So this weekend has been fairly full of odds and ends.
I finished watching Little Miss Sunshine with mike, and really enjoyed that movie. [SPOILER]Though I have to say that the superfreak dance sequence made me cringe. It’s really hard watching a ten year old do a stripper dance. And the little beauty pageant hopefuls…. are really, really creepy. I’m glad I was spared these rituals growing up. I don’t think I could live down the bright blue makeup. Oh wait, they did that to us in my Chinese Dance school. Doh.
We also went on a costco excursion. And I just received my costco rebate from American Express. 108$ baby! Which means that I spent way, way too much money. Hey, what if I charged my mortgage to AMEX? Ah, the possibilities….
On Saturday night, Ben Ma invited us out to hot pot. I haven’t had good hot pot in a really long time, so it was pretty delicious. I noticed a distinctive lack of shrimps (really essential for flavoring the soup stock well 
IMO) due to an invitee’s shrimp allergy, but it was still tasty. And there were pea shoots. Mmmm… pea shoots…
And we played Settlers—- DOH!!!
My post will now abruptly end due to Mike usurping my blog contents and the picture! (okay, so I suppose the picture was his to begin with). I published my post halfway through because I’ve accidently deleted them before while writing. At which point I noticed that Mike had just posted a new entry entitled, “Rainy Weekend” compared to my “Weekend”. And what does he talk about??? NOoooo… my hot pot… my settles. Traitor! Heh, not really. I guess that’s what happens when we do the same things. But Hah! I have something he did not do. I had a concert at Lake Merrit United Methodist Church (beautiful new venue overlooking the lake) and we had a full house! Which was most excellent. Our next concert is entitled Diva’s Revenge II, at Davies Symphony Hall, bringing back your favorite broadway hits and opera numbers in their full splendor. Should be a most excellently fun concert, and I can’t wait. April 30th, 7 pm. More details to come.