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Thursday, June 21, 2007

just for laura (aka pictures of my condo)

soo.... i bought this condo in january but it took a while to unpack the boxes (the ones in the house - there are still some in the garage to sort through!) and start decorating.  so although it’s already june, i would like to introduce you to my new place =)

walking up to the condo (the garage is detached and is in the far left of the picture, and my car is parked right in front of the garage)

walking in the first thing you see is the staircase going upstairs, slightly to the left.  at the top of the stairs is where the brand new maytag washer and dryer are hidden behind those doors, but let’s not go upstairs yet.

to the right of the entrance would be jill’s bedroom and bathroom.  i didn’t take pics of jill’s bedroom but here’s a pic of her bathroom from her shower area.  she is so martha stewart she made that orchid decoration and got all matching bathroom stuff.

continuing in past the stairs and into the living room i put up a hammock i got in ensenada, my chinese lanterns (the one with dark leaves from chinatown, the one with the white leaves from china) and my star lanterns from granada, spain.

but if you continue in you come to the living room with its faux fireplace.  not true, it’s a gas fireplace, but you can’t burn real wood in there.  not like i ‘wood’ with the white carpet… the decorations hanging over the sliding glass door are left over from the sweet 16 party we threw for jill’s sister (about 2 months ago!) and rita left her signature red on the back patio - we had breakfast out there one sunday in february and she said, “we should paint this red!” and so we painted it red that day on a whim!

the other half of that room would be the dining area - or my computer workstation, most of the time =) there are usually more papers out there but school is out so no more paperwork for me!  oh, and auntie zenie gave me that table from her old house as my housewarming present.  there’s a shadowbox in the middle of the table (currently housing orange scented potpourri) and it’s pretty nifty

from the other end of the room, you can see the barstools (gift from kuya garry), and the kitchen.  it came with a brand new maytag dishwasher, refrigerator, and stove.

ok, then… going upstairs, you come up to a small hallway in between the two bedrooms.  the view is facing what was rita’s bedroom

no pics of rita’s bedroom, but this is what it looks like after she vacated it

and her 1/2 bath, as viewed from her bedroom

that door in the background?  that leads to my bathroom.  since that bathroom is only a 1/2 bath, she would share the tub in my bathroom.  so basically there are 1.5 bathrooms jack-and-jill’ed between the two rooms upstairs.  so here’s my view of the bathroom from my room.  i have blue and brown towels and matching rug, and i thought it was sooo cool i was matching before i saw jill’s bathroom.  but hey, it’s mine and it’s clean =)

and last but not least, my bedroom.  if you can tell, the lady before me had a ton of mirrors all over the place - at the headboard, lining the wall where i’m standing, etc.  oh, and i’m standing in the walk-in closet.  WALK-IN CLOSET!!!  that still makes me happy =)

and the last pic is of the curtains i sewed to put a little bit more color into my room and also to hide the computer nook in the side of the room.  the bookcase and the computer desk are behind this curtain but i don’t like staring at it every day and so i made this curtain =)

i still have lots to do (especially in my room, as the small tv is sitting on the box, i have a tv tray for a bedside table, and i have no lamps in there), but that’s what this summer is for!  and it’s all mine! =)

i hope you enjoyed the tour!

Posted by kgrp on 06/21 at 03:21 PM
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grove graduation 2007

just a few pictures from last week’s graduation… yeah i know this post is late… but here are some pics from the last real event at that school

max (who’s going away to boot camp next week) and matt

jade and johnie

keigm, darryl, and trenton

dr. ian dinmore, bree, and mike playing ‘pomp and circumstance’

after the ceremony
celeste, traci, madison, and megan with jemma joining the bmc with her brand new red headband =)

kim with her son joey

mallory, lorraine, and shelby - visiting from last year’s grad class

i don’t know these students cuz they’re from before my time at grove but they’re math and engineering majors coming back to visit mike

sarah and vanessa

christy and chris

with celeste

grant and ellie

Posted by kgrp on 06/21 at 01:15 PM
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

breaking and entering

so on friday i locked myself outta the house. 

jill was already in laguna and wasn’t coming home till monday morning.

i was stuck outside my house, out of my car, with all my luggage already packed into the car, and with shelia waiting in grand terrace for me.

i quickly called up gary, my locksmith, but was going to have to wait an hour or two for him to show up, and so i called another friend to see if we could eat dinner at maria’s while waiting for gary to show up.  thankfully, we were just able to break and enter into my place, and i was able to find my keys and everything was right with the world.  i sooo desperately wished that gary had taught me a thing or two about picking locks....

and then on saturday, while hanging out at my brother’s apartment after taylor’s party, i got my wish!

his neighbor had a whole “learn to pick locks” set that he brought over to my brother’s place and amidst dark chocolates and cheese and crackers, my brother, ate donna, and i all learned how to pick a lock with 1-5 pins in it.  here’s josh showing us the design behind a one-pin lock.

and then i tried to pick open my brother’s front door.  and i tried in vain!  i couldn’t do it.

but… i’m hoping that if i ever lock myself out of my house again, then i potentially have the skill (and the bobby pins in my hair!) to be able to do it.

actually, i’m just hoping that i never lock myself out of my house again =)

Posted by kgrp on 06/20 at 12:33 AM
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

my brother's cat cody

looking all pear shaped and fuzzy

and reminding me of snoopy looking like a vulture

what a cutie

Posted by kgrp on 05/30 at 07:15 AM
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

super macro rocks!

i was just playing with the super macro in the small garden in front of my mom’s place… some of these pics you can enlarge by clicking on them

and then i found this ant crawling all over the flower…

Posted by kgrp on 05/29 at 03:37 PM
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Sunday, May 27, 2007

and i'm posting pics again!!!

i was headed out to rita’s on thursday night for the long 4-day weekend (that’s right, i scheduled all my parent teacher conferences on thursday to add an extra day to my memorial day weekend!) and then i realized my camera was gonna be delivered on friday sometime, so i decided to wait at home for it to be delivered so i could use it for the whole weekend.

and so i’m gonna share alot of the pics that we took =) i’ve had a 5 month drought and i’m so excited we took 169 pics already just learning how to use it =)

indoor lighting at the blue beet

kerry, rita, and me

kerry takes more pictures than i do!  but she also is starting her new photo business, so i guess she has a valid reason to

the view from upstairs at the blue beet

playing with the super-macro and taking pics of the carpet from an inch away

marlene, shailu, and me on rita’s stairs

we walked around, went grocery shopping and carried it home

marlene eating at our “picnic” on the floor in rita’s living room

shailu and rita

marlene and rita enjoying the bonfire we ‘inherited’ from some random youth group

and the view from the other side of the fire

i do like my new camera, i love all the settings and options, and i can’t believe i got it for only $99!  yay!!!

i should be posting more regularly again =)

Posted by kgrp on 05/27 at 12:05 AM
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Monday, May 21, 2007

jill is graduating with her MFT

and we celebrated in style by going to grad nite 07!

actually, i had to chaperone my seniors and i dragged jill (see her brand new blog here) with me so that i could run around disneyland with someone… we got there on thursday night (may 17) and stayed till friday morning 6am, so we got to run around the park for 6 hours free, since we were chaperones!

we mostly ran around acting like we were seniors though =)

taking goofy pictures

actually, goofy is in this pic =)

hahaha… aren’t these stuffed animals so cute?  pluto’s the funniest, just one big orange circle… i love it!

i didn’t want to brave the 2hr line to get on space mountain, but i rode star tours, drove through autopia, visited the haunted mansion, rode the pirates of the caribbean, survived the teacups (and alice in wonderland) did the big thunder mountain railroad twice, and of course, rode the matterhorn.  we had free breakfast in the chaperone lounge, and it was just an all ‘round fun experience....

yay for grad nite!  and yay for being chaperones! 

Posted by kgrp on 05/21 at 10:38 PM
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