That AYCE Sushi Tho

Found a new AYCE Sushi spot!

The sushi is as just as good as Joe's Sushi (which is now closed). I'm glad we found this spot! Sushi.. sooo yummmm.. *drool*

Little Thanksgiving Get-Together

We hosted a little family/friend Thanksgiving get-together at our place. By little, we really mean little. Lol. Only Ivan and Marianne showed up!

Really.. we just wanted to try and cook our own turkey and since we knew we were cooking a good sized one, we thought we'd have some folks over.

Anyhow, the turkey turned out great! Very moist and savory. With it we had a lot of garlic mash and a lot of mac-n-cheese! Marianne made the garlic mash and also made a take on strawberry shortcake! It was really way too much food for the four of us. Hahaha. We did give them some left overs though and I guess this was just going to be our lunch and dinner for the next how many days!

Crack Bread

We were hanging out and watching the Pacquiao fight over at Jeric's parent's house. I was pretty hungry and have been meaning to try and make crack bread for months since I saw it on Pinterest.

Well, today's the day! It's actually very easy to make!!

Doesn't it look like melt-in-your-mouth goodness?

Well, it totally is!

Finally Made That Eggplant Casserole!

We finally attempted to make my mom's eggplant casserole!

The turnout? It was alright. Needed more salt! And, the topping didn't turn out exactly as it's supposed to. I'll need to watch my mom again, because the instructions just aren't right!

Still a delicious meal, just not up to par is all.

Breaking My Car In.. Time for VEGAS!

So.. I totally forgot to mention this, but back at the end of October, my car has finally arrived! It took over a month for it to come and I am soo glad it is here!

Meet Oreo!


Anyhow, today we take it to Vegas. This is the first and last time my car will ever visit! Lol. I love my car too much to put it through all of that. So, Vegas bound!!

Ivan, Marianne, Denise and Ray all joined us. Me, Jeric and Ivan got there Friday night while Denise and Ray were going to drive up and Marianne would fly in tomorrow. We got a room at the Flamingo and totally got upgraded without even doing the tip trick! Sa-weet! It was a one-bedroom, but had a super huge living room and 2 bathrooms! Sadly, the couches had no pull-out mattresses. Hahaha. Oh well, good thing we have inflatable beds!

The trip was mostly chill. We gambled the first night and then ate gambled and perused the shopping center during the day on Saturday. Saturday night we went to a club, but we left early cause me and Jeric weren't up to it and the group didn't wanna split. Haha. Clubs just ain't our thang! Sunday, we all had lunch at Burgr! And then that was it.. time to go back home!

Now time to get my car safely home.. hopefully without a scratch!

Happy Birthday Los Tortuga Twins & Marky

We had dinner with the fam for the boys' birthdays. We ate at Lucille's over in Cerritos.

They just ordered the family meals for everyone, which totally included a LOT of food! The best thing was the mac-n-cheese!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Jeric & Ivan

It's their birthday!!

Originally me and Marianne wanted to plan a joined themed birthday party for the boys, but by keeping it a surprise it was waaay hard to schedule. We were originally planning it for the weekend after their birthday, but since my new car needed to be broken in, Jeric planned a Vegas trip that weekend. So, we tried scheduling it for the weekend before their birthday, but things happened.. we got busy.. and some personal matters didn't allow us to properly plan the party, so we ended up nixing it.

I still wanted to surprise Jeric somehow. But our apartment parking situation does not make it easy one bit! We only have one parking spot so our 2nd car needs to find a guest spot, which is very difficult since the building has more tenants than parking spots. So, everyday after work I have to rush home and find a guest spot to save and then when Jeric comes home we switch spots! Which means, I'm totally stuck at the apartment until then, which is usually for a good hour or so. This makes it very difficult for me to go out and get his stuff!

Luckily I figured out what to do. I decided to skip lunch and use that break time to rush over to party city and grab some deco and then rush back to work. I only had a 30 minute window and the drive to and from already exhausted 20 of those minutes. I did have a plan on exactly what I wanted to do already so all I had to do was find everything on my list!

I made it back to work just in time!

Now the hard part! Having only a little over an hour do deco the house!! I wanted to get a sorta Leonardo from TMNT theme going on. So I bought 30 blue balloons and 30 green balloons, found a TMNT "Happy Birthday" banner to string across the living room, some green and blue streamers and these blue and green confetti wands! I also got him a king hat because he's my king!

I started with the balloons. We had a pump, so I knew I didn't need to get one. But about that pump.. it totally didn't work! It was manual pump that you had to push a cylinder in and out of another cylinder. The problem was when I pulled, it pulled back whatever air that was pushed into the balloon! And on top of that, there were places where the air could leak out. Total fail! I began blowing up the balloons myself. But my cheeks started to hurt and I was starting to have a hard time breathing as I blew them up. I did about 4 of them like that and then I totally remembered that we had a Rainbow Vacuum!! It has an attachment made for blowing up balloons!! Total life saver!!! Honestly, without that, I would not have been able to blow up all the balloons. I would either tire out or my time would run out.

Balloons were luckily all blown up and scattered all over our living room floor! I finished hanging the "Happy Birthday" banner and throwing streamers around it. I also had a hand drawn coupon for his surprise birthday gift. It was for the Zombies add on in COD. I rolled it up and stuck it in one of the balloons. I also made sure to stick it in the blue one because it was less transparent. Mwahaha.

I totally wanted to get him a mini cake too, but there just wasn't any more time. :(

Luckily we had donuts and I also bought two king size Reese's Pieces Cups. So I placed a stack of three donuts and the reese's pieces cups around it on a plate.

I seriously finished everything in the nick of time. Sort of.

Midway through blowing up the balloons Jeric texted me that he was heading home (this was at 5 and he usually comes home by 5:30). I wasn't sure if I'd be finished in time so I tried to be sneaky, but that's something I'm no good at. Hahaha. I texted him to call me when he gets here cause I need to move my car. He asked why, and I was like, cause they have movers coming. But he saw the hole in my story immediately!! He calls me, so I have to shut the vacuum off, which also meant I was losing precious balloon blowing time. He's like, "that doesn't make sense. where will I park then?" That's when I break. Hahaha. I could not contain myself. As always, I am no good at lying. Hahahaha. I ended up just telling him, "JUST CALL ME WHEN YOU GET HERE!" LOL! He figured it out of course, that I had some sort of surprise waiting for him. At least, he wouldn't know what kind of surprise!

Back to the deco. I had about maybe 5 minutes when I was stashing the coupon in one of the balloons. I also had to find his card and then prep the gopro so I can record it all.

He calls me as I'm running all around our apartment and tells me he is here! Ahhhhhhhh. Panic ensues.. and I quickly gather everything! I do one last sweep and see that all the deco is in place and as I'm placing the gopro in a good spot the doggies' ears perk up.. crap! I holla.. "Jeric!! Are you at the door?" And he replies, "Yes." Mwahahaha. So I tell him, "Do NOT come in yet!!!" LOL. Everything is ready except for the confetti wands.. where the bloody hell are the confetti wands?? I frantically search for a good minute (but it seriously felt like a lifetime). LOL! And there they are!! I grab them quickly, kick a few balloons to better spots, shut off the lights and yell, "OK, YOU CAN COME IN NOW!"

SURPRISE!!!! *Confetti rains everywhere*

And that he was, totally surprised!!

He loves it! And was like, "you should've recorded it". I'm like, "ah, but I did! look at the gopro". And he's like, "but you didn't. it's not recording." C.R.A.P.! He is right, the red light is not blinking. In all the mayhem for the final few minutes, I forgot to hit record! DOH!

But that's ok. I hit record and start tossing confetti back up in the air and yelling "SURPRISE!" Hahahaha.

I have him put his crown on and sit in front of his faux pas birthday cake. I light a match (cause we have no candles, plus the match is tall enough to fit in the holes of the three stacked donuts) and place it in the middle of the donuts and sing him happy birthday! He reads his card and reads about his surprise gift that he must find among the balloons. Pwahahaha.

He asks if it's covered by the balloons or inside.. I offer no hint. I do allow him to bring in the hounds to help him though. Hahaha.

That was more for our amusement though. Watching Derp play with the balloons, then have one pop and shock every bit of fur on his fat body, and then seeing him go from happy to angry in a blink of an eye and.. ATTTTAAAACCCCKKKK! Which leads to more balloon popping and more anger. Hahaha. It was funny!

Meanwhile, Jeric is searching for his gift. He asks, "blue or green?" This time I help him out and tell him blue. And he notices the method to my madness and says, "of course it's blue, it's not see through!" Hahahahaha.

Minutes later, he finally found it! He reads the coupon and is like.. "What's zombies?" What??? Are you kidding me? Have we not been playing COD for the past how many days and have you guys not been talking about zombies? LOL.

When he realizes what I meant, he's like, "Oh yah, you were sleeping last night. We found out how to get zombies, you have to get really far in survivor to unlock it. So you don't have to pay for any expansion pack." Which means my gift is null, but not really! I told him to keep reading the coupon. I stated that it has cash value. Hahaha.

And that was the end of his birthday surprise!

Now.. clean-up time! Hahaha. Jeric showered while I cleaned up. I wasn't gonna have him help me clean up on his birthday. :)

When he was done showering and getting ready I was still cleaning. I had to pop the balloons quietly so that I don't startle the dogs. Plus I'm sure it hurts their ears. Poor Juno was so scared after the first two balloons popped that she ran underneath our bed to hide.

I still had a lot of cleaning to do, but Marky and Christian were online so Jeric was like, stop cleaning, we'll do it later, go hop on COD! And off I went! Hahaha. Our priorities are definitely in order!

After COD, we rushed off to Lucille's in Cerritos to have dinner for their birthdays.

Happy Birthday boys!!

COD: Advance Warfare

All the boys got Call of Duty: Advance Warfare today. And since Ivan bought an XBox One and the game for Marianne, Jeric didn't want me to feel left out either, so we went and got me an XBox One and the game! Yey!! Plus, it's way better for Jeric because I wont ask to play his, thus lowering his KDR (that's Kill Death Ration for all of you none COD'ers).

Anyhow, here we are! I have my very own XBox One and my very own copy of COD! Game time!!

Hello Kitty Con 2014

Went with the girls to Hello Kitty Con. It was me, Gen, Jenn, her sister Janice and Janice's daughter, Mia. Cyn and Celly also came, but came way later.


Trying to plan our trip was pretty tough, especially since we knew parking would totally suck! We had plans to carpool to the rails. And then that had to change because we figured not everyone would fit. So next plan was for me to borrow the 4runner and pick-up Gen and meet everyone else at the rails out in Torrance. The 4runner would be best because neither of us wanted to leave our nice cars there. Luckily none of us left our cars there because Mark offered to take all of us in his Dad's van! Thanks Mark!!

I'm glad we didn't take the rails because when we got there, we saw a massive line! Holy cow! It wrapped around three sides of a block! Luckily the badge pick-up line wasn't too long. Also, we noticed that that long line may have been for the tea room because when we got in line, there was this massive break, big enough that we thought it was the end of the line. But then, girls behind us were loudly making comments about us cutting. Whatevs! As long as we get in!

We were given a buncha tips by Joan, since she went there on Thursday. But, funny thing, when we got there, we disregarded every tip she gave us. LOL. For instance, go inside first because outside lines will be shorter later. Nope, we did outside activities first. But that's because we got a warning that a storm may be heading our way.

She also told us that we can pick-up our Target bag at the end because there will practically be no line and they shouldn't run out. We went there first, hahaha! But we did want it so that we can throw stuff in it as we walked around. I'm glad I had it because it was hot inside and I needed a spot to store my jacket.

After we got our Target bags.. which were actually backpacks, we headed over to get fake tattoos put on us. Then we headed to the Hello Kitty Cafe Food Truck. All we wanted from there were the cute $4 water bottles because they were in the shape of Hello Kitty's bow! Lol. Everything else was overly priced there. Midway through that line, me and Gen went over the the First Aid Station because Jenn went there earlier and came back with cute tattoos of Hello Kitty wearing baseball caps for all the baseball teams. I had to get me some too! Hahaha. I tried getting all the teams, but the guy was like, don't take so many! Sadly, there were no Angels ones left.

We finally got to the Cafe Window to order. We all just ordered these cute water bottles that were in the shape of Hello Kitty's bow! They were $4 each, but I think it's the best and only souvenir that I paid for.

We were pretty much all done with outdoor activities and were going to try and stand in line for the main shop. We figured we'd be okay as far as time. Jonah said the line was like 4 hours when she went. So we were hoping for maybe a few at most. But nope! 3-4 hour wait. We were all like.. fu-ged-it!

We went inside instead and walked around the Super Market. That's were all the vendors were. It was pretty damn crowded there too, but at least no lines. We kinda separated from time to time and just looked at everything. Eventually we all met up at Mega Blocks where Mia was making something. They had this cool thing where what you make you get to take home with you. Eventually Jenn wanted to make one too. It was waaay too crowded for me to join in too, so me and Gen went walking around on our own. We left the market area and walked around the rest.

We got to see some cute/weird Hello Kitty Fashion Mannequins, which were soo Tokyo-fied..


Saw some cute vintage stuff as well..

And then, there was this.. the very first coin purse.. but omg! Hahaha, it had it's own display case and room! As Gen stated.. like they were the mother heffin Crown Jewels! LOL.


We met back up with Jenn, Janice and Mia and then walked around some more. We tried getting into the Target Store actually, but ewww, they close off the line when it reaches a certain spot and they say to come check back in like 30 minutes. And when we tried standing around waiting for the line to re-open, we were shoo'd away by some other guy saying we couldn't stand around there.

Soo.. we all walked around so that Jenn, Janice and Mia could see the stuff we saw. And then we went back to try the Target Store again.. nope! Nothing. Boo! Cyn and Celly finally got there so we all said our hellos. They went around to see all the stuff while we waited a bit more, a bit away from the line so we wont get shoo'd again. The line never re-opened for a very long time and eventually Cyn and Celly made their way back to us and we all went outside.

They were hungry, so they went to get food. We wanted to try the Target Store one more time. But ewwww, we had to wait in another line to get back in!! Gahhhh.

Anyhow, still no luck on the dang Target Line!! There was this cool game we saw that had a line though and we decided we might as well wait in line for that while we wait for the Target Line to re-open. Ohh.. if you're wondering what the Target Line is for? Well, there were carnival games inside and you can win Hello Kitty Stuff!! Anyhow, back to the mini game thing. The only ones who tried it were me and Jenn. Your tossed in a box with fans that blow around a bunch of printed paper and all of them are white except for one. To win.. you gotta grab that one! Seems easy, right? Nope! We watched all these people get there's and it looked so easy. But when it came down to it, it was hard as hell! Hahaha. I did see mine too and I tried to step on it, but yah, that didn't work. Lol! The prize was a cute band-aid tin box, which we thought contained cute band-aids! They didn't though, it just had some pins in it. So, not a complete loss. Although that band-aid tin was way cute! When we were done, the target line was still a no go. So that was it!

We headed out and went to find a food spot while we waited for Mark to pick us up.

It was fun, I probably wouldn't go again unless they included all the other Sanrio characters.