Random Thoughts from a Random Taru

Last Regular Basketball Game

Saturday was the last regular basketball game of the season. It was a women’s game against Cal Poly Pomona. We lost. I don’t think we were ever ahead in that game. A bit of a bummer seeing the Eaters lose in their last home game.

After the game we went to Red Robin to get dinner. I got a chicken bruchetta sandwich. Too many calories, but oh, so delicious.

The men’s game started at 7 PM. It was an away game at Cal Poly Pomona. A spot in the Big West Tournament rided on this game. If the Eaters lost, then we wouldn’t be in the tourney this week. If we won, UCR got kicked to the curb instead. When we left RR, the men’s team was down by 10 points.

Listened to KUCI on the drive home until halftime. I switched to my iPod for the rest of the trip. (I don’t get reception after a certain distance away from Irvine.) When I got home, I glued myself to my computer to listen in on the KUCI stream.

Wow, freakin’ awesome game. We came from behind to win it in overtime. I twittered and facebooked when we won like a good Anteater. A friend commented how all the “old” band people facebooked as soon as the game was over. We’re just hardcore!

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Florida

I went to Florida with my boyfriend to visit his brother and fiancee. We didn’t do much while over there, mainly because there wasn’t much to do in Daytona Beach (and I’m not a NASCAR fan). It was mostly drinking and eating really unhealthy food. I liked the Maitai Bar attached to Bubba Gump Shrimp Co, and I really wish I tried the spicy mocha coffee at the fancy coffee shop in New Smyrna.

On Wednesday we went to Disney World. We started our morning (or was it afternoon??) at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. It was mostly an over glorified zoo. A bit disappointing. Afterwards we headed for EPCOT. I loved EPCOT as a little kid, but I didn’t realize there weren’t as many rides. The world areas held mostly shops and restaurants. Didn’t know they had so many areas with bars that let you sample drinks. Like, wow.

Next time I go to Florida, I want to go to Pleasure Island. It was the one place I couldn’t go as a kid that I wanted to go to. Although it looks like they made Pleasure Island a part of Downtown Disney…

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Baby Shower for Shiz

I think Shiz didn’t really want a baby shower, but Steph and Ardith did. So the cookie baking party was turned into a baby shower complete with games and decoration. I made brownies.

I also forgot to buy a present for the shower. My lame excuse was that I was flying out to Florida that night and I was busy packing. Lame. I know. Also, I bought the wrong needles for the baby hat and didn’t realize that I had the wrong needles until it was too late. I have the needles now so I need to knit!

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Happy New Year!

I haven’t posted anything in over a month, so here’s the update.

Happy New Year!! ^_^

Fin.

(What? You wanted more? It’s 8:35 AM and I still need to go eat breakfast!)

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Gingerbread 360 Controller Cookies

Last night I made gingerbread cookies. Not just any kind of gingerbread cookies, but gingerbread Xbox 360 controller cookies.

The recipe I used to make the gingerbread cookies and royal icing.

The cookie cutter was made from a strip of disposable aluminum pan, folded over twice to prevent bloody cookies. I wanted to lay white icing over all the top, but the it was too thick and I was too tired to really think things through. What I ended up doing was just dotting the thumb joysticks, directional pads, the Xbox button, and the 4 colored bottons. It looks not cute and kinda messy, but a good try.

My coworkers like them. I was only able to make 16 cookies. Fifteen went to work. Zero came home. While they may not look pretty, they were very delicious.

I’m going to make these cookies again for the holiday party up in Burbank.

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Friends

Lisa Kudrow visited the office today. I wanted to get an autograph on a Japanese signing board (which I keep a bunch in my car), but I was too shy to do it by myself. One of my coworkers went with me and he called her name to get her attention. I don’t think she was expecting someone to jump her in the halls like I did. My hands were shaking from the nervousness.

+1 to my autograph collection. ^_^;

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Dad

My dad is doing well in Japan. He had to get an operation, but he said that he’s all better now.

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Dad in Japan

Dropped my dad off at the airport this morning. He’s going to Japan to see a doctor. His return flight is on the 24th.

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Dodgeball at Staples Center

Last night, I went to the Staples Center to watch Ball of Duty play against another dodgeball team. I was too congested to play, at least I didn’t want to get my germs on the ball. How funny would it be though? I took out 39 dodgeball players in a single game! …Ok, maybe funny only to me. >_>;

But first, we had to suffer through a Clippers game. It was sad. The Clippers lost to the Rockets 85 to 102. Ouch. I like the Clippers, but why do they have to lose so often? :(

After the game the court was set up to allow 2 games at the same time. Ball of Duty played against a team called F.A.G.S. At first I thought it was some sort of derogatory pun, but I found out that the team is really full of gay men. Their team name stands for Fun Active Gentlemens Society.

It was another sad game. According to my coworker, BoD only won one game out of the entire time they played. It was also a bit unfair that the other team wasn’t co-ed, but whatever.

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Wheezing a Bit

I was wheezing when I woke up this morning. It was kinda hard to breath, but once I coughed a ton I was able to breath again. I finally got a substantial amount of phlegm out, too. It’s a greenish grayish yellowish color. Yuck. I also lost my voice.

My physican’s assistant friend told me to drink lots of hot tea and take mucinex. He also said it might be bronchitis and that I should go see a doctor on Monday. >_<

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