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This is a conversation I had with Seth this morning:

My cellphone rings:

Me: Hello?

Seth (serious voice): Hi sweetie… I just wanted to let you know that my car was jacked this morning and someone has been using my credit card info.

Me (shocked): whoa what?

Seth: yeah, they called me to report the activity… totally stuff that I hadn’t bought… weird Google ad stuff… anyway, I’ll be without a card for a few days.

Me (distractedly): well, you have your credit card so you can just use that… but I mean…  wait, this is crazy… so were you IN the car when it was jacked?

Seth (laughing): no, no, no… my WaMu card number was jacked, not my CAR.

Me: Oh shit.  It’s my stupid f***ing cell phone breaking up every f***ing 3 seconds.  Well I’m glad you weren’t carjacked.

Seth: Me too… sorry that you heard me wrong.  I hope you weren’t super freaked out.

Well, as you can tell we’re less than diligent about posting info about our lives on ye olde blogge.  This may be a bit of a recap from my post a few months ago.

Boli just started a new job… bailing on his Canadian-Forever 21-equivalent job, who most recently had decided to hire a porn star as their spokesmodel, decided to do a networking site ala Facebook, and hired people to do the fun stuff that Boli was told he would do when he started… yeah.. wtf indeed.    As of 2 weeks ago, he’s taken up a new position as a graphic designer for none other than K.West’s new clothing line.   Yes. That K. West.  Seems much more promising than the last position because there’s thought, research, and time involved, not to mention a higher calibre of product being made, which means a higher calibre of work, and there’s the financial backing to see ideas come to fruition.

I have been working for a company in Bangalore, India as a sales rep here in LA.  They’re manufacturer of fabrics, who also specializes in dyeing, hand embroidery, printing, sewing, etc.  Pretty much everything.  I’ve been at this for the past 2.5 months.  Not very cool.  To give you an example of the attitude of my employers, they came out for a Textiles show last month, which was their first trip to the US, and as we eating lunch one day my boss says “So you have too many Mexicans here, right?” then later says “Wow there are a lot of mixed couples here!”  I really had no idea how to respond.  They are pushy for sales, and generally have a bad attitude in my opinion (classist, impatient, unrealistic) and the Skype calls at 8:30 at night are really not my thing.

This is a super old list I made last summer when Seth and I drove from Boulder Colorado to Ridgway where his parents live.  These are all actual town names that we saw:

*No Name

Rifle

Parachute

Silt

Gypsum

Eagle

Steamboat

Leadville

Silver Plume

*personal favourite

Wow.  Seth and I have been married 3 years as of the 18th.  Kinda crazy.  I was talking to my friend Kim the other day about how weird it is when you’ve been married so long that you are married in your dreams.

Anyway, anniversaries aside, things have been pretty busy.  I am taking my last math class before I get my A.S. degree from PCC.  Also I took a part time freelance job as the LA representative for a manufacturer in Bangalore, India.  Now I spend my time getting math tutoring, talking on Skype at odd hours, and emailing/calling people asking them to meet with me (even though I still don’t have any samples from them or have any good photos of things they’ve done).  The company has fair-trade factories and they focus on organic vegetable dyes and fabrics.  They can do fabric production (weaving, knitting), as well as dyeing and embellishments.  Pretty much anything actually.  Oh and a dollar is worth 51 rupees.  Seems like it’d be a good time for people to outsource, right?

Have fun pretending you’re Irish for a day!

Some of this you may know already…

1. The name on my original birth certificate was Christina Marie but my parents had it changed to Christina Dawn a few weeks after I was born because they were tired  of people saying “What a nice Italian name!” “What a nice Catholic name!”

2.  I first got drunk when I was 23, alone, on a bottle of peach sparkling wine

3.  I have a tattoo on my lower back.  I got it when I was 20, at the same time that my BFF Kim got her nose pierced.  And of course she let that close up after a few months, but I still have a tattoo on my lower back.  It’s in Kanjii (so 90’s) and is the characters for redemption, specifically redemption of sin.  I copied it out of an English to Kanjii dictionary.  I have also pierced the cartilage in top of my left ear, but let it close up.  I still think about getting other tattoos even though I’m not stoked on the one I have any more.

…this whole 25 things thing, seems to be a thing to keep unproductive people like me doing things. which is why i was surprised that both qualified condition and laaaaaazlo took part in it. I rarely blog anymore, this is in part because I have been “really busy” (who cares isn’t everyone) and partially cause recently i have been second guessing everything i do to the umteenth degree. That unfortunately includes writing about the life xie and I have been sharing.

So 25 things sounds good.

1. When i was in elementary school i took horse riding classes for a whole year with ambitions of learning to barrel race and take part in rodeos. i really loved horses (and still do) and i think cleaning the horse and taking care of them was my favorite part. Also my horse trainer was black and i remember thinking that was significant at the time. Horses are magical.

2.

The wildfires in Australia are absolutely tragic… the amount of devastation to people, animals and land is incredible.  I just wanted to post this story of a koala that was rescued.  Her paws were burned and she was walking with a great deal of difficulty.  David Tree, a firefighter, pulled over and approached the koala with a bottle of water- she drank a total of 3 bottles of water and reached out and held the hand of Mr. Tree.  She’s now being rehabilitated along with some 30+ other animals.  Anyway, it made me a little choked up- mostly about the fact that the koala grabbed his hand...  I realize that the human tragedy here is much more serious and appalling, but I really love reading stories like this, where people go the extra mile to help another person or sometimes even a struggling animal.  Maybe it’s the part of me that grew up perusing the Reader’s Digest subscription my mom left in the bathroom.  Here’s the original story with more photos.

How could you not pull over for her?

I thought I would post a link here to my little music/art blog on tumblr. I just posted my favorite music from 2008 there and I though some of you might wanna see it.

periphery… seth’s music/art blog

So here’s a list of my best epicurean discoveries of 2008 (booze included)- mostly stuff that’s bad for you:

-Truffle Grilled Cheese sandwich- it’s the best grilled cheese i’ve ever had in my life.  White cheddar in between 2 fluffy pieces of homemade bread with truffle oil on them.  Side salad included.  I was reluctant to embrace the York after knowing it as 2 different bars beforehand, but now I like it well enough.  Especially after this badical grilled cheese.
*Price: $8  Where to find: The York Location: Highland Park, CA

-Whiskey Ginger with homemade ginger beer- this was the best drink I’ve ever had.  It had the lovely aftertaste of ginger and allspice.  If you are ever in Portland you have to go to Clyde & Common.  Amazing food and drink.
*Where to find: Clyde & Common Location: Portland, OR

-Pimm’s Cups- introduced to me at the beautiful Rupe/Conk wedding, I think it’s one of my fave new/old drinks of last year.