"Did you see the nicknames page? I know you're busy and all, but you gotta keep up with ekosol.com." Me, playing with Kathi "I did last week. I checked it out after dinner on Saturday a couple weeks ago. Sounds like I have homework tonight." Kathi
	"Hi. Would you like some money? Meet me outside." Payless' IMs to me, very spy like.
	"Now quit your floating and get back to work! Salty Malty Malty's e-mail to me.
	"I was just calling to say hello. Conner and Ryan wanted to say hi. Yeah they can't say anything yet but they wanted to telepathically communicate that to you... Everything is lookin good with the baby boys. They are just chilling out in the nursery, making friends with the nurses. You know flirting and that kind of thing..." Dice's voice message to me.
	"If you were to choose anything on the BR website, what would it be and what size??? Just asking. Can you let me know... Do a little online shopping please. Pretend you won a shopping spree at br... What would you choose and in what sizes??? Let's play along!" Stopher, to me.
	"Tell Ingrid and Dice congrats for me. I keep forgetting what his real name is - I just automatically think it is 'Dice.'" Mers
	"Will write more interesting emails later." James
	"Only 4 more days until you enter the BEST DECADE ever! Yeah! We will be fun, flirty and fabulous (from '13 Going on 30'...I wasn't creative enough to come up with that on my own!) together in our 30's." Mers, to me.
	"We will have lunch together in a little cafe when we are 60 and look back at our 20's and 30's and say how much fun we had together!" Mers, to me.
	"Geeeez ok now I'm all care bear obsessed thanks to one darling little penguin cousin." Laurie
	"Well I hope the happy rays shine down on you today (didn't that sound like a Hallmark card?) and I support you!" Mers' good thoughts for me.
	"Hugs, hugs and more hugs to you!! Smiles, smiles and more smiles to you! :)" Mers trying to cheer me up one day.
	"I'm anticipating the hippos." Ro on ring tones commercials like in Europe.
	"The 'new' robelady." Heidi's self indicator to me on IM
	"I haven't been skiing in 2 years and have never snowboarded, so we'll see how it goes. I'm just hoping to take lessons from a tall, blond, handsome man named Sven..." Mers, on an upcoming ski trip.
	"This is the pre bday card so you so u can spread them out over time!" Nicki, knowing my silly habits so well and sending me an ecard a few days early so I didn't have all the card happiness at once. ;-)
	"God how I wish I was in 6th grade again." Stopher
	"You went with lots of girls for short periods of time. I remember that about you: grade school playa!" Me, to Stopher "No, not true. Rumors, my dear. Here is who I went with from 6-8th grade." Stopher, listing them on IM.
	"Daddy Long Legs may not be able to make it to the festivities.....life altering events tend to alte rlives." Dice on not making my bday party due to the recent birth of his newborn twin boys.
	"I'd rather look at pictures of puppies than babies." Tony
	"Happy Pre-BDay Eve!" Cle's MSN name Fri before my birthday.
	"I found out I have to get moving around 6:30 am to leave the house by 10:30!" New mommy LesliE
	"I had a glass of wine the other day. After a year of not drinking it was soooo good!" LesliE
	"Taylor says 'Hi' back." Laurie's response to my text via an e-mail from her Treo with a pic of Taylor waving.
	"Hey Giggly Niners Girly! Enjoy your first ever Super Bowl Birthday!!" Boston Bengals Mike
	From Delta's website: "Flight 578 Leaving New Orleans 04:25pm Arriving Atlanta 06:39pm Status: in flight Leaving Atlanta 6:35 pm Status: Boarding" "Wonder how they got those people to board a plane that's in flight?" Me "No wonder Delta's bankrupt." Onray
	"Nothing cures sickness like alcohol." Daniel on Lisa and the upcoming party.
	"Normally I'd be right there with you but I'm high on cough syrup right now." Lisa, on drinking.
	"It's like Costco exploded in your house." Payless, on all the party snacks.
	"I'll out freak you." Nicki "You better bring your freak A game." Chris' reply
	"Everyone--this bus can't go below 50 miles per hour." Payless on the bus on the way to Napa.
	"I think I'm drunk." Krissy, at the start of the 1st winery's tasting.
	"Who has been here before?" Greg, the guy leading our tasting at Peju. "I've been here as part of a 12 step program." Payless
	"Where are you all from?" Peju Greg "East Palo Alto." The I am Mark Price Mark
	"This is my Netflix wine." Greg, the guy leading our tasting at Peju, peaking Nicki's interest.
	"One of your colleagues. Ok, one of your drinking buddies..." Part of Greg at Peju's spiel.
	"They all have #s. Black women with #s." Chris. I'm not sure of the context but had to do with 227.
	"Your lips are on the floor." Melty, to me.
	"20 dollars is just a lap dance." Kuldip, on wine tasting cost at Trefethen.
	"I can't wait til you open your present–it's good!" Hope, building me up with anticipation.
	"I ate a whole box of Milk Duds." Hope, on getting her braces off.
	"One time I ate a whole box of Sour Patch Kids and I tore off the roof of my mouth." Hope
	"Did they say to each other, you want to join the 50 mile an hour club?" Mike, on some of our friends' in the Napa bus' bathroom.
	"Can I open your corkscrew? Corkscrew... Corkscrew..." Dad, excited about one of the bday presents I got.
	"Happy 30th bday! I wanted to slip that one in before we hit midnight here and you roll into the next day." Dice's voice message to me at 10pm.
	"I hope you had fun watching the Super Bowl on your birthday. I went through a lot of effort to make that happen you know. I had convince the NFL to push back the Super Bowl an extra week to do it in February for once so it would land on your bday. I think it payed off: a couple of bribes here and there... That's my birthday gift to you." Dice
	"I'm sure if they had their speech developed they would say happy birthday but thats a couple years off." Dice, on his few week old twin boys.
	"Kimi and I were wondering if they might post the email addresses of the kicked off boys - that way one of us can hook up with Ben!" Hope, on the Bachlorette.
	"Hello to the newest 30 year old friend!" Mers to me.
	"How are you feeling now that you are 30 and 1 day? Great, right? Because it is the best decade ever!!!" Mers to me.
	"You had the hookup bus going!" Doodle on my Napa wine bus.
	"Your mom made bad ass lasagna!" Doodle
	"Hope you have a wonderful day and that your party was one for the memory book!" Aunt Kathy. If she only knew ;-)
	"How was I supposed to know that the twenty-dollar bill was the official commodity of chinese new year? This, I was told was the proper amount to give the masses. But of course you can't find twenty-dollar bills anywhere! Banks are completely out. It's as if all of the twenty-dollar bills have disappeared from the streets, only to resurface on the 9th of February." James
	"There are just 10 times as many people everywhere. Everyone is shopping and buying presents, mostly last minute shopping. There are decorations everywhere. Yeah, Christmas. Sorta feels like christmas. . . including the stress!" James on Chinese New Year in Hong Kong.
	"Oh, my email/london girl is going at a steady pace... The pattern is: I email after about two days, then she writes on the weekend, I get her email on monday, repeat." James
	"Onto other girls.." James' e-mail segway.
	"It was fun watching the make out fest on the bus! I felt like I was 60 years old. Looked like people had fun!" Malts on our Napa bus.
	"I thought you said it was ad ware." Me, to Daniel, on installing MSN emoticons. "It totally is. I had to uninstall a bunch of crap." Daniel "The things you do 4 pornish emoticons." Me "Boy, isn't that the truth." Daniel
	"Was it satisfying from a salad perspective?" David, to Laurie on lunch.
	"Man, you have a tight but fun agenda." CRW to me on my travel schedule.
	"They say 50 is 30, so I guess that means 30 is 10. Hope you got into being a kid on your Day!" My Aunt Kathy, to me.
	"Sorry didn't mean to burst your bubble." Me, sharing my opinion with Nicki "Nonono. You didn't. I burst the bubble awhile ago. You didn't pre bubble burst me." Nicki
	"I feel like I have adoration for you oozing outta my pores." Nicki to me
	"I have seriously lept into freak world." Nicki "Yeah not so big of a leap." My obnoxious response ;-)
	"They are strange but I feel compelled to eat them." Laurie on JBZs, the Jelly Belly like M&M candies.
	"When it turned into a teen movie..." Payless Eric, on part of my birthday Napa trip.
	"I can give you my CC # (now that's trust)." Mike, on making reservations.
	"El Papa Dice." Dice's sign off to an e-mail to me.
	"You're probably busy on your date with Nicki..." Mike's voice mail to me one Wed night.
	"P.S. - Look at my turn around time on this email...only 20 min and I wrote back!! :-)" Krissy, all proud of herself.
	"Unfortunately, that weekend, I'm committed to being in a drunken stupor all weekend long in Vegas, for a friend's bachelor party." Kuldip's response to a party trip invite.wrotewrote
	"Thanks for being adjustable." Kathi, to me about switching lunch dates. I feel like a belt.back!! :-)back!! :-)
	"You gonna be home/not busy the weekend of April 1st?" My IM to Daniel. "Is this so you can plan an April Fool's prank on me? Well if it's a hooker that starts to strip and then has a penis and yells 'April Fool's!' -- that one's already been done on me." Daniel
	"Got this crazy DVD called Baby Tata where we play games and I give him a massage. It's way hippie, but he loves it." Daniel, on his baby boy.
	"Hey, does the fact that you're interested in a guy mean that ekosol.com updates are going to be less frequent?" Daniel. Uh oh!:-o
	"Sweetie, you don't understand. Your quotes are addictive like sex... Once you start getting it, you can't stop!" My loyal (and crass) quotes page fan Daniel.
	"Oh yeah I was working..." Laurie, distracted after she came in to my office to share a Valentine's Day story with me.
	"We had a pot-luck luncheon at work for Vday. I made chocolate covered strawberries (though admittedly, I cheated, by using Magic Shell). There was like no food, and a million desserts." Mikey
	"So I was lookin through my purse and I find a DVD 'Barely Legal.' Where did I get this?" Nicki, calling me one day at work.
	"I'm ok today. Kinda a grumpy worker so I thought I'd say hi." Anjali's IM to me. "Oh noooooooo, grumpy bear. Well i'm like cheer bear today so maybe we can be friends." My silly obsessed with Care Bears response. "That's fantastic...just what I need." Anjali. Hey, she said fantastic. ;-)
	"You kept me alive today." Mike, on me texting him during a boring day of meetings.
	"I can't believe I'm getting on a plane tomorrow. To Hawaii. How fun!" Mers
	"What's wrong?" Me to Dad, after he made a funny sound. "I skipped breathing for a second. A moment of not breathing." His response. Ok.... weirdo!
	"Laurie will be me with the cue while I'm gone sipping a mai tai on the beach. ;-)" My e-mail to my team letting them know I'll be gone for a few days. "Just out of curiosity...how many weekends a month are you actually home? ;)" Tami's response.
	"It never really dawns on me how outrageous our boss is until I read his quotes!" Laurie
	"Sorry about the mini freakin." Me, to Nicki. "No worries on the freak. I'm always one and can admire it in you like only a true freak can." Nicki 8-) Yeay for freak friends! :-)
	"Hopefully good and fun... boring adjectives, I know, but the best that I could come up with. How about - exciting and eventful? scintillating and rapacious? Ok, rapacious isn't quite the right descriptive term. . . but it was the best least-boring word I could come up with." James, asking about my weekend.
	"Did you have a nice Valentine’s? SMOOOOOCHER!" Malty
	"Oh thank God...I've been jonesin' for quotes for ages...." Clayton, on my quote update.
	"Is that what you were inquiring about? Or just general concern? (either one is welcome only solidifies your place as sweetest friend girl ever)" Clayton
	"Have a safe trip, and I will cross my fingers that the tsunami stay away from your general area this time." Christopher, to me before I left for Hawaii.
	"Did you pack the mini bottles?" Krissy, to me, on our Hawaii trip.
	"We're planning a trip while we're getting ready to go on another." Hope, the night before we left for Hawaii.
	"We're gonna have so much fun in Vegas!" Hope "We're going to Hawaii tomorrow!" Me
	"I need to find a new boyfriend before I go to Cabo." Hope
	"Oh are the mai tais complimentary? Oh I'll get one of those–you girls can't drink alone." Older lady on the plane next to Hope and I.
	"This tastes much better than cranberry juice." Lady on the plane drinking her mai tai.
	"It's getting harder to read." Lady on plane with mai tai after a while.
	"Why are you going to Savannah?" Hope, looking at me funny. "I don't know–some big St. Patrick's Day party thing." Me "Oh! That's a big party–they turn the river green!" Hope, now supporting the trip out there. ;-)
	"I'm not very Valentiney–there's no point." Hope's response to any effort made on a guy's part.
	"This is forever gonna be our thing." Ro, to me, in the bathroom late at night eating potato chips together.
	"You need to take drugs to the next level.. Do you want something that vibrates? Let's arm wrestle..." Random tidbits from a conversation a guy had with Kimi at the hotel bar.
	"There's a place called licky licky? (Spelled Like) I wanna go there!" Mers
	"I want my coconut bra." Christie, just arriving in Hawaii.
	"I got totally screwed on Hawaiian Air." Christie, after hearing about our free mai tais and warm cookies and milk on Aloha.
	"I feel like Japanese food with sesame seeds sprinkled on me." Me, at Sunset Beach.
	"Your back's all sesame seedy." Krissy, to me.
	"Omigod, I love hot surfer boys." Hope, in North Shore.
	"I want to move here–there's such good food." Ro, in Hawaii
	"I can't get drunk like you." Krissy, to me frustrated while we were out one night.
	"Do you want me to open the other bag?" Me to Krissy on Maui onion chips. "No, that's danger." Her reply.
	"I ate too much. I couldn't get drunk last night." Krissy, all disappointed.
	"I had some crazy dreams with Michael J. Fox last night. I pushed him down the stairs and he was chasing me." Krissy
	"I'm gonna get really drunk tonight just so you know." Ro, to me at dinner having the tasting menu with wine pairing.
	"It's really kind of blingy though." Ro, on her engagement ring.
	"I like lomi lomi." Kimi, on the Hawaiian word for massage.
	"This might be my most fun dinner ever." Ro, on our meal at Alan Wongs in Honolulu.
	"I can eat two desserts." Christie "I can eat five." Me
	"That's your mini van dance." Krissy, to Hope.
	"I always think that Russian tea cakes are like Mexican wedding cakes." Hope "Cause they're the same thing." Pastry chef Ro
	"I don't hit you cause when I hit you you scream." Ro, to me.
	"High maintenance but beautiful." Hope on dinner at Alan Wongs
	"I was upset about the lobster–I'm still not over that." Hope, on them running out.
	"Their selection of trashy magazines was not so good." Hope, at the Honolulu aiport.
	"Are you sisters?" Guy on plane to me and Hope.
	"I'm in Pocatello Idaho." Ryan "What the heck is that???" Me "Exactly." Ryan
	"Good evening ladies and gentlemen. This flight is to [pause]" Flight attendant "Orange County." Me, filling in the blank "Thank you." Flight attendant
	"This is fun. You're my first Yahoo messager. "You're my first at a lot of things. hehe." Krissy, being all flirty.
	"We can say all we want with those little smilies CC so belle." Me, to Krissy, on Yahoo IM.
	"cc wimbeldon matcher w homework whos my so belle vick coke twin." Me, to Krissy. "Wow, even more nicknames!" Krissy
	"I'm lame." My sis's subject to me, not having sent a bday present yet a few weeks after my bday.
	"Saylor just flipped over from his tummy to his back 3 times!(That's like a 1-year old achievement!)" Proud father Daniel.
	"Easy to talk to, kinda like speaking w/my mom 'cause the examiner is an older Asian grandmother." Cle, on an interview.
	"This is my son Conner." Dice "Is that weird to say?" Me "Kind of." Dice
	"The sky is blue, the birds are singing, everything's fantastic." Silly Happy Mike
	"I decided I'm not going to give you wrapped presents anymore." Laurie on me waiting to open presents
	"I'm sorry bersies, it'll be ok." Mark, to me. "Hey ur bersies!" My reaction to Mark using my nickname for him on me.
	"Who knows how may more times I'll have to go through this." Me on layoffs. "Once is enough for anyone. You've had more than your fair share." Mark
	"Denise likes to drink wine! Maybe we can get her to dance through the orchard!" Aunt Kathy, on the upcoming aunt visit to CA.
	"Well, today is awful, but life is better with chocolate, right?" Co-worker email, on chocolate being available in the break room.
	"There's something special about a man you can talk football with, and who will watch the games with you..." Kimberly, on her new boyfriend. I would have to agree with her. :-)
	"I was screaming and cursing at that point, hopefully to the amusement of those around me - I thought it was basically cruel and unusual punishment to have all these hills at the end." James, on running a marathon
	"I walk with straight legs like a stick figure." James, post marathon.
	"I think I'm gonna buy some frozen peas and surrounding myself in them." More post- marathon James.
	"I miss u. I miss your voice–it's quite lovely." James

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