Now, How Bout A Puppy?

9.20.2007 ||

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: Laarni (Thanks for adding my live feed!), Snow_Love, Alyssa, Destiny

"My god, Thao. Slow down so we can catch up!" That's what a lot of people have been saying to me in regards to my recent finished apt, birthday, ENGAGEMENT, and now... a new house! Yeeeep. My fiancé and I went house shopping for fun on the 9th. We weren't planning on buying a house for another year since we don't want to live together until we're married. Buuuut, insert a huge 3,000+ square foot house for a $100K less than its appraisal and you got yourself a deal!

Almost. The closing isn't until mid-October, but in the meantime, we're really excited. The owner accepted our offer the DAY that it was made--on the 10th. The day after our offer was accepted, more offers came in. Too bad those biatches have to sell property first. It's a beauty. I'll have to take pictures soon. So now my big item life-list looks like this:

Work full-time
Graduate classes half-time & Homework the other half of the time
Wedding planning & appointments
House planning/shopping

Thus, my lack of doing anything else, i.e. sleeping, site updating, or showering (jk. no really.), has its reasons.

I'm still not going to move in with him until after I graduate, which I anticipate to be next December. That way, I don't get distracted with my strong desire to start decorating. I JUST finished my apartment anyway. Plus, he probably wouldn't want to deal with sharing a closet with me, or having the Style Network on CONSTANTLY. Actually, he doesn't mind, he told me he's going to turn the basement into a bachelor pad (he's only allowed to decorate the basement and garage, haha) and he is going to call it The Doghouse. Boys. But I said if he gets in trouble, I'm not sending him to some pimped out pool hall doghouse in the basement! He'll be sent to the backyard or something.

While house-shopping, all of the homes in our price range were all so teeny. They were so small that we couldn't fit our existing furniture into those spaces. Now with this house, we're going to actually have TOO MUCH space. Wait til I post pictures of it--and my new CLOSET!

I LOVE Yorkshire Terriers!

Thank goodness it's a buyers' market! I am a very very lucky girl!

NOW I just have to convince my fiancé-who-has-never-had-a-pet-in-his-life that a WITTLE CUTIE PUPPY would go PERFECT in the house. Worthy of REALLY cheesin

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Sexy Elevator Music

9.10.2007 ||

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: Teelia, Andy Nguyen, Katy, Rina

Sidenote before I even get into my discussion of sexy elevator music: Thank you for the nice comments and for liking my narcissitic layout of my vector-self on a magazine cover that I will never ever be on. You've ballooned up my ego and now maybe I can love myself THAT much more. Just kidding. But seriously, thank you and thanks for the new links! I'll update my link list this week. And my wedding website is in the works. Learning about the traditions of my culture has been pretty exciting! End sidenote.

Say you live in a tall building that necessitates the utilization of elevators to get you to the main floor. Suppose you want to ride this elevator because you have to get yourself to work and cars can't park on the 10th floor -sadly-, denying you the convenience of not having to use said elevator. Let's say, for the sake of realism, that you will most likely run into neighbors in that lobby waiting for the elevators because other people have to park on the main floor as well, bitches.

Now suppose that the building manager likes to put music on rotation in said elevator lobbies to briefly entertain the residents while they wait for the elevators to arrive. Music can help ease the tension of awkward conversation, right? No need to make small talk if you can sing along to Enya or Yani in your head. Genius.

Let's add some displeasure to this typical situation by playing sexual slow jams to REALLY add to the discomfort of wondering "do I say 'Good Morning' or should I pretend to look engulfed in deep thought and ignore my neighbor who I do not know anything about other than I think he's a chain smoker who loves to watch TV REALLY loudly." Insert background noise, "When I get that feeling, I want sexual healing... sexual heeeeaaaallliiinnngggg, yeah. Sexual healing.".

NOW let's pretend the property manager is watching you wait from some hidden surveilance video and is laughing to herself because she just saw you fix a bra wedgie while not saying anything to your neighbor as you both listen to sexy bedtime tunes. You can't help but commend her on the humor since you would probably do the same thing yourself if you were the property manager of some ritzy apartment building in the city.

End hypothetical situation, insert reality. For the past week or two, I have heard every "late night jam" that there ever was waiting for the elevator. Ha ha. I find it relatively amusing and I often wonder what my other neighbors are thinking, i.e. the old couple on my floor who I run into often. What if THEY were standing next to my supposed chain smoking neigher and Boys II Men's "I'll Make Love To You" started playing? I think they're playing some kind of joke on us. It's usually some Enya-type of song.

I don't know if management is REALLY watching, but if I was the property manager, I would probably take advantage of my power and play the sex songs LOUDER so that the whole awkward moment before getting onto the elevator thing is even MORE AWKWARD. Actually, scratch that. Remove the sex songs and just add sex NOISES. Hehe, sinister

No more wondering about if you should say something or not. The situation turns into "how do I tastefully ignore this...?"

Sooooo, how's the weather?" (Mind you, you both haven't been outside since it's 6:30AM and we're 10 stories up.) "Sounds like the neighbors are REALLY enjoying it eh WINK!

? Those bed springs sound like they're wearing down. Maybe they should look into a new bed!

And because I like it and I cannot deny my ego of using the power, I would play techno. Unh Tiss Unh Tiss.

I might even hire some actors to play the role of "drug dealer or prostitute waiting for the elevator" just so the awkward moments don't pass by un-seized. Of course with sex noises. Maybe even gun fire hehe

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Sick With Excitement

9.05.2007 ||

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: Andy, Rina, May

New layout! If you don't see a magazine cover to your left as a navigation menu, then refresh the page! What do you think? No, I'm not vain if you're asking--well we all are a bit aren't we? I just don't like making celebrity layouts because this is my site and I don't idolize anyone. I'm happy keeping this personal to me. And I wanted to do something different, so I skinned the site and made it so that people can choose their layouts. (Works with cookies only). AND I have a great love for vector layouts because they take a LOT of work.

Thank you so much for all the comments/congratulations on my engagement story. I can't believe some of you actually read the ENTIRE POST. It was freakin' LONG! And to answer many of the questions/comments: Yes, it was definitely the best birthday present that I have ever received. I am extremely happy and I only hope that everyone else can find the same! I will definitely return all messages... it might take me a bit of time.

Everyone has been so supportive and genuinely happy. My friends and family have been calling me from all over the place. I've received many notes of congratulations on Facebook, Myspace, and email. I truly am blessed with some amazing people in my life. Between all the news, another grad sememster starting, and everyone I've been trying to get in touch with, I have been BUSY! Definitely spinning, in a good way. D and I took what I call the Michigan-tour in which we drove all over the state to see our families, who are all supportive!

Since people have been interested in our plans and our story, I am going to make a subdomain website strictly on wedding stuff (it will probably be a gag-me type of thing) so that friends and family (and you other curious people) can keep up to date. I've found that there are some high expectations out there for our wedding based on our past parties and our OCD-like (SICK) attention to details.

I'll also post Vietnamese-wedding traditions on it since the ceremony is pretty sacred and different from typical weddings. We are going to make it pretty traditional (kinda) with a blow-out reception. It is about two years away, no EXACT date set, but I wanted to finish my masters first before I get my head all into this wedding planning stuff. So excited.

SOOOOO excited, that I caught a cold. I have a bad cough that keeps me up all night. If you ever have one of those though, I recommend Mucinex to ease the coughing. Pretty good stuff. Time for meds.

Categorized: Wedding, Friends, Family, Site
Plugs: Teelia | Andy Nguyen | Brandon | Exene | Chita | Alex | Eilidh | Deanna | Mandie | Jenny | Christine | Amanda | Ashley | Rina | Catherine | Keisha | Frankii | Kahreda | Laura | Vicki | Kirsty | Scott | Tonje | May | Mae | Patrissha | Hannah | Yin | Nicolah | Camille | Lene | Roxanne | Katie | Esme | Evelien | Emma | Fatz | Leyla | Connie | Carrie & Ann | Emma | CJ | Nathalie | Billy | Vai | Brandy | April | Emily | Tiffany | Faye | Dani | Emma | Marsha | Courtney

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