"I need a job so I can go crazy shopping." Cheekers, on her honneymoon in Europe.

"I guess I should use that brain for something else." Cheekers, on remembering me telling her what I had to eat at French Laundry two years ago.

"Expensive night in the city." Eric, on his car being towed one night.

"I must go out with girls more often." Me
"See how many free drinks the two of you can drum up." James

"You wait... we'll get plenty more guys to get us drinks next time!" Kelly, on some random guy paying for our drinks when we were hanging out.

"I wish I was a girl..." Me singing a Counting Crows song.
"Oh, I am." Me, being silly.
"Then your wish came true!" Mom

"And it's all crispy." Me, on my sunburn.
"OK, I really wasn't expecting a KFC adjective." Clayton

"Girls night out." Rodd, making fun us seeing Lion King.
"Ok, Mr. Candles Everywhere!!!!" Me
"You try living with Yed and not having candles everywhere." Rodd

"That will be $600 of my consultant fees." Dad, at 4am, on helping me successfully burn a few CDs after several hours of trying to figure out what was wrong.

"Add a touch of foreigner to it." Dad, on misspelling a song title on a CD I was making.

"I thought you were kidding. I thought you got a job at a go go bar." Dad, on my dance recital top.

"You're the busiest unemployed person I know." Cori, to me.

"Sony is probably in cahoots with Sonic Stage to sell more disk space." Dad, on that program sucking up so much space with its obnoxiously huge temp files.

"Man, I didn't know CD making was sooooooo damn hard!" Me
"Dude, it's an art form. It takes years of perfecting..." Yed

"Stress bad. Everyone should move to Australia." James

"Omigod, you're so bitter–I love you. My heart is swelling with pride right now." Loeby, on my response to something she said.

"When are you leaving for nawhlinz?" Mikey, to me.

"I know–I have issues." Yed with his set of big bins filled with bootleg cds.

"My fizzes didn't fizz, did yours fizz?" Tiff, to Malt, on bath products.

"If they win they get a 50k scholarship." Malty, on a baby contest.
"That's cooking school–and more!" Aspiring professional chef Laura A.

"I'm taking 20% longer lunches now-a-days." Tiffaney, on pay cuts.

"Stacy doesn't read signs." Ebs, on skiing with Stacy.

"Juicy fruit–it's good for the soul." Ebs

"Before we leave Nevada, I wanted the dirty gas." Mark

"I'll drop it after this, but I'll never forget Whispy." Stacy, on the nickname I gave our waitress that she found entertaining.

"She's got to stop just doing those pizza slices all of the time." Heidi, commenting on a lady snowplowing down the hill.

"She looks like a worn out whore." Heidi (Mark's mom), on Heidi Fliess. She's not too big on that nickname I gave her. ;-)

"Those wispy straight ends would break off in a heartbeat." Stacy, on our horrible bar waitress in Tahoe.

"I'm pretty high right now–I might have to have a glass of red wine before bed... I've had at least five gin and tonics." Party Heidi coming out in Tahoe! :-)

"That's nice–it brings out your eyes." Mark, to his mom.
"She already paid for dinner, Mark." Stacy

"My old legs are getting tired." Heidi, while skiing.
"My young legs are too." Me

"Eve, I've gotta tell you I'm getting pretty tired." Mark, turning to me at 2am on Friday night after little sleep the night before, working a full day, and driving NINE hours to Tahoe. I was surprised it took until then to say anything.

"It's like we're in Iraq with checkpoints everywhere." Mark, in Tahoe and needing to stop a few times to be checked if cars need chains.

"Has Eric warned you about my alcoholic tendencies?" Stacy Pearce.

"You need media jukebox." Chris, on me burning CDs.
"I am a media jukebox..." Me
"My head is a media jukebox on random 24/7." Chris

"I'm convinced I like her. I'm convinced I don't like her. It's like that." Arthur, about a girl.

"Let's start keeping track of stats!! Sweetness–that's the most fun idea I've thought of in a long time!!" Arthur
"What would u keep track of????" Me
"Ratios... # of girls I like that like me back. # of girls I don't like who like me back. total# of girls who like me back. Then runs batted in–score potential. Conversions–having the opportunity to "make something happen" but not going for it." Arthur

"I both love and hate being me. I'd date myself." Arthur

"That was a FUBAR meeting." Clayton, after a meeting at work.
"What's FUBAR??????" Me
"FUBAR: Fucked Up Beyond All Repair." Clayton

"Maybe some female angst music would be good?" Daniel, on suggesting angry music.
"OK, like?" Me
"Honestly honey, you're in totally unknown territory here... Um, I don't even know the chick's name... When need a knife and all you have is a spoon... That chick." Daniel, talking about Alanis Morisette.

"Lot's of Sarah McGlocklin is all I can suggest." Daniel, on suggesting depressing music.
"Nice spelling , Mr. Writer." Me

"Why should I do that for you?" Yed, on me asking him for something.
"Cause it would make me happy." My response.
"How many times have I made you happy this week?!??!?" Yed

"I'd like to have a drink with you and Eric too sometime in the future... and I don't mean future like with floating chairs and tables and robot waitresses." Mikey, to me.

"Another lost soul–there are so many of them." Mom, on some of my friends. Hey, it's that freakin' quarter life crisis deal!

"You just have to go with the obsession." Clayton, on my recent CD making craze.

"I just got back from morning tea–I love this country." James, about Australia.

"Seattle gave itself a bad rep so Californians won't move here." A random Counting Crows fan that lives in Seattle.

"That guy always seems busy... I still think he's not telling us the whole story - one of these days he's suddenly going to be some VP and be like 'I don't know how it happened - I just sell printers.'" James, on Mark and how he's sometimes hard to get a hold of.

"Wow, I learned something new every minutes. What an exciting world." Dad, on different smileys in IMVironments on Yahoo IM. At least I know where I got my easily amused side of myself from.

"Drink anything?" Me, to James
"Vanilla Coke (didn't go to the drinking theatre)." James

"Don't tell him the chocolate swirls were just melted chocolate chips. I can't believe that impressed him, but boys are like that sometimes." Leslie, on Steph's husband's reaction to her home made cheesecake.

"Sounds like something I'd like to eat right now." Mom, on me describing the yummy Mexican Steph made us the night before.

"Can't wait. I'm already practicing my drinking skills." Leslie R.

"I usually go on a high carb diet when I'm on vacation:
Breakfast: Bloody Mary
Brunch: Screw Driver
Lunch: Pineapple & Malibu
Afternoon (energy boost): Pick One? Mai Tai, Long Island, Rum Runner... you get the idea.
Dinner: At this point I'll drink pretty much anything someone puts in front of me. Dessert: Hopefully someone tall, dark, and handsome. Otherwise a Chocolate Chip Martini." Stacy Pearce. Gotta love the new fun friends!

"Yed is my concert ticket buying hero!!!" Me, super excited on tixs he got for me.

"Oh, that's nice (as Eve would say !)" Dad
"I wanna be Eve... Do I sound like you now? OK bye." Dad being silly

"Brutal, huh? It's like being 12, expecting a cool toy for XMas, and getting socks instead." Clayton, on me thinking there was a new Buffy episode on that night and finding out it was just a repeat.

"I sometimes can't believe I'm 'that guy' buying the WalMart wading pool for the kids." Family man Clayton.

"I'm tired and super cranky. Like crank fest 2003." Christopher

"I'm a weekend spender these days... I pretty much work to party." Anjali

"Spence & I will be in Scottsdale, Arizona next weekend to play in the sun and drink cocktails!" Steph. Now that sounds like my kind of vacation! :-)

"Number of Crows tickets aquired today: 5
Dollars spent: 265
Shows left to buy for: 3
Classes missed: 1." Random Counting Crows fan I talked to while waiting for tickets to go on sale one morning.

"They will do an ultrasound to try and figure out old the baby is. (I would call it a tadpole because that is what it looks like right now, but Coressa gets mad when I say it still has a tail)." Gonna be Daddy Kevin, in an e-mail to me.

"Basically every time I wanted to make a turn, I'd turn my windshield wipers on." James, on driving on the other side of the road in Australia.

"What's that monkey sound in the back?" Dad, to me on the phone.
"It's you–Mark pretending to be you. Oh, oh, oh, oh." Me

"I was wondering I should do this [work on his house] since it's Easter, but I figure Jesus was a carpenter. I think he'd be down with what I was doing." Mark

"My humor is too subtle and dry to be on stage with a microphone." Matt S.

"I think it'd be fun to be that crazy with 500 million dollars." Matt S., on the Winchester Mystery House.

"It's nice–I didn't know they'd have a big bunny." Mom, on Easter brunch.

"Guys are so gross–they should all go and live on an island together." Mom

"Can I call you back? I'm digging." Ryan

"Happy Easter–I'm drunk." Ryan's text message to me later in the day.

"I'm in church. Happy Easter, Eve! Love RYAN." Ryan's text message to me on Easter morning.

"My stomach is fat and sleepy." Dad, after a big Claim Jumper meal.

"I looked at the map and decided not to go–or I could change my mind." Dad, on going to Berkeley to pick up some Thai noodles.

"Ooooooh, big Claim Jumper, free garbage." Dad, on the big bag they gave us for our leftovers.

"I like the food, the table, the atmosphere–what else can you want in life?" Dad, at Claim Jumper.

"I'm feeling loopie now." Dad, after eating lots of food.

"She's nice so I'm sure her friends will be nice–nice by association." Mers, on one of our dance friends. Michelle.

"Anyhow - I'm an expert conversationalist - not an expert emailer!!" James

"I'll be taking out my workweek frustrations playing hockey." Hope

"Yeah, it's a sickness now. We've got good movies, bad movies and chick movies." Daniel. on his large collection of 540+ DVDs.

"I've been eating enough fried food to sink a ship." Loeby, on being home in Michigan.

"Man, I'm happy again today–wonder what's wrong?" Me, to James.
"Here's an idea–maybe NOTHING!" James

"How are things going with you?" Hope, to me.
"Fine." Me
"Really?" Hope's response to my unexpected response.

"It's for security reasons." Eric, on why when two girl friends go out it's a "date" and not when guys go out with each other.

"A lot of my friends are married or are buying places." Me
"Doesn't that make you feel all sad and unestablished?" Mikey
"Well since you brought it up, yes." Me

"You have a couple of months to pull a Romi and Michelle." Eric, on our 10 year high school reunion.

"Few things earn the designation of 'rad' in my book. One would be monkeys." Mikey

"Guess what I got in the mail today?!?!?!??" Me, to James.
"NO WAY! You didn't get the card, did you?" James, on the missing birthday card he sent me in February.
"That I did! :-)" Me, on April 16th.
"Did it haven't any strange markings on it? Like, did it go to Kazikstan and back?" James

"Thanks for the entertainment. Good old Saddam!" Dad, on this Flash deal I sent him with Saddam singing to Eminem.
"Wasn't it hilarious???" Me, to Dad
"Yes, it's Hilary." Dad

"J hit the nail on the head–someone else's 'spaz' is just the other's fully living human being!" Clayton, commenting on James' comment below.

"I don't think you're a spaz–I think you live life the way it should be lived: full of emotion and feeling and introspection. " James, to me. That's nice to know.

"I've been eating M & M's -both peanut and regular. I like to give every kind a fair shot. " Kimi

"See? This is why I call instead of Im-ing - then you dont have to know how badly I type... " Loeby
"It's gonna totally change what I think about you. Omigosh--she a typoer; better not associate with her anymore!!!!" Me, making fun of her.
"Yeah - that's what I figured. I am flawless, excpet for the typing thing." Loeby. (Note the typo. ;-))

"I just want to go to NO! I can't wait to have a hurricane! Maybe we can get them on the plane!!" Christie B.

"I watched/listened to part of 2 Giants games this weekend... I think I'm just craving the sporting action. Too many months to wait for football to start again. I may become a baseball girl yet!" Me
"There's still hope for you!" Mike A.

"We're Chinese... Can never have too much of a free thing." Onray.

"One of the keys to my happiness is that stupid and dumb things make me happy... and there's so much stupid and dumb things around to be happy about in this world. " Onray.

"I think I'm one of the most stress-free guys I know. Everyday my state of emotional well-being is just... cool ... everything is cool, everyone is cool... little kids are cool and I'm cool. No worries, no frowns, no loud angry words... " Onray. I kind of envy that state of content

"You need emotional armor plating." Onray, to me. Don't I know it– I wish I could buy that.

"I'm not a non-eater girl, that's for sure!" Me, to my friend Eric C., 2am at Jack in the Box ordering a chili cheeseburger, egg rolls, and breakfast jack.

"My girlfriend is weird!" One of Eric C.'s friends, said with a not so positive tone and grimacing face.
"So why are you dating her?" Me
"Cause she's weird!" Eric's friend
"She also has a boyfriend." Another comment about her later in the conversation . More evidence to my nice girls finish last theory!

"I've heard a lot about what's under that shirt." Robin, on Frank's well publicized abs.

"I'm allergic to cheap vodka." Me, jokingly explaining my sneezing at Payless Eric's friend's party.

"Major puzzle nightmare!" Me, on finishing my puzzle only to find one piece missing. :-(

"Everyone's falling like flies and Tiger's gonna zoom up." Dad, on the middle of the third round of the Masters in which he started in 43rd place. (He did end up in 5th at the end of the day.)

"He's kind of cute." Me, on seeing pro golfer Mike Weir on TV quickly.
"I've heard that before but I don't get it. I don't mind if you marry him–he's rich. He can buy me a Porsche." Dad's response.

"Usually the people they put on late at night aren't very good." Mom, the 24 hour war news critic.

"He was having a snack earlier tonight–tomato soup with cornflakes." Mom, about Dad.
"Inside the soup!?!" Me
"Frosted Flakes on top. I'm a connoisseur of strange food." Dad

"Down with Paris!" Mom, reacting to news report from the city.

"If I want to know what's going on minute to minute, I watch 49 (Fox News), and if I don't want as much hyperness, I watch 51 (CNN)." Mom's explanation on when she watches each news channel these days.

"Buffy on plasma??" Yed, teasing me with thoughts of what type of TV he'd like to get for his new place.

"Are you deliberately being cold so I can hug you or something?" Dad, to Mom.

"I'm a self-entertaining person." Dad, on telling mom he wouldn't be bored if she wanted to do something with her friends in Vegas.

"I'm a good neighborr–I solved the crime." Dad, on turning off the running water he heard at the house across the street when he found a broken faucet.

"I haven't worn my Louis Vuitton bag for a while now. I realized what I was doing and stopped–I didn't want to advertise for the French." Mom

"Oh, no, my lights were on–or did I just turn them on?" Absentminded Dad, starting the car.

"E-V-E, you're tight." My hip hop teacher KORY.

"Came to big life realization through Visio..." James, at work.

"Hey, this party is in your backyard. Feel free to bring Mark and EricEric, the other one." My friend Eric C's (aka Payless Eric) e-mail to me.

"Do you know anywhere where I can get a shredded beef taco?" Me, calling Eric totally craving.
"Are you pregnant???" Eric

"I like her, but I don't like her outfits." Mom, on Great from Fox News.

"What are you doing hanging around rocket scientists and PhD statisticians?" Mom, jokingly talking about my girl friends like a disapproving parent of a teen hanging with the wrong crowd.

"So... what's new in Evers land?" Doodle, to me.
"Well, you want the superficial answer or the real life one?" My response.

"Go, lie, say you're 'fine.' Everybody else does it." James' advice to me when I was considering staying home because I wasn't feeling super chipper or social.

"You should see my knees after dance!" Me, alluding to the bruises I come home with after doing a crazy routine in my jazz class.
"You should see other people's feet after I dance!" Goofy Mike A.

"Is your teacher insane!?!?" Mom, on me showing her part of our super hard and fast recital dance routine.

"You will now listen to more Tori." Mikey's response to reading my lifequotes page.
"Why, do you ask? Because when I read these quotes, it just seems to me like you'd benefit from a little Tori in your life. In both good times and in bad... Embrace her." Mikey

"Something along the lines of 'AAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!'" Mikey's response to what he'd say if he got to talk to his favorite singer he practically worships, Tori Amos, at a special private pre-show deal.

"You know, I dabble in the dark music all the time–mix it in from time to time..." James

"So scary. I just got into Cure songs. Kinda brooding and depressing and complex. And some breakup ones too." Me, to James
"Cure is great for that kind of stuff!" James

"You can never have too many friends named Stacy." Mike A.

"Van Gough Apple in the house!" Eric's text message to me about finding my new favorite drink. Forget about any schmoopy text messages I ever got from boys–this can sure make a girl happy.

"U not watching the game???" Single T, to me on the NCAA basketball championships.
"Sorry, I'm purely an NFL girl." Me

"It is great to be single and free again!" Eliot. Amen to that!

"Sorry I'm a bit cranky. I don't feel so great today." Me, to James.
"Cranky? Who's cranky? I didn't notice. ;-)" James, another nice thing to hear from a good friend!

"I was just calling to see if I could take you out for a drink." Eric, to me, after not such a great day. Ah, a man after my own heart. You gotta love good friends...

"I just want to crawl in a hole... the one I just came out of." Me, not too happy.
"You can come back out when you're ready. I'm here regardless." James, to me.
"Regardless of my hole status? Thanks." Me

"Martinis sometime? And you can further rant on the tale of woe." Clayton, trying to console to me.
"Yeah maybe." Me
"Or I suspect the drink is going to be more immediate than a later date." Clayton
"Good suspicion." Me

"Man, Eric, I'm soooo bummed." Me, about not feeling that a phone interview went too well.
"I soooooooooo need a drink." Me
"I feel your pain. And I like to drink. Perhaps I can help." Eric, to me.

"I was so drunk I almost started grabbing girls!" Ryan, who prefers trying to shock guys.

"As long as you're entertained by it, that's all that mattered." Ryan, on his drunken call to me after a wedding.

"Your hair is super-cute (along with the rest of you)." Clayton, to me.

"Yeah us too...More complicated but we're definitely not Enron. Too small potatoes for the IRS." Clayton's response to me being nervous trying to make sure I didn't make a mistake doing my taxes, but knowing they wouldn't care too much about my filing anyway.

"You can't truly appreciate what fowl, ugly, nasty things men are until you've dated them." Daniel

"That was awesome. I'm so proud of you." Me, catching an innuendo in what Daniel said when he didn't even notice it himself.
"It's like I have a mini-me, but female and hot." Daniel, to me
"I've turned into a freak. More crass, jaded, bitter..." Me
"LOL... Welcome to dating my friend." Daniel

"I love him–he's my boyfriend." Mom, on Fox News' Monsoor.

"How can he be so perky?" Mom, on CNN's Wolf Blitzer at 1am his time.

"T and I are trying to plan a San Diego road trip within the next couple of months (visit Temecula friend and help around the house since her husband will be hunting terrorists)." Clayton

"I keep looking at those times–they're sexy, but too expensive." Eric, on trying to find a flight online.

"You can be Catholic for the weekend." James, on possibly visiting a friend with a Catholic family during Easter.

"There's no shortage of ways to spend money. I've recently come to that conclusion." James

"It's funny that we're both eating Tim Tam products on the phone together. It's like watching the same TV show at the same time, but different." James in Australia talking to me in the US.

"The last two weeks have been so crazy for me: running around this country with you then running around southern CA in my Sebring. I'm exhausted." James, to me.

"You Googlewhacking?" Eric, on me searching for bunches of stuff.
"Yeah, but without the whacking part." Me

"Skiing is always most fun when you're doing it when you're supposed to be in work." Eric

"That is so James! It wouldn't have been right if he had put the note in the box." Eric, on James sending me a package and writing a note to me on the side of the box.

"Think of it as a weekend in Vegas, but it's in New Orleans." Eric, trying to convince Leslie to go with us to Jazz Fest.

"For the longest time I couldn't understand why his birthday came first cause he was younger." Dice, on his brother's birthday being a few weeks before his.

"I almost have too many options. It's like going to the Cheesecake Factory." Me, talking to Dice about my life.

"So when did you go from watching crap movies to liking good ones?" Chris, on my taste for movies moving away from simple Disney-ish ones with happy endings.

"Pick a country and maybe I'll meet you there." Part of one of James' note to me.

"I don't like fruit. I like candy bars instead." Mom

"When I'm on my computer at home I want to do fun stuff: web surfing, IM, downloading porn or whatever." Clayton, on not wanting to do his taxes.

"I go to BS meetings all the time, but how often do I get to talk to you?" Clayton, on maybe being late for a meeting cause he was talking to me.

"Just trying to deal with living in this world." My response to James asking me how I'm doing.
"Yeah, that's a hard thing to do." James
"That's what Buffy said: the hardest thing to do in this world is to live in it." Me
"Yeah, I'm smart like Buffy!" James