AZ "Camping Trip": Day 1

Today we left Tim's sister's house in Gilbert, AZ (which is by Phoenix <-- for people like moi) literally before the sun came over the hill (I think 7:45). And then we drove to Sedona. Incase you don't know what is so special about this place, I'll tell you. The Earth is RED there. RED!!!! Its amazing. Seriously, quite breathtaking. I've never seen so many churches in such a small place.




We played in the snow and made a Hello Kittie Snowman in Flagstaff. Its has a ton of snow up here since we are up at 6000 feet. I thought it would be in the middle of no where but there are stores and people and even traffic!!



Tim is sneaky...


I am hiding...

The Great Hype.

I love holidays- especially Christmas with my fam. So in this post, I am not talking about Christmas or even Thanksgiving.

I am talking about New Years Eves or Labor Days or Memorial Days. Even friggin' Halloween and Fourth of July. What about St. Patrick's Day? or Cinco de Mayo? Those aren't even my heritage. But somehow I feel like a party pooper for not getting waste and acting debauchery embodied. Don't get me wrong about Halloween though, I love dressing up just as much as the next fellow, but I choose to dress up all year round. See picture above (my costume was worn to a Christmas party). But these days listed above are days I feel forced to celebrate or party. What if I don't feel like partying? What if I would rather be home in my robe with my boyfriend playing darts and having a silly dance party in the living room by myself?

Basically, I feel these couple days are overrated and I hate feeling forced to be in the party mood. I did go out last night for New Year's Eve to a nice restaurant with some of the BF's friends. It was very nice. Good food, good wine. But somehow it just doesn't compare to being in pjs with good friends or playing wii sports with someone's sister.

I like starting the New Year with a bang toward being fruitful and prosperous. Maybe its the Chinese in me. But I think its a good time to turn over a new leaf if the leaf needs turning or maybe just giving it a good sweep if it doesn't need to be turned.

Some one once told me, the first 12 days of the year will represent the 12 months of the coming year so get going on those days!! Me? I'm going camping with my boyfriend to Sedona and the Grand Canyon. Pretty good start, eh?

Artwalk Downtown

Last night I went to Artwalk with my roommate Bryan. I have lived downtown for about five years and have never been. I was so impressed and happy. Its really great! So many people. So much art. Its really alive and it felt good to be out and about. Safari Sam's at the Regent is pretty great. It reminds me of the Phoenix Theatre in Petaluma which is a very fond memory. Alas, I did lose 20 bucks somewhere out there on the streets of downtown. It was a sad occurrence not to be repeated.

In summation:

20 bucks lost + free wine + art I connect with + art that I don't connect with + good friends + strangers = A great evening downtown

Goodbye to Flying

Yesterday I cut my wings off and took it to a store to be sold off to someone who needs it more and can afford them. It was a sad day. I had to walk back from Silverlake to Downtown and eventually had to take the bus. Since I don't know the bus lines I ended up a short distance from my apartment and continued to walk from there. It was a mopey day. Hopefully my wings will make someone else very happy.

Review: Wurstküche

A new little place in the Art District just opened recently. It serves all sorts of specialty sausage sandwiches and Bavarian french fries with dipping sauces. It has 48 beers on tap and is super funky fresh. Since I don't eat a lot of meat, the wieners aren't really my thing except if I was craving it but the fries are DELICIOUS!! And the have a ton of dipping sauces for them. Try it out!

Daily Workout: Surfing the Web

Online shopping is making my fingers tired.

Watch This #5

LA I.C.E. episode 2

Black Friday and Cyber Monday

I rarely ever shop on Black Friday. And I wasn't planning on it, but my cousin Justin needed to do some shopping and since I had the keys to Mom's car and a cousin with nothing to do, I agreed to go. First we went to Best Buy. As I've been trolling ebay and Amazon recently, I have realized how much cheaper stuff is if you look for it online. So we didn't get anything there. We then picked up my mom from work (as she had gotten the day off) and went off to Target where I proceeded to sell a woman a camera that was no longer in stock and then watched a crazy fight between and employee and some plain clothed dude who I later found out was an employee also. It was pretty frightening and crowded but kind of exciting to recount.

Holidays can be stressful but not stressful enough to kill someone. I know one man's family is mourning his death after being trampled to death by zealous customers at a Walmart early on Black Friday.

I continued to shop with my mom yesterday. We literally shopped til we dropped. We shopped all over and by the time we were done, I was dragging my body here and there, up and down the isles. And now, I am sitting at Peet's coffee in the Nut Tree complex in Vacaville shopping online for Cyber Monday.

Hi, my name is Eva and I'm a shopaholic.

Review: Thanksgiving

I had a pretty amazing time with my family this year. I had two full Thanksgiving meals. Getting all that food down was kind of difficult but soooo delicious. I had so much food I literally went into a food coma at 10:30 pm. Which for anyone who knows me somewhat well, would know thats crazy early! I got to see many of my family (which was great!!!) and two of my friends joined me for meal #1. My family can be a bit overwhelming from an outsider's point of view, but they took it in stride. Well done Jorjeana and Luke!!

I love turkey!!! Gobble gobble.

Watch This #2.5

I know I already posted this, but this is the final version of it... AND its also the first of our six episodes. I am in I think 4 or 5 of the episodes. I'll post them here but you could also subscribe or favorite it on youtube.