so many little things....could i clump them together and form one big thing? anyways, where did i leave off? thursday night, i went to go shopping for xmas presents with nguyen. for some reason or another, he decides to go to best buy first without me, and shows up at my place at 7:30 instead of 5. then the one place i wanted to shop at (a bookstore), that we thought should close by 11, we get there at 10, and they close at ten. so the night...or whatever little time we had was a total waste for me. i also ate some fast food (chinese) at the mall........only reason i decided to eat there was so that i even though i am pretty dedicated to the limits i put on myself, it doesn't rank as high as where i would come down to inconvieniencing (if that's a word) my friends. regret eating fast chinese food though. woke up and felt like i had gained about 10lbs because of the msg that bloats the skin. after the mall, we chilled at my place for a little bit and watched a few simpsons episodes.



friday, got to work a little late. and since the night before was a total failure, i went shopping for gifts during lunch. i knew what i was going to buy. but getting to a bookstore was another challenge. i thought there was a bookstore at UTC....there wasn't one when i got there. then i went to the indoor mall where AMC 12 and Ralphs is at.....and the bookstore had been replaced by a make-up store. then i called up eddie, and he told redirected me to bookstar about an hour into my lunch. so i get to the bookstore...the book i had picked out for diem was sold out. so i had a brilliant light bulb go off, and got her a book that she can use when she travels to europe. and for erik, i got him a thai cooking book. i met up raymond and 5 of his friends after the gym and went to sushi deli. ate a whole bunch, and went to dave and busters. played some ferrari f355 challenge (man i suck so bad now), shot some hoops, played some DDR (i suck at this now too), and played this light bulb game. basically if you tap the button right when the light bulb is in front of you, you get 500+ tickets. so came out of D&B with 1600+ tickets...didn't really want anything for what they were offering, so i just stored it on my card. and that was the end of my friday.



saturday, tommy came over, we both got haircuts at different places then met up to go get lunch at CPK...we both got salads cause we were eating lunch at 3pm. then we came back home and watched the bond live dvd. it's not james bond. it's these 4 musicians...kinda like pop violin, viola, cello thing. it was awesome. i know a bunch of people that would get a kick out of that dvd. then for dinner, we went to phil's bbq. then it was a few hours before our movie started so we went to D&B to use up the points on my 3 cards. and tommy was able to get the light bulb game...so i now have 2900 tickets on my card. you can get something descent with that, but nothing that would be worth the money. i think i'll hold out for some electronics. after that we went to get boba then saw lord of the rings, twin towers. it was late, and at the slow part, i tried to sqeeze in a 1 minute power nap...but was unsuccessful after many attempts during the movie. frodo wasn't as annoying as he was in the fellowship of the rings. maybe cause i understand that the ring leads him astray emotionally and physically. smiegle (probably spelled wrong)...for being another cgi sidekick was the least annoying of its kind (comparing it to dobby and jar jar). what's the deal with that anyway? all fiction stories now come with annoying miniature sidekicks?



sunday, woke up too late for chuch. went to go eat brunch at brigantine with tommy. then we came back and i took my usual sunday nap while tommy copied a bunch of new divxes i had gotten from my brother. i went to rimac at 5:30, and came home, cooked, and watched TV for rest of sunday. oh yeah, saw a very weird thing at rimac today. this woman....either was an american gladiator, or sooo wanted to be one. she was working out in a american gladiator outfit. right down to the red shoes. and she was overly tan. more red than brown.....maybe she was one? or totally obsessed with it. tomorrow i'm going to torrance....meet up with tommy, spend xmas eve and xmas with my family. i'll be back by xmas evening.



if you want to see more of bond, here is a clip you can look at.

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