"I went for a hike today and saw the happiest runner imaginable. If she could have shot a rainbow out of her butt I am sure she would have. I hate people who like working out that much!" Hilarious Nicki
	"Thanks for giving me an excuse not to exercise!" Susan, about me staying to have another glass of wine so she couldn't make a workout class. ;-)
	"Going to miss the day to day fun but know I'll see you since you're socially on the ball." Susan, moving on to a new job. I feel like I could be in the circus. ;-)
	"If you can take a vegetable I've dedicated my life to not liking and think wow it's good without noticing it's in there, that's something." Eric, on Gabriella's restaurant using beets.
	"I'll have a vodka soda." Shanee "I like this girl already." Me
	"High five!" The theme of a night out with Nicole and her friends.
	"He's so cute, we may get married," Nicole on Matt Damon.
	"Seriously guys, I was like an hour ahead of you." Nicole, taking shots out one night.
	"Do you like it?" Me, on the tater tots with garlic and cheese I made. "What's not to like?" Mike
	"You've outdone yourself." Eric, being nice about the snacks I made for watching Superbowl at home.
	"Gisela doesn't like American football--it's too slow for her. But she says it's better on Yed's TV." Eric
	"Superbowl over?" Miss it a little." James, in Hong Kong
	"OMG you're a freak, make that a freak-and-a-half... but a very lovable & likeable freak, the kind you definitely want at your dinner party with the way you collect & preserve things (aka stories) - not the scary kind of Silence of the Lambs collector and preserver." Tod Abernathy's reaction to being introduced to my quotes page.
	"I'm honored to make the list - but do me a favor? Print my first and last name, that way I can get more website hits when those dorks on classmates.com Google my name (no worries if not, I already know what the captain of my high school football team is doing these days = mowing my lawn)." Tod Abernathy. LOVE this--if anything some people want to make sure I don't use their full name (of even their real name). Guess they aren't thinking of SEO ;-)
	"I too was totally amused reading the quotes. Concur with Tod's assessment - and you know I love colorful freaks!" Aaron, another quote first timer.
	"They're funny! Always so funny. Reminds me of parts of my life I've already forgotten." James, old-time quote guy.
	"I made some omelet for breakfast today, so let me check it..." Cute ending to email from Gisela
	"I keep waiting to get stopped on my way out of the grocery store, I look like I'm smuggling a turkey!" Jessica, on being pregnant.
	"Not only do you have to take care of your water/rain runoff but your neighbors can affect yours too. Like the leaking pond next door. Water is so destructive, I don't know how we can drink it..." Payless, frustrated about the floors in his house.
	"I wonder if there's an element of 'try to see things another way' in all of the stuff I wrote. That's a hard thing to do because we're really who we are and it's hard to see things any other way." James
	"He is the oddest person in the world." Mom, laughing about Dad.
	"I've decided it's Super Fat Tuesday tomorrow." Mike, on the election and Mardi Gras' Fat Tuesday
	"It's the mayor of San Francisco." Todd "It can't be--he's at an event in San Francisco tonight." Mike, who listens to a lot of radio on his commute. "Todd likes to say he sees famous people wherever he goes." Leslie
	"Never expected that, but can't argue :D:D:D:D:D:D:D." Ed, on his NY Giant's winning the Super Bowl.
	"Glad you are feeling better!! Bit by bit the sun comes out! :-)" Positive Mers
	"I don't mind though...it's where I'm supposed to be & I love the perks! I do manage to sneak a kiss from a guy friend every now & then...that seems to suffice." One of my funny single friends.
	"A guy I used to date introduced me to that drink. The guy didn't work out but the drink was good." Karla, about a fruity martini at a restaurant in Sunnyvale.
	"Things are about to get more interesting... When I was on my dating spree..." Karla and her fun dating stories.
	"Happy birthday!" Mike, at midnight. "You're not born yet--I can't say happy birthday." Dad, as I was born around lunchtime (surprise surprise).
	"It's actually been pretty busy lately. For some reason, this is the month for all day summits. I have 5 of them." Kenny, about work. "Wow. Summit. Fancy." Me "Yeah, just a fancy term for being stuck in a room all day." Kenny
	"Happy birthday! Now I can say I give you the same presents your husband gets you." Tod Abernathy, handing me a Vitamin Water.
	"Isn't it your birthday today? Well... Happy Birthday!!" Payless
	"Whatcha been up to?" Me "Trying to stay warm in this cold SF weather! haha" Victor
	"Any special plans today?" Kenny "Lunch and dinner." Me
	"Happy birthday! Are you going to dinner tonight? Ah that's a stupid question." Rick
	"Tod, you got out-gifted. I actually got a normal boyfriend present. Me, to Tod Abernathy after getting flowers delivered from Mike.
	"I totally spaced. I've been buried at work but I'll putt myself out for your birthday lunch." David
	"You're at one of those young in-between birthdays. You're not even old enough to be president!" David
	"It's clap-worthy." Laurie, about David's response to a new lunch place we tried.
	"It's better to call--it's free. text message I have to pay." Dad
	"See that's why you gotta eat while you can--it could go go out of business." Susan, about the restaurant I reserved for my birthday.
	"See what aging does for you - you forget where you have eaten, which in your case might be good, since you will eventually run out of new places to try. Think about it ... you will forget you have eaten at a certain restaurant and be like ... wow, this new place is great!" David
	"Did you have a birthday lunch?" Dice "Why yes I did. Super yummmmy." Me "Where did you chow down?" Dice "This new Japanese place in Mt View. I'm into new places. I'm a yelper now. Did you see? http://eak.yelp.com." Me "You are the reason they created that site!" Dice
	"Your birthday is on the same day as Chinese New Year's EVE!!!! How cool is that?" Jo
	"I don't know why I drink it. I just come to a restaurant and drink it. But I enjoy it." Dad, about espresso.
	"It won't be at 10. Eve's birthday goes until 12--you can leave at 12:01." Mom, telling Dad to tell his friend he won't be home til later.
	"Isn't it nice to have an entertaining father?" Mom
	"I told her don't look at the world like it's a 24 hour clock. Time isn't important." Dad, about Mom.
	"One night I ran into the wall. That's the first time. It was funny but it hurt. Just like a bird running into a wall--I never thought it would happen to me." Nutzo Dad
	"It's 11:48pm." Dad excited "We're almost free!" DJ, waiting for the end of my birthday.
	"Oh I called you. Why? Oh yeah happy new year!" Dad, after I called him back. "Oh I remember why I called you..." Dad, 30 minutes later
	"You’re a lifesaver!" Guy I work with I don't know to well. "Can I be pineapple flavor? ;-)" My response "I was thinking Butter Rum, but pineapple will work. :-)" His response
	"I like the atmosphere: buzzing but quiet. Good pick dude. The food is OK too." Dad, on the restaurant in the city we went to for my birthday,
	"You should go there... but need to dress properly (upper crust)." Dad, on a restaurant he went to in Honolulu.
	"Home now. Setting up rock band." Yed "OMG really?????" Me. I've been waiting for him to get it for a while. "Yeah." Yed "I should leave then." Me "Yes. Leave." Yed. Right after told everyone at work I had to go cause my other roommate got Rock band and shut down. ;-)
	"Happy girly teen bday." Me, to friend who has a daughter turning 13. "Thanks... I will be hiding in the back bedroom for most of it. It is quite the process. Roller Skating in the afternoon, Bennihana for dinner and a slumber party." John
	"Every time she goes to the hospital she thinks everyone has to send her a card with 10 dollars." Mom, about her mom.
	"I slept till 7:30 today." Yed "Ha I woke up early at 8am today." Me
	"I just need to get over my OCD with wine. This has become a really bad month in terms of $." Yed, buying a lot of good wine.
	"I told everyone I'm not eating lunch today cause I'm having Chick-Fil-A later." Ro, after picking us up from the airport
	"What do you have worse? Traffic or shopping?" Suga "Oh, that's a tough one." Mike
	"I'm still hungry." Ro, after eating a big box of Chick-Fil-A nuggets after not eating all day. "Let's get some more." Sug "I talk a lot of food sh** but it's not going down." Ro
	"Why are you driving so fast in the parking lot, you a hole?" Ro "Cause he has a corvette." Suga's rationale.
	"Why are they following us?" Ro, about our guys when we were in the shoe department.
	"I like bananas but not like I like monkeys." Ro
	"Anybody want an amuse bouche?" Mike, handing over nuggets in the car on the way to dinner.
	"What if people don't have friends and come to Disneyland by themselves?" Ro, on the booth to pay for parking being on the right side of the car.
	"Someone have a pen so we can write it down? 3G Mickey." Mike, post-parking at Disneyland. "Why? Are we gonna be drunk?" Suga
	"I just like walking around with it. I feel like Fred Flintstone." Sug, about a turkey leg.
	"I can't wait to get under that door." Sug, waiting in line on a hot day.
	"It's like a greasy donut the soaked in grease one more time and then put ham and cheese inside." Me, on the monte cristo at the restaurant inside Pirates of the Caribbean.
	"You ate half of it!" My cousin, to her husband after she offered him a bit of her corn dog. "You can't expect a man of my size to take a small bite.
	"I was going light on the dipping unlike scoop dipping like someone..." Ro, about Sug's ketchup usage while eating corn dogs.
	"That's why I eat food--I like the sauce." Ro
	"I did it!" Ro, on finishing her huge corn dog. "Yeah! Way to power through." Supportive Sug
	"I like this omelet cause it's not too eggy. The egg is just a holder." Ro
	"You guys make us eat too much bad food." Ro, after our crazy weekend of eating. "You guys make us eat too much bad food." Mike "I don't know whose fault it is--I think it's mutual." Ro
	"It makes me nicer.... It makes me super hyper" Ro, on a pill. "Did you take it Friday?" Me, about the day she was silly and said she was in a good mood. "Yeah." Ro
	"My daughter is now the hot girl. I wasn't prepared for this." John, about his 13 year old daughter.
	"I got a lesson in teen fashion the other day. I took my daughter to the mall and we went to a place called Juicy Couture." John
	"I do miss the area there. I miss my target and you have no idea how much I miss the whole foods." Nicole, on working away from Cupertino.
	"I haven't heard from you in a while so I just wanted to say hi... How is married life? How was the honeymoon? Work? House? You know, all of the big things.
	"You excited bout the good news????????? " Me "I totally am!!!!!" Nicki "YEAYYYYYYY tv is back, back again." Me, on the end of the writer's strike. "I wanted to kiss the stranger that told me." Nicki
	"He's like a cross between a who, from Whoville, and the Kool-Aid(r) guy. You know I had to put the trademark...." Our legal guy at work, on the Valentine's ecard I sent.
	"I was very surprised to hear that the McGinley clan will soon outnumber the Hollister clan." Kevin H
	"Mike made dinner? Holy hit was it turkey?" Nicki
	"It'll make sense in the next couple of years." Mike, after the most recent episode of Lost.
	"How are you?" Me "Want my week in keywords?" Dice
	"I'm so excited for next week's kate and sawyer sexy time." Funny Nicole, about Lost.
	"It's just on the street, kinda hidden, looks run down." Me "Awesome, that means it'll be a really good." Nicole on Sue's
	"You have to have a hole in the wall mongolian bbq place. It wouldn't be right if it wasn't." Nicole
	"Thanks to you & rick for being my valentines...plus, I needed a drink! " Susan
	"I like to be surprised... but positively only." Gisela
	"I'm the only unsweet person." Me, on everyone else getting dessert wine. Eric and Gisela made me quote that.
	"I like that it's very close." Gisela, on the Italian kissing greeting. "It's a bit too close for us Americas. We need our personal space. Unless it's a cute girl.
	"Someone is grabbing my ass like Charmin." Koshi, while taking a group picture
	"Who wants to party like rock stars?" Rolando, trying to get us to come to his friend's party.
	"You ok with this? I'm getting digits." Me, on our train pub crawl for Nicki's cousin's birthday. "It's the second one she's got today." Mike
	"I call you Yoshi cause I like the Nintendo games." Chris "I'm with him." Me, thinking the same thing.
	"Bootilicious, it's time to go!" Julie, to me, at one of the train pub crawl stops.
	"We have peanut butter ice cream birthday cake." Birthday boy
	"Someone knows her action movies and it's not our friends--it's our new friend Sunglasses." Chris
	"You can really learn something from Coco back here." Kelly, on the new friend on the train who knew all the quiz questions.
	"I can quote the first paragraph of Gone with the Wind." Sunglasses lady "I wanna hear the paragraph." Nicki. The lady proceeded to quote it for us.
	"Skip the drinks, go for the donuts." Mike, on our short train stop in Burlingame.
	"I'm obsessed with karaoke. I want to be up there." Mike, at a dive bar where people were doing karaoke. "Then pick a song." Me, handing him the song book.
	"You and your husband popped my karaoke cherry." Vicki
	"I don't like the voice; I like the old voice. I'm a purist. I like things the way they were." Mike, on the new Knight Rider series car.
	"I've never gotten gas in my life. That's one of the things I use him for. That and the garbage. He has to do something." Mom, about Dad.
	"Your lengthy replies are well worth the wait. Like Heinz ketchup." Leigh Anne, about emailing.
	"I'm glad that you're there for me, and that you're still the same Eve after all these years." Mikey's response to my Valentine card.
	"I made it home from Maui in one piece - sun tanned but suffering from a bit of family overdose." Stephanie
	"I'll be thinking of you when I eat good Thai food." Part of Dad's response to my Valentine's card.
	"Come on Simon, rip her! Speak the truth." Mike, not liking a person the other two judges did on American Idol.
	"I like rwc champagne drinking matt." Nicki
	"I'll try to save some of my pain killers so when we get together we can all have some Vicodin Mojitos." Mike H.
	"I love your quotes. They make me happy when I make it into them." Nicole
	"People think it's funny that I have an office wife and an office girlfriend." Matt "But we know about each other so it's ok." Me
	"Feeling the elusiveness of happiness like you just have to really value the happy times because by nature they don't last forever... Just feel like eating cheesecake all day." James
	"We decided this is a 3 bottle night as opposed to a 5 bottle night since we know you have important stuff to do tomorrow." Me, bringing wine to Nicki's one Friday night.
	"I like the fact you got kicked out of a bar in San Jose." Nicole, to Matt
	"I hate guys with hair cause they can do stuff with it." Matt D.
	"Nicole, I'm dying. You're tearing that plate up." Matt, at our Flemings dinner. "Go big or go home." Nicole
	"I took a pic so you know I won." Nicole, on her cleaning up her steak and lobster souffle plate.
	"If it was a good pie I could." Nicole, on a pie eating contest.
	"This is the after damage." Mike, on Nicole's pic of our table post-meal.
	"I gave up chocolate but I have you drinking too so I might as well get it all over with at once." Nicole, on ordering a chocolate dessert after having wine with dinner.
	"I got hit on in the airport cause of my text message ability." Nicole. It is a different time I suppose. ;-)
	"I got fresh with the waiter by accident." Mike
	"She's got a secret bull in her basement." Mike, about Nicole's bull riding skills.
	"I tried to take it off. It's f-in youtube branded!" Nicole, about her camera
	"How do you spell Elway?" Nicole "El way like in Spanish it'd be one way." Me, laughing so hard after some wine I butted heads with Matt. Even though a minute later I actually realized it'd be the way.
	"I think I like watching the MTV music awards better." Mom, while watching the Oscars.
	"Hey I'm in London. Just landed. Bloody cold (trying to use local vernacular)." James' text.
	"I saw that in the store and said, 'That's too tacky. I have to have it!'" Marc R., on his hula lamp.
	"It's an activity; it's more than just a dessert." Rob, on us torching our individual creme brule's at Marc's.
	"I kind of like the dirt roads. I'm from Arkansas." Misty, playing a car racing video game.
	"Hi Eve (or should I call you Julie, our cruise director?)" Michelle Sw., about an Borland event I'm planning.
	"Yeah for Texas! Let me know if you see any cute cowboys. Cowboy hats are the best things ever. Boys really should wear them all the time." Kimi
	"When I'm stuck in traffic, I count them." Leah, on UT longhorn stickers in Austin.
	"I love taking Ambien." Christy
	"Sometimes I take a shower before I eat my egg whites. I like to mix it up a bit." Christy, on her daily routine.
	"I have a good time having a good time." Aaron
	"It's for people who can't afford cocaine." Leah, on guarana.
	"Run off the pork!" Leah, when we were hurrying in the cold to the next place after our BBQ dinner.
	"I was like a kid in a candy store last night. It's like a CostCo but with all liquor." Riley, at an discount liquor store in Austin. Hey , I get excited every time I go to BevMo.
	"I'm gonna go pollute myself." Marc, on smoking after lunch.
	"Luv U! I'll text you random lovelies this weekend." Matt
	"What cha guys up to?" Me, to Doodle. "We were just video chatting with joe, cel, and sophia." Doodle. Another it's a new generation comment.
	"Oh!! By the way, I found an acoustic version of I love big butts that I have to send to Mike." Doodle. Of course Mike's rendition of the original is the best, but this is pretty funny. View video.
	"How lazy would I be if I scheduled TiVo recordings from my computer when I'm sitting in front of our TV?" Me to Mike
	"I'm very cranky. Do you think I'll like you tomorrow?" Me "With each day there's brand new hope" Mike

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