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i have partially dedicated my residential status to the area of southern california. i've been here for a few weeks with my sister, minus one day trip to see laura and kim in vegas. kim put $20 down on a roulette table and ended up playing for hours, as i stood and cheered her on like i was her girlfriend, and we befriended a couple from santa cruz and the dealer who was from armenia. kim declared "i don't even know how this works" and he handed her a printout with the odds and the payouts. she asked if he ever came to gamble when he's not working and he replied "sweetie, do you come to work on your days off?"
bonny is finishing her quarter in school so while she's been out her friends, which i guess are technically fully and officially my friends now have been entertaining me, and i've also been entertaining myself with the dvd player and a little thing called hulu.com.
this weekend we were lucky enough to catch bonny's best friend jarelyn in san diego. she currently lives in baja mexico working for an orphanage, but she spent the week in the usa helping her very pregnant friend. we drove down on friday and had dinner with her and bonny's bf david at filipi's pizza, aka the best pizza in san diego and they ain't lying.
after dinner i took jarelyn home and swung down to point loma to see my friends from ocean city, nate and kate. kate is in school at point loma nazarene university? or college and nate moved to sd two months ago from philadelphia. we piled in the car and headed downtown, and promptly dropped our movie plans in exchange for eating at hooters. lucky for all of us a certain matt rumsey just so happened to be in sd too at the end of his spring break, so he cruised by with his former roommates and we had ourselves a grand old time. afterwards we went home and stayed up until 3am talking about high school and drinking beers. or at least, i was drinking beers.
the next day kate and i went to the store and bought two of everything because she says they get her with the twofer deals, even though i explained that you can buy just one. we made breakfast sandwhiches and then walked around ocean beach. it was so great to see both of them and chat about old times. nate's bro noah was there, too, and it was nice to meet him.
i drove back on saturday afternoon to get my hair cut by tina and then she, layla, a few other friends and i went dancing in laguna beach. i had a great time, but am slightly embarrassed that i tried to tell a marine that he should handwrite a letter to barack obama to end the war on terror.
my mom is landing in orange county on my birthday which is a really nice present, and bons and i are also going to fabio from top chef's restaurant in LA. i reaaaaaally want him to sing happy birthday to me. i'm going to santa monica with friend-since-kindergarten maria mueller for st. patty's day, and there are many more travel plans in the mix. so HAPPY IRISH DAY! if i don't see you, which i probably won't.

besos,