A Super-Awesome Lunch

Kam (co-worker) and I were trying to think of a super-awesome way to spend lunch. I had to buy a new couch for my place. (Mommy took the old couch with her to Indiana)... so after researching on Craigslist, I found a little warehouse "by the airport" that makes replica Crate & Barrel and Pottery Barn sofas. Awesome!

So Kam and I trekked over to the warehouse... which ended up to be on the corner of South Central and Compton Blvd... in the heart of Compton. Despite the sketchy drive over we were still excited about scoring a deal on a sofa.

I bought the following sofa & ottoman set for $650, including same day delivery.



A similar couch can be found at Crate and Barrel for $1499 and a matching ottoman for $499.

A hard day's work...

Let's play work-pictionary!


I work in El Segundo -- "The Most Business Friendly City" I work in the first building pictured here. Rapp Collins Worldwide has the entire 5th floor. We get an awesome view of... the parking lot next door and the airport on the other side. Beautiful.


Here's a shot in front of my building.


One of our hallways has a grafiti-style mural on it.


PM Buddy Kamron wearing my Raybans. He is a Direct Mail Project Manager and also my breakfast buddy. And tea time buddy. We do mini oil-blotting sessions with my J&J Clean & Clear Oil Control Sheets during the day too. Fun stuff.


This is Jo-Anne... the other Interactive Project Manager. This picture was taken at Island's... drinking a lava flow during lunchtime... that's how we do things here at Rapp. :)



Monica is on the analytics team... one of the sweetest girls in the office. She started the week after I did and we hit it off immediately. We do daily venting sessions about ex-boyfriends over IM every chance we get.


Kam being silly over my cubicle.

Goodbye Mommy!

On Friday night we all met up in Cerritos for a Goodbye dinner with Mommy. Steve and I went straight after work so we arrived in Cerritos a little early... I showed him around the Cerritos Mall. Fun! He had his first Chick-Fil-A experience (shared some pre-dinner nuggets) and did a little bit of shopping.

Then we met up with my sisters at Fancy Box to take some purikura... I swear Aai has VIP status there or something. They normally close at 8PM but stayed open just for Aai us. Haha. So we took group pictures and I took some with Steve too... I haven't taken sticker pictures with a boy since high school!! :P Such goofballs...




After our narcissistic picture-taking session, we went off to The Corner Place for some Korean BBQ. They had really good Dolsot Bimimbap and Jap Chae (clear noodles) but the meat wasn't that great. It was a lot of fun though.. nothing brings a family together like fighting for meat on one grill. :P




Mommy glaring at the kids for having unsighly table manners as they scour their food.

We topped off dinner with some Sprinkles cupcakes that Vina brought with her... seriously I don't know what she was thinking buying a dozen cupcakes! Especially in weirdo flavors like Chai Latte and Black & White... next time stick to Red Velvet and Banana only!!! :D

My PM Buddies

These are my PM buddies at work... PM = Project Managers. They work on the other side of the fence.. the offline side... the wild side.

One day the 4 of us (Joanne is not pictured) went out to lunch in my car. I was picking a pair of sunglasses to wear and started lending some out. Then I realized I had more sunglasses in the car than people... soon everyone was wearing a pair of my sunglasses. That's when it hit me that.. maybe.. I really do have too many sunglasses.

Anyhow, pictured here are Steve and Kamron, wearing Juicy Couture and Marc Jacobs respectively.