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Monday, March 24, 2008

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:39:22 GMT

Monday, August 27, 2007

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:48:22 GMT

doxie poo's

shar peis

pekinese poodles

Sunday, July 08, 2007

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:05:58 GMT

I love yahoo calendar!

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:10:23 GMT

July 2007

the calendar looks weird here...but here's the link: http://calendar.yahoo.com/nguyenjuliethi

did i miss anything?


Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1	2 7p Long's Bday Dinner-Olive Garden 10p Sherlock's	3 12p Epic-Kim and Mookie's party 12p Buddha Lounge--Marg's party	4 Independence Day [USA]	5	6 12p Bally's Due 12p Bank of America Due	7 10a Vi's Engagment-Fung's Kitchen 12p Vi's Engagement Party-Crome?
8	9 12p Daddy back to work	10 12p Loans Due (Direct Debit)	11	12	13	14 12p Start working Saturday lunches
15	16 12p Online ESL classes start	17 6p Circus	18	19	20	21 12p Sleepover?
22	23	24	25	26	27 12p CitiBank Due	28
29	30	31	1 9p Application for Clinical Teaching Due	2	3	4 12p TeXes ESL Test 2pm

not many friends compare to FAMILY.

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:24:51 GMT

so my family is going through a lot of changes by the end of this summer...brother is going to austin and the parents are having their dream lakehouse being built. this means that by mid-fall, we may be all going our seperate ways.

this also means that all summer long they'll have to be massive clean-ups/pack ups at my house....meaning LOTS of memory sifting as we decide what to keep and what to throw away. this usually is quite difficult for me to do, to go through so many emotions and memories...for me to have to come to grasp that so much time has passed. it's always been a personal thing, dealing with the old friendships i've drifted away from that i wish i hadn't.

i've actually had quite a hard time with this lately, the losing touch with your old friends thing. pretty disappointed in myself when i come to realize that i suck at keeping in touch now! i've always been great at it when i was younger, the whole treasure-your-friends thing, figuring it takes effort to keep in touch sometimes, but some people are worth it. and actually, this has been plaguing me for weeks now. there are so many people i'd like back in my life, but so little time for it, and how do you decide who is "worth" your time? i keep feeling lately, like time is running out...

anyway, as i was cleaning today, i came across some of my parent's stuff...old stuff. i flipped through old job applications (secretary at nasa for my mom?), work certificates, notes in vietnamese i didn't understand. papers with my dad's drivers liscense,and then a came to a few old folded pieces of paper--my dad's handwriting. notes he wrote, trying to learn english. english verbs, everything from "to hit" to "to take a bite out of" and their vietnamese translations. pages and pages of my daddy learning english. he probably copied out of a book, trying to learn. and then i found a letter he wrote, dated in July 1975. The top said "I'm sorry, can't write english" and a two page letter goes on in vietnamese. the letter ended with a p.s. in english, probably with the help of someone as well.

and some how, seeing all that touched my heart. how much time has passed since my parents have been here. their struggle...my mother considering a 15,000 dollar a year job as a secretary. my dad, trying to learn as much english as fast as he could. it's been over 30 years since they've been here. a part of me wants to show them all this stuff, to show them how far they've come...but a part of me doesn't. i don't want them to realize how much time has passed, meaning how much they've aged.

and all of the sudden, reconciling with old friends didn't matter so much anymore. it didnt matter so much making up that lost time with them. all the time i'm going to spend w/them, i could be with my family. finding those things made me realize time goes by wayyy too fast. if im this upset over losing touch with my friends, do i want to do that with my family? you can't ever make enough of that time up. i live at home, and i hardly speak, much less see my parents. and that's just sad.

which brings me to this coming mid-fall. what to do? we've got a new lakehouse being built. do i move with them, like they want? or do i use this as my chance to finally get out on my own? i'm daddy's girl, he wants me to stay. the schools i want to teach at are all down here. my family is here and have a bedroom especially for me. but it's so much further down 45, further from my friends and my boyfriend...and further from getting out on my own and learning responsibility. it's about damn time. but that's about where my list ends with leaving the family...

living w/them at the lakehouse, it'd be closer to my career and my family...and it's so much more economical. i'd save money, time, gas, sure...but the point is, after seeing what they've been through and how much they've aged, and with my brother leaving them, i can't stand ditching them too. i mean, i'm not home a lot now, but with 2 kids, if i'm not there to help my parents w/something, my brother is. now that he'll be gone, who will help my dad mow our nearly acre of lawn? who will run to the store for my mom when she has a headache?

sigh. time freakin flies. make sure you spend it with those who matter. there are a few friends that matter...but few friends matter more than family. i think everyone should set aside at least one day a week with their family if they live in the same city.

it's funny, there was a time when i wanted to get out of here so bad. i thought i'd be out the day i turned 18. but as i rebelled more and more and wore my parents down, i realized i didn't have such a bad thing. sure, i can't have parties at all odd hours at night at my place, but i CAN go to someone elses. (and my place won''t be trashed . i'm hardly home, i had work and school and my social life...and was only home when i slept anyway. my parents worried but weren't strict and didn't keep me from anything i wanted to do. i did what i wanted and didn't pay rent. (you'd think i'd save more money than this though...haha) It wasn't that i couldn't afford to move out, it was just, why? why throw money away, why pay to be distant from your family, probably the people that care about you MOST in this world besides maybe your significant other, which at the most would care about you equally?

ok, it's late and i'm rambling. i haven't written to vent in like a year it feels like, when i used to write everyday. ah, feels good though. i'm not anymore less confused than i was...but i feel a little better.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:56:54 GMT

must.

find.

more.

time.

to.

write!

i've got so freakin much built up inside.

i hate living in such a big city...takes forever to get between mines and ban's houses. ugh. dreading that drive home...

Anyone know what you can do to someone's dog, if that dog bites you?

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:51:07 GMT

is revenge sweet?

yes....if you do it right.

I have too much stuff.

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:26:16 GMT

40+ pairs of shoes.

40+ bras.

50+ pairs of underwear.

30+ belts.

So although my feet, hips, boobs and ass are covered, I never have anything to wear in between. Yet I can't stop buying shoes, underwear, belts and still on a constant search for the PERFECT bra.

So. What to wear tonight?

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My new favorite pic:

This is my myspace blog post. (it took me 3 tries to post it)

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:19:30 GMT

i have resorted to HAVING to get on myspace if i want to know what's going on in jennifer's, chrissy's, or jade's life!

i still hate it even thought i finally have a background so my page is not so ugly.

i hate how slowly it loads on EVERY computer on i'm on.

i hate all the ads.

i hate how some people's page makes me dizzy bc they got a moving background, 3 videos people posted playing, 10 flyers, AND their own song playing in the background....and freaking 30947823094039248204093 photos moving EVERYWHERE.

I hate how always get "PAGE ERRORS" when I click on some pages and about the 3rd or 4th time i try, it works.

i hate how it says "You must be this person's friend to view their page"...and I AM their friend! (an unexpected error, they say)

I hate how it's hard to look through my list to find people sometimes.

I HATE HOW I GET PORN SPAM.

I hate how EVERYONE tries to save you even if you don't know them.

I hate the 23047234239847329847 messages i get a day from guys AND girls using this as a dating service.

I hate the 394573984 flyers that are posted on my page.

I hate how everyone tries to be a new musician through myspace.

and the list shall continue.

but yes, apparently jade, jennifer and chrissy update on here and a few other friends that I’d like to keep on touch with....so here I shall be sometimes.

** oh! And when I pressed “submit” to publish this entry, this is the message I got….”Sorry! an unexpected error has occurred.

This error has been forwarded to MySpace's technical group.”

I HATE MYSPACE.

Monday, February 12, 2007

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:49:11 GMT

My hero saved my day yesterday when i locked my keys in my car!

My HERO is my BEST FRIEND who is my BOYFRIEND :p