Las Vegas - Time for Relaxing and SHOPPING!

So I haven't updated this in a long time but I thought that my Vegas trip was interesting enough to post about. Someday I may want to read back on this and remember what I did because I'm pretty sure I'll forget. So here goes!

Thursday: Woke up at 10am (was supposed to be picked up at 10am but Chris and I were pretty tired), got ready and waited for Chris to pick me up. He picked me up at 11am and we headed to WaMu for me to get some cash and then Coffee Bean to fuel ourselves for the trip to Vegas. Stopped in Barstow on the way to eat at Lola's, which is a really tasty Mexican Food Restaurant. Chris got chicken tacos and I got the beef tacos with rice and beans. It was just as yummy as I remember. We got lost getting to the restaurant but we did get to see the downtown part of Barstow where it's just this one part of the street with all these shops on it. After we ate, we went to Vons and stocked up on water, sparkling water, Skyy Vodka for Chris, a toothbrush and InStyle magazine for me. Then it was on our way!!!

We got to Vegas and checked into Treasure Island. Dropped off our stuff and then headed to the Fashion Show mall across the street to look around. Found these yoga pants I've been looking for ... lululemon athletica.... they didn't have my size in pants so I bought this jacket instead. I never exercise but it'll be a nice jacket just to throw on whenever I feel like it. :-) I got this one but in black.

After that we went to Nordstrom and looked around. Then back to the hotel. We walked over to Bellagio to eat at their buffet. I had thought that we had never tried it but then when we got there, we realized that we tried it the last time we went with Christy.. duh! But we had walked all the way over there and decided to just have it again. I loaded up on the sushi. :-) It was my favorite. Had our buffet and then walked around the strip. Went back to our hotel where I gambled away some money and then went back to the room and knocked out.

Friday: Was too lazy to go to the pool so I slept until 11am. Got ready and then we walked downstairs to eat at the Coffee Shop in Treasure Island. Had eggs benedict which were pretty decent and Chris got the waffles. I had decided that I wanted some instant tan stuff to put on my pale legs for the show at night so we walked over to Sephora at the Venetian where I got dopped into buying a Smashbox lotion that makes you tan and some pimple medicine (since I was getting 3 zits on my face). After that we walked straight back to the hotel so that Chris could watch his soccer match but believe me... I could've stayed in Sephora for a very long time. hahahaa... we went to Kahunaville in Treasure Island and got some Strawberry Coladas where Chris also watched the remainder of his game... I gambled and lost money.

After laying around for a couple of minutes in our room we decided to go shopping since I wanted a cute outfit to wear to dinner & the show and Chris was on the hunt for some cheap orange sunglasses. We walked to Planet Hollywood to the shops for me to look at. Walked around and then I went into Max Studio and found a pretty dress and some shoes too! The saleslady said that if I got the shoes and the dress, she would give me $20 off the shoes. So I got both. I found a picture of the shoes but not the dress....Then we walked around some more and I bought a cheapy bracelet that I thought was cute.

We didn't find anything for Chris at Planet Hollywood so then we decided to go to Caesars Palace to try our luck. Oh... we only found another pair of shoes for me.. hahahaa. I got a pair of Michael Kors shoes in gold. I could only find this picture of them but it's all gold....


We did see Dog the Bounty Hunger. He looks EXACTLY the same. It was pretty cool to see him just walking through the Forum Shoppes.


After walking and buying way too much... we headed back to the hotel to get ready for dinner at Social House at Treasure Island. You will have to look at my pictures from my Picasa album that I will put a link to at the bottom but the food was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD! The sashimi appetizers that they had were the BEST. Even Chris said it was super tasty and he hardly ever eats raw fish at all. Chris also had a blueberry sake that tasted like juice. I ordered a Lychee something which was just like little donut balls with lychee custard or something inside and a scoop of raspberry sorbet. So tasty. We got to sit outside on the balcony right next to the Pirates show. HOWEVER, it was cancelled due to technical difficulty. Lame huh? Oh well. We ate our food and then went back to the room to relax a bit. At 9pm we got dressed and headed out to Mirage to see LOVE by Cirque du Soliel. It was a pretty good show I suppose. The music was fantastic (I bought the CD afterwards the next day), but there weren't as many acrobatic stunts like "O." Oh well... not bad.

So after the show we walked around and went to Kahunaville for some more strawberry koladas and other alcoholic beverages for Chris. There were crazy drunk old people there so after awhile we left to walk around the strip. The weather at night was perfect. Not too hot and not too cold. I was able to wear my dress and flipflops and be incredibly comfortable. We window shopped at all the expensive shops in Venetian and the Palazzo and just walked around taking pictures. By then it was 3am and so it was back to the hotel room where we bought beef jerky and cheetos from the vending machine before knocking out to sleep.

Saturday: Again I was too lazy to go to the beach so I slept in until 11am and then rushed to get ready for checkout at 12pm. We put all our luggage into the car and then took the tram to the Mirage to eat at Carnegie Deli. Since there was a line we decided to go to the LOVE store and get the soundtrack for it. We did that and then headed back to the restaurant to eat. I got the pastrami sandwich which was HUGE for being just a plain ol' sandwich but it was pretty tasty. We got homemade pickles (yum!), fries, my pastrami sandwich (with a jar of spicy mustard.. yum!), and Chris got a grilled chicken sandwich. Pretty tasty place. After that we went back to the car and drove down the strip to see if there was anywhere I'd want to stop... but I didn't see anything spectacular plus I was tired.

We drove home and stopped by Primm (?) for gas and Starbucks. It literally took 3 baristas to make my Starbucks Doubleshot over Ice Drink. All it consists of is - 5 Espresso Shots, Ice, Simple Syrup, and Milk on Top... and it took them FOREVER to figure it out. Stupids. Then it was back on the road.

It was a fun trip. I got to have BBQ Steak, Ribs, Baked Potato, Homemade Garlic Bread and Homemade Strawberry Shortcake with fresh strawberries at Chris' house. Yum. I wish I could have some more!

Tomorrow it is Huntington Beach with Christy... woo~hoo! I FINALLY get to tan! :-)

Here is my link of pictures...

Las Vegas 06.08

Winter Cleaning

So today I took the day off because I was not feeling well. It was really quite strange how it happened. Yesterday I worked 10am-8pm and I was feeling totally fine ALL day long! Went shopping with my RM, gossiped with the Store Admin. and everything and then around 5pm, all of a SUDDEN I felt like I had a fever! It was weird. Then I asked people to touch my forehead to see if I felt hot and they said that I definitely had a fever. Driving home, I felt all weird... almost as if I was dizzy. It was not good. I woke up at 5:45am this morning, took a shower and got dressed and ready. But right before I was about to leave, I had a sudden urge to throw up. So I decided right then and there that I would not go to work since I felt like barfing and had a headache.

So what did I end up doing the entire day you ask? Well.. let me share that with YOU! hahaha

I woke up at 2pm. Since I was technically already dressed and ready (because I did that at 6am)... I brushed my teeth again and then sat around the house for about half an hour. Then I got hungry so I decided that I would head out to get something to eat. First I went to WaMu to deposit a check, then I headed over to Starbucks for a Venti Iced Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha, after that I went to CVS to buy some necessities (contact solution, nyquil, and dayquil), and home I went.

After I ate I felt like I wanted to do something really productive since I was off and wasting my day away. So I decided to clean my closet and completely organize it! I changed everything around a bit. Cleaned out the shoe closet in the entryway of the house to make room for my other shoes that I have in my closet in my room. Switched around some drawers and voila! Everything was PERFECT! That is.. until I turned around and realized that my underwear was sitting in a pile on my floor with no drawer to go into!

At that point, I decided that when Chris got off of work, I would make him take me to the Container Store to get a drawer and a hook that hung over my door. AND that we did! :-) He came and picked me up. We went to The Container Store in Old Town and I got these two items....
this hangs over my door and is currently holding my robe, pashminas, scarves, and jacket....

i only purchased one of these drawers but they are actually quite cool because I can have those steel legs or i can put them under the drawer so that they are stackable!!! Fabulous... this is now where I keep my underwear! Hooray!

After we went to the Container Store, we headed back to Arcadia to eat some Korean BBQ and Tofu. Got our usual, then went to Starbucks to get some tall Peppermint Hot Chocolates and off to Target we went. This is what I got there....

Both these DVD's were $7.50. I had Love Actually but turns out that I left the DVD out and got some sort of liquid on it.. anyway.. it won't play now. So I had to throw it away and buy this new one. Edward Scissorhands... I LOVED this movie when I was a kid. I used to watch it every single day on VHS... it's awesome! :-) I also bought a Marie Claire and X-mas Cards which I do not like and will be returning ASAP!

So that concludes my day. OH! Chris and I did drive up to Sierra Madre/Pasadena to see the Christmas lights but I guess it was too late because most of the houses had turned off all their lights... maybe some other night when we're not out so late we'll go back driving again.

I'm super excited though because tomorrow I get to go to this Sample Denim Sale thing-y with Christy and her sister. Should be exciting!!! Hope I find some good deals on denim. Maybe I'll finally be able to find some skinny jeans! woo~hoo!

ELF!!!

So since it's the holiday season, I just HAD to watch "Elf" today. But the sad part is that I also wanted to watch "Love Actually".... and then I found out that it's all scratched and won't worked. Okay, so it's not exactly scratched... more like some water or some liquid substance got on the DVD and not it won't come off no matter how much i wipe so I had to throw the DVD away. I guess it's a good excuse to go to Amoeba or something and buy a new copy. :-)

Last week was filled with many L.A. trips. First, Chris took me to Tender Greens to get a yummy chicken sandwich on Monday. Then on Wednesday we went to the Century City mall and went shopping at Bloomingdales. I have realized that it is a really nice department store and I will be going back soon! Well, I have to because I bought some skinny jeans and they are way too small. Usually I'm a certain size and I just assumed that I gained some weight or something but after doing some research I have come to find that Paige Jeans tend to run smaller than usual... stupid Paige Jeans!!! Anyway, I have to go back sometime soon to exchange them for a bigger size. Then Chris and I went to The Grove to look at the holiday decorations that they had. Went to Nordstrom of course and walked around. Bought 3 sweaters that are exactly the same but different colors. What? I like them... A LOT. They're just BP brand crew neck long sleeved sweaters... so comfy! I got it in black (I already have one but I love it THAT much..), green and cream.
Then after that we ate at Lala's. I got my usual... skirt steak with mashed potatoes and rice. Then we walked on over to Pinkberry... haven't been there in awhile AND there was NO LINE! But it was also freezing cold that night. Here are pictures from The Grove and Chris at Lala's.

The Grove

The past 2 days that I have had off (Sunday and today) I really haven't done much. Chris has worked BOTH days which means that I have to find other ways to entertain myself.

On Sunday I woke up at 2pm! I had 12 hours of sleep! Craziness... then I just bummed it around the house all day until about 6pm. At that time I think I went over to Chris' house and we got something to eat and watched One More Day, some Oprah Special that sucked on ABC... and then we saw the season premieres of The Girls Next Door and that Snoop Dogg show. They were both okay.

Today was semi-productive... I woke up at 10:30am because of cramps. Went online... then took a shower and hung around the house. Got subway for lunch. Then went to drop off some clothes/shoes at Goodwill and after, headed to the mall to get a mani/pedi. Got that done... met Dede and my mom at Nordstrom and did some more Christmas shopping. After that I bummed it at home until now! Somewhat of an eventful day right? hehehe

Okay, I am tired of writing... I have nothing interesting to say anymore. Thank you for reading and have a good night!

Turkey Day!

So reading Christy's blog from her post yesterday has inspired me to post on this thing... hahahaa.

Let's see... what have I been up to lately...

On Monday I had the day off. I slept in until 2pm and then got up to get ready to go eat lunch with Chris. He picked me up, and then we went to eat at Casa Del Rey where I got a cheese enchilada with rice & beans and a cup of tortilla soup. Chris got chicken fajitas which actually looked really tasty and had some yummy guacamole with it too. After that, we decided to kill some time before Christy was ready and went to the mall to buy a sweater for Chris since he thought he might be cold at the Car Show. So we walked through JC Penny and went to Gap. We found him a nice grey/black stripped sweater and then after that we went to a shoe store called Ruze to find me some sneakers. But they didn't have my size.. :-( So I ended up just getting some flip flops. After that we just walked around aimlessly throughout the mall making small pitstops wherever we felt like we wanted to. Then we went to Starbucks to recharge ourselves and got 2 peppermint white chocolate mochas (my new FAVORITE!!!)... and left on our way to Christy's house.

Christy drove us to the LA Auto Show at the LA Convention Center. There was surprisingly like.. no one there, so we got really good parking next to the entrance AND this nice man gave us free complimentary tickets that he got from his job so we got to get in for FREE!!! woo~hoo! That was pretty nice of him. We walked in and went into the first room which had the Infinitis, Audi, Mini Cooper, BMWs, and a whole mess of other cars. Then we went into the fancy car room and saw cars that were worth HOUSES! After that we walked across the bridge to this other room which had the Toyotas, Hondas, and stuff like that. OOOOH! In the Toyota area, they had a photo booth that you got to take pictures in for FREE! It was awesome... Christy and I took 2 and then I made Chris join us and we took 2 more! muahahaha...

Before we left, we went into the fixed up car room. That was pretty interesting. We saw the million dollar Mercedes ... it was covered in crystals... pretty bling bling. Pictures of it are in my album below.

Then it was off to get something to eat. AT PINK'S! Woo~hoo! My favorite. It was our lucky night because first we got free tickets to the auto show and there were hardly any lines or waiting for anything and THEN we get to Pink's and there are like... 8 people in line! SCORE! hahaha... we did still have to wait a bit but at least it wasn't as long as it usually is. We got our food... scarfed it down because we were all pretty hungry and then headed home!

LA Auto Show

Tuesday I worked from 11-8. Then went to Tofu House with Chris to get some Spicy Pork. After we picked up Christy and went to Pinkberry in Old Town. Yum. Got my usual Medium Green Tea with Almonds, Mangos, and Yogurt Chips.... tasty...

Wednesday had work from 6:30am-2pm. It was NOT fun waking up but the day seemed to fly by pretty fast. Took more more than 2 hours to get home... HORRIBLE! Came home.. ate my leftovers from Tofu House and then knocked out until 9pm when I finally woke up. Drove out to Chris' to watch some of my TiVo'd shows because I was bored. Ate Burger King and Ice cream... great combination... fell asleep. Woke up at 2am at his house and then left to go home so that I could sleep at home.. Came home, got ready and knocked out! woo~hoo!

TODAY I woke up at 1:30pm.. lounged around and cleaned my room a bit. Then I showered and now I'm all ready to go to my sister's house to have Thanksgiving Dinner! I'm a bit hungry but I know if I eat something now, I will NOT be that hungry when I get to my sister's house so we shall wait. That's basically my plan for today.. to just eat and come home... rest and then go to SLEEP! I have the unfortunate job of waking up at 4:30am to go to work by 6am for those crazy Black Friday Shoppers. Thank GOD Nordstrom does not have any sales or anything like that so I don't have to deal with the wackyness of it all.

Have a good thanksgiving everyone! :-)

Aching Feet....

It seems that while I was typing in my title... I had already used that name before!!! Oh well... my feet do hurt pretty damn bad. I've been working since last Tuesday for the November Half Yearly Sale. Almost every day since then I've been working at least 10-12 hours each and every day. I'm incredibly tired... which probably explains why I woke up at 2pm today.. hehehee. That felt very nice. I also fell asleep last night without brushing my teeth, without taking off my glasses, and without turning off the lights in my room! Can you believe I was THAT tired? And usually I'm the one busting Chris' balls for not remembering to brush his teeth at night because he gets too tired... ahahhaa. I'm a stickler for that. So when I woke up this morning I had a horrible sore throat... HORRIBLE! So NOW I am taking that as meaning that I NEED to brush my teeth every freaking night or I'll get another horrible sore throat. It's also really hot today so maybe that's why. Supposidly, according to Chris, I sometimes sleep with my mouth opened... so that might explain why my throat was hurting and dry this morning...or afternoon... hehehehe

So anyway... I haven't really purchased too many things for the sale. I just got a plain black v-neck sweater. Pretty good huh? but I'm really waiting for the day that I get 40% off merchandise because THEN I can get these shoes that I want that are also on sale right now AND I'll have my paycheck for this payperiod which better be somewhat good since I've been working so much OT and I sold a little bit better than usual... but not that much better unfortunately. But yes... I am very glad to be having a lazy day today. It is 4pm and I have not changed out of my pj's, nor have I taken a shower yet. I kind of wish that I had gone outside today since it seemed like a very nice sunny day, but I'm just too lazy. hehehehe

Other than the sale that's been going on, I haven't really been doing much at all. I had dinner with Chris last night at Kabuki... yum... where we had the weirdest waiter EVER... only because he kept talking about random stuff and when I ordered my "tuna tartare" he called it "tuna tartarIE" like I was the stupid one pronouncing it wrong. Weirdo. Then Chris surprised me with a box of Scotch Kisses from See's Candies only because when I had gone earlier in the day during my lunch break at work, I had ordered some candy for my Regional Manager and Chris and while I was doing that I guess the lady didn't hear me saying that I wanted Scotch Kisses and that sucked big time because that was the only thing that I wanted for myself and everything else was for other people. So as I was walking back to work, opening up my See's Candies bag... I realized... that she had forgotten to give me MY candy!!! Damn it... Anyway... then we went to 24 hour WalMart because I needed a heater. Turns out though, we bought the wrong one that was sitting NEXT to the one that I wanted. I want one with a timer and maybe a remote.. that would be even nicer... but a timer would be fantabulous!!! So that's what I've been doing.

I just cleaned my room right now and I'm contemplating on doing laundry. Went to Pismo Beach last weekend which was very relaxing and very fun. I really enjoy going there and being able to hang out with Christy and Chris. Short version of what we did (because I'm horribly lazy).... had breakfast at a nice little cafe, went outlet shopping in Pismo, slept, ate at Jocko's, watched tv, ate at Splash Cafe, Walmart run, and a visit to the Madonna Inn... and that is about it I think. Oh, Chris did get a flat tire while we were driving on surface streets to get to the freeway. It wasn't too bad though. The towing guy didn't take THAT long to get there and after driving around trying to find a place to get new tires we decided to just take the donut home... which actually made it the whole way.. WITH a stop at Camarillo for some more outlet shopping... hehehe. Then we ate KBBQ and Tofu and that was the end of our trip.

Overall, fun trip! Pictures for your viewing pleasure....

Madonna Inn

Saving Money & Shopping!

Wow! I haven't updated in a long time and I know I have A LOT to update on, but I'm a little too lazy on that... I just wanted to update on my shopping excursions lately... which really aren't very many. Sad but true...

Anyway, on Sunday I got to sleep in until 1:30pm and then I sat around the house waiting for my sister to bring me lunch from Carl's Jr. I got the fish sandwich which is actually quite tasty and then I sat in front of my computer watching "Gossip Girl." I absolutely LOVE that show. It's weird though, it's almost like I think the characters are too mean and it makes me mad, but at the same time.. I can't stop watching it! It's crazy... hahahaa. Anyway, after that I took a shower and got ready to head out to Riverside to visit Chris at work. I stopped by the local Coffee Bean and got a vanilla ice blended to keep me awake for the long drive out there. Took me about 45 min- an hour, I don't remember... and then I finally got there! woo~hoo! I went in, said hello to my stepfather Carl and then off he went. So then I walked around... looked at shoes, then went upstairs to TBD to take a look around since Chris was busy with a customer... and this is the stuff that I found and ended up purchasing!!! I'm so excited... hahahaah

Item #1:Now I think that this picture does not do the jeans justice... they look waaaay better in person. This picture makes it look really really weird. Anyway, I'm getting them hemmed tomorrow and that's always the scary part because I'm scared that they'll either make it toooo long or too short, and either way, that's horrible right? But yes, I did get those because I've been wanting a new pair of jeans for a very long time and I really like the dark wash! Plus, I need some jeans to wear for every day... well, I also need some for heels but really, how many times do I dress up THAT much that I have to wear heels? Uh.. hardly EVER! So I won't be purchasing any jeans for that anytime soon....

Item #2:There are some Facade flats that I found in the BP Shoe Department. You can't tell in the picture but they're super padded on the bottom which means that they are super comfy! I got them in black and plan on wearing them to work since I have some black pants that I hemmed so that I could wear flats with them, yet I haven't found any comfy nice flats to wear until now!!! woo~hoo! Chris had to order them so they should be on their way shortly! :-)


I'm incredibly excited about my purchases. I have not really purchased too many things lately... ok, I lied. I HAVE purchased things lately but I don't purchase as much as I used to.. so that's good right? The bad thing is that now I purchase fewer but more expensive items... argh! Isn't that horrible? Seriously....

As long as it makes me semi happy right? hahahaa. I have been pretty good with saving money though.... I don't eat out for lunch as often... even though this week I'm pretty lazy and then I have been using this coffee card that my store manager gave me and then tomorrow I will be using one of those Merch Certificates that I got from work bc I spend way too much and will be using that to purchase coffee and lunch for the rest of the week until I get paid. See??? Saving money already... hahahahaa

I will update more tomorrow and with pictures from Knott's Scary Farm and maybe the wedding... even though Christy is my only reader and I know she's seen it already... ahahaha.. but commentary is always good right?

crappy day

so today has turned out to be a not so good day. first it started off with me waking up at my usual 5:15am to get ready for work. i get ready, straighten my hair (which i hardly ever do), put my clothes on, eat my breakfast, and then head off to work. i get there and i'm totally prepared to work, and then i look at the schedule... i freaking CLOSE. so i call my regional mgr. who tells me to call the other assistant and ask him if he could close. turns out he has ... YOGA. yeah... seriously. so i have to drive back home (which wasn't too bad) and then drive back at 2pm. so, i mean... that part really wasn't that bad. i got a good 3-4 hour nap in between and got to eat lunch and get coffee... not rushed at all, which is what i like.

so i'm thinking that today isn't going to be that bad of a day afterall. yeah, i had to wake up earlier than usual, but whatever.... i got to treat myself to peet's coffee and stuff so no big deal.

then i get to work... from 5 until closing it was nonstop cleaning. every time i'd clean something, a huge mess would end up somewhere else. then there were the racks that was a never ending cycle of picking up shoes. i finally just gave up and figured i'd have someone do it at the end of the night. it was a very stressful night tonight. i found myself straightening one of the racks and thinking to myself that i kind of wanted to cry a little. BUT... i will not allow myself to cry over work. that's nonsense. it doesn't deserve my tears, and even though i'm pmsing right now so i'm technically allowed to be a big baby and cry... i don't want to.

i was pretty good today at not yelling at anyone and just being really... mmm... authoritative i guess you can say. someone would just be stupid as heck and i'd just talk to them like i was their mom or something instead of saying what i really wanted to say which was "you dumbshit! what is wrong with you!" instead i said in a monotoned voice what i wanted them to do and just let it go from there and just watched them until they did it correctly. it's really crazy. i swear some of these people hate me, but it sucks to be them because i'm in charge now. hahaha.. me power tripping? never. i am to the point though where if someone pisses me off i write them up. so i guess you can say that i'm a pro at that now since i've already given 2 since my mgr left on saturday.

i have to be up at 5:15am again tomorrow and i have tons of stuff to do in the morning. i just hope i can finish it all and keep the department up and running. i know i can do it... and i refuse to disappoint anyone or let anyone down, but at the same time... it's all very stressful. *sigh*

oh well... time to watch some "elf" to make myself happy i suppose. good night.