tj

it was t's 35th birthday last week and she wanted to go to tj on saturday in celebration. she didn't have a particular destination or activity in mind, she just wanted to visit. friday night, after getting back to my parents house, i realized my passport wasn't there tho i had already checked my apartment before leaving where i thought i would have left it. i texted t to let her know that there was a possibility i couldn't join them saturday. i drove back to lg and did end up finding my passport so i spent the night and rushed back to la palma by 8:30am saturday, when she said they would be coming to pick me up. e had overslept to about 8am, then texted t later to let her know that he had forgotten his passport back at his place. we ended up not leaving my parents' until almost 10am. btw, he didn't apologize for being late.

e's family is from tj so he knows the city well, which is great, because we had nothing planned. we went to a nice restaurant for lunch, and after, we went to a supermarket then costco, per t's request. following that, we went to avenida revolucion where all the touristy clubs are where we had a drink and a snack. then we went to pick up tacos, waited like 2 hours to get back over the border, and came home. clearly, i'm glossing over a lot of the details, but that was the gist of it. basically, we went to... america, and not even a good or particularly interesting section of it. t seemed happy with it tho. she wanted to visit the grocery store and costco. the lunch restaurant was nice but certainly nothing special. we were too full to eat actual dinner so we got the tacos to go and had churros in the car in the border line. i felt like i'd wasted my day.

and i was consistently annoyed throughout. we left way later than planned so we didn't get to go to rosarito beach but we stayed in tj. tho thankfully e made good time and, again, he knows tj well and has internet over there so we navigated easily and pretty efficiently. but, honestly, his company leaves something to be desired.

he's racist. but i guess both he and t think it's cute and endearing? at every opportunity he makes lame racist jokes. these aren't even good racist jokes. they're incredibly simplistic, stuff a 6 year old would say. i think every time we see each other he asks if i've dog meat. he tells t to open her eyes bigger. he calls her panda and chun li and thinks it's hilarious when street vendors say ni hao ma at us. i don't think he dislikes asians, and i doubt he thinks he's being offensive, but wtf man, grow up. get clever or be pc, but at the very least, have some depth.

ugh, while i'm glad i went in support of t, tho i do almost wish i hadn't been able to find my passport.

collection drives

collection drives done thus far. some have overlapped and some were more casually done than others but i've basically done one a year since 2009.

2009 - shoes - soles4souls
2010 - eye glasses - lion's club
2011 - school supplies - school on wheels
2012 - cell phones - hope phones
2013 - formal dresses and accessories - prom project
2014 - natural wine corks - recork
2015 - shoes - protect a sole
2016 - bras - bras for a cause

2018 - towels/blankets - santa ana valley kennel club 
2019 - USB drives! (haven't started, but start saving them up if you've got them!)