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Where to start? Well, I have a bit of a cold at the moment so I'm just resting up, and I see I've been neglecting lj again.

Easter Weekend

Friday night I had to work, and after that I met up with Josh at the Sonoma Chicken Coop in downtown San Jose for a group dinner event with his motorcycling friends, the South Bay Riders. It was pretty fun; much of the time was spent trying to convince Josh that he should go to Disneyland at least once in his life.

On Saturday we got up relatively early to drive down to Fresno for my cousin David's 20th birthday party. It was held out at my aunt's ranch in Clovis. While we were there some of us walked down the road to a neighbor's place to see my remaining duck in (her?) new home. The surviving duck turned out to be Kikumaru (I seem to be the only one who could tell them apart), so I guess Ooishi is fox food now. =( Maybe I shouldn't have named him something that sounded so close to "oishii"... ^^;

But all reports say Kikumaru is doing well and has buddied up with a black and white duck in the new pond, so I guess that's good. The neighbor is really nice and says we can visit anytime; we also went to another neighbor, a friend of my aunt's, and I talked horses with him for a while.


My aunt Marlene, her friend the neighbor, my great aunt Ruth, and my dad by the pond


Then back at the ranch we went to visit the cows grazing in the pasture. My aunt and uncle don't live at the ranch (my aunt inherited it from a friend of Oma's; she's hanging on to it, but they actually live at their own house), but they let a guy who raises cattle graze some of them on their land. There are 10 acres split into three different sections; right now there are five cows in one of them, and some of them were actually friendly. Josh didn't seem to think much of the cows, but I thought they were cute!


Aunt Patty with the cows


Just cows






Uncle Craig, Josh, Aunt Patty, Dad, Great Aunt Ruth, and Aunt Marlene looking at the cows


Aunt Ruth watching Dad feed a cow


It's amazing how green it is out there from all the rain California has had. Normally it would all be brown and dried up by now. I'm glad it wasn't raining while we were down there, though. We stayed down in Fresno until about 7:30, then drove back up to San Jose.

Sunday morning I went to work and it was pouring and windy. That was good because it meant nearly no customers and I was able to leave early like I was planning on doing anyway. I left work at noon and went to Josh's aunt and uncle's place in Saratoga for Easter brunch that was really good. After the food we watched a photo album DVD with pictures chronicling the life of one of Josh's relatives...his grandfather I think? I wasn't paying all that much attention and fell asleep on his shoulder. When I woke up it was time to go over to my parents' house to have Easter dinner with them, my brother, and my grandma.


New Apartment

Josh and I are pretty much settled into the new place. I think all that's still left to bring over is my bookcase, and there's still some more decorating to be done. I don't have too much to say about it; it's a pretty decent place, and I'm happy wherever Josh and my computer and high speed internet are. *g* Anyway, onto the pictures...


Here's the living room...






Kitchen/dining room


Still waiting to get the blinds on this window...




Anime hallway!






Bathroom at the end of the hall


Bedroom








Computer room


Josh's desk


My desk

Date: 2006-04-20 07:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rady.livejournal.com
Wow that's a gorgeous pasture shot~~~ and yaay for apartment! Looks like everything moved in great, and I especially love that huge VERSUS poster you have up in the hallway... XD!!!

Date: 2006-04-20 09:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gokumew2.livejournal.com
That's quite a hallway. X.D
Wah~ Oishi~ .;_;

Btw, will you be coming to Fanime??

Date: 2006-04-20 09:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] velessa.livejournal.com
No, I'm going to be in Connecticut then. I wasn't even sure if I wanted to go this year since last time it was pretty lame...

Date: 2006-04-21 02:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gokumew2.livejournal.com
.O_O Connecticut? Whatcha gonna do out there?

Date: 2006-04-21 04:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thomasj.livejournal.com
Meeting my family. Read into that what you will =)

Date: 2006-04-21 06:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gokumew2.livejournal.com
Oh I see~ X.D

Oh, What Beautiful Cows

Date: 2006-04-21 02:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mahkara.livejournal.com
They're so pretty. I'm sure that they'd scare me if I was near them (cows are enormous, and I've learned, can run surprisingly fast), but they're so lovely I just want to go up and pet them.

And I won't say anything about the anime. Nothing. Nope. Not at all.

Date: 2006-04-21 04:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thomasj.livejournal.com
Here you see a rare moment where our bedroom blinds are actually open...

Date: 2006-04-22 11:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sapphie-lp.livejournal.com
I love the anime hallway and the bedroom. My room will be like that if I can help it!

Moo~

Date: 2006-04-24 05:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] celtic4.livejournal.com
What a lovely apartment! Love the decorations, too. :D

Next time you're in Clovis, I'd love to meet you for lunch or something. I was out of town Easter weekend but I'd love to see you another time if you're so inclined. ^_^

Date: 2006-04-25 10:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] velessa.livejournal.com
Sure, I'd love to do that sometime. =) I don't know when I'll next be down that way, but I'll let you know.

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