Eat, eat, and eat.

The family is all here and so I've spent most of the day eating. My sis came up the other night so we made waffles, bacon, toast, and eggs for breakfast. Well, I had an egg at least. She's strange and doesn't like eggs...

By the time we got done with all that we got cleaned up and wrapped a few presents. Then it was time for lunch! Roasted potatoes with herbs, onions, a bell pepper, and whatever else we could find. We also made roasted chicken breasts but we kinda overcooked them. A little dry but still OK. I really need more photogenic plates.



Then we watched some Buffy and it was suddenly dinnertime. My parents finally made it up with their trailer and we went out for dinner at our favorite pizza joint. We normally just have pizza but they moved their Wed night BBQ to Tues night. They didn't want to have it Wed for the next couple of weeks because of New Years and Christmas Eve. Ribs, garlic toast, combo pizza, and Sam Adams! Man I was stuffed...



But desert was needed. So off to Williams Sonoma hot chocolate! So good. No powdery stuff here. It is actual chocolate shavings. Just like the package says...rich and creamy goodness.

Today I'm gonna be an apple pie and cookie bakin' fool. This much food is pretty normal when the family is around...I should have all that weight I lost during finals week back on in no time!

Time to clean

Well, the semester is over and my family is coming up. I guess my sister is staying with me for the week rather than putting up with my parents. This means I actually have to clean my otaku den rather than just shove things out of the way. It is OK. I really needed to do it anyways. This picture was from about half way through the day long process.


I seriously took 5 or 6 boxes of old papers, letters, printouts, and other miscellaneous things to the recycling bin and a couple other boxes to the dumpster. I accumulate way too much crap during the semester since I never really know what I'll need or get too busy/lazy to throw it all out. Things tend to just form little piles in all the nooks and crannies waiting for the break to be sorted and tossed. Today was the day for it!

Unfortunately, I still need to dust some things but I'm almost done...My bookshelves are still an unorganized mess also.

In other news, the people over at Company B sent me extra copies of the books I worked on. Because they're super nice they also sent me a bunch of enameled pins from Galaxy Angel! There are 2 sets so if anyone reads this blog wants a set just let me know. I'm keeping the Milfuelle keychains though..

turbo

Pat is in town for a few weeks right now. I went out to dinner with him tonight then over to his sister's place where he is working on his car. One of the turbos went belly up on him so he is replacing them. The engine is pulled out and I was amazed at all the wires and hoses around it. It is a twin turbo all wheel drive Audi so it is much more complex than my little 240. Speaking of which...I finally gave it an oil change. Hadn't done that all semester and it runs much better now.



Hard to tell in this picture but it is so much bigger! Should give him some nice power once he gets it all back together.



This is his sister's bike. I want to get one some day so we talked about it for a while. It is raining a lot lately so she doesn't ride it every day like she used to. It is also set up for the track so it has no coolant in it. There was a little heater nearby to warm it up on cold days before she starts it otherwise it would just blow up. She's way more hardcore than I am. As far as I know, since she sold her Evolution this is the only transportation she has...

Decompression time

The semester is over so we had a small celebration last night. A few of us gathered over a L*'s house (the un-official NEO gathering place #1) and drank the night away. It was good to just sit around and not worry about anything for a night. I got there around 7 and didn't get home until somewhere around 3AM...I don't really remember since I just got home and passed out until noon today. Feeling so lazy right now.


We just shot pool, played games on the Wii most of the night. There was the typical party foods there; chips and pizza (which we ordered online like the nerds we are) but there was an interesting mix of drinks that we all brought. Champagne, absinthe, lychee flavored sake, and Blue Moon. Quite satisfying.

We were 20

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Today ended on a sad note. The faculty held portfolio reviews for all the Junior class and a few people from my class. I haven't heard the status of the Jr. class but we lost 2 more from our class which brings us down to 20 people. So sad!

After all that P* and I went to Borders to work at the gift wrapping table for a fundraiser. The location of it sucked so we didn't make much money. Who would put the table on the second floor back in some corner? Really now...We ended up reading and chatting for most of the 6 hours. P* read The Watchmen and I read Haruhi and some other random mangas. I also dozed off a couple times because I had been up for nearly 36 hours at this point. Had to get those final projects done!

Kr* joined us later on and we ended up chatting more and flipping through some design books then we went off to eat at Chili's. P* had a steak and I had a hamburger again. So bad for me but so good. I took photos but my camera phone sucks in low light and they didn't come out.

Now to hibernate before tomorrow's post-semester party.

It's Over!

The semester is over! Dear gods this one was draining. I basically spent the last week only sleeping a few hours a night. I had to do one last push to finish it all up today...Been up near 35hrs right now with a little nap in between. Feels good to be done though. Now to catch up on sleep and gain some weight back. I'm all the way down to 136! Yay for malnourishment.

It also means it is time to clean out the room for those who have been living here. Tables are piled with junk right now but it is slowly clearing out. We've accumulated lots of crap these last few months. Lots of food, pillows, heaters, etc. are necessary for those all night sessions. Tonight is a gift wrapping session followed by a well deserved beer and delicious sleep!

crunch

Sometimes I wonder about the animation/illustration students on campus...