wow... talk about crazy game!  i was able to make it to the alumni
picnic and the game okay... got enough rest last night... but OMG....
that game was ridiculous! UCLA was like asleep the first 3 quarters...
down 24-3 we TIED.... then went into OT and WON, 30-27!!!! it was a
pretty exciting game... but sheesh... CRAZY!!!  it was also nice
because we had a fairly large cheering section in the corner... all
blue... with some bits of red in there but man it was awesome... the
2nd part of the fourth quarter was so exciting! now must rest so this
cold doesn't get worse!

ucla players and fans celebrating!

so i didn't think i'd get sick... but it FINALLY caught up to me....
after the wedding in august and going to 2 weddings consecutive
weekends in a row right after ours.... i felt something coming during
our honeymoon, but did a lot of relaxing/resting so it was never full
blown... but NOW... it's here... and i feel like shit.... so i went to
sleep early and now i'm up b/c i went to sleep early.. blah... we're
going to the ucla game today, but i think i'm gonna need cough drops,
tissues, drugs, water... everything... luckily i'm not tooooo bad
*crossing fingers* better go back to sleep! being sick SUCKS!

CNN.com - Big names invited to cash in on unclaimed property - Oct 27, 2005

cool... read in the newspaper about it... and ended up looking up
people and found some people... it's weird (talk about bored but
interesting!)

dude... this family just had their 16th child!!!!

CNN.com - Mom delivers 16th child, thinking of more - Oct 12, 2005

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!  so i'm a little slow at writing this
up... partly b/c pat and i were in la this weekend... but... the whole
reason going down was for the ucla v. cal football game.... and i can
tell you it was sooooooooooooo worth it... besides the friends and food
and tailgating... the game was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! it's nice to go to a
game like this one... it was definitely great! plus being part of the 84,811 in attendance at the rose bowl....

the 4th quarter was def awesome... and i really don't think i've
screamed as much as i have in a LONG time... so much that i don't
really sound quite normal talking... even pat's voice is hoarse... i
think a lot of us are still on a high from this game... it was just
sooooo cool!

that day i got to visit my cousin in dormland... and she lovingly woke
up early for me to help me and several friends to eat the dorms...
although dissappointing b/c we didn't get to eat omletes... and then
more sad we didn't get to buy new ucla gear... but the weather was
great... nice cloud cover so it wasn't too hot and perfect place...
nice to see people we haven't seen in awhile and meet new ones

all in all a GREEEEEEAAAT weekend!

*edit

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RANDALL!

sorry randall... this was one of the more recent pix of you and this
one is old... otherwise i'd have to use the plastic over your head one
or other not so flattering pictures....

i hate waiting for stupid laundry to dry... AT NIGHT... when i just
want to go to sleep but feel like i should stay up b/c i don't want
shirts to look all wrinkly... grrrrr... like anyone really cares... but
i'm trying to pass the time... well i guess if you see me with a
wrinkly shirt then you know i probably fell asleep.... 

sorry! currently i have nothing better to write about

home improvement... fun stuff.. except in our case it's room
improvement... so far cleaning... and STILL cleaning but got a lot done
yesterday... got some paint and some stuff for the closet.... it will
be nice when it's done!  but fun in the mean time... and holding
off on working on it this weekend...

yeah!!!!!! rambling i think half tired, half out of it......

honeymoon highlights

MAUI

• staying at a funky retro/sixties ghetto condo and listening to the incessant dog barking next door
• watching the u.s. open and agassi's quarter and semi-final games
• lahaina (HUGE banyan tree in front of old courthouse)
• pat driving scary one lane roads and looking at the water below! 
• stopping at julia's world famous banana bread stand (YUMMY!)
• driving to the summit of haleakela  
• silverswords 
  
• going snorkeling at molokini/turtle town
• eating at buzz's wharf

BIG ISLAND

• HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK
• having a national parks pass rocks
• aa
• pahoehoe
• staying in volcano, HI (like 5 MINUTES away from the park)
• rain, rain and more rain
• banyan drive in hilo
• lyman museum with an AWESOME mineral collection that had a phallic malachite specimen (sorry no pictures)
• steam vents
• halemaumau and inhaling sulphur fumes
• hiking kilauea iki
• thurston lava tube
• hiking on basalt at night
• seeing the lava flow glow at night (will post a pix later... pat has WAAAAAAAAY better ones of this...)
• nene (hawaii's state bird)
• driving to kailua-kona
• stopping at south point (the southernmost place in the U.S.)
• black sand beach and seeing turtles
• mauna loa macadamia nut factory and good deals on gifts
• hilo hattie last minute shopping and free gifts (with expensive purchase)
• 9 mosquito bites at rainbow falls
• pe'e pe'e falls and boiling pots (ran away from the mosquitos)
• relaxing...and watching TLC all day
• seeing p. diddy or whatever you call him now on martha stewart
• seeing rainbows almost every day and rays of light shining through the clouds
• petroglyphs
• tree molds
• hiking puu huluhulu and seeing pu'u o'o in the distance smoking away...

maui and the big island were awesome!!!

back to the real world..... *sigh*

but on a happy note..... just wanted to wish a few people a happy
birthday... i've been lame at keeping up... but since this is a wave of
them... why not!?!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to...

9.20 EDDIE!


9.21 ANDY!!!!


9.22 CHRISTINE!!!

9.22 DAVID!!!