How is your first week of 2016?
Mine's been chilly and wet. It's been raining here in Southern California. We badly need it. It's a bit inconvenient but I happen to love rain. I love the cold; being bundled up and cozy even inside the house!
With the new year comes these barrage of resolutions. Frankly, I don't think we need a "new year" to resolve to do stuff, to better ourselves. Everyone's doing it anyway. I'll do it too.
I posted my book-related resolutions over at my other blog. If you're interested, please go check it out. You can see the non-book-related stuff here.
I could go with that list above but... salads? （⌒▽⌒）
Happy New Year from one of the many poor losers who are back to work a day after New Year's Day.
2014 is the Year of the Wood Horse. That means, it's a fcking crappy one for us Dragon people. Oh well, GDYB... you milked 2013 for all its worth. Let's just hope for the best this year. (Or better yet, rest, you two!)
Yesterday's Pasadena Tournament of Roses was beautiful but less eventful than last year's. The theme was DREAMS COME TRUE. Don't we all want that.
The final block of parade passes near where I live so we don't pay for bleacher seats by Colorado Blvd. It's not the same view and usually, the floats are damaged and the performers are dead tired. But still, the flowers are pretty. The energy of the people was great though. And we're so close to the floats from where we were.
Seeing men in uniform is one of the highlights. USMC is there every year and they definitely wake me up. We get there before 6AM to reserve our spot. People start showing up as early as the day before to get a good place. But hey, the floats are huge and the streets are wide so you'll get to see stuff wherever you're at. And there's always the TV.
The Grand Marshall this year was longtime LA Dodgers announcer, Vin Scully. I'm not really familiar with him but that's okay. So many people were dressed in Dodger shirts and caps. Our area had so many Michigan State University fans vs Stanford University fans. The day before, I saw a lot of tourists at DTLA wearing their MSU shirts. This morning at Robeks, one of the cheerleaders - says so on his shirt - asked the cashier what the best kind is because it was his first time at a Robeks. I love tourists! LMAO. They won the football game so I threw in a little congratulations their way. One of the girls was so tickled by it she said, "And who said Californians are jaded?! Yay!" Oh-kay.
Anyway, here are some of my favorite floats at yesterday's parade. Clickage for biggage.
안녕! How was your Lunar New Year? I had Italian food. Yeah. Totally unrelated. And I also did some hauling. Beauty hauling that is. ^o^ How many orange lipsticks are at the drugstore?! I am this close to having them all, I think. Haha... I sure did well for myself yesterday.
Ohh yay, mess! See, I even got a peachy blush. My mom and I went crazy because both RiteAid and CVS are having such great deals right now. And I had some surprise coupons from CVS that I had to use up before they expired. Also, two of these products are not from yesterday's haul but I decided to include them anyway. As I've mentioned before, anything orange will not be reviewed right away. Wait for my master post on that. The others... maybe. The Wet n Wild stuff are new so I might get on that.
新年快樂!
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