July 8, 2005

• I'm back from Lodi and it was a nice weekend off to be with friends. The difference between HS friends and college friends is that HS friends know the "old" you.  The type of girl that just likes to sit around and talk about silly stuff with friends....of course I talk silly stuff w/ my college friends..but the silliness is different.  With my HS friends I'm a lot calmer...more mellow. I can sit and talk about the most boring stuff in the world and we'd all get each other...probably b/c we're really big nerds to begin with (hahaha).

  
  

  Hien's place is cute. All we did was eat!! Cuz Steve overestimated on grubbage. So we spent the next few days eating leftovers.  Of course I had to beg Hien for me to cook dinner. I made my salmon specialty.  Lodi is a really nice place. It's the up-and-coming wine country. It's always been one of the biggest grape producers but no wineries around. Finally there's a few good ones in the area. They're really known for the Zins (zinfindels) yup, i spelled it wrong. But I bought 2 Port (great with desserts), 2 white wines (did you know they're only good for up to 2 years?) and 1 red wine from Jewel winery. Lodi is also one of the few places where wine tasting is still free! So I really I wanted to at least experience the big deal with wine tasting.

  
  

  I only wanted to go to 1 winery since I knew I'd be buzzing afterwards. They only pour a little bit in your glass, but (depending on the winery) have a lot of wines to go through. We started with the white wines (they had about 6) then we went with the reds (they had 9). They ran out of Pinot Grigio b/c of Sideways. Too bad, I really like Pinot, but the Port made up for it. I can't wait to open it on a special dessert night with friends.

  
  

  So Hien will be moving to MI for vet school. Steve will stay at their house for awhile and then move to MI with her. But they won't be selling their house cuz they plan to come back to Cali. Differences between Northern Cali peeps and Southern Cali peeps....Northern Cali peeps are very hands on (well, maybe it was b/c of their friends). But they know how to fix up the roof of their house...most southern cali peeps would hire someones to do it instead! Oh yeah for 4th of July we hung out with Thomas Kinkade's PR man...he was hella cool and those N's really do exist in his paintings.

  
  

  Anyway...work calls...

  
  

   

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