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"What does that exactly mean and what happens next?" Me to almost homeowner Chris on being in escrow.
"We pay lots of money and sign papers and end up with a house." Chris' answer.
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"It took less time to rebuild Rome than it'll take to rebuild this team." Overheard at end of the Miami/Niner game at Candlestick. |
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"What was it? Oh, you're dead inside." Tripper Chris, to Eric. |
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"I'm so tired. Was it the studying all day and drinking?" Eric
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"You are a tinsel whore." Leslie R, to me wearing tinsel in my hair. |
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"I've never been so sober here." Leslie R., at Miyaki's
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"You think too much. I just talk from my rear." Dad, to me.
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"49er is lousy." Grandpa at Thanksgiving dinner.
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"Do you like the meal?" Me, to Hrandpa at Thanksgiving. "Thank you. I'm full." His answer. |
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"She has false boobs." Grandma, during the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.
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"I think this is our new favorite place." Christiane, about Paul and Eddy's.
"Free popcorn, strong drinks..." Chris adding to it.
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"It's cold." Me, outside the bar.
"I'm warm from whiskey." Eric
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"I married your friend." Christiane's Chris, meeting Sally.
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"Dolphins came to our wedding." Santa Barbara Chris
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"I was just calling to see how my favorite palindrome girl is doing... Palindrome Girlsounds like a super hero." Dice's voice message to me. |
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"Granted, my sister's food is probably better for you, but it doesn't taste as ... wait. I'd better not say it. It could come back to haunt me." James
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"I wish that the cold would either totally put me out of commission, or just leave me alone; none of this half-way sick stuff. I don't like it." James
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"I'm gonna drop you like a hot potato." Dad, to me, to meet mom arriving at the airport.
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"I'm going to get dressed now." Me, getting ready to go out for lunch.
"Are you wearing a dress? If not, you should say get pantsed." Dopey Dad.
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"No it is not far. Tell her I drove to SF three times this week just to have cheap noodles. NO FAR. Far would be Seattle or LA." Dad, on picking up Nicki before a dinner in Berkeley.
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"I am here to serve (not the country but to special people)." Dad on what we'll order for dinner.
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"Do you know how much I love you? Daniel, to me.
"Why don't you go ahead and tell me." Me ;-)
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"How cute are you and Lisa???" Daniel to me, excited about getting the baby present we sent him. "Very cute?" My response.
"It was a rhetorical question." Daniel.
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"We'll talk later, my head is numbtoo sleeeepy." Dad on IM |
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"Sports and booze are always a winning combination." Nicki, on upcoming mud football and beer at Golden Gate park.
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"Suddenly, the prospect of having an income has generated all these spending interests." James, after getting a job in Hong Kong.
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"I was thinking about how I've jumped head-first back into consumerism and how
only now do I realize how far out of it I'd been." James
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"So not food poisoning, more eve allergy poisoning." Doodle's take on me getting sick from dairy again.
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"Isn't he a cutie? I've already booked dates for him thru 2018." Daniel, on his newborn boy.
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"We're gonna party like we're STAR fish." Janelle, on being excited to see the Sponge Bob movie Friday. |
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"Helma Sayak." Dad, on our way to see the After the Sunset movie.
"Dad, it's Selma Hayak." Me
"Oh, I'm famous for saying things backwards." Dad :-o
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"I forgot to brush my teeth." Me, new to the whole Sonicare deal. "Let's brush togetherit's an outing." Dad. |
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"Do you like my updo?" Me, to Dad after our complimentary salon visit.
"Yeah, it's like daughter of Frankenstein." Dad's response.
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"On what planet does he think he's attractive!?!?!" Loeb, on one lame guy in a bar in Mt. View.
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"That's the definition of being Eve's friendyou have to be a little weird." Loeb |
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"That's why I like fruit in my alcoholso I don't get scurvy." Loeby, in response to Mers' comment about scurvy. |
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"It's my new favorite town." Mers, on Los Altos with its free wine and snack shopping spa night. |
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"Normally I have to do a lot to get a free flower and service." Loeby, in downtown Los Altos.
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"It's snowing." Boston living Single T's early Nov text to me.
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"I owe you moneydon't forget to bill me." Hope, to me. |
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"I'm doing a job a monkey should do." Someone at work. |
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"I'm going to start my butter business." Steph, at the movies.
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"I feel super trendy now." Doodle, having a drink at the W SF.
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"Watching Niner games is like tortureyou know they are going to lose." Dad. |
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"We should go sometime... it's fun to bowl drunk." Super bowler Ro, to me.
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"Need to do some test now.. Can I take a break to work a little? It's break time for a 10 min. work. This is the superior being break time. Normal time is non-work." Nutty IMing Dad.
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"Rib eyes man for main course. I am in heaven. I don't need to croak to be there, how nice." Dad, on looking at the dinner menu of where we were going for dinner later. |
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"I can't wait to get my braces off and eat milk duds at movies again." Hope
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"Hello Eve PM of the web team this is Dan project manager of the baby team. Our project has been completed!!!!" Daniel, excited on the birth of his new baby boy.
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"Its a scoping adventure. We can parallel scope." Me, to Doodle, on a happy hour in the city.
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"No super-fantastic Eve-type plans." Bengals Mike, on how he'll celebrate his birthday.
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"See if anyone wants to lend me $568.06 each month for 30 years." In debt Ryan. *Note: There's a little truth to every joke. Please see Eve for details on this charity option. |
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"I can't hear when I chew." Dad, while eating. |
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"Yeah, I don't like those. They're too smallthey don't last long enough." Chad, on mini Tootsie pops. |
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"If I died, just think that I am having a ball in higher land. Nothing to be sad about. People come and go but the spirit lives on man... Oh Mah Toh Foh, that's what everybody needs in life. Which reminds me I need to watch my 13 CDs Kung Foo Movie." Dad, to me.
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"Isn't it fun to work in our line of profession? Beats bagging groceries!" Dad, part of a silly chat with me. |
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"Hey don't we work? Is this our goal in life, IMing?" Dad's IM to me, one day at work. |
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"I'd skip dating if there were more cool people like you to hang out w/." Single T, on the annoyances of dating life.
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"Yippee! Estrogen Rocks!!!!!" Lisa, on plans to see the Bridget Jones movie with Nicki and I. |
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"I need to eat something besides nothing. I've had egg salad 3 nights in a row." Dad
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"How exciting that I got quoted a lot. I guess being pregnant makes me more quotable :)" LesliE
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"Woohoo! I'm quoted 6 times in October!!! But none in November so far..Must think of something fantabulous to say..." Doodle |
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"In honor of my son's birthday you better update your quotes page." Daniel, to me, on the phone before taken his pregnant wife to the hospital. |
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"Super sad post election special." Show on 104.9 Sunday night after the election where they played sad songs. |
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"It's entertaining in a very cheesy way." Eric, on the OC show. |
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"Crazy. Even communists like the OC!" Eric, on watching some TV piece that said OC stars get recognized in China. |
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"Kevin was really sweet, but I know he thinks I'm crazy." Prego LesliE, about her husband.
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"I think being pregnant is sometimes like having PMS for 9 months." LesliE, scaring me.
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"Although it is reassuring to know she is doing ok in there, when she
kicks me awake in the middle of the night it is not as cute." Pregnant LesliE, on her upcoming baby girl.
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"You mean Kimi name is Maureen? Wow, so adult sounding..." Dad
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"I partied like I was 21 on Fri... Then I woke up on Sat am and felt about 101." Hope
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"Are you kidding? Having my son born on the same day that Halo 2, the greatest game on Earth is being launched? I couldn't ask for more!" Daniel
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"By the way, the dr. told us to come in at midnight, but I changed it to 1am, so I can pick up my copy of Halo 2 first." Daniel, on his wife being taken in for labor.
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"It's good we didn't get the crabby waitress." Dad
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"Gin tastes like perfumeI like it." Dad |
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"Do you want to go for a drink or head home?" Me, to Kimi and Dad after dinner in SF Saturday night.
"I'm young and fun." Mers
"I'm old and fun." Dad
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"We'll fit right in." Me, to Mers, on going to an Asian fusion restaurant.
"Maybe we can get sashes that say Asiany fusiony." Mers
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"Do I look too ugly today to go shopping?" Me, to Dad. "No, if you were ugly I wouldn't have taken you to lunch to begin with. Or let you in my car. I don't just pick up anyone you know." Dad |
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"I could be in Thailand and no one would know." Dad, on working remotely.
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"Why am I always the last to know?" Me, on family news.
"No, I'm the last. Grandma was sitting closer to you. Sound travels." Dad's random reply.
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"Don't tell them mom isn't here. I don't want to be their slave." Dad, about my grandparents.
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"Don't you want to be comfortable? We're not on a date you knowyou don't need to be formal." Dad, to me while I was wearing my jacket in the car. |
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"I thought it was pretty classy how I invite you and then have you pay for it." Malty, on lunch at her housefunny mommy lady she is. |
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"All the smart states voted for Kerry." Malty
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"Hey, when did you become so political?" Dad, to me.
"I guess just recently." My reply.
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"I just have no luck. Like I had a girl flirt w/ me last night... but I think she was a hooker." Single T |
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"Thanks for having a birthday so I could watch the movie." Nicki, to Ingrid.
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"No, that's OK. It's Ingrid's birthday!" Me, to Dice, refusing his money for their movie tickets. "Are you sure?" Dice
"Yes. We could ask her mom." Me
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"Don't forget I'm your friend." Chris, to me, after I said I bought a lottery ticket.
"Remember you have to be a friend of good standing at the time." My teasing response. |
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"Watching the 49er game while you're watching the election results while 'Leaving on a Jetplane' is playing." Chris, speculating on one of my potential unhappiest moments. |
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"Did you go the TiVo way or the other way?" Chris, to me, on driving to the East Bay.
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"OK I don't either. Superior being only communicate with our brain wave, voice is too lowly." Dad's response to me not liking to call to make reservations. |
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"What do you think?" Me, on a time to make a dinner reservation for my dad and I. "6:30? It is dark already at that time. Romantic enough..." Dad
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"Enjoy the weekend. Think positive thoughts." Fellow 49er fan Rick B. Man, it's getting harder. |
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"We need to arrange a time that suits our schedules for the proverbial handoff.... no pun intended." Rick B., on the 9er tickets I bought from him. |
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"I hope you are doing good. And I hope your consecutive happy days streakhappy days hey the Fonziesorry I got off on a side track there..." Dice's voice mail to me. |
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"I kinda look ashlee simpsonish. Just color-wise. And bangs." Kathi, on her new hair.
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"Shoot. Darn it. (not my actually words)." Rick in a work note.
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"Fri night is tough sometimes, but I'm ready for some holiday cheer. Already had some eggnog and rum." Hope, on a festive Los Altos night with the girls.
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"I have a date with my husband that night b/c we haven't done anything just the 2 of us since Italy (besides sleep)." Steph |
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"Are we like Madonna or something with our schedules?" D, to me, on trying to get together.
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"They're not like us where we just give it away like a cheap whore." Eric, on citizenship in another country.
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"Man now that I'm back to my social self again I'm in full forcelunch dates 3 days in a row!" Me |
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"He must have a special type of brain." Mom, on Ken Jennings, the ever winning Jeopardy guy.
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"I need to start taste testing hushpuppies so I can take you to the best place." Krissy, on my upcoming visit.
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"Glad we're in CA. Glad CA exists or I would leave this country." Eric
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"I'm just so shocked by the number of Americans who think he is taking us the right direction and that he is a good leader. I am honestly speechless. Society is more doomed than I predicted." Eric and his long post election rant. |
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"If there was a middle finger icon I'd use it for bush." Onray
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"Can we just put bush and osama in a ring and have them beat each other up?" Onray
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"It's a sign the gods aren't happy with the election results." David on the thunder the day after the election.
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"Yes. It made me sad. Almost as sad as the results of the election. Americans are so fucking stupid I am speechless." Eric on hearing of the passing of one of our favorite high school teachers.
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"I'm moving to Switzerland." Melty's after election status.
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"Nooooooooooooooooo." Rodders' after election status.
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"Bush wonat least our stocks went up." Payless' after election status. |
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"The world is going to hell. George Bush four more years. I'm gonna go insane!" Mom's voice message for her cousin.
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"At least we live in the right state." Mom, on the election results.
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"Larry should go to bedhe's too old to be up so late." Mom, talking about Larry King, watching CNN election coverage at 1:30am. |
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"Tell everyone your mom may be moving to Canada." Mom, to me, after the election. Wait a second--I wouldn't go that far. :-o
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"I will not be at dance tonight - need to vote in Alameda. Also election obsessed." Hope
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"Did Slash go crazy from the jack juice?" Payless Eric, checking up with me on the rest of party night.
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"Cool neighbors though. They laughed. Something about it's not a good party until someone takes their clothes off." Laurie's neighbors, on finding a shirt in their yard. |
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"One Bathroom Attendant's Basket including tie and towel= Eric/Payless for sure.
One Guns n' Roses T-shirt in neighbors side yard he he- Chris/Slash for sure
One blue bandana tied for a head - Punk Rock Kyle's I think." Laurie's lost and found e-mail to me post our Halloween party.
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"I hope your party was BIG fun." No voice sickly Loeby.
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"I have really been slowing down the past two weeks. I'd like to blame crazy work and rainy weather, but I should probably blame the baby." Pregnant LesliE.
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"Maybe cause it's 1:30 in my stomach." Laurie, on being hungry at 12:30 after daylight savings.
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