calm after the storm
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When Telfer came home on Martin Luther King Day, this is how he found me and Henry. We were both very tired after all our visitors.

in the fountain in redlands three
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Well, the girls and I certainly had a good time in Redlands last weekend. It’s been another busy week so I am just now getting my pictures up, but as usual, every time I am around these girls, I am reminded how blessed I am in the friendship department of life. We figured out that we have managed to ALL be together at least once a year since we graduated from college in 2001. That’s pretty amazing considering I live in Southern California, RaChelle lives in Vancouver, and Anna, Kori, and Melissa live in Nampa. It means so much that all took the time and the money to come down to see ME…I just never expected that everyone could make this trip. Really, we couldn’t have had a better time.

Here’s some of what we accomplished: we ate a LOT, at Corner Bakery, my favorite local thai place & breakfast place, at the Ocean Terrace & George’s in La Jolla, Sprinkles cupcakes in Beverly Hills, and In-N-Out with Amanda. We went to the fabric/fashion/flower district of Los Angeles, the San Diego Zoo to see the new baby panda Zhen Zhen, and walked around downtown Redlands.

in the fountain in redlands two
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*Obviously, I didn’t take too many pictures. Hopefully I can steal more from the girls later on…

girlfriends
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Really quick update as I am running around this morning trying to get all my work done BUT I am so excited because my best friends from college, RaChelle, Melissa, Anna and Kori are all flying in today to spend the weekend with me!

I didn’t quite beat Christy. This so reminds me of the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing software my parents bought for our first computer when I was in junior high.

86 words

Touch typing free

a year of good reading ahead
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I made the usual resolutions at the beginning of the new year. You know, the usual fitness and discipline-related goals that somehow, nine days in, I have nearly completely neglected. But one resolution will stick, come hell or high water: for the next year, I will buy no new books*. I will be content with the 1,600 books already in my house and I will frequent this thing called a library. Genius, no?

*There’s always a caveat. My resolution does not extend yard sales, thrift stores, and library book sales, just to new books, even heavily discounted, and all online purchases.