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| It's December! Christmas decorations and music will no longer be met with frowns and grumbles of "It's not even December yet!" or in some cases "It's not even American Thanksgiving yet!". With Christmas comes eggnog! I love eggnog, or rather eggnog flavored things. I've still never had eggnog cheesecake. I think some shop out there should make it and let me know so that I can try a slice. I did have an eggnog cupcake from Cupcakes on Friday. It was yummy. Already had my first eggnog latte of the season from Starbucks. =D Wondering if I should use my Marble Slab milkshake coupon on an eggnog milkshake. I'd have to go find a Marble Slab with eggnog ice cream in stock first though. I blame London (well, Harrods really) for my unhealthy fascination with macarons and Charbonnel et Walker champagne truffles - expensive delicacies that I have been looking for in Vancouver since returning from London. Luckily The Urban Tea Merchant carries the truffles and, as I found out recently, Holt Renfrew also has them during certain holidays! (Said holidays being Christmas, Valentines, and Easter.) It's nice to know that I'll be able to buy them locally whenever I want so I can stop wasting time figuring out how to get my hands on some. XD Good macarons were harder to find. Sadly, there is no Ladurée here. Macarons from Thierry literally left a bad taste in my mouth. However, Holt Renfrew came to the rescue again as they are selling macarons from Kitchening with Carly every weekend til Christmas. Macarons from Kitchening with Carly were way better than the ones I had from Thierry. Still need to try a few other places before I can decide which Vancouver-based macarons I like best, but so far it's Kitchening with Carly's. ^^ Latest game addiction: Lord of the Rings Online. Best mmorpg I've played yet. I'm glad I got sick of waiting around for Rose to get better (HA!) and moved on to something infinitely better. Too bad I didn't listen to my cousin when he told me I should play it ages ago. Going to San Francisco for Christmas. It should be fun! XANDER: So, you doing anything special?
BUFFY: Tree. Nog. Roast beast. Just me and Mom and hopefully an excess of gifts. What are you doing for Christmas?
WILLOW: Being Jewish. Remember, people? Not everybody worships Santa. | | |
| TV season has started again. What I'm watching (so far): The Amazing Race, Hart of Dixie, and Ringer. Ringer: Kind of meh, kind of only watching because Sarah Michelle Gellar is in it, kind of care. Some of the special effects are bad. Hart of Dixie: Kind of interesting, kind of only started watching because Rachel Bilson is in it, kind of glad that the soundtrack wasn't all country music or I would've had to stop watching. Also interesting to see the height difference between her and the other actors. XD I'm more than a season behind in Chuck and Supernatural, and a bunch of episodes behind in Gossip Girl and House, so can't start those till I catch up. Haven't started Glee even though I'm caught up on that. I found last season underwhelming so not particularly excited about this season. Also watching ANTM except it seems excessively lame this season so I don't know if I want to keep watching. I'm not used to having to wait a week for a new episode of a show to come out. My summer of Korean dramas means that I've gotten used to watching episodes on demand. Spent two days in the states with friends. It was fun. I got to go to almost all the places I've been wanting to go to for over a year. A little disappointing shopping-wise, but I had a great time. Very glad I missed out on the tomato battle. I would've hated it. XD WILLOW: Oh, yeah, I'm good at medical stuff since Xander and I used to play doctor all the time.
XANDER: No, she's being literal. She used to have all these medical volumes, uh, and diagnosed me with stuff. I didn't have the heart to tell her she was playing it wrong. | | |
| Went to the Taylor Swift concert yesterday. It was pretty awesome! She's a really good performer. I've never actually heard her speak before, only sing, so I was a bit surprised by how her voice sounded. XD I got a hand autographed CD for $20. I thought that was a good deal. It was actually an autographed CD booklet plus a unopened still wrapped copy of the CD. I already have the CD, so if anyone wants the one I got from the concert minus the autographed CD booklet.. XD I got my ticket for half price off craigslist only 4 hours before the concert - also a good deal. I was nervous about the ticket being a fake up until they scanned me in at the doors. XD The concert was on September 11, so Taylor sang a cover of Alan Jackson's "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)". That's probably what was written down her arm too. I could only read the first two words: where were. In other news, super addicted to The Sims Social on Facebook. Never intended to ever play a Facebook game, but it was The Sims! How could I not? Hahaha. XD Now my profile page is full of The Sims Social requests. XD Mid-Autumn Festival today. Have not had any mooncake. Maybe I should see if there are any opened ones in the house. I wonder what Starbucks mooncake tastes like. They don't sell them here though. Found a new favorite bubble tea: Milky honey green tea with pearls. I think that's all the frivolous news I have to share. As for un-frivolous news, I have a dilemma I've been thinking about on and off. I think I should make a decision. I don't know what decision to make. The decision may be made for me if I wait long enough. I have three options. Option number one would be easiest, but I don't really want to go with it unless the situation changes. Option number two might be the better choice for me, but then I would feel bad about not picking option one and making progress with option two would be pointless if I end up having to go with option number three. Option number three might be the option I have to take, but that's only if it becomes a reality in the future. What to do? Maybe I will continue waffling and see if anything happens this month to help me make up my mind. BUFFY: You know, maybe it's too late. Maybe we should just come back tomorrow. What if he's mad?
XANDER: Mad? Just because you ran away and abandoned your post and your friends and your mom and made him lay awake every night worrying about you? (to Oz and Willow) Maybe we should wait out here.
(Giles opens the door)
XANDER: Check it out. The Watcher is back on the clock. And just when you were thinking career change, maybe becoming a... a looker or a... a seer.
GILES: Thank you, Xander. Welcome home, Buffy. | | |
| It's been a long time since I last blogged here. I keep meaning to update, and sometimes even get as far as writing part of a post before deleting it all and deciding to come back to it later when I really have something to say. I still don't really have anything to say but I figure if I just start typing maybe things to say will come to me. Like how my trip was. Or how I'm not so sick anymore. Seeing as I last posted in early April, maybe I could start there. April was a write-off for me. I was sick for most of it. Sometimes experimenting with my food sensitivities pays off well. This time it hit me over the head and made me sick for a month. I can't remember May. I think I spent most of it worrying about being too sick and worrying about how my health would be on my trip. And packing. I dislike packing. Then I went on my trip. 20 days through Turkey, Greece and London from mid-May to early June. It was mostly a tour of archeological sites so I saw lots of columns and rocks. Also got a bit of shopping done too. Met a friend in London. Got a London Starbucks card. Regretted not getting more international Starbucks cards. I'm really glad I went on the trip. It would have been a ton more fun had I not been sick, but even so my health didn't cause me as many problems I as expected. More random thoughts about the trip: I liked Turkey and London more than I expected. Cruises can get really boring. Long flights are also really boring - especially when you can't watch any movies due to the headset socket being broken. I had a spa treatment at one of the hotels we stayed at. I chose shirodhara, which was a head massage using heated oil poured on the forehead. It was very relaxing. It took 3 consecutive shampoos to get all the oil out of my hair. The Fanta there is way better than what we have here. I really didn't like the Love Never Dies musical. By the end I was glad to go home because living out of a suitcase and changing hotels every 1-2 nights gets old. Weirdly enough, my health unexplainably improved a lot about a week after my return. Up until that point I had been having the worst year of my life. And I don't mean starting from January 2011, I mean from late April 2010. I don't think I will or can explain what was wrong with me. Who would want to know everything I experienced during that period of time anyway? I think the worst of it was the uncertainty. I could do one thing, and I would either get worse, better, or stay the same. I could do the same thing the next day, and my reaction could change with no rhyme or reason. Sometimes it felt as though I was taking two steps forward and three steps back. Second worst was the pain. To the few people I talked to about being sick, I described it as "it hurts to move". Over that long period of time, pain went from being all-encompassing to now, almost an afterthought. I'm still not completely better, but I'm way closer to normal than I have been in a long time. Maybe it's over dramatic, but I feel as if I'm living now instead of just existing and waiting to get my life back. It's been a relatively good month and a bit of volunteering and catching up with friends, especially ones I haven't seen since getting sick. I'll be going to visit friends in Edmonton next week. I hope I'll be okay, although I should be. It's only for a few days anyway. Upon my return I'll have to get a job. So that's something to look forward to. -_- I feel like I should end this long overdue entry on a lighter and more frivolous tone. I got a haircut today. Dream High is still my favorite drama, although I've watched a few others since. 49 Days was good except for the ending. Thanks to a comment in my fb newsfeed I've rediscovered YA fiction and have reserved a bunch at the library. I'm looking forward to the new TV show that Sarah Michelle Gellar is going to be in. Time for bed. XD One of the things I thought of on tour:
SPIKE: It's a big rock. I can't wait to tell my friends. They don't have a rock this big. This song is stuck in my head and I don't even like it: | | |
| Xanga's persistent ads have prompted me to change my layout since the old layout no longer displays properly. That irks me. I would jump ship, but I've got a lot of years worth of blog posts here, and I keep telling myself that someday I'll get premium (for the shortest period of time possible) just so I can download all my old entries and keep them. Have not been in the mood to post lately. Or rather, when I do feel like making a post I often start thinking of sentences to use in the post a day or so beforehand until I really feel like writing them down, but all the sentences in my head right now are unhappy, complaining ones that would probably just come across as over dramatic and ranty on a topic that I don't really want to explain or know if I can explain properly even if I had all the words in the world, therefore silence. In other news, I think I've found my favorite Korean drama ever: Dream High. Good cinematography, lines, plot pacing, eye candy, and when I finished the last episode I immediately wanted to watch it all over again. I was kind of iffy on it (as with most dramas) in the first few episodes, but by episode 6 I was completely addicted. I'm waiting for my sister to be done her finals so we can watch it together. If she likes it too I'll know I'm not crazy for liking it so much. I recommended it to another friend of mine and within 24 hours she'd watched around 5 episodes. Hahahaha. XD SNYDER: You need to integrate into this school, people. I think I just found three eager new participants for the talent show.
BUFFY: What?
XANDER: No!
WILLOW: Please?
SNYDER: I've been watching you three. Always getting into one scrape or another.
BUFFY: Well, we're really, really sorry, but about the talent show, pleeease, you can't make us...
SNYDER: (interrupts) My predecessor, Mr. Flutie, may have gone in for all that touchy-feely relating nonsense, but he was eaten. You're in my world now. And Sunnydale has touched and felt for the last time.
XANDER: Can I just mention, that detention is a time-honored form of punishment?
SNYDER: I know the three of you will come up with a wonderful act for the school to watch. And mock. And laugh. At.
XANDER: No! | | |
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