p.s. Amy, the kiwi-marinated bulgogi was BEAUTIFUL and YUMMY. Not INTERESTING. You make it sound like the cook was not the talented genius that he is. ;)

Yay. I'm 25 now. Wow. I'm closer to 50 than I am to 0. Not a very comforting feeling. Remember back when you were young, and there was something magical about birthdays? Something akin to Christmas morning. You wake up in great anticipation, and the whole day seems soaked in surreal bliss.

Hmmm, I guess it's time to look for new things to get excited about and to look forward to.

I drove home from Austin yesterday afternoon. Woke up kinda late, and Amy and I went out for some yummy Magolia breakfast. We had some Mag Queso (Cheese, Avacado, Beans, Cilantro), I had oatmeal with rasins, cinnimon, and brown sugar and also a breakfast taco, and Amy ate quesadillias (okay, not breakfast food, but it was already 1:30).

The drive home was plesant. I usually drive long distances at night, but it's much better driving in the daylight. Slightly more traffic, but then you don't feel as isolated, and all that colorful beautiful scenery between Austin and Dallas (haha... just kidding. it's flat flat flat flat boooooring).

Came home and guess what? ate food again. Went out to Hong Kong Royale with mom, dad, and Karwai's family. I won't list out what I ate, but it was good, and there was lots of it.

My dad took off today to hang out on my b-day. Daisy's not working today either, so hopefully we'll do lots of fun stuff.

I'm back in Austin now. The trip to DC was really good. I settled on an awesome apartment that was reasonably priced (relatively), really close to school, two grocery stores, the metro, and to two hip streets. It's pretty large, too (575 sq ft).

Hung out mostly with Darren and his Duke friends in DC. I got back to Austin on Tuesday (I came back a day early than previously planned, because I had closed on an apt, and also because I had to see my Amy). We've been doing a lot of chilling in Austin. On Thursday, Amy and I went out to Zilker park along with 100,000 other Austinites, to listen to the Austin Symphony play and to watch fireworks. We cooked and packed a yummy carb-filled picnic and sipped on a nice bottle of Reisling Amy bought. It was a great time.

Tonight, we're celebrating my birthday, because I'm driving home to Dallas tomorrow to be with my family for my actual birthday.