Mightier Than the Pen

It's over!

noreply@blogger.com (Leo) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:02:47 -0500

Have fun internetz. You win.

All you fucking guys that want to talk to a married woman can look elsewhere -- because she's not going to be married any more!

She's lied again and again. She lied to me, she'll lie to you.

She's an attention whore who lost out on a winning ticket. She can have her little boyfriends on the internet. These dipshits like to flirt with a married woman, and they aren't even good at it:

"
haha babe, you're amazing. thanks for all the pics!!
I came back to my comp and saw I had 7 emails and was thinking 'wtf, this is weird...'... then i saw they were all from you =D yay!
haha, these pics make me so happy, especially the jesus christ loves you one hahahaha <3 thank youuuuuuuu =] keep 'em coming, cutie!

Take a pic of yourself, too... I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more mary anne!! <3 =]
"

C'mon, who the fuck talks like that?

But lets look at this..

- we already fought once about this guy who likes to flirt with her and she swore that she wasn't going to talk to him again.
- He asks to be her friend on facebook.
- She confirms
- I say wtf? She says "oops i didnt know who it was" and deletes.
- I'm fine with that.
- She goes out with friends to a bachelorette party... She's gone all day and sends pictures to the dude of all their activities.
- I find out about it. And then I find out that she's been hiding her online relationship with him by continuing to chat with him at work even after we got in to a super huge fight about it.

Really this isnt a big deal, right? I mean, she's just chatting with some dude... right?

Well lets look at a similar issue that happened a year ago.

A frequent visitor to here eventually was able to escalate his relationship from 1) a reader. 2) a poster. 3) exchange emails. 4) chat on IM with her. 5) talk on the phone with her and 6) Video chat with her while her husband was away on business

Of course, I had known about this all the way up to 5. When I found out about 6, it got ugly and we fought about it. Maybe the plug should have been pulled then? No, it was just a first offense, and she hath learned the error of her ways.

You shouldnt be video chatting with some dude you've never met in person (or have you?) When the guy flirts with you constantly. Sex and nipplage is a topic often discussed in her chats with him.... so what am I to think about her video chatting with him?

This is NOT the behavior of a married with child woman. At least, not how I was raised.

We had recovered from the year ago incident, and I thought we were doing great. We had great plans. We dreamed together. We were planning on moving to switzerland together (I have an opportunity there). Experience Europe together. Come back eventually (2 years or so) and have another kid or two (I really want[ed] to have my own kid with her).

Then she fucked those plans in the ass and thats that. Sometimes I think that we should reconcile and get through this.. but then that would just make me a punk ass bitch with my balls in her wallet. Fuck that. It's game over.

Have a good life.

Leo

The next step in aviation?

noreply@blogger.com (Leo) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:17:11 -0500

This guy built a jetpack and flew it across the english channel. No steering, just his body and head movement to control his movements. Amazing.

My favorite comment from an NBC segment:

Chick: "It took him 6 years to build this."

Dude: "You know, they Coyote did this back in the 50's."

Wedding Singer

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:16:09 -0500

So in about 2 weeks, I will be singing for my friend, Jane, at her wedding. This is going to comical. I'm already having second thoughts about the song she chose, because 1.) I'm use to singing ballads. The song requires a lower softer (sexier) voice. I tend to overpower the song way too much. 2.) There is no cue for me to start singing. I actually have to sing before the song starts playing because that's how the song is. It's quiet annoying. I'm sure we can fix it on Garage Band or something. Add a little ding to the beginning, perhaps? And 3.), I want a shorter song to sing. Haha. God, help me.

Heroes and The Office

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:19:08 -0500

The new season premieres for both shows were mediocre. Heroes is total brain fuck (too much going on) and The Office was not as funny. I probably laughed 4 times the entire hour. I'm pretty surprised myself that I gave them low ratings. Hopefully next week is better.

Scuba Diving Photos from Maui

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:51:26 -0500

Check out our scuba diving photos from Maui. We dove by Black Rock in Kaanapali. We were fortunate enough to see sea turtles, sting rays, octopus, and other types of fish we don't typically see off the California coast.

Toad

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:21:02 -0500

Jane bought me a present. She saw me starring at it at the Japanese grocery store the other day. It's crazy how little things like this bring a ball of fucking sunshine to my life. Btw, it was fucking delicious.

MAUI 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:39:54 -0500

Sorry I've been lagging with the photos. Here they are in no order.

View from the hotel balcony. You could see Molokai in the distance.

The clouds would come out of nowhere and cover the sky gray. But even then it was beautiful.

Yo. This is how we roll in our Chevy Cobalt rental.

Guess who sat in those beach chairs with a badass view of the ocean.

Trying to get my golden tan.

Wailea is our favorite beach in Maui. We established that 2 years ago.

My creme brule in a Pineapple.

I don't know what the big fucking deal is with shaved ice in Hawaii. It's like their "thing".

P.O.G. (Passion Orange Guava)

'Cus all churches should have neon signs.

We pulled off the road to take photos of the sunset.

Went island hopping by taking a boat to Lanai.

Looking down at the clear water from the boat. This is where I was going to dive.

We got off a landing in Lanai to explore the beach for 3 hours.

Here's where we camped out.

The water was that clear.

Lanai is paradise. It was seriously straight out of a post card.

Dolphins favorite hang out is this bay. We saw a school of them right where I took this picture. A bunch of people dove in to swim with them. It was quiet a show.

Walking back to our boat.

It was a rough ride back to Maui. Leo and I were completely drenched when we got off.

We did a little bit of shopping.

And then of course, a lot of eating.

Any place that we go to that has creme brule in the menu, I must try. If you haven't noticed from previous post, this is my favorite food. Want to win my heart? Bring me creme brule.

Chocolate souffle. I was so hungry, I forgot to take photos of the main dish.

'Cus towels from Target are sexy.

At Kaanapali Beach.

A day I should of been at the office.

A series of sunset photos.

It's moments like these where you almost have to take a sweet picture. Here's ours.

We took a boat out to do some sport fishing. If you catch a 500 lb. marlin, then the trip is free. This would be my first time fishing EVER.

We did both of these touristy things.

That's my fishing rod on the right.

Captain wouldn't let me climb to the front of the boat. Why can't I be the king of the world for once?

A plastic chair in the middle of the ocean. This was the only action I got from this experience. No one else caught a fish on my boat.

We went horseback riding.

According to my instructor, my horse pissed more than any of the other horses that were riding the trail. Just my luck. I always seem to get the retarded ones.

My horse's name was Jet Li. I guess they thought it was so fitting to assign the Asian girl with the Asian named horse.

The views were amazing. This photo doesn't justify much. You really have to go to enjoy. And here you are...sitting in front of your computer enjoying my pictures. You really ought to go out for a jog.

I'll post the scuba diving photos next. =)

Bloggers

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:27:05 -0500

I have 27 blogs in rotation that I read on a daily basis. 13 of which update regularly. I'm pretty loyal when I become a fan of a blog. Most of which have been almost a decade now and some I grew to like over the years. Nowadays, I find most of them to put me to sleep. It's not really anyones fault for being boring. I just have to realize that people grow up, quit drinking, have 10 kids, and then somehow become less funny or inspired. That's life. If anyone would like to welcome new bloggers to my rotation, please feel free to. I'm always open to new shit.

Happy Birthday to Leo

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:10:15 -0500

My love.

My partner.

My best friend.

Happy Birthday.

Looks like McCain already tapped that

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:40:12 -0500

Just kidding. I felt like Photoshopping at work. Here's the original article.

Another one to add to the track record of geekery

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:53:08 -0500

We recently attended the NVISION 2008 LAN party @ the San Jose Convention Center. It was what you expected of a LAN party. A LAN is a LAN is a LAN. What more is there to say. And for those under a rock, LAN parties are a congregation of geeks and their PCs in which they use to play PC games together in the same room. I know, I know. It defeats the purpose of a lot of things. But in defense of people who do attend LAN parties, particularly the NVIDIA hosted ones, you can play with professional gamers and win prizes. This is the second one I have been to so far and I really enjoyed it. Last year, we went to Oakland for the same event. I was really stoked this year to learn that it was conveniently close to my work, so naturally I took my lunch break to play video games. I've had the honor to meet some highly respected gamers and some not-so-highly respected gamers that I've played with on public servers whom have yet to reach the caliber of the highly respected ones. One of the gamer dudes I've met, I absolutely adore. But I would have to save that one for a later post. For now, I'm enjoying the fact I can play video games at the comfort of my own home...naked.

New Moon

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:02:42 -0500

Last night, I finished the first book (Twilight) and ran to my computer afterwards to watch the movie trailer. I also found out on Twilight's YouTube channel that the movie will release in November and not December. A 4 second clip of the actual date appears on the clip. This truly made my weekend.

Today, I'm starting New Moon, saga 2 of Twilight. I can't wait! But first we have to go to SF to take my sister dorm supply shopping. The end of Twilight took me by surprise. I actually had to do a double take and read the last sentence over and over again. I couldn't believe what had just happened. Can you tell I'm hooked?

Twilight

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:03:01 -0500

So I've started reading the first book of The Twilight saga and I really can't get enough of it. It is my new guilty pleasure, right next to looking through gossip magazines while standing in line at Target. Why do I care about celebrity news? I don't. I honestly just like to see what they're wearing and how they managed to lose all that weight. Anyhow, the story makes me feel like I'm 14. And if anyone said the word "penis" I would probably giggle behind my book like a damn pansy. I won't spoil it for you, so I will avoid going into detail. It's a good read to follow if you're into romance trilogies. Most of you probably won't read it and that's okay. I totally understand. I find that most of my readership are males between the ages 23-42. I know that for a fact. I don't give beauty tips or parenting advice or recipes on how to bake a fucking pie on this blog very often. Which says a lot about the readers I attract. And perhaps it's the fact that I'm horrible at all of the above, so I have not much to offer. But what I can tell you is that Shawne Merriman not only has a torn PCL, but now has a SECOND torn knee ligament which can only mean he will be sitting out longer than expected this season. I'm sorry, but this news makes me sad, so I had to think about where I could mesh this topic to this post without having to do multiple entries. But do feel free to talk football to me.

So anyhow, about reading. I made a deal with Leo that if he finishes a few books that I've recommended, I will read all his Harry Potter books. *GASP*. Yes, it's true. I have yet to pick up a Harry Potter book. I just don't find wizards, magical kids, and shit all that appealing. But now that I've watched the movies, I think wizards are AIIGHT. For now, I'm all about teenage romance novels. Chh-yeah!

Mary Anne = FAIL

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:53:09 -0500

Objective: Climb to the top of rope ladder without touching ground. Press red button at the end of ladder to win prize.

It's not as easy as it looks.

At least you get a nice view of my unflattering butt.

Home Movies

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:27:54 -0500

It was just this evening that I realized we've accumilated a good amount of home movies (Not those kinds, you silly goose. Get your mind out of the gutter. And if you were seriously interested, we do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express via PayPal. LOL. No, I'm seriously kidding). Most of the videos are pretty candid which makes it even funnier because I don't recollect a damn thing. From now on, or when I feel like it, I will start posting snippets of our home movies. Such as this random one I totally forgot about while I was in New York. I shot the New York City skyline from the Google building. I'm in it for about a second.

**UPDATE: Fixed the sound problem on the video by adding background music. It was staticky.

It's called "vlogging" (video-blogging). Or "too-damn-lazy-to-blog-heres-a-video-instead-sucka."

Totally drained

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:34:46 -0500

But so glad to be back home.

Hi Guys,

I'm going to make this brief because I am tired as hell. Just got home from the islands and I am exhausted beyond words. All I have to say is that I am ready to go back to work. I feel rested and anxious to get stuff done. I have a busy week ahead of me. My mother and my sis will be in town on Tuesday (tomorrow), meaning I won't have very much time to blog this week. We are helping her move into her dorm in SFSU. Oh god, it is soooooo refreshing to be home. And it is so refreshing to be with family. What a crazy few days this will be. Eek!

Mary Anne

Out of the office

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:55:28 -0500

I'm leaving you again, but this time for Maui.
New York wasn't as nearly as fun as this will be.
Will be back to post on the 21st.

Aloha!

Guess who's on Facebook?

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:15:48 -0500

ME!

Actually, Leo and I both have Facebook accounts now.

Hell hath frozen over.

A couple of photos of Monterey, CA

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:04:11 -0500

Last weekend, Leo and I went to Monterey to check out the town. The weather was gorgeous. Fresh air. Nice views. It was simple and sweet. Too bad for us everyone and their moms decided to go the same day.

Leo and I ate at The Whole Enchilada off Hwy 1 in Moss Landing.

I know. I take a lot of photos of our food. But this was a really good seafood enchilada Leo ordered.

My dish, the chamachon es muy excellente.

Leo's dessert. Chocolate mousse.

My dessert. Creme brule.

If you've read the Steinbeck novel "Cannery Row" this is the famous place. Lots of tourist.

Monterey is beautiful. But I'm really looking forward to Maui this weekend. :)

One Year Anniversary in the Bay Area

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:56:44 -0500

It's been a whole year! This is a big deal for me. I left a good job in San Diego where I was promoted shortly after I told my employer the possibilities of leaving. We left our cute home that we had just recently bought. I left my family, friends, pretty much everyone I knew. But in the end, it all worked out for the better. And honestly, I wanted to leave San Diego for a long time. All I needed was someone (in this case my husband) to say "pack your shit."

In the course of 5 years, I've moved several times in the same city, but in a different house and area. I really didn't like where I was at. Didn't understand why I was never content. And it was only a matter of time that I realized that no matter where I was in San Diego, It was the same ol' San Diego. Sadly, most of my friends stayed in the same place after graduation. Even cousins of mine were repeating this cycle. It's comforting to know that they will always be there. But from an unselfish point of view, it would be awesome if they realized how nice it is just to get away for awhile and start a completely new life from everything they knew. Because San Diego will always be here no matter where the fuck you are in Egypt. I can promise you that. Living hundreds of miles away from my hometown made such a big difference. And although I'm still in the same damn state, there is so much of a contrast between the regions of the north and south. So many new roads to explore. So much more food to be eaten. So much more culture to be had.

It wasn't till recently that Leo and I decided that we will be moving to Europe in a year or two. Once the opportunity presents itself with his current employer (Google), he is going to jump on it. And then we will be on our merry way to Zurich, Switzerland. How fucking cool will that be? Seriously. When does one have an opportunity to say, "Yeah, I lived in Switzerland for a couple of years. Went skiing in the Swiss Alps on the weekends. And when we were bored, we took a one hour train ride to France or Italy to go shopping." Seriously, folks. How often does that shit happen? Like 1 out of RARELY.

In the meantime, I'm enjoying the Bay Area. I love San Francisco more than any big city that I've ever been to. I've worked in downtown LA and that place is garbage. New York is garbage, but has more to offer. The bay area in general is awesome. There are tons of job opportunities in Silicon Valley. I mean TONS. Lots of good colleges, such as UC Berkeley, Stanford, UCSF, USF, SJSU, CSUH, Carnegie Mellon, SCU, SFSU, etc. If you're feeling beach, there's tons of beaches. If you're feeling snow, there's Tahoe. If you're feeling wilderness, there's Yosemite. If you're feeling Vegas, it's a short flight. If you're feeling Hawaii, it's closer than any state. I already flew there from here and it was painless. And yes, home (San Diego) is only a hour flight away. The weather is just right. The people are so diverse. Food is superb. It's amazing. I would not mind settling down here after Europe.

I love you, Bay Area. You can keep me for another year.

Vegetarian Month is over!

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:25:27 -0500

Vegetarian Month was a complete success. Honestly, I wouldn't mind being a vegetarian for an entire year. But for now, I'm tired of having less options to eat anything.

I'm ready for a new challenge. Does anyone have any suggestions?

A search engine that claims to search more pages than Google

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:54:58 -0500

http://www.cuil.com/info/

What a bold statement.

Oh and read this article on CNN.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/28/technology/cuil.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes

Day 25: ...

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:44:28 -0500

Resisting meat is not the hardest part. I know I can do it. No problem. However, I'm having all sorts of health issues now. Before I started this challenge, I was already border line anemic. I told myself I would eat nuts, beans, spinach to help with that but I feel like I don't get enough. I've lost my apetite for eating. I've been emo for a few days now. It's hard to motivate myself to get up in the morning. I'm awake, but I don't want to get up. During lunch, I'm affraid to leave the office. I think I prefer to go home during lunch and just lay or sit there than go anywhere. So I started taking vitamins to suppliment what my body was lacking. Don't think it helped much. I do eat a lot of vegetables and fruit here and there, but what the funk is wrong with me? My body is probably still getting use to it. Oh well.

Just a random list

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:20:17 -0500

Lazy blogging at it's finest.

1. Power outage at work today. Went home around 10am.

2. We purchased season passes for Great America. It's an amusement park not far from our house. Totally going to take my lunch break to ride rollercoasters.

3. Vegetarian month is going really well. Not craving meat. And when I do, I make myself watch this:

4. I watched Legends of the Fall this morning since I couldn't go into work. I've watched it hundreds of times and each time I've cried.

Tada!

Photos from NYC

noreply@blogger.com (Mary-anne) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:57:52 -0500

So I didn't really tell anyone I was going to New York City because I didn't know myself till a few days before the actual trip. I figured since my husband would be on work travel during 4th of July weekend and I had some friends cancel out on me last minute, hey why not tag along with him.

We started our morning @ YouTube. Parked our car in the garage and took a taxi cab to the airport. Long term parking gets expensive.

San Francisco International Airport

If you haven't already flew on Virgin America, you should. However, flights are limited to only major cities. At least for now. But if you have the opportunity to, do it. They're affordable and all the seats have a view of this. You can play music, watch tvs, order movies, play video games, order food/drinks, the works.

The fog machine and the lights give it a club feel.

We arrive at our 4 star hotel (according to HotWire) and was surprised how tiny it was. Literally a shoe box. But we figured we wouldn't spend as much time here anyways.

We stayed in midtown, also known as "crowded as fuck", which is also known as Time Square. Tourist central.

Never again will I stay in midtown. Next time I'll stay in the Chelsea area known for the yuppiness of all yuppy. It's better.

We ate at this crappy English Pub-like restaurant above a main intersection in Midtown. Although the location and views were nice, the food fucking sucked. NEVER ORDER ITALIAN FOOD FROM AN ENGLISH RESTAURANT. NEVER.

Playwright Tavern is the name. It was so bad that I had to remind myself what the restaurant was called by this photo.

Best part of my meal was this flower.

I pulled out my camera to take a photo of Leo's New York hot dog. But by the time I snapped the photo, he ate most of it.

Funny story: I walked above some grates in Harlem and my mini dress blew up above my head. So anything below my chin was probably visible. I probably made someones day. Oh well. This photo was taken while we were waiting in line to see Rent on Broadway.

I could finally cross off "SEEN A BROADWAY SHOW" on my list of things to do before I die. You know, right next to "SWAM WITH A LARGE SHARK IN HAWAII."

This was in the New York Times building. A bunch of articles shuffle through these tiny marquees.

Also this phrase. Don't know why.

We took back a few slices of New York pizza to our hotel room to make up for the crapppy dinner. Gotta love these open very late kinda joints.

Entrance to Central Park.

The famous Central Park fountain.

I'm proud of this photo. I placed it on a ledge of a wall and used the timer feature. Not bad.

We rented a little row boat. T'was romantic.

Near the place where Borat washed his tighty whities.

Boat pond.

106 and Park. Not too sure why Leo took me here. I guess the whole reference to hip hop being concieved here or some shit like that. Luckily we didn't get shot.

It was basically this basketball court and a huge graffiti wall...

...and this bridge.

Funny sign.

Harlem.

Brooklyn Bridge

Happily.

Gift from the French.

Trying to pinch the lady.

Gotcha.

City skyline from the ferry.

We ordered room service to send us this delicious brownie with ice cream. This was seriously the best brownie I ever had in my life.

We ate at Little Italy at a restaurant called Cafe Sorento. It was good compared to the crap we've had.

Best part of my meal was dessert. Leo had a canoli while I had a tiramisu. They should just rename to tiramagood.

City view from the Google building.

Despite the humidity and the urine smelling streets, I like New York. A LOT. Leo and I have contemplated moving here, but for now, I'm going to say no. As a Californian, I realized how spoiled I am. Having so much space and cleaner air. It's great. Besides, if I wanted big city, San Francisco is right here.