TC's Bday, PVLL @ the Little League World Series, Shoes and randomness

Man, San Diego is having one major fkg heatwave! It was so hot yesterday and today. I even wore a damn skirt to work and I normally don't like showing my legs! Anyhow, today was also TC's bday. Our "baby" is now 9 years old. She is at the age where she doesn't even want to wear dresses anymore. She's almost a "tween", or does 9 count as a "tween"? She's into biking, skating, and was recently elected class rep at school and made the "Peace Patrol" (kids that mediate between arguing kids during recess/lunch). OMG, she's growing up. I'm going to have that "talk" with her soon too. Thank goodness she's not into that Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana crap!!! Yes, I taught her well. And no princess shit either! She's an Avatar girl all the way!

So, we had family over tonight for her bday plus dinner. We had the usual suspects - Lumpia and Pancit (the noodles are for long life, says my mom) plus vegetable stir fry and baked chicken. I thought my mom was going to make her fried chicken wings, so we didn't order any from the Chinese place (Mandarin). Instead, my mom brought baked chicken because she said it was too hot to fry anything. Not to be an ingrate, but I know I'm going to end up sounding like one for even mentioning it - but I was looking forward to having fried chicken wings. Disappointed I was, but I can't complain. My mom made us food for the partay. My friend who used to work for Kona Kakes made TC's cake - strawberry/banana. What made her bday pretty fun was also watching the Little League World Series!

Can you say Hell Yeah for Parkview Little League (also known as "WEST")???? They won tonight against Georgia and they are going to the Finals against Texas (whom they lost against a few days ago). These kids are from our city, Chula Vista. Most of the kids go to the local schools in the district where I work. My nephew (7th grader) knows most of these kids from Little League, has played with or against them, and has them in a few classes at middle school. Chula Vista has Little League fever! Everyone was cheering and clapping at every run made as well as the home runs!

On a totally different note, check out these shoes I got on sale last week at Macy's! Aren't they fkg cool? They were on clearance and I used my $15 off coupon. These lavender platforms are about 4" high (TC measured them!) - I love the two tone look; there's a darker shade of purple on the toe part of the platform. These shoes came about to around $30.
Here's the other side of the shoe...
I also bought this sexy pair, also on Clearance and with the $15 off coupon...The heels are 4 1/2" high - These are the highest pair of shoes I've ever bought. Are they too hoochy? Ha ha. Best of all, with these fkrs on, I am almost 5' 10"!
Ugh, the buckle strap isn't intertwined here. I normally don't wear this style, but I couldn't resist a good sale! Plus, these look really great with my dark denim shorts (no, not Daisy Dukes, but respectable above knee length a la Michelle Obama) and my super long jeans.

Okay, if you are Filipino, then you will know why I think "Kiki Sushi" is fkg funny...This was in Hillcrest on University...Looks like the same colors as the "Kinko's Copy" sign, but it's so not Kinko's. One of the slang terms for pussy is "kiki" in Tagalog. Well, there's also "pec pec","keke" (pronounced "keh keh", and pookie" (also pronounced as "pookeh"). "Kiki" might be someone's name or nickname in English, but it means the VADGE (aka - vajay, snatch, muffin, hairpie [that's a "Revenge of the Nerds" reference for you pop culture mavens], pooks, whatever you want to call it) in Tagalog!

Think about how ironic this sign is.

By the way, I have some Mexican friends who tell me that "Kiki" is also the nickname for the boy's name "Enrique" (can also be "Kique", sounds like Kikeh) or the girl's name "Cristina".
In other news, there's going to be a new Hawaiian food joint, "Tastea Grill" in the Otay Ranch area. It's going to be where the old Eduard's bakery was. Too bad they didn't last - they were the closest thing to a really nice bakery (besides Hans and Harry in Bonita) in the east Chula Vista area. This is on East Palomar St. across from Heritage park. The spelling of "Tastea" bugs me. I'm sure it's a play on words since they're going to serve those round and chewy snot ball things called boba. While walking around Heritage park, Bert and I saw this masterpiece of a car...Folks, give it up for the Gremlin , which was made by AMC back in the 70's. Almost as "interesting" looking and as shitty as the Pacer, this car is pretty hard to find on the streets or on the road nowadays. It was equivalent to finding a unicorn in a forest, or the devil in heaven, or me at a Kenny G concert.
Currently reading:
The Vampire Diaries. I kind of want to see what the big deal is since the CW is making this a tv series...So far, I've read the first 4. I'm now on the 5th book...They are kind of lame if you ask me.


Currently listening to:
Podcasts from Living True Blood in Dallas


Currently watching:
The Little League World Series (only Parkview aka West)


Currently craving:
Nem Khao from Asia Cafe