An even more eventful chunk of my life just passed without any sort of xanga update. This site has proved to be even more cumbersome in the light of facebook now, but I still think there are people out there who go on xanga and read what i waste time to write on here. So here's to them!

Working with the IRS has been very challenging. It doesn't seem like anythingthey made it look to be when we were hired on. But what's new? All companies butter up the incumbents to lure them into signing on. To me, it's a lot harder to walk away from a committment once it's been set in writing. Thus begins my tedious and ever-so laborious life as a revenue agent. I started out really strong, above the crowd one might even say. But then my work productivity and ingenuity just went south. It didn't help that I was ridiculously pregnant, either. Imagine me calling taxpayers to inform them that their worst IRS nightmare is coming true; that they are being audited. But when I actually meet with them face to face, here is this 5'4'' little young asian looking girl who is humongously pregnant. oooooohhhhhhh......scary huh? Not in the least bit. So because of that, I honestly feel I get underminded and taken advantage of. This line of work is definitely not conducive to pregnant women.

Speaking of which, I finally delivered my baby on March 12, 2008. Her due date was March 6, and I worked up until the 6th. Thereafter, it was just a waiting game. After a lot of complications involving inducing labor, rushing to the OR because her heart just stopped beating, getting a whacked out (i.e. not working) epidural, and then 12 hrs of labor, I finally heard the sweet, sweet sound of her first cry. It's absolutely amazing. Childbirth is something I seriously hope each and every one of you get to experience sometime in your life, whether it be your own child, or you get to sit in and watch a delivery. God never ceases to amaze me.

So here are pictures! Enjoy.

Quyen and I enjoying Gelato the day before delivery/ My mom, Mary and Kim eating out with me the day we went into the hospital (I'm telling ya, we had NO clue when labor would start with me!)

Me looking happy before the scary ordeal/ BABY MADELEINE PHUONG-ANH IS HERE!

9 lbs baby! Doc's are calling it in./ Older sister Mary looking very intently at how not cute Maddie turned out to be.

Auntie Kim and Mary with newborn Maddie/ Me being dumb and giving her her 1st bunny ears.

Madeliene asleep but dreaming of the day she gets her own cellphone.  

Fun with roses!

happy new year everybody!!!

be safe and have fun with your loved ones.......mary's in houston right now so it's just quyen and i ringing in the new year at home here in phoenix.

what a year!

finished school
new house
new job
and now a new addition to our family!!!
some things will never change......but i'm so blessed to have what i have and to experience all that i've experienced.

i'll update more later!

does anyone even read xanga anymore??? that's funny that i have this yet facebook has consumed my online life now....

new happenings:

i was at honeywell, but now i'm with the IRS, baby!

and the heat in phoenix is no joke. i went to south mountain today with mary and bingo, and we found a dead dog.........a beautiful 70lbs looking boxer......just dead, with the leash still on it. it must've been the heat......and the stupid owner just left it there.........and it was just so sad....

i cook a lot more now, since going out is expensive......

and mary's getting enrolled into a private catholic school.

and i love so you think you can dance!

and i've been reading more. finally! all the people without harry potter books should've just gone to a grocery store or we.......we just went to a borders and found it for 40% off. sweetness!

that's all i care to share for now.....

it's been a while!

i graduated school finally; moved to phoenix, arizona, and i'm interviewing several jobs. (i'm not interviewing for them, i'm interviewing them for me.) Thanks to everyone that made it to my going away party. you know who u are. it made me feel very special and loved.

met some really cool people over here that seem down to earth, genuine and real. i hope not, but i wonder if they'll turn out to be like some people i know back home. (fake, trifling, and flaky.)

whatever, i've learned to just roll with it and not put all my eggs in one basket. don't put all your faith in a person cuz they'll let you down so fast, you get crushed in the mix of it all. speaking of which, it's funny when people mess up, and they know they messed up, and they don't do anything to reconcile it or apologize to the other person. actions speak volumes if you ask me.  

on another note, do you know how ABSOLUTELY real it's been being here with quyen? it's amazing that i get to SEE him every day, to talk to him IN PERSON, to take him to work, cook dinners, watch movies, go grocery shopping, work out in the gym with him, and just HUG him. I've gone from January til May without seeing him, and a LOT has happened in that time............I've decided that's the last time that's going to happen. I think we've done this long distance thing for a little too long now (3 years) and it's high time we start living it up. speaking of which, i think we're going to vegas at the end of June w/ his cousins and ALSO to meet up Quy, Vy, Elizabeth and whoever is going with them! how exciting is that? i've never been, and i can't wait.

I miss my parents and my brother (congrats joe on your confirmation!!) and sisters and our ice cream store. Shout out to Goodies Creamery on Bay Area Blvd in Clear Lake for those who don't know.

and shoutout to the shoheezy and spike d show and its affiliates.

peace out h-town!

it's 103 out here. stay cool.

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