My brother and wife in town - Week 2

11/14/11 -  I started my new Kabbalah class on this day. Yay! Spent the day at home doing the usual things. Job searching, tv, some time spent with my cousin, brother and his wife. That's all. The lights around the Beverly Center were all off... so they had people directing traffic. Haha... uh... that's all I really remember.

11/15/11 - We went to Sea World! Yay. My cousin decided not to go with us because he had to study for a test on Thursday. So it was just my brother, his wife Jasmine and me. We left at about 8:30 am. My brother was planning to go down the 101 S to get to the 5 S. But I suggested he go down the 134 E and then hit the 5 S that way. It turned out to be the faster road. Glad I said something otherwise we would have been stuck in L.A. forever.  It would have taken us longer to reach our destination because it's about a two hour drive to San Diego. Along the way down to San Diego, David calls me asking me about his jacket. He said he could not find it and the last place I could remember him having it was when he went to Chicago back in October. In the end he did figure out where it was. He had left it at the board games place in Sun Valley. We reached Sea World at around 11:30pm. The park closed at 5pm, so we still had plenty of time. We went into the park and my brother and Jasmine went and got something to eat. They got coffee and a muffin from some cafe. After that, we went to where the sea lions were and Jasmine feed them. The sea lions were so loud!  They keep screaming, give me food! They all wanted food and also the birds that hang around trying to take their food. After that we went to watch a show with sea lions and stuff. It was pretty cool, with many funnies, dancing animals and people. We also watched the Shamu show later on in the day. We went exploring through the shark place and went to look at dolphins and other fishies. We went on the water raft ride. There was no line so we just went on. It was still nice and sunny so if we did end up getting wet, we could dry off with the sun. I had two sweaters on, so I took my inner sweater off and just kept the second one on while I hid the 1st sweater under my 2nd sweater.  I also hid my purse under my sweater so it would not get wet while on the ride. I put my hoodie on just so I won't feel the water go down my neck. My trick worked and none of my stuff under my sweater got wet, just the outer sweater got wet. When we got off the ride I replaced my wet sweater with my dry one and once again I was nice and warm from the top. It was starting to get a little chili, but I just hoped my sweater would dry off eventually. We went on the sky tower where we ended up getting a picture of all three of us. We also went on the bayside skyride. Both were pretty cool with amazing views. Towards the end of the day we ended up getting lunch. It was about 3:45 when we did. I got a veggie burger, fries and a chocolate pudding. There were so many seagulls around us, at a table near us, they almost took a kids food of his plate. The last thing we did at Sea World was ride Journey to Atlantis. We got a little wet, but not too much. After that we left and got all cozy inside my car. I also got David one of those penny pressed coins with a turtle design on it. We needed to get to weho to go watch Dave's show at 9:30pm. I feel asleep on the ride back. I think it was about 45 minutes. David called me to see how far we were at 7pm but from what I saw on the side info boards on the freeway, we were 30 mins away. But that proved to be wrong because we ended up getting to downtown 10 minutes later. We reached weho by 8:30pm. He had made in time to see Dave's show. So finally my brother Albert and his wife Jasmine got to meet Dave. =) Now my whole family knows my boyfriend. Yay! Now I have to meet his family... when will that be? It was quite an eventful night. There was a comedy show before the one Dave was performing in, but when it finished most of the people left. It looked to me it was just the comedians and my family. Jasmine drank a bit so she was laughing at a lot of things. She made it very fun and people liked it. We got home really late. I stayed up about an extra hour later. But then I went to sleep... it has been a long day.

11/16/11 - Wednesday was just relax day. We were all still tired from the day before.

11/17/11 - On this day I went mini golfing with my brother and Jasmine at Castle Park in Sherman Oaks area. This was my second time ever to go mini golfing. I came in last in both round that we all played. I didn't care much, I thought it was just fun! We went and got lunch at wienerschnitzel and I got a pastrami sandwich. After the game we went home and relaxed. Later on the day I had to go to a CTN animation expo volunteer meeting for the weekend event. Marcelo came to pick me up and we left. We went to Aaron Brothers to look at art stuff and then to Michael's in the Burbank area. We hung around there for a bit. Once it was 5:30 we decided to head over to the hotel and just wait around. When we got to the Marriott, Marcelo was trying to park and he hit the car behind us. At first I thought it was the curb, but nope it was the car and to make it worse there was a cop on a motorcycle right at that exact moment so he saw. He inspected the car and saw damage, but it was too low to be something Marcelo had done with his car. He still had to leave his contact info for the other car owner to see. (Marcelo never heard back from that person, so I guess they already had that damage on their car.) After all the info was done, the cop helped and stopped traffic so we could get another parking spot. We parked around the corner and then went inside the Marriott. Inside at the meeting they just told us about the things we were doing, and who we are to report to during our shifts. Aside from that it was all boring stuff and once it was 8pm, Marcelo and I left. He dropped me off and that was it for the night.

11/18/11 - CTN animation expo day. I wanted to go in early so I could explore around before I started my shift volunteering. I walked around the exhibit hall before anyone else could. I looked at all the cool art and demos. I even talked to one of the 5 artist that worked on the 3D stuff on Beauty and the Beast. That just made my day. I went and got lunch and also saw a screening of student work from several schools. After that I went and started my shift. I just stood outside a door and made sure no one walks in that way. No one who's not an exhibitor that is. People could exit mostly. It was pretty tiresome. But I got through the night and went home. I was totally exited to be going to Knott's Berry Farm on Saturday with my family and boyfriend. Dave came to pick me up after board games. It turned out to be almost midnight... which I thought was annoying at heck. We would just go to his place and sleep and not do anything else. Blah. 

11/19/11 - Knott's Berry Farm day! Yay! David and I left at about 9:15am. We actually got there really early. Even before my brother, cousin and wife. David needed food so we went and got some food from a sandwich place. I got a egg and cheese panini. It was so good. The best egg I have ever tasted from a food place. After we got our food we went to Knott's and met up with my family. The first ride we went on was Windseeker. That was my second time on that ride. The first one was during Knott's Halloween Haunt. After that we went on Jaguar since it was right next door. The next was La Revolution. My brother doesn't like rides that spin. Well this one did spin a lot, but heck, it was so much fun. David really loved this ride =) I would say it's one of my favorites at Knott's. After that we got on the Dragon Swing, the one where you sit in a boat and it goes side to side. Then came Waveswinger. My brother refused to get on this one. We wanted to watch a show, that started at about 12:30pm. But before we the show we got on Xcelerator. I was a bit worried for David because I don't know how much his heart could handle. Besides Disneyland and California Adventure Park, I have never been to a theme park with him with rides that were a bit extreme. But he was fine. So it was all good. After the ride we went to watch the show at the Calico Saloon in the Ghost Town area. It started late, but it was nice to relax for a bit. After the show... hmm... I'm not quite sure what we went to do. Haha. We had lunch at one point and went to Johnny Rockets where I got really upset over my favorite dish. David and I ordered chili cheese fries the usual. But when we got our order I was in total shock. Instead of using shredded cheese they had used nacho cheese. I was so disappointed that I wanted to cry. I asked the waiter why they had done that and he said something about they did not have the equipment for it anymore and that the cheese doesn't melt nicely over the chili. What? That's dumb. The cheese melts when it's on something warm... you just let it melt on it own, you don't need melted cheese dip on it. The cheese tasted so nasty... I only ate the fries with the chili on them. David said to write them about this problem to them. I was in agreement. The rides we go on are as follows, not sure in the order: Calico Mine Ride, Rip Tide, The Pony Express, Silver Bullet, Sierra Sidewinder and Ghost Rider. All the rides were fun and I really like the Sidewinder because it spins as you go through the track. FUN! We also saw two other shows, the stunt show and the mystery lodge. Both were fun and cool. At the end of the night it started to sprinkle a little bit. My family didn't believe me at fisrt and said some probably had spit on me. But then they believe because they felt the sprinkles for themselves. Before we left the park we went into stores looking for things to buy. I bought a woodstock pin / plush and a snoopy gel cling. David and I decided to get food at TGI Friday's. So we said bye to my family and went off to eat. We ate, then Dave took me home.

11/19/11 - Last day for the CTN animation expo. I volunteered in the morning for 4 hours then I was done. It was also raining. I had David pick me up. I wanted to to the mall to get my boots I had special ordered, but because it was raining the mall was packed. So we just left and went to David's place. I think we played Baulder's Gate for a bit... but I feel asleep at one point. Haha. We went to some Seafood Place to eat that night and after that Dave dropped me home. When I got home The Walking Dead was already 30 minutes into it. I kept watching until the end. I always forget that they show a repeat at 11pm but I didn't tell David that because he said he wanted to go shower. So I just let him shower and he can watch it another day, most likely next Sunday.

That's all I can remember... more on the next blog!

My brother and wife in town - Week 1

So about 2-3 weeks ago I went to pick up my brother and his wife. Yay. They were coming out to visit on their vacation and they also brought their two dogs, Oddie and Cuddles. 11/7/11. One of the first things we went to do was eat pupusas! Yum. I can eat pupusas anytime, any day of the week. We also all go horchata. Even more yummers! For the rest of the day it was just spent relaxing. So Lobo met Oddie and Cuddles... and it was a mess. Lobo wanted to play but Oddie did not. He would just keep barking, barking and running all over in the back yard. It was chaos. But the week before my parents had me look into Lobo getting neutered... so I did. And I ended up getting a call on Monday for it but the lady we very rude and hung up on me. I did managed to get an appointment for the next morning.

11/8/11. The next day my mom and I took Lobo to get neutered. It took a while to even get him in the door. Paperwork and people was the problem. But finally he went in and we left. It was also extremely cold that morning and it was hard to even hold a pen. Brrr. After I got home my mom and dad left for work. I was thinking about getting home and sleeping some more. That plan failed. I ended up going to the Navy base in Oxnard with my brother and his wife. I never been to the base... so I thought it be cool to go. I wasn't too worried about Lobo, he would be out by 12:30-1pm. It was 9am at that time. They vet place would call and tell us to pick him up later on. So I went with them and went inside the base. I was surprised to see it was little small mini town. I wanted to get a new shirt because I had left home with a big pajama shirt and it was dirty. So I ended up getting a shirt that cost 7 dollars. I changed into it quickly and felt so much better about my appearance. Haha. Jasmine had to get some new name tags for her uniform with out last name of Guardado on it. I told her "You better not misspell it." She laughed. We waited about until noon to get them but before that we went to eat chicken teriyaki bowls from Jack in the Box. They were extremely good tasting. I even got an egg nog shake... which I have been dying to get! More just the egg nog taste... but finally. It's the season for egg nog and I will get as much as I can! Haha. After we ate we went back to pick up Jasmine's name tags. After that we left and went to the Camarillo outlets because Jasmine needed some shoes. After going into one store I got the call to go pick up Lobo. So we left and went to pick him up. We got the the location in about 25 minutes. We were near by so it was good. I went to get Lobo and he still had some energy. But in the car he just plopped down on Jasmine's lap. Lobo was pretty calm all day.

11/9/11. On this day we went out to Beaumont to go get my Cousin Al. We went to the outside mall area to check out stores. It was pretty windy but I was all bundled up with warmies. We all got hungry and went and got food. But before we went to get food, my brother and cousin got haircuts. Jasmine made them both get haircuts because their hair were just too long. After that we got lunch. I got a turkey sandwich from Quizno's. We hung around at the house and watched a show called Bully Beat down and The Walking Dead Season 1 DVD. Jasmine and I drank some sake. I only had a little bit, and a beer but Jasmine had like half the bottle of the sake and some mixed drink. She was gone at the end of the night.

11/10/11. We left Beaumont and came back to North Hollywood. It was afternoon time when we got home and we relaxed for a bit. We ended up going to the Glendale Galleria all except my cousin he wanted to stay at home and be on his phone. We check a lot of stores and walked for a bit. I saw a pair of boots that I wanted to try on, but at the end I decided not to. We went home.

11/11/11. Tonight we ended up hanging out with one of my brother's friend. We went out to dinner to BJ's. I had some white wine with my dinner pasta. It was really yummy and I even finished it all. 

11/12/11-11/13/11. Just spent the weekend with Dave. He had a comedy show Sunday at 5pm so I went to that. But before that we just hung out at my place and he played Baulder's Gate. I ended up falling asleep. But his comedy show went great. People showed up to drink and laugh. All good. Then we just came back to his place and watched rerun episodes of The Walking Dead. Good night.

I will write another blog for the week after all this happened. Haha.

Weekend Update 11/5-11/6

So this past weekend I went to Comikaze! It's a new convention, which was fun and very cheap to get into. I went with one of my best friends, Velice. We bought our tickets online but when we go there, the will call line was super long. We were about to head to the end of the line, but there was some person trying to direct people into  where they are supposed to go. When this was happening I just went into the line and just stood there. I was sneaky. I cut in line, haha. No one was really paying attention, so why not? 

Once we got our wristbands, we were ready to go in and have some fun! Lots of cosplayer, people and stores! Ahhh, it seems overwhelming to see, but once you go through it, it's not so bad. It's fun checking out all the mechandise from different stores. I checked out a few anime things. But I was more paying attention to Doctor Who and anything My Little Pony. I only bought some Doctor Who pins, some other random pins, and stickers or cats and Doctor Who ones. I didn't really have money to spend, so I actually asked my mom for some extra money. Not much just 30 dollars and it was just enough. There wasn't anything big I would of wanted, nothing stood out. So yay! But I do want more My Little Pony shirts... hehe especially ones with Pinkie Pie... I was looking around for that... but not a thing. Haha. 

Okay, so... we also did check out some panels. Four of them. The first one was on the Batman, the second was on Fact of Faked paranormal files, the third one was Battlestar Galactica past and now, and the last one was the Doctor Who panel. All were an hour long... lots of sitting was required! haha. But we started to get hungry along the end of the second panel. We headed to the food area and got something to eat. We only got fries since the price to food was crazy high. 9 dollars for just a burger. Fries were only 3 dollars. So fries it was! We sat and just watched people go by with costumes and just looking at stuff. It's interesting just seeing people live their lives.

We also saw a lot of tv show characters signing autographs. Too many to name... so I'll leave at that. So... that was all for Comikaze. I said by to Velice and hope to hang out soon. I went home had dinner and then went over to a place were David was playing board games. Didn't stay for too long, but I did play 1 game of apples to apples. The game is fun, but I don't like the fact there is no end point to the game. You just get cards with a description. That part seems really lame.

Afterwards we just went to Dave's place where I spent the night. Sunday was just really relaxing. It was a rainy day, so who want to go out and get wet, right? We did go out to get breakfast then came back to his place. He played some Baldur's Gate and I just watched. Later that night we went out to get some dinner and then watched Puss in Boots. I really like the money. It was fun, cute and entertaining. Haha. I love cats... so to see a cat character come to life and do something... it pretty awesome. So that's all for the weekend. I went home that night, because I had to go pick up my brother, his wife Jasmine and their dogs from the airport the next day. I'll talk about this later.

Monday night... halloween

Oh yeah, there is something else I forgot to mention. David and I went to the Dia de Los Muertos festival last month. I think it was on Saturday the 12th. I'm guessing because it's not noted on my calendar. It took place in the Hollywood Forever cemetery. I have never been here so it was pretty cool to visit the place. But I kinda want to see the place without the billions of people who attended.

So my experience at this festival... I felt pretty sad walking amongst the dead. Seeing pictures and memorials. I wasn't sure if I could take it. I wanted to shed some tears just walking through. You don't really think about these things when you are living life. You are happy, having fun, living life day by day. Dia de los Muertos festival brings you down to the realities in life and what will happens to everyone when they die. But aside from that... we looked at a lot of merchandise. I had a pupusa, horchata and plantain. Dave just had some hotdog thing, haha. After this was done, we went to Sinister Pointe and Old Town Haunt that night.

OKAY, so now for the Halloween events! So on Halloween Dave and I went to do some yard haunts around the area. First we went to two places around in Burbank. Don't know where exactly they are or the name of the haunt, but the first one we went into was based on creepy alien virus of some sort on a space station. It was really cool to see what people can do with their time. The design of the haunt was cool, and they had an alien bar which looked awesome to hang out at. The second one we went to, was like creepy, butchery and not sure what the heck it was. But it was really awesome. It was awesome because of the decorations, and design of the whole place. They used the space well and the monsters... played their parts well. I would have to say this haunt is one of the best I have seen and it was just just the two of us and no other group in front or behind. It almost felt as if it was never going to end.

The next stop was Woodland hills, where Boney Island resides. I only remember this... because the whole theme of this place was boney, haha. It was pretty amazing what the owners of this place made. Skeletons everywhere, with audio, and a water show with music. There was also singing bushes and talking spiders with funny phrases. Oh yeah, we also saw the ghost busters car with all the flashing lights. It was pretty awesome. I tried to take a pic but it was hard to take a picture of the bright lights flashing. So instead I took a short video to capture the moment. 

We went looking for another haunt somewhere... don't remember where, but it turned out it was just a small house decorations. David wasn't sure which houses were the ones with haunts in them. But we did end up at one with a forest of mirrors. This one was pretty awesome. There were mirrors all over the place making you think it was someone else, but then you realize right away it's not, and it's just YOU. Also, they ways the had positioned the mirrors made it looked like the people were behind us, but in fact they were coming in from the side of place. Towards the end there was a small girl who came out screaming... and apologized for it. I thought "You don't have to apologize."

We were hungry after all this... so we went to the Blue Dog Beer Tavern. For being Halloween, it was the perfect spot to chill. It was nice and empty and we could have a meal at peace. We had a burger with fries, and garlic cheesy bread. Let's not forget the beer of course! I got some wheat beer, which was yummy.

So that's it for Halloweeny things. Until next year! O_O