My Favorite Casino (by name, of course, since I don't go to casinos)

So, who has heard of Morongo Casino? I have seen the many commercials they have, claiming that they have more payouts then others, blah blah blah. But, the commercials are not what get me... it's their name. It has to be the PERFECT casino name to have ever come out! It sums up the experience perfectly! Let's break it down, shall we? "Morongo Casino" -> "Moron go Casino" -> "Morons go to the casino." There we go! They seem to perfectly understand it! Well, for any more proof, just track how much money you spent vs. gained in casinos the next 10-20 times you go and see how much you 'hit the jackpot.'

Birthday Weekend!

So, I started my weekend off with the viewing of Rita Rocks, as talked about on my earlier blog, and spent the night at my dad's Saturday was fun. I woke up early, had an English muffin with butter and peanut butter... mmm *drool* Then I went with my dad to visit his workplace in LA. He works at a place that works on heavy machine repairs (one piece of equipment they have can hold 50 tons max weight!). Afterward I went to my mom's boyfriend's house in southern OC to make a birthday dinner. I love to cook, but the stuff I like to cook would be really expensive because I use a bunch of fresh ingredients, and if I don't have certain spices on hand, I would have to go buy... So they got the groceries for the meal and got to help me with some of the cooking because it would have taken a LONG time for me to do alone, since there was a lot of chopping and preparing and running around to do... haha. So, we made herb grissini (breadsticks with parsley and basil, made from scratch - yeast and water mixed with flour and left to rise) and baba ganouj (an eggplant dip), I attempted a mexican rice, which came out grossly undercooked (sadly), and grilled chicken with a topping that consisted of: grilled red bell pepper, tomatoes, onion, parsley, and some spiced blended so that it's a chunky liquid. It was delicious, of course! And my mom made a salad to go with it. The breadsticks were amazing, because you also sprinkle sea salt chunks on it for the lovely salty crunch to go with the crunchy breadsticks. :)

Sunday consisted of going to church (which was much shorter than what it seemed when I was little, haha) with my dad and step-mom. Then we went to their friend's place to drop some stuff off then go to lunch with her. She is a very sweet lady, and also is starting her own line of dog panties. They are totally cute, and you can check them out here. It's called Surf City BitchWear. :) We ate at Katella Deli, which is DELICIOUS, as many of my family could attest to. (^_^) The rest of the day was just hanging out. All-in-all, a fairly decent weekend.

Rita Rocks!!! (Really?!)

So, I went to my dad's house today to go to a live audience taping of the Lifetime series Rita Rocks, which is about a woman who gives up her passion for becoming a musician to become a mom of two working part-time while her husband is a more office job worker. However, she starts playing with some friends in a small little band of four (her on guitar, black lady on keyboard, white kid on drums, and an older white man on... cello...) who practice in her garage. I watched what will be the season finale of the show's first season, which will air on Monday, February 9th at 8:00pm PST on Lifetime. While I didn't know the series, the show was fairly easy to watch without having seen any previous episodes, and it had some pretty funny scenes in it. Not as funny as Two and a Half Men, necessarily, but some funny scenes nonetheless. I won't talk about what happens, as I'm sure any possible fans (and the station) would not like that. But, all-in-all, it was a pretty good day. :)

Lost in... Lost

So, I'm totally addicted to the show Lost. I was lucky to be able to watch it all online for free on high-def streaming from ABC's website. While I really thought it would be interesting with the various occurrences that happened and that it would be more realistic, they seemed to turn it into this try to make it as crazy as possible scheme... but I still like it. Admittedly, I would have liked it much more if they had left all the 'Others' and 'Dharma Initiative' and their stations, but had left out all of these odd fantastic occurrences like the black smoke thing, the random hallucinations, magical cures, and moving through space and time... I think it would have been much more interesting if they had kept it mysterious, yet believable... but nonetheless, I'm still hooked. I just got done watching the fourth episode, and all I can respond to the ending is: "WTF?!"
I can't wait until next Wednesday!

It's my birthday!!!

And I'll cry if I want to?

So, special day with no special plans... just lazing about at home seems the day-plan for me... but hey, it's my birthday, and I can do what I want, right? :)

Nothing like true friendship...

I'm so glad to have my group of friends. Just recently one of my friends, JS, made us a forum so we could keep in contact more easily and kind of as a community...
We recently got together just after Christmas and, I must say, it's great seeing them every time. Even if I don't get to talk to them as much as I would generally like, I love them with all my heart, and they are family to me, and I know that I could count on them with anything. I think that friendship like that is very special, and very hard to come by, and we are all so lucky that there is a group (6 including me) of us that could be like that...