a day with dan over dance practice
this morning, i woke up at 6:30 and it was horrible. i couldn’t go back to sleep for about an hour and a half. one of my nostrils was blocked…. i finally managed to fall asleep.. for only 40 minutes. i woke up and couldn’t sleep anymore and finally rolled out over half an hour later. meh.
i went on the computer for a bit to talk to brendan and dan, and then i logged off to prepare things, eat tortilla chips with salsa and jalapeno hummus, and to do other things. then, i brushed my teeth and changed. i wore my tan sweater and grey circle scarf with my black corduroy jeans. i love this outfit *-*
we headed out the door and while trying to enter dan’s address into the gps, we stumbled upon some problems. i guess since dan’s neighborhood of houses is rather new, the gps couldn’t find it… :| oh no. and we were already out on the road. we kinda got in a back and forth bickering thing. the ones that go like, “no but…!!” “yeah but you have to… we have to…” “i know, but..! no i can… i know..” “no call them to be sure and….”
ack.
i had an image from memory on how to get to dan’s house, i just couldn’t remember the exit name :| the gps would get us nowhere. and then i called and he told me fremont boulevard exit, and later after i called again, dan told me it was south fremont boulevard. i made my dad take 2 exits in which we had to go back on and out into the freeway again. he was kinda scolding/lecturing me about having to know where to go and he wanted to speak to dan’s dad because he doesn’t think “kids” know anything about directions since they don’t drive. it’s funny because i take after him and his good directional skills. and then, we finally got to the right exit!! from there, i knew how to get to dan’s house, surprisingly. i’ve gone there in the daylight (only the exit bridge and beyond) only once.
phew. we finally got there. i was happy to see dan! once i was inside, i pulled out my baking stuff and he found some equipment and ingredients too. we started putting ingredients in to make dough and then we were done c: he thought it looked fun to roll cookie dough but after one attempt, he thought it was too gross, so he let me do the rest. i didn’t mind. yummm dough. YUMM COOKIES!! he let me watch Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. i don’t know how to feel about that movie since it’s so different from the movies i usually see. but i guess it was funny!
after, we went upstairs in his room where i played the digital piano. it wasn’t as glorious as i remembered 6 months ago because i guess i’m used to my old wooden piano’s stiff keys. the keys bounce back too much like keyboard keys but that’s okay. i ALWAYS mess up when i’m playing piano and i know one person (or more) is actually listening to me. i function better as background noise or something.
oh yeah, his mom came home and she seemed so amused with me…..
when it was almost 5, we went out to grab a bite to eat! he was going to introduce me to korean fried chicken, but the place was closed D: his parents drove us to a plaza called The Fremont Hub. they dropped us off and we walked around past many stores, taking into consideration where we should ultimately stop and eat. after some brief sulking by the borders and going into a hallmark store, we decided on this place called the Elephant Bar. it was a restaurant with all sorts of stuff. ack the stuff was a little pricey.. but i guess it’s fremont after all?
we ordered macaroni and cheese for me! i was so excited about it.. until i ate some of it. i have never been so disappointed about mac and cheese ever ‘___’ croutons on mac and cheese is weird. of course, the sushi was good! asian food isn’t easy to mess up/ hard to make yummy. we split everything we ordered.
we ate tomato lemon herb pesto chicken (i think that’s what it’s called, otherwise, i’m just naming everything there was to it) with rice, which was brown rice. i liked that! he ordered shrimp scampi with garlic bread and ate all of the shrimp for me because i don’t like shrimp. that pasta was really good and helped us take our mind away from the disappointing mac and cheese. my phone went off but it was my alarm for dance. how often do i get to go to dance as opposed to how often do i get to hang out with dan?
we were finishing our food and gee, i was getting really full.
we finished up, paid, left 2 2$ bills for the waitor since he told us he likes to collect 2$ bills (and also said he must have a bill and coin(?) fetish or something), and then left. we went into target so he could get some vaseline and i was able to find it soon enough. we left target and wandered into trader joe’s, where we looked at a lot of stuff. i bought him some dark chocolate with caramel and black sea salt because i heard What’s Good At Trader Joe’s giving it really good reviews! even though i told my dad to buy it and we had it at home already, i still hadn’t even tried it yet. so we ate a piece at the same time and it was good. not superb but good. hit or miss on everything we ate that day! besides the cookies.
we went into bed bath and beyond and looked at everything. there were really really tiny forks! we went back to target looking for guava juice. there was none. his parents came to pick us up. back at his house, we watched some indie short films. during those, i kept needing to crack my shoulder, but was unable to.
i caught him off guard and managed to crack my shoulder. it was really loud and he got really scared! he said he thought it was a gunshot or something, and wasn’t kidding. my cracking shoulder sounds like a gun going off.
my dad came to pick me up and then he drove me home.
i’ve had a good day! dan is so cool
