what a nice monday. one of my students cancelled so i didn't have to work so hard today! yeah, i'm getting lazy ;op. even though i tutor some of these kids for just an hour at a time, every hour with them calls for at least another hour of work for me. unpaid. it's on account of all the preparation i need to do for that specific kid and what they need to learn at what level. hmmm now that i think about it, i might have to start charging more.

anyways, i just ended up working the whole morning. then i went out to eat sushi with bobby, one of my friends from highschool. this would make it the third day in a row that i've eaten sushi... mmm i love it. bobby is hilarious. i swear he is such a mac, but last night he called me up to do lunch today cuz he wanted to catch up. his big kwento was that he found out his girlfriend (well, she's his ex now) was just playing him! that's kinda sucky, even if he did have it coming to him. karma scares me sometimes, but i really believe that what goes around comes around... *shiver*

after lunch, i went out with joy. she's the best. we have the best times together no matter what we do. i guess it helps that we laugh so easy... especially at each other. we're both in the same boat (being pillars of the community and all ;op ) so we both needed our weekly dosage of shopping together. we hit south granville street, a street where most of the shops are specialty: clothing, housewares, and food. last week we did mostly clothing stores, and today we hit the houseware stores. i saw a few really good christmas presents for people, and even managed to buy my mom and annie a couple things. even though joy and i picked up a few goodies from pier 1 imports, i must say that my pick for the day from the stores on south granville is caban by club monaco. if you've ever been inside a club monaco, just think of caban as "club monaco for your house". very cool.

since i got home from shopping, i have been online. i don't think i will make it to LA (all the flights are sold out!) but i've been slightly successful with my search for flights to san francisco. i thought it'd be neat to go there for new years, but my mom doesn't want to go. i really wanted to do some travelling with my family but they've all got their own agendas. dad's headed to the philippines on the 26th and annie's headed to toronto after new years. i think even sarah's going to whistler. my mom wanted to go to places like florida, michigan, hawaii, or LA and san fran during her holiday break and i was all up for joining her. now she's thinking about not going anywhere at all. this sucks cuz i have been hyped about going somewhere all last month at least and now i feel like i might not go because of my mom. i know i can go but now she's at the point where she's saying things like "i don't see why you need to go anywhere right now. why not wait until your spring break? then you could go somewhere else.". i hate that.