Restaurant: E-Tao

By now, most people have either already been to E-Tao or have at least heard of it. Since the longwins and the doos have a tradition of having dinner together for each other's bdays, i picked e-tao for my bday dinner. Back then, it was one of the new places offering up soup dumplings. They're actually not that bad here. Since it is located in the galleria mall, expect to pay higher prices for the food. Overall, the food is really pretty decent and there are some items pretty spot on chinese food wise but for the price, i would make the drive out to chinatown for cheaper and ever better food.

Musik Mundi: Lily Kershaw

Lily Kershaw
Album: Lily Kershaw (2012)
Song: As It Seems

I think this was the song that was featured on the season finale of criminal minds and i was like oooh i like. I'm not kidding when i say i'm obsessed!

- I came to work dressed like a slob forgetting that i had a yelp event to go to this evening and i basically have no time to go home and change. Great.

- I ate too much for lunch today. So. FULL. So. BAD.

- Pinot's palette for chacco's big three-oh. Very cool and fun. Downed three glasses of wine.

- Houston bouncers are such pain in the butts. I hate them.

- I have come to accept and give crazy laugh when i have CT. You know. Camel Toe. Haha.

- My phrase of the month has been 'i'm so out of it!'. Example: Leaving my tennies on top of the car

- Swam another 1500m straight! But i'm so slooow. People doing breastroke are going faster than me. Haha.

- Signed up for a running training program with in flight running called no boundaries. Hopefully this will help me become a better runner. So scared!

- Had to cancel on a chance to watch Ian Woodall speak about the Tao of Everest. Things are just too darn busy at the office. There's just no time for anything these days.

- Just realized that i could have gone to see george clooney speak at the wortham. Thought tickets were more than $1000 but turned out that was for the dinner. I'm seriously so out of it. UGH!



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Musik Mundi: Joy Williams

Joy WIlliams
Album: Songs From That (2009)
Song: Speaking A Dead Language

I think it's funny how the songs i listen to are all over the place tempo wise. I mix my dance songs with ballads with coffee house. And that's i how i listen to them in the car and at my desk. It completely goes against the need i have for wanting to organize and categorize most things. I kinda represents how i function on a daily basis. Just all over the place. I'm a chaotically organized person?

- Work is not fun right now. I feel like i'm back in school. I'm reading through an endless amount of literature right now. Will i be tested on this material? Quite possibly cos i need to know what i'm talking about at work. Ugh.

- Watched act of valor. So GOOD! I almost wanted to be a navy seal for a moment there. Roselyn Sanchez's rescue mission was pretty awesome. This is the kind of stuff they should be showing to future recruits. Can't say enough about being thankful that there are people out there with the courage and willingness to sacrifice their life for our freedom. We really have no right to complain about anything. It's so humbling. I will learn from this. Real navy seals were supposedly used for these roles. You can tell during non-combat dialogue. Not so good. But they're not real actors so it's okay. Jessica Alba is supposedly an 'actress' and she's so far from it. Good looks can get you far in this world.

- Massages: undies or no undies? I'm prolly 50/50. Depends on my mood. Depends on the place. I decided to go undie-less last week and of course i end up getting a MALE masseur. Lucky him! Haha.

- Antsymama picked me up for lunch and we FEASTED over at thien an. Ate. Too. Much. Gau said the banh xeo here was the best. I do not agree. My fave is a tie b/t thuan kieu or jacques homemade banh xeo. I've been craving thuan kieu really bad.

- Bethany Ever After: Must watch this week. She goes snowboarding in aspen and she looks pretty darn good!

- Criminal Minds: I'm so obsessed with this show and the re-runs on ion television: 'positively entertaining'. Get it? GET IT?!? ION ... Positively. Season finale this week and it could be emily prentiss' last episode!

- I have approx/more than $800 worth of stuff in my gap, inc shopping cart that is filled with gap, piperlime and athleta items. So bad. I just keep watching and waiting that things will go on sale before they sell out. And then i calculate my savings with coupon codes. So baaaaad. So hard to resist. Why can't i be big baller!


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