Somethings never change

In 1998-2000 I lived in Los Gatos there was this one Chinese fast food place that I would go to sometimes. Their chow mein and sweet & sour chicken was always the best in town I thought.
Since then I've lived overseas and just out of the area. So this evening I figured I'd drive over there and have it again. What surprised me was that it cost the same today as it did over 8 years ago. Seriously! Gas has risen by $2.50 a gallon, milk has even risen, rent has skyrocketed, there was even a rice shortage, but this place has not changed their prices, I'm amazed.

A mini-fridge dedicated to beer?

So is it bad if you have a mini-fridge just for your alcohol?



So recently we had a housewarming party, people surprised us by bringing gifts of the alcoholic nature. By the time the party was over, we had 4 bottles of wine, and 2 12 packs of beer.

So we put our heads together and figured we needed to have a party to get rid of this alcohol. Thanks to David and Landon that wanted to throw a party but didn't have a venue, we had a party the following weekend.

So thinking 24+ bottles of beer, 4 bottles of wine was enough we didn't buy anything else. As people started to show up we realized they had more alcohol.

At the end of that party we now have more beer, less wine, and now a hard liquor collection that has started. I think it's in order to have another in a month, put please don't bring anything as we don't really drink so we want to get rid of what we have.

So I have a friend...

No really I do have a friend and this story is about her. Of course her permission to blog about her. Actually she asked me to blog about this so here is her story...

So you know ladies when you get near that magic number of 30 and god forbid still single you start to look around and ask yourself why. They you think ah a proactive approach might be best, so you do what we've all done that are single over 28 you sign up e'feh harmony. Then you get these stupid matches that look good then the next day you get a closed message that just says 'other'. You're left thinking well if you can't man up and say why you closed then you aren't the man for me.

Then you meet that one guy, you know the one where you start to click, you've gone through the questions, the must have/can't stand list and you match up pretty well. So you start to email, things are going great. Now you're just waiting for him to man up and ask to meet. Finally a week later he does and the next thing you know on Wednesday you are grabbing coffee.

Holy moiling, you are actually meeting. Okay so he gave me his really email and I now know his last name. (of course I've already tried my name with his last name). So I do exactly what Oprah tells you NOT to do. You google him. Being the non-computer genius you are you don't find anything. That’s right not even a myspace or facebook page of him. Does he really exist?

So of course you tell your girlfriends, and give them all the latest juice on this guy, before your coffee date. Being the good friends that they are and knowing that you aren't the most computer savvy person around they google him. This time they find something....

That's that right something you aren't sure if you should tell your friend before the date or after the date. So being the friend they are they hold off until after the date.

The date come and its FABOLOUS! Man this guy is great, we click there wasn't more than 2 minutes of awkward conversation at the beginning. Things flowed well, and at the end there was a hug and words that you thinking there could be another.

As you are sharing this with your friend, they are thinking if now is the time to share this. So finally after 10 minutes they break the news too you. He has a 95% chance of being ENGAGED! that’s right your friends found his myspace page and there is a girl waving an engagement ring on it with comments of congratulations.

You take the news as a shock and don't know what to think or say. You feel slightly crushed, embarrassed and confused. Why would a guy that is engaged be on e'feh Harmony?

Well a few days pass and no word from him, of course no email for closure or anything. So you brave it up and write him an email. That basically says thanks for the great time, just curious as to why no email. Then you brave it up even more and put 'ps you might want to ask your fiancé to pull down your myspace page.'

Don’t worry it only gets better, one week after the coffee you are driving with your friend and suddenly you notice that walking down the street it’s him…..his fiancé…. And his dog. You flip a U turn just to confirmed that yes you did go on a coffee date with an engaged guy.

I'm nervous about Rollercoasters

So I recently figured out what my job is like a long roller coaster that never ends.
I go through 4 major events a year that take months of planning, so image those as my big climbs to the steep drops. Then through out those months of leading up to some major event I have many small events for between 40-100 people, which to me are like the little vertexes that you spiral down really quickly somewhat unexpected. Then on this ride I have those sudden loops that take you by surprise where suddenly I just have to make sure quick things are 100% completed as lives depend on it.

All in all I'm not sure what I think about this ride but right now my hands are up and I'm ready to go down from this climb.

I like station wagons!

It seems that it's getting closer to that time of year again. You know the time of year when you're over 28 you start to dread? The time of year when people say ah you aren't old 30's the new 20? The time of year where you really start to notice those gray hairs that are creeping up? Well, it's that time of the year for me pretty soon.

As I sit down and reflects on my 30th year (which I still have one month of left) I realize I haven't completed one of my goals. I had this goal to visit 30 countries by the time being 30 was over with. I still have I believe 7 left. I think that goal will need to change to 30 countries by the time I'm out of my 30ths.

In the past 11 months I've had the chance to travel to Tacoma, which was just awesome. Then did a road trip to Kansas City, MO. Both of those trips I got to do with my good friend Cassie.

Also in the past 11 months I changed jobs. It's funny in a recent conversation with an old friend she mentioned that I've had a lot of jobs in my life. As we reflected on those jobs, each one taught me something that I'm now able to tie into my dream job of sorts that I'm now in. Leaving the corporate world banking wasn't that hard to do as my heart was never in it. It's strange to think that I haven't even been in my new job for 10 months, I don't think there could be a more prefect job for me out there.

I had two of my photo's auctioned off for charity. Which was awesome as I've never even sold a photo before, but they each went for $300. The greatest part was that all the money raised by the auction in total was around $9,000 and I got to pick the organization it went too. After that a few people were keen to purchase some of my work.

My car was totaled as well in the past 11 months, so bye bye Honda Civic and hello Chevy HHR. I'm still super pleased with my choice. Now thinking about it I think I have a thing for station wagons. Am I odd?

Let's see what this next year holds for me...

handbags

I was in Barcelona in the spring of 2004, all over the place they had such creative handbags. I would look at them and think I can make that, or that would be pretty easy to design. Low and behold I never attempted to make one.

Now years later I'm going to attempting too. Charlie and I were chatting a few weeks ago about doing something called Advent Conspiracy. To find out more check out their website. So a little over 2 weeks ago we got together for an evening of chit chat, creativity, and brain storming. After looking through lots of books and magazines I came to the conclusion that I should attempt to make some of those creative hand bags I saw in Barcelona.