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A lot happened last weekend… I moved into my new place and Carol came up to visit! =) I don’t feel like saying much, so here come a parade of pictures:

A bottle of San Antonio water! =)

Woodchuck!

Jimmy and his friend came over to visit.

Passion fruit ice at Momo Tea (with Karen)

Panera Bread

Apple picking =)

I have superhuman strength

I had a theory that all the apples on the bottom branches were probably picked gone, so we were going for apples on the upper branches.

Some of the BEST ribs I have ever had (so tender) — at The Arena

IKEA:

IKEA sells these “mini-pineapple” plants!

It was a good weekend =)

I know it’s been a while since I updated. No pictures in this post, but a quick note to all (three) of my readers out there.

Life has been good (it’s always been good). I moved to a new place in Ann Arbor (a condo) and it has no Internet (sans-Internet = sad) which has highly restricted my productivity at home. Or maybe is has increased my productivity at home, except that I measure my productivity by the number of emails I read/send out every day.

Anyway, rest assured, I have been taking lots of pictures. And things will start up again! (As soon as I get Internet again at home… on 9/21!)

Firstly, what I’m eating as I blog this:

Dinner last night:

Sights from the grocery store (Meijer, pronounced My-er):
(Buy ONE get TWO free! Needless to say… Eric’s apartment has 3 loaves of bread right now.)

(Somehow I don’t think this is a good combination. That’s like putting paper towels next to the drinks aisle.)

Found a new Arizona flavor here, and it’s awesome! (Plus, I just like apple-teas, but not the chemically “green sour apple” stuff… I mean like apple juice + tea)

And last but not least, my 6-way teleconference with Optix Productions board of directors last night =)

Karen came over from Detroit for Labor Day! It’s nice to have such a good friend just 30 mins away. =)

The cat looks surprised it got used as a coaster:

Chinese food!

What do you think? Is it “my” card?

Shaved ice!

We were tired/full/sleepy so we went to Biggby’s [Karen does a gay little hop every time she hears the word Biggby's]. We saw this at the front counter:

Me picking tea leaves (splinters) out of my vanilla red tea latte (good!):

Went perfuming at Sephora… found a REALLY GOOD SMELLING ONE (jasmine). Technically, it’s J’adore L’eau… which is a limited summer edition =(

We watched G.I.Joe and then went to Red Lobster. (I swear, they put the Red Lobster right next to the movie theater on purpose…)

We went yogurt-hunting afterwards. I thought I was crazy… I could swear there were 2 yogurt shops on State St., but we could only find one! (Turns out the other one was the next block over. We walked up and down that the same block like 4 times.) This one wasn’t THAT good… although it had key lime pie as a yogurt flavor!

We walked by this coffee shop that had really cool door handles! (Karen took this pic! Isn’t it good?? And obviously all the pix that I’m in, she took too. =P)

I went to Birch Run outlet malls with the Michigan Taiwanese Student Association yesterday. Well, actually, I went with Eric’s apartment, but they were going because MTSA was organizing a massive trip there. (Like 70 ppl… never had a TAS event that big before…)

Nike outlet mall… epic fail:

Had A&W for the first time (for lunch). Check out the root beer float! Mmm..

After the mall (not much to comment there… I bought stuff, including things I probably didn’t need… go figure) we went a little more north to a town called Frankenmurth. It’s like a little German-esque town with a lot of stores and German foods. Went to the Bavarian Inn:

Got the traditional sausage stuffs… it was OK. Different. The sauerkraut was good:

After dinner, we went wander through the other stores:

Ugly dolls! (Karen would be excited.)

Fudge-in-the-making:

As the sun started to set, we found ourselves here:

New friends =)

Bavarian Inn at night:

This morning, I met up with a semi-acquaintance and had Mediterranean food. I got falafel again!! (Hadn’t had one since NYC summer 2007…) Tak’s car was decorated all over with Totoro dolls. I thought it was really cute:

Life here is good. I’m pretty happy, although I’ll be even happier next weekend when Carol comes to visit and I finally settle into my own place. (So I can stop bumming off Eric’s couch and living out of my suitcase!)

Have you ever wondered why we say “fridge”, but the word “refrigerator” has no D? What happened to the D?

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_fridge_an_abbreviation_for_refrigerator

(Thanks Carol)

And now a photo run…

Today was the last day of orientation, and also the most useless. And also the earliest. Funny how all those factors add up together.

The food was certainly a step-up from the usual:

(Cotton candy and popcorn! Not to mention mini quiches, mini muffins, and fresh fruit for breakfast)

(Nature’s Crystal water… it’s really good! It’s like the Poland Spring of Michigan.)

(Another clocktower! This one’s on central next to Rackham [the graduate school])

(If I were these statues, I’d get pretty pissed about being sprayed on all day.)

And lastly… I leave you with this gem:
umich_school_song