At about 11:30 this morning, Matt and I woke up with a startling revelation. Today, for the first time in seemingly for-e-ver, we had nothing to do. No family lunches. No evening soirees. Not a single errand to check off the list. Standing face to face with the foreignness of freedom, I was suddenly paralized [...]

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Now that we got that disclaimer out of the way, look! A guy proposes with a pop-up book! Love it.

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Perhaps some of you remember when I wrote about my pathetic lack of knowledge about my culture.
Well, I am slowly uncovering my history. Read this to learn more about my motherland: Chinese ‘peasant’ dialect redeemed: Writer takes pride in earthy Toisanese

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As it is now only four days before Christmas, I figure I should write some sort of holiday post. (It’s obligatory, right? A cookie receipe, a photo of some furry critter in a Santa hat — anything!) But to be honest, it hasn’t really felt like Christmas this year. That is because to me, the [...]

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Anthropologie duvet covers. Particularly this one and this one and this one. Happy, happy, joy.

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I walk into the living room to find my sister watching another episode of “The Hills.”
Me: I can’t believe you like this show. It’s so dumb. These girls are so annoying.
(A few minutes pass)
Sister: You want me to change the channel?
Me: Yeah. Hold on … OK, now … NO WAIT!
Sister: (Laughs) [...]

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As a 26-year-old woman, it is programed somewhere in my double-X chromosomes that I am supposed to think about things like marriage and weddings and The One. (That’s a scientific fact. Wikipedia it. If you don’t find it in there, let me know, wait 10 minutes and then hit refresh.) It’s just been difficult because, [...]

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Dear Baby,
I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight and that’s all they do. They don’t pull away. They don’t look at your face. They don’t try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms without an ounce of selfishness in it.
Watch Waitress!

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I promised myself that tonight or tomorrow or one of these days in the very near future, I would write A Real Post. I don’t exactly know what that requires, but I figure it probably entails stringing a sizable number of words together. And that, I have not been able to do lately. You see, [...]

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We spent the weekend in San Francisco for my cousin Tiffany’s wedding. I don’t know if it was the extravagance of it all, the dizzying schedule or the side effects of endless champagne refills, but my short-term memories are a blur. Luckily, David’s amazing photos re-tell the story. Loveliness.

Don’t let me forget these moments: Kristie [...]

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