kris&janeinSD

the best spoon ever

2010-08-15T19:45:00.000-07:00

excited to see haiwaiian shaved ice at balboa park:

only to realize the $3 pricetag was b/c it was just finely shaved ice + syrup. best shaved ice ive had was at kar's wedding reception (with mochi/ice cream and toppings)!

however, this cup of shaved ice redeemed itself by:

i almost saved the spoon. almost.

a year in review

2010-08-11T15:24:00.000-07:00

i have this week off rotations, and after reading our friend rem's site, i decided to dust this off!

kris moved to uci to go to med skoo fall 09.
above: mel and i went to her white coat.
also: con su familia

the lion king musical winter 09.
bright costumes, catchy songs, and fun story!

debating between these 2 pix for Christmas card... we ended up with the bottom cuz the top one looks like i have something growing outta my back! sorry if you didnt get one- we prob didnt have your addy- i mite have a few lying around if you want one! =)

Christmas card lane!

to come: spring and summer 10!

the blog died, but we're still alive!

2009-04-03T01:29:00.001-07:00

Last week, we went to Knott's Berry Farm with some of our fabulous friends. The last time Jane and I went was in high school where I distinctly remember there being water fights under the scorching sun. I believe I was burnt like a piece of toast after that trip. This one was less eventful, we are getting too old for that kind of fun.

Ji, Helen, Kris&JaneinSD, Paul, Rob

Kris, Jane and Rob after getting soaked on the Perilous Plunge. This was a super fun ride!

Ji, in his natural driving state. Nevermind that we're playing bumper cars.

Miss Helen was my driver, I was the camera guy.

Paul thinks bumper cars is fun.

lazy in la

2008-09-12T13:10:00.000-07:00

a few weeks ago, jane and rem were chatting online. this was before jane started school because now she has no time to chat, i'm not even sure if she's still alive. i'll check on that after i finish this post. anyhow, rem suggested that we go to LA to visit him, and we decided that we could make time for a dear old friend of ours, so up to LA we went.

meet rem, he is a good gchatter and keeps me pretty entertained most of the time
meet mark, he sings really well and i always ask him to sing a song, and he always obliges

i'm a little bit of a fob.
we ate at a brazilian place at the farmers market, it was delish.

we also hit up the ever-famous Sprinkles, a yummy, botique-y cupcake joint. the line was long

and the cupcakes were expensive. but we enjoyed them anyway.
we ate some yummy italian food for dinner, which jane would like to show you:

and finally, we ended the night with some frozen yogurt from yogurtland. i think we all decided that the yogurt was just alright.

warning: dogs bite

2008-09-12T12:52:00.000-07:00

Neighbor's dad bit dad... ouch. He had four puncture wounds where the canine teeth punctured his skin. Stupid dog.

alice's wedding

2008-08-25T23:13:00.000-07:00

when: sat, aug 23rd

where: coronado

who:alice & rj

alice with her dad.

its hard to tell here, but the back of the dress has this crisscross that looked cool.

bt the wedding and reception, paul and i decided to take a stroll on the nearby beach.

it had nice waves and pretty empty b.c it was on the naval base.

with jenny, the matron-of-honor. she got married about a year ago!

paul and i with mrs. matagora!

plums

2008-08-07T16:17:00.000-07:00

This is a plum.

This is a plum tree.

That plum came from the plum tree in our neighbor's backyard. These cute little balls of purple started coming on our side of the fence, and after my mom saw they never picked any and that the neighbors let the plums become this:

...she started to pick them. One at first. Then a few. Two days ago, she saw our neighbor and told him about her clandestine activities. He told her to pick as many as she wanted, and the very next day, proceeded to give us a big ziplock bag of plums. Mother then proceeded to take out half the plums, and carted them over to our across-the-street neighbor, who also partook in the secret aforementioned activities.

Morale of the story? Eat the plums that your neighbor doesn't want! These happen to be quite juicy, with perfectly light canary yellow flesh. :)

our friend ji

2008-08-04T20:27:00.000-07:00

we have a friend named ji. he invited us over to his condo sunday after lunch. here is his favorite sunday afternoon activity.

see ji. see ji sleep.

why i like lifeguards

2008-08-02T21:56:00.000-07:00

Today's blog involves a little bit of reading... I wish I had pictures, maybe I'll draw one and post it later.

So here is the story of how Jane had to get rescued by the lifeguard today. We were over at Hanna's cute little studio, which is a half block walk from Wind & Sea (such an awesome location!) Jane and I usually go to La Jolla Shores, where the split between surfing zone and swimming/boogie boarding zone is clearly marked. Since at W&S there were no cones set up, we just headed into the water that we saw straight in front of us. We did notice that there were quite a few surfers out there, but no big deal. After we got over the cold of the water, we paddled out and barely caught one wave before a surfboard-riding life guard told us we had to have fins on to be out there.

Feeling quite defeated, we headed back to shore. But we got the brilliant idea to ask the lifeguard where we could go if we only had boogie boards sans fins. He points us to an area where a bunch of swimmers were sort of wading in the water. Side note: between the two different areas, there are some rather large rocks.. ones that look like you'd get hurt on if you swam into them. So with much excitement, we head out to the swimming area. We swim a bit past the swimmers because we didn't want to risk running over them. We noticed Mr. Lifeguard on his surfboard, and he comes to say hello to us. We have a little discussion about how fins are important and he warns us of the rocks in a few areas as well as a rip tide. We thank him for the info and then part ways, but he keeps hovering around our area. We begin to paddle away, but realize that we're not going anywhere... hm, strange. Jane notices that there are a few swimmers that have made it to where we were chilling, and they are using the lifeguard's board to kick off of to get them going in the right direction. How interesting, I've never seen that before! So Mr. Lifeguard comes back to us and tells us that we're lookin' good but soon becomes concerned when I begin trying to tug on Jane's board. Background: every time we go out, I always end up pulling Jane's board out past the waves, just to make sure we're together and because she's too lazy to get herself where she needs to be. At this point, it's becoming pretty clear that we're caught in this rip tide. So he paddles back over and apparently asks Jane if she needs some assistance and she says yes, thinking that he's just gonna let her push off his board. Instead, he says, "up on the board" and makes her get on his surfboard with him. I see them paddling towards me, and I'm thinking that we're just gonna swim into shore together. So I begin kicking and paddling towards shore, but he points to me and says, "you too, up!".

So now the three of us are on his board, trying to get out of the rip tide. It's not working so well, so he turns the board around and we go the other way. Using a few of the waves we caught he navigates us around a big mound of scary rocks, and drops us off at the shore. Actually, the last wave we caught in knocked us off the board, but we were in shallow enough water that we just managed to take care of ourselves from there.

There you go, your tax dollars at work!

new wallet

2008-08-02T00:56:00.000-07:00

aug 1st was 6 months for paul and i. i made him a calender, complete w. birthdays and pix. he got me this:

and said: didn't know which color, thot all black was too boring, and your bag is pink so i got this.

note to our male readers:

do: notice little details like color and the sad state of the current accessory

dont: just buy the first thing you see in the store/on the website

applebee's

2008-07-31T23:41:00.000-07:00

i still haven't gotten around to taking my camera with me to take pictures throughout the day, so instead of pictures, you get a story today. and instead of a story that happened today, you get a story from yesterday.

so if you're a loyal follower of this blog, you'll know that we went to cheesecake factory yesterday and after seeing the hoards of piggies wanting $1.50 cheesecake (yes, us included) we ended up at applebees instead.

kris: so out of 5 stars, what do you rank the shrimp?

paul: 5 stars? ooo, it's too hard to say, the range is too small.

kris: okay, well what do you rank it out of 10 stars?

paul: (very pensively) umm... 6 stars out of 10!

kris: so essentially 3 stars out of 5?

this is the first entry for my "why i like" series. i like paul's company because he makes me laugh, usually at his expense. disclaimer: the "why i like" series will continue for as long as i want it to and will be as sporadic as i decide. so no promises, this may be the one and only entry in the series.

cheesecake factory

2008-07-31T11:28:00.000-07:00

On July 30th, The Cheesecake Factory offered a $1.50 slice of cheesecake for dine-in customers to celebrate their 30yr anniversary. So we, Bsong, and Paul decided to go at 9:30P. This was what we were greeted with:

with a wait time of 75-90 minutes. People everywhere! We decided the wait wasn't worth it and ended up at Applebee's, right across the 163.

As a fun surprise, when J got home, there, in the kitchen, was a very suspicious looking box... cheesecake!!! Her brother's girlfriend had brought it over. Yum! The morale of the story is good things come to those who wait... sometimes! :)

In the mail...

2008-07-30T09:46:00.000-07:00

came the Fall/Winter Special Issue. The latter half filled with pages of...

runway to keep one reading for hours. you may borrow it if you ask nicely. :P

let's just call it an off day

2008-07-30T00:00:00.001-07:00

yep, today is an off day for me. good thing that the day starts over two minutes ago (according to my clock)!

let's take a vote.. who thinks jane did this and who thinks kris did this? answer carefully...

How we decided the name.

2008-07-29T16:13:00.000-07:00

It started with our friend's photoblog: http://reminla.blogspot.com/

Kristina: how about.. kris&janeinsd
so we can both update the blog
me: how come its kris and jane? and not jane and kris?
Kristina: okay go start the blog!
because k comes before j in the alphabet, duh
me: hahaha what????

Kristina: i copied and pasted the convo about us deciding kris&jane vs jane&kris to rem
he says
Raoul: Hahahahahaha, wow that's a classic conversation right there
I miss that from you guys lol

Welcome to our world! :)