Long weekends, oh how I love you.   Didn't have to work on Friday because it was my brother's high school graduation.  Go Kyle!


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It snowed this weekend!  It was so pretty- Mark and I curled up in front of the fire for most of Saturday and watched movies and napped.  Yay for cozy-time!  It's still so cold here that a lot of the snow hasn't melted.  I get today off, but Mark had to go into work.  Boooooo.  I should probably do a deep clean of the house...  but I think I'd ( Read more... )

Today I made the second-most expensive purchase towards our China trip (plane tickets being the most expensive)...I got my backpack.  If you've ever backpacked before, you know how important it is to have a decent pack.  And while I have a great, sturdy, and uber-expensive pack from my prior travels abroad, that one is WAY too big for just a month- ( Read more... )

I had a very merry Christmas indeed, and I hope that the rest of you who celebrate Christmas felt the merry, too!  I'm not Christian, but I do believe that Jesus Christ was a great and enlightened teacher... a Buddha!  (The evangelical Catholic students I once shared that belief with all looked at me in shock and horror, but I think it's just ( Read more... )

I need to go to sleep because I have a busy day tomorrow but Mark and I got coffee tonight and now I'm wide awake and my sweetie is falling asleep.  Oh noooooooo!  I need to get sleepy!  I am way too wired right now, WTF ( Read more... )

Mark and I have this one Chinese restaurant that we love to go to, Chin Chin 2.  They have great food, but it's never crowded when we go, and we always have the same server.  She's fabulous- her name is Novi and she hails from Indonesia.  Spunky, funny, incredibly intelligent and multi-lingual.  She already has her law degree from Indonesia, but ( Read more... )