I'm SCARED

has anyone ever had that

"OMG I'm getting freakin' old! I'm on my own after graduation! my parents were 10 times more self-reliant than I am when they were my age! how will I live for the rest of my life?" kind of thoughts?

-sigh-

I do...

I guess that's life... we all have to make small sacrifices here and there....

-pause-

I had french fries and jalopeno poppers for dinner last night....

A Nice Cappuccino

There is nothing quite like a nice warm cappuccino in the morning to help you start your day of right, especially if it is like 50°F outside and it's 67ºF inside. I feel so warm and fuzzy...

It would be nice if I had an avocado cucumber sandwich to go with this...



too metro?....

I'll make up for it later.....

Three things I need to do in the morning:

1. Daily Bible Verse

2. Breakfast

3. Daily GARFIELD, PEANUTS, ONE BIG HAPPY, ZIGGY, and HEATHCLIFF on YAHOO!

I've found out the googlemaps is awesome!

I found the house that I lived in when I was three years old (it was red then, but now they painted it blue)

I saw the old store that my parents owned in the French Market (the store is still the same, INCLUDING the sign that my dad put up over 10 years ago). The area used to be FULL of tourists and vendors, but it's ghetto now...

HMM........... I have an inkling that my cappuccino is really just a cup of hot chocolate with a few squirts of hazalnut sweetner mixed in.... but it's okay, I like hot chocolate....

In a Strange Sense of Productivity

I remember there is this really nice grandpa who always comes into the store and he asked me one day "what is something constructive you did today?"




I don't exactly remember what I said, but it must have been funny because just he laughed and left in a good mood.

Things are progressing in more ways than one.

With so much time in one place, I've been reading a lot more lately, mostly Yahoo news and also, my career objectives have changed quite a bit.



Before, I was dead set on getting my MBA and doing business, but I've realized after practically running a business day after day, day after day, it's not for me.

So that is why, I've put down my GMAT book and picked up my GRE book.

I've even gotten through about 250 pages of the Princeton Review's GRE Book. So many words to memorize, but like SAT's.... but at least math is a no brainer... (Geometry is the hardest it gets.)

Favorite article from Yesterday:


ESQUIRE released their best restaurants of 2008



They named a place called L20 in Chicago the "Restaurant of the Year".
It looks really elegant from the picture, but what really caught my eye was this picture of the Steak at MERCAT A LA PLANXA, also in Chicago.
















The presentation alone makes it so much more appealing....

DANG.....

I've realized how racist people here are...
SITUATIONs:

1. Two people asked me if I was Bobby Lee

2. There is an advertisment poster with an Asian guy on it and NO LIE I've had three different people on three different occasions ask "Is that you on there?"

3. This lady got angry b/c she Church's Chicken told her that she had to wait 5 minutes for her chicken. She tells them to F-off, buys a soda, throws it on my counter and says "I guess I'll just buy a soda from y'all. I guess Church's Chicken don't serve white folk"

4. This loud man hispanic guy (obviously raised in a female-dominated household seeing how he talks so much) keeps calling me "Chino" every time he comes into the store, whatever the hell that means...

5. While waiting in a short line of only African Americans customers, this one impatient Caucasian lady looks at everyone in the store and yells "good night YOU people!" and leaves. Needless to say, we all looked at each other with a WTF look on our faces.

*SIGH*

California, how I miss thee,

I would rather take your bearable weather and egotistical values you put into us

over

hot smelly weather and racist unlearned hillbilly mindsets any day...

NEW VENTURE?

I'M THINKING ABOUT WRITING A BOOK