Fall Cleaning

Today I got a shoebox out of the closet (Vans Old Skool Flame print...I remember wearing those!) and decided it was time to go through its contents: what remains of my old cassette tapes. I actually do have a cassette player at work, and those tapes aren't getting any younger. So, I shall present a list. Two lists, actually.

Ahem.

Store-Bought
1. Paula Abdul: Forever Your Girl
2. Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here AND The Division Bell
3. Barenaked Ladies: Stunt
4. Sublime: Second Hand Smoke
5. Pachelbel Ocean Sounds (my personal favorite)

Copied
1. Elvis Costello: The Very Best of Elvis Costello and the Attractions
2. Bob Dylan: Nashville Skyline
3. DMB: Crash AND Live at Luther College
4. Green Day: Nimrod
5. The Violent Femmes: New Times (definitely NOT their best album)
6. Bob Dylan: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
7. The Pietasters: Strapped Live!
8. The Beastie Boys: Hello Nasty

And, one blank tape. What to copy, what to copy.

I have to admit, I was kind of bummed out that my Debbie Gibsons have vanished, along with a few other gems.

Another Brick in the [Facebook] Wall

At a party recently, I realized that I am the only person in America, no, let's revise that, the only person in the world, never to have typed "www.Facebook.com" onto an Internet browser page. Nate has been needling me to do this for ages. Pam has jumped on the peer pressure bandwagon, and so have a few other so-called "friends," too. I had my reasons for holding out. However, this morning, I not only typed said URL address, I also made a Facebook page of my very own.

How do I feel?

Like a non-profit worker who has gone to the corporate world.
Like John Glenn, landing on the moon.
Like an indie band, finally getting signed to a big label.
Like a normal human being, whose friends will no longer mock her uncoolness in public on purpose. You know who you are.

Now that I have finally given in to the whole Facebook craze, (I guess the "craze" is totally over...now it is just par for the course...way for me to be late) I guess I should also get around to listening to New Kids on the Block, playing Pogs, drinking Crystal Pepsi, and creating a Neopet, too.

I'd better get to it.

Jell-O

As we all know by now (via the other blog) I'll do anything to help cure cancer, especially leukemia, lymphoma, and other blood cancers. Which is why I agreed to Jell-O wrestle for the second time this weekend to raise money for TNT. This post isn't making it onto the other blog for obvious reasons (remember, it has a PG rating...). Anyhoo, here are the links to the most recent set of photos, as well as the photos from the original event. I think they speak for themselves.

Jell-O Wrestling!

More Jell-O Photos

Japan and Vietnam

Oh, Japan and Vietnam, how can I blog thee? Let me count the ways...

There is just too much to say about how much fun our travels were! If I were a more with-it blogsperson, I would have done little updates along the way. But then I would have been sitting in front of a computer instead of out having fun. Alas, I chose the latter.

I will let the photos speak for themselves. Too bad a picture is worth a thousand words and not a thousand dollars. Just kidding. Kind of.

Photos Galore!

Take it

to the top of the key!
We
want
three.

(Some things are definitely taking up space in our brains.)

Or to the top of 22nd street, as Penny and I did in our epic walk last week. We saw the following lovely vistas from atop Potrero Hill...







Penny and I were on an expedition to check out these sweet condos under construction in Dogpatch (http://www.espritpark.com). I didn't put that as a link not because Jessica's instructions about making links weren't excellent (whoa, multiple negatives in that phrase) but so no one will click on it and buy all the condos before I can afford them. *Sigh* it is going to be awhile. Patience is a virtue. And Nate just finished the bar.

One
step
after
the
next.

Anyway, Penny and I had a LOT of girl time while Nate was taking said three-day exam, and she was totally tuckered out by the time we took her to Santa Cruz yesterday morning to her casa-away-from-casa while we travel, my parents' house.





We took her to Santa Cruz a day early just to make sure nothing goes wrong. My mom was very reassuring when we dropped her off, but I am really going to miss her...

One last note: this gave me major cognitive dissonance yesterday.



Ok, well, everything's gonna be rockin' when we hit Japan! *Giggle*