Rubiks Cubes and a Corvette

Few stories from this weekend:

1) Zach and I were sharing a car on Friday so he could exercise with the dog and we could go straight from my work to the jewelry district. I went outside to wait for him on the sidewalk, just like I usually do. I see a loud Corvette go by, don't think anything of it, until the thing flips around and parks in front of me. I slowly turn to give the guy an annoyed look, because I hate random people trying to talk to me, until I see Zach is the driver's seat. I then proceeded to just stare at him for a few moments despite the fact that hes essentially in the middle of the road. I was so confused. The thing is kind of fun, but I didn't love it. It was a great surprise, which is what Zach intended (its his bosses boyfriends car), and you can feel every bump in these terrible LA roads. Zach had a blast.. untillllll... He woke up this morning and found that someone had cut through the roof and stolen the radio. Seriously, everything bad happens to him. If it can happen and its terrible, its going to happen to him. I felt so bad for him. He went to the police station and filed a report, and finally got a hold of the owner. The owner was pretty understanding, but doesn't want to file an insurance claim, so hopefully he doesn't think that Zach's going to pay for the entire thing to get fixed just because he isn't filing a claim. He wanted Zach to buy the car, which is why he kept asking Zach to borrow it, but I'm hoping Zach doesn't. I don't like Corvettes, especially this one now.

2) The jewelry district was awesomeeee. We knew we would only have time to go to one store before we went, and I'm glad we went to the one we did. I love the ring we found there, and I feel like he gave us a great education and a great price. We went to the mall afterward and saw some other rings, and even though they were only a little less expensive they were MUCH worse diamonds... like pretty much yellow. Beautiful settings at the mall too, but I want a better quality diamond even if it means a little more money. We will be going back to a couple other stores in the jewelry district, but this is certainly a huge front runner.

3) Yesterday Zach and I went with Layne (Corvette owner) to his son's Rubik's cube competition. Funniest thing I've ever been to. His son is actually really cool and extremely normal (especially compared to these super nerdy Cal Tech kids) and hes even started his own website to sell Rubik's cube things despite only being 16. Supposedly hes making really good money off of it. The other kids at the competition call him Justin Beiber, which I loved. It was truly a fascinating experience.

4) Keira and I (and Kyla a little bit) just made some chocolate covered fruit in my fondue thing. She and I rarely do things together like this, so it was a great bonding experience. My coworker, Frances, is always so nice to me; she is one of the kindest people I have ever met and she loves to surprise me with lunches, tea lattes and pastries. She is so hard to buy anything for (and she is SO fast at getting the bill at restaurants, its unfair) but last week she mentioned that she loves the chocolate covered oranges and bananas at edible arrangements while she was ordering for her cousin. Being that Valentines Day is tomorrow I decided to make her both of those, and of course some strawberries for myself :). I bought a ton of fruit so we've been snacking the whole time, and I certainly made enough to eat some myself.

Anyways, Zach and I are more excited by the day to get home. This Corvette getting broken into made it that much worse. Zach doesn't want to be in our apartment for even another night, and he won't be bringing his motorcycle back there at all. I also found out my grandparents aren't coming out here until April, so I'm just going to fly out with them then. So glad February is a short month, we'll be back soooon.