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11月17日

Malaysia

"Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers." 

-George Carlin

 

How is it mid-November already? Last I remember, it was still the middle of summer and we were looking forward to our upcoming road trips to Chicago and South Dakota. Now I'm doing some last minute laundry and packing my bags for Malaysia. People keep asking me what I'm looking forward to in Malaysia. Here is my list:

 

  • Seeing my mom
  • and the rest of my family
  • Meeting baby Luis (he looks so cute in pictures!)
  • Catching up with Gwen, YC and Swany
  • Eating good ol' Malaysian food like roti canai, mee goreng, kuey teow ting and kai fan
  • Scuba diving! 
  • Shopping for interesting souvenirs

Thanksgiving is next week, which only means that Christmas is about a month away and then it's 2008. WTF. I'm going to miss spending Thanksgiving with Bryan's extended family, but I'm glad we'll be there for Christmas.

Work has been quite busy, of course with me preparing to leave for two weeks. We have a very large class of new hires starting next week and I'll only have a couple of days to recover from the jet lag before I have to jump right into training all of them. Hope I manage it and don't fall over in class or anything dreadful! I really, really love the people that I work with. My co-workers are fun, energetic, extremely intelligent and always up for a good time. If you've ever watched the customer service video called Fish!, it's kind of like that, expect without the throwing of raw fish. In this past week alone, I've gone to a co-worker's house to play movie trivia and mad rounds of Guitar Hero, watched another co-worker play bass in his band at a Thai restaurant/sushi bar and enjoyed a Friday evening happy hour at Santorini's (Greek restaurant) with them. I like that we can spend all day together and then hang out in the evenings. I hope to stay at this job for a long time (and that my co-workers do too!).

11月4日

Spider Man

My odd dog has now started answering to "Spider Man". We were in the living room, watching Spider Man 3 and Bryan called Zoe to join us and now whenever we call out Spider Man, she comes running. Weird!
 
We went to the Minnesota Wild hockey game last night and had a blast! We had dinner at Cosetta's before the game. It was my first pro hockey game and I really loved the energy in the Xcel Energy Stadium. I cheered loudly after each goal. It was nice that the Wild won the game (after a 5 game losing streak). Today, Rich and I went to a turkey cooking class at Williams Sonoma and then Jennie and I went to Cupcake, near the U of M, for lunch. After that, we went shopping for her wedding shoes and she found a very cute pair that she loved. After a Saturday excursion to the Mall of America for some new work clothes, I made a vow not to return until after the holidays. The horrible parking, lines and crowds are just too much! Otherwise, all in all, a nice, productive weekend.
 
The weather has been pretty decent, sweater weather. I can't say I'm looking forward to the snow coming soon. Hey, maybe we won't even see any before we leave for Malaysia. Or then again, maybe there will be a huge blizzard. Ah, the joys of living in Minnesota! We had to turn the clocks today for Daylight Saving Time. That always gets to be pretty confusing for the next couple of days. It's depressing when it's dark out by 4:30pm. Sad Too bad it can't be light out until 10pm all year round.