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| Happy Birthday and CONGRATULATIONS to my awesome brother, somz! He is now 26.
We are so proud of you, Vince. You are an amazing brother and chef!
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| I was surfing the Time Magazine website, and I came across this photo gallery of the 7 new wonders of the world, but I think they put up 21 so that people could vote. *sigh* Just looking at the beautiful pictures makes me want to go see all of the sites and totally brings out my love of traveling. I already saw The Alhambra in Granda, so 1 down, 20 more to go. 20 is a lot. Enjoy the pictures.
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1639775,00.html
edit: stupid me! I realized I've seen 3! The Statue of Liberty, The Eiffel Tower, and the Alhambra. Thanks, beezus!
edit again: One of the pictures in the website above is on Petra, Jordan and it reminded me of another picture of it I had seen awhile back by the famous photographer, Annie Leibovitz. Now, she is an amazing and controversial photographer. I urge you to go to this link:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/05/10/annie.leibovitz/index.html?iref=newssearch and go see her audio slide show in the left column. Around 2 minutes, she shows a famous picture of Susan Sontag (Leibovitz's lover) at Petra, and I remember the first time I saw it. I was blown away. If you listen to earlier in the recording, she shows a stunning photograph of Nicole Kidman, which I love.
Actually, this is a direct link to that picture, if you didn't want to listen to the audio slide show:
http://www.wbur.org/photogallery/op_leibovitz/default.asp?counter=2
Photographs. They can be so powerful! I love photographs, and especially photographic exhibits. Some of the ones I loved were the Irving Penn (fashion photographer in Vogue) in D.C. and just an exhibit in the Catalan National Art Museum in Spain of just everyday people. I so want to take better pictures, especially travel pictures.
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| So, my family has a shared wireless plan, where we each have a line. (5 lines total). My brother just informed me that you can break down the family usage by person. Now, everyone in my family jokes that I talk on the phone the most, because, they are actually correct in that I love talking on the phone. Good conversations usually are over an hour for me (how can they be less?). Well, it is now a competition because my brother gave me the break down for October '06.
Steph: 2780 minutes
me: 1052 minutes (hmmm, why was I over 1500 minutes less than her?)
mom: 630 minutes
vince: 197 minutes
dad: 83 minutes
Yearly total:
Steph: 20,650
me: 13,162
Ok, Steph, bring it on! 
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| omg, my whole family just came to move me out of my cbus apartment and it took about 2 hours, with everyone helping. I managed to singlehandedly fill up our minivan, camry, and my jetta. (I prob won't ever own a jetta again, but I have to say that there is a ton of room in jettas and they are surprisingly helpful in moves.) I keep asking myself, "How did i ever accumulate that much stuff?" And yet, I still felt that I threw out as much as i could. My goal going into the future is to live as simply as possible.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to live simply? (I guess this doesn't help after my post about shopping.  )
I have to say that I admire my brother in this aspect. The one time, my mom and I moved him from UofI and we managed to fit all his stuff with one loading, and the minivan still had room. He barely had any stuff. At his school now, he owns a twin size bed, a folding table desk (which is the way I recommend for everyone who hasn't settled down. Just buy a folding table), and a $19 bookshelf from walmart.
At this point, I just want to live in a place for more than 2 years and not have to move. is that too much to ask?
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| So, what have I been doing now that school is out?
1. Work @ Target
2. Research with a professor
3. PACKING AND MOVING! (I hate this!)
4. TV
5. and...hanging out with Tinger/teentz/yomamasofatger!
Tinger and I have been doing some mad shopping last week! They had some crazy deals at Easton, which we totally didn't expect. Actually, we had planned to go shopping on Monday and even though it stormed terribly, we stuck it out and shopped from 10am-3:30pm (which was still too short!). we even waited until we almost fainted with hunger, before we grabbed lunch at Chipotle. I know, i know, not smart. Because Tinger got this great deal on a pair of pants, I was not going to rest until I found the same pair, or at least exhausted myself from trying. We then made plans to go to Tuttle Mall the next day so i could find the pants. However, I had been craving Olive Garden soup/salad lunch for weeks now, so our original plan was to have lunch on Tuesday. Then we added shopping after that.
Then I came home and just went shopping with my mom! She has the best taste! :)
So, all of my family is here together. we haven't been together since Christmas in Taiwan, so it's been fun. We're going to Pittsburgh on a quick excursion.
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