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Good ol ' MSN never fails to disappoint. I found an article in the Faith-Based subsection of their Dating articles section entitled "8 great first dates." (I figured it would be a treasure trove of amusement.) My comments in italics. Here are the suggested dates: 1. Putt-putt your way to love. “A miniature golf course is fun and you can talk,” says Jon Caroulis of Philadelphia, PA. “But make sure you have a backup plan in case it rains or if it’s too hot or too chilly.” Tip: If you’re a scratch golfer, give up a stroke or two in the interest of building a good relationship. Mini golf is definitely a good idea. It's fun; it's outdoorsy. It gives you a good idea what kind of sport the other person is -- it's a good sign if they aren't great at it but can still have fun & be goofy, or if they're great at it but don't take it too seriously. FYI Keith, I read this article after suggesting that we go mini golfing. 2. Serve others. “I’m pr...

oh . . . and you know, love too. ;) Are you ready for it? I now bring to you the 2007 edition of Aziner's Bogus Valentine's Statistics, sponsored by humor and presented without bitterness interruption. 99% of girls tell their closest friends everything only 30% of guys ever use this to their advantage (a girl's closest chicas know everything you need to know & are generally willing to help you b/c it's most important to them that you make their friend happy) 78% of girls who date jerks do so because it's much less disappointing to be hurt by them than the "good" guys 64% of guys really do mean well, they just don't understand women 36% are just genuine dillholes 42% of women would marry for wealth over love 81% of single women buy Valentine's chocolates for themselves, 92% of which is purchased the day after Valentine's in order to enjoy the clearance prices - no sense in being single AND poor 54% of single guys never even realize it...

Some say it's unnatural. Some say it defies gravity. Some just laugh and shrug their shoulders. Behold Jadyn's mohawk, aka "rockstar hair." Her hair does this of its own volition, my sister & brother-in-law do nothing to encourage it. I find it highly amusing. I hope Jadyn does too when she gets older and looks back at pictures of her 2-year-old self. :)

1. go to 30 Seconds to Mars concert check. 2. touch Jared Leto check. haha 3. have an amazing 4 day weekend check. 4. decorate for Christmas well this didn't happen yet, but that just means there's something wonderful to look forward to this week. I had a wonderful Thanksgiving day/weekend. I hope all of you did too! :)

Hooray for 100 degree temperatures and spending half the day in my non-air conditioned car. :P I was at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf this morning, waiting for my boss and enjoying a nice ice blended pomegranate blueberry tea latte. A few feet away from me there was a girl, just standing in Coffee Bean curling her hair! I thought, now I've seen it all. Okay so occasionally there are circumstances in which you find the need to primp once you've left home & do not have the option of returning home. I get that. But wouldn't you opt for the restroom for all your hair curling requirements? So bizarre. The funniest part of my day: someone found my blog by Googling "signs your guy is about to propose." They were directed to this post. hahahahahahahahaha :) An answer to the comments: Steve, I believe it is the camel which personifies heat, though not as adorably as the penguin personifies cold. Jennifer, thanks for commiserating. Joe, your comment was highly am...

To space heater with love, who knew you would find such use in June when it's been in the 90s outside? You bring me ample warmth in an office that has otherwise been penguinable. Don't get me wrong, I adore the creatures, but I wasn't made to survive in Antarctic conditions and seeing as there are no penguins in my office there's little sense in freezing. Raj & I wrote a penguin dictionary: Me: penguinable adj. 1. an environment suitably frigid for sustaining penguins: My office is seriously penguinable. Raj: penguinarium: The zookeeper had to fish dead penguins out of the pond in the penguinarium. Me: expenguination - the action of removing penguins from a habitat Raj: penguinautics: the study of launching or hurling of penguins. As found in the acronym for PASA (Penguinautics and Space Administration), the country's leading facility for low orbit penguin launches. And now it's time to go listen to some more Stadium Arcadium enjoyment and do laundry. Yay...

Yes, that's right. I said pink sleeping bag. Bubble gum, completely girly, non-camping enthusiast pink. :) Next weekend I'm going on a weekend missions trip to Mexico with my church. I was told yesterday that we would need to bring a sleeping bag to you know sleep in. This presented a problem for me as I did not own one. Not being much of a person to sleep outside or on the ground for any sort of random reason, I had never had the need or desire to own one. So last night I went to Target to buy supplies for the trip. I ventured upstairs toward the camping supplies. (Silly 2-story Target) As I turned down the aisle I was met with 2 glorious things, a pink sleeping bag and a price of 9.99. (It also happened to be the right temperature & size.) I considered whether or not to purchase such a ridiculous thing, but I thought to myself, if I have to buy a sleeping bag I'm going to buy the silliest, girliest, non-camperiest one I can find. And so I did. Last nigh...

So I was sitting in the little food court area of Target today having a late lunch (yes Target, only due to a great lack of parking at Sharky's and the stupid rain) when I overheard a 6-year-old boy question his grandmother about her knowledge of jujitsu. The grandmother had clearly never even heard the word. The little boy started into his explanation, pleased to have something to talk about & I think a little pleased that he could teach his grandma something. I had gone to Target to buy a few things for Easter - grass, plastic eggs, candy, extra forks as we are going to have about 4 more people here for dinner than for whom we had forks. Nothing too spectacular, nothing too expensive. I also purchased normal Target stuff that I needed. My total came to $83. As I paid the cashier said, "$83 just for Easter?" Just? JUST? It was clear from the way she had been talking to me and to the customers ahead of me that she does celebrate Easter & not in the bunny...

Is it just me or is it wrong for animated vegetables to be peddling vegetable seeds? Seems kinda like we're promoting vegicide. Anyone else disturbed by this?

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. :)

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

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...

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! :)

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...

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...

This is my patented "are you kidding me with this?" look. It has served me quite well over the years. Given the combination of what appears to be just woke up from a nap hair, with the obvious fakeness of that Santa, and how terribly my outfit clashes with the jolly red suit I don't really blame my 2-year-old self for employing said look. :) I hope you all have a delightful Christmas! God bless!

Please note that "no lettuce" is not as remarkably similar to "as much lettuce as can possibly be piled upon my sandwich" as some of your fine workers might think. I just thought I would let you know that. Thank you for the nice toasty sandwiches you make. Sincerely, Azina

My friend Blair asked me yesterday if I had ever looked up "Azina looks like" on Google. Usually if you do things like that you will find something amusing, with my name there are no results. So I decided to use a few of my friends' names instead. If you don't find yourself here it's probably just because I didn't find a funny one for your name. (Sorry Jodi & Pieter & other fine friends.) These are only intended for your amusement. Amber looks like she missed a fine career in Cirque du Soleil. Nicole looks like such a primary school librarian. Shauna looks like a geeky wizard. Jon (Mark) looks like Grover. Blair looks like a monkey. But not an ugly monkey. More like one of those funny weird-lookin monkeys who jumps on branches and eats leaves and goes "ook" a lot. Shannon looks like he had fun playing in the jumpy inflated castle thing. Galen Looks like a harmless Hippie. Sherry looks like she is in a nice sundress and headed for a party of s...

This marks post 285. If I am diligent enough I think I can hit 300 by year's end. 16 posts in 18 days (including this one), it can be done! I don't know why but every time the 14th of the month comes around I feel like there's something I'm supposed to remember. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because 4 months out of the year there significance to the 14th- Valentine's Day, Flag Day, the Un-Valentine's Day (which is not a day for spreading hate for those of you who weren't with us when I declared it a holiday in August), and Joe's birthday. Speaking of Valentine's day, Nicole & I decided that we needed to write a dating book since we decided that in addition to our stellar party planning skills we also have great ideas for dates. Sadly when we talked to a couple of guys at church on Sunday night they were completely resistant to some of our brilliant ideas. Regardless I will post them here because I still like them. Now I just gotta find a g...