in love

married

an artist

a friend

a sister

a daughter

a daughter-in-law

shy

an introvert

dorky

silly

cool

may 05

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october 05

i took a break in november 05

current

m e s o h u n g e e

look how long my hair has gotten since the big haircut! i can kind of put it in ponytails now. (btw, that's a photo of my after i've managed to change into a regular shirt in a rental car in orlando)

i'm a lot less zombie and more normal now. i'm actually really hungry, but figured i should update before i make cous cous and an artichoke for dinner. yum!

it seems i've got plans for the next few nights, and even into the weekend. my friends and family are taking pity on me in my solitude. ha ha. not really. i feel more like i'm living a swinging bachelorette life while i eat my tomatoes and mushrooms and watch movies i know jeff wouldn't like.

supposedly i'm going to have my 6 month review (3 months late) at my job this week. i hate having reviews. not because i don't think i'm doing a good job...but because i know that i can make improvements, and just haven't had the time to work on everything yet. but at least i can tell my boss that. and at least i honestly like my job.

in other random news, i read that an ex-boyfriend of mine (and it's not my favorite ex-boyfriend jesse keyes...so obviously it is the only other ex-boyfriend i have) recently sold his website to MTV. (well, his and a bunch of other guys' site, i'm assuming.)

it's weird, because i actually stumbled across his site recently when the GAMEMAN popularity hit another funny spike a few months ago. for fun, i had decided to search for websites referencing the gameman, and the second site to come up was this site in question. some guy had posted a note referencing the gameman page, and my ex responded that "the guy who built it married my ex-girlfriend from college".

ok...creepy!

well...i guess not really that creepy, since it really isn't all that hard to find me on the internet. but considering the fact that the last time this guy talked to me (on the phone), he told me to "have a nice life" and hung up on me, i guess i find it kind of amusing that he is at least curious enough about me to have found out i married the gameman guy.

(did i ever mention the fact that he and my eventual hubby were actually in a math group together before i knew either one of them? strange, considering we all ended up being art students.)

of course, i could just be flattering myself in thinking that there guys out there secretly "google"ing me, wondering what i am up to after all these years. but i'll just go ahead and flatter myself all i'd like. ha ha.

and i'd like to think that the life i'm having has been pretty nice.

so there.

and if the ex happens to read this, a sincere congratulations on achieving this great achievement (selling the website).

cami (8:26pm, 12.5.05)

w h a t ' s h a p p e n i n g ?

at the summit of the palm springs aerial tram. we went from the desert to the forest in 15 minutes!

we spent our 1st anniversary weekend in palm springs, taking in the crazy scenery, enjoying a fabulous dinner at zin american bistro (which we would highly recommend if you are ever in the area).

the weirdest thing that happened that weekend? running into an old college housemate on the little bus that took us up to the aerial tram. (who i still haven't called, because i am a terrible person. no...scratch that...i'm just really busy.)

we managed to squeeze a trip in to las vegas as part of a business trip i was taking. can i just say that the hilton grand vacation club at the lv hilton has got to be one of the nicest places i've ever stayed? ok, ok, so maybe it was just the fact that i had an entire 1 bedroom apartment WITH jacuzzi tub in my bedroom all to myself (once the boys left).

i was in vegas for the annual SEMA convention. it was definitely an eye-opening experience. and i've never had such sore feet in my life.

thanksgiving was a nice break from everything that has been going on lately. we took a top-down convertible drive out to the beach and back on thanksgiving day to give jeff an allergy break from the cat. as you can see...the weather was absolutely gorgeous. it reminded us of how lucky we are to be californians.

that brief summary leads me to today...

i've felt like a zombie all day because of the business trip i got back from late last night. i spent 5 days in orlando for another trade show. the travel experience wasn't nearly as nice as vegas.

my hotel room was dank, humid, smelly, gross. when i put on my pjs the second night i was there, i realized that they stunk...BAD. i kept finding little bits of weird hairs and fuzz in my sheets. i swear that second night i was there, my bed was damp from the humidity. the only good thing about that hotel room was that in spite of the greebles in the bed, it was pretty comfy.

getting up the first few mornings was pretty painful, since i felt like it was 3:30am. but i guess that's the life of a jet-setting traveling professional such as myself.

i didn't get a chance to do much site-seeing, although i had a chance to grab dinner by myself at the universal city walk. the shopping there was extremely ho-hum, but my dinner at the bob marley restaurant was delightful, even if it was my first experience eating at a sit down restaurant by myself.

anyway, i'm home now. my body is pretty achey and every spot that there was a blister that had almost healed from the vegas trade show on my feet has a new blister on it. i'm too embarassed to even think about going in for a pedicure. my feet look like they are molting. i'd take a picture, but i don't want to gross you all out.

the only really lame thing about being home (other than the fact we don't like our home...and even the mail lady that dropped of a package for jeff mentioned that everyone seemed to hate living here) is that jeff is in china for the next two weeks. 2 weeks!!! *sigh* we didn't even get a chance to see each other before he had to leave, since he left early yesterday morning and i came back late last night.

oh well. so it goes.

maybe more again tomorrow when i'm not feeling so delirious.

cami (9:20pm, 12.3.05)