CINCO DE MAYO MADNESS!!!!!

Alright so last weekend was Cinco de Mayo which is huge out here in the states and if you dont know its basically a celebration of when Mexico defeated France in the french/mexican war. My roommate is french and he wanted to go out to drink and celebrate his country getting its butt kicked by my country LOL. after work, we went out to west hollywood and drank up a storm of alcohol!! i tried to not drink so much because i was going to have to drive but my roommate being the party animal that he is kept buying me drinks and well... they're expensive so i cant just NOT drink them. LOL!! Drinking started at 11pm cinco de mayo night and we got home at 5 in the morning... I had to work 4 hours later and boy did that SUCK!!! i was still drunk by the time I started work and my boss thought it was funny that i was a complete mess. LOL!! HOWEVER being the great employee that i am i was still early an hour! LOL we have such cool pictures! I will post them... stay tuned! here they are

NEW APARTMENT

Big news!! ok so iam finally moving into my new apartment closer to work! My very good friend and I will be moving in this friday but we still have lots to move and work around our work schedules and do lots of other stuff anyway pictures coming soon.

Curious waiter/ curious customers

At work I always get a lot of my customers asking me where I am from. they tell me I look very mixed... I hear this from many people everyday. its soooooo common for me to hear people tell me I look of mixed race that I'm kind of tired of answering them. LOL! yesterday I took my break from one of my jobs and went to eat at El Torito Grill I only took a couple of bites before I had to go back to work so I asked my waiter to bring me a takeout box so i can take my food with me and eat it later... he came back with a box, a bag, and a question... yes you guessed it! the question was "where are you from?" well again i gave the same answer and again I see a pleasantly surprised face... LOL interesting.

Yesterday I went to my other job to fill in for my friend because he was sick so i went after work from my first job then and asked my second job if they needed me to fill in for my friend they said no and gave me a box of croissant!! LOL I love that they give me stuff! lol!

My tooth became infected again and this time they had no choice but to take it out so now I dont have a back tooth and wasnt able to eat solid things so my mommy made me mashed potatoes to eat and gave me warm salt water to rinse my mouth with to clean the area where my tooth was taken out.

horrible day

Ok so a couple of days ago, I was finishing work and my manager gave me some tomato soup in a "to go" container so I could take with me after work. That was super nice of him so i took the soup and put it in my backpack, hopped on my bike and rode to my car... In case you havent been to Beverly Hills, I'll tell you know that there is only 2 hour parking in Beverly Hills unless you have a permit and if you have a permit that means you live there. public parking in beverly hills is VERY difficult to find. especially all day parking for the people who work there... actually there is no free all day parking.. you have to pay a whole lot of money to park all day unless you buy a pass. lets put it this way.. in beverly hills, there is no such thing as free public parking on public streets like the rest of los angeles... In order for me to still work in beverly hills and not have to pay, I drive half way there with my bike in my car and i park at a nearby city where I can park all day for free and I take my bike and ride the rest of the way to work so i dont pay to park. Anyway I was running late one day so I parked in a 2 hour parking zone in beverly hills this time that is actually free all day on sundays...normally I park in culver city. it was a sunday and i was soooo exhausted after work but i hopped on my bike with my tomato soup in my backpack and made my way to my car in culver city. when I get to culver city, i see that my car isnt there!! then i remember its sunday and I parked in beverly hills!!! so I turn around and start peddling back to beverly hills... as I peddled away, my front tire of my bike got stuck in a crack on the concrete and I fell smashing the container I had in my backpack full of tomato soup. I quickly get up and look inside my backpack... TOMATO SOUP EVERYWHERE ALL OVER THE INSIDE OF MY BACKPACK AND MY WORK SHOES AND UNIFORM!! I pull the container out with the tomato soup, take one last sip and throw the rest away. As I try to empty my backpack of the soup, it splatters all over me and now I'm covered in soup. I get up and pack my stuff back into my dirty backpack and make my way to my car in beverly hills... when I arrive i put my bike in my car and drive away to my friends apartment in west hollywood. He gave me his key so i could make myself at home while he's at work for the evening. as I near west hollywood, I suddenly run out of gas... I manage to pull into a residential street and park before i run out. sure enough i run out of gas the moment i park. West hollywood is much like beverly hills.. you have to live there to park in a residential street. I had no choice. i had to park permit or not. I grab my emergency gallon out of the back of my car and hopped on my bike to the nearest gas station. which was about a mile away. I pour make it to the gas station and fill up my plastic gallon with gas. it doesnt have the top so i seal it with a plastic bag and a rubber band. at this point i stink of tomato soup and dirt. I'm dirty. when i get back to my car after biking a mile, I see I got a ticket for paring without a permit!!!!!! I discard the ticket cuz i know i wont pay it so I lean my bike onto my car while i gas up my car. I improvised and rolled up a notebook i had in my car and used that to put the gas in my car's gas tank. I spilled lots of it on myself because i didnt have the proper tools to fuel but i got it done so I get back in my car and drive to my friends apartment... as i park in the structure I sigh and think wow now Im safely here. I'll just shower and relax for a bit. when I go to the back of my car to get my bike out, its not there!!!!!! I left it next to my truck while i fueled!!!! i drove off and left my bike on the street!!!! I hope back in my car a drive as fast as possible back to where i had first parked when i fueled my car... I tried to turn into that street but it was a one way street so I parked at a nearby restaurant and ran in the dark to where I fueled... I thought surely my bike wont be there anymore... then suddenly there it was... someone picked it off the street and carefully leaned it against a building in case the owner showed up he or she would see it. I was soooooooo grateful!! I picked up my bike rode it to my car put it in and drove back to the apartment. I finally made it safely into the apartment and i stripped myself of all my clothes and took all my clothes from my backback and my backpack and stuffed it all inside the washing machine. As my clothes, uniform, and backpack was being washed, I took a nice warm shower. then I relaxed and watched tv with the dog and waited for my friend to come home... it was a terrible day!!! glad that's over!

Lovely night!

Ok so i like to enjoy my days off from work so I will usually invite a friend out to dinner or if i work dinner shift and leave work past midnight, most likely i've not eaten so my co worker/friend and I will go out to eat every night. yes dinner past midnight... I had one of my days off so i decided to buy this really good blueberry bread that you can slice up heat and spread butter over or just have as is. I bought some Mount Tam cheese which was creamier than brie. Had some raspberries on hand, olives, red and white wine, prosciutto, and lots of pastries that my friend and I brought home from work. I initially had all this food to enjoy casually on my day off but i needed a friend so one day after work I invited my friend from work over and we ate for like 3 hours non stop. ha ha ha it was amazing!!! then we had french macarons, chocolate covered almonds, lemon bar, chocolate cake, lemon cake, an assortment of cookies. all in one night! it was AWESOME!!

japanese pastry

my manager gave me a little japanese pastry..
I think it had some kind of bean filling... sweet but very lightly sweetened... very different for me... lol!

kimchi fried rice from work

had me some kimchi fried rice after my shift... sooooooo good!!

OV7

one of my favorite Mexican pop groups! OV7!!

For dessert...

these hu1ge macaroons!!!!! lavender! and one was salted caramel but no picture of that one because I ate it b4 i could take a picture of it. LOL

Korean food from work

Hot stone bibimbap from work.. black rice, tofu and gojugiang sauce. YUM

french onion soup

On one of they rainy cold L.A. weather days I stopped by a french restaurant in Culver City to have me some french onion soup because of the rainy cold weather... i LOVED it! so warm, cheesy and delicious!

yummy veggie food

I'm back to being vegetarian. I absolutely couldnt continue eating meat no matter how anemic i am. anyway I had some great brazilian food... vegetarian options... YUM

my fritata

I made myself a delicious fritata this morning for breakfast... carrots, broccoli, zucchini, red onion, garlic and jalapeno... YUM! all shreded veggies seasoned with cumin, salt, pepper and smoked paprika. YUM