No Need for Sleep Powder

Though I have no pictures to illustrate the events of yesterday, I can, of course, write.

After one and half days of cleaning prep (because we totally know that my house is a home for packrats) guests entered my home not long after 10:30 am. Jaynie and I had already been playing Rock Band 2 for a while (and I had been playing by myself for even longer, singing all by my lonesome in the middle of the living room). Becca and Ken and Grace and Corey zoomed in under the guava tree in their tiny red car, bringing along an... amp?, real guitar, and Guitar Hero guitar. Teehee. So we played! Though... I ended up singing. Grace on Bass, Corey on guitar, Ken on drums being soooooooooooo pro.

It was a little while until Sarah and Rubin and Briana all appeared, sipping their drinks from Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. I don't remember how everything went down, but throughout the day we went through Rock Band 2, Super Smash Brothers Brawl and Cooking Mama on the Wii, Super Monkey Ball 2 and Mario Kart Double Dash on the GameCube, and even Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Street Fighter, and Super Mario World on the SNES. The Chowder Knishmas special and Pokemon even graced the television set for a while. Real pianos and guitars got tinkered around with, creating beautiful music. Hehe, children with the best toys you can have.

Rubin fell asleep first on my bed, and Sarah ended up sleeping with the bright orange bear on the rocking chair, and Rebecca fell asleep reading on the futon in the middle of upstairs. So silly. (: Chips and dip, donut holes, and other things were snacked on, and lunch included my mother's baked furikake salmon, salad and barbeque chicken wings from Costco, Bagel Bites, and pound cake and pineapple. Oh, and we also had lumpia. =D

Grace and Ken and Corey left around 3, sadly. Everyone else hung around until Briana headed out to the prayer vigil. Sighhhh.

It was a cooler day than the day before, but it was still a little hot. There was silly "Co-Op" smashing of hands in Cooking Mama (when pounding mochi), along with a lot of other frantic waving of hands in attempts to prepare other sorts of virtual food. Singing and... screaming was hardly scarce, and I think in general we were relaxed, which was good. So relaxed that people were falling asleep like THAT, haha. No need for sleep powder. So effective an atmosphere that they could even handle my crazed singing of weird songs, hehe.

After everyone was gone, I ended up playing Beatles Rock Band with my sisters. We completed one more chapter in the story (which we haven't played in such a long time!) and that was it for the night. I was so worn out, I gave up after two rounds of Blokus against Jaynie and ended up falling asleep texting in bed, ahahaha. I woke up two hours later sticky with sweat from the heat of the room, and in a panic because I didn't know where my phone was ('tis what happens when you fall asleep with it!). So I turned on the fan and searched the perimeter of the bed and made a =_= face at some texts and comforted myself and went back to sleep hoping for the room to cool down.

It was a good day. I think I never have problems with falling asleep... Mostly because it's always late and I'm tired. I'm glad for that. Especially since it's winter break... Sleep is necessary! However, it's been the same old poor sleep schedule as usual.

Today I woke up around 9 and eventually headed out around 11 with Briana to go to Yakiniku Camellia II by the Japanese Cultural Center to eat with Renee and Sarah. We had quite an adventure on the roadways there (ending up by Sarah's place, somehow, then heading back onto the freeway and getting off at Bingham towards the round building, haha!), fighting traffic. It was so sunny and hot.

The food was delicious. Kind of getting more used to the idea of having to be one's own judge of food and cooking, haa! I ended up eating a lot of that spicy pork, hehe. We watched Sarah eat her pork belly wrap things. And giggled at Renee's aversion to onions and spicy things. It was nice. I liked their jello. XD

Afterwards we were shocked by the intense rain and went on an adventure to retrieve umbrellas and get inside safely. Oh Hawaii and bipolar weather! Oh Manoa and heavy rain! With indecision we ended up at Toma Karaoke (instead of Bubbies, a shave ice place, or the snow [hair jk] place at McCully) and sang for an hour (yay $15 for 4 people!). I had fun singing the Written in the Stars duet with Briana (: All of us were disturbed by the women and their... appearances in the backgrounds, haha. We left around 3:30pm and had more wonderful road and traffic adventures dropping Sarah and Renee off, and then taking the side roads all the way back home. We listened to Lady Gaga and David Archuleta and finally Wicked, which Briana sang to and was amazing. I would very much like to watch! Kristen Chenoweth and Idina Menzel! Yeah.

We got back around 6:15pm. Ridiculous, painful, sleep-inducing traffic. Sigh.

I opened the package that came in the mail: Rock Band 3 (game). Amazing. Ridiculous. Awesome. Cooooooool. Expensive. Why?! We're forever grateful.

Jaynie, Mariah, and I all practiced Christamas songs for tomorrow's pre-mass "talent show" for church. We had silly times with wrong counting, reading notes in the wrong clef, and missing of sharps and flats. It turned out well, though. Winter Wonderland, here we come, hoping you Have a Merry Little Christmas.

I'm sleepy now but I want to watch episode ten of Kuragehime. Hehe. Tomorrow's Christmas Eve! Excitement! With a sprinkle of sleep powder, I hope you go to sleep soon. To all a good night!