...and here goes my first post from beautiful, sunny san diego!! :) it's getting a bit late right now but i feel like if i don't blog now about the past few days, i'm never gonna blog about it, so yes...this will be quite a long blog.

let's start with the drive down. my dad and i ended up driving straight down to san diego. left around 9 am, arrived around 5 pm. so 8 hours total, stops and all!! we made pretty good time. it sure was sweltering on the way down though. it was unbelievably sunny like everywhere in california (well, okay, everywhere south of the bay area). not that i'm complaining though. i'm a summer girl, so i like my weather hot. ;) anyway, we stayed at a travelodge motel for the night. checked in around 6. the room we got was reeeaaally nice for a motel. like, it was the only room on their third floor which, actually, wasn't a full floor. it was like a half floor, so the single room basically had its own private little terrace thing. we were high up and close enough to see the beautiful blue pacific ocean as well. we arrived just in time to watch the sun set over the ocean. :) the room ALSO had a computer *with* internet connection!! made me very happy. :) was able to get onto aim express and chat. tried to blog from there, but the computer was hella ghetto and wouldn't let me type out a very long blog. in its own darling way, it was telling me to shut up. anyway, went to bed early, woke up early.

arrived at the matthews apartments around 930. i was the first one to arrive at my apartment, yay!! which meant i got to choose which bed i wanted, yayay!! rearranged a few things. let my dad bring EVERYTHING up. christina called when we just got on campus to tell me she was going out soon, so i had to go get the key to the storage unit. but when i got to her apartment, she wasn't there!! luckily, her roommates were still there, so i hung out with them and waited till she got back. so i was at her apartment for a long while. long enough for my dad to unload the entire car. i feel kinda bad, but well... what's done is done. first person i saw that day was smita. we screamed and shrieked and did that whole girl thing...ran up to each other giddily and hugged. then i left for christina's place. had a little trouble finding it cuz i wasn't used to being back on campus. but yeah, after that, i came back to find out that my dad had finished unloading everything. oh wait! before that, i called melissa's cell to see if she had arrived yet, and she had, so on my way back to my apartment, i stopped off at hers and did the whole screaming/shrieking/hugging thing again (with a little jumping up and down included). so we unpacked a little, then neha came!! did the whole screaming/shrieking/hugging/jumping up and down thing again. then my dad and i left to get our stuff out of storage. came back to find sanaz, allyn, and dave!! it was funny cuz first i hear sanaz's voice call out, "hey dave!!" so i turn and see sanaz and yes, did the whole screaming/shrieking/hugging/jumping up and down thing yet again, then i think "dave?? what?" and then i see allyn running toward me and repeated the whole scene. said hi to dave as well. (he's not a girl; that scene works only with girls. :) saw ben while me and sanaz were walking back to our apartment. dad and i unloaded the storage stuff then started hooking up my computer and all that crap. during that time, natasha finally came. of course, repeated the whole screaming/shrieking/blahblahblah thing again. dad finished hooking things up, so he left around 2 or 3 in the afternoon. i spent the rest of the day unpacking. like MAJOR unpacking. i had so much crap. un-freaking-believable. finally finished at night around like, i dunno 8 pm? saw grace, matt, sandeep, and little mike during the whole unpacking thing. then we went out to islands for dinner. i forgot what HUGE burgers they have. geez...i didn't even finish mine. it was 8 of us - me, neha, grace, allyn, sandeep, ben, matt, and little mike. it felt just like old times. :) *sigh* i really liked it. made me very very happy. so then, we got home, made like a huge grocery list. oh wait, before we made the grocery list, i saw helen!! ahhhhh!! that made me happy as well. konked out around 1 am. sooo tired from unpacking and screaming/shrieking/hugging/jumping like, repeatedly.

so, that brings us to today. :) woke up hecka early cuz we were gonna try to go shopping early so that sanaz could go home early and beat traffic. but turns out costco doesn't open till 11 am, so sanaz just left for home early, so it was just me and neha who went shopping. natasha had to do some work for her club so she couldn't come. i'm so proud of us though; we accomplished so much today! we hit five places (four stores, and neha's place) and came back to fill up our entire kitchen. first we went to fry's so neha could get an ethernet cable and i could get a mousepad. my new mouse pad is so cute!! it's a kim anderson one. :) next, we went to neha's place so she could pick up some utensils and plates and stuff. then we went to wal-mart to get like cleaning supplies and a utensil tray and more utensils and other random stuff like that. started getting hungry so we ate at the mcdonald's there. hit costco next. ohhhhh man, costco was crazy. well, the store wasn't that crowded at all, it's just, we got a SHITLOAD of food. ohmygod. this was worse than shopping for the barbecue. i couldn't even push the cart. (no, it is NOT because i'm small). and i almost ran into a pole. you know those white pillar thingies they have smack dab in the middle of the frozen food aisle? yeah, one of those. i was looking at our grocery list, holding it up in front of my face. i lowered it JUST in time to see thise huge white pole thing like two inches from my face. neha, kindly enough, did not warn me and stood there laughing like a hyena. so after costco, we hit albertson's. was much better; not nearly as much food. mostly just produce and frozen food. the whole time we were shopping though, we kept thinking, man...we're gonna have such fun trying to get all these groceries back to the apartment since, as it turns out, the parking lot is not very close to our apartment. when we finally finished shopping (took us like 5 hours total - but then again, we ate lunch somewhere in there), neha's car was FULL of groceries. nothing else could fit in the trunk and we filled up the entire back seat. good thing it was just me and neha that went.

so we finally get home around 430. get out of the car and bring the first load to the apartment. after that first load, we realized that we needed help. manly help. so we walked next door to ben, mike, jon (who is not here yet), and matt's apartment. while we were just about to walk up the stairs, i noticed one of the shopping carts someone used to move in underneath the staircase. i pointed it out to neha and we thought, "oh, how funny," then all of a sudden a light bulb hit neha and she looked at me like "hey...!!!!" took me about 30 seconds to figure out what she was thinking (my light bulb is apparently much dimmer) and then we both burst out laughing. so we took that shopping cart and used it to unload the rest of the groceries. took two more trips. good thing we found it. could you imagine the two of us trying to unload those groceries by hand? good lord. had a bit of a problem trying to maneuver it back to the apartment with the first load of groceries though. i was shoving the thing up a slight incline on this narrow path. i noticed two joggers (male and shirtless...helloooo...) jogging toward me so i steered the incredibly heavy shopping cart onto the grass slightly so that they would have room to pass. but just as i did that, they turned onto another path, making my effort useless and also making me now stuck in the grass. the stupid cart wouldn't move!! i felt like such an idiot trying to push this thing back onto the path. uuurrrr...*embarrassed look*.

anyway, we finally got all the groceries into the apartment. spent the rest of the afternoon rearranging all the kitchen stuff (pots, pans, bowls, plates, utensils, etc) and putting away all the groceries. when we were finally done, i felt wonderfully satisfied. we accomplished a lot today!! and now our apartment feels so much more lived in. our fridge is full!! our shelves are stocked!! everything is so nice. i love our apartment. i love it so much. there's nothing really special about it, but it just feels so apartment-y. hmm...i don't know how to describe it. our rooms are much spacier than last year's rooms too, but duh, obviously, they would be since they're apartment rooms and not dorm rooms. i mean, just this evening, we had like seven people in me and tasha's bedroom and it wasn't even a squeeze at all.

helen fell asleep on my floor just like last year. :) i felt like it christened the room. like, it wasn't really my room till she fell asleep on its floor. oh yeah, tasha brought n64 and it's hooked up to my tv right now. maaaan, we are so gonna have problems with distractions. the only room that has no distractions is the living room. it is the most boring room since there's no tv in it. oh well. that will be our "study" room. if we ever get around to that.

hmmm...la la la...over all, i'm happy with everything. seeing everyone (still haven't seen wendy, victoria, chris, or jon yet though) and moving in and unpacking and everything. loving it all. PLUS the weather in la jolla is beeeeaaaauutiful!! i couldn't ask for more. :) anyway, must sleep now. is 2 am. never gonna wake up tomorrow. glad i don't have to wake up early. must learn to blog more often, but i was really busy the past two days so this is actually the first chance i've had to blog. aaaaanyway, good night!! :)