College Humor has done it again – this time the spoof is using my favorite musical, West Side Story. It’s GREAT, watch it! Happy Wednesday everybody!

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This weekend was packed with silly fun. After all the cleaning, prepping, baking, and putting-up-new-frames-ing, we had a giant Game Night at our apartment. 20-some odd friends came over and ate lots of food and played silly games until the wee hours of the night. Our apartment just fit the amount of people we had over but it was super hot so we had the fans going full blast. It didn’t help that Adam was running the oven (for the pigs-in-a-blanket) as everyone was arriving.

Oh and not pictured, my Rum & Coke cupcakes, which consisted of a chocolate+Coke cupcake and rum-flavored buttercream frosting. VERY buttercream… perhaps too much butter. But I went with the recipe! Anyway, they were OK.

There are a few repeating events each Game Night:

• Dan will wake up the next morning earlier than all of us and leave. He usually leaves behind a “One Night Stand” note as Adam refers to it, but this time he didn’t. We don’t know what to do. Do we call first? Do we wait a few days? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
• Someone leaves something at our apartment and it stays with us for weeks, sometimes months. This Game Night we acquired:
  One shirt, folded and hidden near the shoe rack // Belongs to Vijay! He took the remote we accidentally stole from him and had for something like six months, but he forgot his shirt. It’s OK Vijay, we know it is because you want to see us again.

  A purple towel // Belongs to Carrie! We don’t have purple towels so it’s pretty easy to spot among the mix. Oh and also it has Carrie’s name on it!

  One small package of wine charms // Belongs to… Iris? Carrie? Who?

  A little tube of chapstick (or lip gloss or some kind of lotion) // Belongs to Shanta. I believe this has traveled from Shanta to Iris’ purse back a week at Umang’s wedding and now sits on our counter.

  A red sweater // Belongs to Al and was returned to him the next day at Martin’s poolside b-day BBQ.

And now some photos…

First wedding of 2009 and it was wonderful. Congratulations Umang and Meg!

Just finished an exhausting weekend of Maker Faire fun – and this is what I post? The nerve!
Well, I’m tired and I have a ton of photos to go through.

However, this jellyfish is in fact one I saw at the Maker Faire. One of the first booths we saw was Jellyfish As Art. (HAH. I just went to the website and it has the cheesiest photo on the hompage. Brilliant.) For something like $220 we could buy a tank with all the gizmos and such and then buy some j-fish at $40 a pop. They look pretty, but we really don’t have the space here at our apartment.

At least that’s MY opinion. The other human in this apartment has mentioned several times now about how interested he is in this jellyfish purchasing opportunity. We’ll see how that goes.

Spending the weekend indoors as much as possible – it’s hot outside, yo.

Finally went to see Star Trek on Saturday.

Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine – Mmm, cuteness. I’m a Sylar fan, so it was a little hard to not think of Spock as a killer; just waiting for him to slice someone’s head open. (Heroes, people, watch Heroes.) But I got over it and enjoyed the movie for what it is – action-y and all that. I have seen probably 20% of one original Star Trek episode ever in my life; but thanks to it’s popularity, certain quotes or mentions stood out as obvious nods to the original. Entertaining. I’m sure Trekkers/Trekkies enjoyed it. JJ did a great job making it entertaining for those of us who were never really fans to begin with.

Oh and the trailers before Star Trek? Transformers 2 – zomg. I loved the first one and the sequel looks like it will deliver just as much awesomeness as the first. Yes I’m geekily giddy over it. The second trailer was for GI Joe – looks good, action-y.. it’ll be a hit of course. Then there was the Land of the Lost trailer. I never watched this show (it ended in ‘76 – I wasn’t even born yet) nor did I catch any reruns. So any kind of nod to the original is lost on me. Haha.. I’m so punny. Anyway, it looks funny. Last trailer was Night at the Museum 2. While it looks funny (Hank Azaria!), I just don’t know if I’ll ever see it (at least until it’s on TNT or something) – Stiller’s acting drives me crazy.

Today is crafty day; scrapbooking and working on a photo-editing project (it’s a doozy, from 1937 and had giant creases all over, including down the middle of faces!)

Oh and taking photos of Penny of course!

After only four precious hours of sleep, I woke Saturday morning to get ready for our friend Caitlin’s graduation from Notre Dame de Namur University. I’ve known Caitlin for years, the earliest memory I have of her was when she was only days old and her mother was out walking her in a stroller. I looked down into it and saw a squishy-faced baby. And here she was, graduating with a bazillion honors from college. We’re all so proud of her! She also gave a speech at the ceremony, it was great and very motivating – even for me and I’m years out of college already.

I think the lack of sleep plus excitement for Caitlin made me forget that I’m a horribly pale – easily burned individual. I forgot sunscreen. Boy did I ever regret that. After three hours in the sun (though for maybe 30ish minutes I retreated to the shade after Caitlin’s speech and walk across the stage) I was the proud new owner of two really sunburned arms (and hands and forehead.)

We had Caitlin’s graduation lunch to go to still so I figured it’d be a few more hours before I could soak them in ice water or chop my arms off – whichever felt better at the time. But when we got to Left Bank in Menlo Park, the sun gods had pity on me and put a Walgreens a door down from the restaurant. Aloe Vera Cooling Gel here I come!

I’m about halfway through the tube as I type this out. I may as well eat the stuff so it can continuously seep from my pores. I figured today my arms would stop stinging, but no, they hurt like hell still. I think they’re slowly roasting. My skin hates me.

The rest of the weekend was officially Mother’s Day Weekend! We had a yummy lunch at Johnny Carinos in Modesto (where we didn’t have to wait at all for a table – score!) followed up with some ice cream and relaxing inside an air-conditioned house watching SNL. Very relaxing for us, specially since we were all worn out from the weekend’s activities and all being horribly sunburned.

Now it’s time for me to go to sleep soon (after applying layer 47 of the Cooling Gel to my arms, of course.) Tomorrow is another week at work – can’t wait for people to see my arms and give me stern looks and tell me I need to be careful and use sunscreen. I KNOW, believe me. I know.

Aren’t they neato?! I’ve never had photos taken of my eyes before so when I had these taken today I immediately asked them to email ‘em to me.

But I’m ahead of myself.

So I woke up for the bazillionth time (not consecutively) with a blurry right eye. Because I’m a doctor and have vast years of training and knowledge (This is a lie.) I kept thinking I either slept on my eye wrong, or maybe I scratched it somehow. Or maybe I’ve been a bit too stressed and my eye was rebelling. Regardless, I had enough of it and asked for a recommendation from a coworker for a eye doc.

A few hours and an eye exam later I was told I have an astigmatism in my right eye.

According to the doc, my left eye is “shaped like a baseball” which apparently is a good thing. My right is a football. Which is bad? Did I miss something? I like football. Maybe it’s a Raiders football, which would make sense. It has the potential to be great, but something is wrong with it. *sigh*

As for the quality of vision, my left eye is awesome. So my options are A) glasses I can use for computer work and driving, B) computer glasses, or C) just driving glasses.

I told the doc I use a computer for most of my day and my major hobby is PHOTOGRAPHY, which btw I use my RIGHT EYE for. AUGH. So he went into this weight lifting metaphor to explain how my eyes get tired, blah blah. With Option A, my eyes would be lifting something like 50lbs all day. With Option B, while I’m wearing the glasses it’d be something like 10lbs and later when I’m not using them, I’ve basically tricked my eyes into thinking life is grand and everything is smooth sailing. Photography and driving (etc) that day will probably be blur-free. Option C, well, I suppose the same thing but with driving.

I’m glad he went simple with me, I was kind of freaking out. Like omg did I have some weird eye disease? But no. Actually my eyes are quite healthy, just ya know, the one with the astigmatism was the only problem.

One contact is an option as well, I just have to decide if I want to stick my finger in my eye or not. Also, he said there’s a chance it would have to be custom. Yay, money. For now, I’m leaning toward Option B.

As I mentioned in my last post, on Sunday I got my very first car (SWEET!) and besides my parents and Adam (and the credit union) the only people who I told were Al & Shannon. After dinner with the ‘rents Adam and I drove over to their house and surprised them. We surprised them so much that Shannon was in her pjs and Al was playing WoW in a robe and refused to come outside to see my new car. I got a car people, you come outside to SEE IT. Shannon was more than happy to oblige and threw some sweats on and ran outside and we sat in the car and chatted while Adam went to watch Al go on a raid. Boys, hmph.

I was so excited this week and yet at the same time freaking out because seriously did I need more payments to make in my life? But this one is a welcomed one, as it allows me more freedom and means of escaping places I couldn’t previously escape at reasonable times. Plus I can always sell a kidney right?

So what adventures did I go on this week?
.: I drove downtown and didn’t hit anyone!
.: I’ve parked in a plethora of small parking spaces and didn’t hit neighboring parked cars!
.: I’ve gone to Target so many times this week that I fear they may have me profiled for casing the joint. One trip I justified I needed new socks and another one I went to get floor mats because my car didn’t come with any. I also used one of those trips to hit up Michaels. Because I could.

Attempting NaBloPoMo again, this month’s theme is “Sweet”