The Daily Sabs

I secretly love all those ridiculous “I’m going to tell you about myself” internet memes. First of all, I actually do like learning new things about old friends, sometimes it’s downright surprising. But secondly, and i’m sure you’ve already figured this out by now, I like babbling on and on about myself.

I’ve been putting this one off for a few months or so, but keeping getting tagged. So without further adieu, here are the ABCs of Me.

Oh and ps. consider yourself tagged.

A - Age: 31

B - Bed size: Queen

C - Chore you hate: Cleaning the bathroom

D - Dog's name: Jacquard (he’s made of wood because we can’t have pets in our place)

E - Essential start to your day: Asking Randall, “Who wants to work anyway?”

F - Favorite Color: blue (sorta aqua, sorta azure, not navy)

G - Gold or Silver: definitely silver, but preferably platinum or white gold

H - Height: 5’6” - well almost.

I - Instruments you play: violin, double bass, bass guitar, melodica, and I’ll tinker with the keyboard and guitar but I can’t play those for reals.

J - Job title: OnSugar ...um, czar? bitch? manager? kingpin? whiz? director? I have no idea what it is anymore.

K - Kid(s): no thank you.

L - Living arrangements: rented house with a cute backyard and garage and no up or downstairs neighbors and yet right here in the center of san francisco

M - Mom's name: Chin Li, but you can call her C.C.

N - Nicknames: Sabs, Brina, Sabrinabot, Pocky, Pockyhearts, Pig, P (this is the one my mom has adopted)

O - Overnight hospital stay other than birth: none *knock on wood*

P - Pet Peeve: it depends on the day, but today it’s people who cut their nails in public, especially on the muni

Q - Quote from a movie: “Hey, you guys!” - The Goonies

R - Right or left handed: right

S – Siblings: 2 (samshrew and bao)

T - Time you wake up: 8am

U - Underwear: indeed

V - Vegetable you dislike: Bittermelon, but I’ll eat it anyway

W - Ways you run late: I am terrible at estimating how long things will take.

X - X-rays you've had: just teeth

Y - Yummy food you make: random varieties of cupcakes, my mom’s potstickers, chocolate chip cookies, goatcheese cake

Z - Zoo favorite: zoos make me sad, but I love wombats and pandas and hippos.

Samshrew is now one year closer to the old ladies club and to
celebrate, chris took us to aqua for dinners. I had some delicious
fish and an even more delicious dessert. Dinner was pretty great, but
the service was really spotty. Not bad, but spotty.

Afterwards we headed back to their place for cake, champagne, and a
really long game of settlers. So far Randall is winning, but I think
it could be anyone's game. Especially considering it's been almost two
hours and the champagne is kicking in.

ps. while it seems like i broke my "must post before midnight" rule, that was actually a small glitch, i accidentally sent it to my food site instead. so technically it wasn't a total fail.

I am at the age where my friends have all coupled off and they're
starting to procreate. I personally don't think the offspring part
will end up in my life equation, but I do think I would be a good
auntie. Although maybe not in the eyes of the parents. You see I am
going to spoil the kids and take them to cartoons and feed them lots
of candy and give them back all jacked up and crazy. I am sure this is
going to make me fave aunt, well at least to to kids. I mean can't you
see it here? This is lil' XLB and he and I are gonna be besties someday.

One of my fave things in the world is to nap on the couch,
particularly while Randall watches tv or plays video games. I'm not
sure why, but I think it might be hereditary, morm does it all the
time too.

Whenever I do this, Randall tries to make me go to bed. He doesn't
understand that this is ten times cozier and comforting. Also, I'm not
ready for bed, I just want to nap.

Tonight we sat down to watch a movie (we tivo'd the xfiles movie from
hbo), but the next thing I knew, the credits were rolling. Sure I
missed the film, but this is my idea of a good night.to take a long time for what it is, napping, sleep, no makeup,
manipulated into more beers than I meant, i bought this dress because
it is shiny, I need a friggin haircut, nerd friday

like the rest of the world, i was surprised to hear that michael jackson has passed away. mostly because i thought he'd live forever in a hyperbaric chamber of some sort, or become part robot or something amazing like that. so to hear that he's passed away just seems unreal. i mean after all, he didn't seem like a mere mortal.

and now you may not believe it (although i don't see why not), but the Thriller album is one of my faves and is actually one of my oldest possessions. my grandparents (or parents, or both, i can't remember who), gave it to me for my 5th birthday. and i listened the shit out of that record. my best friend davita and i used to play it non-stop on my dumb 7" (but somehow it fit a 12") child's record player. in fact the vinyl is so worn that certain tracks (mostly billie jean, pyt, and thriller) will barely play, and there are crazy scratches from where we'd listen to one song, and then drag the needle back to the beginning to start it again. i am also pretty sure we had choreographed moves for most of the songs, and i know we did the thriller dance over and over.

needless to say, we were HUGE fans. in fact, we actually watched the Moonwalker movie (even though it makes no sense) more than once -- and that was when we were old enough to know better. i am pretty sure i tried to hide this fact from the world, but here it is now: i have seen moonwalker, repeatedly.

and while the world has definitely lost a huge pop icon -- seriously how many more pop icons of this caliber are there? do you even think we'll see new celebrities of this size? -- i don't know if we'll really feel it. i mean, have any of you listened to anything since then? we'd probably just tear him apart and say that he'll never be as good as he used to be. so maybe it's for the best. let's just hope the guy can finally get some peace.

so mj, i have no idea who will now dance on the floor in the round, but thanks for all those great tunes.

ps. for the record, annie told me that thriller makeup would be in poor taste, but i don't know how to listen to good advice. it's not meant to be.

if you've been following this blog, you may know that i hate washing my hair. i absolutely hate it. it's officially a chore in my mind. but well hey, sometimes you just gotta suck it up and get the job done.

today the gals over at geeksugar were raffling off a fancy herman miller embody chair. they reviewed it a long time ago, and finally needed to clear out the space. we all put our names next to a number, and then a random drawing later, yours truly was the winner! dk told me to wear "those ridiculous glasses" because they matched the back. and well, who am i to not oblige?

also yes, i am pretty sure i am in a muumuu today. maybe lawrence is right, maybe it is time for an intervention.

on our way to this week's installment of the dk & sabs & sometimes randall summer movie series, dk and i got into a conversation about age. mostly we were discussing why some people who are younger seem older, and how it's usually because they dress nicer/more professional.

as we were driving to the kabuki (which is by far my fave theatre in san francisco), i started to tell her about how a lot of my mom's friends assume my sister is the older one. i was only halfway through my story (in which the main point is that she dresses more professionally because hello folks, she is a lawyer), when dk flipped down my visor and told me to look in the fucking mirror (especially at my ridiculous glasses, jean jacket and oh maybe my bright yellow fishing lure/80s looking earrings) and told me i didn't need to finish the sentence. we nearly died laughing, dk could barely breathe and could only say  "your glasses..." also, i am pretty sure she was crying tears of joy.

ps. we saw away we go, and i thought it was wonderfully sweet and great. sure there are some cliches, but overall it was solid and adorable and just totally sweet.

icymi, yesterday was a long day. this morning was only half as long, but it did include moving many more boxes and pieces of furniture. i didn't sleep well last night and was definitely in a bit of a daze today. in fact, although i wished my pops a happy father's day, i completely forgot to take his picture to celebrate (luckily the bonus photo of my pops and i, is one i found on my blackberry from back in december - we look goofy but it's fun).

after we finished hanging pictures, rearranging furniture, and cleaning out a garage, we had a happy father's day lunch. then sadly, we sat in traffic for hours in the hot while the air conditioning in the car was acting crazy. once we dropped samshrew and chris off at their house, randall and i stopped by the market to pick up some food for dinners. i am pretty sure i sleepwalked the whole way.