Everyone say “Congratulations, Elan!” The Glamour Geek is getting married this weekend. Last night Elan’s sisters and her friend host a bridal shower this lovely mansion home in LA. That was the smallest bridal shower I’ve been to but it is what I think all bridal should be. It was no frill and very intimate. No games or anything penis related. No mock bouquet. Just the bride, sisters, and a few friends having Thai food, Cosmos, and Amaretto brownies. Like Irena, Elan is yet another friend from the old dot com days. Actually, Elan and I met at the Star...
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Irena and Danny are moving away to Massachusetts. And they’re getting married in May 2009. Please send all the good vibes their way! Last night, I took the Metrolink down to Santa Ana where Brandon picked me up, and off we went to Irvine for a goodbye shindig for our girl and her boy. Amidst a mass of the people behind World of Warcraft, I managed to survive and had myself quite a good time. Well, you can see in the picture here. Irena’s fantastic friends hosted face and body paint artist Kari Ivey last night. Of course, I partook....
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Muhammed from Torrance Daily Breeze was in my home office on Friday night to interview me about the Temple of Fresh & Easy blog–you know, my store obsession blog. Then came the questions about why I blog about a grocery store. Why especially would I give a business free publicity and get nothing in return? Do I feel like I was taken advantage of? I know that it is his job to ask the questions and get to the bottom of why some random person would start blogging about a grocery store and expect nothing in return. The fact that...
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Me and Spidey. It’s a special relationship....
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The first anniversary of my mom’s passing is here. My heart is heavy. I picked up red roses, her favorite, at the Farmer’s market yesterday. Looking at them in the elevator, tears welled up. But I didn’t cry. Brandon held me this morning before he left for work. I didn’t want to wake up this morning. I just want to stay asleep. But I did wake up. I had to. Somebody has to put the roses in a vase for mom. I talked to my dad a while ago. The entire crew of aunties and the family went to the...
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The Christian God has been vying for my soul a bit heavily these past few weeks. Observe the long list of Catholic and Christian coincidences. #1 August 6 was the day of the dinner party with people on my last bus home. The bus was so unusually full in the morning that Tony who always sit in the back ended up in the front. Next to him was Robert, a gentleman who used to ride the bus when I started. We work in the same building. Since then he had stopped taking the bus, only popping up on the bus...
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