OakMonster’s Den

…is an Oak who is:

• Well fed with ridiculous amount of sushi and moderate amount of sake.
• Just back from a fantastic 3-hour girls night out with 3 fabulous girl friends, talking about life, work, food and cooking in/experiences.
• Knowing a local Japanese food joint that serves Tenzaru.  (Cold soba noodles and shrimp tempura).  Oh and the sushi is awesome here too.
• A proud team captain of her AIDS Walk Long Beach team who just gained a new member.
• Finally getting used to running.  On Tuesday, it was 1.7 miles in 25 minutes, alternating 3-minute brisk walk with 2-minute run.
• Still giddy over her Moo minicards to a point of annoying herself.
• Sitting at the computer happily in her light robe, not the winter (terry) robe and feeling perfectly comfortable.  Poor Brandon.  He must be roasting!
• Thoroughly satisfied after getting all caught up with reading of all on her blogroll.
• Blogging something semi-interesting once again.

This is a night to make for an even happier Oak if…

• She could have had more sake and not worrying too much about driving home.  Damn…should have had Brandon drove.  It was only 2 miles away!
• She could play the piano and sing.  Damn…too late for that.
• She doesn’t have to go to work tomorrow.  Hehehe.  But she does have a great incentive to go to work, other than the fact that she has no time off left: a team lunch at a Shabu Shabu place in Little Tokyo.
• The Demi-Boss doesn’t leave the company.  Oh yes.  She’s leaving at the end of the month…hence the team Shabu Shabu lunch.  *Sniffle*  (I’m very happy for her but in the same breath I must admit I am being selfish for deep down I really want her to stay.   Do you realize that in a span of a few months, I lost my Big Boss and Demi-Boss…not to mention my drinking buddy, the Cool Cat VP!  Holy fuck!  Where *IS* everybody going!?!?!)

What a week I just had, huh?

moocards

Originally uploaded by theoakmonster.

My cool Moo minicards.

Monday was, oddly enough, a dental appointment day. Amy, Eva, and Celeste all were out at one point, going to the dentist/orthodontist.

Come Tuesday morning, Eva recounted her time getting her fractured molar fixed with Amy over the phone.

Eva: [blah, blah, blah] …and I felt a LOT of vibration…

Me: *Snort**Giggle*

Eva: [To me] *Laugh* Oh, shut up, Oakley!
[Back to Amy…blah, blah something about drill, blah, blah]  …but I try not to swallow…

Me: *Giggle**Giggle*

Eva: [blah, blah, something about grinding her teeth in her sleep, blah blah] …yeah, yeah.  And at night, I grind a lot.

Me: *Howling in laughter*

My Moo Minicards arrived, y’all! They’re soooo fucking cute and cool as hell. Although there was a problem.

My phone number is one digit off. User error, totally. I proof-read it wrong.

And THAT is what you get when you order something complicated when you’re tired. Oy!

But they’re so damn cute! Again, thanks Kitty!

Speaking of pictures, please enjoy the Las Vegas moblog, featuring our travel mascot (from this point forward), Tigger (aka Captain TiggARRRR). Click on the picture and it’ll take you to the Flickr album…then you can read the caption.

And I still owe you guys the Las Vegas recap. Then these will make wee little bit more sense.

Hi. I’m here. Back since Sunday. A few moblog pictures are up on Flickr. The rest of the story will follow. Soon.

Must catch up with loads of stuff. Finish the taxes with the tax lady. And catch up on Tivo’ed shows.

I promise to come back and recap the not-so-eventful Vegas weekend soon!

It’s going to be interesting going out to the cold-ass Las Vegas. Brandon is practically healthy again and I’m well on my way. Neither one of us have our full health yet.

And hopefully, we won’t be spreading too much germs to Aunty Doe who will be riding with us.

I have a giant heap of laundry to sort through. Essentially, ALL of our laundry got done during the course of our cold. Brandon did some when he was feeling better and I did some today as a preventive measure for the pink eye thing.

Oh yeah, this pink eye SUCKS.

I feel like Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets with the hand washing for the past few days. Anytime my hand goes anywhere near my eye, I wash. Thank god for Neutrogena Swedish Formula hand cream. Geez.

Yesterday, there was no itching or discomfort. Just really watery eye. Today, my eyelids are tempting me to touch them. And I’m fighting the urge to touch my eyes. Wearing glasses help a little bit though. It’s a reminder not to get my hand near my eye.

Anyway. I digress.

Vegas. Now, Brandon hasn’t been to Vegas in 10+ years. Ditto Aunty Or. I haven’t been in five. The 2 other aunties will be doing some gambling. So our gang will be driving around sightseeing and going to the outlet stores. It should be thoroughly interesting.

The main thing B and I want to swing by is the Star Trek Experience at the Hilton. We can’t afford the total experience ($50+ each…are you fucking kidding me?!?), but we’d like to go in there and look around.

I want to see if we can do a “vow renewal” by a Vulcan. LOL. Well, that’s going to cost a bunch of money too I’m sure.

Oh yeah. We’re sooooo totally geeky.

Now. I must get started with the laundry pile. Or we’ll be in Vegas naked. Which would be awkward with the aunties and all…

That’ll be me.

The cold actually seems to get better. Zycam = magic. But the pink eye is what I’m worried about. WebMD said to stay home for the first few days.

So here I am, home again. Will be washing the towels and pillowcase etc. and doing some work from home while waiting to hear from my ophthalmologist. Brandon brought up a good point about my punctal plugs in my eyes. Do they have to come out because they could possibly harbor the virus? I didn’t even think about that.

Pink eye. Of all things! Who would’ve thought I’d be getting a pink eye at this age! Jeeeez.