all by myself

I really am liking living by myself. It's nice and quiet...well, when chinese opera isn't being poorly sung or garage doors being used at front doors that is. There's just something nice about not having other people around me. I can do things on my own time. Pile up dishes and not have to worry about cleaning them right away or having to navigate through other people's food in the refrigerator to get to things that I want. It's really the little things that makes this great.

And I found out that it takes a little over a month to finish up a bar of soap and about a week for a roll of toilet paper. Good things to know when it comes to planning :).

4 years

I've been at my job for 4 years now. I'm still amazed that I've lasted as long as I have!

new number

I have to wonder if this happens to many other people but since I moved in I've been getting random phone calls. Some are looking for a design company. I did a search on my number and it's listed as the design company's number. I tried to go to the company's website and it doesn't work! Makes one wonder if this isn't a scam company. I tried to contact the website that has my number listed but there's no way to contact them except a 900 number [eh?] and a mailing address in Los Gatos. I'm like, I have to spend money either way to get my number removed from your dumbass site? Um, no.

I also get called from people looking for Robert. One person asked, are you sure? when I said he had the wrong number. And then he asked me how the weather is in San Francisco and then told me that weather wasn't that great in L.A. either. I'm like...um...yeah, bye!

Randomness.

street stencil 020 through 025

um, how does that help?

disabled parking spot. stairs.

remodeling: sneak peek 3

couch!

Dad's shower rod invention!

new door!

irving ashtray

I wonder who cleans them out?

auspicious day

Yesterday was an auspicious day so we prayed to the ancestors to look over 639! Now I can technically move in at any time, oh the excitement!

In Chinese it's called yup faw [translated literally, enter the fire]. There's a whole chicken, roasted pork, buns, hom siu kok, zeem duy, rice, noodles and dough balls in a sweet soup, brandy, and citrus for the ancestors. We also lit incense and burned lucky papers. You set up the above in the front of the house and also in the back. Then afterwards, you eat something from the offering.

Can't wait to move in!