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JANUARY 2007 ARCHIVES 6:31 PM 1/1/2007happy new year! i hope everybody had a safe and happy one last night. is it just me, or did 2006 fly by way too quickly? even the final countdown caught me off guard - "wait, it's almost midnight? dude, pass me a glass of champagne! hurry!!" i tried to text message a few people but i guess all the networks were jammed up, because hardly anything went through. i did get a certain somebody's "From this point forward, disregard any text message that i send as i'm intoxicated" message though, which made me laugh pretty hard. anyways, i just wanted to say thanks again to all of my friends and family who kept me sane and happy through 2006. i honestly can't put into words how much you guys mean to me. i realize i'm very lucky to have so many amazing people in my life. and not to sound conceited or anything, but you guys are equally lucky to have me in your life. haha, jk. sorta. as usual, i haven't made any new years resolutions (why mess with perfection?), but i HAVE vowed to support tom's resolution to be unrealistically optimistic throughout all of 2007. it's gonna be an awesome year, i can feel it! i turn 25 in four days. i can't tell if i've finally come to terms with it or if i'm in denial. in any case, it's almost here, and i haven't even made plans yet. mainly because i'm sure you guys are all planning on putting aside your petty differences with each other to throw me a nice surprise birthday party at the patina.....right? right. ok enough writing. on to the pictures:  check out my sister's brilliant idea to clean out my closet. it kinda looks like katrina ripped through my room.  look carefully - that's my chair under the pile of clothes.  can you believe i'm late to work almost every morning because i can never find clothes to wear?  the finished result - the clothes nazi literally made me throw out a good third of my wardrobe. now all we have left to sort through is the other half of the closet, six drawers, my shoes, and my purses and sweaters. man, somebody's gonna be having a field day at salvation army next week.  horseback riding two weekends ago. don't ask us where our horses are.  best x-mas exchange present ever - an iMode for my ipod that randy bought. after this picture was taken, it was stolen from me by my cousin, which made me really sad. i picked nice pillows next, but those were subsequently stolen by my aunt. then i got a franklin covey planner, which i managed to hold onto for about thirty seconds until my other cousin stole it. i ended up with a pair of really loud pajamas. but then my mom stole the iHome from my cousin and gave it back to me so it was all good. my mom's freaking awesome!  how cute is this!?!? the little one was from lynn, the middle one my coworker won for me at dave and buster's in cleveland, and the big one was part of my x-mas present from the deputy. to all you haters out there rolling your eyes, i challenge you to sit through one episode of spongebob squarepants and NOT laugh your ass off. i swear it's impossible.  b and e.  why do i bother posting new pictures? we look the same, year after year. see last year's pic for proof.  us + melinda!  donny and lynn, post-champagne spraying. 12:26 AM 1/7/2007 day two of being 25. it's not too bad so far, though i've been informed (repeatedly) by some friends and coworkers that everything is downhill from here. thanks to everybody who called/text messaged/emailed to wish me happy birthday - i was touched that so many of you remembered. for all you losers who forgot, you can consider our friendship officially over. unless, of course, you buy me a really nice present to make up it. :) anyways, it was one of my better birthdays, with the exception of some work-related stuff. keri and lynn showed up at the butt crack of dawn (okay, it was more like 7:20 AM, but i was barely awake) to surprise me with breakfast, a million dollars worth of junk food, a pink HAPPY BIRTHDAY tiara and two happy birthday balloons. they were so cute. i, on the other hand, was NOT. got to work all late, and then yumi and some coworkers took me out to the french garden for lunch, located in probably one of the worst parts of los angeles. i mean, we were deep in the heart of skid row. but the ambience inside the place was awesome and the food was great, so we had a good time. came back (alive, miraculously), and then saw that tom had sent me a vase full of irises...spent the rest of the afternoon trying to work and respond to emails/voicemails at the same time. it was lame. left work early, went to dinner @ a korean restaurant, came home, went out, ate more, and then got pressured into watching the descent around one in the morning. lemme tell you, there is no better way to end your 25th birthday than by watching six girls getting eaten alive by cave-dwelling monsters in the goriest ways possible for an entire hour and forty minutes straight. ugh. i decided that if i was ever crazy enough to go spelunking one day, i'd bring along as many machine guns and rocket launchers as i could humanly carry, just in case. worst case scenario, i'd just take myself out before anything started chewing on MY leg. afterwards i slept in til ten, and then headed up to chado tea house in beverly hills with my sister, lynn and keri. it was really good, and we were sufficiently full by the time we left. i think i ate like twenty scones.  walking around on santa monica.  yum.  me and my sister. anyways, i haven't done any work in the past 24 hours. now i'm gonna sleep at a decent time. wow. being 25 ain't so bad after all. ;) later, everybody. 9:26 PM 1/16/2007 too tired to post anything remotely interesting...busy season is not being very nice to me so far. :(  irises from tom.  tulips from my mom.  random flowers from uh, my biggest fan. p.s. one more cute picture: 
11:43 PM 1/22/2007 hey, it's the one year anniversary of this page. and i'm celebrating by writing yet another boring update. i'm actually in the middle of packing, working, and fixing the stupid dresser drawer that exploded on me five minutes ago as a result of my repeated efforts to cram in seven million sweaters into roughly three square feet of space. i'm also trying to keep the deputy awake on the phone on his drive back to utah from vegas, but i'm not doing a very good job because i'm so freakin' tired myself. so i'm flying to sacramento tomorrow for a new client, which would probably be a cool experience but for the following: 1) sacramento sucks, 2) i'm exhausted, 3) the only hotel i could find was a horrible, half-star quality inn or best western or whatever, and 4) really, the last thing i need right now is a new client. on the bright side, i heard there's a decent mall in roseville. maybe nobody will notice if i slip away for a few hours... anyways, since i need to sleep, i'm gonna cut this update short. i'll try and post from sacramento, aka party capital of california. or wait, was it cow capital of california? i always get the two confused.  more flowers! erin sent me these for my belated birthday. :) Just wanted to say hi... and to let you know that china (yes, the entire country) has blocked your website... hahaha. I don't know what kind of anti-communism/china stuff you have on there, but I can't access it. i have no idea what would prompt china to block my site, but i think my parents would be proud if they knew. haha. all right, my bed is calling. later, everybody - have a great week! 11:44 PM 1/27/2007 reason number 4,392,931 why you shouldn't mess with connie...  anyways, i got back from sacramento thursday night. aside from the multiple technical difficulties with my rental car's GPS, the internet at my hotel, the internet at my client and the stupid malfunctioning whirlpool jets in my room's hot tub, it was a pretty uneventful trip. i also got busted at the airport on the way back because the plastic bag carrying all my liquids/gels was too big - oops. apparently i was using a one GALLON bag instead of a one quart zipiloc. the guy searching my stuff was nice about it though and eventually let me go after i went on for several minutes about how "i honestly had no idea" and "when i flew to vegas and phoenix, nobody said anything" and "oh man, you're not gonna make me throw out my makeup, are you?" let's see, what else...i spent a couple hours freezing my butt off as a lame portrait model for keri's photography class at ucla. note to self: check weather forecast next time before leaving the house in a short dress and heels. duh. it started raining halfway through and i was not a happy camper. i did manage to snap this shot of a fat squirrel eating an apple though:  ucla squirrels are awfully cute when they're not getting all crazy/aggressive on you. ok, that's it for now. hope everybody had a great week - post more in a few days. :) | |||||||
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