Brief from 11/26/08

Brief from 11/26/08... Rainy days just make me want to stay in bed all day. Went to Target with Jerry and Ma. Later, Ma made cuernitos. Yum! Went to Wal-Mart and bank with Arron, errands. Picked up lunch. Ate late lunch. Watched Little Miss Sunshine with Ma during which I made a pumpkin pie. Then played Singstar with Ma. We watched the last half of Rosie Live. I liked it. Then Deal or No Deal. We really got into it. Then went to 99 cent store, Wal-Mart, McDonald's, gas station with Ma and Aaron. Night movie, watched the Devil Wears Prada.

Brief from 11/25/08

Brief from 11/25/08... Woke up late again. Made coffee. Loaded some music to the now charged mp3 player. Went to a late lunch at Macayo's on central. Then went to Fry's to grocery shop for Thanksgiving meal. Watched The Wedding Date movie. Downloaded some songs in Spanish for Singstar. I stayed up playing Singstar.

Brief from 11/24/08

Brief from 11/24/08... Woke up late. Made coffee, had coffee as I reviewed bills. For lunch, went to eat at a Chinese place with Ma, Jerry and Aaron, who had worked late so dropped them off, then went to Circuit City with Ma. Later, went to Target Greatland. Stayed up late charging an mp3 player.

Brief from 11/23/08

Brief from 11/23/08... Coffee and pastry at Starbucks located in the AZ Center. Ma to church at the St. Mary's Basilica and me to the plaza. Discover India Festival. Many neat vendors of food, arts, crafts, etc. Made quiche, because Amy's photos/blog made me want to try it. Ate quiche. Later, late night tv.

Brief from 11/22/08

Brief from 11/22/08... breakfast with my cousin an mom at Comedor Guadalajara... Shopping with ma at Phoenix Public Market, Mervyn's. Reviewed purchases and watched some tv, then went to lunch/dinner at Pan Asia. Later went to Fresh and Easy to get gelato. More shopping this time at Target. Then freshly popped popcorn as me, my mom and Aaron watched a movie(She Devil).

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I have been keeping just small "briefs" to post this week. I wanted to post them within the day but Just didn't get time to post them..

So my mom is here... :)

My mom, I've always called her Ma, is here :) It's always so much fun when she is here. We go shopping, eating out, festivals, etc. Last time she was here was the end of March. :) Now to get here it's about a 2 1/2 hour drive to San Antonio, TX, to catch the plane that takes another 2 1/2 hours to get here :) She got here yesterday afternoon. Went to dinner. Then watched a movie, popcorn on the side. Then a nightcap towards the end of the movie, Bailey's on ice... Anyways we are just about out the door... The photo is from 2005 when we went to San Antonio, we're waiting for the river walk tour.

Sushi Chinese Fusion!

There's a new restaurant that just opened called Pan Asia, located on 24th st and Baseline(this is in Phoenix, AZ). It's a sushi and Chinese fusion place. Aaron and I went during their quiet opening several weeks ago. The decor is nice maybe even fancy. The service was a bit lackluster as it was clear they were still trying to figure out their pace, however the food. Oh my goodness the food is just fab!!! They were still waiting on a liquor license.

Was there again this past Wednesday. The service is much improved. Didn't order any alcoholic drinks, so don't know if they got their liquor license yet. The food is presented so nicely, just typing this makes me want to go. This is a perfect place for a date night or if you want sushi and someone in your party doesn't want or like sushi, there are great chinese dishes. The first time we went I ordered a chicken tempura with plum sauce. Who would have thought those two things would go good together. It was out of this world.

These pics are of the shrimp tempura roll ordered this past Wednesday.

Evil Pumpking!!

I tried to go back to find the witch mask for Halloween, but it was not there anymore, so I looked around and found an evil pumpkin mask. So I chose that one... Was able to leave early to give out some candy... There were not many trick or treaters in my area though, so all the left over candy went into the candy bowl at work.

Quick recap of October 2008... and September...

This October there were just so many things... and I wanted to blog about them as they happened... I did try keeping up the first part of the month, but then there were a few weekends in a row where I had things to do on both Sat and Sun that it didn't happen. Either way, I think that I like blogging about things once they have happened more than about when they are coming up... Seems like when I talk/blog about things before they occur the majority of the time they end up not happening or the initial plan changes... Anyway here is a quick(maybe not so quick) re-cap of October... and a bit of September...

So really where to start.. So I did blog about the Sept. 3rd WNBA MERCURY vs Lynx game, and during the same post I talked a bit about the Hispanic Heritage Month event on Sept 17th, that I helped put together for work, as well as a brief get together on Sept 20th at Pedro's house, that was nice, but one can only take so much karaoke in one night...

I missed talking about Sept 5th... I made brownies and banana bread for a school event. I placed generous portions on a foam plate and individually put them inside plastic baggies tied with a red raffia bow. I thought they came out really nice. I also donated some hot dogs and hamburgers for the event. There were various booths at the event, although it was a bit dusty... Note for next time, make signs with info on what is being sold and at what price.

Sept 21st was the HAPA concert at the Orpheum Theater...

Sept 25th I did a presentation at work on my Target House Trip...

Sept 27th was a day trip from Phoenix to northern AZ and then back down to Phoenix.


Then October...


October 1st went Halloween shopping, didn't buy anything, just browsed to see what kinds of halloweeny stuff was out this year... I'll have more on Halloween in ab it...

October 4th went to a Muslim Festival in Tempe... tehre were booths with crafts, food, travel booklets, there was also a museum like information that was put together of the history of Muslims in AZ, and a stage. Browsed for a bit then went to the Rainbows Festival. At this one there were tons of booths with crafts, food, travel info, other events info, etc. It was packed.

October 5th I participated in the City of Hope breast cancer walk. This walk went through the Phoenix Zoo. This is the second year I have participated. Last year I was focused on walking and finishing as fast as possible. This year I took time in order to take more photos of the event and the zoo animals, specially the zoo animals :)

October 12th was the Tempe Tardeada... On my previous post I just put t link to their site and a brief that the event celebrates Tempe's Hispanic culture and community history. So when I got there, I browsed through their craft and informational booths, food booths, and their stage. There was a mariachi, I think from Tucson, playing when I got to the stage area. I drank a Coca-Cola made in Mexico. It's sweeter than the US made Coke. It brought me back to the weekends I would be at my grandmother's house. I want one just thinking of it...

October 17th... Not really an event that I went to, but this day is when I voted early... Just thought it needed at least a line about it... I took a photo of my ballot before I voted and after I voted.

October 18th.., This day was packed full of events and wish I could have done all. There were three really that I wanted to go to, but only got to do two of them. First, the one I was not able to go to was Tucson Pride. I would have needed to wake up super early to drive to Tucson and then would have only been able to be there a couple hours before I would need to head back. Maybe next year. So the events I did go to... During the day I went to the Roosevelt Row Harvest Festival. It was great to see many different types of art and artists. I wanted to take photos of everything but I didn't as I thought maybe the artists may not want photos of thier artwork out there. So I took just a few photos of the event, but I did take one photo of one piece of art though, a dress wheret he bottom portion was made out of cut up plastic bags. Later that day, I participated in the Light the Night Walk @ the Tempe Town Lake. Seems that there were less vendors than last year.

October 19th began the Childsplay's 2008-09 Spectacular Season of Theatre for Young Audiences and Families @ the Tempe Center for the Arts. I helped to put stickers on the book The Velveteen Rabbit which is one of the upcoming shows. This night they previewed the play called Getting Near to Baby, based on the book by Audrey Couloumbis. I got to stay and watch the play.

Octber 25th I helped at the St. Mary's Food Bank. It was my first time helping at a food bank. I got to help in the sorting of food donated my various different stores. They have to be sorted and weighed one store at a time, reason being each particular store wants to know how much they donated. So from noon to 3pm I helped out in tossing the donated food that was unusable. I am so glad I got to participate and help out, however it is amazing how much food goes to waste.

October 26th I helped put together walker packs for the JDRF walk that took place on Nov 1st. I got there a bit early, but I was able to start putting together the packs. It was to take us about 5 hours to put together the packs, but we were able to do it in 2 hours. I wasn't able to go to the walk itself.

October 31st... Was able to get off work about an hour early to come home and give out candy and frights.

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Hope you all have a happy start to the Holidays!