OMG, I'm so embarrassed...

You know how sometimes you make a total ass of yourself and it’s just SO embarrassing?

I mean, I’m a total clutz, so I’m constantly slipping on ice, or water, or walking into walls, or tripping on my own feet …even if I’m not moving. Don’t ask me how that happens, but it does.

One time I was in Walmart and I had on a good outfit, had my designer sunglasses on my head, walkin around with a basket of canned goods. When suddenly, I don’t know how or why, I tripped. (most likely on my own feet.) Now, you know when you try to catch yourself before falling? Most of the time you can, but this time there was nothing for me to hold on to. I had my arms out, but the falling was inevitable. I totally fell forwards, the contents of my basket rolling around in the aisle, my designer sunglasses askew on my head, half on my eye and I think my sandal came off as well. So here I am on the ground in the middle of the aisle of a crowded Walmart, shocked by the fact that I actually just fell. You know how normally you try to get up as quickly as possible to avoid being seen? (or hoping that no one saw you?) Well I guess I was just so stunned that I couldn’t even get up, still trying to fathom what just happened. My husband who had been walking ahead turned around, saw me on the ground and said “GET UP.” (through clenched teeth, no less). There was no, “Are you okay? Let me help you up…” No. None of that.

See, when you’re a Filipino kid growing up and you get hurt, you don’t get sympathy from your parents. You get in trubs. It’s all “O, see? Why did you do that?!” So of course, that’s how me and my husband were raised. Getting hurt is the product of your own stupidity, so why would you get any sympathy for being stupid?! Strange, but true.

Anyways, so yeah, he was all “OMG, Get up!! Why are you still sitting there?!” People were coming up to me with my now dented canned goods asking if I was okay, my sunglasses still crooked on my head. Man, that was hardcore embarrassing. But then I seriously could not stop laughing at myself. I kept imagining this all happening in my head and how I must’ve looked sprawled out there on the floor with my sunglasses all askew and a totally shocked “I seriously cannot believe that just happened” look on my face. My husband thought I was nuts. He was probably even more embarrassed than I was – especially with the fits of hysterical laughing that followed. He was like “Let’s go. I can’t believe you fell, and now you can’t stop laughing.” I was so in trubs. LOL.

Another time, I had just walked into work and was walkin down the hallway to get to my desk. It was a good hair AND outfit day…When suddenly, I found the one spot that someone had spilled a little bit of water on (or was it a spot of melted snow?) Anyways, I slipped on it and made a loud crashing sound as went down. I was sort of stunned again, but then I yelled out “I’m OKAY!”. I mean, I seriously couldn’t hide the fact that I fell, even though no one saw me because I fell so loudly. Man, I’m such a clutz!!

And yet another time, I was at my desk, sitting in my desk chair, minding my own business. I accidently dropped my pen and leaned over to pick it up. I seriously don’t know what happened, but that darn chair rolled away right from under me and made a loud crash as it fell over. Of course, I totally fell out of my chair, much to my chagrin. Obvi, everyone heard that one as well, so I had no other course but to yell out “I’m OKAY!” to that as well. Why am I so uncoordinated? I don’t know.

Other times, I’ve had stuff stuck in my teeth while I’ve been talking at length about something, trying to sound intelligent. (Believe me, your intelligence quotient plummets when there’s a piece of spinach or black pepper stuck between your front teeth). I hate this – because really, the person you’re talking to, should be able to say “Excuse me, you have something stuck in your teeth and I can’t take my eyes off of it, so I’m not even really listening to what you’re even saying”. I mean, I do! When I’m talking to someone, I always tell them. I feel bad for them. And even though its sometimes embarrassing for you to tell them, believe me, they are way more relieved that you told them before they could embarrass themselves any further. I hate it when I go to look in the mirror and notice that there’s something stuck in my teeth. Worst feeling ever. You start to think back about who you were talking to and….ugh.

I don’t really know what the point of these stories are, except that laughing about doing something dumb makes it less embarrassing. Actually, no wait. No it doesn’t. But if everyone else is laughing, you might as well laugh too.

4 days...

Well today is the last day of a 4-day weekend. This weekend seemed to go by at a nice, slow and leisurely pace so instead of just 4 days it seemed to be more like a week! Strange, considering 2 day weekends go by in a flash. (Reminds me of Sheldon on Big Bang Theory in his Flash costume racing around their apartment saying "zoom! zoom! zoom!". LOL. BTW, did anyone else catch the BBT marathon on Comedy Central this weekend? Hilare! I just love those geeks. haha.) Anyways, I haven't done this in awhile, so how about a weekend recap? I have to talk about my fab life sometimes don't I?

So Thursday evening ( which in my younger days, used to be known as "the biggest bar night of the year", and actually I'm sure still is...however, I haven't been to the bar in ages, so I can't be certain) my cousins all came over. Their exams were done, we still had their XBox Kinect hooked up from last time and they had just bought the MJ Dance Central. Our place was the obvious place to go. My cousins are always scheming to come over (not that I mind of course! They're pretty awesome. Shout outs! lol) and this night was no exception. So we ordered pizza and chicken and hung out dancing to MJ and regular Dance Central. Always good times.

On Friday we got up early to go to church and miracle of miracles, were actually on time! After the service we went out for Vietnamese with the whole family to this restaurant called Thanh Kieu (You're welcome.). There are always 2 big tables when my whole family goes out: the "Olds" table (which includes my parents, aunts and uncles) and the "Youngs" table (which includes the rest of us). I'm gonna hate it when I have to go to the Olds table one of these days! However, I do have to say, the food that the Olds ordered at their table looked really good. And they got served first. So perhaps there is something to being older and wiser. Our table ordered individual meals (like vermicelli bowls and soup). I had the shrimp rolls but since the rest of the table wasn't strictly adhering to the no-meat thing (My husband told my cousins that it was okay to eat meat after 12:00) they enjoyed bbq pork and stuff like that. It looked delicious. Everytime we go for Vietnamese we also like to have pho. So trying to stick to the no-meats rule, I ordered pho without the meat. Eh. Note to self: you definitely need meat in pho.

Afterwards we went home and decided to finally watch "The Fighter" on PPV. It was good, albeit frustrating at times. After that, we watched the Laker game (which thankfully they won!). At the end of the night it was fun to know there were still 3 more days off!

Saturday morning I went to get my eyelashes done. I'm addicted to having my eyelashes done. ("I feel so pretty, picture-perfect beautiful...ooh oh. Click Flash...") then we went to have some REAL pho (with meat!) and a vermicelli bowl (with bbq pork!) at Asia City. You cannot beat their $5.00 lunch special! From 11am-2pm, you get a choice of 6 things for $5.00. It's pretty awesome. After that we went to Polo. Which I NEVER usually do on a weekend because 1) I'm pretty much there throughout the week, after work and 2) everyone and their dog is out and about and I hate big crowds of people in MY mall. Especially people who stop in the middle of the walkway because they're lost or talking to someone they know. I know you wanna stop and talk, but would it kill you to move to the side?! Amateurs. They don't know mall etiquette. I could teach a course.

Anyways after that we decided to do some Epicure deliveries and on the way I saw something amazink:

What?! Is this really true? I can't believe it!!! First, Forever 21, now this?! Yay, Winnipeg!

Anyhoo, we were on our way to deliver to my friend Abbey's new house (which btw, is gorgeous!) It's in fancy shmancy Waverly West. Also I have to say that 3D tv is pretty COOL. After one more delivery to Southdale, we headed home to chill. That night we had dinner resos at Hermano's. Yum-o!

Dinner @ Hermano's did not disappoint. They had a band and they played cool latin music all night. We decided to order the calamari for apps and it was really good. Tender, lightly breaded and perfectly cooked. A great beginning to our meal. For dinner we ordered paella and the Baby Cabrera, which was an exquisitely grilled Brazilian rib-eye. (Excuse me, I just drooled a little bit) SO delicious!!! The paella came with a corn bread muffin flecked with little bits of green (jalepenos?) and red (chilis?). It had all the usual suspects: chicken, chorizo, shrimp and mussels. The rice was perfectly cooked and the chunks of tomato were fantastic. The rib-eye came with all the fixins: mashed potatoes, grilled red pepper and asparagus and a little bowl of sauteed mushrooms and bacon. BACON. aaaaahhhhh...SO GOOD....The paella was so big that we couldn't finish, but it was okay because we were planning to have their Banana tempura split for dessert...until the server told us they took off the menu. BOOO!! It was the only disappointing thing about our meal. It was delish nonetheless. Hermano's get's a 9.5/10. Yummy!!!

Yesterday was Easter. We were even on our way to church on time. (Well...kind of on time. More like, less late than we usually are). So anyways, we decided to stop at McDonalds drive-thru for a quick muffin and coffee (and bfast burrito) pick-up when I got a call from my dad. Their 4runner broke down somewhere on Inkster! UGHH!!! We were in the middle of drive-thru, so I told him we'd come just as soon as we got through. Of course, it was the longest drive-thru line EVER. Anyways, we finally got through and I guess I wasn't really paying attention to where they were waiting because we drove down Inkster Garden Drive instead of Inkster. Then I called and he was like "Inkster!"

Ugh...so we finally found them and my nephew was all "Tita, tita! The truck got stuck! It's not working!! It's broken Tita!" (He's 2, and he's got a lot to say. He's pretty funny!) Anyways, once we finally got my dad back to the house (luckily they weren't too far and he was able to kind of get the truck back (it kept dying) and we took my mom and nephew with us to church. On the way we heard my current fave song (and my nephew's fave song as well) J.Lo's "On the Floor" playing on the radio. I don't know if it's possible, but I think he loves this song even more than I do! When it was over, he kept saying "Tito, I want to hear it again! I wanna hear "La,la la la la.." (singing) Please, Tito? I wanna hear it again. Please?!" (OMG, so cute, I was even begging my husband to find it again. Alas, it was on the radio and that's always just a crap shoot). Anyways, my husband kept saying "Yes, Micah, what song was it again?" and my nephew would sing the "La, la la la la la la la la...."part. He sang it over and over until we got to church. So hilarious! Even when we walked into church he was still singing and I said to him "Micah! You have to be quiet now, we're in church!" and he said to me "Tita, I'm still SINGING." (and I'm sure he gave me a little bit of an eye-roll).

After church we decided to take him with us to pick up some groceries and chill with him for the afternoon. He asked questions all the way home. My mom had tasked me with giving him a nap so that he could be well rested for our Easter family dinner. First we watched some basketball (he kept saying "Shoot it! Defense!" man, this kid knows more than me!) Then I decided to take him upstairs to the room to finally let him take a nap. He was yawning already, so how hard could it possibly be? Yeah. Can someone please tell me how a 2-year old suckered me into letting him watch Robots AND Kung-Fu Panda...twice? Suffice it to say, this kid did not take his nap. He's pretty fricken smart. And I'm a sucker. Whatevs.

Later we went for dinner at my cousin's new house (which no one thought to give us directions to). Once we got to their area, we ended up driving around for another 1/2 hour - we turned down a street and found my parents (lost, as well) and turned down another street and found one of my uncles and aunts (also lost). Haha! Finally we stopped some people going for a walk to ask them where the street was. We finally found it! (But we lost my parents and aunt & uncle in the process) Anyways, they eventually found it as well but man, that house was a unicorn. The Laker game was on and the whole family ended up watching the last tense few minutes...they lost. Boo.

Which brings me back to today...It was a typical last day of a long weekend. Happy that I had the day off, but knowing it would soon end and I would be going back to the usual...It was nice to have a mini holiday anyways. I hope I didn't bore you too much. But you were probably bored anyways which brought you to reading my post. Anyways, Happy Monday! Now get back to work...

Gleecap: It wasn't so amazeballs...

So this week’s long anticipated post hiatus episode of Glee was…meh. For me anyways. That’s probably why it’s taken me so long to write up my Gleecap.

The whole theme of the show, entitled “Night of Neglect” just seemed so depressing and truthfully I didn’t even care. So disappointing because I really was looking forward to it.

Though Sunshine Corazon returned and gave us a pretty good performance of “All By Myself”, I still thought it was lacking in…I dunno. Something? It just seemed so rehearsed for me, as well as when she delivered her lines.
My fave guest star Gwynnie returned as Holly Holiday for perhaps the last(?!) time. It was a swift and bittersweet ending to her and Mr. Schu’s short romance. I so enjoy when she does those characters for history class though! She is amazeballs. (haha)

There were some pretty fantastic moments though…

1) Sue’s League of Doom. I love, love, LOVED the villain names she gave each member: The Pink Dagger, Honey Badger and Sergeant Handsome. Their mission? Break up Will and Holly and heckle the Glee Club at their benefit concert. The best attempt at breaking up Will and Holly was when Sergeant Handsome showed up at the end of Holly’s class, sat down on a desk, spread his legs open and stated “ I’m handsome, I’m good-looking, and I’m easy on the eyes. Also, I’m gorgeous”. HAHA!!! Love it.

2) Unfortunately for the Glee Club not even their parents show up to the concert. However, Kurt and Blaine do come to support. Unfortunately, they run into scary Karofsky in the hall. Blaine gets his tough guy on and gives the bully a shove, but the star in this showdown? Santana, who comes out and pretty much sends Karofsky running away. Her best line? “Oh, and also, I have razor blades hidden in my hair. Tons, just hidden ALL up in there.” Ah Santana, I love her more and more each episode.

3) Mercedes’ playing the quintessential diva. Her demands were pretty awesome. Especially needing a fresh puppy to dry her hands on. Amazing.

So in all, it was not my fave episode, but I can say that I really am looking forward to next week’s 90 minute extended episode which looks like its going to include Gaga!!! (Yeah!!!) and spontaneous mall dancing!! Hopefully it will redeem this disappointing episode. Cannot wait!

Don't worry, I got a gift card ;)

Gift Cards. I love gift cards. It’s like pretty much spending other people’s money. In fact, it’s free money! Gift cards make you feel empowered to spend money. The other day I was able to buy a $75.00 sweater for $18.00 (thanks to 40% off discount and a $25.00 gift card!) That’s a good deal.


However, sometimes it’s not such a good deal.

When would having a gift card not be a good deal? When you forget how much your gift card actually is…I mean, not literally forget, but you start to think 50.00 is a lot…which in certain cases it is, but not when you’re ordering Moxie-sized bellinis 2 at a time! Allow me to explain.

One day my husband and I decided to go out for dinner. Since we had a gift card for $50.00 we figured we’d go out to Moxie’s for a nice dinner. Nothing fancy, mind you – we figured a burger and some chicken fingers would be perfect.

When we got to the restaurant, there was quite a wait, but we weren’t in a rush anyways. We happened to arrive at the same time as a couple of our friends, who were also out for “date night”. As we waited for our respective tables, we got to talking. Then we figured, well why don’t we just all get one table? My husband and I certainly didn’t need to have “privacy” (hello, we’re married now! LOL) and the other couple decided it would be fun to have a double date as well! So we quickly told the hostess that we wanted to sit together, which I guess made it much easier for them because we got a table that much faster! So once we settled in to our booth and looked at the menu, we were in good spirits. When the server came to our table to tell us that the drink feature for that evening was “Moxie-sized” drinks on special we were all over it. We had a gift card after all…And to make it even better, the couple we were with (let’s call them Rex & Char) ALSO had a $50.00 gift card! So, us girls had Moxie-sized Bellinis, while the guys had Moxie-sized Mojitos. From that time on it was like we were high rollers. Holding up 2 fingers every time the server came by to signal more drinks. We were feeling good (read: tipsy) And when the server came to tell us about their dinner features, we all decided to have steak dinners with all the fixins! (On account of being high rollers LOL.) I can’t remember if we had a dessert…but hey if we did, it was all good – we totally had gift cards!

When the bill came we were pleasantly surprised to see the bill was just over $100.00! We were like Yes! We can put our gc’s together, add whatever else and just pay for the tip! We couldn’t believe how lucky we were and congratulated each other on the fortuitousness of having gift cards…that is until my husband dropped the bill and another one fell out from behind it….a duplicate bill (or so we thought). Upon closer inspection, we saw that it was 2 separate bills, the same amount (because we all ordered the same thing) for each couple. Oh.

So yeah, both couples ended up spending more than double what our gc’s were. But it was actually kind of hilarious. We were pretty much in hysterics from laughing so hard! (Haha!) And in the end it was actually a small price to pay for such a fun night out!

Anyways, the moral of the story is, gift cards are awesome, but those Moxie-sized drinks will get ya in the end. Make sure you bring extra money.

Hello, Here I am!

Hi Friends! I know I haven’t blogged in ages. In fact, it was actually almost a month ago! Wow! I don’t know if you were missing me, but I certainly missed writing. I had a bit of writers block and couldn’t seem to finish anything I started! I guess that’s just how it is sometimes. It also doesn’t help that my laptop is on the fritz (is that still a word?!) and I can’t even access the internet! It sucks – I definitely think its time for me to invest in a new computer/laptop. Any suggestions on makes or models?

Most of my fave shows were on hiatus and I amused myself with watching Dancing with the Stars and other shows like that. I don’t mind it, but I’m not really devoted to it. Anyways, this week, at least a couple of my shows come back: Gossip Girl and Glee, which I’m really looking forward to!! How I’ve missed Blair and Chuck, Dan and even Serena, and of course the Gleek squad. I’ll have to read my past posts for a mini refresher to even remember what is going on!

In terms of fashion – it seems that I have been buying something everytime I go to the mall, but really nothing spectacular to write about. I did buy this lovely grey dress that I’m planning on wearing to my cousin’s wedding this summer but other than that – mostly work clothes. There are no fabulous shoes or sandals on my shopping horizon (yet) but now that the snow has (mostly) melted, I can take out my Jimmy Choo’s and Madewell desert boots!

I suddenly developed allergies this spring (which has never really happened to me before) and it’s weird. I’ve been sneezing and having watery eyes and it’s kind of awful. I kept thinking I had a cold but it was just so “it’s here and now it’s gone”. Anyways, I guess I’m getting old or something cuz now I got allergies. Pretty soon, I’ll be taking out the humidifier.

April’s been a crazy busy month filled with socials and parties, birthdays and dinners. It’s been fun so far and I’m totally looking forward to another social at the end of the month! Have I mentioned lately how much I’m LOVING socials? I used to hate them and I even hated having my own social, but I must be some kind of late bloomer or something or perhaps its just cuz that J.Lo’s song makes me want to get up and dance? Well, whatever it is, it’s good times. Better late than nevahhhhhh….

I’m also obsessed with the song “Drowning” by BSB right now too. I don’t know why.

At first I started using it as my cool down/stretching song after working out and now I find myself needing to belt it out as loud as I can, as often as possible! Classic.

NBA Playoffs have started which of course can only mean STRESS. Yesterday was our fave team’s first game. They lost. BOOO!!!! Come on Lakers, pick it up!!! I don’t know why there are so many Laker-haters. Perhaps its because my team rules. Even when they lose.

I also like the Knicks. 1) because Hello!- They’re from New York and 2) Hello - Melo!!! I still wish I had gotten a (David) Lee Jersey back then. But whatevs.

Anyhoo – how was this for the randomest post ever? I hope to be back on track soon – perhaps I will do something fun and fabulous before the end of the month. Or not. And you will be forced to read about my totally non-fab life.

Naw…I won’t let that happen. See you again soon!