Entries from August 2008

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Four generations on a single statue

Saturday afternoon, I got a call from my mom’s cousin Amy. She was at Rittenhouse Square with Derek and Sabrina and was wondering if I wanted to join them. I was sitting at the dining room table when the phone rang, eating a turkey sandwich and reading the weekend newspaper. I quickly finished my sandwich, [...]

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Fight or flight

Over the last few weeks I’ve been riding my bike more. I took it out last night to pick up a to-go order at Lee How Fook (by far, my favorite Chinese restaurant in the city). It was around 7 pm, and the sun was coming down at that slanty angle that makes it hard [...]

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Spending, releasing and a very large coffeemaker

Yesterday afternoon, I left work feeling sort of itchy and restless, like there was soda water running through my veins. I wanted run out and buy things, just for the experience of the acquisition. At the same time I also wished to get rid of everything. Wisely, I tucked my wallet down towards the bottom [...]

Monday, August 18th, 2008

A Summer weekend

I’ve been a busy girl of late. Summer is rapidly drawing to an end and I’ve been scurrying hither and yon, trying to wrap my hands around these waning days. Saturday morning, I got out of bed earlier than I do on my work days, in order to go out to New Jersey one last [...]

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

True blog love, according to CBS 3

Last Thursday, I got an email from Nicole Brewer, the reporter for CBS3.com, asking if she could feature Scott and me in her column. Friday morning she came over to the apartment to film us and Monday morning, there was an email in my inbox with a link to the piece. It’s cute and focuses [...]

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Enjoying life, mis-matched shoes and Neil Diamond

Last night, sitting across from Scott at Vietnam Palace, I realized something about him. He hardly ever complains. I, on the other hand, am something of a champion complainer. As we talked about the differences in our personalities and the ways in which I almost seem to require something in life about which to bitch, [...]

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Written while being filmed

Right at this very moment, Nicole Brewer from CBS3 is walking around Scott and me, taking B-roll of us sitting on the loveseat in the living room, typing away on our laptops. In order to keep typing, I’ve started this blog post so that it looks like I’m doing something.
She emailed us yesterday, asking if [...]

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Thirty-eight years and counting

Last Friday, my parents celebrated their 38th wedding anniversary. It’s an impressive feat, especially given the fact that they had known each other just six weeks on the day they got married. My dad was 21 and my mom had just turned 23 six days before. After the wedding, they drove from San Francisco to [...]