Just Another Waste of Space

I recently had the pleasure of visiting my friend Charaya’s new apartment and for a nice new years party.  We had party hats, balloons, blow out thingies, sparkling grape juice and music!  The only other thing you need to have a good party is friends, since we are all conveniently friends so we were set!

A few hours before midnight I got a super awesome surprise too!  Kat and Charaya worked together really well to sneakily get Kat to Cookeville for new years and surprise me!  It was quite amazing and I was speechless when stepped through the front door.   I’m pretty proud of myself for saying “hey” but apparently that wasn’t super appreciated, who would have guessed?

Anywho, I ended up staying in Cookeville for the weekend and I think everyone involved had a pretty awesome time.  We even managed to get a few photos on Charaya’s camera and on our phones.  I’ll toss a few on here for your viewing pleasure!

So a quick Merry Christmas to everyone (though it’s a bit late).   I got to spend my Christmas at my Mom’s with her boyfriend, my sister and my brother in law.  We had a pretty good time, the typical talking, eating, watching movies, opening of gifts visit you would expect from a family visit on Christmas.

One of my gifts was a Panini Grill, and I’ve been enjoying it quite a bit.  I’ve made a few sandwiches pictured above because well.. I was excited.  It’s super easy to use and clean and makes amazingly yummy food.  With a quick warm up time of a minute I’m able to plug it in, make my sandwich, and toss it on the grill.  Close the lid and come back in about 2 minutes to a nice grilled sandwich.

If you guys eat panini’s or have any ideas for some stuffings leave me some comments and I’ll try ‘em out.

Just noticed that again I’ve been neglecting the site so I thought I’d toss out an update.

Image thanks to Neala Schwartzberg

Kat was super awesome and made a trip to see me in mid November. It was a pretty productive visit compared to her previous visits. We actually left the apartment for more than just food!  Impressive I know…

Quick points:

• Kat got to physically meet Charaya, a mutual friend of ours.
• We visited the International Friendship Bell
• Kat actually got to meet my Mom and Sister
• Got to eat lunch with Sarah in a Japanese restaurant that had a drive through…
• We watched UP!  Though we had to buy it twice..
• She made me a man’s meal! (haha, Manwich.. good stuff)
• Kat put on a musical performance
• Walked all over Oak Ridge
• Had some relaxing time together

I think that covers most of it.  I’m actually pretty impressed I was able to remember that much after this long.

I now have a Google Wave account!  I gained access on the 7th and have been enjoying it very much so!  Below is my first blog post Via Wave.  If you have a wave account enjoy.  If you do not have a wave account… I’m sorry you can’t see it.   Perhaps at a later time you will be 1337 enough to have an account

My Mom and sister have been cleaning out our old house so that someone can actually live there again without having pile upon piles of junk everywhere.  Since I have a truck my Mom asked if she could use it so that she can easily get rid of large amounts of things and not have to make a bunch of trips and so on.  When she was done with the truck she even packed up a few things to bring to me that she thought I might want/like to keep.

In the things she brought me was a card.  This card is not an ordinary card it is a Valentines card.  Not just ANY Valentines card it is a HUGE Valentines card.  Who gave me this great card you ask?  Anchana(Preaw) gave it to me when she was here as an exchange student a few years ago.  I miss her very much and well.. I’m now going to post some pictures from the card because it is so awesome.

I can’t wait to see her again.  Hopefully in a few years when she’s all done with school she will grace us all with her presence again.