So when can we Youtube the divorce?

I love discovering new places. Cypress, Gloria and I were headed to Anaheim for my birthday when we decided to make a Starbucks stop. As I walked in to my dismay, they had a dismal display of pastries. Ugh, I hate when there’s no lemon loaf. So, after walking out disappointed we wondered into Chuao Chocolate Cafe.

Things happen for a reason.

Chuao Chocolate Cafe, located in La Jolla’s UTC shopping center, is filled with delicious chocolate treats and the people that work there are affable and knowledgeable.

A woman named Summer approached us and answered all our questions about their gourmet chocolates and pastries with NO SALES PRESSURE. I love that. I’ve noticed people tend not to go into high end places because of the pressure they feel to buy to prove their right to be in the store. This store felt very welcoming.

Summer actually spent time with us and even explained about events CCC holds. They have a chocolate tasting event, which is 10 dollars a person, also if you attend this event you get a discount on your purchases for the day. Gloria, Cypress and I all agreed that it’s an event we’re going to look out for. She told us it’s held once a month and to call for any date changes.

The only thing that’s difficult about the store is trying to set a spending limit for yourself. I wanted to buy and taste EVERYTHING! They’re chocolate is so smooth and delicious.

Gloria and I ended up buying some brownies. We both agreed that we’ve never tasted a more delicious brownie. It had cinnamon and chili powder. It gave a slight warmth through out your mouth, it was chocolate-y but not so sweet that you couldn’t appreciate the coco.

Gloria also bought a chocolate bar and we discussed how yes, it cost more than the dollar chocolate bars at the grocery store, but the quality really was different because you don’t just taste sugar. This chocolate bar had depth. We’re rather have one of these a week than 8 a week of the dollar bars of chocolate.

This cafe doesn’t only sell chocolate, cypress got a delicious dulce de leche pastry and they sell gelato!

We loved our visit there and now we’re planning to treat ourselves there…often

Oh and a little birdy told me that a Food network show stopped by to tape there so keep your eyes open, we’re not surprised, Chuao is destined for big things.

CLICK HERE to visit their website and enjoy our pictures of our visit below!

The front!

Gelato!

Wonderful chocolate presentation!

Interesting design. (Wonderful small touches!)

Cypress gobbled the chocolate up!

Delicious!

So sad, my brownie is almost gone!

A truely sad day today, Estelle Getty has passed away. She was 84.

She is best known for her role as Sophia Petrillo on hit 80’s TV show The Golden Girls. Next to Dorothy, she was my favorite character. Seriously, her stories, her wit and her sarcasm all added to the charm of the show. Without Sophia, the show wouldn’t have been as funny and the only person who could pull off this character was Estelle Getty. She will be missed.

For those of you who have not yet had the pleasure of watching The Golden Girls, you can still watch the episodes of Lifetime. They show at 9 - 10am, 4 - 5pm and midnight. (Yes, I watch a lot of TV)

Please enjoy the charm she brought to this clip from The Golden Girls!

Cypress and I are really happy! A week or two ago, we had an amazing hang out session with our dear friend Gloria and her amazing genius of a sister Amy who was only 11, but brilliant.

Anyway, we had all decided to go laser tagging, but due to Cypress’s computer freak out we thought we lost all the pictures, however when I was looking through our photo account I noticed I actually uploaded the pics! YESSSSSSS! I love when fantastic discoveries happen.

but yeah…back on the subject of laser tagging…can I just tell you we were seriously disadvantaged! We were a team of 5 and the other two teams had like 8 or 10. Cheats! They were kicking our butts and ambushing us everywhere. Honestly, even the staff noticed because they were telling the other teams to stop ganging up on us which was uber uncool, but that was before I found put we had such a small team.

The star of the team was this guy named Daus….(Dos?) I’m not sure how to spell it, but he earned half our our entire point total! Btw…I knew Dos was gonna be cool because we both laughed when Gloria said, “I don’t know how to turn myself on.” hahaha…she was referring to her gear, not herself. Also, he asked if we were going in again, which was nice of him since he was stuck with a team of all girls who were bad shots (oh and some girls are really awesome at this game, we just happened not to be those girls.)

After the game was over, we left for Pokez and out to the mall to rat out and chill. The pictures of the day are below.

Amy and Gloria a.k.a. Skeletor and Stan (Killing machine laser tag names)

The team minus me…Daus in the back.

Discussing our sad sad sad scores.

The place! it was only 7 bucks a person per game, and if you’re up for it 15 dollars for 2 hours (I think) late night on Friday. Good luck with that…15 mins. took a lot out of us hha.

Whoa! Add this to your netflix.

“Crazy Love” is a well made documentary of a disturbing relationship between an obsessive lawyer and the object of his affection. The viewers will be stunned as Burt, Linda and their friends talk about an unconventional relationship of delusional romance.

Seriously, forget Sid and Nancy, Burt Pugach and Linda Riss take the cake when it comes to dysfunctional love.

I don’t want to spoil it for those who don’t know the background of this unconventional couple, but I definitely think this outrageous documentary is a must see. The events are so unfathomable you’d think it’d only happen in the soaps.

To read more about the documentary’s couple CLICK HERE.

To see the trailer CLICK HERE.

Image source: Movieweb.com

To update you folks out there, my Mac is currently in shop. Apparently, my computer was built with a faulty hard drive so it was destined to poop out on me eventually. (Damn!) I guess updating my operating system just pushed it over the edge. (Even hard drives get stressed out)

Thank goodness for Apple Care or I’d seriously be out a pretty penny. (Perhaps this was Apple’s ploy all along!)

I feel incomplete without my computer! It’s bad when you can’t live without it. (But I want to meet the person who can so I can tell them they’re weird!)

Just a follow up to our previous post. We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

I showed up for work at 5 am (Starbucks in a mall with the largest Apple store in the city) to find people sleeping in lawn chairs and tents as far as the eye can see and a scary ‘little’ line waiting for coffee as well. I guess I underestimated the dedication of apple fans. . . and they overestimated Apple and AT&T’s devotion to them.

Apple made some changes, requiring iPhone fanatics to sign up for a 2-year contract and activate their phone on the spot. AT&T made some changes as well. The mandatory contract is more expensive, an additional $30/month on what most iPhone users already pay. Because consumers weren’t just buying a phone, but setting up contracts, the line moved just below a snail’s pace, leaving that huge line in the hot sun for much longer than expected. You could expect the sleep deprived to be a bit peeved.

Upsettingly, the majority of people in the first half of the line (arguably the most devoted) were denied their AT&T cellphone upgrade, probably because their 2-year contract from last year’s big iPhone release wasn’t quite finished yet. Our espresso bar seemed much more like an alcohol bar with people telling their sob stories about iPhone experiences of the day.

If it wasn’t the extremely slow moving line, the unexpected expense of the contract, or the flat out rejection, Apple fans had plenty else to complain about it and Starbucks was all ears (and caffiene) for the the morning. The phone’s cool factor couldn’t keep them crabby all day, though.

So, I’m frustrated! I love Mac and will always love Mac, but right now I want to put my Apple through the juicer!

I saw that I needed to upgrade my iTunes and Leopard (nothing unusual there) so I take all the proper steps and wait for it to restart. When it restarts, a flashing folder with a question mark pops up and refuses to boot up properly! And to top it all off, the Genius Bar appointments are all booked up until tomorrow and I have to make my way to a mall that it farther away than I would like.

As I will soon post (pictures that is), I had a mini freak out and am know without a computer in my apartment. (I’m currently in the computer room of my apartment complex and stationed at the only working one!)

Damn you my lovely Apple computer!

The mall is starting to bum me out because people keep bloody profiling me!

Honestly, it might paranoia…but I feel like when I’m out shopping, sometimes there are people watching me!

For example, today my friends and I decided to go to Planet Funk. I love their accessories…I’ve gotten some really fantastic hats from there, and usually their service is amazing…with the exception of today.

Here’s what happened…and by the way…this is all something I just picked up on…a vibe or a feeling if you will…nothing is concrete.

I was in Plant Funk and I found an awesome gray scarf. So cute! I was trying it on…carrying it around…and then a women approaches me and asks if she wants me to put it behind the counter…at first, I think nothing of it. I was carrying it around because I couldn’t find the price tag, and I asked her to help me find it. She did. Next, I noticed her hovering closely near me. Every time I moved from a different side of the sales rack she’d move too. I felt uncomfortable. I think she was watching me to see if I was going to shoplift.

I mean…now that I think of it…why would she ask if I wanted to place the scarf behind the counter?…It’s not NOT heavy. Other people were carrying way more items…why didn’t she approach them?

I can’t help but think it was because I wasn’t dressed as nice as the others…or maybe it was my race?

GRRR…I hate that we have to look the part to shop in certain places. Maybe if I was carrying some over-sized over-priced bag and matching heels she wouldn’t have felt the need to follow me, but no…I was dressed for comfort that day. Dressed to be stereotyped…I guess.

I asked my friend, while we were in the store, if she was noticed the special attention the sales person was giving us…she said yes. We left, but I wish I said something. No, I wouldn’t have jumped on the counter and screamed at her, but I wish I looked her straight in the eye and asked, “Are you profiling me?” You know, create some damn awareness of the situation…if she said no, sure I may think LIAR! but at least the words and thought would be out there. Maybe if I had said something she’d interact better with her customers next time and I’d feel a little more empowered and less paranoid.

::Sigh::

Oh, the world we live in.

To the Planet Funk chick who seems to have it all wrong I dedicate this song to you: