2007: Out with the Old...In with the New!
2007 is quickly coming to a close - about 48 hours and counting. New Year's has always been a bit bittersweet. Sure it's great if you like crowds, cold weather while wearing a dress, 3-4 inch heels and no jacket, too much wind, drunken strangers, tons of bubbly, long drink lines, etc. But I, alas, do not enjoy those extras of New Year. If history recalls itself, I usually hang with my BFF Mell every New Year's since we both don't like crowds, make dinner, enjoy not being outside in the old with crowds, and then I fall asleep on the couch around 11:47pm subconsciously and wake up at 12:06am after the AULD LANG SYNE hyme/song/athem has played continuously. Hanging out with my BFF is not at all the bittersweet part but instead, it's the NYE *dun-dun-duuuun!* jingle that says, "What have you done this year?!" Often if gives us HIGHLIGHTED time to reflect on everything we said we were going to do, improve, change....but didn't. Granted, the "glass is half-full side" of life will always remind you to remember "all the good" that did occur. But for the bigger changes you've been meaning to do, improve, etc. they are still evident on 12/31, the last day of the year, that they are still in the INCOMPLETE bin of life.
On every 12/31, we say, "I'm going to start going to the gym more!", "I'm going to read more books!", "I'm going to volunteer more!", etc. etc. but clearly we haven't been making enough effort. So screw the once a year New Year's! Let's make everyday New Year's so the reminder of what we've accomplished and what we've yet to accomplish, is evident year-round! Let's just get off our butts and wake up and smell the coffee. Today, is the beginning of the new year.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
WEIIIIII!
Sister Wei was back in the bay for a hot second for Xmas and Xmas means the Chensies hang with the Montano's! Below are some pics of us and the sisters of Montano's and Hazel's new 6-month old MILES ROCCO - a whole lotta sugar in that 6-monther! Baby's don't get much more dapper and cuter than Miles so meet Miles here--- he's Miles of Smiles! Xmas with the Montano's also means many PECAN TASSIES consumed. Yummers.
CHENS + MONTANOS = A Decade of Sisterly Friendship!
Sister Wei was back in the bay for a hot second for Xmas and Xmas means the Chensies hang with the Montano's! Below are some pics of us and the sisters of Montano's and Hazel's new 6-month old MILES ROCCO - a whole lotta sugar in that 6-monther! Baby's don't get much more dapper and cuter than Miles so meet Miles here--- he's Miles of Smiles! Xmas with the Montano's also means many PECAN TASSIES consumed. Yummers.
CHENS + MONTANOS = A Decade of Sisterly Friendship!
PICTURES GALORE!
To sum up the last couple of months, here are a slewwww of pictures for you to catch up with on my wonderful life. Highlights include me entering age 26 with a Surprise B-day Dinner at SPRUCE in SF (Thanks to Daj/Lib/Mell for the DL orchestration of the dinner - so sly that Sydney Bristow would get a run for her money!) and a visit from sister Wei from LA. Hopefully you can enjoy the pics as much as we enjoyed being in the moments!
Highlights from SPRUCE (11/25/2007)
Attendees: Kat, Liberty, Mell+Oggie =Meoggie, and Cassie. And Me of course.
The Plot: Kat dragging me out for dessert at some place in the city that I've never heard of. We park, walk in, and Kat completely disregards the hostess and tells her that "we're just looking for our party." I'm thinking that Kat is just being Chinese and is just scoping the place out before we commit to getting a table so I'm slightly embarassed when the hostess taps my arm to tell me that she can help us find our people. I brush her off because I'm embarassed that she's hounding us down when we don't even have people to look for. I continue to follow Kat and then BOOOM! I see a table full of Asian people + 1 Croatian in a restaurant full of Non-Asians! It's my family and friends! Bring out the bubbly as this b-day was bombbb!
Perks: Party SWAG (Stuff We All Get) - Kat got all of us sugar cookies from The Cakery on Burlingame Ave. and Sephora Gift Cards.... Wheeee!
Memorable Moments: Lib, Kat and me reenacting our childhood Folk Dance of "Ali-san li Gu-Niang"(Ali-San Princess) in the Spruce dining room. Oggie and Mell doing High School Prom poses for the camera, you'll see below.
Shout Outs T0: Daj for organizing without me knowing anything, Lib and Cassie for making me feel crappy all week and trying semi-unsuccessfully to make me think no one cared for me on my b-day by pretending she was in LA for the weekend, Mell and Oggie for conspiring with Kat and for keeping the cat in the bag.
Conclusion: Best Birthday Ever - sorry Bee and Wei weren't there.
To sum up the last couple of months, here are a slewwww of pictures for you to catch up with on my wonderful life. Highlights include me entering age 26 with a Surprise B-day Dinner at SPRUCE in SF (Thanks to Daj/Lib/Mell for the DL orchestration of the dinner - so sly that Sydney Bristow would get a run for her money!) and a visit from sister Wei from LA. Hopefully you can enjoy the pics as much as we enjoyed being in the moments!
Highlights from SPRUCE (11/25/2007)
Attendees: Kat, Liberty, Mell+Oggie =Meoggie, and Cassie. And Me of course.
The Plot: Kat dragging me out for dessert at some place in the city that I've never heard of. We park, walk in, and Kat completely disregards the hostess and tells her that "we're just looking for our party." I'm thinking that Kat is just being Chinese and is just scoping the place out before we commit to getting a table so I'm slightly embarassed when the hostess taps my arm to tell me that she can help us find our people. I brush her off because I'm embarassed that she's hounding us down when we don't even have people to look for. I continue to follow Kat and then BOOOM! I see a table full of Asian people + 1 Croatian in a restaurant full of Non-Asians! It's my family and friends! Bring out the bubbly as this b-day was bombbb!
Perks: Party SWAG (Stuff We All Get) - Kat got all of us sugar cookies from The Cakery on Burlingame Ave. and Sephora Gift Cards.... Wheeee!
Memorable Moments: Lib, Kat and me reenacting our childhood Folk Dance of "Ali-san li Gu-Niang"(Ali-San Princess) in the Spruce dining room. Oggie and Mell doing High School Prom poses for the camera, you'll see below.
Shout Outs T0: Daj for organizing without me knowing anything, Lib and Cassie for making me feel crappy all week and trying semi-unsuccessfully to make me think no one cared for me on my b-day by pretending she was in LA for the weekend, Mell and Oggie for conspiring with Kat and for keeping the cat in the bag.
Conclusion: Best Birthday Ever - sorry Bee and Wei weren't there.
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