If you have ever heard of that movie I will be truly impressed!
Two names I go by:
1- Molisa
2- Meem
Two things I am wearing right now:
1- One of Chad’s t-shirts
2- Christmas PJs
Two of my favorite things to do:
1- Play outside
2- Make people smile and laugh
Two things I want very badly at the moment:
1- the ability to look at, smell and taste food and enjoy it again
2- …
Two favorite pets I’ve had:
1- Well, Yoda, my awesome and rebellious dog. My family just put him down a couple days ago.
2- it’s a toss up between the rest
Two things I did last night:
1- watched LOST reruns
2- welcomed Chad home
Two things I ate today:
1- BRAT
2-
Two people I last talked to:
1- Chad
2- Rachel (thanks for taking care of me!!!)
Two longest car rides:
1- Canada Road trip before my mission
2- Virginia to Seattle through the southern states
Two favorite beverages:
1- Water
2- TBD
Elisa and I have some news. It’s a special, life-changing event. It’s not the kind of thing that you announce on a blog. It really deserves a face-to-face mention. So call us. Soon. Before you hear it from someone who already talked to us. 🙂
Elisa has been pretty sick for two straight weeks. She eats rice and toast and milk, on days when those don’t taste too strong for her. 😐 Blah–that’s all I have to say. She keeps trying to get out of doors and enjoy herself, but it is hard because of the stomach monsters rough-housing around inside her. I have to step up and eat all the chocolate.
Last week all the Google employees moved into the new building. I had already been working in the new building, on the 5th floor, which wasn’t really finished. I moved down to the 3rd floor with my team. I guess construction will now continue back on the 5th so that we have room for new employees.
The new building is a cool place. I was so bummed not to feel up for testing out the fire poles and slide which run floor to floor. It was really quite impressive. And in the new lunch room they even individually branded all their apples. That made them taste better I think. It’s a playpen for adults–that’s the best way to describe it. I also like the fact that we are no longer right underneath all the construction noise. If you look at the pictures in the article below, I work about 20 feet away from the hammock room, and about 40 feet from the igloos. (Really).
It’s not Switzerland Day everywhere–just for Elisa and me. This time last year we were sitting at Tara and Larry’s, watching the Pride and Prejudice movie. Plane tickets were in hand. All the bags were packed. We were just waiting to head to the airport. We arrived here on Jan 18, and for as long as we’re here we are going to celebrate it. It was a very windy day and they lost our bags. Basically the whole start was really hard. But so many good things have happened and it keeps getting better.
I got my Swiss driver’s license in the mail! It makes me feel so grown up! Maybe I wouldn’t think it was such a big deal, but it took three months of visiting offices, calling the US, faxing, and so on to get it. If I couldn’t get it by tomorrow, I would be required to take a driving test and a written test, both in German, which I couldn’t pass. Rahel told me they are difficult to get here even if you do speak the language.
This week at work another package arrived containing… a… white… lab coat! Yep, that’s right. I have my own lab coat with a little “Google Labs” logo on the breast. It came with a plaque saying that the Gmail team got a “Founders Award” from the powers-that-be at Google. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. We’ll have to upload a photo of me sporting the coat in the kitchen.
