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well. today is 1 year. it's sort of crazy to say/think.
but then again, it actually feels like it's been much longer.

so anyway. i didn't really think we were going to do much since it's in the middle of the week, and we have lots of school stuff going on right now, etc.

but.

james just called me and told me that we have a reservation at the melting pot tonight. i've been bugging him to go there for so long... way before it even opened. ha. so maybe boys really do listen to us? :]


p.s. last night, i actually pulled the melting pot menu that i had picked up a while back out of the "menu drawer" that we have at my house. i carefully looked it over, then put it back in the drawer and thought... "maybe one day." ha.

health food & photos.

i went to target today and felt inspired to buy some healthy snacks. i haven't been feeling well lately. [lots of headaches.] i think it could have something to do with my crappy diet, so maybe healthier options will help. i have to say, these little bars are pretty tasty. :]

also. now that i've realized how much i need to do for school, i'm ready to upload the photos from this past weekend. go figure.

wednesday night, james and i went to fallon to see alyssa and family. it was so good to catch up on old times. :] plus, it was the first time james had come to fallon with me. i hadn't been back for a long time. i can't believe there is a starbucks now. it's just weird to go back and see how much things have changed.

thursday morning i headed to the airport at 4:30. when i was waiting in line to check my bag, the guy in front of me turned around and i was in la-la land, so he got my attention, and i realized that he was in my education class over the summer. we had worked on our group project together. ha. well he ended up being on the same flight as me, and sitting in the row in front of me! kinda random. plus, he knew the denver airport better than me, so he helped my find my way to the passenger pickup area. nice.

i have no idea why i keep thinking it's a good idea to book my flights so early! but it was pretty cool to watch to sunrise from the plane. plus, this time, i guess i had to leave really early because i needed to be there in time for thanksgiving number 1 at my mom's parent's house. pretty much all of my mom's side was there, and it was nice to see everyone. it was a little bit weird though because i feel kind of distant from my cousins now... it seems we are all grown up and it's a little weird. anyway. it was pretty cold there. i was excited to see the snow on the ground though. :]



[here's a little action shot of the guys carving the turkey. ha.
then that's my only girl cousin [who just got married] in the green shirt, playing cards with my grandma and mom.
and one of paul and amanda while we were just hanging out.]





then it was back to denver for thanksgiving number 2 at my dad's parent's house. there was a big group of relatives there as well. it was so nice to see everyone again. :] plus, there weren't any mashed potatoes at thanksgiving number 1, so i had to stock up this time. ha.

my grandpa got up before we started eating and pretended like he was going to give a big speech, and everyone was kind of sighing and giggling, then he just said something very brief like "it's nice to have everyone together." ha. little trickster. it was really cool to see my dad with all the relatives again, since it's been so long since he's been back to colorado. it was such a fun and jam packed day... that night, i slept really well. :]

friday, we all went to see my uncle's house... i think he's doing a flip. you know, fixing it up and selling it. he's really good at decorating, so it was neat to see his ideas. :]


then my sister and i went on a little shopping trip. we were trying to find something to wear to my cousin's reception, but didn't have any luck. i love the way the anthropologie window was decorated though. so cool with all the paper snowflakes sewn together. my parent's went back to my mom's parent's house that day, but i stayed in denver with my brother and sisters. we had really good asian food that night. seriously. it was awesome. and instead of little candies or something that would usually come with the bill, they gave us these little ice cream thingys. they were so good. little ice creams covered in marzipan or something. i have no clue what exactly it was, but it was really good. :] that night, we all played ricky ticky. it's my grandpa's favorite card game, and i have to say... it's really fun!



saturday, we went to the aquarium with my grandpa. i loved it. there was a pink fish in what we decided to call the "nemo exhibit" and the only sign by the tank was for clown fish... so i think it was a pink clown fish. anyway. i want one of those! i always love looking at the jellyfish too. after lunch, we headed back up to my other grandparents house to go to the wedding reception. there were a lot of people there, but i didn't really know that many of them. luckily, most of the cousins sat together, so i had people i knew to talk to. it was a little weird though because it felt like everyone there was in a couple, and i was really missing james by that point. :/ i wish he could have come. maybe we can make a trip at some point though.

on the way back to denver that night, we drove downtown to see the capitol building that had been decorated for the holidays. i couldn't get a good photo, but it was seriously amazing to see it in person.

that was pretty much the trip. :] sunday morning we headed back home. i wasn't feeling too well, but i was just glad that i didn't get sick on the plane or anything. i really didn't want to come home, but it was nice to see james again. he can tell i really like it in denver, and when we were talking about it, he said that it might be possible for us to live there someday. ha. how cool. :]

ok. better get to my reading now. this is a long post anyway!

maybe i'm not tall enough to be a supermodel...

but i'll never have trouble fitting into a seat on an airplane. :]

yes. it's always interesting to notice how cramped in people can be on airplanes. but lucky for me, i'm short enough to not have that problem.

on the flight to denver, both the people next to me (i prefer the window seat) were complaining because the people in front of us all reclined their seats.
then, i flew home on the same flight as my parents, and my dad kept asking me if i wanted to put my purse above instead of under my seat so that i had room for my feet. i guess it was hard for him to understand the possibility of having enough room since he's so tall.

anyway. i'm still pretty tired and recovering, but the weekend was amazing. i don't want to be home, except to see james.
well i have some pictures to post, but i'm not feeling up to it right now. i just wanted to check in and say that i hope everyone had a fabulous holiday!

reunion.

tis the season for reunions, right?





well tonight, i went to have sushi with kal and kade. how fun!
when james and i got there, brian was there as well. he has a class with james this semester, and another boy from their class came to dinner too, so james had a good time too. then mark ended up coming as well. it was nice to see some of the boys i haven't seen for so long. :]

now. does anyone have a suggestion about how to make myself become more interested in doing the laundry i need to do in order to pack!?

weekend review.

i kept meaning to blog this weekend, but it didn't happen.

anyway. it was a good weekend. lots of excitement.
[which was needed after getting the terrible test score.]

friday night, james and i went to see american gangster with yenh and joey. it was seriously so so good. i'm generally really bad at watching movies with violence, but this one was so good, it made up for it.



saturday was thanksgiving for my club. i had it at my house last year, so i ended up having it here again. that means i had to clean things saturday morning. plus, our turkey maker from the past several years graduated last year. that left me to bake the turkey! it was my first time ever making a turkey, and i did it all by myself. i'm not going to lie... i was pretty proud. and everyone said it was really good, so i was super happy about that. :] we had a small group, but it was really fun. lots of yummy thanksgiving food.

saturday night was a bit of a girls' night. deepa wanted to see august rush, but it was sold out when we got to the theater. so we ended up seeing the bee movie. it was cute, but not fabulous.

i was just going to stay home once i got done with the movie, but then erin called me to tell my portugal. the man was playing a show here. so i decided to go. i ended up seeing andrew there. so random. we talked for a little bit, but then he had to leave. ah well. it was nice to see him since the phone number i had for him is no longer his phone number.

sunday was a rough day at work. things kept going wrong with the computer, so that just made it a little harder than it should have been. james came for lunch though, so that was really nice.

we also had my favorite pizza for dinner... from jj's pie company. i had the wings, which made me a happy girl. plus i stole some of james' crust to dip in the honey. mmm. :]

well. i think it's time to go shopping now. i still need to find something to wear to my cousin's wedding reception while i am in denver. has anyone seen anything super cute lately? i'm having a hard time finding something i like.

p.s. alyssa, i realized i have lab meeting on wednesday, so i won't be done until around 4pm, so i probably won't make it out until closer to 5pm. will that work for you?

bad day.

yep. i had a met reg exam today, and i have never felt so bad leaving an exam.
it's just plain frustrating.
especially after getting and A on the first exam, then preparing in the same manner, and then having to turn in the exam with a 14 point question left blank.
blah. i don't even know what to do about it. i'm just at a loss.

i'm trying to stay motivated with school, but it's so hard. first of all, i feel like i can't keep up, but then there are just too many other things i'd rather be doing with my time.

i made it to the last round of last scrapper standing, but i'm not going to do the challenge.
it seems sort of ashame not to do it, but i'm just not feeling inspired. :/

ah well.
i guess i just needed to vent.

blind date.

last night i guess i set up a little blind date for liz and zachary. ha.

well first, james, radhika, liz, and i went to dinner at the summit and tried to do a little shopping, but we only had 30 minutes. so it wasn't very successful.

then radhika, liz, and i went to divine, but there was no one there so we went to seven. radhika and i played liar's dice and we all just talked for a while. there was a creeper who came and sat at our table, but luckily zachary came to meet us and the creeper left.

i don't know how good of a match maker i am, but i think it went pretty well. they seemed to get along. :]

liz wanted a grilled cheese, so we tried to go to silver peak, but it was busy and stuff, so we went to awful awful instead. ha. that always makes for a random time. radhika and i agreed that we haven't laughed that hard in a really long time. liz is a good story teller. :] she just kept coming up with more stories that were strangely hilarious. like flying over her bike handlebars on the way to the hilton or trying to get rid of hiccups in paris.


on the walk back to the car, liz and zachary decided to make the alley look "more like an alley" by scattering the newspaper that had been dropped. i decided it did look more like an alley, so i took this photo. ha.

some other random things happened too.

i saw sydney at seven, and then a bit later... the roommate that moved in to replace her came to seven too. how random.

then when we were leaving seven to go to silver peak, i saw blake cooper. even more ranodm.

and right when i walked in to silver peak, i saw owen mackedon. hello random.

it was a fun night though. :] now it's time to read and study. i have an exam in metabolic regulation on wednesday, and i have to have a book read for core humanities on wednesday as well. eek. all i want to do is work on fun scrapbook stuff, but i just can't. grr. :/

yeo.bo.sae.ohh.

well. you can't really spell korean words in english, but i make attempts. it's the only way i can remember. i think that is hello.

last night, we went to dinner at carol's boyfriend's restraunt, so i asked carol and her sister if i was saying it right, and they tried to help me spell it in english so i can remember. ha. :] it will probably still take a while before i will say it to james' parents or anything like that.

i think i managed to get most of the photos i wanted up in that last post. that was a serious pain. everytime i tried to do more than one photo, i would wait forever then get an error. so i had to upload them one at a time, which means i trimmed down the amount i was going to post. ah well. that's a pretty good selection i think.

i *finally* went to the gym tonight. luckily james was there when i got there and he was just finishing up, so he came upstairs [where the girlie machines are] when he was done and helped me out. there are so many machines that i have no clue how to use. so he told me what i should do and helped me learn how to do the lifts properly. really helped. then i went for a really short run until i got lightheaded and dizzy. [what's the deal with that lately!?]

tonight we had a random little get-together at mike's house. it was a lot of biochemers. both the grad students from my lab were there too. so everyone was playing guitar hero. but i refused. and i will contiue to refuse. i really don't need another addiction. and everyone else was smoking the hookah. i stayed away though... smoke gives me such a bad headache. they were in the garage though, and i still had my gym clothes on... so it was too cold for me to be out there, which left me with a good excuse to stay away. :]

so here's the highlight... i'd eaten a salad before i went to the gym, so i was pretty hungry and james and liz and radhika were too. so we went to dairy queen. liz is a vegetarian, so she wanted a grilled cheese. so radhika asked if they had grilled cheese. the drive-thru guy said no. so we were all thinking what the heck... are they serious. and i pointed out that they have toast... so really... it seemed a little strange to us. so liz goes, "will you ask him if i can have two pieces of toast with cheese melted in the middle?" ha. so radhika actually did ask, and the guy goes, "umm. well. i guess i can do that. i'll just put it in the microwave or something." it was seriously hilarious to us. but liz got her grilled cheese, so all was well.

anyway. i'm so super tired. and so super sick of school. and so super wanting to just scrapbook. ah well. goodnight.