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I want a guy like this. If I could dim the lights in the mall And create a mood I would Shout out your name so it echoes in every room I would That's what I'd do, That's what I'd do to get through to you I want someone who is so excited by the idea of being with me that he'd do anything, think up crazy scenarios, try whatever it would take, when really all he'd have to do is ask . . .

I wanted to post something as I have been delinquent for the past 10 days, but all the words in my head refused to submit to any sort of logical order so instead you get to enjoy this comic that cracked me up. :)

As promised here's a little birthday related photo action getting my paint on at Color Me Mine yay pottery! (it's much darker now that it's been fired) birthday lunch at Red Robin (what? that's how I always dress) Sean & Mike reminiscing about when they used to be mannequins Dad & I fitting in with the mini golf scenery

I think this is my new favorite video. Don't judge me for laughing. :)

I met Kathy, my Bible Study leader, last night for coffee. I told her what had been going on in my life and how I was sad that my parents had left & that I was having a harder time with it than I expected. I told her that I really want to be a wife & a mom and that's been on my mind a lot lately. She had some very wise things to say. And as I drove away from Starbucks I took a few deep & cleansing breaths and it was as if my lungs were getting oxygen for the first time ever. I can't quite explain it and I don't know why it happened, it's not as though I felt particularly breathless before last night, but as I drove down Foothill Blvd in Sunland on a bit of a trek back toward my home one of the main thoughts in my head was, I can breathe again. Strangely amazing.

Monday we had torrential downpour which was lovely until I tried to drive home from work through streets that had morphed into streams. The last two days have been quite delightful though. As most of you know, the parentals are in town which has been fun. Today we went to the Farmer's Market in Santa Monica. We picked up all kinds of lovely produce- so many strawberries! And my parents bought me some flowers- freesia, which if you know me well you know is one of my favorite scents & the flowers are quite pretty. I got red & white ones so they match our decor and I arranged them in the milk pitcher I painted (with the intention of using it as a vase) at Color Me Mine. Someday I will have a digital camera and will actually post pictures of these things. But most of the joy is in the scent anyway, which sadly I cannot capture for you here with any technology that currently exists. If I had enough money I would make sure there were bouquets of freesia in every room of ...

Nicole brought to my attention today an article on MSN called "A Guy's Guide to Proposing." What you will see now is the abbreviated and editorialized version of the article. (My comments in parentheses.) What fun! For some, a public display of affection is the ultimate intimate gesture. (Umm okay sure or uhh no, isn't public and intimate almost opposite of each other?) Most movie theaters will let you buy a slide that plays onscreen before the feature. You can design your own and watch as the entire theater strains to see the lucky proposee's astonished expression. (Yes which is great except if you're dating me, I'll be looking around too to see what rube decided that buying AD SPACE in front of a movie was the best way to propose. Nevermind the fact that I'm almost always the only Azina in the room.) Have your proposal painted on a billboard en route to her office. Park beneath it or await their arrival at work, armed with champagne ready for toa...

Wow, I can hardly even begin to explain how much fun I had this weekend. Thanks to all of you who helped me celebrate whether near or far away. I felt so much love this weekend & that fills my heart. Sunday at Red Robin was so delightful. 13 people were there. Nicole bought me a tiara and a pink & white feather boa. I felt kinda silly but it was also fun. I'll have to post pictures after I finish this roll of film. Yes yes, again I continue to find myself technologically stagnant. But lack of sufficient funds necessitates remaining in the 20th century. Monday night was of course karaoke. A good group of people showed up. I was this close to singing (imagine me holding my fingers quite close together), but I kinda chickened out. Maybe next week . . . Sean & Benn sang Piano Man, it was amazing. And of course there was Nate's rousing rendition of Livin' La Vida Loca. Good times. Sad that the weekend had to end, but I get to look forward to my parents b...

Delicious chocolate chip cookies from my sister! Girls' day out with Nicole, Jodi & Rachel! I had so much fun going shopping, to Color Me Mine ( watch this video ), to Panera, and to Barnes & Noble. Mmm. :) Coming home to find fun birthday greetings, including this one from my friend Nate who had left this comment this morning, "Happy Azinamas Eve! Have fun shopping." aww, how nice :) I also had this message from Yahoo, which is my homepage, "Happy Birthday, Azina! " It's silly I know, but I liked it & the little cake is a nice touch. It has been a marvelous weekend so far & tomorrow is Red Robin! Hazaa!

I'm not a particularly superstitious person, so when I woke up yesterday morning and saw that it was Monday the 13th (which should seem more ominous than a good ole Friday) I quickly dismissed the thought that something strange or bad would happen. I'm not blaming it on the day, but such a thing did happen last night. I received a call from a friend and he told me he'd been in a pretty bad accident earlier in the day and he felt fine but his mom really wanted him to go to the hospital and get checked out so he wanted to know if I would take him. Of course in complete disregard to our "no hospital" policy I said yes. Thankfully aside from some soreness and pain he is fine. Still when I got home and thought about posting the Valentine's stats as I had intended to do, I thought how could I post something so ridiculous when something so serious had just happened? But this is the kind of friend that heartily embraces such things as made up statistics and he w...

If you're stuck for ideas for Valentine's day, check this out. I completely love the idea. :) I talked to Ravi yesterday, tickets for the Red Sox vs. Angels coming up in Anaheim in 6 months and 16 days should be on sale soon. Woo! And from what he tells me I should be able to afford some rockin' good seats for us. Ravi-o visiting + baseball + Red Sox = more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Literally. There have been tests done proving such. My parents booked their flight today! They're coming out the first week of March & I'm taking time off to hang out with them. I can't wait! :)

GREAT game today, go Steelers! Woo! I also found out tonight that my parents are planning on coming out here for my birthday! I'm very excited about that. :)

Welcome to my favorite month of the year. :) Well it's really tied with December for #1, which I realize is silly, making 2 months stand at the top of the gold medal platform together, but it's just too close to call. There's all the Christmas goodness December has to offer. And then there are all these wonderful thing in February: ~ Groundhog Day, good times full of complete hooey but amusing just the same ;) ~ Valentine's Day, which isn't really a favorite holiday of mine for various reasons including the one wherein it just seems a day on which to relegate romance & to give chicks an excuse to freak out if their guy forgets or doesn't live up to all the crazy things in their heads that they never even mentioned to the guy, but this year it is a Tuesday which is full of goodness and it will bring the return of my bogus Valentine's Statistics. I know I failed you on this one last year, but I will make up for it this year. ~ it's unique in it...

So hard to describe yesterday, I was torn between the title I picked (props if you can name the band without cheating) and Manic Monday (name the band = props again, still no cheating). Overall it was a good day, thus the title I went with. First of all, I got a comment from Joe (the brother-in-law) so I feel very special about that since he either rarely enters the blogverse or he is a lurker extraordinaire. I'm very amused about awnkeum and shall and it to my vernacular, you know in case I ever have the need to talk about the noise a duck makes right before flying into a wind farm. Which uhh, what is a wind farm? Onto other events of the day, we have a friend staying with us right now and she had gone down to the garage to get something out of Nicole's car but when she tried to get back into the building the key broke off in the door. Thankfully it broke in the unlock position. I was asleep at the time, but later in the day when I found out I offered to get new keys made whi...

Tonight I went to the women's Bible study at my church for the first time. I loved it! I already can't wait for next Wednesday. This is very exciting for me! Our table leader is wonderful. I have friends my age there. A girl I went to college with in Iowa was there. And an amazing woman leads the whole thing. I'm so stoked about this I can hardly contain myself! :) I called my mom on the way home from it tonight because I just had to tell someone how great it was. She was very happy for me. It's great to be at the place where I can talk to my mom as a fellow adult. That's one of the very cool things about growing up. :) So very strange dream last night, there were all these people who had superpowers and I was part of some government agency and we were trying to discern who were the heroes of the group and who were the villains. I started dating a guy named Adam who it turned out had these powers and I was fairly certain he was good, but then he was s...

Sorry for the lack of updating, between being sick & a million things going on in life & in my head it's been a bit crazy over here. The subject of dating has been in the air quite a bit lately, as it tends to be among the single twentysomethings crowd, so I've decided to start what we'll call a supplemental blog to post about and discuss that topic. It should be filled with all the humor & wonder you've come to love here, the topics will just be slightly less random. If it's not a subject that interests you, feel free to stick to the good ole blog here. You won't hurt my feelings. Really. Have a wonderful week! I promise to grace you more frequently with my presence in the near days. :)

Tonight was remarkably fun. I went to a rockin' bbq for my friend Jon Mark's birthday. And I got to ride in my friend Nate's Porsche on the way to the party! It was very cool. I think every weekend should be a 3 day weekend. Such good times. :) as I recall it ended much too soon

God whispers in our pleasure and shouts in our pain. God whispers in our pleasure and shouts in our pain. God whispers in our pleasure and shouts in our pain. Church was amazing yesterday. I was mad at a friend and angry/frustrated with God. And we sang one of my favorite songs & a song I definitely needed to hear- words below. And then the sermon was great. And through it all I just heard God saying, hey I'm here & I haven't forgotten about you & I love you so much. And oh how I felt it. And then the cafe last night was great, I laughed a lot. Break through, break through all my doubt Break through, break though all my fear Break though that I may worship you Break through, break through all my pain Break though all my guilt & my shame Break though like only you can do You are brighter than my darkest night Stronger than my toughest fight Just one touch from you my king my friend And I'll never be the same again God is amazing. :)

I am still waiting for the day when I am surprised by life in an intensely good way. Okay, well that's not completely true, I have had many wonderful blessings that have taken me completely off guard, but there is one that I am still waiting for. And every time I hope that this time might be different . . . well it's just not. Anyway onto a completely different subject that's happy & not annoying, I just found out tonight that there is a canal in Venice, CA! I have been to Venice a hundred times, how did I not know this?!? Go here to see how cute. It's not as beautiful as the real Venice of course, but it's still pretty cool to know that such a thing exists in my city. Sometimes LA is fun because there are still things to discover about it after 2 years.

I meant to write about my airport adventures last week as I was returning to LA from the holidays, but I apparently forgot to. Two of the things I like the least in this world are flying and talking to people I don't know. They're right up there after needles and spiders. {cringes} So when my plans necessitate hopping aboard an airplane the last thing you'll see me doing is striking up conversation with the person seated next to me. Just doesn't happen. And generally the other people keep to themselves as well. Not so this time around. Four people talked to me. Four! That's completely unheard of in my world. And that's okay, they were all very nice, but it definitely shoved me out of the realm of comfortable silence. The odd thing is I wonder how all those people are doing now. Did the one lady enjoy her trip to Las Vegas where she was meeting up with her sisters? Did the couple from Oklahoma enjoy their time in northern LA county? Has the girl bound for a missi...