So this past semester, my Elements was blessed with two foreign exchange students, Henrique and Tu. These guys are pretty awesome and very cheerful and I’ve very much enjoyed having them in my group to share in our discussions. They’re both headed out of Texas this week, so on Sunday, we went to a Brazilian restaurant to wish them farewell (Henrique is Brazilian, and Tu is Vietnamese – they went to a Vietnamese place before). We decided that we needed to do a Chinese place too, so yesterday, off to Din Ho we went.

We had 11 people show and decided to go with the 10-person meal, but since they had no lobster, we got to substitute four dishes instead (!!!), so we ended up with 11 dishes. Woooot. It was a pretty awesome meal and I think everyone was really super stuffed. It was fun. =)

I don’t know if this seems cheesy, and I don’t think it should, but I’m going to say it anyways… Henrique and Tu, God bless. =)

Photoshop CS3 beta tomorrow! YAAAAAAAAAY!!!

So I uploaded some pics from the Elements potluck/white elephant thing. Yeah, I seem to be getting sick more frequently this year than usual… dunno what’s up with that. Although, it’s not so bad what I’ve got… just a cough/throat thing mainly… maybe I caught something from Stephanie >=|… haha, j/k. =)

Group shot:

More here.

I caughtededed a cold. =(

However, I plan on going through a lot of my pics tonight… yay!

Oye, I’ve been too busy to tend to OWeb lately (especially since work keeps me much more busy than previously =)… I’ve got a stack of pics to upload from various events… but I haven’t gotten to them yet. Maybe I’ll make a more descriptive post once I get pics up. =)

I got the mocha cappuccino at Round Rock Donuts on Sunday morning and it was pretty good… went extremely well with the donut holes. I think I will probably die from things like that if I kept eating them though. =)

Went to a potluck at Melvin’s the other day, which was pretty cool. There was a ton of chicken, and all very tasty. =) I got to see his brewery although I didn’t really partake of any of it, but it was pretty impressive nonetheless. I’ve got a pic of the fridge he modified… uhhh, I’ll get it up on my flickr later.

“Sex is currency
She sells cars,
She sells magazines
Addictive, bittersweet, clap your hands,
with the hopeless nicotines

Everyone’s a lost romantic,
Since our love became a kissing show
Everyone’s a Cassanova,
Come and pass me the mistletoe

Everyone’s been scared to death of dying here alone

She is easier than love
Is easier than life
It’s easier to fake and smile and bribe

It’s easier leave
It’s easier to lie
It’s harder to face ourselves at night,
Feeling alone
What have we done?
What is the monster we’ve become?

Where is my soul?

Numb” - Switchfoot

So, to show appreciation to the Vox staff, our Elements made cookies and delivered them. Here’re some pics:

And this is Essence who didn’t really do anything except take three hours to get a pizza and eat almost all of Garrick’s chips:

haha… more on flickr. =)

Also, I went over to Olivia’s yesterday for a bit after she left a voicemail on my phone telling me she had a “really cute beagle!!!!” over. It was funny watching the beagle and Oink play as the beagle would try to bite Oink’s face and to defend from it, Oink would try smash him to the ground with either his chin or his butt… haha… it was kind of like watching a stegosaurus fight a velociraptor or something…

Spent pretty much all yesterday evening/night with my Elements working on some appreciation/thank you gifts. I’m not going to say to who or whatever yet because it’s a surprise (sssshhh!)… but they should be delivered today, and I’ll post some pics of the event after I process the pics from my camera (maybe tonight or tomorrow?). Essence was there the entire time and didn’t really do much except take about three hours to get us a pizza, haha. It’s ok though, cause it wasn’t entirely his fault I suppose and it ended up being free.

Ummm… guess I’ll just wait for the pics to talk more about that. =p Thanks to Olivia and Stephanie for letting us use your place for so long. =)

Went to Round Rock to get some good old Round Rock donuts with Kathy on Saturday. When I asked for two dozen, she said we’d have to wait a few minutes because they weren’t done yet… she said this like this would disappoint me. Psh. Fresh donut holes, how could I be unhappy?! That was great news!

Anyways, after she gave us the donuts, she asked if we took “the test.” I thought “huh? what test?” I was pondering whether we had to take a test to order donut holes now. Turns out she was asking if we had just taken the SAT. Doh… lol. =p

Happy birthday, Nancyface. =)

Yesterday, I went to the mall to look for a suit jacket and surprisingly found one at Express that fit well enough (better than anything else I’ve tried on previously). It’s slightly too big, but it doesn’t look bad and it’s got room for growth, so I got it. I was expecting to have to look for hours and hours because the previous time I looked failed miserably. That made me happy. =)

“All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places - worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere - going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression - no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow - no tomorrow” - Michael Andrews

Well, I spent the brunt of today cleaning my old room out with the girls in my family. It was actually a pretty decent time with most of the kids trying to throw away as many things a possible without our mom vetoing the decision (ssssh, don’t tell her ;)). We found these audio tapes that Olivia and I used to make around 13 or so years ago to send to our aunt in California and we laughed a whole ton listening to it. I think my voice was higher than Olivia’s… haha. I’m gonna make an MP3 out of it, but I’m not sure if other people will find it as amusing as us. =)

With that, I leave you with Oriana’s away message:

Macaroni Grill @ 5
&
Facing the Giants @ 7.20

with the RR IBS gang.

now a message from Oliver (Gaugau):
Oriana stole all the chicken and wouldn’t let me EAT ANY. Next time you see her, punch her in the face. Also, watch out for our sister’s (Olivia) butt… it’s crusty and you might catch the itch.