http://www.southsantamonica.com/

it looks very nice inside, upscale enough but not to the point where it would intimidate me. a good amount of people for a tuesday night. we sat ourselves outside so we don't have to listen to the bingo loudness inside (i wanted to play, but decided to just enjoy the food and the company).

ordered burger, medium, with all the fixins. peet has a way of making fun of me so that i dont' feel all offended. the burger was a good size and barbeque-y.

things i liked about it:
great burger/bun size ratio. the burger meat fit the bun just right and is flat so that it's easy to eat.
the meat was thick and filling
the overall flavoring of the bbq sauce worked for the buger

things that could have been better:
the meat was less juicy than i would have like.
the meat wasn't really seasoned at all. just decent slab of meat
not enough cheese for the size of the burger

when will i learn to start ordering my burgers medium rare instead of medium???

Jenni Cheung at 10:49 AM

i start singing around 2:16

Jenni Cheung at 02:32 PM

i think it's biting me in the ass now. there's only so much rejection a girl can take in such a short time before she feels like she's totally broken.

esp when it comes to show that all the excuses were just to make me feel less bad and was all bullshit.

i wish i could be good at being just friends, but it's just so hard.

the stress is really getting to me. that lump on my spine that i was told was a cyst years ago, is now hurting and not at its old place anymore.

i woke up hungover and ate two things of instant noodles already. i can't stop thinking about food.

i wish that myspace had a way of deactivating my account without deleting stuff. facebook does it, why can't they?

i think i give up.

Jenni Cheung at 12:23 PM

this is my last week at the current place, our lease was up at end of september. dan is moving back to his old place and i'm moving to a cozy small room 2 miles away at an artsy place with cool people. i don't know why i have so much STUFF. i really have so much stuff. i wish i wasn't such a packrat, but i take after my mother and i just like to keep everything. all my big items are there, but i still have to move over some clothes, toiletries, tupperware, kitchenware, a lot of food, and my pets along with some various other little things. then we have to clean the old place and i'm never good at stuff like that. and moving. ugh. last time i moved i had a whole month to trickle stuff over. i can't move my cat over until i get screens built for the balcony, because cat is sneaky and i don't want him wandering around a neighborhood like that. justin agreed to let cat stay with him. i hope he gets along with gadget!

so after that "how i met your mother" episode about the best burger in new york, i've decided to officially start my own quest. the first place i tried since that episode was at the Arsenal on Pico. the "arsenal of flavor" kobe burger. it was pretty damn good. usually i find myself craving father's office just because i like their beers and cocktails. but for some reason, a burger isn't really a burger unless it has tomatoes or at least a LOT of ketchup. and you don't put ketchup on the office burger, so it doesn't really satisfy my animalistic hunger. anyway... the arsenal burger has roasted tomatoes on it. and it comes with this sauce thing that i mix with ketcup and i spread a little on the bite i'm about to take each time. it was pretty good! but something happened that night that made me not remember the burger as well as i should have, so i think i have to go there again before i can write a review. lucky devil's in hollywood is really good too!

yesterday i made the best burger i've ever made that didn't have tomato in it! it was a perfectly runny fried egg on top of a burger patty seasoned with garlic salt and worcestershire sauce, topped off with cheese and a piece of lettuce, in between stove-toasted buns. i mixed up some ketchup and some japanese kewpie mayo and put some on the burger right before each bite. the egg made a mess cuz i've never eaten a runny egg burger before, but after i cleaned the initial gush, it was soo good. omg. i think next time i'll put the egg next to the bread so the bread can soak up some of the runniness. but that's definately something i'll remake.

what happened that night was that i rolled my ankle. i've never had it happen to me before! i was stepping off the seat to go to the bathroom at the arsenal, but i forgot that there was this huge step down. so i stepped unknowlingly, and boom! actually there wasn't much of a boom. if i didn't grab hold of those barstools ahead of me, it would have been boom. i have bruises on my right arm from the fall and a really swollen ankle. i literally cried for 2 minutes at the bar, then i stopped cuz i wanted to get a cigarette so i stopped being a baby. i think the alcohol numbed the pain, cuz i didn't feel too bad about it when i got home. i went to bed around 12, but then i got up at 2 to go use the bathroom and i was in SOOOO much pain! i it was exponentially worse, and that night, i couldn't even hop around cuz the blood going to my foot and the jerking motion would have made it unbearable. i had to literally sit on the floor and drag my ass around. it is better now, but i still have a limp cuz it hurts and it still looks nasty.

oh i finally have new photos in my gallery after half a year of no updates. you can see my ankle there.

Jenni Cheung at 10:13 AM