due FRI
1. bio lab-half way done
2. bio study
3. stats hw-half way done
due MON
1. stats lab-just needs to print

due WED
1. bc final study
due THURS
1. take-home stats final

is that really it?
my body feels tired but my brain is set on GO! im happy with work, im learning a lot. ive been eating well. i did 2 situps on my bed, pretty sore from that, but i slept like a log afterwards i bet u, that means im healthy ^^

I MUST UPDATE!!! else i will lose all my memories from thanksgiving break ><

wednesday: my biochem ta was so happy to see us for the 8 am section so he gave us all the answers to the homework. i finished class by 8:50 and then went back home and tidied up the house and showered. then i started catching up on episodes of the office. i think i got up to ep. 7 when i fell asleep. i woke up around 2:30 and started packing. vic left first at 4 and i went to pick up anthony for our ride back at 5. we arrived in pacifica by 6:30ish and after i dropped off anthony, i went over to kyle's because apparently he got back the same time i pulled away from anthony's house. good timing! after saying hello to his parentals, i stole him away back to my house where we had dinner and watched star trek♥ mmm spock.

thanksgiving: i woke up really late, like around 2 or 3 pm and slowly got ready to go over to my uncle's for dinner. we had so much food: honey ham, turkey, chow mein, sticky rice, chopped salad, garlic fried veggies, garlic bread, most tender abalone, abalone soup, pumpkin pie. i couldnt the sticky rice even though it looked delicious becuase it had shrimp. and the chopped salad had peanuts :( but it was sooo yummy. even though we brought over cheesecake, apple pie, and pumpkin pie, only two slices of the apple pie were eaten. the rest wasnt touched. afterwards, kyle came over from his dinner party and i believe we just watched tv. ray came over with cotton to pick up tes for black friday shopping at 2. COTTON!! :) sooo cute

black friday: i chose to catch up on precious sleep in my warm, warm bed than to go shopping in hordes of people. :) i woke up pretty early though, 11 am. after i took a shower, i drove over to kyle's and i dont think we did anything but watch tv and surf the internet. it was very comfy. kyle's parents came over for a very impromtu dinner. we had, i guess, a 2nd thanksgiving which helped us finish a lot of the leftovers.

anniversary saturday: for our 3 year anniversary, we went to japantown and had lunch at the noodle house. the dishes were huge! afterwards, we shopped around. kyles not a very good companion :( he makes it well known that hes officially bored and tired and upset, even though he tries to hide it. the hiding place is of course, his face. he pouts, remains absolutely quiet, and stares off into the distance, longing for freedom. it makes me feel hella guilty for dragging his butt down to the city for our anniversary. i got really annoyed. i like to look at shops. theres no amusement park in the city, what else is there to do but shop and eat? kyle tries to surprise me by suggesting we go ice skating after we drove to downtown and parked. but i was really tired and quite annoyed because we left jtown so early so i said no. hmph. things got better when we looked for ornaments at macy's. we went to the burger bar and got seated the instant we got there because they only had seatings for 2 people. apparently, if we had a bigger party, we had to wait for at least 2 hour. lucky!! the burgers were so delicious and expensive. and because it was a bar, everyone had drinks. it only reminded me that we were almost 21 and legal and that we were now the same age group as everyone in the restaurant. we went back home at 9 and watched star trek with kyles parents. again :) spock♥. we also watched SNL which btw, has completely and utterly repulsed me from ever watching SNL again. it was terrible.

sunday: i woke up when kyle called me, i think around 1pm. he came over and then we dropped off chris at his friend's house and went to frontierland to go on the swings. then we had snacks at my house and he left to go back to davis. i washed the cars and then ate a 3rd thanksgiving dinner with only my family this time. mom cooked a really juicy and tasty turkey. i loaded up my car and then headed down to sc around 6. 11 miles outside of sc, i was going up a hill and all of a sudden, i noticed that my car didnt respond to the gas pedal and started to shake. when we went over the hill, the engine light started to flash and beep and omg, i was sooooooo scared! i pulled off to the side of the road, shut down everything because i thought the engine had overheated (but i was using the heater so that shouldnt be the case) and called dad. i checked the engine, it felt fine and wasnt hot at all. then i started up the car and i was soooo happy that it started!!! i started to drive really slowly, barely going 30 mph, then to 40 mph, but when i tried to go past 50, the car started to shake. when i reached sc, i was so relieved. i went to the gas station but first had to stop at the stoplight. when it turned green, i tried to turn but the car did not respond to any pushing of the gas pedal...i was so freaked out becuase i was turning with incoming traffic and my car was rolling so slowly at 5 mph!!! >< luckily, it was able to roll into the gas station. i bought some gas and checked the dashboard again. i hoped that the engine would turn on so i could go home (about a block away) and luckily it did and i was able to reach my complex and pull into my garage. I WAS SO LUCKY >< i thought i wouldnt make it to sc and be stuck on highway 1 at night.

the conclusion to the car ordeal? everything was in working order before i left the house. i checked the coolant (it was perfect), the rubber thingy, the windshield fluids, etc. and i believe dad checked my tires and the engine oil. wallace after test driving the car when i got back, narrowed it down to the engine oil. mom thought so too. apparently, dad, though he did check the engine oil, he noticed it was pretty LOW. he was going to pour more engine oil that day, but he FORGOT. im hoping that its only the low engine oil that made the red car shake and stop responding to the gas pedal because its just an easy fix. but im taking no chances. im taking public transportation or vics car for this week and next week. ill prolly go home for winter break on saturday or sunday of the 12th/13th or maybe a little bit later but i will leave in the MORNING. i dont want to be stuck on highway 1 at night. no way!

pictures from japantown

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