Last day

Actually not even till lunch. Her 1 pm flight back to San Fransisco was delayed by an hour. United Airline didn't offer any meals so I'm glad she bought some pastry with her.

Got home and kept napping on and off. Go figure.

Appointments

The vampire finally showed up. (T_T) No energy at all. Tylenol extra strength seemed a bit too strong? My stomach still felt sick and I was dragging my feet and couldn't talk loud. The chiropractor appointment helped. Amazingly he gave me back some energy. Got some pea chips and cookies for my cousin.

Then it was her turn to have an appointment. It was facial treatment. Interesting. But I'm no more than 40% convinced that it works.

Was going to eat out because my cousin leaves tomorrow. The vampire strike. The painkiller took too long to work and I had to lie down for a few hours. No eating out.

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Mission: continue and finish last night's online purchase interrupted by site maintenance. (Completed.) *1
Mission: curry beef lunch at Mui's Garden. (Failed.) *2 Mission: get white T-shirt with embossed tourist motif at Gastown. (Completed.)
Mission: get Thin Addictive cookies at Costco. (Failed) *3 Mission: get gray sweater at Suzy Shier Brenwood mall. (Completed.) *4
Bonus: 20% off everything in store.
Mission: shopping / window shopping at Metrotown. (Completed.)
Mission: afternoon tea at Hong Kong style cafe at Metrotown. (Completed.) *5
Plan B: get mushroom chips at T&T's. (Completed.)
Mission: go home by 6 pm, pick up mom, dad, and aunt Y. Meet uncle Y and aunt L at Ginger & Garlic Richmond for dinner. (Completed.)
Bonus: take a walk at Superstore. (Completed.)

Dizzy most of the day. Stomach feels like a rock. Must be the vampire... but not. Perhaps tomorrow. Please let me have 2 more days. Please please please...

*1: Must register to buy. It took a while. They don't show you the total with shipping until after you click the "commit" button. So I went over budget. (T_T) I bought from 5 different vendors and none of them has combine shipping. Discount yes, but each item still adds on it's own shipping cost. I have to pay each vendor separately, so the payment info had to be entered 5 times. What a hassle! (T_T)

*2: Because I was struggling with the online purchase, I missed the window of eating out. Well I guess eating at home actually saved some time as I couldn't leave the desk.

*3: Not enough time, and Costco is probably closed today.
*4: Yay~!
*5: Felt worst between this and around 5:50 pm.

Tomorrow's mission:
Get up at 8.
Call chiropractor to chance appointment time.
Maybe go there to standby.
Go home and lunch with cousin and maybe uncle Y.
Costco?

London Farm

Shopping at Richmond Center with my cousin. Managed to find a sweater that I like but they ran out of my size. (T_T)

Lunch at 3 pm at London Farm. Brunch and half DQ peanut buster parfait before that. Chinese cuisine for dinner again. (T_T) (T_T)

Waited until after the bead show to get some stuff online. Try to take advantage of the good exchange rate. $1 is $0.94. Of course the site has to go down for maintenance. Missed it by 2 minutes. Can't complete the purchase. Hope the stuff won't sold out. (T_T) (T_T) (T_T)

The vampire is near by. I can feel it... (T_T) (T_T) (T_T) (T_T)

Bead Show

Kidnapped my cousin to the Fraser Valley Bead Show in Langley. The drive there took about 40 minutes but 2 hours back. We got lost and missed the highway. Ended up in Surrey. A section of Kingsway was sealed off thanks to construction. Single lane traffic. It was frustrating as we needed to get back home, pick up my parents and aunt, then go to uncle Y's home for dinner. Yup we were late of course.

As to the show, failed to get what I've been looking for, but got some unsuspected finds. Spent around $100. Things weren't cheap. (T_T) I'd like to buy more but out of budget.

Another big fail today was that I forgot to inform mom that I'd be taking my cousin to Hong Kong style cafe for lunch. She started cooking without asking and we were stuck. There are still many places my cousin would like to eat at. There goes one slot.

Too much driving today. Exhausted.
Again, forgot to take Pinky picture at dinner. (T_T)

Bad luck day?

Eating-out marathon continues. Lunch with grandaunt Y at International Village. Fusion Chinese cuisine. Parking trouble. The lady didn't stamp my card properly and I was to be charged $10 for 2-hour parking. Of course I had to go back to the restaurant to get things fixed. The manager ended up having to escort me out the parkade. Then thanks to a piece of misinformation, I circled the block and went back to the same parkade for shopping at T&T. Need I say more? $5 again for an hour. To avoid that, we bought a cup of coffee at McDonald's. At least $5 could be turn into $1.50. I really shouldn't complain....

... but I just hate myself so much when the monster comes out again. Why can't I have higher EQ? Why can't I deal with stress better? Why can't I keep my mood swing under control?

Dinner at Angel's cafe in our neighbourhood. Portions are so huge, we took home almost a whole dish of fried rice. Mom was right about the 5 of us only need 2 dishes, but it would look very bad if we do so.

Richmond

Chinese congee / noodle for lunch with aunt L. Spent the afternoon in Chinese malls in Richmond. Dinner at Ajisai. It's always chirashi when I go there. It's the best.

Also got book 43 of Glass Mask. Was gonna get 42 too but can't remember if I've bought it or not.