I just realized I know his little brother…

He worked at the cell phone store next to me for THREE YEARS.

We were almost even friends.

Bizarro!

I did this once for 2005. Now this is me 3 years older… (but not quite wiser)

Five things I did for the first time this year

1. Take blood from a person and getting a job that pays me to do that over and over again
2. OMG did I mention I took blood from a 14 day old baby today?!
3. Fell in love
4. Gone on a cruise
5. Gone out with a guy I met at a bar

Five things I’m looking forward to in ‘09

1. Living large!
2. Spring break Canucks-stalking trip to California
3. My practicum at VGH
4. Watching Vancouver get ready for the 2010 Olympics (and playing my part as a volunteer!)
5. E’s stagette and wedding

Five best purchases in ‘08

1. The entire Jane Austen collector set that I will eventually get to reading
2. Betsy Johnson ladybugs earrings
3. A CHRISTMAS TREE
4. My CK clutch
5. Ben Nye Lumiere Grande palette

Five things within my grasp that delight me

1. My Canucks ice pack tickets
2. Paychecks
3. Beer
4. Nail polishes
5. My people!

Five things I lost in ‘08

1. My cell phone battery cover
2. My savings account… :(
3. Uncertainty about life and what I want out of it
4. Mike’s DVDs
5. A boyfriend (??? does that count?)

Five people who really had my back this year

1. Shawn
2. My girls as usual <3
3. My beer drinking trouble-makers from school
4. The rest of the boys: Newb, Chao, Hsieh, Hiyoon
5. My daddy!

Five things I should be doing right now instead of writing this list

1. SLEEPING
2. Showering
3. Cleaning my room
4. Sleeping
5. Really, seriously. Sleeping

I was looking at old pictures of myself because I’ve been sick and stuck at home and SO FRIGGING BORED.

And I came to the conclusion that…

I miss my longer hair. :(

Ok whatever, he’s probably too old for me, but it took me all but one date with a decent guy to realize why my last relationship was so damn suffocating.

Last night I didn’t feel like I needed to justify who I am, didn’t feel the need to explain and lay out my beliefs, didn’t care if I behaved the way I should behave on a first date, and didn’t wonder for a second whether I was filling the shoe of expectations.

I didn’t feel like he was judging me sentence by sentence, move by move, He wasn’t carefully calculating how I fit the prototype he conjured up in his mind, and it definitely did not feel like an screening interview.

And it was fucking awesome.

Here’s a question for you: Is it possible to study without chocolate?

I think NOT!

Sitting at my desk all day calls for nerdy entertainment. This is for the peeps in any sort of lab science:

I forgot to share the good news that work gave me a raise.

Now when I work Saturdays, they give me $19 an hour.

Suck on THAT, COBS Bread.

The other day Wieke wrote on her Facebook status something about an “avocado shake” and I asked her what the heck that was. She told me it’s kinda like an Indonesian dessert-y blended avocado drink and that intrigued me… (who am I kidding, anything to do with food intrigues me)

Tonight I decided to look it up and make it. And oh my gosh it was SO YUMMY! I made one for myself and my dad refused to give it back after he had tasted it. “Just go make another one,” he said.

I didn’t have condensed milk so I mucked it with some sugar instead:

• 1 ripe avocado, pitted and scooped out of the skin.
• 3 tablespoons of white sugar
• milk
• a dash of chocolate sauce (or melted chocolate)
• 7 ice cubes

1. Throw the ice cubes, avocado, and sugar into your MagicBullet
   (or whatever blender you fancy).
2. Fill the rest of the MagicBullet up with milk to the top
   (if use a large blender, just a little bit short of 1 cup)
3. BLEND BLEND BLEND!
   (the point is to make a faux milkshake, so take your time to fluff it up)
4. Top off with just a tiny bit of chocolate sauce and slightly swirl it into the drink

I wouldn’t dare calling this a healthy drink due to the ridiculous amount of sugar in it, but I pretend it’s good for me because technically, it’s VEGGIES IN MY DESSERT! You know, the same concept as carrot cake. Muahahhahh

Have a good weekend folks!