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"Glad you're taking a plane for me." Me, to non-traveling Stopher who has his flight booked to go to our wedding.
"Hey, what can I say. Will fly for friends." Stopher
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"I'm taking extra vitamins and I've boosted my doggies immune systems and I'm living in a bubble until Feb. 10." Matt D.
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"It doesn't excite my palate." Dad's review of one of Ro and I's favorite restaurant in Hawaii.
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"We do it for ourselves as well ... we like big production eating ... remember, we LOVE food!" Matt D.
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"We're making more fried chicken than God though. We decided to do two whole chickens which should give us about 16-20 pieces. We're breakin' out the deep fryer, I think." Matt D.
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"People are the weirdest creatures..." Matt D.
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"Lately I can drink or eat--I can't do both." Mike
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"I think I'm done sleeping." Me, at 10am on Sunday.
"I'm never done sleeping. Waking is just an interruption to sleeping." Mike
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"HAPPY PRE-BDAY! I wanted to be the first but I'm falling asleep!" Nicki's text at 11:30pm the day before.
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"My friend Emily has an English bulldog that I hadn't seen since he was a puppy last summer. He is hilarious." Rodd
"Oh gosh sounds scary." Me
"I love pooches. I got you one for your b-day, guess I'll have to take it back." Rodders
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"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Nutter, happy birthday to you!" Daniel, on IM.
"Hahahaha UR Nutter silly. I know it's hard to keep track of but that's your name on my IM." Me
"That's right, I forgot how slippery butter was, that makes sense!" Daniel
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"Sorry I haven't gotten you a gift yet. My friend from Germany surprised me and showed up on Sunday." Daniel
"I'm just glad to know u were thinking of me and you still love me!" Me
"I was and I do!" Daniel
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"Hope that you weren't scared by my German e-card. I just thought it might be funnier to get something foreign." Gisela
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"Wow we have 64 yeses now for the party and 20 maybes. Will be pretty big." Me
"Yeah! Pretty big! Will be a lot of fun! And a practice for our upcoming big wedding parties!" Gisela
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"Still working a bit on the music but hopefully that will be good." Me, prepping for the party.
"Your last music mix was very very good! I have no worries!" Gisela
"I know--I'm just silly and worry about everything and want everyone to have fun.
" Me
"It is because you are a responsible person. You care. You care and that's rare." Supportive Gisela
"Awww thanks. That's a nice way to put me being so overly sensitive and stressed." Me
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"Sorry I missed ur call. Was totally asleep. Jetjag sucks." James' funny spelling text.
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"So excited to see you now that you're older and more mature of course. No I'm totally kidding. I like you immature so I feel normal." Nicki
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"You look nice today Dad." Me, to Dad when we were out to dinner for my birthday.
"Thanks--for you. I told mom I didn't want to wear anything queer." Dad
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"Happy birthday Eveeeeeee. Since you're a good close special personal friend of mine I'm gonna spare you the singing. That's my gift to you--you don't have to listen me sing happy birthday to you into your voicemail." Dice
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"I know today's the actual day. Unless I put it wrong on the calendar. But why would I do that? Why would the me of the past put it in the calendar wrong so future me would look foolish and call you on the wrong day. That would almost make it seem like past me had it out for future me trying to sabotage myself. But that doesn't really make a lot of sense unless I'm talking split personalities which I may have but hasn't been diagnosed so I can't really say that–I'm not authorized. But maybe my other personality is... I don't think I have more than one personality do I? I have more than one name but that doesn't mean I have more than one personality..." Another one of Dice's random voice mails.
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"Hi Eve. Grandpa is calling you for your happy birthday day." Grandpa's voicemail.
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"Sorry I didn't call yesterday but we'll just pretend that I'm prolonging the party throughout the week until the big party." SF Stacy
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"Looks like we're gonna do it right now, in fact. Cause you're so important, on the scale of customer importance." John K, a vendor I work with.
"Hahaha thanks man. That's one scale I'm ok being heavy on. THANKS for the VIPness." Me
"Nicest customers first. That's what I always say." John
"Well glad that works in my favor." Me
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"Boys in America are so much nicer than the English ones. Can you Fed Ex me a nice one :)" Lisa A in the UK
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"This guy I've been on and off with for a while but we're like oil and water I have to 'kick him to the curb' (said in an American accent)" UK Lisa.
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"You are full steam ahead on the b'day party! LOL Getcha party music on now!" Matt D.
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"Happy birthday party's eve.... Eve." Payless Eric the day before our party
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"I love my Fridays at home. Laundry and cleaning day. Drinking coffee. Watching the rain. So peaceful." James
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"Do you use butter or margarine?" Me
"Butter--it tastes better. Margarine in my mind is plastic." Nicki
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"He's a laptop addict and I'm an Anna Nicole addict." Mom, about Dad and her.
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"You like a dog?!" Cori, all excited.
"Well just one." Me, about my cousin's little Gizmo.
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"We were all connected, and our connection was YOU, and
it felt nice to be a part of the large, extraordinary, warm and
comforting thing that is your life." James
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"Thanks for having me at your birthday party - it was really a
good time. Your friends are great people. Also, I felt like a bit of a
celebrity because I didn't know people and people knew me - it was cool.
'Are you lawyer James?' Or 'are you Hong Kong James?' and other
variations." James on my birthday party.
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"Know I'm here if want 2 talk bout anything--life, movies, food. Anything. Realized my bourbon is 100 proof!" James' text
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"marco... marco... where's my polo!" Nicki's text looking for me.
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"Let me know if I can do anything to cheer you up. Or if you are not ready to cheer up, I have plenty of depressing sarah, cure, etc music to grab a hold of..." Chris being musically supportive.
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"Sometimes it seems just too much work and more difficult than it needs to be. But then it always comes back up again. On days like this, though, you just want to curl up away from everyone. I totally get that. Gives your soul some time to heal." Supportive Mers
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"I don't know if the world is worth that much effort, but you're worth every bit of effort." James
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"Life is hard for exceptional people. It just is. That's
the way the world seems to work." James
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"Just know that you are very much loved by your friends and family, even when they might be acting lame." Mers' wise words.
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"I'm sending happy thoughts your way!!!!!!! Can you see them? Here
they come! Quick - open your window so they can get thru! :-)" Mers' cute email.
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"Love you so don't hide too long down the rabbit hole or I'm joining you!" Nicki
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"Please tell me what I can do to start the healing." Matt D.'s apology.
"I don't hate you or anything. A lunch or two should do it. ;-)" Me
"Whew! You can have 3 lunches - how's that??? LOL" Matt D.
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"Just makin sure everything's alright. You've been off the grid for awhile. Hope you feel better. And if not we can go drinking tonite,
Thursday, or whenever." Payless Eric
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"Hearts hurt and heal. It's unavoidable in this world." Profound James
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"Maybe things can't always stay the same, but things can always be better." Positive James
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"They have a 'wonderful' new york steak 4 Mike. C food 4 us." James' text about a dinner reservation at a fish restaurant.
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"Have a greek salad if you want it later. If it isn't too icky. It is in the car so it may be iccky." Yed
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"Sorry didn't mean to abandon you. Got over chattified. Like 7 windows at once and I'm no teenager." John K.
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"You are such an incredible goofball. The other day in a chat with Matt I said 'okie' and Matt said 'careful, your Eve is showing.' John K., about talking to his coworker.
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"We might be super sensitive people, but we also have super soul healing powers that we can harness better than others." Kimi, trying to make us sound like superheroes.
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"Not sure if there's hope in the world." Me, depressed.
"You give me hope in this world." Mike
"That's just cause I introduced you to your girlfriend." Me, talking about Hope.
"Totally." Mike
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"Thank you for the presents. I love them. I've already christened one of the pilsner glasses." Boston Bride Stacy, on her shower gift.
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"Well, I'll let you get back to your happy hour." Eric, after talking to me about unhappy things.
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"Can we get milkshakes now?" Mike, waking up on a Sunday morning. He'd been craving milkshakes for a while.
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"You have to have the wedding to get the crab dip." Convincing Mike, when I was down on having a wedding.
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"Generic sodas suck." Me
"I used to love Dr. Perky." Mike, on his generic soda experience. He was serious by the way.
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"It's very peary." Bartender in Carmel, on Absolut Pear.
"Well I know it's new so I wanted to try." Me
"Way to stay on top of the latest trends." Bartender's response
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"What? Your girlfriend? Does Eve know?" James, about Mike talking about Hope.
"Yeah. As long as she gets priority she doesn't care." Mike
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"Sorry about the sucky dinner." Dad, about the Chinese New Year dinner we went to at a random place we tried in Milpitas.
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"Chinese new year dinner was lame n food sucked. Had foi gras last night n it was pretty good. Also had lobster mac n cheese which was so yummy!" Ro's food update text.
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"Tbone or ribeye. Choices." Yed, in Reno for part of his week off.
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"Leslie and I were thinking Marie Calendars..." Me, about post dance birthday gathering.
"That is an AWESOME idea. So PUMPED for pie and coffee!!!" Steph
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"I was standing at the top of the stairs and I all wanted to do was fall down and crack my head open and have McDreamy give me a lobotomy." Me, not feeling super cheery.
"At least you have interesting fantasies." Mers
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"Don't you find you have to pack so much stuff for the baby?" LesliE
"I may be able to write a book on traveling with a kid soon." Steph, new mom who's been constantly away from home with her family.
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"Are you happy when I'm sad?" Me
"No, of course not--I don't want you to be sad." Mike
"Cause I don't have the energy to bag on you?" Me
"Well, that part's nice." Mike
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"Can you go hit people over the head with a frying pan until they're nice to me?" Me
"Do you want them to see stars or little birds?" Mike
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"All of my socks have holes in them." Me
"I never knew you were so religious." Mike being punny.
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"No crazy stories.. I went alone- I suppose I could have met some random dude & had him back to the room.. I wasn't really feel'n so sluty though." Friend, on Vegas trip.
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"Man, what's the deal with my socks?!" Me, with holes in my socks.
"It's cause you sock!" Mike, cracking himself up.
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"They miss the best one - bounce on it while watching TV (of course with exercise during the commercials)! That's the whole reason I like the ball." Hope, on me sending her some exercise ball exercises I found.
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"Good eyes Susan, you must have eaten your carrots today. :-)" Matt D., on her catching something funky in a graphic.
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"Find a couple of big tough men and brave the neighborhood (lunch only, don’t be a hero and try to get dinner there)." Mike H., on a really good Indian restaurant in the Tenderloin.
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"During our frosty freeze stage just wondering what the protocol is." Me, prepping for launching a new version of our company website.
"Are you talking about soft freeze?" John K., who proceeds to explain.
"Okie thanks soft serve." Me, after getting my answer.
"Np. Not sure if you should really call a man soft serve, btw." Funny John
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"Eric told me that chances are quite high that we would see you this weekend! That's good news." Cute Gisela
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"He can be Mr. Japan and I can be Mr. China and we can pick up girls cause well be like iron chef celebrities." James, about him and Yed at our wedding.
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"I feel like little Ewoks are gonna pop out everywhere." Carla, in the redwoods.
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"The good guys are always better than the bad guys." Kevin, on movies.
"It's a requirement to be stupid if you are a bad guy." Mike
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"I could run to your place, It'd be a bit of a run but I could do it." Eric, on the location of his work in relation to our place.
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"Pour me a glass--I'll have a taste. If I go blind you can have some." Mike, on wine we were worried about being too old.
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"I wanna strangle you." Me
"Ok, if it'll make you feel better... Bit you can only strangle me a little." Mike
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"Boarding now. Can't wait to freak out people by paper bag." James' text to me on his way back to Hong Kong.
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"If I save all of my opening lines from the voice mails I leave you I could have a good stand up routine." James
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"Ok I think I may have decided to do a beer train for my bday. Oh btw hi. How are you?" Nicki's opening IM of the day. ;-)
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"Dude I have to have japanese food like right now." Payless Eric's IM
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"How goes it?" Melty
"Same but now with more work stuff." Me
"Oh no I am sorry. Talk to me or I can talk to you." Cute Melty
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"I just hate everyone lately." Me
"All I want to do is be with the dogs... They give you unconditional love and just bring a smile to your face." Melty
"Now I can understand why people like animals." Me
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"I need to get out of here. I've lost my mind. Tgiw and thank god for snow patrol tomorrow." Yed, at work during lunchtime.
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"They don't have milkshakes. Do you still want to go there?" Me, on St. John's.
"Yeah, I'll have a beer instead." Mike's substitution plan.
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