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"The holidays are about enjoying yourself and eating." Mom |
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"You always like the stuff I buyno matter how crappy." Dad, on presents for me. |
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"I hope we have a good turnout." Eric, about our 10 year high school reunion.
"I think we already have." Mark, on the pre-party crowd at Yed's house. |
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"Are these gonna be Hawaii drinks?" Bob, to Stopher, referencing a time he duped Eric by drinking virgin drinks. |
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"It starts with a turkey and ends with Santa." Mom, on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. |
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"She's out with her boyfriend and he's home with his girlfriend. Eve's with us here without boyfriend." Grandpa, on my two cousins and me.
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"My goal is to get OUT of the stores by Thanksgiving, not start then." Mom's philosophy on holiday shopping. |
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"I want to grow my beard out and shave my head and travel without any more responsibility than where I'm going to sleep and what I'm going to eat." James |
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"What is weird is the whole city shutting down for a horse race." James, on not having Thanksgiving in Australia. |
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"I told mom, why should I watch you in the concert, I can see you in person (up close and personal), she said I was lame... ha ha." Dad, on the amazon.com concert. |
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"That's like one shoe!" Lisa, on my football pool winnings of $48. |
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"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I'm sooooooooooooooo excited!" Me, to James about the Counting Crows Amazon.com concert's date being released.
"Very cool. Yeah, it shows." James' response. |
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"I read your e-mail when I was at work the other night and I was freaking out and had to explain to everyone why I was breathing heavy ... lol." C4, on my full blown review of the CC amazon.com concert experience.
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"Enough editorial on your hair, let's see the pic! Red is both in the spirit of the holidays AND a Niner color!" Kuldip, on me wanting to dye my hair. |
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"Wow, your Saturday sounds like my Fridays during my college years....lots of drinking during happy hour...out by 8/9pm." Kuldip, to me, on the pub crawl day. |
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"Dip is the key to victory." SingleT, to me saying I didn't get to make his cheese dip for the Niner game I was watching. |
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"Women are so disappointed in menstarts at birth and ends at death." Mom |
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"I think our focus should be getting Brett Favre out of the game from injury." Mom, watching the Niner/Packer game with me. |
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"Let's get some business taken care of here." Usually non-football watching mom, during the Niner/Packers game. |
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"That's the good thing about getting drunk by 6pmyou get a good night's sleep so you don't feel too bad the next day." Hope, on the pub crawl we did in SF. |
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"I'm a napkin girl." Aimee |
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"I've closed bars before, but I don't think I've ever opened one." Hope, at the start of the pub crawl. |
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"I'm preppy in my polo." Hope, on her golf pub crawl gear. |
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"What are you doing tomorrow afternoon?" Me, to Christie
"Nothing." Christie
"Want to come drink heavily with me?" Me
"Sure, I'd love to." Christie |
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"Remember you told me you and $%@# stayed at..." Cheekers, to me. I'm liking the censorship. ;-)
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"I took a huge chunk of flesh off my thumb... [gives description of it] GO 49ers!" Single T's random e-mail to me.
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"It's OKyou're not in trouble anymore." Steph, after finding out I didn't have a pure rubber band in my hair like she initially thought. |
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"Bummer, but I'll probably still be angsty." Hope, on the Evanescence concert getting postponed. |
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"You are so good on tracking people's birthday... and photo... and quote...and lots of things..." Bunst, about me. Guess everyone has to be good at something...
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"Remember when Cincinnati beat the Chiefs? That was awesome." My only Bengals fan friend, still super excited about two hours after the game had ended. |
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"Oh noyou didn't buy the big dip! That's like the mega fat but mega good dip." Single T, to Stacy, on French Onion dip for our football chip snacks. |
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"This is probably going to be the only present I'll buy in a store. And you are here to witness it." The anti-store shopping, online shopping queen, Boston lady Stacy. |
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"I like killing real people instead of playing against the computer." SingleT |
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"I took her for a ride." Ed, about me
"You could have just said you picked me up." Me, teasing him. "Nahtoo clean." Ed, liking to push the limits and get me to say "Oh, dear." |
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"I drank almost a gallon of beer tonightI'm 4 ounces short." Ed, after an Irish pub night out in Boston.
"We can share a Guiness when we get home." Boston Stacy, always there for a friend. |
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"I'm trying to get over my fear of spiders." Stacy "I'm still trying to get over HER fear of spidersI was the most terrified I've been in my life." Mike, on being there for one of the Stacy spider incidents. |
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"I LOVE that show!! It is so full of trash and love and trauma...it makes me laugh because it's so crazy." Mers, on OC. |
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"For a 55 year old, she's hot." Kuldip, on his Nordstrom's personal shopper. |
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"If I had 1/10th of the friends you have, I'd be cool." JohnCline, to me. I guess he was into fractions that night... |
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"They need to do 100/1 reverse split on the Yen." JohnCline |
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"I don't want to have to hurt you, but I will." Lisa, on Kuldip trying to pay for the bill.
"Oh yeah?" Kuldip, intrigued. |
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"It's his birthday, he needs something flaming." JohnCline, on dessert.
"How about Mike?" Frank |
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"Are we gonna share a bed?" Mike, to Kuldip, on the upcoming weekend plans.
"Wherever I collapse, there I am." Kuldip |
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"There's a lot of head." Frank, on the beer
"I give good head." Mike |
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"Not that I'm metrosexual or anything..." Kuldip's caveat of the evening. |
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"You know when I became a scotch guy? Right after I became a cigar guy." Kuldip |
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"I've won in Vegas, in Reno, on ships..." Kuldip, on gambling
"Dude, you're a winner." JohnCline |
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"That's not fair. I don't get any quotes when Kuldip's around." JohnCline |
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"I don't know about you guys, but I've been thinking about it a lot." Kuldip, on Amber's butter chicken. |
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"I'm not a closer." Kuldip |
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"Moody feelings totally suck because there is no reason whythey just come and go and you can't stop them. It's like one of those surprise packages and you are expecting a good day and it just pops open and out jumps a bunch of those cloth snake things. Yuck. Real snakes are bad enough." Mers, trying to empathize when I was not feeling so hot. |
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"It's the only thing in my house I couldn't live without. Well, except my wife... Hmmm..." Michael, on Tivo. |
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"It's really cool - like Palo Alto/Menlo Park is around Stanford... Little down town area with bars and pool hall and restaurants... Less Mormons live there too." Bob, on an area in Utah he's considering living in. |
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"Get online so that you can chat with me!! Got to hear more about your
shopping :-)" E-mail from Steph to me after my shopping spree weekend. |
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"How's work going? Hope you are having a lot of fun over there. I'm sure
you are making everyone laugh." Malt, to me. I'll take that as a good thing. :-)
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"It's going on three weeks since I've been in this good mood." Me "What a problemevery day you wake up so cheery like you have rose colored glasses on. Take off those glasses maybe." Mom, being silly. |
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"I don't like cartoons." Grandpa's response to if she had seen Nemo.
"I like cartoons--they're so fun and happy." Me "Is that why you are so jolly?" Grandma |
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"Are you missing your father? I've been missing him ever since he left San Francisco." Grandpa, to me. |
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"I won't try and kill them, but I wouldn't mind if they were gone one day." Kevin H., on a few of his fish.
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"Sawasdee from Land of Sweat and Good Street Food." Subject of e-mail from Dad in Thailand. |
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"It is very HOT here and I don’t see any obese people (they sweat it off)." Dad, writing from Thailand. |
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"Tomorrow night is Spence's company holiday party... I think I might drink heavily :-)" Steph, after a hard few weeks at work. |
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"Parking garage stories are always funny afterwards (but certainly not during!)" Mers
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"I have a complete Williams-Sonoma kitchen, but have no idea of what to do with it." Hope, on taking cooking classes. |
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"I'm back to my old self–doing to much in too little time." James |
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"You guys are my idols and heros of the social scene of the South Bay." Kuldip, to me and Lisa. |
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"If I have bacon again I'm going to die." Onray, trying Atkins for a while.
"Don't do it!!!" Me
"Yeah I'm going to take a vacation from bacon for a bit and go with chicken instead." Onray |
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"It's off! It's in the mail.. Now to come up with a cover story!! Beverly hills Millionaire or Bay Area Internet Tycoon?" Ebs, on RSVPing for our 10 year high school reunion. |
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"I don't think I have an envelope... CRAP..." Mark
"Invent one." Bob's HP-induced response. |
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"I totally agreeI just don't get enough channels." Eric, on me trying to sell him on Tivo. |
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"Here we go with the CC again..." Rodd's response to my IM status about me getting CC tickets.
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"Disney on Ice rocked the house." Kuldip, on his weekend activities with Sean. |
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"Damn non-waterproof phones..." Kathi, upset she missed a call. |
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"I had two chicken and oily rice so far, it's good man." Dad, in Thailand
"Street food?" Me "Yeah man 60 cents per plate. Can you imagine, good food for 60 cents?" Dad, so excited. |
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"I see it now your Crows Counting, you are going to be famous. I should get your autograph now." Dad, upon getting the amazon.com news article about the concert I was at being webcast.
"I won't forget you when I'm famous." Me, playing along. "Yeah Porche911 Carerra (I upgraded my request). On second thought a Carerra 4 (4 wheel drive).
"Oh, you want me to buy it for you?" Me
"If you get to be a CAEO or Rock Star. CEO or CIO or whatever O that's make big bucks." My crazy Deed |
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"It will be lots of fun. Food, drink, movie, Eve... Yippeeeeee." Lisa, to me, on our plans for a date that night.
"What else can a person ask for?????" Me, being silly
"That's pretty much all I need. If you were a boy, I would marry you." Loeby |
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"See? I know you so well, I know your mom!" Loeby, on predicting what my mom would say.
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"Man, 2nd place AGAIN in the football pool." Me
"You can say that you 'won the silver.'" David |
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"It's a sacrifice you make to be able to relive that night for the rest of your life." Yed, on bootlegging. |
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"You still emotionally feel the music, you just have to control the physical." Yed, on taping a concert. |
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"I can't decide if the things are cool or ugly." Sylvia, on IKEA. |
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"This will be the big surprise: the score!" Eric, watching the Niner/Rams game awaiting Ingrid at her surprise birthday party. |
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"I'm glad Eve came." Anjali, to D, on me teaching her how to best take a jello shot at one of their friend's Halloween party. |
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"I have a feeling this is the start of a very entertaining evening." Anjali, on us driving around in circles trying to find a Halloween party.
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"It's really good with coffee." Melissa, on cotton candy |
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"Go UC school!" Me, at the UCLA/Stanford game |