Two Highlights

Besides an overload of class, meetings, rehearsals, and a midterm... this week was quite fun. Highlights include Thursday, in which I made cupcakes for our General Meeting (in celebration of our members' birthdays that fall in November). Afterwards, I was planning on working on my recording project BUT I decided to grab some free Coffee Bean holiday lattes with friends, first. Which resulted in a 3+ hour long conversation. Followed by Indian food at Manas, in which we were their last customers and the second we walked out the door they shut the lights off in the restaurant haha. Followed by karaoke at Ding Dong Dang, which was a lot of fun, but man I was exhausted by the end of it.

Ding Dong Dang deserves some back story. See, Ding Dong Dang is about five minutes away from school, and has been there for at least as long as I'VE been living here. It was something we always laughed at when we drove by, because Ding Dong Dang was situated RIGHT next to a shop called "Pornomania." It was pretty classic. Well, Pornomania has since closed... but Ding Dong Dang is still there. I'm really glad to have gone at least once during my stay here!

Anyway. That was all Thursday. Friday was also awesome: the highlight was seeing Ann! She was in Century City on business (visiting from San Francisco). After I picked her up from her hotel, we grabbed a snack and caught up before meeting her parents at this cute little Italian restaurant in Venice. Ann had a connection to the restaurant (the owners were friends of a friend, or something), so our meal was comped, which was really nice! Had some tasty bruschetta with proscuitto and mozarella, and we tried two of their soups. Everyone got specials, except for me; I got gnocchi in a pesto sauce. Tasty, but SUPER filling. Which ultimately meant that everyone cleaned their plates, and I had an entire meal to take home, basically. And the toothpick incident, in which everyone grabbed a toothpick, but I politely declined. I was definitely the odd one out! But it was great to see Ann and her family. They're such fabulous people :)

Played a bit of L4D with the boy... and now we're going to watch another episode of SVU. But then it's sleepy time, because I know tomorrow's going to be a fun day as well!