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this is the view of the area just up the street from where i live

what can i say, i'm a nut for candles. and nothing's more economical that tea candles. especially if they're the Ikea 100 pack set on sale for $3.99! that's 16 and two-thirds straight days of light! (each candle burns 4 hours, you do the math). one of our friends back in north carolina got us this really awesome tea-candle lamp. in fact, its awesome enough to post on my blog!


oh, that's where the candles are!

purchased: December 26th, 2006
MSRP: $149.99
target post-christmas price: $60!

see what we did there? booyah!


NOW ACCEPTING ORNAMENT DONATIONS!

we live on the third floor of an apartment in a very hilly part of san diego (well, okay, fine... all parts of san diego are hilly) called carmel valley. so we have a pretty scenic view looking out from our balcony. actually, it isn't really so much scenic as it is a parking lot and sky, but we have big palm trees covering everything up, so it's all good! it's actually nice to have this much privacy on our huge 15 foot long balcony, and it certainly helps us from getting in trouble for grilling yummy korean bbq on it!


"ahh... so warm!"

see? trees!

look! we're taller than the palm tree! bwahhah

welcome to our crib. this is where we kick it.


i dunno what's up with the super white walls, but our apartment pretty much has a black/white theme going on

this is wherez the fud is mayeed

our huuuge patio

it's so sunny sometimes i have to eat with my eyes closed!

had a great birthday dinner. nothing says i love you more than having samgyup sal and dwenjangjigae (read that as grilled pork meat and really smelly soup) served by your significant other :) well, there is one thing that does. and that's painstakingly rearranging the frosting letters that your local Baskin-Robbins employee wrote down because he wrote "Happy Birthday Bill!" instead of "Happy Birthday Phil".


Looking at the photo, I think Minae shifted the IL down one space, transplanted the L back to after the B, and shaved the bottom loop of the B off to make the H. I'm not sure what the last dot is, but maybe its there to read "HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHIL FULLSTOP"

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