Perfectly agéd, day-old, re-refrigerated fried rice from Mr. Chopsticks, that is spifftaculüberly seasoned with homemade duck sauce and good ol’ soy sauce that was earlier found to have near-miraculous healing and/or soothing powers in the department of sore throats – OR – The New Year’s Blog With The Absurdly Long Title January 2, 2009

This is the type of rice that I had for breakfast and also dinner today.

And isn’t that an absurdly long title? I thought so. That’s why I did it.

[ You'll have to forgive me today, folks, I've been working on written commissions and I'm all creative and articulate right now. It's like I set my CL really low usually and today I just took the cap off the top. You can do that in the Null Crystal, you know. Cap your rings' CL? Does anyone even know what I'm talking about anymore? ]

Okay, so yesterday ( which is now two days ago because I’ve totally gone afternoon-ial and waking up at noon has thrown me off because I feel like it’s about 7 or 8 pm right now, even though it is now OFFICIALLY 2009, Day two. ) was amazing.

Let me just run you down on everything that happened.

Wednesday, I had a non-date with Tob ( That One Boy – I really don’t know if he reads and I really don’t want to freak him out by spreading his name all over t’internet, even though I kind already did and he would know he was he if he read because he was the only he that I was seeing with his he-ness on Wednesday. Hehehe, lots of hes ) at six. I say non-date because we’re non-dating. Like…he thinks I’m pretty cool – and this is all in his words – but he’s not too sure about that “Mormon Thing.” That cracked me up. Because thinking of Jon’s friends, the “Vegetarian Thing” would be the issue. With Dan’s it was the “American Thing.” With some it’s been the “Writer Thing.” I straight up laughed at him when he said that because of all the things I am – Writer, Veggie, American, English, Puerto Rican ( only half ), French Admirer, Ex-homeschooler, decidedly different in my view of the world, LDS, Conservative Liberal, Debate Team, Blogger and RPG and Gaia Geek – he chooses one of the least interesting ones to un-like me over. lol =)

I know, it’s ridiculous. I told him that actually.

Any-wayyyyyz.

So we had our non-date at six and I had the New Year’s Eve dance at the stake center after that. So I dressed up real pretty-like with my hair in two french braids and pearls and whatnot. ( Honestly, I dressed up mostly for him, and only a little bit for the dance. But shhh, don’t tell. )

Witness, a low quality phone-to. ( Phone + photo = phone-to )

And we went to Mr. Chopsticks for dinner. It was really embarrassing because it had moved since Grandma had been in College Town and I knew where it was vaguely ( It’s on Scripture if you ever need to find it. ) but I got turned around because we went to where it used to be. So yeah. I was going to be like five minutes early ( because I can’t be right on time. It’s either early or late >.> ) but we got lost so we had to stop and ask someone where it was and we were vaguely near it as I thought we were so we headed straight over there and Mama dropped me off and Tob was REAAALLLY sweet about it. He was like “Wait, why are you embarrassed? Don’t be embarrassed.”

Dinner was amazing. I HIGHLY recommend Mr. Chopsticks if you’re in the UNT area. I had Spring Rolls and Fried Rice ( the very rice from which this blog takes it title! )

[ BEHOLD! The rice! VOICI! Le riz! ]

The thing that really impressed be was that Tob said “Get whatever you want, I don’t care” which made me really, really happy. He’s a proper gentleman and I love it ^.^

Ooh, the duck sauce stuff was a-mazing too. I can only assume it was duck sauce because it was vaguely duck-sauce-ish but so much better and more delicious than anything I’ve ever tasted before.

Dinner went off without a hitch, then we – lacking in ideas for distraction since denton sucks so bad – headed to our old Alma Mater to survey the elementary school. It was pretty cool actually. Much smaller than I remember, but very cool. When we got bored we went out to his house and watched most of The Dark Knight. It wasn’t as bad as I remember – which probably had something to do with the fact that it wasn’t at the midnight showing and that there were lots of lights on and a very adorable pug called Buddy snoring on my knee – and we just hung out for a couple of hours. Then he was kind enough to drop me off at the dance where even more merriment ensued.
[ His smile dazzles me. ]
So at the dance, which I’d gotten like five txts and a call asking if I’d come out to it or not, I was full of happiness which was nice. Usually I cry at dances lol. I danced to the last half of Unchained Melody with Josh because it’s my favorite song and he was very conveniently placed. I danced a couple of dances with him actually. It was nice. I also danced with Taylor, a very adorable Australian that I’ve been stalking for about five dances. I told him that too which went over considerably better than it could have. Hehe.

Then at midnight, we counted down and made lots of noise. There were balloons and noise makers passed out and we popped balloons ( we being the whole mass of Denton and Frisco Stakes because I didn’t actually pop any balloons ) and blew on our noise makers and generally reveled in celebration.

Had a nice conversation with a guy named Miguel who is part Puerto Rican ( which I might have told you about but who cares! ) we talked about his major and C++ and all kinds of fun stuff. I think he’s cute. ^^ Afton correctly noted that the attractiveness of a person is the first thing I usually comment on. We talk, have fun, they leave for a moment, I say “he’s hott” she laughs and everything moves on. Hehe ♥ I love me!

I danced my first dance of 2009 with a really sweet guy named Sam ( I think…he was so sweet and I feel bad for forgetting his name kind of… ) who was teaching me to waltz which is amazing. I really liked him. He’s in Denton II Ward so I should see him at the next dance which’ll be really nice. =)

What else…

OH! Afton. She and I danced briefly. I danced clumsily with her then we [ Josh and I ] got her to improv a dance to “Love Story” by Taylor Swift. It was really beautiful and people stopped and were watching her. She’s so graceful. I told her:

People like you are the people that people like me write sonnets about. You’re our muse.

She’s so beautiful in motion. I have such wonderfully talented friends *hugs them all*

So…yeah. That’s about it.

OH! And we all squeezed into afton’s car ( all = 7 of us ) and sat listening to music. There was me, McKenna, Afton, Krista, Kevin, Kevin’s twin Amy, and Krista’s neighbor Aly in the car generally enjoying ourselves. Please view a quick video of our hilarity ( poor quality due to from phone-ness ) :

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

YAY!

I think that’s it.

Afton’s daddy was nice enough to bring me home, which was awesome. And then I went to sleep. =)

It was so much fun. My favorite part was the snuggling with Jamie watching the movie. He’s so warm. I really do like him a lot…
xxdruxx