choose your own jersey shore.

everyday i pass a small strip mall with two restaurants. one is called "snooki's bar and grill" and the other "doug bro's." coincidence or ignorance? my jury is still out...

i love my family.

see my cousin and her cutiepatootie son below:

re: we are f-a-m-i-l-y.

i know. i know. i moved to texas to be closer to my family. but sometimes (read: all the time) i still miss this family:

i can't wait for aug. 7!!!!!!!!!

re: 7 years too many.

the polyphonic spree

i had waited 7 1/2 years before i got to see them last time.

thank goodness i only had to wait exactly 4 this time. 

texas. you have proven yourself to be quite better than i could have anticipated. i guess i will stay a while longer. 

memo.

yesterday, i didn't get the memo like everyone else in my building to wear my mav gear (oh hey...nba champs!). instead i got the memo to wear my only pink shirt the same day the other two ladies in my office wore theirs.

today, i got the other memo to wear jeans and a black shirt the same day as my coworker...

...i would like to conclude that great minds think alike...please keep your commentary to yourself...

lasting.

i happened upon this woman and her family in the middle of nowhere in namibia. i ended up spending an afternoon with them and laughing harder than i could have ever imagined. they opened their hearts and home to me and only asked in return that i send them pictures so that they could remember that delightful day. in my typical manner, i mailed them a year or so later...and two years later i received an e-mail from her daughter, who is at university...and two additional years later, my heart is still warmed when i get an e-mail from her. it's times like these that i feel indebted to our technological progression.