Me and Adrian. I made my dress. I’ve learned that the best way to hide a beer belly is to sew a ton of crap to the front of your clothes!!

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Van and me. My ice cream pin is made by Apple Noggin. I got sooo many compliments on it, and the bartender even gave me free drinks because he liked it so much! Moral of the story: Buy Apple Noggin, make new friends, get free drinks.

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As life goes, everyone grew up, moved away for work/love/college, and lost touch. Pansy Division stopped playing shows, as its members moved to different cities as well. Eight years went by.

When I found out that Pansy Division had gotten back together and were playing a show at the Uptown last week, I took it as a perfect opportunity to get back in touch with old friends for a trip down memory lane. I hunted down my old pal Gee, who I hadn’t hung out with in almost a decade. “PANSY DIVISION SHOW ON SEP 17! DUST OFF YOUR RAVER PANTS AND LET’S GO!” Then I begged Jade to come even though she was so sick that she had missed work that week. Haha, I’m a bad influence. Sadly, Jen and Tina had to work, and Herby ignores all my e-mails so no luck there.

We had the BEST NIGHT EVER!! Nothing has changed. We still knew all the lyrics, had the same favorite songs, and the same band crushes. The guys were awesome and all looked amazing. The years have done them well! Chris looked handsome and dashing as ever. In fact, I think he looked 328423794234 times better than I remember. Loooove!!

Groupies! Me, Jade and Gee

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Here I am struggling to get ready in the way-too-high mirror. You can’t see, but my feet are off the ground. I ended up having to climb onto the sink to reach. I swear, one of these days I am going to start my own hotel chain for short Asian people. Or maybe I can just request the handicap room whenever we book a hotel. Remember the Hard Rock hotel incident? That was pretty sweet!

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On Saturday we headed down to L.A. for a meeting, art show, friend time, and to hit up the fabric district for much-needed photo shoot and fashion show supplies. When we got back, I only had a few hours of sleep before I had to head over to my mom’s to celebrate her birthday. My mom is so funny, her birthday probably deserves its own post. Unfortunately I forgot my camera and didn’t take any pictures.

But here’s the quick rundown of my mom’s dream birthday! It started out with a big box of donuts for breakfast. Then we went to the steakhouse for lunch (ew!), where I accidentally left my debit card and had to return 30 minutes later to retrieve it. They were really reluctant to give it back since I didn’t have any ID on me to prove that it was mine. I don’t know if you remember what my card looks like, but I find it pretty hard to imagine that this card would belong to anyone other than myself. It was a REALLY slow day for them, and I couldn’t help but wonder how many blue-haired Asian girls had left their debit card there in the last 30 minutes. I finally got it back after correctly reciting my name and the last 4 digits of my CC and filling out some paperwork. Geez!

All my mom wanted for her birthday was 20 glossy 8×10 photos of Adam Lambert, and she got them. I feel sorry for my sister, who spent an hour printing them out at Target and hoping she didn’t run into anyone she knew. But it was worth it. My mom was so happy, she spent the day waving the pictures in front of anyone and everyone in her path. Then we took my mom to her favorite store, Ross, where she likes to browse the aisles but not buy anything. And finally, the world’s slowest movie, 500 Days of Summer (I know everyone loved this movie so I am in the minority, but seriously, zzzzzzzzzzz!!!)

Anyway!! I am waiting for my friends to send me pictures from the L.A. trip, which I will hopefully post tomorrow. In the meantime, here are a few from Dave’s birthday!

Dave & Jessica’s beautiful family. Just kidding! I don’t know whose kids those are.

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On a side note, I know that holding wild animals captive in a zoo is inhumane, so I don’t support zoos anymore. Our last experience at the zoo was pretty depressing because you could tell how distressed the animals were. But does anyone know if the same is true for aquariums? I wonder if the fish are thinking, “This shit sucks, get me out of here!” or if they are fine in captivity.

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The bird lady from Mary Poppins ain’t got a thing on me. Oh, and the reason I’m making this stupid face is because I was laughing at the same time that I was grimacing from the pain of their sharp claws. Try it, you’d make the same stupid face!

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