Hanukkah gifts

I wanted to spend a little time with the gifts I have gotten so far.

From my aunt and uncle I got a new coat, legwarmers, a red wallet, a snoopy DVD, Ponies and some moneys =P

Aiza also got me some gifts. 5 different nail art pens, 2 pocket size composition books, small pens, hand sanitizer, starburst candy and a summer dress =) I wasn't expecting so much!

From my boyfriend David I got a nice red warm blankey that looks like a cloak. I have been wearing it almost everyday because it's so awesome. I also got a new Wacom Bamboo tablet! It's bigger than my old one and it has so much good stuff that I can use it for. Yay!

But even on top of all that, the best part was being with my family for these past few days in Beaumont for Hanukkah =) Weeee

I can't wait for David to come back from visiting his family. That will be the best giftie =D hehe. Just a few more days... hehe.

Hanukkah and things

This week on Tuesday 20th was the first day of Hanukkah. There are 8 days in total. I wanted to spend time with my family in Beaumont, so I decided to go over on Wednesday night. On Wednesday after I went to talk to my Kabbalah teacher, I came home and left for Beaumont with My cat Serenity. But before I went to the house, I went to hang out with Aiza for a little bit. I got her a Hanukkah giftie. Serenity got to explore Aiza's room and eat her dinner. I spent about 2 hours there and then left because I didn't want to get to Beaumont to late. I left Aiza's place at around 7pm. I got to Beaumont at around 8ish. Serenity got to explore around the house and finally relax at home after a long drive. The whole time I was there, I walked around the house with the new blankey Dave got for me. It almost looks like a cloak... which is perfect! I love it so much... and it keeps me warm.

My family likes to watch a lot of movies. So here is a list of all the movies I watched while in Beaumont. 1. The Help

2. Midnight to Paris

3. Straw Dog

4. Children of the Corn

5. Rio

It's nice to watch movies you haven't seen. Children of the Corn is an old movie, but I have never watched it because when I was younger I was just to scared. But that movie was ok. All the other movies on the list were also good. I really liked watching Rio. It was really cute and musical. The dancing in the movies was awesome.

I spent a lot of time with my family, but when I wasn't doing anything with them, I would spent time drawing storyboards. I did that until yesterday Saturday, because my laptop finally would not work anymore. The charger would not charge the laptop because the connection was all messed up. But yesterday was really fun. We had a Hanukkah party and lots of people showed up. I drank a whole bottle of White Zinfandel. I did get drunk... but after it passed, I didn't drink anymore and just enjoyed the night, laughing at peoples funny acts and talking to people. I also got to meet the only Jewish neighbors we have in our little neighborhood in Beaumont. There was dancing in the upstairs playroom... which was so hilarious. Mostly the adults... but it just made the night fun. I went to bed at around 11pm.

Today there were more stories to tell. Someone decided it would be fun to draw on people's faces. The ones who got drunk at least. There were many pictures. I'm glad I was in my room, I don't want anyone drawing on me!

So now I'm at home... relaxing...

That's all! Happy Hanukkah... day 6!

Overview

I'm going to make this a bit short. I want to write... but then again... I really don't. But anyways, last week week class at the Kabbalah class... it was about bringing children into this world. Something that's been on my mind for months... ahh. I wonder what my class will be today?

This past week I been working on storyboard for the SFK - part of the Kabbalah Centre. Working on these storyboards has gotten me to try to be more artistic... and wanting to do more. But I also need to do more in other areas of my life.

I have also been working on a Jolly Rancher commercial with Carlos and a few other people. I did a little bit of the compositing and color correction. We finish the project on Friday 12/16. All we needed to do is upload it to the contest website.

(12/17-12/19) On Saturday I went hiking with David up in Glendale. I never even been to this new place. But it took a lot of my energy. We started at around 2pm and ended at 4:30 pm. We were both exhausted from this hike. We had food after the hike.  Went to Panera Bread and then headed back to his place to shower, and then go over to Ikea. Dave saw a few things he wants to get. But he won't be getting them until he gets back from his trip back home. I hope finally Dave get his apartment nice and organized. That would be nice to see. On Sunday, David went and got a haircut. I stayed behind at his apartment. I slept a little longer... got up, read and watched tv. After he got back from his haircut, we went out to eat. We went to a place... I can't remember the name, but I had an omelet with salmon and cream cheese. It was so yummy. Two of my most favorite things... Salmon and cream cheese. After that we just hung out at his place. Later on the day he dropped me off so he could go do some comedy with Cliff D. I was just at home drawing and rearranging my pony displays in my room.

That's it... haha.

Weekend update 12/10-12/11

I decided to help Carlos in a commercial for Jolly Ranchers new candy. We had to get equipment to film and so we did on Friday. On Saturday we had a group get together to get the filming started. We meet up at noon in North Hollywood. It was the house of Carlos cousin and the house was really close to me. I ended up taking my bike to the house because I didn't have my car to use. But since it was so close... I don't think I would have used it anyway. The whole group consisted of, Carlos, Marcelo (actor), Eric, Chris and me. We still had another person, a friend of Carlos coming in later in the day. She would be the actress in the commercial. We started setting up the living room and moving all the furniture around to make space for what we were going to film.  We started we the outside scenes. We had everything ready and were about to start recording on the P2 cards until we hit the record did we find a problem with the camera. It didn't want to record and would say there was an error. I looked through the settings over and over again and could not find anything. To get around this problem, Carlos and Marcelo left to buy a DV tape to film. While they were gone, I still kept looking at the setting to see if there was something I could do to fix the problem. After a few minutes of doing this, I managed to changed some settings and finally made the camera to start recording. I called Carlos to tell him not to buy the tape anymore but he didn't answer his phone. Then I tried calling Marcelo but he also didn't pick up his phone. It was a few minutes afterward that Marcelo called back. I told them not to buy it but they ended up buying it in case we continued to have any other problems to the P2 cards. It didn't take too long to film our scenes outside of the house so we quickly moved in to film the shots inside of the house. These shots took a bit longer because we had to fix the lights and make sure everything was good. At about 3:30 pm Carlos ordered pizza for everyone. We kept working on filming until the pizza came so then we took a break. We took a nice long break and just talked and planned for what we were going to do next. At around 5pm we had Carlos friend finally get there. We were still in the process of getting done with all the scenes without her, but we were near. We didn't finish until about 7pm. David called me to see if we were still going to go to Ariel's and Joe's party. He was in orange county... a little far... but he managed to get to me within an hour. He came and got me and we went over to the party. We had some food, apple cider and watched xmas movies. I also got a few gifts from Ariel... which I wasn't expecting at all. After that we just came over to Dave's place to sleep.

On Sunday, Dave had to go into work for a few hours to work on something. He dropped me home and he would get me later to go eat. When he did finish at work, he got me and we went out to eat pupusas. After that we went to his place and just relaxed. We watched tv and I eventually fell asleep while watching fox 11 Sunday night shows.  I did ended up waking up because Carlos called me asking about the footage from Saturday. We eventually went to sleep at about 11pm but I couldn't fall asleep. I stayed awake until about 1am. I don't remember falling sleep... but glad I did.

Howl at the Moon and the weekend 12/2-12/4

Last Friday (12/2/11) I hosted a party at Howl at the moon because I had won a party in October so finally it was time to use my party to have friends come and get together. It was a last minute notice because the person who I sent the info about what date I was going to host this party never contacted me. So this past week on Tuesday I was notified about the reminder for my party on Friday December 2nd. I scrambled trying to get the work out to some of my friends. 10 people came out and that includes me. I'm actually happy I was able to get some of my friends out. I was expecting 2-3 people. Glad that it turned out well and it was all fun too. All who came out were, Greg, Marcelo, Renee, Ryan, Bailee, Dana, Cliff, David M. and of course my boy Dave and me. Of course I had to be there... haha. Lots of talking, picture taking, drinking and fun music. It all started at 6pm and we didn't leave until 11:45pm. But this time all but Greg and Dana had left. After we got out of Howl at the Moon, we all went to eat at in-n-out burgers. We hung around at the in-n-out burgers until about 1am. Then Dave and I went to his place to sleep.

12/3/11. The next day we ended up sleeping for many hours. We both thought it would be around 8 or 9am. It turned out to be 11am. We hung out at Dave's place for a bit until we had to go to my place so I could get dressed for his work holiday party at the Luxe Hotel Sunset at 6pm. When we get to my place, I try to get ready quickly... but because what I had planned on wearing wasn't fit for the occasion... I had decide on something else to wear for the night it took a little bit longer. But finally I was ready... and we were off. There was a bit of traffic on our way to the hotel that David thought we would get there late and won't have time for cocktails and talking to people. The traffic kept moving quickly and we got to the hotel on time. There was some food being passed around by the people who work at the hotel. My favorite was the little salmon cone. It was so yummy. I also liked the chicken pizza.  

Finally it was time to get dinner out. We sat for a little and waited for the food to come out. 1st was the salad, then dinner food, which was steak, fish, veggies, sweat potato and finally desert which was just a lot of yummy things. Haha. At the end of the whole meal I got coffee. After that there was music, dancing and casino games where people could play. Dave went and played some game... I don't even know what the hell it's called. That's how much I know about casino games. All I know is, there were cards, game chips... and PEOPLE. Haha. It was fun watching... but I still had NO IDEA what the heck was going on. We left at around midnight. We got home to Dave's place and went to sleep.

12/4/11 - We ended up waking up late... again! Haha. I'm tired of typing... so I'll make this last bit as short as possible. We went out and got breakfast. Went home to relax. Dave played Baulder's Gate for a little bit. We went out for a late night hike at around 4pm. After hike, more relaxing for me since Dave had to write some work stuff. We needed dinner so we ordered Chinese food and watched Neverland on Syfy. Then after a little bit... Dave packed stuff for his work trip. After that, we went to sleepy sleep.

To be continued... haha.

Wallenda Screening + Winds

Last week on Wednesday I went to the Wallenda screening Gnomon In Hollywood.  It was pretty awesome to finally see it up and complete. I went with David so he could see what the heck I was working in on this whole time at the internship. After the film, there was a party over at The Cat & Fiddle. It had been a really windy day it was turning out to be also for the night part. David and I met up with Marcelo, David M. and some other people I know from school. We had a couple of drinks and talked a bit. At about 10pm or so we left and headed over to Dave's place for the night. It was a crazy ride home with all the wind. The trees moved wildly and leaves went all over the place. We neared Dave's place in Glendale and going down a Brand street (I think) we thought it just started to rain because there was a tons of water flying at us. But it turned out it was water from the sprinklers about two blocks away from us. Two blocks?? Really? this was really strong wind. We got to Dave's place, (finally) but Dave wanted to go out and explore this scene. So we did and I brought along my camera to film our adventure. Here is a video if you wish to watch our adventure. 11/30/11.

My brother and wife in town - Week 3

11/21/11 - A day for relaxing... I guess. But I did have a job interview. I think it went well. The supervisor was nice. So... I just have to wait and see if they call me. I went over to my aunts work place. Hung out there for a little bit. Had lunch and then went home. I also went to my Kabbalah class at night... I think that's about it.

11/22/11 - I don't remember. Haha.

11/23/11 - Went out to the mall to get my boots I been wanting to buy. I did pay a deposit. So in case I didn't like them, or some other problem... I can get a full refund. When I got to the store, I tried on the boots and they were a perfect fit! I was so happy. I went home and Jasmine saw my boots and started to think maybe she wants a pair. At 12pm  we left so we could get lunch with my aunt and uncle. We had to take Trinity with us because after lunch, my aunt and uncle were going to take my cousin with them. I looked in the garage for my cat carrier... and blue plastic one... and I found it. I cleaned it up and made it comfy for the Trinity. My cousin Al put her in the cat carrier and we were set to go. On the way over to the restaurant, (a pupuseria) Trinity kept crying and whining. But once we got to the restaurant we waited 10-15 for my aunt and uncle to arrive. Once they arrived they asked the people in the restaurant if we could bring trinity inside while we eat. They said it's all good, she can come it. She sat in the cat carrier next to my cousin. I had plantanos, 2 cheese pupusas and a horchata. It was good to spend time with my family. After we had lunch, my cousin and I waited outside until my aunt and uncle paid for the meal. We were checking on Trinity to see how she was doing and then noticed she had pee in the cat carrier. My cousin said "cochina," which translates to dirty girl, but in this case, dirty cat girl. Haha. We both cleaned out the mess. Finally it was time to depart and Trinity and my cousin left with my aunt and uncle. I asked my brother if he could take me to Blick art store so I could get some art supplies. I needed more turpenoid for the oils. This is my favorite place to get supplies from. I always go to many different stores but I usually don't buy from them. I just go check out the prices. When it's time to buy, it's off to Blick's. The location we ended going to was the one in Los Angeles down Beverly Blvd. It's near the Beverly Center. I remember the days when it used to be called "The Art Store." My brother, Jasmine and I looked around for 15 minutes just seeing what they had. I got my odorless turpenoid, a glass container and a painting knife. I got all those 3 items for 12 dollars with my 40% off coupon and 10% off preferred customer card. My brother wanted to go home, but Jasmine made his got to the Glendale Galleria to check out the boots she might want to get. We were at the Galleria and Jasmine in the end didn't get the boots. We just walked around looking at the stores. I did end up getting some red tights I been wanting to get for a while now.  After that we just went home. Tomorrow my brother, wife and their dogs are going back home to Pennsylvania. I went out to watch David's comedy show. It's the night before Thanksgiving and we both thought no one would show up. We were wrong. It filled up with people who wanted to see comedy! It was a great show! =)

11/24/11 - It's Thanksgiving, Turkey day! I dropped my brother, wife and dogs off at the airport at about 10 am. I said bye to them, for the time being. They will be back in California in about 6 months. So yay! After that, I came home and got ready so David could come get me so we could get our Turkey meal and go to Nicole's place and dine. We had a nice meal and hung out at Nicole's place for a bit. After we left... we were actually hungry. We had a small afternoon meal so we ended up going to some place in Sherman Oaks to get food. I don't remember exactly what it was, but we shared the entree plate and got an appetizer. The food was really yummy and perfect. 

11/25/11 -  Dave has a show tonight at a Sci-fi convention. He got in for free since he was participating. I didn't go because Dave had a feeling it was going to be horrible. It ended up being horrible. Glad I didn't go and made him waste money on a lame convention. Haha.

11/26/11 - 11/27/11 - I don't remember what the heck we did this weekend... haha.