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Happy Chinese New Year! Just some photos from our New Year's lunch.

WTF?!!!

Erwil: Did you hear the story about Chewie?

Me: Noooo...

Erwil: They found him at the Mobil gas station the other day.

Me (thinking): WTF?!!!

In want of a new handbag

I love handbags. The last time I bought one was in May of 2007. I think it's about time I get a new one. You see, I need a purse that I can carry on my shoulder. It's just more convenient. My newest handbags aren't shoulder bags. I have to sling them on my arm, and that gets kind of annoying. Surprisingly Elmer agreed with me and gave me a budget of $1200. Woohoo!!! So here are some pictures of the bags that I want.

Burberry check hobo. I think this one is my first choice. It's a good size (I want something medium-large) and it comes with a little zip pouch! What a deal!

Burberry check jacquard hobo. I love this one, except that it's pink. The only other color it comes in is black, which I don't want. I'd get it in an almost-heartbeat if it were beige.

Louis Vuitton montorgueil pm. I love this too, but I kinda want a handbag from a designer that I don't already have.


And then I absolutely love this Louis Vuitton watercolor speedy 35, but it is a limited edition and hard to get and verrry expensive. Plus, it's not a shoulder bag!

Elmer is serious about the $1200 budget, but there's no way I'd be willing to spend that much on a purse. Maybe half that??? I'll think about it.

Birthdays

We celebrated my brother's and mom's birthdays at The Boiling Crab in Alhambra. We got there at 4:30 p.m. to beat the dinner crowd. We had some raw oysters, sweet potato fries, cajun fries, gumbo, 2 lbs. of lemon pepper shrimp, 1 lb. of garlic butter clams, 2 lbs. of king crab legs, sausage, and tons of corn on the cob.

Brian and Elmer don't eat raw oysters, so my mom and I had these all to ourselves!

Slurping up some yummy goodness...

The aftermath

And we finished off dinner with Paradise Cake from Kings Hawaiian

*Also a special birthday shout-out to Julie!

2009

It's a new year. It's the year Elmer and I will turn 30.

I thought that this would be as good a time as any to start a blog. For some reason I feel like there are many changes to come. Maybe it's the "turning 30" thing. I've never freaked out about turning a year older before, not that I'm really freaking out. It's just a little jarring.

Hopefully I'll be able to keep up this blog. So let the blogging begin!