uuuugh...just took like a three and a half hour nap. noooooo....!! i wasn't supposed to! i was trying so hard to stay up so that i would be able to go to bed early and wake up early. i was attempting to fix my screwed up sleep schedule. but no. that didn't happen. oh well. at least i'm fully awake now. so i can try on all my wonderful new clothes that i got from my beautiful friends for my birthday and eat all the leftover cake!!! HURRAH! ;D

ahhh...fun night, fun night. was just reading jo's blog and she described it perfectly: "it was loads of fun and there were a lot of clutching-my-sides laughs, just like the old days." started out going to macaroni grill to eat dinner. very nice, was laughing a lot, especially when mar put her hooded sweatshirt on backwards. ohhhh, i will never forget that. mar won't either. ;) it was so cute, she kind of yelped, "oh nooo!!" when her face ended up covered by the hood. dinner was so much fun. the entire night was actually. just tooons of little moments that were absolutely hysterical but i can't really think of just one specific moment cuz there were so many! next time you see jacq, ask her to do her statue impersonation. and then ask her to do her model impersonation. and tell me there isn't a difference!!! or better yet, ask chi to act out "picket" for you. or di to do "hot dog." aaaahhahahahahaha...!! i love my girls. and we were all together last night tooo! juuuust like old times....*happy sigh* ;D

i think it's so funny that everybody got me clothes and purses. like, that's pretty much all i got. clothes and purses. don't get me wrong, i'm not complaining or anything, i just thought it was funny that everyone got me that! like, when you think of gift for cherry, the first thing you think of is clothes. see, i'm an easy person to buy for, no? the only non-clothes/purse presents i received were a joycam ("like a polaroid, but smaller. like an i-zone but bigger and not sticky." heeeheeeheeeee...) and a book, but see, they were from sanjenmardi who got me clothes *also.* speaking of which, i really wanna try all the stuff on now, but i'm sooo tiiiiiired.... that's the one shameful thing about yesterday. we're getting oooold. well actually, *i* was okay, but certain other people (*cough*debha*cough*) got sleepy really early, like 230 or something. but then again, we turned off the lights early but we were all laying there talking for a little bit. i couldn't sleep at first, so i went upstairs and saw jo online!! at like 4 am!! i was like, "what the heck are you still doing up?!" since she left early so she could purposely go to sleep! so i talked to her for like ten, fifteen minutes, then went back downstairs, fell asleep, and had two very creepy dreams. woke up early...like 930 since chris got up. and then people started gradually waking up and getting up. like, veeery gradually.

anyway, all in all, i laughed so much last night. we rarely *all* get together so when we do, it's such a wonderful, stupendous, fabulous treat. guaranteed bellyaching laughter. ;D

mmm....*looks at new clothes*....but i'm so tiiiiiiiiired...i really just wanna sit here. okay. i think i'll just sit here. it's funner to try on new clothes when you're more awake anyway.

hahahaha...jen just told me what my horoscope on the onion says:

Capricorn: (Dec. 22—Jan. 19)
Your feelings of resentment over having to live on a reservation are unwarranted, as you are an endangered Cape buffalo.

i like hers better:

Leo: (July 23—Aug. 22)
Try looking at it this way: Maybe you're normal, and the people with only two eyes are the weird ones.

my horoscope from SmarterChild started out like this:

"You will be in your glory if everyone comes to your place for a little festive cheer."

hurrah!! going to see all my girls tonight. =D

hmm...christmas cards or tv and food? christmas cards....tv and food...? can't do all three. not that talented. must choose.

in other news: i am now addicted to spelldown.

i have not written ONE DAMN christmas card. oh well. i thought about it. i only *really* need to write ten before friday, and that's totally do-able. you know, all this thinking of christmas cards totally reminds me of the whole christmas cards mishap in bridget jones: the edge of reason. i swear, that was one of the funniest parts of the book. i was laughing so hard. i love bridget jones. helen fielding - brilliant!! ;D

still haven't written a single card yet. i keep pulling one out of the box, looking at it, then putting it back in the box. oh well. there's always tomorrow. i'm getting sleepy. after all, did wake up at 5 am. geez. okay, screw it all, i'm going to bed. let's hope i don't have another panic attack.

HURRAH!! finished christmas shopping! well, okay, granted, i didn't have that many people to buy for, but still. i'm happy i'm done. AND i finished gift wrapping everything. i love wrapping gifts. i would love to be one of those people that wraps gifts for free at the mall. seriously, if any of you have like massive wrapping to do, just send all the gifts my way and i'll wrap them for you. i love wrapping that much. now onto christmas cards...oy...

and i am SO TICKLED by the gift i got for my secret santa here. i know for a fact that she doesn't read my blogs, but still shouldn't say who it is anyway. but man, i'm such a dork, i was actually giggling to myself when i was working on her presents. i didn't think they were that great at first, but now i'm highly amused. ;D

now i kind of understand why people hate shopping at the malls during the holidays. i don't know, i never saw anything wrong with it. i mean, yeah, crowds are *kind* of annoying, but i don't mind them all that much. but when we were at great mall today, i swear, every cashier i went up to was so pissy!! jo thought it was funny that i kept saying, "dude, everyone's so pissy!" but it's true!! the guy at media play didn't even wait for me to finish signing the receipt before he said "goodbye" and shoved the bag toward me. and the girl at gap - well, she was just a plain bitch. the lady at linens 'n things was nice though, now that i think about it. anyway, bah humbug on all those pissy cashiers. deb's right - yeah, it's the holidays and all and it's crowded and stuff, but still. it's their job to at least be polite to their customers! hmph! oh well. wasn't that big a deal. i'm just glad i spent the day with jo. jo is such a funny person. we have such crazy jokes. the BLUE COUCH and the BLACK PURSE. and...there's other stuff, but i don't think it's very funny if i try to blog about it. i just laughed a lot with jo today. ;D

la la la...okay, well...i suppose i should start cracking those christmas cards...

my horoscope from emode started out like this:

"Having some trouble sleeping, Capricorn?"

ahhhh...yes. creepy much?

my horoscope from SmarterChild ended up like this:

"You have so much to offer so don't sit at home being lazy."

well, okay...fine.

this is a momentous occasion. it is 912 am and i am up and awake. i am actually awake to see the morning. i have more than three hours of daylight today!

i actually woke up at, you'll never believe this, 5 am. it was the most bizarre thing. i woke up to this weird panic attack. i don't know what was wrong, but i woke up and i couldn't breathe. well, i couldn't breathe *properly*. i was actually [semi-]hyperventilating. my breaths came out all shallow and choppy. and something was totally freaking me out, i don't know what. i was pretty much in a complete panic over, well, nothing. but it was definitely a panic attack. it was a little scary.

so i finally got out of bed like ten, fifteen minutes later and went downstairs and ate. i ate some leftover rice pudding/porridge/soup with chicken. i also ate a banana. i never eat bananas. but i was so strangely panicky that i just totally scarfed the banana down first while waiting for the rice thing to heat up. and then i watched some tv. lois & clark: the new adventures of superman. i miss that show. that was a good show. mmm...dean cain... anyway, i guess food and tv calmed me down, so i went back upstairs after the show was over, around 6 am and got back into bed because it was so unbelievably cold in the house. the downstairs thermometer actually read 59.5 degrees! but i couldn't fall back asleep. i lay in bed for about an hour, then finally got up around 7 and took a shower and everything. going to go shopping later with jo. she wants to go early to try to beat the crowds and she questioned whether or not i would even be able to get up, but hah! look at me! i'm awake! and fully too. i'm not even groggy, strangely enough. i'm completely wide awake. despite only sleeping about four hours.

man, that was a bizarre way to wake up though. sigh. =|

my life is so boring. i have absolutely nothing to blog about. at all. i just felt like i should blog because, well, i don't know, perhaps i'm addicted? i've been waking up in the afternoons like, almost everyday of break so far. you would think it's disconcerting to wake up and have only like 3 hours of daylight, but i got used to it very quickly. unfortunately, i'm going to have to wake up early the next few days to go shopping and prepare for my little birthday dinner thing. ah well. i'm excited though! although i won't be able to see kate & leopold till later since they moved the opening date to christmas day. :( oh well. definitely wanna see it before break is over though. la la la...i have nothing to talk about. i'm so boring.

from bridget jones's diary...

New Year's Resolutions:

I WILL NOT
- Waste money on: pasta makers, ice-cream machines or other culinary devices which will never use; books by unreadable literary authors to put impressively on shelves; exotic underwear, since pointless as have no boyfriend.
- Behave sluttishly around the house, but instead imagine others are watching.
- Spend more than earn.
- Get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen.
- Have crushes on men, but instead form relationships based on mature assessment of character.
- Bitch about anyone behind their backs, but be positive about everyone.
- Sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

I WILL
- Give all clothes which have not worn for two years or more to homeless.
- Save up money in form of savings.
- Be more confident.
- Be more assertive.
- Make better use of time.
- Not go out every night but stay in and read books and listen to classical music.
- Give proportion of earnings to charity.
- Be kinder and help others more.
- Eat more fiber.
- Get up straight away when wake up in mornings.
- Go to gym three times a week not merely to buy sandwich.
- Put photographs in photograph albums.

oh, just remembered stupid cherry moment #4,813,729:

so, last night, we were just driving out of alex's apartment place and i see this room with the blinds open at the end of the buildings. i got all excited and said, "ooh! look!! someone painted bubbles on their walls!!!" and like three people go, "cherry. that's the laundromat."

going to try to keep this blog as succinct as possible. not in a rambling mood today, strangely enough. but bet this is gonna turn out to be a babbling blog once again.

so, woke up around noon saturday and got ready to go to davis. actually went to do a little shopping at stoneridge with deb and ha first since deb wanted to go shopping and stoneridge was on the way to davis. surprisingly didn't buy anything for myself. or for anyone else for that matter, though i *did* look. really wanted to get something for my secret santa here, but...looked at the price tag and realized it was out of the budget. :( anyway, around 530, left for davis. fell asleep a little bit on the drive, but ha completely konked out. go to davis a little before 7. went to jo's apartment. got to see it for the first time. geeeeez, hecka nice!! made me semi-jealous. had evil thoughts of trashing the place. ;) just kidding. really thought it was super nice. liked it a lot. :)

let's see...oh, so jo got dressed and we went to a thai place to eat dinner. it was pretty good. deb and ha chose what we'd eat since me and jo are clueless. they did a good job, thank you. :) dinner was pretty funny. jo came to a realization that no one understands her when she talks. =D just kidding. she just said a few words funny. for example, she was talking about this beauty book that her roommate got her for christmas and, i swear, me and deb both heard her say "booty book" instead of "beauty book." it was hilarious. me and deb were confused for a little while, although i was confused longer. what can i say, i'm dense. and when jo was describing this other thai restaurant in davis, she was just speaking really fast and ended up saying "it's ghetto homey" which just sounded so funny. [she meant to say it's ghetto BUT homey; no, she did not mean to refer to *me* as her homie]

anyway, that was dinner. then we went to some place across the way to get pearl milk tea. well, jo and ha did. deb didn't feel like any, and i just plain don't like it. [*gasp of horror from all asians everywhere*] we sat there and talked for a while. then we went back to jo's place and just lay there. for like, a long time. none of us felt like going anywhere, but well, people started wondering where we were when we didn't show up at dylan's place for his birthday party when it started at like 930 and we were still lying there around like 1030. and then alex called jo and said he needed a ride to dylan's place. it was funny, when jo was talking on the phone with him, she was telling him who was with her and after she said, "debra, christina, and cherry," she paused and then said to him, "CHERRY. CHERRY!!! you know, the little vietnamese girl?!?!" ahhh, that made me feel so good. but it turned out he just didn't hear joanna properly and thought she said like, "terry" or something. at least, that's what he said. anyway, yeah, so we all piled into deb's car, went to go pick up alex, then went to dylan's. it was pretty fun. really nice seeing everyone. :)

stayed until around 2 or 230 when me and jo started getting super tired. so me and jo headed back to her place first and just talked about a lot of random stuff. ranted about our favorite rant topics. ha, deb, and david came along later. but me, jo, and ha stayed in jo's room just like talking till like 6 am or something. ranting here and there, but just randomly talking. so yeah, around 6 am, jo was like, "you guys? i'm tired. let's sleep." and me and said, "okay" and went to sleep. :) didn't wake up till like 145 pm today when deb came into the room and was like, "i'm hungry." actually, it was pretty funny, i woke up before that when deb and anthony came into the room and he took a picture of ha asleep. it was so random. i just poked my head out of my sleeping bag, saw both of them, and just plopped my head on the pillow and slithered back into my sleeping bag. but yeah, i fell back asleep after that until deb came in later. we all gradually woke up, got ready, and went out to eat breakfast/lunch/dinner/whatever. by the time we finished it was like, 430 or something. deb, anthony, and alex drove back to berkeley from there while me, jo, and ha went back to jo's place so she could pack. i think we finally left davis around, oh...6 or 630 or something, i'm not too sure. got back to fremont a little before 8.

soooo, yeah...that was my weekend. :) i'm tired, but i had lots of fun. i really liked it. thanks deb for driving us up to davis. thanks jo for hosting us and letting us stay at your place. thanks dylan for inviting me. aaaand...thanks everyone else for i don't know. just thanks. :) ooh!! pictures from last night! time to go look, bye!! [hmm...guess this blog wasn't as succinct as i tried to make it. oh well. bye again!]