Coffee tolerance building

Whew! What a weekend!

1 comedy show

3 birthdays

1 year-end party

(deep breath)

200 lumpia (right after learning) and

300 dumplings (this one is a guess)
 later...

I am ready to call it a night. 

The hunt for a tiramasu cake ended well (Costco only carries it seasonally), it was her one request. I take this space to thank you Whole Foods. (It seems all JBear's previous coworkers girlfriends all work there now. Is there something I'm missing out on?) My housemate turned 30 with a dumpling party. I hope I can cook, bake, garden, sew and all those other magical gifts she possesses as well as her by my 30th birthday.

 Can you see our remote-controlled Christmas lights in the background? Love it.

Getting lost in Los Altos (on my way to a party, of course) landed me at a closing shoe store and I ended up with some new Tamarac sheerling boots for half off. (My Uggs finally get a break! They've been faithfully working hard these past few years.)

Leaving the party in Los Altos I was once again lost and found a cute product market and after sampling every apple and pear they carried came home with some delicious pears. (But before making it home, helped wrap almost 200 lumpia to feed a Sunday service of 40 hungry people.)

Mushrooms at the market. I am too tired to rotate this image.

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Just purchased tickets for a Warriors game in March. My college friend from Japan is visiting next year and this will be her and her husband's first NBA game. Last time they were here, she mentioned visiting next year quite a few times, and he responded with uncertainty due to work quite a few times. The moment we drove past the Oracle Arena and mentioned basketball, the husband's ears perked up, his eyes grew wide with wonder and he no longer hesitated to agree with his wife that a return trip next year was in order.

Tip: Apparently, the key to getting your friend's spouse to visit is to promise sporting event tickets.

Five minutes after purchasing tickets she sent me an email ending in...


"...We can see our first NBA gammmmmme!!!Yeahhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

Haha. I imagine her on the other side of the world yelling at her computer screen, then calling her husband on the phone and yelling at him. The good kind of yelling.

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Despite feeling terribly overwhelmed on Friday and a few bumps in the road, this is one of those crazy weekends that makes weekends worth the count down. I wouldn't wish it any other way.

There is that small detail that

in 7 hours it's...