Whose house is especially well-designed for parties, and why?
NOT OURS that's for sure. Most of VV's family have homes with pretty party-friendly floorplans, though.

If the party starts at seven, what time are you there?
Either 10 minutes early or 1 hour late.

Who brought the best thing to your last potluck?
Last potluck was Lina's birthday, I think! But the best thing I can think of happened a couple of potlucks ago (Halloween!) and it was that amazing GARLIC BACON DIP. SO GOOD.

Now that the holidays are over, what (besides a birthday) might be the next thing you celebrate in the company of others?
Wedding!

Been busy busy sort of. VV's brother in town last weekend for his family's Tet dinner, we had an impromptu hotel stay, and we went to Disneyland for the third weekend in a row (!). Still haven't made up the value for our annual passes, but we have 11 more months so it's all good.

Whoa haven't been here in like eight years.

Went out for an early Valentine's dinner. Was a little late making reservations and figured that going on not Valentine's would be a little less hectic. I bet we wouldn't have been able to get seats outside (the view is fantastic and it was sunset when we arrived) if we'd gone tomorrow.

Impressions? Excellent: view, french onion soup (they split one soup into two portions for us!), bread (orange almond, unusual! butter was cold, though), cappuccino creme brulee, and my nutty pear "martini". Good: crab cakes. Okay: Entrees . I got a rib eye and VV got sea bass. Not so good: Allocation of heat lamps...?!

VV and I decided to indulge in hating them for the entire dinner (even though some of the blame definitely belonged to the staff) because it made us (or maybe me) feel better, if not warmer. It got so cold that we asked to move to one of the fire pits before ordering dessert. Had a good time during dinner, though. Went to my favorite Tustin coffee place (found it when I first moved to Tustin) afterward and discovered that Lost Bean had expanded into a coffee house/wine bar (Lost Vine!) that I really need to go back to someday soon.

Drinking not-so-hot chocolate spiked with coffee liqueur now. So full. Happy Vals day everyone!

Photos from a brunch we had last year. I made the cinnamon rolls from scratch!

I was going to say that wedding planning is a timesuck...which it is. But I haven't been doing much of anything for the past couple of weeks so that's not really an excuse for not updating. Just lazy. And busy I guess?

When did you get your first cell phone?
When I started my first year of college (2001)

Do you have any special ring tones, if so what are they?
The only time I ever had a special ringtone was when I had a recording of Hoa yelping (OWWWW!). Unfortunately that ring disappeared with my phone when I left it at a Jack in the Box when I was drunk and it fell into the hands of some foo named Juanelo who I guess didn't want to return it.

Does your phone have a camera?
Yes

What kind of phone do you have now?
iPhonerBoner

What carrier do you use?
Verizon