When our beloved excuse themselves to disappear into their video games, we call that being a [insert game name here] Widow. For example, I was an World of Warcraft Widow, an EverQuest widow, and most recently a Fallen Earth and Fall Out Widow. Now, the table is being turned around. I’m making a widower out of Brandon for the next few months. As in, a Italian Class Widower… Nora and I are taking Italian lessons together in Irvine on Saturday mornings, starting this weekend on through January. A USC Football Widower… If you’ve read my blog long enough, you’d know...
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Well, not EVERY mountain but just the one. It took Brandon and I 7 years of marriage to figure out that we both like camping. Away from the cars kind of camping. We have been investing in our camping gear. When we were shopping for a backpack, the staff mentioned that REI does have overnight backpacking classes and that we should check that out. So we did. This past Saturday and Sunday, we were in Mount San Jacinto State Park backpacking for the first time with 2 REI instructors, Greg and Michael, and 5 other newbies. One was gearing up...
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My epic battle with time this week? I guess it’s a draw. I didn’t start on Monday morning as planned. Because, as you all have heard, we plan and God laughs. Or something like that. Last Sunday night, the night I wanted to go to bed by 10 to wake up at 5:15 and work on my stuff? I ended up going to bed closer to midnight and woke up the usual call time for morning with hair wash of 5:45. I was up peeling and scraping the piths off of 25 lemons to go into my first ever batch...
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Friends, get ready for another long and slow season on the OakMonster blog. Thrill the World is here. And in full force. (Oh hey, register with our LA team here.) I’m involved in many different levels this time, a lot more than I signed up for this year. Well, you know, MJ went and died on us. That brought a lot more to the original “let’s take it easy this year” plan. I met with Amanda and Mahdroo and our new group of helpers last Wednesday. This year is going to be awesome! Friday was the second anniversary of my...
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Drupal Camp LA weekend was AWESOME. I hung out with Annette and Nick from Twitter and Matt from my dot com days. Meanwhile I met new people and made some new friends and found some new people to follow on Twitter. And yes, I learned a TON about Drupal and got myself signed up with both LA and OC Drupal Groups. I can hardly wait to get going with my first site. Well, I kinda did…but not really. LOL. Need a full geeky weekend, I tell ya. UCI Engineering quad is an awesome venue for what we had (despite the...
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So you’ve wondered where I”ve been? Around, actually. Quite a little bit. I suffered a bit of an eating injury on Sunday. Yes, you read that correctly. An. Eating. Injury. Tuesday, I spent the afternoon at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and had great bonding moments with my D40. Today, my little humble food blog, HmmFoodGood, got noticed by some OC folks and nominated for “You’ve Just Been Spotted” award for food/cooking blog at Just-Spotted.com. Hop on over to either place and vote for HmmFoodGood, won’t you? We just don’t want to crawl in last, is all. 😉 And now,...
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