HONEY, I'M HOOOOOOME!!! =D i was right. we didn't get home till like 4 in the morning. i was dozing for most of the trip. my mother is a SCARY driver. she helps give asian ladies a bad name when it comes to driving. she is the ULTIMATE bad asian lady driver. in the first 10 minutes of our trip from san diego to fremont, she managed to almost cause 2 car accidents. i forget what the first one was (maybe it was so horrific that i've blocked it from my memory) but i definitely remember the 2nd. first of all, she didn't know which freeway to get on: I-5 NORTH or I-5 SOUTH. um...we were in san diego trying to go to fremont. even I knew which freeway to get on. so she heads for the first one she sees, which is I-5 south. but my dad is like, "no no no!! we want to get on north!!!" so she STOPS RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE FREEWAY ENTRANCE. just completely stops. and the car behind us that *did* want to get on the freeway is forced to swerve around her, nearly crashing into us. you know what the funniest, most ironic part of this story is? she forced my dad to let her drive so that my dad could rest. in the first 10 minutes of the drive, she managed to give my dad not one, but two heart attacks. i thank god that i was sitting in the back seat so i didn't see *too* much of the horror that is my mother's driving.

anyway, it was funny because later on they switched drivers and my mom told me, "i shouldn't drive any more. it's too dangerous." i wanted to just yell out, "NO SHIT!!!!" but i just dutifully nodded.

so when we were eating dinner at in-n-out, my mom told me a pretty funny story about my aunt. we were talking about vietnamese names, and my mom told me that my aunt's name, tuyet, means snow in vietnamese. so one day, when my aunt was in 4th or 5th grade, she comes home crying, telling her father that she wanted to change her name. she had just seen the movie snow white and the seven dwarves (this is around the time it just came out) and she explained to her father that she didn't want to die the same way snow white did. ;)

okay, well, i was right about another thing. it is FREEZING up north. oh fuck. it was so nice and warm down in san diego... :( oh well. at least i'm on break. yay!! :) woke up around 1230 today but didn't get up till like 1. had a nice little reunion with my direct tv. =D and now i have to pee. actually, i've had to pee this whole time, i just had to go online first. and once i was online, i figured, hey, may as well blog. but now, i can't think of anything else to write about and i can't think of anything else but peeing. so...off i go. bye!