"I don't smoke, I don't drink–just dance." Dad's Thai friend Kookai, who took me out for New Year's Eve in Bangkok.
	"Would you like something to drink?" Kookai's friends, to me in Bangkok. "Sure." My reply as they poured Johnny Walker red label, soda water, and Coca-Cola into my glass.
	"One night in Bangkok and the work's your oyster..." Song going through my head ib nt wat for a night out in Bangkok.
	"Half of Synapta is calling me asking about you!" Loeb
	"Did I mention the part about loving you??? I am gonna hug you and never let go when you get home. Be prepared for super schoompy Lisa!" Loeb's response to me being ok.
	"Oh - THANK GOD! (I have actually been praying - and you know how much I am on the fence about the god stuff)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" One of my friends' responses to my I'm ok e-mail.
	"Thank goodness your OK. I need lots of XXXXXs and OOOOOOOs in my life." Daniel's e-mail to me.
	"Hi email me if you can i want to make sure you didnt get washed away!" My sister's simple one line note.
	"We all wanted to make sure you and your family are ok..We have heard that the Tsunami caused haycock in India, Indonesia and Thailand..." Mark's e-mail to me. Interesting choice of word "haycock." I don't believe I've ever heard that word used before.
	"EK phone home." Laurie's e-mail to me while I was there.
	"Are you OK?" Subject of many of my e-mails when I finally got to check it on the 31st.
	"We have to come all the way to Thailand to see you!" Ma, to my dad's cousin Michael (yes, Ebs, the HP one), who lives in Cupertino.
	"I don't know what it is but I know I like it." Dad, after I asked him about a Thai snack food.
	"Why is he fighting all of the time?" My dad's Aunt Rosita about Bush.
	"Do you like Bush? Why do you vote for Bush?" My dad's Thai resident Aunt Rosita, to us. "We didn't." Ma
	"We missed breakfast." Dad, waking up after 10 in Bangkok. "Oh we missed lunch too." Dad, waking up after 1.
	"This is not what I expected but I'm so happy I don't have to roast in the sun." Mom, on good weather in Thailand.
	"Excuse me, madam." Wait staff to me. Makes me feel like I'm in the King and I.
	"What's the appeal? I don't understand." Me, to Dad, on Thailand. "The food, the people, the service, and my friend knows all the golf courses." Dad
	"Dirty, super slimy, sketchy, and sleazy. He can't expect us to like it. He just likes it cause it's his homeland." Mom, on Thailand and Dad. Really some parts were ok.
	"This may be a bad dream." Mom, on dinner at an empty bingo hall looking place with an off key Thai singer playing a synthesizer and singing old US songs like Lionel Richie's "Hello."
	"Ichi, ni, san , shi, go–oops wrong country. I better switch. Neung, sang, sahm, si, ha..." Mom, in Thailand after being in Japan.
	"Is Eve here?" Dad, upon me entering the room. "No, it's my date I ordered." Mom
	"I guess it pays to bring Dad to Thailand." Mom, on getting seats and food fast at our busy hotel pool.
	"We'll wake up tomorrow and won't know what country we're in." Mom
	"Are you laughing or in trouble?" Dad, to me from the room while I was in the shower.
	"I like my drink–the first positive thing I have to say about this country." Me, at my first dinner in Thailand after a super hectic 4 hour ride in a Taxi from the airport.
	"Do you see the driver straddles the line?" Dad, on our driver's driving.
	"It's very hot–I can see." Dad, looking out the window of the plane after we landed in Thailand.
	"Oh 1 hour more? I'm sick of this." Ma, being silly on the plane to Thailand.
	"I have to use the bathroom." Me, on the plane "Sorry the gate is closed." Dad, in the aisle seat.
	"Why are you so unfriendly? Read books and ignore me." Dad, to me on the plane.
	"I like the pineapple." Me, on the plane to Thailand. "Oh I'm so glad you like my country." Dad
	"I don't want to leave." Me, on the last night in Japan. "That's OK. You can go and see if you like it and if you don't you don't have to ever go back." Mom, on Thailand.
	"At least in Thailand we can blow our nose." Mom
	"Did you notice it's so quiet? I wonder if there's some unwritten rule against smiling and laughing on the subway." Mom, in Tokyo.
	"What are you writing down all the time?" Mom, in the dark about this quotes page. Dad too. ;-)
	"I need to sit down. If someone doesn't let me sit down I'll kick them." Mom waiting for the subway, joking after a day of a lot of walking.
	"I can't go any more steps today. I've reached my step limit. I started at 9. 6 hours of stepping." Mom, after a busy Tokyo touring day.
	"I just feel like dancing like Elle right now." Mom, on the super quiet and mellow Japanese subway.
	"I can tell you're not excited. I could stay here all day." Dad, to me on the street of electronics store area of Akihabara.
	"Did you get any gropers yet?" Dad to me on the crowded Tokyo subway one morning.
	"I have 20 days but I only take 5 days." Uchinashi, on vacation days. "Why don't you take more? Us "It's Japanese culture." Uchinashi
	"This country has more than food. We have people, scenery, etc." Uchinashi
	"I guarantee Mt. Fuji is better than Mt Shasta." Uchinashi, Dad's Japanese friend.
	"You're in Tokyo–please enjoy." Dad's friend on getting me another drink.
	"Ok I don't need you anymore." Dad after I helped him figure something out on his new camera.
	"The way he chugged his drinks–omigosh. He had three beers down before I blinked by eyes!" Mom, on Dad's Japanese friend we had dinner with.
	"I don't know if we're being rude or not." Mom, on standing and eating a red bean bun.
	"This is the oddest Xmas I've ever had." Mom in Tokyo on Xmas.
	"Our eating tour has officially begun." Me at our first meal in Tokyo.
	"Please do not use mobile phones, as it annoys the neighbors." Voice recording on the Japanese airport bus to the hotel.
	"This is very unimpressive so far." Mom, while in the plane taxiing in Tokyo when we just landed.
	"Better get the last blow in before you get into public." Mom, on blowing my nose–she read it's rude in Japan.
	"Dear, you want to come sit with me?" Dad, to mom on the plane. "No, I'm watching movies with Eve." Mom
	"I can't hear." Mom, on the plane with her headphones on. "You have to plug them in." Me, laughing at her with the cables wound up with the connection hanging down by her face.
	"Have fun with the Asian people and I hope you don't come back too triple A." Ro, to me right before I boarded my plane.
	"Ellen's coming to Thailand and she doesn't even know it." Mom, on an Ellen book I gave her.
	"No returns? This has been a very successful Christmas this year." Mom, after we opened all of our gifts.
	"Thanks Dad–I like it." Me "Thank God no mooing." Dad
	"Moo it Dad!" Me, to Dad on a silly gift he opened for Xmas.
	"You will find happiness in the current year. What is this? The year is almost over!" Dad, reading his fortune cookie.
	"I thought this would be cool for you and your future ho-ness?" My hopeful sister, on a Victoria Secret gift certificate.
	"Sorry to hear you're froggy today." Nicki's text to me after I told her my voice was funny since I was sick.
	"We're in the midst of wrapping gifts. Ok ok–Ingrid is in the midst of wrapping gifts. I'm lying on the couch talking on the phone watching her wrap gifts. But that counts damnit! Cause in a marriage you're a couple and you do everything together. So we're wrapping gifts. Yeah just don't ask Ingrid about that." Part of Dice's entertaining voice mail to me.
	"It's Santa Dice calling you late on a Wednesday night... Ingrid and I are both just very fortunate to have a wonderful friend like you in our lives–so that's the best gift of all you know." Dice, in his Merry Xmas voice mail to me. Awwwww how cute of a friend he is!
	"I got arrested." Mark "What? How?" My response. "I had a lap dance and you can't touch. They took me away." Mark "Are you serious?" Me "Yeah, you should have seen the car I stole to get there." Mark, revealing his story about playing freakin Grand Theft Auto.
	"Men's underwear... Boxers... Boxers with ducks on them!" Mark's insane psychic ability to guess gifts.
	"If Nicki doesn't come we can open some presents tonight." Mom, to me. "NO! That wasn't part of the deal!" My response. "Eve won't let us open any presents tonight–she said it's not allowed." Mom to Dad.
	"Look–I even initiated the hug!" Yed, to me, while leaving from a holiday gift drop off at my house.
	"I told you I can't help myself." Me, to Laurie, on buying presents. "And not just one–several!" Laurie's response to some fun Xmas gifts I got her.
	"u're like one of the coolest peeps i know. by far the coolest peep in Cali... even cooler then that crazy govenor you got." Boston Livin Single T in an e-mail to me. Ha!
	"I'm sure there are plenty of nice guys, I just don't know if any are good enough for you. ;-)" Single T, on me dating.
	"Damn people that want to do real work. What's their problem? Don't they know it's the holidays and we're supposed to slack off?" Kathi
	"I'm being a freak. I've been on vacation for 3 days and my mind has been gone for years." Nicki
	"I call it 'rolling out the doe' in Tokyo." Dad being silly about things being pricy in Japan.
	"Btw, wine in Japan is very expensive... Beeru is cheaper. So brush up on your beer. No small bottle, big one is about $10." Dad, to me before our trip.
	"I'm having a major brain power outage with all that sugar I ate at lunch!" Diane, after our pancake lunch.
	"Too scopes of rice like a boob. I'll tAKE A PICTURE." Dad's IM to me while eating a Chinese lunch.
	"Now you don't have to hoard the presents–I'm hoarding them for you." Loeb, on our delayed Xmas together.
	"Just bought a new cell phone and I've jumped about 2 decades from the older phones, the only things I've ever used." James
	"I would like to ask you for your 30th birthday what do you like to have? A Rolex watch? A diamond pencil? A diamond bracelet? Or anything. You just tell me what you would like–I don't know what souvenir you like from Grandpa and Grandma. Call me back right away for your birthday 30th February." Grandpa, leaving a cute voice message for me.
	"I think I went through at least a couple pens during the bar - 2 days of essay exams, 6 hours each day. That's the most writing I've ever done in my life. Hopefully, knock on wood, never again." James, on taking the bar exam.
	"I've emptied two pens in about 3 days - that's when I know I've been writing a lot - when I actually use up all the ink in the pen. I don't often do that - usually, I'll lose the pen or lose interest in it and move on to another pen before it's out of ink." James, on writing Xmas cards.
	"I work at a place with dozens of beautiful chinese girls... it really is distracting." Hong Kong James
	"Hi Cutie Patootie." The start of Nicki's voice mail to me.
	"I like rooming with you cause I can have stuff all over and you don't care... You have a pile of luggage too." Ro, to me.
	"I guess we're not just friends anymore." Ro, on getting engaged.
	"Where are my pants?" Suga, looking for tip money in Vegas after a delivery.
	"Have fun in Vegas - I hope you get/got to bet on some football and that now you're super rich." Mike Bengals, to me.
	"I think I'll go against SF, so you can get the #1 pick, plus I'm still mad at them for Super Bowls 16 and 23. :(" Mike Bengals
	"Tonight's not a good idea–which probably thrills you cause it means more presents for you in January." Lisa's sick call to me not being able to do Xmas.
	"Yes I am needing a patch a lot!" Nicki's text to me when we haven't chatted much for a few days. :-)
	"Did notice your bday was the super bowl day - that's pretty neato. My 18th birthday was a Presidential election day, that's about as exciting as a non-Thanksgiving birthday can be in November." Mike
	"I'll cheer for Atlanta the next few weeks, just for you, even though I don't like them... Should I cheer for SF too, or do you want the top draft pick?" Mike Bengals, to me.
	"Dear, did you ask me for something? Did I need something? Why am I here?" Dad standing in the doorway.
	"Smile and enjoy." Grandma's closing in an e-mail to me. :-)
	"You really can't stop! We need to get you help–not this year, but next year." Dice on me giving my big pile of Xmas presents to him and Ingrid.
	"It was nice seeing you. Sorry it was so lengthy. Me on dinner taking forever. "With you, lengthy is good." Sweet Dice
	"This combination of running, shuffling, bouncing that I can only describe as scampering. It really makes me smile. Don't ask me why." James, on girls in his office.
	"You and your sass mouth shirts!" Eric, to me.
	"It's pretty simple–once you have black and brown you're done." Eric on guys and shoes.
	"I think I'm done for a while. I've reached shoe nirvana." Eric, on buying shoes.
	"Which emoticon do you use most?" Eric, asking Leslie about her conversations with a friend.
	"I'm a horse head." What I wrote on the dinner table in front of Eric. "I think he's just an ass." Leslie, joking.
	"It went so well they asked me if I was cheating which was cool." Ryan on part of his pilot interview.
	"Respect Eve or she will kick your ass or you will make her very upset and Matt will kick your ass, verbally cause he's non-violent, mainly he will think mean things about you. <negative thought> Stop being a dumb ass, come to the not-so-dark side</negative thought> I'm working some mental voodoo for you." Funny Doodle being supportive.
	"I will tell Spence you asked for him. He loves attention." Steph on her husband's hurt back.
	"I miss ya too, it's been a while now that power happy eve is back. And to clarify that is not saying I miss you because power happy eve is back. It's because now that power happy eve is back you are busy all the time. So power happy eve is responsible for the missing.. make sense?" A funny Doodle.
	"See, that's why I'm not married." Kimi "Why? Cause your husband may hurt his back one night so you can't go to dance?" Me, joking to Mers about Steph not being at dance one night.
	"Well I do love you guys! You're both on my 'do not spring clean' list!" Daniel about me and Loeby.
	"I am not wearing reindeer ears. I only signed up for fishnets." Hope, on my dance story.
	"Wow. What a great song!!! Nice and bitter ;)" Loeby, on "Coin Operated Boy."
	"I'll give you a hug since I know Yed won't." Rodd, to me.
	"Thanks again for the candle, that is a great gift. candles are a must when you live with Yedders." Rodd, about my Xmas present to him.
	"I wanted you to know that if I dont return from my trip that you are a great person." Chris' dramatic IM about driving in the Ohio snow.
	"No girlies for me - I'm no good at meeting people, so mostly I just sit and stare until they run away, then I go home and watch TV." Boston Mike
	"But enough of that - bottom line is you're not lame, you're wicked cool :)" Mike Bengals pumping me up.
	"Still have not bought a single gift - hope there's lots of cool thing online and in stock." Hope
	"We need to hangs out again at some point. Of course with the Evers Schedule (tm) that ain't always easy." Matt Y, to me.
	"Jessica (and David, through couple osmosis.)" Jessica's e-mail to me.
	"Hi Evers! Your Elf's work arrived today!" Daniel, on an Xmas package I sent out.
	"Yeah, we've got to get SOMETHING for the pain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kimberly, on me winning the football pool last week and her in the running this week.
	"Ingrid just won 1st place! I've never seen a pregnant lady jump so high. She's thrilled." Dice, on his wife's big $500 survivor football win.
	"Hello this is Abbie–your cuddle buddy." My super cute niece's voice message to me.
	"I was in the music store and I was looking for your mom." Dice to me. "Why?" Me "You said she was a rapper." Dice's punchline.
	"Oh no–that's all that's left? I'm getting sad. I'm obsessed." Mom after 5 hours of wrapping presents.
	"I'm gonna hate wrapping after this." Mom
	"You really need your own professional wrapper–this is insane." Mom after three hours of present wrapping for me.
	"Time does heal wounds. Sometimes it just takes forever." Nicki
	"It's my time to be brainless." Anjali, on commuting on the train.
	"Like so nice he's almost a girl nice." Laurie, on her sister's boyfriend.
	"Oh my god, this is what we've come to - I'm going to have to start wearing a bag over my head..." Kimberly's response to the same e-mail.
	"It's nice to see a different team at the end of a football joke for a change." Bengals fan Mike on a Niner joke e-mail.
	"Running out of creative things to do with leftover turkey. I've had turkey everyday since Thanksgiving." On
	"I bought the biggest bird I could find since it was $7.99 for anything bigger than 16 pounds so had to get the biggest!" On, on having a 25 pound turkey for three people at Thanksgiving.

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