The World According to Amy

I don’t think you noticed me falling in love with you. But I thought I’d ask, just in case.

via Missed Connections NY

photo from shisomama on flickr

I feel like I've been deprived! I tried fan tuan for the first time today and it's the ultra yum. I tried this bun with pork sung from Sheng Kee with Ben once and didn't like it, but in fan tuan it's so so so tasty! The combination of crispy you tiao (chinese donut) with sticky rice and pork sung is so amazing! It's kind of like the first time I had a Sam's Special from Sushi Sam's-- shrimp tempura temaki -- except better because it has sticky rice! I can't wait til tomorrow morning when I get to eat the fan tuan my brother gave me. :)

I'm trying to decide whether I want to give some of my girlfriends a knitted hat or knitted slippers for Christmas. Initially I was going to give them all knitted berets, but I can't imagine all of them wearing berets. Another idea is mittens-- but we either live in the Bay Area or southern CA and I doubt mittens would get much use; it doesn't get THAT cold! Which would you want to have?

I've been on a sort of knitting frenzy for the past month or so.

By the end of the year, I'd like to complete:
- a wearable hat
- wrist warmers
- a project with cables
- a scarf made with lace weight yarn 

My grandma came home from Costco with Halloween candy over a month ago. She bought a giant bag of an assortment of chocolates. I've surprised even myself by this, but I've resisted raiding the Halloween candy until a few days ago, when I just NEEDED chocolate! I had a bag of Peanut M&Ms (which only had 8 M&Ms!!) and a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.

Today we went to Target because I needed new dish washing gloves, and my grandma wanted to get Hershey's Kisses to send to Japan. I told her she should just buy them at Costco, but she says the Costco sized bags are too big. She ended up spending like $50 on Kisses! Anyway, while I was following behind my grandma with the shopping cart, I passed by Bat Blood Orange Flavored Dots. I actually got them with Al in mind (Hi Al!) but then when we got into the car, I was really hungry and had to try them. I like them a lot better than regular Dots so the next time I go back to Target, I'm gonna buy a couple more boxes (even though I'm supposed to be on a diet).

After seeing the contents of RE:Ignite!!! and XGF's sacs, I've been inspired to post my own. Plus, I sort of feel weird that I read Vox blogs while I do most of my blog posting over at http://amietron.com/ (using LJ)! I'm going to try to make a better effort to post more things here, or at least try to cross-post so I'm not such a creepy stranger.

little black lesportsac

I keep the lip gloss (MAC Dazzlepuss) and mirror in a zippered side pocket in my purse. My ex-boyfriend's mom gave me the mirror a long, long time ago.

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- 2 EpiPens

I've been getting lots of random hits on my LJ and I have no idea where they're coming from. Some people are entering through tags but I don't even know where they would find the link unless they clicked on one from the main page. All of my mopey posts about this guy are under the tag cynic, so lots of people have been entering from here. I've been trying to figure out who these people are to no avail. I know someone from Bellflower, CA has been consistently following the posts in the last few days but I don't know anyone from Bellflower. I know the guy wouldn't spread around my journal link, so I can't even trace it back to him.

I always thought that I'd be one of those people who would work a miserable job with long hours for $$$, but looking back at my job history, I totally wouldn't. Anytime I really dislike a job, I quit. I need to like my work or at least the people I work with. This doesn't make any sense to anyone else, but I'd rather not work and not have any money than work a job that I don't enjoy. "Amy, wouldn't you rather make $9 an hour and have some money than none at all?" No.

I received an e-mail from someone looking for a babysitter for the next two weeks before their son has summer camp, and if offered, I'm going to accept the job. It's time I started working again and since it's only for two weeks, that'll give me some sort of income while I'm sorting out the nanny thing. Maybe that's my birthday present from the job gods.

Last night I ate so much chocolate Moose Tracks ice cream that I felt really ill afterward. Safeway is having the buy 1 get 1 free deal on all Safeway ice cream for $5.99, so I bought chocolate Moose Tracks and Cookies n Cream. I couldn't decide between the original Moose Tracks or chocolate, but ended up with chocolate because Cookies n Cream is vanilla based.

interview schedule:
- dot-com company, Wednesday at 4 PM in San Carlos
- Saturday or Sunday at 4 PM in Hillsborough

In other news, I just got an e-mail from the family in Hillsborough (I'd really like to work with them) who I thought wasn't going to respond to me once they got my resume. They want to know what my schedule will be like in the fall. I'd really like to tell them that I just want a job and I'll make my school schedule work around theirs.

I also just got my 11th Craigslist response from a Japanese woman in Foster City with an 21-month-old daughter and 6-week newborn baby girl. It's only 6 hours per week on Wednesdays from 10-1 or 4-7 and Fridays from 4-7. Only 6 hours per week??? The only way this would work is if The Four Seasons guy hires me for 10-15 hours, which will bring me to almost 20 hours per week.

I'm off to my second interview of the day. I hope it goes well.