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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Oddly enough, one should be nice and high after a major life triumph like your first backpacking trip. Instead, I dropped off the side of Mount San Jacinto into the blues. Elated, I shot out an email to my family soon after I blogged about it here. It’s like dropping a pebble into a bottomless well. Except for a chirp from my sister-in-law, nothing. Well, heck, at least I expect to hear a “Well, you should’ve been working out so you don’t drag everyone behind”, but I didn’t even get that. In a way, I did know that I won’t...
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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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I posted a long time ago about the pain of being a Jane of All Trades. The trades I keep collecting have a collective weight that threaten to crush me. Just take a look at the list. Current Hobbies Playing piano, guitar (need to do more of that) and singing. Cooking. Photography. Photography of stuff I cooked. Blogging. Tweeting. USC Football fanatic. Pop culture fiend. TV junkie. Movie and entertainment news addict. Supporting the troops with being an Operation Paperback volunteer and gathering funds to do my own Operation Jingle All the Way annually. Thrill the World Los Angeles. Developing...
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