"Happy New Year! Are you happy?" Friend of Kookai (Thai girl who took me out on New Years Eve with her friends in Bangkok), to me.
	"Is it the new year?" Mom, when I got in at 3am.
	"Your brain is just younger, not necessarily better." Dad, to me.
	"She has no business being in the entertainment industry." Dad, on a Chinese singer at a restaurant in Bangkok.
	"I'm going to use the nice glass for my water–they can't charge me for that." Mom, so proud of her self for being rebellious.
	"Ma, why are you so weird sometimes?" Me "She's always weird. She's from Wisconsin, what do we expect?" Dad
	"This is the best thing in life. I'll be my companion in old age." Dad, on his collapsible back scratcher.
	"Only reason to come to Thailand is the beach. And if you go there you get swooped up by a tsunami so there is no reason. Well except for those Thai desserts were good." Mom
	"Drinking my Diet Coke and sitting." Mom's answer to what she was looking forward to once we got home to the US.
	"I almost enjoyed Pattaya more than Bangkok and Pattaya was lame. That says something doesn't it?" Mom, on our trip.
	"I took over 500 photos." Me on our trip. "I think that's considered an addiction." Mom
	"Happy new day!" Ma after crossing the international date line on the way home. "Happy same day–we're doing the same one twice." Me
	"I thought that was a God given right to have free alcohol on international flights!" Eric, on my American flight to Japan not having it.
	"How was your vacation?" Me, to Grandma "I would like to know how your vacation was." Grandma
	"I was so worry. Then I remember you were in Japan so I say nevermind." Grandma
	"Tell her she has to exercise so she can walk to the bingo place again." Grandma about WI Grandma.
	"At 85 yet–you'd think they'd give up on it by then." Mom, on Grandpa enjoying a topless show on a cruise they went on.
	"Now I would have been pissed if something had happened and you hadn't opened your damned present!" Daniel's IM to me after I got home.
	"Yeah, my entire life is dedicated to eating, drinking and poo... Kinda like college." Daniel on being a parent.
	"Were you in Thailand during the tsunamis? Stories? Hook up with a bunch of hot Japanese guys? :)" Doodle's e-mail to me.
	"I know nothing about Thailand except that movie. And that hookers are cheap." Chris
	"How come you have jetlag?" Onray's IM response to my IM status. "Cause I was in Asia over the holidays." Me "Really?! Where?" Onray "Japan and Thaliland." Me "How come nobody tells me about things like this? I could have been worried sick!" Onray being silly.
	"You are a head case today. Need more sleepy." Laurie to me at work the week I got back.
	"Football congrats are in order. One that you get to see a playoff game and 2 - you almost have a clean house." Mr Ed, to me.
	"You're in trouble now - I know where to find you :D." Ed, to me, being IM estranged for a while.
	"When I got home from Logan, Isaid to Mike 'I''m supposed to be stumbling drunk right now trying learn how to salsa. This morning, I walked in and said to my boss, 'I'm supposed to eating breakfast outside, hungover!'" Boston Stacy, on having to leave FL a day early to avert a Boston storm on the way home.
	"You want some pancakes?" Mom, to me at 3am Friday morning, both of us jetlagged.
	"It's 4 o'clock in the morning. I have to go to sleep." Mom, giggling.
	"Want something to read?" Yed, handing me a copy of Playboy at his house one night.
	"Did Kimi move to San Francisco?" Yed "No she moved in with Hope in Alameda." Me "Do they have pillow fights?" Random Rodd
	"Hey, on my new phone, I can dial you by touching a picture of you licking Lisa!" Daniel, to me.
	"I like the Thai better. Then I don't know what it all says." Nicki, reading the Cheetos (un)nutritional info.
	"The meat market at Stanford. I have to go bacj to check out the other meat." Yed, on where to find good tri tip.
	"I do believe there's to kinds of porn. There's dirty nasty porn and good clean porn." Eric "It's all good clean porn to Eve." Rodd
	"If anyone likes tall blonde skinny girls go to Prague." Eric "I hear there are pretty hot girls in Russia." Yed "Pretty much everywhere but the South Bay." Rodd
	"You need real light before you can make a judgment." Yed, to Rodd who was checking out a girl in the car next to us at night.
	"Look at the aerial cam." Eric, to us watching playoff football on TV. "Areola cam." Rodd "That's what I thought he said. Oh no! I've been hanging out with you guys too long." Me
	"Boys–they aren't the brightest creatures on the planet." Mers
	"Mom, Ellen's on it!" Me, excited to see Ellen scheduled to be on the People's Choice Awards. "Then put on your underwear." Mom, on the cool Ellen boxers Nicki got for me.
	"I want some Kentucky Fried Chicken." Mom, seeing a commercial at 10:15pm on a Sunday. "Ok, maybe tomorrow I'll get you some." Me, trying to be a good daughter. "Maybe tomorrow I will not want it." Mom
	"I better not go to sleep til 2 [am] cause otherwise I wake up at 3 [am]." Mom, still trying to fight jetlag.
	"Today is the 10 year anniversary of the flood in Santa Barbara that took my car." David
	"Where r u now?" Dad, calling me. "Hey I'm Eve." My response "Oh wrong number." Dad, looking for mom picking him up at the airport.
	"when ?? when ?? I need my photo fix. Having withdrawals. Need to see pretty photos of myself." Melty, being silly asking about my photo update.
	"Holy luxury, Batman!" David, on the hotel he found a deal for Nicki and I to stay in in NYC.
	"We didn't have anyone to laugh at while he was gone. Now we can start laughing again." Mom, about Dad's return from Thailand.
	"This show is so unrealistic--might as well watch a cartoon." Dad, about Lost.
	"The writing needs help--don't know what's going on." Dad, on Lost's keep you guessing story telling style.
	"I get your car right? It's paid off isn't it?" Mark, on me traveling on Delta which my friends said wasn't the safest.
	"It's a three day weekend." Me, to Dad on the upcoming weekend. "What's the purpose?" Dad "Martin Luther King Jr. Day." Me "They don't have it on here." Dad, looking at his Thai calendar.
	"Hi soon to be southern girl!" Krissy's e-mail to me right before my visit to see her in Atlanta.
	"I wonder what will happen next?" Me, to Dad while watching Lost. "Who knows with this show. Bugs Bunny may pop out." Dad
	"If we go too early we'll get towed." Mike "You're so pessimistic." Krissy "I'm a glass half empty kind of guy." Mike
	"I think I'll do that even if it's illegal." Krissy, driving.
	"That's why I like having him around–he's my memory." Krissy, about Michael.
	"Hi Evers, it's Daniel. Where are you that you had Chick-Fil-A, cutie? I gotta know. I'm dying to know what you thought of it. I hope you had a good Chick-Fil-A experience. And if not we can work towards making a more positive one for you in Oooooooaklahoma! I love you. Okbye." Daniel's complete voice message to me.
	"Did you get them from the annoying man?" Krissy, to Mike on our beers at the CNN center before the Falcons playoff game.
	"Can I see so I can see if I have anything in my teeth?" Krissy, on the picture we just took.
	"I want to go to the basketball game." Mike, on the $7 special for a 6 o’clock basketball game game before the 8 o’clock NFL game. "We can't--we have to go early and get towels and watch the other game on the big screen! Also will make sure we leave time just in case our tickets aren't real." Me
	"You've got to work on your talents as a middle seat person." Krissy, to me, at the Falcons game.
	"There are some cute heinies out there and I'm not usually a butt person..." Krissy, at the football game.
	"You know me--I'm wild!" Krissy, on not seriously dating right now.
	"I think I saw you on tv--j/k." Patriot Stacy's text to me while I was sitting in the end zone at the Falcon's playoff game.
	"I am working but drinking a gin and tonic." Boston Stacy's text to me while I was at the game. "Does she work at a bar?" Krissy, to me. "No, she works with computers." Me
	"I'm gonna call myself a football psychic." Krissy, on calling scores.
	"It's possible maybe you've got yourself a free hour of drinks." Mike, to me on his bet with Krissy the Rams would win. Score was 40 to 17 in the 4th quarter.
	"That was an itty bitty pass." Krissy, watching a shuffle pass during a Sunday playoff game on TV.
	"I knew he was here by the beer can." Investigator Mike, on one of his friends being at Krissy's.
	"It's snowing in hd." Mike, watching the Sun playoff games at Krissy's.
	"I guess it only works on Saturdays." Krissy, not able to predict the outcome of the Sunday playoff games.
	"I like TV. TV is my friend. It keeps me company." Mike
	"It's good for me you like nice guys." Mike, to me.
	"How much did you spend at the World of Coca-Cola???" Co-Coke fan Daniel, to me. "80 dollars." My response "That's it??????? I spend hundreds of dollars every time I go there." Daniel
	"It was a double bonus that two of my favorite friends liked each other." Krissy, on visiting.
	"Well, gotta get to work but remember...wherever there's a pool, there's always a flirt." Krissy's e-mail to me playing off our favorite Coke commercia.
	"Well, my life is not as exciting as everyone else's. My excitement this morning was seeing that I was in the lead for the bachlorette game. My excitement this afternoon was taking Kalista to get weighed." LesliE, on our dance friends weekend update e-mails.
	"I now have a giant baby." L on weighing her baby girl.
	"Put them on the tv--I want to see them bigger." Mom, on the pics of my Atlanta friends.
	"We ate like a pig so now we have to sleep like a pig." Dad
	"Luv you jersey twin :-)" Krissy, to me.
	"Congrats on seeing the most crazily dominating falcon playoff game in their short playoff history." Falcons fan friend
	"That's what happens when you try to squeeze too much info at once. I would hate to have to try to do your job. I don't know how you keep anything straight." Janelle, at work to me.
	"Hello? I'm alive! You'll never guess what happened to me. Now I know you're gonna think maybe I fell down a well of root beer. What actually happened is I got buried under an avalanche of marshmallows. You're probably thinking they aren't that heavy but when you get a bunch of them on top of you it's a little bit of weight. I had to eat my way out of there so it took me a few days." Dice's voice mail to me after a few messages I left him without a call back.
	"U R THE QUEEN OF MULTI-TASKING." Cappy Nicki's IM to me.
	"You're the crazy tripper. Not in the like drug induced way but the willing to go anywhere kinda way." Nicki, to me.
	"You still owe me a fun dinner! I'm going to extract payment! Justice will be served!" Doodle, to me.
	"I was talking to him and then he had to go to a meeting and he text messaged me about Friday..." Krissy "Ha, don't you think it's funny you got asked out on a date via text message?" Me
	"A blurb in the worst sense of the word blurb." Rick "I can do a career limiting move if you want." David "Is your skin tableless?" Tony to Chad
	"Why you drinking beer?" Me, to Mark one late Tuesday night. "I was out of scotch." His response--hee!
	"America and Chinese restaurants - reflections on being american and chinese." James' subject line of his e-mail to me.
	"Wanted to reply to the experience you had at the chinese restaurant. As you know, I think about this 'being chinese' thing a lot." James, to me.
	"Any degree of chinese-ness is really perfectly ok. That's the beauty of being half –there's no one right way to be half chinese. Anything goes! " James, directly relating to me.
	"You haven't partied until you've been to a Southern tailgate." Mike, to me.
	"Man I could whack any one of those back." Steph, on dessert after dinner.
	"Leslie's organized--Kelly's the mad scientist." Steph, on her pregnant friends.
	"I have to pay for my eyeballs. That's why I can't go shopping." Laser Eye Stephers
	"You can e-mail me... or send me a homing homing pigeon." Dice, to me on plans to get together over the weekend.
	"Give me more than just 'his head looks like yours.' Do you mean oversized for his body, like mine? Or is he losing his mind, like me? So many interpretations!" James' e-mail to me.
	"I can't believe you are now cheering for Atlanta. That is just wrong." Malts, to me.
	"I need to get some exercise so I can fit into some clothes. Maternity clothes are big and regular clothes are small." LesliE
	"I hope the correct group of birds are victorious." Tripper, on the Falcons.
	"I just opened your holiday card...I've been a mixture of really busy and really lazy." Shannon
	"Can you send me your photo / sayings link again...I wanted to take a trip down memory lane and I couldn't find it. :) I miss my girl!" Shannon's e-mail to me.
	"I listened to an interview with him on KNBR on my way home from work though. I like his voice..." Kimberley, on the new Niner coach.
	"Have you had breakfast yet?" Me, to David after a morning meeting. "You want to go to McDonalds, don't you?" David's knowing me and food all too well response.
	"Was it everything you wanted it to be?" Rick, on me having a McDonald's McGriddle for breakfast.
	"Oh my god, 'new and improved! Now and with photos!'" Daniel on my updated nicknames page.
	"Nice pic of me, BTW... Could I look any drunker?" Daniel on his pic on the page.
	"Thought you'd appreciate the update." Me, on my new website addition. "Of course I do! I'm the biggest Ekosol.com fan there is!" Daniel :-)
	"This morning I learned something new. 45 mins after feeding is too soon to put a baby in the swing. She spit up everywhere." Mommy LesliE
	"Remember that one year when I had a gazillion weddings?" Me, to Anjali. "Oh yeah - that was a wedding marathon." Anjali
	"I wasn't gonna last minute date u. Even though that was fun last time!!!" Me, over IM, asking Anjali what she was doing. "I love last minute date!" Anjali "I love u!!!! Me "I love you! Yay for love!" Anjali finishing it off.
	"I'm gonna try and do nothing tonight–ill c how that works out." Me on a Friday night.
	"I know I'm weird." Me to Mers. "I find it charming." Mers
	"Hey Dad, what's with the Thai calendar? Like why is it 2548? What's their zero?" Me "Because of Buddha. I don't know. Search on the internet I would suggest..." Dad
	"I realize that I'm at a bit of a loss without your IM assistance. " James, to me, on writing e-mails to girls.
	"I tried to solicit my cousin's advice on things like (a) when should I reply, (b) what form should I use - I have her email address, snail mail address and phone numbers, (c) how long should the reply be, (d) what should I write, (e) how personal should the content be, and (f) should I ask questions that elicit a response or be more passive, like, "drop a line when you can", but she was really no help at all. " James--my fellow overthinking friend. ;-)
	"Dear, where is your brain? One day he forget 10 things!" Mom about Dad.
	"Dad, it doesn't help when you make fun of me." Me, trying to learn some Chinese words. "Why? It's good to make fun." Dad's response.
	"What are you doing? We don't need a tv!" Me, to Dad, on taking a TV from my grandparents. "We have become hoggers." Dad
	"Worse comes to worse call us from San Mateo and we'll come get you." Mom, to me when going out in SF one night. "Call me from anywhere in the world–I don't care." Limo service Dad.
	"Don't you have something more expensive?" Dad, to the lady while we were shopping for my birthday at Tiffany's.
	"Anything that annoys people I like." Melty "Me too." Yedders
	"I so expected geek–I'm so surprised!" Kathi, on Victor's beer book gift to Eric.
	"A shot of this and we can eat again." Eric, on the limoncello Mers gave him for his birthday.
	"Sabotage it! Let her have a good time but make sure she doesn't get the job." Eric, to me, on Nicki interviewing in New York.
	"I'm coming to the afterparty." Mers, on my birthday. Sounds so much like an important awards show when she says it like that. ;-)
	"I'll fold it up so it looks like a couple of bucks." Stopher, on the valet tip.
	"Next time we'll dress up in all wifebeaters." Rodd, on ice skating.
	"You look up skanky in the guy thesaurus = hot." Rodd
	"You get drunk enough to take a picture of your wiener, you deserve it to be passed around over e-mail." Rodd, on my last birthday party.
	"Montclaire: where it all began." Stopher, passing our elementary school. "That's where all the magic happened." Yed
	"How come the wind is only affecting the Falcons?" Falcons Fan Friend during the NFC Championship game.
	"I'm fine with alcohol being my date... We'll be Ingridless Dice and Alcohol Chris." Tripper, on the Napa bus.
	"You and I should play guitar sometime. We can make bad music together." Dice, to Chris.
	"I was going to say that but I didn't go there." Me "Chris has no fear–he'll go there." Dice
	"Helicopter or chicken dance?" Me, on the waving towel nuttiness Falcons Fan had goin on. "It's a hella chicken." Dice
	"Put the trash under the sink. We only have plastic bags in the trash compactor." Dice "Why?" Chris "I don't know–we just started doing it." Dice
	"This is the first of many times I'm gonna be putting shit together." Dice, on assembling a baby swing in preparation for his twin boys.
	"This is what it comes down to: someone else putting on your shoes and socks... It's the simple things in life I took for granted." Pregnant with twins Ingrid.
	"Is this approved by you?" Dad, to me, prepping to go out to dinner with me in the city.
	"You should use it–it's good for your cancer." Dad, on the hands free cell phone option.
	"You were on my dream the other night - you came to visit and were staying in a hotel and I was there and we were hanging out either after watching a football game or waiting for one to start, I forget." Bengals, having a pretty realistic dream there.
	"What the nickname? I feel weird using real names w/you." Freak
	"Make yourself at home–I did." Dad, in my room prepping to watch Alias.
	"Spider!! Don't use the Care Bear!!!" Me, to Dad, on him trying to kill it.
	"YES, I KNOW AND I AM SO EXCITED! Singletary, Singletary, SINGLETARY!!!!!!" 49er Faithful work friend Kimberly on our new coaching addition.
	"Thanks for all the cute, fun gifts. The coke straw was especially cool, since it doubles as a whistle. :-)" Melty's e-mail to me.
	"I have a feeling it's going to be white around here for a loooong time." Boston Bengals
	"My leg's kill from walking the dog - I hurt in places I didn't know I had muscles because I was pulling against the dog and being pulled with the dog." Mers
	"Look - I used a subject header! :) " Mers, on me giving her a hard time for never using one.
	"I feel like I should have a drink or something." Laurie, after a rough day we had at work.
	"Speaking of drinks I'm so ready to have one. It has been at least a year since I've had any alcohol!" New Mommy LesliE. Oddly enough these two quotes aren't related and didn't happen right after another.
	"I hope tomorrow is better." Me, after an crazy day where too much went wrong all at once. "It has to be!" Eric, thinking logically
	"I have been eating nothing but dim sum for breakfast." Michael, in China.
	"Ok. Not sure what the real point of that was. . . I never am, I guess." In James' e-mail to me.
	"That was sweetie not seetie... man cider impairs ur vision." Nicki's text to me.
	"Seriously I may lose my mind." Me, one day unable to find anything. "What else is new?" Mom ;-P
	"I hate you, you hate me, that's why we're a family..." Mom being silly singing around the house.
	"Kathy thinks I'm a big fat cow. She always buys me an XL." Mom, about her sister.
	"On one of my flights there was a problem. There was a complete structural failure of my pants." Pilot Ryan
	"I have a feeling that she is going to end up with Ryan. But Jerry is so nice to look at." Mers, on the Bachlorette.
	"Yeah, boys just aren't as supportive as they should be. At least it's job security for us girls...we know we'll always be needed in the emotionally supportive roles." Mers with a very insightful comment. 8-)
	"So sorry I haven't written you back (okay, how often do I write that?)." Krissy's e-mail to me.
	"Is there any middle half way solution?" Anonymous. Ok, not really–just didn't write who sad it down.
	"If we keep on on bombarding them with meetings, we can beat then to a pulp and then we can move on." My boss Tony.
	"The countermotion you experience in life is what pushed you down into apathy." Tony
	"Are you the CUTEST??? Thanks for my card and the recognition on IM today." Suz, to me on her bday. I don't know why she though my IM name "Happy Birthday Suz" had anything to do with her... ;-)
	"Eagles all the way baby–fly bird fly..." Pre-Superbowl Kimberly
	"We are stuck in the plane. Door is frzn!" Nicki's text to me upon arriving in NYC
	"Geez man, this is outta control! This is a terrible week for you! I wish I could take you to Carl's Jr and Chevy's!!!!" Daniel, to me :-/
	"I'm still waiting for a reply from my london-chinese girl... Canada-chinese girl here at work is still being totally nice to me." International James
	"Hit me up on IM later." Yed's e-mail to me.
	"The girl came by. She's going to be working until 8:30. So, I think I need to get outta here and work on the asking-out some other night." James
	"Why are you gonna freeze?" Rodd, responding to my IM status. "Goin 2 NYC this weekend." My response "Ah. Should have known a weekend wouldn't go by without an Eve trip." Rodd
	"Hey I was here last weekend and will b here next weekend." Me "You had plans those weekends, otherwise you would have been somewhere." Rodd's response "Ok fine--maybe true." Me.
	"It's cold. But I'm psyched. We made it into double digits today." Boston Stacy
	"I think to become a hat person you just gotta do it and start wearing them." Nicki
	"Don't forget to Tiffany's and buy something." Grandpa, while I was in NY. Like I need a reminder. ;-)
	"So this is just a warm up." Guy at Bloomies, knowing we were going to Tiffany's next after Nicki bought some nice shoes.
	"I kind of want to list to it. Can we?" Nicki, on "Thriller" playing at the Trump Bar.
	"Welcome to Catholic school." Nicki, on my sweater.
	"It's like a sniper quote–that's what you do. You sniper quote when people aren't paying attention." Nicki, to me.
	"Maybe when I become a midget is when I lost it." Nicki
	"Now this IS the perfect weekend." Nicki, on a Viggo movie being on tv.
	"Is that the Met??? We were just there!" Nicki, on a scene in a movie we were watching in our hotel room after returning from the Met.
	"I was remembering me trying to be a midget last night." Nicki in New York
	"I don't think a lot when I'm with people." Me, on analysis, not being brainless! But Nicki made me put this up.
	"When are you putting together the All Wifebeater Pillowfight Party?" Rodd, to me.
	"Long live the midget!" Nicki's text to me.
	"Who You Gonna Call...?" Dice's e-mail subject with body "If you'd be so kind, here's a list of folks who I'd like you to call once the kiddos are born." ;-) Yeay what fun!
	"Well, hello miss hot thing." Cle to me on IM one day. "Well now you're a little hot thing with tasteful bling." Cle after I told him about my jewelry purchases.
	"It was super... something. Not as exciting as New York this weekend." Doodles's reply to how his weekend was.
	"Baby dicelings are here!!!!" My e-mail subject to James
	"New kids on the planet." My boss' remark to the baby births.

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