the first was i heard from one of the friends i talked about a couple of weeks ago! my hula buddy. she found me via facebook and wrote me a long letter asking for the scoops! wow. that made me so happy.

the second was that i heard from my boy’s father. i was totally not expecting that! nothing major, just how are you, how is everything going. but i hadn’t heard from him in a year, and figured now that the boy’s older, he’s not as interested, so i didn’t think i would hear from him again. but lo and behold, he emailed this weekend. i was shocked.

the third was that this weekend i heard that … not one, not two, but THREE of my family members are currently expecting. i admit, i’m a little jealous about that one. i know, i should be happy with my boy–and i totally am. it’s that sometimes, i wish i could have one more, a little girl. or even another boy, but … just one more. i miss having a baby. well i guess there’ll be a lot around by the end of the year. still…

so, three surprises, and all really good news. well. maybe the 2nd one is not *good* news…just shocking. but what is actually the best news this weekend?

this gosh darn month of blogging is finally over. i did bad this month. missed 3 days! and near misses some other days. i did keep up my photoblog for project 365 though, every day–i guess because i always do that one while waiting for the bus to come, and i’m just too tired when i finally get home to compose on this one. but can i keep it up for the next 334 days? we’ll see!

and not sure if i’ll do february. the theme is ties, but … hmmm. that’s hard. i need more direction. but i know i have to twitter the month of february for aha again, so i don’t know…seems like i could just add the blog on at the same time, especially since i have to keep up project 365. we’ll see.

hee, making plans when i couldn’t even do this month! i’m such a dreamer.

since my parents divorced, however, i had never been back to that restaurant. in fact, i was surprised to find out that our favorite restaurant had closed down! nothing will replace the memories from that restaurant, but i wonder if there’s one that replace the food memories i have from there.

both my parents have different favorite restaurants now (and funnily enough, the cuisines are each others’ ethnicities). we went to my dad’s favorite today for his birthday. i have to say, i wasn’t very impressed. i mean, the entertainment was neat, but i wasn’t impressed with the food or the portion, for the price. i guess a lot of the price is for the “entertainment”, but really, that’s not what i think i would go to a restaurant for. maybe i ordered the wrong thing, but i wasn’t very impressed.

we went to my mom’s favorite last month, when we all decided to take our grandma out for her birthday. now this one, i like. the food was pretty good, the price seemed okay, and the free garlic bread balls were so yummy. mmm!

my son likes this other place that serves breakfast 24/7, which he loves. he’s chosen to go to this place for his past 3 or 4 birthdays. i like it because it’s affordable, and on tuesdays, he eats free! that’s always nice.

for my birthday, we went to a steakhouse nearby but i wasn’t very impressed with it, and it was expensive for what was served. so the next year, we went to a cheaper steakhouse–or at least i thought it was cheaper. it was just as expensive! but we did get way more food than at the first one. i love my steak, but sometimes the best steak is the $6 plate you get at a local supermarket here. and the price can’t be beat for that one!

so what would i choose for my favorite, or at least, *my* best? hmmm. i’ve only been to a handful, and there are tons out there. but of the ones i know, i guess i’d choose the one my mom likes. at least until i find another real good steakhouse.

so what is this the best of? i don’t know. i just want to disappear under the covers, in my dark room of solitude. best reason the world has to celebrate, i guess.

(notice I do this on the phone so my laptop doesn’t get jealous  while i love laptop to bits and admit it IS better in terms of what it can do, it’s just not as portable as my phone is. so that gives my phone an edge. sorry, lappybaby.) 

it’d be a no-brainer who would be #1 on my list. i mean, i thought i knew what love felt like–twice–but he completely blew the other two away in the way he cared. though i honestly still think it was a contest, i have to admit, that aligned with the others, there’s just no competition. but i don’t want to talk about him.

i think i’ll stick to the best date. well. that would take too long. hmmm. maybe the best first date. sigh. it’s just that, to understand that date, i’d have to go into the whole relationship, and i don’t want to do that right now. okay, the best gift i ever got. er. well, that would be obvious. hmmm. best pickup line? best courtship? best proposal? best…whatever? i can’t think. or really, i don’t want to think.

alright. one thing popped into my head, that ’til this day, i think was so sweet, even though things didn’t end so well. but it’s a happy memory. it was nearing the end of the semester. we were both swamped with schoolwork–finals, papers, projects, presentations. he was serious about school, as was i, and knew he wouldn’t be seeing me because of all we had going on, and i was too “distracting.” so we promised ourselves to just concentrate on ending the school year, and then we’d be free to just hang out again afterwards. we had been in contact with each other daily since the day we met, and now we were going to spend a week not contacting each other at all. easy, right?

on the second day of our self-imposed isolation, i decided to take a break from schoolwork and went to the computer lab to play muds, my favorite escape. i logged on to the one he and i would play on, and saw i had a pm from him, with the subject “i just called…”. i remember thinking, what? when did he call? and i opened up the pm, and it said “…to say i love you. i just called to say how much i care. *kiss*” and that was it. i swear, i melted on the spot. i mean, even though he was so busy with all he had to do, he still made the time to leave me a little note in the one place i’d least expect it, just to show that he was thinking about me, even though we weren’t supposed to be together. *sigh* yeah, sappy, i know. but it put a smile on my face that was inerasable for the rest of the week. that was the best little pm i got, ever.

so well it’s not the *best* reason but it’s the truth! 