I have done a LOT this weekend, well, aside from throwing up bad fish and chips. For one, we got ourselves a new couch… …and a new “computer station”. Brandon and I haven’t had a new couch since we have gotten together, so this is quite a big deal for us. We don’t really own much of any “real” furnitures. It’s either Ikea, Target, or someone gave us something. It’s quite a huge leap into respectable adulthood over here. Now, the TV stand, replacing a folding card table, is acting as Brandon’s computer station for the moment. We’re looking into...
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You all know my obsession with getting into cardboard boxes. I think it’s time to share my passion with the world at large. Join me at my Flickr group, People in a Box, where we celebrate people of all ages, shapes, sizes and species (because some of us think our pets are people too) getting inside a really big box. I also added some random pictures I took around my house on my Flickr album as well, so go check that out too. Okeedokey? And here’s an interesting view of Downtown LA the other day. Please excuse my giant finger…...
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A surprise gift in the mail. * Olaina sent me Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warrior band that was just a wee little bit too big. A REALLY big plastic bag. * Not as much fun as a really big box though. A cake you successfully baked and prepped the night before and frosted at 5:30 a.m. * Giada rules! And before y’all think I’m crazy, this cake was for my company potluck. I can’t frost it overnight because the hazelnut brittles would’ve melted into the frosting and it won’t be any good. Jason Chambers, my newest “celebrity” crush. * Well, he’s...
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My day off from work (to make up for the 8-hour of OT from last week’s event) was spent mostly up and down Palos Verdes Peninsula. Brandon and I went for a drive, stopped at Gaffey Street Diner, and geocached all afternoon. We didn’t do too well with finding the caches, but we did enjoy our hike. We’ll be going back there, a bit more prepared next time! And tonight? We dine with our friends at Naples Rib Company. ‘Tis a good day....
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My “cousin” Nicky (you know, family friends ARE family for us Asians) graduated from UCI yesterday. I was there as his carpool buddy and personal paparazzi. After I got home, we had a moment of scare when the pictures Brandon uploaded disappeared from the server and we had already deleted them off the camera. Let me just say that thank GOD for data retrieval tools. We managed to get most of them, if not all of them back. Plus the ones we thought we lost, like the pictures of 2 burly men singing “The Greatest Love of All” on Karaoke...
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My coworker Lianne had her baby boy KJ (Kevin James) last night just past midnight. He’s the couple’s first child. Celeste and I went to see the baby and mommy around lunch time, taking with us flowers on behalf of the company and a camera. Good Samaritan Hospital was not very far from our office. We could’ve walked but we weren’t in sensible shoes for that kind of a hike so we had a little adventures on the Dash getting there and back. The call that set the entire thing in motion came in this morning. Lianne called to report...
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