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Back in San Francisco this week. Today it started to POUR hardcore (ha! that rhymed!). Alex and I decided to work at Lealand Tea Company on Bush Street. One of my favorite places to go in San Francisco that is still opened. My favorite pho restaurant, Pot de Pho, and one of my favorite cafes, Bitter Sweet Chocolate Cafe have both closed. Sniffles. I hope Lealand never suffers the same fate.
Reasons why I love Lealand Tea Company:
- Warm and cozy
- Pleasant music
- Big yummy tea pots
- Great service
- Yummy mini cupcakes
- Fast internet (the wifi password is cupcakes which is awfully cute)
- Great decor and style
Only annoying thing happening right now are the two people having a date at the table next to us. Theys talks so louds. One guy is obviously dominating the conversation by talking about himself the whole time. His stories are pretty crazy! Everything from… having a really psycho mother who made him take too many anti depressants to getting hit by a car which led him to age much slower… to getting molested, and somewhere in there he also said that he felt like an unleashed tiger. Alright, is it annoying or is it entertaining? On the brighter side, it’s pretty entertaining.
Typically I’m not a big fan of Barnes & Noble’s email design but today I was pleasantly surprised with their Nook Color email campaign. Clean, consistent…and messaging is clear and concise. I especially like the light blue talk bubbles in the background.
Remember the time you drove all night, just to meet me in the morning?
Posted by in Love - (0 Comments)Alex has gone to L.A for work. Naturally when I am by myself in our big ol’ loft I miss him dearly. Makes me think about how lucky I am to have had him in my life for the past two plus years. If you asked me to trade the past two years for all the money in the world, I would have to say no. What good is money if you don’t have any sense of the world and the things around you, how could you truly experience it? This is what he has given me – a real sense of what it takes to be a good person and all that comes with telling someone you love them.
I haven’t been the nicest of girlfriends by any means. Difficult, fickle, dishonest, moody and selfish. I refuse to move on this way. I find it hard to be comfortable if I don’t aspire to do extraordinary things, but now I know that in order to do extraordinary things you have to be comfortable with who you are and the things you do on a day to day. When I say I know, I mean I really know in a very real and gripping way. Not an, “oh yeah, that sounds right, I agree” kind of way. Doing extraordinary things is better with someone by your side.
He’s the most amazing man I’ve ever met, the kind people write movies and novels about. Drive from Seattle to San Francisco through the night to give me a reassuring hug kind of amazing. He’s the best. I can be the best too…for him.
Remember the time you drove all night
Just to meet me in the morning
And I thought it was strange you said everything changed
You felt as if you’d just woke up
And you said “this is the first day of my life
I’m glad I didn’t die before I met you
But now I don’t care I could go anywhere with you
And I’d probably be happySo if you want to be with me
With these things there’s no telling
We just have to wait and see
But I’d rather be working for a paycheck
Than waiting to win the lottery
Besides maybe this time is different
I mean I really think you like me
Got some much needed fresh air today with Alex and Jeepie today on Mercer Island. I love them both very much.
Alex and his classic non serious photo face:
Jeepie looked so tiny and cute from the top:
We also visited the Bellevue Botanical Garden for a bit. It’s been more than two years since we’ve been there.
Two years and two months ago:
There is a company called PodTimes that makes beds for the workplace. How funny is that?
As an employee I would have to say this is sort of appealing. However, I could never outwardly just go take a nap around my colleagues! I’d rather it be a secret, like George Castanza.
As an employer you’d have to be dumb to get something like this. Yeah people are more productive when they are well rested but, what the fuck…encouraging sleeping in the workplace is taking it a bit too far in my opinion. Think of all the inappropriate people out there who will end up having sex in the pod. Not a good idea for most companies.
For the longest time I thought Mozilla was pretty small open source operation. I was wrong, in 2010 they made $150M and in 2009 they made $75M in revenue. The vast majority of this Mozilla scrilla came from their partnership with Google. Google pays them for each search conducted from the Mozilla Firefox start screen. Approximately 9% of Google’s searches come in from Firefox.
Hooray for another really successful open source project.
Happy Anniversary
Posted by in Baking | Best Practices | Blogger | Blogging | Crafts | Design | Exercise | Featured | How To | Love | random | San Francisco | Seattle | SEO | Travel | Wordpress - (0 Comments)Today is my 5 year anniversary with www.missmai.com. I use to be a pretty avid blogger with www.missmai.com but every time I have some sort of turning point in my life I feel compelled to wipe everything out and start with new entries. It’s been a while since I’ve written anything and it feels like an appropriate time to start documenting things. Important things, not so important things, funny things, heart breaking things, lovely things, every things.
Whatever it is, I hope you enjoy.
Sincerely,
M.Hoang
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