my xmas day story and presents

A picture my cousin sent me. She got married in August in the Bahamas!! I think she looks beautiful :) Ahh.. first it was Petty and now Vicky!! Hehehehe.. I feel bad for the groom, his pants are all sandy!

:) HAPPY FEW DAYs AFTER XMAS!! I hope you were all happy and filled with joy! 

Alrightyyyy, sadly, I did NOT bring my digi cam with me to any of my xmas family get togethers, so to those who need visuals to keep concentrated on this entry.. sorry!! I have pics of my presents at the end though. 

LET'S GET ON WID ITTTTTTT!! 

umm.. I have a confession to make.. I'm guilty of taking peeks and tossing my presents around every year. Think of a cat playing with their favorite toy. I did a pretty good job this year refraining from opening any early.. but on xmas eve, my little sister hops into the kitchen while I'm eating lunch and says something or another about the gifts. Jokingly, I asked her if she wanted to open the I gave her early and she said yes (... and zoomed away to the presents before I could finish talking). She LOOOOOOOOOVED the booties!! I think my little sister is on a boot high this season as well. She now owns a grey colored classic tall Uggs, a sand colored classic tall Uggs, those Steve Madden boots I posted back in Grey Suede, the same Steve Madden flat slouch Bonanza grey boots that I have (... COPY CAT!!), plus she just put in another order for black boots, straight calved leather ones. Anyways, she made me open her presents as well! She got me sleep PJs from Victoria's Secret.. which surprise surprise.. say UCLA on them. She said the little bears and dogs on the shirt made her want to buy them! I opened the second box and she got me a shirt with a peace sign on it plus a necklace from me and Christian's favorite jap store down at the Lab in costa mesa.

No.. I didn't stop there. I opened the present from my mom too and she got me a dress from Guess! -.- I think she meant to leave the gift receipt in there but accidently left the real one. 

Anyways, on the day of xmas, it rained!! :( YIKES! It's ok, I woke up to the sound of my dad laughing his ass off, and I'm like... wth? Turns out he opened the gift I had given him before I woke up and couldn't believe I got him the family guy pj bottoms! :) HEHEHEHE HE LOVES IT! Mom loved her pjs too!! She admitted she was getting cold sleeping in her usual silk ones! 

So after the whole opening gifts and such, my dad took my mom to go get her hair cut and done (wtf.. on xmas? I know!!) Anyways.. me and my sister get ready and off we go to meet up with the rest of my family for dim sum. We only had 11 people this time because Mimi and David couldn't come and we didn't invite extended family.. that's saved for Chinese New year.. which is scary. -.- My spawning family takes up 2 round tables usually. 

We ate, we laughed, woohoo! :) I don't have a pic but I was wearing a grey knit pancho, dark wash jeans, black uggs, and my white knit slouch beanie. 

Afterwards, we all split up, so me, jessica, eddy, diana went to get lollicup. Eddy ordered an uncommon drink and it almost looked like there was tofu in it (it's actually pudding).. so when Jessica pointed it out, he said he and his friends refer to it as ..... well I'd rather not say. Floating globs of white.. men.. perves.. you get the idea of what he was saying I suppose. 

Me and Jess (my little sister) drove back to YL, but dropped by my old babysitter's house to deliver her present! I mentioned this in my presents blog!! :) She loooooooved it!! Then we went back home and I proceeded to waste time and shower. Ok, here's a fact about me. I'm very anal about smell. If I just ate from a restaurant.. I won't go back into the car without cracking a window. Chips and water are allowed in my car, but not take-out and other hot foods because I can't stand my car smelling like food. Same goes for a small room. If I eat in a small room, I have to open the door or a window. I can't explain it.. I just feel so.. *shudders*.. yea this sounds strange but my cousin thinks it might be a form of OCD. I can't control it, therefore I freak out. Anyways I shower because I don't feel right if I don't, go figure, then I went out to deliver the xmas presents to my bf's fam bam! UGGGHHHH!! It started raining again right when I stepped out of my house and to top it off, I chose to go on the 91 freeway towards riverside at 4 PM on Xmas. Smaaaaaaaaaaaart. I hate traffic. I hate it almost as much as I hate the 60 East. I dropped off the presents for my bf's fam bam, then went back home to freshen up for to go to my uncle's new mansion for his BBQ turned indoor BBQ party. 

Ok, let me introduce my uncle Steve. You're probably thinking.. mansion? Don't you mean big house? Nope, he actually purchased quite a few acres up in the mountain area and had 2 mansions built from scratch, one next to the other but obviously with a big gap in between. He rented out the smaller one to some rich family who's obviously paying him more than they should. Ok, so now you're probably wondering what does he do? He owns a printing company. If you go to asian supermarkets, such as 99 Ranch Market, you'll occasionally pick up bags of whatever from the freezers or whatever right? He prints what's on those bags. A majority of the stuff you find in 99 ranch market were printed by his company. Anyways, back to describing his house. I liked the older one better, it had a more homey feel to it. This.. I guess because it's so new that it's kind of uncomfortable.. but it's nice. He has LOTS of windows because he's not a very private person and he loves natural lighting, it has 3 stories, plus an attic. He has a wooden elevator built into the house, purely for the purposes that when he and his wife get older and get too week to walk up all the stairs, they can use the elevator. Bailey (a pug) has FULL REIGN of the house. Nothing is off limits! 25 pounds and only a few months old... it's HUGE! I like the kitchen, it's my dream kitchen. Everything a real chef would want because my aunt LOVES to cook, so he gave her a dream domain. While uncle can be humble.. he likes to enjoy things a little too much.. so he had 3 sets of built in island bbqs in the backyard, which slopes down into the mountain terrain.  Katie loves the the garage. Not only does it fit 8 cars, the driveway fits exactly 15 cars. How do I know this? That xmas party was an invitation to family plus country club friends so I counted. 

I know I called this a bbq party but in reality, it was family time for food.... and.....

.......

MAH JONG.

Oh please, just shoot me now. I was bored to TEARS just chilling with cousins and old family friends' teens. 

Anyways, I know, you guys can't stand all these words and typing. I like reading ppl's stories but I know some only come for the pictures. I don't have many!

Guess watch from friends!!

lol.. the money I received, sorry no pics of the crisp bills! Coin purse that hid one of the money envelopes!! =P Tricky tricky. I like the hello kitto and the koi ones. They were the fattest :)

Guess dress/sweater my mom bought me!

My eyes for the BBQ day, excuse the hair, it wasn't done, hence the cropping. Couldn't do any holiday type of look because I'm with dad, which means less make up or else he gets mad. HMPH. obviously my neutral look but a little darker in the crease.. although you can't see it in the pic. 

Pre-paid credit card gift card from Uncle Steve!

Peace sign with LOVE necklace from my Sister

Peace shirt from my sister

UCLA Victoria's Secret pj set from my sister

Too Faced Eyeshadow Insurance primer from BF

100 mL of Daisy by Marc Jacobs from BF

:) I loved the stuff I got this year! OH SPEAKING OF STUFF!!  

I got my Mushroom BB cream the day before Xmas! Bought from Phyllis at Makeupforlife! I'll review soon.

My Cherry Culture haul came in REALLLLLY fast! I ordered it and it arrived in 4 days I think!

Complimentary lipgloss from them, NYX Single eyeshadow in Black Sparkle, Kleancolor trio in Brown Sugar, (x3) L.A. colors liquid liners (review soon).  

That Cherry culture small haul only cost me like.. 10 bucks total.. because I used the 20% off discount. Hmm.. not thrilled with any of them. Love the BB cream though! 

I have something to say about Mac Black Tied eyeshadow.. but I'll save it for next time when I have it near me. 

:D BTW.. I'm straying away from Mandom and trying something else out as of 2 days ago. So far so good, I'll give it a few more days before I review it along with my new night cream!

Katie

ps- WHO'S EXCITED FOR NEW YEARSSSSSSSS!! Keep it safe! Nobody wants to start off a new year with a ticket!