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"I'm all dressed up as a crazy Niner fanatic today: hat, gloves, turtleneck, jersey, big puffy jacket, sweats, earrings, hair schrunchie, slippers, socks, and carrying my huddles doll mascot guy, a bug soft Niner football, and a seat cushion. :-)" Me, in an e-mail.
"Just a point of clarification: your Halloween costume description is redundant. This year, all Niner fanatics, by definition, are crazy. :-)" Addison's response.
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"By the end of my days, my tombstone won't be big enough for all of my names." Mike, Charles, Michel, Dice, McGinley McGinlerton...
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"I saw lots of smoke, orange sky, and a pink sun." San Diego Stacy, about the fires.
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"It's been a pleasure gambling with you." Our SGI football pool guy leaving... |
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"This is cool. If I sneeze you can all say bless you." Laurie, on the super thin walls in our new office building. |
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"Theresa's the Mac oneI go both ways." Clayton |
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"That's why you got trained to not worry about your hair. That's why you don't have to do it for hours like other women." Dad, on me as a baby. |
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"We tried to make you look ugly so no one would kidnap youthat was our plan." Dad, on my funky hair in a couple of baby pics of me. |
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"I had THE BEST time last night and am still super giddy. And no, no guys involved--ok, many, but no romantic stuff... ;-)" Me, writing a teaser to my dance friends the day after the Counting Crows concert. |
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"You can't send more than three messages every second. Please wait a few seconds before sending another message." Yahoo, when im all excited
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"I think I could get run over by a truck and still be OK." A very excited me, driving home after the Counting Crows concert expereince. |
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"What's going on tonight?" Some guys in a car seeing the line at Bimbos for the special CC fanclub concert
"Private party." The response of one of the guy's in line with us. |
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"My team didnt lose, They didn't play. But they didn't lose." Boris, trying to rub in an already painful Niner loss that weekend. |
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"My weekend of nothing tired me out." Kathi |
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"My cheeks are hurting from smiling too much last night." Me, on the CC concert. |
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"I shouldn't have told the rock joke." Adam of the Counting Crows at a concert. |
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"Don't bother usthis is a private number." Dad's anti-telemarketer outgoing message he put on our home phone answering machine. |
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"I did like wish u were here! ahhhehhhayaya." Nicki's text message about Incubus at the Bridge School concert. |
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"Are we watching Alias now?" Dad, to me, at 2am after he just got back home from Hawaii. |
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"This is specific to our geeky McGeekerton law school." Jessica, on their law school talent show. |
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"You have to stop talking cause Eve is tried of writing down your damn quotes." Jessica |
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"That took us much longer to kick your ass than I expected." Jessica, on girls vs. boys Trivial Pursuit |
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"Somebody slap me! I'm driving myself insane. I'm annoying myself!" Jessica |
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"You are so sleeping on the couch tonight it's not even funny." Jessica, to David
"How am I sleeping on the couch tonight?" David |
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"Is Chevy Chase Canadian?" David
"If not we can give him to Canada." Dice |
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"It was a little higher than that." David's response to the singing
"Do you want me to kick you in the nuts so we can hear it?" Jessica |
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"Can we karaoke it got the win?" Jessica, on a Trivial Pursuit music question. |
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"Everybody knows thisthe cat knows this." David's reaction to a Trivial Pursuit question. |
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"Well, you are a super fan. You really deserve to be there." James |
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"I can't believe I know Zach." David, on a Hanson question
"OK Zacher McZacharian." Jessica |
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"Oh drink it you Sally." Jessica, to David after he commented on her making him a strong drink. |
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"You lost your pie, so sad, deal with it." Sympathetic non-competitive Jessica, to her boyfriend. |
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"I'm the only one that finds myself amusing." Jessica |
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"She speaks for the team." Jessica, on Ingrid knowing so many answers to questions from the Trivial Pursuit Pop Culture game. |
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"I hat the French. And this is a personal thing, not some trendy war thing." Jessica |
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"You can't imagine how many times we've wished we had Tivoeven more since we met you, Eve." Jessica |
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"I'm so excited about this I feel like I could almost skip Christmas." Me, bouncing off of the walls about the Counting Crows concert I was getting to go to. |
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"Thanks again for hacking my e-mail." Chris, on me e-mailing as him to get a special Counting Crows ticket. |
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"Think of it this way: you'll be so close you could get them sick!" Michael, on me at the Counting Crows concert. |
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"This is a day like your wedding dayyou can't be sick." Chad, to me, about the special Counting Crows fanclub concert. |
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"Eve, they're just people!" Tony, on me being crazily excited about an exclusive Counting Crows concert.
"Imagine your favorite band with just 50 people. Insert your favorite band here." Me
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"You didn't crash--you added." Dice, on me hanging out with two couples one night.
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"Well, you are a super fan. You really deserve to be there." James |
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"Yeah, we're gonna go swimming in the bay?" Dice, on David asking us to bring our swimsuits over to his house one evening. |
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"I also love the Hotel DeAnza. It is very pretty and old." LesliE |
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"Wow. You're like me. Maybe you need a cc tattoo." Leslie R., to me, after I said how many times in the last year I've seen one of my favorite bands. |
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"I'm such a nurturing and estrogen-soaked male--like I've said before... unique hormonal makeup ;)" Arthur, on relating to one of my poems. |
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"I like your poems. I like your smiley face designations that delineate
yesness/averageness/no-ness." Arthur, to me. |
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"An NFL channel? I want that!!! Check out my msg now:'I want DirectTV for the NFL Network Channel!!'" Boston Stacy, matching my excitment about the news.
"We are such cool football lovin girls." Me, to her.
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"I'm over that, but I couldn't think of anything else to complain about in its place." Boston Stacy, on her IM status that was complaining about someone at work. |
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"Oh, say hi to him for me, and have him help me pronounce Bruschetta." Mikey, about Eric. |
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"Tell him hello . . . and that his IM status always keeps me guessing about what's going on in his life. They're real teasers." James, about Eric |
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"Look, we are just having this conversation NOW - and I'm already up on the quotes page?!?!?!?!" James, to me one night. |
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"Jessica and I are always drunk." David, trying to make me feel better. |
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"We still love her. And she's given us the best rendition of that song ever." Jessica, on me drunkenly singing "Alcohol." |
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"For a party where we only knew two people, we had so much fun." David
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"That was pure comedy. It is a fond memory I will have of you for a long time." David, about me at my party. Nice to have friends that don't think you're a total idiot when you're drunk. |
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"We tell each other how much we like each other; how I've been nice and a gentleman and restored her faith in men kind of thing..." James, on a conversation with a girl. |
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"PS. You have a way with men....Sean told me he had a great time with
you last nite!" Kuldip, to me. Too bad he's not even in kindergarten yet! ;-) |
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"Still loving ya (continuing the love from the last email thread)." How Clayton signed off his e-mail tome. |
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"I'm okay. I'm too busy... I need to duplicate myself." Kathi, having to cancel on lunch. |
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"Maybe I should switch my habit to sugar." Diane, trying to cut out coffee. |
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"I love it!!! I need the stash!" Loeby, on fun hidden Yahoo emoticons I was showing her. |
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"That was fun." Me, on hanging out at Mark's place.
"Yeah, we'll have to do it again sometime. Just kidding." Mark's response
"Hey!" Me
"I mean just kidding on the just kidding." Mark's save. |
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"I will have to drive to New York and back to finish this book." Tiff, on her listening to 'The Da Vinci Code' book on tape. |
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"You can put it over there." Me, to Benj, after tasting a dessert he was sharing. "We can leave it here. You'll eat moreI know you." Benj, who of course was right. :-) |
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"Do they have Mary Poppins as a Nanny?" Malt, on CurtisMetz living in London. |
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"It's probably somewhere in the sandsome sparkly thing." Tiff, on losing one of her diamonds from her wedding ring at her wedding site. |
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"Yeah, I got to lose $10." Kuldip's betting friend Phil after the Raiders/Chiefs game. |
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"Leave it to the relgious guy..." Mike, on Kansas City's Priest Holmes |
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"You guys seen the movie Old School? Shawn, earmuffs!" Kuldip, to his little boy. |
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"I think I really liked those jello shotty things." Mers' comment when I asked her if she had fun at the party. |
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"I had tons of fun at the partyyou are such a party thrower girl! Also yeah for 49ers!" Mers, to me. |
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"Oh, that means its our anniversary of meeting Eve!" Jessica, to David, when we were talking about Dice and Ingrid's one year wedding anniversary. |
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"I have to tell James I had a jello shot." Chris |
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"What is your dress code?" Doodle, to me, calling about my party that evening.
"Strictly black tie." Me
"Laura's wearing jeans." Doodle
"That's OK. I'll let the door man know to still let you guys in." Me |
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"Do they do the citronella thing to keep the bugs away?" Nicki, on the tiki torches I got for the party.
"Yeah, and I do too." Leslie R. |
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"It's a good gamedrinking or not." Leslie, on Bop it. |
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"That t-shirt is smallI like it." Stacy, to Leslie R., after she put on her outfit for that evening. |
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"You go and get your hair colored and you don't want to spoon. You think you're better than us?" Stacy, to Leslie R. |
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"That's good. But not good enough for me to drink." Leslie R, on a Skyy vodka drink in a blue bottle. |
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"Hi." Sound coming out of my Bop It Extreme2 game when I was sitting by it.
"Did it just say hi to me?" Me, thinking the game was friendly, but really turned out to be one of the volume options: high, medium, low. |
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"My foot fell asleep." Me
"Does it snore?" Dad |
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"Happy Friday! Yes, it's Friday and it's time to be happy." Dice's voice message to me. |
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"Sean is not feeling well, so we're going to have to make a party-time decision." Kuldip's party RSVP, football style. |
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"Thai people don't argue. They just punch you right away. They are very red bloodedthey don't joke around." Dad, telling me some stories of living in Thailand. |
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"I'm a quiet guy, but if someone pushes me...I got famous once cause I fought a Marine." Dad, telling stories about college and his powerful Thai boxing skills |
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"I had a gangster friend in high school and I still turned out ok." Dad, to me, during a conversation about how some people grow up getting into more trouble than others. |
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"I like Christina and Justin. I was born in the wrong decade. I want to be 18." Suz |
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"Are you excited???" Me, to 6 year old niece Abbie about visiting.
"Yes." Bercrombie
"Whatcha wanna do?" Me
"Eat." Abbers' response. She is so obviously related to me. |
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"Keep this e-mail in a safe place in case you need to contact my agent for shopping money!" Dad, e-mailing me all of his life insurance information before he and mom takes a trip. |
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"Wow, you were almost playing the game." Mom, on me telling her how close to the field our Niner seats were in Seattle. |
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"Of all my friends you have to be the one to drive my Coca-Cola go kart." Daniel, to me. |
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"They don't have strippers, but it was still nice." Daniel, on the Vista, a place he likes to go hang out in Oklahoma. |
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"I am actually sick and on a strict diet (no alcohol or fun food!!)." Mo Mo Mo's response to coming to my shindig. |
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"SorryI guess this cold is making things seem funny to me that seem stupid to other people." Boston Mike |
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"And my teeth aren't show teeth." Eric, on getting a gold crown vs, a white cap. |
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"I was so tired, I couldn't even cuddle myself." Loeby, on me getting no love all of our time in Seattle. |
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"Is someone punishing me for not flying with my friends?" Chris' text to me when he was still stuck in Seattle with a 3 hour delay waiting for his Oakland bound flight while the rest of us had already arrived in San Jose. |
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"It's rare for a girl to be that into football." Chris, about me. Well maybe some day some guy will appreciate that! ;-) |
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"That missed kick means you have to give me your number." Some guy sitting in front of us at the football game spouting off what has to be one of the worst lines I've heard. |
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"If she was a guy she'd have gotten her ass kicked." Chris, on me being a crazed obnoxious fan of the visiting team at the football game in Seattle. |
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"Baby steps." Ebs, trying to think positively and be encouraging about the Niner game in Seattle. Hey, we ended up playing a pretty good game! |
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"I've seen better hands on a clock!" Loeby, getting into the game and heckling one of the NFL players. |
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"It's the licorice!" Lisa, giving credit to her red licorice for the good plays the Niners had during the SF/Seattle Sunday night game. |
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"I'd love to see this on HD." Mark, while actually at the game. Maybe that nice super large TV has changed him... ;-) |
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"You can't get these seats at Niner games." Mark, on our great seats in Seattle very close to the field. Well, I guess that's true, unless you know Eric Wright! |
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"You're playing bass." An intrigued Chris, to me, while I was trying to learn how to be Stoph at the Experience Music Project. |
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"It's more comprehensive than the Bible." Eric, on Simpson's episodes and constantly referring back to them. |
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"Running in the rain makes me feel like Rocky; kayaking in the rain just makes me feel miserable." Dan K., on planning his activities with Cori for the next day. |
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"I just think I smell feet wherever I go." Nicki, revealing more about herself to me each day. |
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"I'm not a big Jesus fan." Greg |
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"Loeby's not here so we have no cheer." Me, with the double meaning comment during drinks at the Fairmont's greenhouse-like bar area.
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"That just kicked my ass. I never thought a vegetable could kick my ass." Chris, on hot red peppers at Wild Ginger. |
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"It wasn't that bad. I deserved a pop, but not THE pop." Chris, on me smacking him on the head after he said something obnoxious. |
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"It's good. It's like the normal one but not as sweet." Me, on my albino cosmo at the W.
"Like me." Chris (aka White Cran), potentially creating a new nickname for himself. |
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"Synapta? I took some of your beers." Chris, meeting Kishore, a friend he heard worked with me at Synapta. |
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"That's a zoo-worthy dog." Chris, on a humungous dog in the W hotel bar. |
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"How was your flight?" Me, to Dice
"Uneventfulhow I like my flights to be." Dice |
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"I'm so excited it's raining. I love the rain." Nicki, on our first day in Seattle.
"I think it sucks but I'm glad you like it." Lisa |
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"I don't care if you come in." Lisa, to Nicki, while she was in the bathroom getting ready to take a shower.
"Oh." Nicki, who doesn't know Lisa too well.
"Just make sure you scratch that special spot." Lisa "You did want me to scratch something last night..." Nicki |
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"Hey, I didn't take my makeup off last night so I'm ready to gothat's cool!" Nicki, one morning in Seattle. |
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"If he would have done that to me, I don't think I would have liked it." Me, on Eliot jumping out of the closet scaring people in our hotel room.
"Oh, I loved it. I love being scared." Nicki |
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"Where did you go when you were visiting Sydney?" Me, to Eliot, who is moving there in a few weeks.
"I've never been there." Eliot's response. |
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"I don't know about you guys, but us girls are all sleeping in the king bed together." Me, at the Fairmont in Seattle where the options were either 2 twin beds or 1 king for 3 people per room. |
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"We were taken to the Paramount." The guys, after showing up way later than us girls after a the taxi ride from the airport to our hotelthe Fairmont. |
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"I need an aspirin... and a beer." Loeby, after we got off the plane. |
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"I don't know if I'd want to cook my own. Isn't that the point of a restaurant, for someone to cook for you?" Nicki, on me telling her about sukiyaki at this one Japanese place I went to. |
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"I just read my book and got my liquor confiscated.That's pretty much it." Lisa, about her flight from San Jose to Seattle. |
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"OK, Afro." Me, evolving my "Big Wig" nickname for Steph that day after her promotion. |
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"You must just be THAT cool." Me, to Steph, on being surprised with a promotion one day. "Don't be silly. I am not that 'big time.'" Steph, Super Financial Reporting Girl trying to downplay her real persona. |
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"Lisa?" Steph, not recognizing one of the friends that I'm going to Seattle with.
"Loeby?" Steph, remembering.
"Did u know that from photos, quotes, or in person?" Me
"Photos. I am good. ;-)" Steph |
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"Such praise for the butt floss." Nicki, on Kuldip's prior quote. |
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"E-v-E...I am all over your quote page this time. I sound silly... I sound like Jessica Simpson." Steph, being silly and thinking about one of her new TV obsessions. |
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"Dear E, the goddess of 49Niners.... Thanks for gracing your presence at our lunchoen to day. It was a quality moment... Dad" Dad's silly IM to me after I got back from an impromptu lunch with him. |
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"Oh man I didn't even make your last round of quotes... Now I know I've dropped off the earth!" Nicki |
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"Fake is not something I am good at..." Nicki. ;-P |
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"He was nice, but not as nice as I am. He is still a boy." On of my girlfriends, about a date.
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"Don't forget shoes, vodka, girls–-and 9er football." Loeby, trying to pump me up about our fun Seattle trip.
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"If someone makes you mad, that makes me mad–and then things get U-G-L-Y." Always a friend on my side, Loeby. :-)
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"Ahhh geez. I feel less crummy today. Maybe I can be the happy girl." Lisa on me feeling irritated that day and the day before her being in that mode. |
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"This is so lame--I called your home phone twice." Dad, at home, trying to call me at work. |
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"I'll be in town all week. Til Fri night when I go to Seattle with my favorite people." Me "I wonder if there is Chick Fillet?" Lisa |
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"Just girls and shoes and vodka. That sounds like heaven." Loeby
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"We have a 3 way this weekend." Lisa, on her, Nicki, and I sharing a room in Seattle. |
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"That's a lot of drama to have only 12 pairs of shoes. That's an afternoon for me." Lisa on James' life account of his shoe purchases. |
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"Mark and Eric have a lot." Me, on shoes.
"I know I liked them for some reason." Loeby |
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"Installing a wireless card. Playing the 'yankees suck' song." Boston Stacy's response to what she was doing. |
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"This is just like when Bush was announcing that we were going to war but I was at your place instead of mine." Me, on letting James hear speeches on TV through the phone.
"Thanks again for the news access." James, signing off. |
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"Jay Leno is introducing Arnold for his victory speech on CNN right now." My IM to James in Australia.
"Really! Crazy. If I call you will you put the phone on the tv?" James' response |
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"I'm going to vote today for the same reason that I go to see the opening of Lord of the Rings at midnight--it's the hype." Me, on the CA governor recall election. |
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"Your friend in Australia with 11 pairs of shoes and dive booties (not quite shoes). I'm shopping for a pair of blundstones so soon I'll have 12." James, closing his long e-mail about the history of him purchasing almost every shoe. |
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"I get a big boost when seeing the girls. It's like feelin' good gravy." Clayton, on seeing his daughters after a day of work. |
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"I am in shoe aweand that doesn't happen often." Lisa |
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"He's gonna like you all the time or he gets the boot! Speaking of which
I paid 90 for synthetic Nine West boots." Me, about Lisa's guy.
"Ohmigod that was the best transition to shoes that I have ever seen." Lisa, fully impressed.
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"Tuesday night date is on." James, keeping me updated on his Australian social life.
"No, this is the third girl." James' response to which of the two girls I knew about it was with. |
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"You do more in one weekend than I do in a month." Married Soon to Have a Baby Girl Kevin, to single me. |
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"It's fun to see the Tivo Master at work." Christie, learning things from when I was at her place just browsing through her Now Playing list. |
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"Hey, who won the game? I had to work so I didn't get to watch it." A tow truck driver, to Mark, with his window down in post Niner-game traffic. |
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"I'm surprised we won the game with your Raider car and Charger shoes." Me, to Mark on the silver and black car and blue and yellow tennis shoes he brought to the Niner game. |
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"I wish Victor was hereI could use a hot dog." Mark, after a Niner game. |
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"We're eating breakfast and guess who's with us? E-V-E!" Leslie, all excited I was up in the morning to eat breakfast in the hotel. |
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"You are a good sleeper–I slept with you in Vegas." Hope, to Leslie, during our dance girls sleepover in SF. |
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"Just be patient–the Goldfish are inside." Hope, on me being super hungry on the way home from our night out. |
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"Let's go to Big Al's–I love that place." Steph, while we were in a bar in North Beach. |
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"I have a question for you. What's naughty cream?" Kimi, asking a question to someone who surprisingly works at Boulevard, not Big Al's. ;-) |
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"I should have lied to him–I don't know why I told the truth." Steph, on telling her husband the details about her shopping trip in SF. |
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"Even if she is she's beautiful, rich, and has a hot husband." Steph, on Jessica Simpson being called dumb. |
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"Under 3 digits is good." Steph, on the price of shoes.
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"They're my new friends." Steph, on her new pair of heels. |
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"Ya know Eve, I have to say I was a little scared when I first got to know you, (I mean about the quote page). But now I feel like it's really cool." Leslie R., confessing a common Eve friend fear. ;-) |
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"You're like my own personal historian and you fill in the blanks for me when I can't remember. It kind of makes me think of the Real World with cameras following them, you just have to get used to it." Leslie R., on my quotes page. |
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"Photos! We want PHOTOS!" Daniel, one of my more faithful ekosol.com friends. |
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"How's caliland? I want to come back for vaca." Single T, who I know didn't mean he wanted a cow. ;-) |
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"You know that Fred Astaire movie where he dances on the ceiling? We learned how to do that." What my new friends in tap class said about what I missed in class the previous week. |
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"Hey Mrs. Bella." Me, to Jami.
"I prefer Joe's bitch." Jami's response |
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"So anyway, the theme is this: don't sweat the big stuff like that. You're just too cute/beautiful/sexy/smart/fun/spazzy to not get all that you want. It's just inevitable. Good things happen to good people. I really believe it." Clayton's positive words to me. I'd like to belive it--guess we can hope... |
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"Lets see, hang out with cute girl? Or climb fake rocks? Hmmmm..." James, prioritizing a date over a previously scheduled rock climbing session. |
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"Hey, you kick ass. How many trips have you taken recently? How many Niner games have you been to? How many cool fun hang out things have you done? How big is your new tv? The answer to all of those questions is either LOTS, or HUGE." Doodle's pick me up speech. |
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"I broke a bra and had to pay for it in college. That's when I realized how expensive they are." Kuldip |
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"God bless the thong--every single one." Kuldip |
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"It's like water--you gotta have it. You can't be cuttin that off." Kuldip, on thongs. |
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"I'm just gonna send them to Eve's website." Kuldip, on potential girls for him to date. |
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"I was the budget guy but when it came to thongs it was an open book." Kuldip
"There are some things in this world that are worth it." Mark |
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"I'm just saying what all guys think–-whether they verbalize it or not." Kuldip |
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"Al Gray Davis..." Kuldip |
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"Do you remember the old Eve? I used to call her Red and I would never call her that anymore--now I don't even remember why I did." Lisa
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"I went to grab another cookie, and the box was gone. I forgot I already ate them all." Boston Stacy. |
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"Yes, he completes me. He's like my own mini me except Asian." Jami, about Joseph. |
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"Maybe I can be cashew. You know... cash-shoe???" Loeby, on Stacy and my nut nicknames for each other.
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"Oh noemotional overload!!!! Boo and yeah all at the same time." Loeby, on one person we were hoping would be able to join us for dinner not being able to make it and another who wasn't initially able to come meeting up with us. |
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"Lol! We think alike. Notice we both thought about food when we're talking about a home furnishing store?" Anjali, to me, on thinking about Swedish meatballs when planning my first visit to Ikea. |