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wow…so many markers

Marie picked me up yesterday afternoon to go paper shopping with her. She’s starting a little invitations/baby announcments company out of her home and needed to find paper for her samples. So, with Cole in tow, we stopped at one place and it was shut down. Then we went to this other place in Irvine and it was so awesome! While Marie browsed the paper section, I took Cole around through the rest of the store. There were two aisles where every imaginable marker could be found. Do you need a Pentel marker in fine point in Burnt Sienna? They’ve got it. Need a permanent Sharpie-brand oil-based poster marker in baby pink? Yep, got that too. It definitely is an art student’s place to be. I so wish that I had the time and motivation to take some classes or just dabble in something. I suppose this website and my photography projects are enough for now. I’ve been wanting to sign up for a Chinese brush-painting class for over a year now but haven’t made the commitment. I’ve been thinking of taking a darkroom refresher course for two years now…still haven’t. I don’t get it. I guess by the time I’m done with work, I’m ready to just go home. Going to a 3-hour night class twice per week just doesn’t seem very appealing to me at the moment. Maybe I’ll take a short class next August when I won’t be working and won’t be at camp. That’s it…that’s what I’ll do.

Time really flies.

There’s a song on Jack Johnson’s new album called “Do You Remember?” It’s a little ditty of him reminiscing with his wife about how they met and how 10 years later they’re “still playing house”. That’s funny, Jes and I have been together for the past 10 years too. We took a stroll down memory lane last night as we read through my old journal entries from our college years. They gave us a few chuckles and sighs. It’s hard to believe that we’ve been a part of each other’s lives for that long. It gave me a little reminder how small our world was and yet it seemed so complicated. Now we’ve built a little “grown-up” world of our own and things seem a lot simpler than before.
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This past Sunday, I also realized how long I’ve known his family. We hung out with his 3 younger cousins on Easter Sunday and boy oh boy have they grown! I can still remember when the youngest, almost 4 years old, wasn’t even born yet and the middle child, about 11, was the baby of the family. *sigh* Time really does fly.

He’s almost here!!

Jes and I went to dinner with Marie and Kenji last night and got a little update on her baby. Her due date is March 17th but we all have a feeling it may happen much earlier. When we were ordering dinner, Marie said that she wished she could have the Seared Tuna. Alas, with the recent reports about high levels of mercury in today’s tuna, she took that out of her diet for the last 8 months. I would be so sad not being able to have my favorite foods/drinks. No coffee. No sushi. No wine. *sigh* However, it’s neat to see how excited they are but I can’t help feeling anxious for them as well. It’s such a life-changing event…so much more than getting married. I see what it has done to Patti & Howard and cringe at the thought of not getting more than 4 hours of sleep at a time and all the worrying that comes along with it.