vday

we spent the day helping our dearest pmbq out at a con in sf that apparently left us feeling a little french.. honh honh honh


(which moustache do you prefer? i'm personally a fan of the curls)

must've been from all the bon bons consumed. the little face is saying "oui! je suis très délicieux!"


we felt sooo ballin' after getting paid that we went right on over to jack in the box and spoiled ourselves with food not limited to the value menu. sour dough jacks are a luxury.


then we came home to fondue!!!



it was allllllmost just as good as chicken and waffles night last week. wait, what did i just say? yeahthat'sright, chicken and waffles. CHIcken and WAFfles omGAD rochelle is the best thing that ever happened to me. jk. mel is 'cause those waffles were utter perfection

and that concludes vday`09

i don't think brandon and i have ever been much of the valentines day type of people. this was probably the first time we even saw each other on the actual day since high school. even then, the closest we probably ever came to 'celebrating' was watching the flavor of love marathon while eating candy haha. works for us!

this saturday about last saturday

lots happened last weekend (which i'll post about at a later date) but for now here are some photos of me and a miniature self hehehe



ha. this last one is my favorite. when i originally posed for this shot with a cousin, i didn't realize the little one was hiding behind me until i uploaded the photos on my computer. ah! dorable! indeed!

blackout

my neighborhood had it's first blackout in (what i can remember) at least 10 years?? i love blackouts! while grabbing some tea lights, i also brought my camera downstairs too 'cause the whole family was actually home. together! all at the same time! during this once-in-a-decade event! exciting times!! well, except for my little brother apparently (his expression in the photo with flash is priceless)


afterward, my sister and i decided to go running. it was a little weird 'cause great america, the powerplant (that's litterally down the street from me), and other surrounding neighborhoods still had power, so there was an orange glow outside. felt more like dusk than 10pm.

then the power came back on again around 11:30. that was fun!

i suppose it's moments like these that feed to my ever-growing appreciation for being stuck at home during college. even though i still yearn for the freedom that i envy so much sometimes, i never really minded my situation that much. happiness depends on what you make of your situations, and i hold no qualms about being with my family before we all go our separate ways soon. this is my only chance to enjoy what's left of our time living under the same roof :)

a photo op first in a while

it's okay that we don't talk about everything. it's okay that we rarely look to each other for comfort. it's okay that we're not as perfect a family as it may look on the outside.

i'm just thankful we're not a broken one.



Because life is what you make it
Because love is what you've made it
And I made it my friend

this is very true

"The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story [they] are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others."

—Alain De Botton

:)


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"you're voting, right? i need u kids to vote tomorrow. i dont care what you vote for just as long as it's mccain and yes on 8. everything else you can vote however u like"

ohh father

we got a new dog!

jk (haaa gotchuu huh?)

a new haircut got toby!

eeeeeeee!!

my current desk is a little coffee table, so i do all of my sitting on the floor. sometimes i just free fall back and lay down for a while. but thank gad of all gads that i didn't tonight because instead, i turned around and found a BIRD!

A BIG BLOODY FAT LUMP OF FEATHERY DEADY BIRDNESS JUST 6 INCHES FROM MY ASS. i could not recall any moment in time where i could possibly have crapped something this disgusting on my carpet. ever. EVER EVER EVER OMG WHY!!!!!!

so of course i ran downstairs crying for my dad to get rid of it. after he gently removed the poor thing, i went on a mad dash for the 409 or cleaner or any kind of disinfectant i could get my hands on. he was trying to convince me that i didn't need it. totally had that
back-in-the-olden-days-of-toughin'-it-out-in-the-poor-country-side vibe goin' on. there's a difference when you're a sissy girl that grew up in a california suburb.

"NO. NO. NO DAD. NO. I CAN'T DO IT. I JUST CAN'T. I DON'T HAVE IT IN ME CAN'T YOU SEE!!!"

at least that's what i hope he understood through my interpretive dance of jumps and squeels and hands covering my face. eeeeeeee!!

i just could not believe something like this could seriously show up out of nowhere at 11:50pm. who could pull such an effed up prank?!

"oh." i soon thought to myself. TOBY!

dog! why! why dog why! i realize now that it was just his offering to me. he was just trying to protect us (that dog really hates birds). so as sweet of a gesture as it was, no thank you! sorry toby, even though i may be your favorite, i will not love you any less if next time you decide to instead take that kindness to my brother or sister's room. i'll even give u a treat!

endangered of being too cute

can u find toby?

:P

i'm currently working on a private project involving old pictures of my family when us kids were tiny and troublesome but too adorable to be too angry at for very long hehehe

ha. we all have the same haircut!


haha how could anyone not love us!

52 woo hoo!

happy real birthday daddy! when i grow up, i want to make you proud to be my father as i am to be your daughter :)

in other news, brandon and i went running together for the first time ever in our 5 and a half years of togetherness. i barely jogged one whole lap. walked a second lap. while brandon jogged some more, i rip sticked like a mad woman for a whole lap without getting off once(!!), and then we walked one last lap with xena. that first task was waayy toooo damn hard D:

i know i said i'd talk about comic con... butnotyetsorry!