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i've decided to copy a few friends and do the music thing, we'll see what oliver thinks of it! these are just a few songs i've been into lately.. i'll have oliver add a few when he gets a hold of the account!

also, that falling slowly won an oscar for best movie song -- oliver and i heard it this summer and it's so good. really great. and their acceptance speeches were really great too. made my night.

here's a link to them... the video's off of youtube since it's copyrighted or whatever, but here's the text..

speeches

i love how glen hansard ended with just "make art! make art!" and jon stewart gave Markéta Irglová another chance on stage after the orchestra started pre-maturely and she was shooed off. he walked her back out and just said this is your moment! you should get to enjoy it! or something.

CHIPPING PARENTS VISIT

We had a great time this last weekend with mom & dad (chips). They spent a couple of days here and we saw the local sites and got to go to Disneyland with them! Fun.

Also it was dad's birthday on Sunday and we [minus Em - she had to study :( ] all went to Laguna beach and they (the parents) LOVED it.

Birthday!

i had an awesome birthday last week! it was last tuesday and oliver was the biggest sweetheart. he took a half day off work, so when i came home from school he surprised me with this.

he even had the candles lit when i walked in the door! later, i found out that this cake was "just for show" and the one to eat was in the fridge.

oliver had made reservations for us to go to this new restaurant in LA called Takami it's on the top floor of some huge 20+ story building in the city. it was soooooooooooo good. and fun to drive around the city too. here are some pictures from that night.