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movin' on

well friends, i guess it just wasn't meant to be. i have moved out of my apartment downtown and back in with my mother due to the following reasons: 1) my grandmother passed, meaning the rent would go up, or the property would be sold. 2) my bathroom exploded when an old pipe burst. i'm sure you can imagine. it's good because: -i don't want her to be alone -i save myself $600 a month in rent+ phone and cable. -it's much warmer at her house -homecooked meals kick ass -i now have internet access (soon dsl too!) it's sad because - i loose a lot of space -i really liked my little place - i have to struggle to find parking downtown. perhaps the move was a little hasty. I found out the next day that my mother and her siblings are going to sell the house to my sister and her husband. Oh well, i think it's grandma's way of telling me i'm meant to be somewhere else ;)

Mary Frances Murtha. November 2nd 1915 thru November 22nd 2005

my maternal grandmother died last night. she is the first person close to me to pass away, and it is hard. She was 90 and she lived a full life, but that doesn't make it any easier. From my first memories i can remember my grandma being with my immediate family for everything. she and my mother were very close. my mother was the only person with her when she died. She had just made it to the hospital, said "mom i'm here" and my grandma died. My Grandma was an awesome lady. The oldest girl of the six hennessey kids, she was born with a head for business and a heart of compassion. Her father nicknamed her "moneybags" and had her handling his business affairs at a young age. She won my grandfather, Vincent Daniel Murtha, or Hank as she called him, with a lemon merengue pie. Mary Murtha was a shrewd business woman at a time when most women weren't supposed to do that. She and her Hank had 4 kids and made their home at 64 pierce ave. in san jose, Ca. She was

dvd. i think it actually stands for difficult. very difficult.

i have a pet peeve to share. i pretty much loathe dvds. i like the convenience of how small they are, and the fact that you can jump from one part of something to another rather quickly, but that is where it ends. They scratch easily, and it makes viewing a frustrating task sometimes. I'm almost afraid to watch any of my personal dvds for fear that they will scratch and become unwatchable. Since i no longer have money to blow on dvds, i have been turning to my local library for seasons of my favorite shows. My recent favorites include sex and the city , six feet under , and queer as folk . I had been going to from start to finish of each series until i was forced check out dvds instead of vhs, since vhs has become scarce in the new millennium. So far, every dvd set that i have attempted to watch has been so badly scratched they barely play, if at all. perhaps my pet peeve lies with the inconsiderate slobs who check out the dvds before me, or with the library who fail to check the q

i need you so much closer

last night i attended the stars/ death cab for cutie show at santa clara. Here in my favorite form of storytelling is how things went down. 1) i attended the show with my good friend may and her friend brooke. may has a cousin that attends santa clara, so we got our tickets for the very affordable student price of $15.00. i like death cab very much, but may is simply cookoo for them, so she was beyond excitied. 2) in our last-minute search for sustinance before the show, we ended up at university chicken, which is very good and must be the resident hangout for SCU students, cause i swear everybody who goes to Santa Clara was in there. My only complaint was being that they were so slammed, they forgot to make our food at first nearly making us late for the show, but once i got my burger it was pure bliss. 3) apparently, only girls and very petite men listen to death cab because the largest size hoodie for sale was about a men's medium. i settled for a cd instead. 4)while taking a sm
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i just love the new christmas decorations at ikea! i want this and this and these they look so delicious. almost edible. it's all very seussical to me too.

last night the dj saved my life

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on friday night the impossible happened. i actually managed to get a few of my girlfriends together for a girls night out. even more amazing; we all somehow managed to keep the party going until last call. how, do you ask? 1) lots of good alcohol before hiting the bars 2) dancing. lots of dancing. so as simply stated above, last night(or friday night, in our case, the dj saved our lives. The pre-party studio 8( we managed to escape the $15 cover charge because the doorman took pity on us) I love this.she just looks so liberated. after the music and people at studio 8 got old, we trucked it over to mission ale house. a definite must stop on the downtown san joser pub crawl. this dude tried to convice me that he is a pro surfer named...AJ? oh sandra, why so unamused? WARNING: you might need your shades for this next one. could i be whiter? i wanna marry a dj when i grow up :) this guy was seriously a great dj, and he didn't even mind the drunk girl taking pictures of him working. th

what in the heck were you for halloween???.....gosh!!!!

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my friend emily sent me this. i think i'll file it under, like, cutest thing i've have ever seen!: i'm not sure, but i think these kids are from San Francisco. i think they look flippin' sweet!

water is great.... especially when it tastes like juice.

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flavored water has taken america by storm. some genius figured out that if you add sugar and other "natural flavors" to water, people will pay a couple bucks for a bottle the stuff, and buy cases of it at a time. now, i like plain water just fine, but sometimes i like juice too. The only problem with this is that most juices are way too sweet, and my litte tastebuds perfer a more watered down form of sweet. Therefore, flavored water is just about perfect. There is a problem, however; most of these flavored waters use aspertame as a major ingredient because most of the target audience for this water are people who don't want sugar in their bodies....just cancer. just kidding! that's like an urban myth, right? anyway, last year my sister maureen started raving about this stuff: i wasn't so sure because i just assumed like the others, it contained aspartame, and i hate the aftertaste of that crap. Well, i discovered it does not , so I decided to give it a try, and

christmas time is here? what the eff happened to thanksgiving?

is it just me, or have stores been unloading their christmas crap a little earlier every year? the other day, my mother actually saw workers unloading LIVE christmas trees to be sold out in front of Safeway!!!! who the hell would buy a tree during the first week in november?!?!?! by the time chritmas morning rolls around, it would look the the charlie brown tree. 3 branches, one twig, and a pile of pine needles (and those things are a BITCH to get off the carpet, even with a vaccum). At this point we should just start celebrating thanksgiving the day after halloween. It's barely a blip on the radar of the comsumer industry anyways! it kind of pisses me off to think that thanksgiving is so overlooked. i like christmas, but i dislike what it has become. all i see is SPEND, SPEND, SPEND!!!! in big red flashing lights. Plus, i loooooove thanksgiving. it's just food and fun, and we are fortunate enough to usually spend it at the beach, which is just awesome. I feel so bombarded with