O81.

Tiffany and I went to Jen's house for our little "Homework Party" lol. In reality, Jennifer was probably the only one who got anything substantial done, since we spent most of the time posing for her anatomy project pictures. xP

... And then Tiffany was just dying to show us this Chinese drama, and man. That guy just pisses me off. What, with his hair ... and his pink panther doll ... and asdf. It's really cheesy and stupid too, but I might just watch it for the hell of it lolll.

... And then we played more Little Big Planet hahaha. I love that game so much. xD

Andy ordered us some Pizza Hut; sausage & tomatoes. ♥ Not nearly as good as Papa John's though.

Watched Dick Clark's Rockin New Year's Eve (or not so much watched as let play in background) and the ball drop. I need to listen to Daughtry more. (8

Happy 2010. ♥

O8O.

Frank dragged me into working on Physics with him over AIM lol. I guess I'm not complaining; I needed to get started on that anyhow, but man. I feel like I've forgotten everything in the past week; Frank was making me feel so stupid! e____e;

I brought my calc homework to work on in Andy's room, and after I finished, The Notebook was on on Oxygen, and I got him to watch the whole thing! 8D I remember the last time we were watching it, he got bored after the ferris wheel scene and just shut it off lol. We were gonna watch Pride & Prejudice together afterwards, but Mom made me go play piano, and that douche just went ahead and watched it by himself. ;~~~;

O79.

Finally made my driving test appointment this morning; I totally wasn't expecting it to be a completely machine-voice operated thing, so I messed up a few times and ended up calling the office like 10 times. |:

Andy went over to the grandparents', and Grandpa gave him a red envelope to give to me, and we were cracking up because he totally recycled the red envelope I gave him for his birthday. xD

O78.

Rehearsal today; I didn't do half as badly as I thought I would, but God, I was so nervous. I was just dreading playing in front of people so much; I don't usually feel that way until the actual recital. :\ I finally heard that Julia girl that Mom was talking so much about play, and asdf. She was so good. e____e Totally made me want to go home and practice. But then by the time I got home I had lost all motivation again. |:

I talked Mom into going to Tampopo for sushi tonight, and Andy actually came along for once. And yeah, it's pretty expensive, but. It's just really good. *____*

We went over to Marie Calendar's afterwards and picked up some pies. C:

O77.

It's Andy's birthday today; Lauren drove over from San Diego to celebrate with him, so I finally got to meet her. (:

I had my last behind-the-wheel lesson today; and it's definitely a little bittersweet (because I am overly sentimental with goodbyes) since I'm pretty sure I'm never gonna see my instructor again, and he was pretty nice. And I never took a picture of him, so give it a few months and I won't even remember what he looked like. But here's an image for the years to come: when I was walking up the driveway towards Andy and Lauren after my lesson, Andy said "Hey Annie, I didn't know your instructor was Borat," looool.

After church we went to El Torrito, and I'm really not one for Mexican food (neither is Mom), but it is Andy's birthday after all, so I guess it is his say. |:

Andy had this coupon for free guacamole; the guy made it in front of us. It was pretty good.

I ended up getting the Carne Asada y Camarones, which was probably the least Mexican thing I could find on there lol. Still only finished like half of it though.

The waiters and chef came out and sang Happy Birthday in Spanish, and gave Andy this cup of flan lol.

Afterwards we went to that San Pedro pier place, which had become a lot more ghetto than the last time we were here, which is too bad. :\

That's a pretty awesome lamp.

Then we drove over to this Korean Friendship Bell thing.

Obligatory Chipotle dinner party lolll. Andy, Lauren, and I were still pretty full from lunch, so we didn't really eat anything. I still wanted a bowl though, so I got one to go. (8

Some people already took off; Allen Vicencio's taking the picture since no one else wanted to, and we were all paranoid about handing our cameras to some stranger lol.

We came home and Dan was over; his sisters made me some cookies. 8D

O76.

We went to Walmart.

My hair is dead. I need to saaaaave it. D:

O75.

Kent came over and we watched (500) Days of Summer (which I had no idea he was getting me! 8D)

BAG REUSE FAAAAAAAIL. |:

O74.

I didn't even realize it was Christmas Eve today.

... Eh. My parking's still a little crooked. Grandma wanted to treat us to lunch today, and Dad and I went to pick them up; I drove. 8D It went insanely smoothly! They said I was a great driver. :`DDD

... I feel like I've taken this same picture twenty times. Since every time we eat at Sea Empress, we order like the same stuff. Hence, the same picture. |:

Mom, Dan, and I went to watch Avatar. It was really good actually; I didn't know much about the film going in, so I didn't really have any expectations for it, so I was pleasantly surprised. Mom really liked it too; she was really bored during the first 20 minutes or so though hahah.

Wrote a card for Kent. Coloring inside the lines is for wimps.

O73.

We went back to Costco (to return the DVD and cuhs Mom wanted to buy some stuff), and they had this popcorn free samples thing set up. And I was just kind of whatever about it, but I guess Mom really likes that stuff, and we bought like three bags lol.

Afterwards we went to the animal shelter, and LOOK AT THIS CUTIE! Her name is Holly and she's 2 years old, and I thought she was so sweet. She reminded me of Tober a lot, especially the coloring. BUT MOM LIKED SOME FAT POODLE, AND WE COULDN'T AGREE, AND. WE DIDN'T GET A DOG. ;~~~~;

Afterwards we went to Nijiya to buy a cake for Andy, since he's going over to San Diego tomorrow for some party at Lauren's house (and Mom was like "Wtf, you can't go to a party without bringing something!"), and he has to make a good impression or something on all her relatives. =P

I got one of these. I love it; it's soo good. But freaking $1.89 for a bowl of instant ramen is insane.

Jen dropped by while we were out and dropped off my Christmas present (that she forgot she wasn't supposed to get for me lol). I need to get her something at some point.

O72.

Went driving with Dad again; before we went, he took me into the garage and drew out an intersection and used this eraser to represent a car (lol) and was talking about making turns (and how I suck at it lol).

We made a stop at that 99 Ranch store place, cuhs Dad wanted to buy some rice (I kind of like how Dad has me drive him to places he needs to go; makes me feel like I'm driving with a purpose or something 8D). They had these huge packs of strawberry Pocky! *____* Every time I come here with Mom, I'm always gaping at the huge packs of chocolate Pocky, and crying inside cuhs I like the strawberry ones and not the chocolate ones. And. It just made me feel all warm and happy inside. Dad bought me a pack. ♥

(500) Days of Summer came out on DVD today, so I made Mom take me to Costco to buy it as my Christmas present. 8DDD ♥ Also picked up Harry Potter 6 while we were there lol.

GOOD GOD, FINALLY. I finally broke out of that 2010-2020 zone. T____T Okay, so I guess reading over my prep book did do some good (I only looked over the writing section though; my 1984 essay came through for me! :`D), and it was the very last SAT (ever!) for me, so I'm relieved.

I texted Kent saying I got (500) Days of Summer and ... ;O;!

I decorated his present-shoebox. (8

O71.

I went driving with Dad today and it was soo much better than driving with Mom. He doesn't freak out and yell at me. :`D

I bought SimCity and Sliding Heroes (and this A-Yo Sushi game that's not pictured) on iTunes today; apparently Square Enix is making all these games for the iPod now. I'd forgotten how much fun it was to buy games; I had to like talk sense to myself not to buy that Song Summoner game for $9.99!

Mom made me go to the bank, and get more of those Savings Deposit forms, cuhs I like to fill them out at home to save time. I keep grabbing a lot of them, but then whenever I actually need to use them, I have no idea where I've left the forms. So note to self: THEY'RE NEXT TO THE COMPUTEEEER!

After we went to Umemura (again) for dinner, Mom wanted to go to Nordstrom, so we went over to the Galleria and looked around lol.

... And then afterwards I really wanted a strawberry drink so we stopped by Starbucks. I was just gonna order us two grande Strawberries & Cremes, but then Andy called, and we asked what he wanted, and he wanted a VENTI, and then Mom was like "Yeah, I want a VENTI too! Let's all get VENTIs!" And I was like "... |: Fine." So we got three VENTI Strawberries and Cremes lol.