can't focus.

LA is only 38 HOURS AWAY!!!!!


ok, so these are all the place we're gonna go:

in-n-out
korea town
3rd street promenade
hollywood
universal studios/six flags (still in dispute)
santa monica
a beautiful day wedding at manhattan beach marriott (conrad's getting married!!)



at 5:24 today, my vacation officially starts and i am home freeeeee!!!!!

now if i can focus and get all this work behind me..

oh and one more thing -

eric, i know you were trying to redeem yourself by leaving that last comment!

it's ok... i only care to be pretty to one person anyway.

=D

i think i had forgotten that i am a girl until last night. it was an absolutely pampering experience.

cluck u's wings.
wine.
diet wild cherry pepsi.

4 girls sitting on the tub with feet in hot water.
scrubbing feet with cheese grater.
holding down jenny as she screams out of ticklishness.
a lot of dead skin in the tub. (to julie's horror)

playing "girls nite out".
making up our own questions.
dreams.
"getting caught."

strawberries.
angel cake.

nails.
french with scotch tape.
stubby toes.

heat mask.
getting face washed.
smurfs.
toner/moisturizer.

trading massages.
learning namee went plant shopping with edgar.

origins 60-second hand care.
baby soft hands.

=)


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4.10.o5. it was absolutely wonderful. full of surprises starting midnight to the end of the day. i still look for feet on the other side when i open the garage door in the morning and a heart outside my window before i go to bed.

i finally saw a picture of mike alley on the wrbs website. and boy, you're right eric, he's quite overweight. i guess that sort of explains his uneven breathing and occasional inside burps during his traffic reports.

tracy is not quite as i imagined her. her hair is a little too straight.. and she's wearing a dab too much make-up. very pretty though. i always wonder how old she is... from the picture, i'd say 35? 36?



so i realized (more like i was told) that i've been portraying chris and myself as alcoholics in my webshots pictures. especially chris, who looks "red and puffy" in almost every picture. believe me, it doesn't even take a whole glass of wine for him to turn like that.

speaking of pictures, i posted some more from the retreat and my brief visit to the hopkins campus last night. yesterday was not only a beautiful day, but a beautiful night.

notice chris' normal, pale face. :)


this is a picture from the retreat.



now tell me that's not cute.

what a beeeauutiful spring day.

it was kinda nice driving by charles street for lunch and seeing peabody students painting or enjoying a book under a tree or chatting with their friends in the warm sun. an unexpected witness of calm leisure and peacefulness in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the city is never anything short of pleasant. the flowers were quite impressive as well... probably cuz we've been so long deprived of them.

what was even more pleasant was the long lunch at a nice sushi place and the too-brief walk to and from the car and the restaurant. and of course, the lovely flowers that are sitting pretty on my desk as i write this post. i mean, as i work away on my computer.

today should be a friday.

i didn't have coffee all week. i was so proud of myself that today i rewarded myself with some coffee. and boy, what was i thinking, refusing coffee for a week! i think i've had withdraw effects that i didn't even know i was having. maybe this is what my sickness this week was all about. :/


on a different note, my sister and i had a bit of a quarrel this morning. i mean really, must i wake up at 4am to shower for 10 minutes just so that she can take a 55-minute shower without making me late to work?

i can't wait til she's married so she can have her own stupid bathroom.

she's lucky traffic was light today. or else she would've really heard from me. when i got in my car, i was relieved to hear mike alley on the radio (my day doesn't start off right when this guy takes a day off) say, "traffic is SO light today that if you leave on time, you'll probably get there early." man, how often do we hear that in a traffic report. it was great.


now that i've made it to work on time, i should probably get to work. =)