saturday afternoon was my cousin's memorial service. it was incredibly tough. it was held on the google campus, at one of the cafes and it was standing room only; there were so many people there. if i were to venture a guess, there were close to 200 people. it was simply amazing to see just how many people my cousin had touched in his short 29 ( Read more... )

oh, don't get me wrong - i'm LOVING this cool and sunny weather and there's no way I want it to get any hotter. but...i'm done with the semester. i'm in my second-to-last week and i have NO motivation to do much of anything. i honestly do not know how professors expect their students to concentrate when they've got final projects/papers and are ( Read more... )

marshall and i went to my coworker's annual christmas cookie exchange this last weekend. we had a great time and ended up staying way later than i think either of us anticipated. we were just having too much fun chatting with people. at one point the conversation turned to pets. it turns out the hostess had had pet rats a while back. they went ( Read more... )

i found this article after reading a related article. normally, i don't read cnn, but a friend on facebook linked this article, which sounded good (even though i already know that real men buy flowers, marshall buys me flowers :P). anyway, this other article caught my eye with the tagline "why you should NOT cohabitate before marriage". marshall ( Read more... )

well...it certainly has been a while since i last posted. i'm not sure if i can remember exactly what has happened in the last week, incluing last weekend. yikes... maybe bullet points will help keep things organized.

• last saturday: after the breakfast club last saturday, marshall and i headed out to morgan hill to pick up our "save the dates ( Read more... )

my grandma passed away today at 4 in the morning. her home called my parents at 5 and my mom called me before 9, while i was at the dentist. i had a strong feeling that she would pass in the night last night. in fact, i was playing WoW at 10pm last night and suddenly felt nervous or anxious. it was so sudden, it took a little out of me and i ( Read more... )