Busy bee...........

busy with school and work. I need a break! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
One more day...and it's March already. Yikes!
time is flying by.
Wish I had more exciting things to say...but this is it. ohh well...

I do magic at work.

Working for the same company as my sister can have its days. When employers come into my building they’ll stare at me for a moment dumbfounded. When I first started working there this would bother me. Some would not walk through the doors until they are sure of what they are seeing.

What’s their problem: Supposedly almost 90% of those my sister and I have encountered say my sister and I look so much alike… they can’t believe it.


You should see them: They would have just visited my sister’s building and coming to mine. When I see them approaching me…I’ll simile…and they’ll give me this look and stop in their tracks. I would laugh but will not say why. They’ll stay a little further than usual and ask me “Do you have a sister at the next building”. Yes, I do…she’s working there right now. They’ll come closer (verified I wasn’t a ghost) and tell me that I look just like her. They’ll walk away still staring at me with their confusion.

This is same story my sister tells me.

This is surprising to both of us because we don’t look alike. Maybe we are so focused on the opposites that we don’t notice the similarities we have.

no thanks..

I thought I wanted to buy some clothes this weekend…since a lot of the stores have their winter items on clearance. It didn’t occur to me how much clothes I have until I started to clean my closet. Once all my clothes were out of the closet it was a massive pile of brightly colored shirts, skirts, and jeans. I am completely turned off from buying clothes…for at least a month if not shorter…HA!.

Random post..

--Brrrrrrr (is that how it sounds) when is REALLY REALLY cold! My car wouldn't start for like 30 seconds and it completely scared me! I would hate to have car problems right now...so much money! I miss snow..we haven't really had any.

My photography professor keeps telling the class "When it snows, go out with your camera,adjust the shutter speed, and you'll be amazed how the pictures turn out". I am waiting to try this.

My first project in this class I got 91/100. I was completely shocked! Compared to my classmates pictures..I thought mine were just average. But my professor thought otherwise.

I am really excited about my next project...I will write more about this in the upcoming week.

I am so excited about the new Oprah mission "America's:Debt Diet" or something like that. I caught their first show on this and it looks really educational. Families work with money experts...while the expert actually live in their houses. Ohh how fun!

Thanks for calling Montel.

Early morning I woke up to my cell phone going off.
It was The Montel William Show calling me about the tickets I requested.
I was excited about them calling me but now I am wondering
do I really want to attend?
I guess it’ll be exciting to be on TV.
If I could get couple of us interested in attending then it may be fun.
How fun can Montel be..really?
haha. We will see.

Roses are red....Violets are...

I was looking through the Star Tribune and found this article on how to lengthen life of a bouquet. I used to put Aspirin in vases but the writer says that it doesn’t work! It surprised me that Aspirin doesn’t help at all not to mention pennies, soft drinks, alcoholic beverages. Nada.

------------*Here are some suggestions to prolong life of a bouquet.*--------------

--Floral preservative that comes with almost all flowers does extend life for several days.
--Scrub the inside of the vase so it’s squeaky clean
--Recut stems while holding them in stream of warm water so air doesn’t plug tiny vessels.
--Make cuts on an angle so doesn’t sit flat on the bottom
--Place flowers in cool location out of sunlight
--Replace water when they start to look cloudy and cut stems again

Article written by Deb Brown

Hello Gorgeous!

Has anyone seen those Dove commercials? Especially the commercial with this woman…who is absolutely gorgeous by the way! Dove, global beauty brand, recently started a campaign to raise self-esteem in girls/woman all over the world. By doing campaigns with real women who have real curves they hope to widen the definition of what it means to be beautiful. It’s a great start and I am sure is going to get people talking about the stereotypes placed on women and their beauty.

great dinners-courtesy of my dad

I been having great dinners the past few days. We had the usual sunday dinners...Sundays are the days my dad cooks about 5 curries, rice, baked chicken and whatever else we are craving for. But on monday and tuesday of this week he has been making dosas and wonderful sambar.

The thing about making dosa and sambar is that is a lot of work...atleast it seems for us because there's barely anytime to cook and would be a lot easier to just order something. So when my dad makes Sri Lankan foods it usually will last for atleast two days if not more. Taste just as wonderful though because we cook it everyday..but have everything prepared days in advance.

Instructor:

You might walk into New York museums or any museums and think…I could have done this…a monkey could’ve done this…

And that’s art.

Me and the guy that was sitting by me:
(Uncontrollable laughing)

where is the party? I need one.

These days I feel like the most exciting thing I have done is.....buy this hat! I know..How boring is that?!? Must work on getting out more. Monday to friday worry about classes. Once Friday hits worry about getting to bed on time to get to work on Saturday and Sunday...


I was so suprised how my picture turned out with my instructor advising me to use 200 speed film. I haven't used 200 for 10 years...we usually spend a bunch with 800 speed. 200 worked wonderful and I can't wait to go into class to show my pictures! One thing about digital camera is that there is no excitement to see how your picture turns out..because you could see it the second you take a picture.

Had a fantastic time tutoring.

I was the only one who showed up and 5 kids with math problems! It was awesome to go from teaching 3rd math to 12th grade math all in 2 hours. The 12th grader asked questions that would take me one hour to figure out...but with so many others waiting I wasn't able to spend that much time with her. All of them asked if I came every day of the week...I wish! It made me think as I was walking out of the library that everyone should volunteer at something! Most of the kids know what to do but like most in math they need assurance that they are going about a problem correctly...
I am staying away from pop as much as I can. When the day is long and I need something SO GOOD..this is what I been getting...SNAPPLE juice drink! so good!

fortune anyone?

I am getting so annoyed with fortune cookies that are not telling fortune. Like today I opened my fortune cookie and got "Finally, it is accepted as self-evident". What is this mean?
To anyone else... is this fortune?
Who is making these non-fortune cookies?

I was ready to put these babies
on and go out of the house...
but they HURT so much...
what's the deal?
Maybe today was not a day to try on new boots.
Shall try again tomorrow. :-)

What will we do without lines?

What will we do without lines?

This morning when I parked to go to class the parking lot was covered with snow. So I parked in between two cars and walked to class. When the day was over I came out and couldn't stop laughing at seening my car. At first I thought someone moved my car or hit my car. The parking was horrible! It wasn't even close to the box. Then I realized a lot of the other cars were parked like mine. With snow we couldn't see where to park...WOW. STRANGE feeling to see the car almost in the lanes of oncoming traffic.

Rain in January? What a strange and very gloomy day. A perfect day to sleep all day and watch old movies. But I have way too many things to do. My photography class is driving me crazy, yoga class is painful (in a good way) and karate is hard and funny at the same time.

But all three are something new and rewarding.

More about these later. I better finish my paper.

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they will not be here tomorrow. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."

This is just too hard to do...

Busy week! Running back and forth from home to school. I don’t even know how the week went by so quickly. Finally had my New York trip meeting where I got to meet everyone who is going. Picked my roommate and the group I’ll be in. We have a very diversified group so we’ll all have different ideas to contribute to the trip. Excited but I don’t want to think about packing till’ few days before. My coordinators arranged it so the group will have plenty of free time to do whatever we want. YEA! I am really looking forward to visiting the Empire State Building at 8:30 p.m. This is arranged so we can see the nightlife of New York. And everyone knows I love staying out late at night!

color of love?

In class we were talking about perceptions. So my professor asked these questions to the class:

1. What color is today?
2. What is the texture of your favorite music?
3. What color is love?
4. What does your childhood sound like?
5. What is your idea of a really good time?

So we all had to share our answers. For question #3 I said the color white! Everyone was a little suprised at me describing love as white! I thought of white because it didn't have any need to try to get attention, is simple, is there without needing to be in your face all the time.

I could never forget my dad walking me to the bus stop the first day of 4th grade. Assuring me time after time that this is my bus and it was okay to get on it. I kept watching him from inside the bus to see if he was 110% confident that this is the right bus that will take me to my first day of 4th grade.

He was right.

How time changes so quickly. Now I am the one assuring him time after time that this is the right highway to the store. I just hope most days that I could respond as lovingly as my dad did when I was 11 years old and afraid.

We also went shopping for school with my dad. I would pile so many things...usually 10 of each...I still have some things I bought for school in 4 th grade. ..so sad. My dad would patiently wait for me to make up my mind about my big once a year purchase. I remember one year we had to take the bus back home and I felt so bad that I made my brother and my dad carry all my stuff. Bags and bags of school supplies.......*heaven*.

Teacher Says...

One of my professors came after class and asked me if I ever thought about broadcasting. I said What?! Why?! Me?! Are you kidding?! He said that I had a great voice for speaking and he was impressed with how I introduced myself to the class. He said I had a powerful voice..ahhh isn't he sweet. I still can't believe it. Here I am thinking I sounded extremely uncomfortable and I get a compliment like this.


Still can't help thinking if he was speaking to the right student?


I am always a little suprised how people perceive me.

My favorites:

Two of my favorite things: handbags and jewelries!! I got the bag for $20…what a deal! And the necklace was free. FREE. Who doesn’t love that?

I ordered a necklace through a magazine. But when I got the package it was this necklace and not the one I ordered. This was beautiful but I wanted what I ordered which had matching earrings to it. I called them this morning before school to complain and ask them to refund my money.

The man I talked to was very nice. He explained that they had run out of the necklace I had ordered and was substituting this for that one. So I said “Well, I am not satisfied with this product because the one I ordered had earrings to match”. He said he understood my frustration and was sending me the spring catalog that I could choose something from.

So I said “Should I send this one to you then”? He said, “No, you can keep this necklace as well.” I said “Ohh my gosh, thank you”!

We received a videotape from my aunt back in Sri Lanka.
It was so amazing to look at.
She took video of the temple in our town that is slowly getting fixed
and our newly built house. It looks so beautiful and comfortable.
She built a huge patio right under a tree…that just seems
so relaxing. I wish I was there.
My aunt and uncle do so much for us
They are amazing people!
When people do so much the first thing I always ask myself
Is how can I offer them the same feelings they have given me.
How can I show my love and gratitude to them?

I am missing summer. The skirts and sandals....
Not the bulky jacket I have to wear now.

I had no idea karate could be a fierce workout! I am so tired.

I liked Steve Jobs quote so much...


I dropped my sister at the airport late afternoon because she went to visit her husband in Ohio. I was waiting for her in my car so she could come and tell me that she checked in and there were no problems with her flight time. Something about airports though….I don’t know what the feeling is? These first steps into this building can take you to a different WORLD…scary and exciting.
I just loved watching an older son give his dad an awkward hug…It was a great feeling.


Note: I am sleeping much better.

my giant bed..it doesn't look that big on the picture..that's a good thing.


I worked some exhausting hours on Saturday 4 a.m. to 4 p.m. Waking up at 2:45 a.m. to get to work was not fun at all. It would have been a little easier if only I didn’t have a new bed frame to get used to. This thing is enormous in my room that is taking up half of my room. These couple of days it feels like I am living in some strange hotel room with a giant bed. Some strange world where half of my room is everything I am used to and the other half is unfamiliar.

But my sister assures me that it will take some time to get used to the bed frame.

I was watching Oprah and there was this couple on the show. The woman brought the man on the show to tell him a secret-This completely shocked me-. The man has been thinking that his wife had a debt of $40,000 but she told him that she actually has $160,000 of debt!

WOW. How do you emotionally heal from that lie? So many emotions...this couple has A LOT to work on. -What do you do about the money- How would she ever pay that 160,000 of debt..unless she wins a powerball..most likely..she'll be paying for this her entire life! Especially if this debt is from credit card companies. But not telling him..............AWWWWWWWWWWW!

It is so easy to become untruthful? Once you start...it gets bigger and bigger..

I went and picked up my new glasses today. My last pair was from 2001...yikes!

I added a new feature ALL CONSUMING. Check out what I am consuming on your right side..scroll down.

I could put whatever I want..it's my blog...haha

2006!

It’s going to be a great year. I just have a feeling. I have been busy the past week visiting everyone for the New Year! Ate a lot of sweets and worked extra hours…even though I haven’t been feeling well. Still it has been great to get together with families!


I made a lot of goals for the year and I am very confident that I am going to achieve all of them. One of the goals is to read more…more…and MORE! I miss reading for fun, waking up early in the morning to finish up a book from the night before. Whatever happened to those days?! I miss that!
I have had this blog for a year now! How time flies. It’s really sweet to be able to access what I did throughout the year by this blog. I just click on the month and I am back to those memories. I do want to get a hard copy of my blog.


Year of brilliant possibilities.