how beth felt with 4 of us telling her that who she is seeing is a bad idea. but if you have 4 of us and countless other people giving you advice on it then maybe it will sink in. i got to talk to robert a little outside by ourselves and that was nice. before we left off to beths, and picking up my car, he checked the back of my neck and said 'damn woman' it was funny. i dont even know what time we got to beths. but i was really tired. and i had to drive home. we got there in one piece but it was 5am. beth invited us over for sunday but we couldnt make it. i sent her a few texts about it but im not sure if she got them all due to my phone dying. since i forgot to charge it.
sunday i spent time with my mom and sis. we went out to hawaiian gardens and played 32 games of bingo. didnt win but it was fun. we took my sis and mike out to dennys for dinner. we were going to take my mom with us but her knees were bugging her. so we got her some food to go. it was great to have dennys and hang out. i got online sunday and well i got a talking to from chris. he said, 'we dont have much time here. i thought you wanted to hang out with your family'. but i was entering my coke codes that my mom gave me. i didnt feel like trying to pack all the codes with me. even though i ended up with about 30 caps to bring home. *giggle* when i was done entering them i tried to play scrabble with chris yolie and mike but after the first game i was falling asleep. so i went to bed. i guess the night at the club wore me out more than i thought it would.
monday we left at about 1. we gassed up and headed home. my mom was all 'i would have left at 7am if i could have' but i was zoned until i got up. we took the 210 to the 5 which im sure saved us a lot of time. we were in a few traffic jams on the way so it took us 7 1/2 hours. it wasn't too bad though. it could have been a lot worse. the big traffic jam was on the 152. that was to be expected though due to the holiday. we ate dinner and got home about 9. not too bad. we unpacked the car and then had a quiet evening here at home.
today i was going to walk to the store and do the normal grocery stuff. well i was waiting for a while before i did so. after my shower i went to get the mail and saw the tracking info online for a package. so i thought i would wait. then chris told me that the tracking said that it was 'undelivered because the place was closed' and i was all like, 'what?!?!? ive been here all day'. i went to the office to see if she had been there and she said she had. so chris complained to DHL and they came back out to deliver the package. so we got our new Dell inspiron1420 laptop. yay! well when i came back after asking our manager about packages i fell down. my bad foot just gave out and i fell. im just glad i was at home. im also glad that i wasnt about 10 paces in any direction. or else i would have hit something more than an empty box. all i know is that my ankle is now swollen and hurting. about 15-20 minutes later the package got to the office. since i forgot to mention that. the hubby is setting it up now.
so, that was my weekend in not so small of a nutshell. sorry to cut this short but im going to try and elevate my foot again. i do hope that you all had a great holiday. take care lovelies. *huggles*

I've been sick the last couple of days. The hubby has been sick for over a week. We leave for my mom's sometime tomorrow which means I should be packing and getting things ready but being sick has stopped me from doing so. I don't need to pack much other than presents. *giggle* I'm hoping that it will be a bit warmer down in socal. Highly doubtful but one can hope. Nothing much is going on other than that. Still working on my story. Don't know if I will ever get it done in time for the deadline. If I don't I can still publish a copy for myself from Lulu it will just cost me. I switched to Lyx for working on it. I had to have the hubby set up most of it. I just hope that it will look as nice in print as it does on my laptop screen. *giggle* Still trying to find a gift for the hubby. Other than a brick to the head for not helping :P It's just a small gift to add to the others but it's been killing me. Oh well, I will think of something. Sorry I haven't answered the meme I said I was going to a few days ago, Len. I will get it done in SoCal most likely. Take care lovelies :) *gives lots and lots of hugs and holiday cheer*

went to socal for the great turkey massacre, erm i mean thanksgiving. it was fun seeing my family. it isn't always that way but it was good this time. figured out some things about my diabetes. it seems that the pills i have are a bit too strong. i had forgotten my pills (they were sitting on the kitchen table ready to go) and when I got there I realized I had left some down there just in case I did something like this. talked to my mom about how my diabetes was roller coastering and decided to see if it was because my pills were too strong. so instead of taking 45mg of Actos and 750mg of Metformim I only took the Actos. it still dropped a heck of a lot. i'm going to talk to my doctor this week about it. we'll see what she says about it. didn't see too many of my friends while down there. but i did get to see David and Daniella which was cool. we went over on thanksgiving and ate some more there and played board games until about 2am. i got my ass beat at the games. which is unlike me when it comes to useless random trivia. hehe. got to go to Franks. was going to buy a Nekobus but the lady switched the price on me when I went back to get it. it isn't the one I really want that is 2 feet but it was bigger than the one the hubby just got me. when i asked about it at first she said $65, which i couldn't justify, then i had my sister make sure i wasn't wrong about the size and the lady goes, it's 100. then i said, well then it can stay. it was going to be a bday/xmas pressie. but that's ok. we also stopped at the Mattel store. got the hubby two collector cars. i got the one thing i wanted for my bday, new glasses. black friday i had an eye appointment. found out the pressure in my left eye was slightly elevated. the eye dr said that it was probably stress due to the holidays and to be rechecked in a week or 2, but that is 400 miles from here so it might wait a little longer. he also told me i have to use eyedrops due to dry eye. luckily they aren't prescription eye drops. we ended up staying down there until yesterday. the hubby was able to work from there so it wasn't a problem. we stopped on the way home at a few places. picked up an order for the hubby in van nuys and then stopped in gilroy at the super walmart. i wanted to see if they had the sugar free cookies i like but they didn't. ended up getting a shirt for me and some pants for the hubby. checked the mail when we got in and found out that there were 2 packages waiting in the office. which i picked up today. One is a book for the hubby that he wanted and the other box is from Germany :D It is my bday/xmas pressie from my mom in law :) unfortunately i can only look at the card. he's making me wait til xmas. im impatient, we'll see what happens. *giggle* well, i'm rambling. i better stop. take care lovelies :) *hugs*