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i think that i will be cooking tonight. i made burgers earlier this week, but i still have a lot of meat leftover and i’m not sure if i can finish the rest of the burgers, so instead i’m going to make a lot of meatballs instead. lots and lots of meatballs. they won’t quite turn out like [url=http://sushisis.tangledweave.com/]someone else’s famous meatballs[/url], but they’ll be alright. maybe i’ll make spaghetti and meatballs tonight. mmmm.

i’ve been meaning to do some more cooking lately. i find cooking to be pretty relaxing. i think it’s kind of cool to be able to come up with something and make some good food. i’ve been trying to experiment a little bit more lately and it’s been coming out well, i think. it’s time to try making some new dishes, though…i’ve never made thai before…i think the problem with thai is that it requires a whole new set of spices that i don’t have at all. hmmmm, i wonder how that’ll turn out. i haven’t had a dinner party in a while now. maybe it’s about time to start thinking about that again…

i’m waffling right now about whether or not to go check out volleyball tomorrow at campbell. i hear that they have a league there and i’m tempted to pick up another night. we’ll see.

maybe i’ll do some baking too. i’d like to make boston cream pie. mmmm, that sounds really good right now. i wonder if the reason why i’m talking so much about food is because i’m hungry now. so very hungry.

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i was reading the last entry and it reminded me of a childhood song i used to sing in class called there’s a hole in the bucket…

There’s a hole in the bucket,
Dear Liza, dear Liza
There’s a hole in the bucket,
Dear Liza, there’s a hole.

Then fix it, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, dear Henry
Then fix it, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, fix it.

With what shall I fix it,
Dear Liza, dear Liza?
With what shall I fix it,
Dear Liza, with what?

With a straw, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, dear Henry
With a straw, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, with a straw.

But the straw is too long,
Dear Liza, dear Liza
But the straw is too long,
Dear Liza, too long

Then cut it, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, dear Henry
Then cut it, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, cut it.

With what shall I cut it,
Dear Liza, dear Liza?
With what shall I cut it,
Dear Liza, with what?

With an axe, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, dear Henry
With an axe, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, an axe.

The axe is too dull,
Dear Liza, dear Liza
The axe is too dull,
Dear Liza, too dull

Then sharpen it, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, dear Henry
Then sharpen it, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, sharpen it.

With what shall I sharpen it,
Dear Liza, dear Liza?
With what shall I sharpen it,
Dear Liza, with what?

With a stone, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, dear Henry
With a stone, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, a stone.

The stone is too dry,
Dear Liza, dear Liza
The stone is too dry,
Dear Liza, too dry

Then wet it, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, dear Henry
Then wet it, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, wet it.

With what shall I wet it,
Dear Liza, dear Liza?
With what shall I wet it,
Dear Liza, with what?

With water, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, dear Henry
With water, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, with water.

How shall I get it,
Dear Liza, dear Liza,
How shall I get it,
Dear Liza, how shall I?

In the bucket, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, dear Henry
In the bucket, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, in the bucket.

There’s a hole in the bucket.

i’ve got a hole in my shirt. it’s on the front in the middle of my shirt, towards the bottom of the shirt. lovely. now it’s going to be a matter of making sure that i don’t make it obvious that there’s a hole in my shirt all day. maybe no one will notice…

you know, that’s the sort of thing that you say to try and comfort yourself when in reality everyone is there talking about it because, of course, they will notice. *sigh*

the printer ran out of paper this morning too. i went fishing around the office trying to find out where we keep the reams of paper and came up with nothing. i went to the supply cabinet. nope. the supply closet? nope. i even went as far as going to the last office that i stole paper from and still…no paper.

so what did i do? i dug up some scratch paper that i’m not using from some time ago and printed on the back of that. office supplies shouldn’t be this hard.

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my love for you grows greater day by day. like a flower blossoming to reveal its glory, my love bathes in your delight and becomes more magnificent with each sunrise. how can i describe the passion that you inspire in me? such true bliss cannot be withheld. it would be criminal not to make such feelings known to the world…to hide them would be a far greater injustice than man has seen in this century (albeit, we’re not too far into this century, but still…)

yes indeed, i profess my undying love to thee. ah, my precious, my love. of course, i am talking to you, my maple donut.

mmmmmmm.

my face is peeling. it’s rather disgusting to wash one’s face only to realize that a little bit of it is sloughing off. yuck. damn sunburn.

so much change is taking place around me. sometimes i wonder if i’m stuck in slow motion while everyone else seems to be just speeding around me. it isn’t that i feel left behind, it’s more that i just feel like everything is just whizzing by a little too fast.

the summer is almost half over. where did it go? i just realized that the last big vacation i had was in october. that was quite a long time ago. who knew?

today was spent relaxing. i ran a few errands on the way home from work and spent a few hours working at home, but mostly i stayed at home and chilled out. i need a chill day every so often just to keep things in balance. i think tomorrow is going to be spent running around, so hopefully it’ll all even itself out.

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i feel like i haven’t had dim sum in all too long. yesterday, jen, [url=http://leafee.ocliw.com]leeya[/url] and i went to eat dim sum at dynasty restaurant. they have pretty decent dim sum and the wait is usually not too long. the food was good and it was nice to be able to enjoy dim sum again. i think that dim sum really should be enjoyed in groups of 3 or 4…or multiples of them. otherwise, not everyone gets their share of the whatever is ordered, or you hace to order two of everything.

on friday, we celebrated diana’s birthday at maggiano’s where we had another small dinner gathering. i think that i do enjoy the smaller dinners now because it gives you a good opportunity to have a good conversation with everyone instead of the bigger group dynamic. i don’t really like shouting across the table to make conversation with someone else.

hmmmm…i have a lot of ground beef at home right now. i was going to make burgers yesterday, but opted to make steak instead. hmmmm….burgers….maybe i should make some tonight instead and have some people over for some bbq. mmmm.

last night [url=http://www.track15.com]dardy[/url] and i decided to have dinner at king of siam thai in mountain view. the food was pretty good, but at one point we were the only two people in the restaurant. i wonder why they aren’t doing so well. it may be because of the large number of thai places that already exist in mountain view.

but the food was good and dardy and i had a chance to catch up with each other’s lives. seems like there’s a lot of change in the air.

somebody asked me if i thought it was weird that dardy and i would meet up for dinner…just the two of us. i didn’t think that there was anything weird about that at all, but then she asked, you don’t think that people would get the wrong idea? it sort of made me think.

i don’t think that i generally have dinner one on one with too many guys, but it isn’t something that i haven’t done or that i don’t do with some regularity. sometimes it’s nice to be able to have that so that you can talk about things that you may not regularly do in a larger group setting.

after dinner we had some pearl tea from tea era. i love their roasted barley milk tea. even though it’s an alarming $3.25, i still will get it from time to time. oh so very good. it’s the same drink that dardy had as well.

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this saturday jen, cathy, de, and i played in the AACO volleyball tournament. there was a little mix up with our registration and we were originally registered for the intermediate level. when my team found this out they all had this panicked look on their faces. it was rather amusing.

but i cleared up the mix up and got us back into the friendship pool. this was the second year that i played in the AACO tournament, but my team changed quite a bit from last year. jen and i are the same, but cathy and de are new additions. i met cathy through my JACL league and de through the citybeach league. this was our second 4s tournament.

i’m trying to remember how we did in our first tournament, i think that we didn’t quite make it to playoffs last time. this time, however, we made it to semi-finals after struggling through the day.

the day started off unusually warm, perhaps foreshadowing the blazing summer heat that was going to beat down upon us later in the afternoon. we struggled through our first games, the four of us just weren’t playing up to our potential. playing in this group of four is actually a pretty new experience for me because i have to play a position that i’m not completely comfortable in yet.

i think that i’m used to playing on teams where i am one of the weaker guys on the team. i think that it’s always been that way because when i first started playing volleyball i was on a team where the guys were all much stronger than myself. it’s been a weird transition to start playing middle in volleyball because that’s a position that’s usually reserved for the tallest members of the team and also usually the better players on the team. hmmmm, does this mean that i just play on teams who have short players? =P

this new team is a lot of fun, though, and i really enjoy playing with them. we all get along and i think that we all are encouraging of each other, especially when we need the encouragement. i think this is why we were able to pull out of our early morning slump and were able to push through and make it to playoffs.

it was a little stressful though…it all came down to the last two games. we needed the first place team to beat the team that they were playing both times AND we needed to win both of our last 2 games as well. it was getting close as we were watching the first place team play their opponents, but they did win and then the rest was left to us.

we were playing much better overall and were able to win the last two games. then it came down to a matter of breaking the tie which was done by looking at the head to head records. we had beat the team that we tied against, it was actually one of the games that was the turning point in the day. that victory that pushed us into playoffs was just that much sweeter.

the first team we played against in playoffs in the quaterfinals was won but was was won with some effort. it was a good feeling and then we went to semis. the other semi-final team had some good hitters and i thought that we were going to beat them, but they rallied back to make a final run to win us out.

still, though, it was a lot of fun and so far every tournament we play in, we’ve done better than before, so that’s always encouraging. we ended up winning some shindig-branded pilsners as the prize for advancing that far into playoffs, which just made my day.

all in all, t’was a good saturday.

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