5 posts tagged “family”

Hello Vox blog! Figured you and the friends you've managed to collect over the past year deserve a holiday greeting of some sort or another. Sadly, the annual holiday card did not get made this year ... so in its place I share with you this absurdly cute ornament my siblings and I found in the tree decoration box!

Horray! Cute for Christmas!  Anyway, hope you all are safe and happy and enjoying a rest before the new year comes around.  Anyone get any sweet gifts?  My brother gave me a toaster oven to make cheese toast with and my parents gave me a bottle of vintage bub. +2 for me!

I have made it to the east and it is wet.  It has been pouring all day long as the entire student body moves on to campus.  Only after I have moved everything into the kitchen, picked up my keys, had an official 'back to campus' party evening, and recieved three backed up issues of Wired from my school mailbox do I have time to post. The desk is set, the speakers at moderate blast, my keychain is full but my room is empty, and this is only the beginning.  There is much left to do.

Leaving  home was a bit more difficult than I had imagined.  Everyone from work gave me a tremendously warm goodbye, and I still wish that I didn't have to clear my desk and run so quickly back home on the 5:30 train that evening.  Immediatly after, I drove to have my last family dinner at a favorite Chinese restaurant Chef Chu's.   Both of my siblings then left the house for the evening before I left; my brother was in socal for his freshman year orientation and my sister was at her first highschool's dance.  Packing to leave a vacant house is somewhat unsettling, so I took the opportunity that evening to get a few snapshots of the dying hours of sunlight that hung over my backyard all summer. 

Its always hard to follow up an incredible summer with a window view of soggy lawns and dripping street lamps.  I'm not entirely in my element yet, but I know I will have to get on the boat and start racing before I can  get my senses together.  I've only been here two days and I already have four meetings set up for thursday and friday.  It's going to be a long semester but its going to go quick.

Regardless of the fact that I live only 40 minutes driving distance from San Francisco and that it is one of the best cities in the world, my entire family only makes it up to the city at most once or twice a year.  Sad, yes, but true. 

This Friday after I get off of work my family is making a bold move to drive up to the city and have dinner with me.  Unfortunately, given the limitations of my time in the city, I have yet to become any wiser about the 'hot spots' in San Francisco, particularly, good places to eat.

Calling out to my San Francisco friends!  What is the best restaurant that you'd take your family to?  My mother prefers Italian, but any recommendations are welcome.  If I don't get any recommendations my  father will probably make us go to the Cheescake factory (*rolls eyes*).  So please, I'd love your suggestions!

Thank you in advance!

I woke up this morning to find an average-sized buck outside of my window.  He was just meandering around and was relatively close to my window, so I snapped a photo of him before he jumped away.  He showed up four separate times later on in the afternoon.  Chico and I decided that its name was Bort the Buck, and it may be a peeping-tom Deer-bot out to spy on me.  Tricky stuff.

Today was all around family fun.  It's nice to have a family that has matured quite a bit over the years (as have I, naturally).  We all get along a lot better, and whenever we have the free time to share meals or do things

together we have a lot of fun.  Today was the first time I had a full-fledged family meal.  My brother has constantly been out working on his senior film, so we all headed over to a tiny cafe and had lunch, followed by many photos (my dad is quite the shutterbug too).  I went lap swimming for the first time in ages with my Dad, and had pizza on the patio with my grandparents.  Finally, Harrison and Stephanie and I all went to Safeway and picked up ye good ol' Funfetti cake mix and frosting.  Funfetti is the best insta-cake ever, hands down.

I also managed to get out Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris and start to read it again.  Sedaris visited us at my college and was as wonderfully entertaining as a speaker as he is a writer.  He is going to release a twisted children's book later this year I believe, and it sounds like its going to be fantastic. 

After I put it down for the afternoon, I got really excited as I thought 'Hey!  Now I can put a book on my blog!  This is great!'.  Et voila, it is here.  I began to think of more fun books that I should read, and found some literature at my local library on Japanese Pop Culture that I'm going to dive into, plus a few more novels by the incredible Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. 

I started to think, maybe VOX will not only offer the interface that engages users to excitedly write and share, but with the additional media features, it could also engage users to listen to more music and read more books (something, that i'm almost sure most blog or cmc sites don't even begin to consider to attempt).  Its effect has tightly grasped hold of me, that's for certain.

Time for cake and a massive review of video game trailers (aka wii and ps3 sneak peeks with the lil sis and bro)! Cheers!