Mara
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Hmm I didn't even know this forum had been created, I am so out of the loop.
Well lets see..I hate things like this, I feel like we are going around the room in class taking our turn to talk about what we did this summer...hee hee. I may ramble a bit but here's the jist of who I am and how I came to be....
I'm a born-and-raised Northern California girl who just turned 29 two weeks ago. Never lived anywhere else other than about 10 miles from my parents...boy do I live a sheltered life. I am half Mexican and half Persian...my father left us when I was 1 years old so my mom raised me all by herself. I was a rambunctious and hyper child, my poor mother was never allowed to rest while I was around. My childhood antics consisted of things like feeding my mom's plant some milk in order to help it grow...and asking random men in the supermarket if they were my father to the red-cheeked embarassment of my mother. Of course I don't recall ANY of this!
All I remember is that I had alot of love from my mom and grandmother and they were my two most favorite people in my little world. My mom worked two jobs to support us and ypay the mortgage on our first home, she was 25 when she had me...surprise!! I've always been so proud that she was able to make things work, working in the day as a teacher on a very modest salary and in the evenings at the local hospital. My grandmother helped raise me, staying with me in the evenings as my mom used to work. What I remember about these times is that I would get to eat HungryMan's TV dinners when my mom went to her second job. It was something I looked forward to. Oh and getting to watch all sorts of fun TV with grandma, who let me do whatever I want basically since I was her 'little girl'.
I was a handful as a child and even into older years. I recall when my mom first introduced me to my future stepfather at age 8...he had setup this whole elaborate thing with my favorite ice cream and a cool game for us all to play...and made us homemade spaghetti. I was a true brat...saying I didn't like ice cream or the spaghetti and pouting the entire evening because I felt as though he was stealing my mother away from me. I am still to this day SHOCKED that he even wanted to see my mother after that, much less marry her and commit to a lifetime of having to deal with me.
And I continued to be a pain in his ass for many years....of course now we joke about it all, but I really put him through his paces way back when! I have always been spoiled (first by grandma..then by stepdad) and to this day Greg jokingly curses my stepdad for making me so demanding...I think he calls it 'high-maintenance'. He always threatens to 'have a talk with' my dad but somehow that never seems to happen.
Got through the awkward early teenage years...went to high school and college (closeby to family!), and then went into a career of Marketing. It had always intrigued me and I figured I'd see what it was all about. Six years later, I've run the gamut in types of marketing...from database marketing to direct marketing to brand marketing to online marketing which is where I am right now. When I was in college I worked a bunch of temp jobs as an admin to pay my bills and tuition....so I worked at Cisco back when they only had 2 dinky buildings (now they have about 30!)...worked for Oracle, Adobe and Intuit for a while. Since then I have worked for Palm in eCommerce and continued along in that same vein...am currently working in eCommerce/Internet Marketing for a large consumer hardware company. I always joke about if I had bought stock way back when in the companies I worked for while in college..I'd be rich now. Oh well..20/20 hindsight.
Met my fiance Greg about 3.5 years ago...was just getting out of a serious 3 year relationship and was looking to have some big fun!! Dated a few frogs, then along comes Prince Charming...but wait..I wasn't ready for PC yet!! We met through mutual friends...and we were both intrigued....but didn't really do anything about it at the time. There was alot of miscommunication (e.g. he has a girlfriend...oh no wait he doesn't) and we joke that it's a miracle that we even managed to get together to go out at all through our friends being uninformed! I fought against being serious for a little bit...just wanted to keep things simple and have a good time esp after my 3 year relationship/jail-time...but eventually his persistence won me over and now we are engaged. Well of course there was alot of stuff that happened between then and now...but that's the jist of it.
Some of the things I love about Greg are related to the fact that he is not from around here...so he's very different from anyone I know. His job does not define him...nowhere close. He is incredibly intelligent, got his MBA in one year from the top MBA school--Kellogg...works in an office during the day wearing SUITS (unheard of here in the Bayarea)...and then on the weekends is in his grubby gear playing around with our cars--taking them apart and putting them back together. In his *other* spare time he takes bio-technology classes (straight A student) because he is thinking of switching careers at some point...and plays the tuba, saxaphone and trombone in about 4 symphonies around the Bayarea. When do I get to see him you ask? I don't know!!!
While looking for the engagement ring, found Pricescope and all the great people here. Learned alot about diamonds and then became OBSESSED. Greg finally had to take the reins and say ..'woaah...I'm buying you THIS stone..end of story'. So that's the stone I wear quite happily. We had our setting custom made and we love it. He'll be getting a superideal cut H&A stone for a tension set titanium ring for the wedding next year...can't wait to start working on that. So even though we purchased our stone last November (a year ago!), I stick around on Pricescope to help others and basically because once you are obsessed with diamonds, you can't go back. Plus it's so much fun to see what everyone else is buying and how I can help them out. For every person who doesn't shop at the maul who finds Pricescope...I feel the warm fuzzies inside. /idealbb/images/smilies/rodent.gif
We are getting married in Hawaii next May which most of you already know, and are also in the midst of buying a brand-new townhouse which we will move into next January. We are so excited...we will finally have a place to call our own and lots of room! A new house and a new marriage all in 2004....it promises to be a HUGE year for us. Almost all of my birthday wishes this year had to do with 2004 and happiness. Hopefully they all come true.
Well lets see..I hate things like this, I feel like we are going around the room in class taking our turn to talk about what we did this summer...hee hee. I may ramble a bit but here's the jist of who I am and how I came to be....
I'm a born-and-raised Northern California girl who just turned 29 two weeks ago. Never lived anywhere else other than about 10 miles from my parents...boy do I live a sheltered life. I am half Mexican and half Persian...my father left us when I was 1 years old so my mom raised me all by herself. I was a rambunctious and hyper child, my poor mother was never allowed to rest while I was around. My childhood antics consisted of things like feeding my mom's plant some milk in order to help it grow...and asking random men in the supermarket if they were my father to the red-cheeked embarassment of my mother. Of course I don't recall ANY of this!
All I remember is that I had alot of love from my mom and grandmother and they were my two most favorite people in my little world. My mom worked two jobs to support us and ypay the mortgage on our first home, she was 25 when she had me...surprise!! I've always been so proud that she was able to make things work, working in the day as a teacher on a very modest salary and in the evenings at the local hospital. My grandmother helped raise me, staying with me in the evenings as my mom used to work. What I remember about these times is that I would get to eat HungryMan's TV dinners when my mom went to her second job. It was something I looked forward to. Oh and getting to watch all sorts of fun TV with grandma, who let me do whatever I want basically since I was her 'little girl'.
I was a handful as a child and even into older years. I recall when my mom first introduced me to my future stepfather at age 8...he had setup this whole elaborate thing with my favorite ice cream and a cool game for us all to play...and made us homemade spaghetti. I was a true brat...saying I didn't like ice cream or the spaghetti and pouting the entire evening because I felt as though he was stealing my mother away from me. I am still to this day SHOCKED that he even wanted to see my mother after that, much less marry her and commit to a lifetime of having to deal with me.
Got through the awkward early teenage years...went to high school and college (closeby to family!), and then went into a career of Marketing. It had always intrigued me and I figured I'd see what it was all about. Six years later, I've run the gamut in types of marketing...from database marketing to direct marketing to brand marketing to online marketing which is where I am right now. When I was in college I worked a bunch of temp jobs as an admin to pay my bills and tuition....so I worked at Cisco back when they only had 2 dinky buildings (now they have about 30!)...worked for Oracle, Adobe and Intuit for a while. Since then I have worked for Palm in eCommerce and continued along in that same vein...am currently working in eCommerce/Internet Marketing for a large consumer hardware company. I always joke about if I had bought stock way back when in the companies I worked for while in college..I'd be rich now. Oh well..20/20 hindsight.
Met my fiance Greg about 3.5 years ago...was just getting out of a serious 3 year relationship and was looking to have some big fun!! Dated a few frogs, then along comes Prince Charming...but wait..I wasn't ready for PC yet!! We met through mutual friends...and we were both intrigued....but didn't really do anything about it at the time. There was alot of miscommunication (e.g. he has a girlfriend...oh no wait he doesn't) and we joke that it's a miracle that we even managed to get together to go out at all through our friends being uninformed! I fought against being serious for a little bit...just wanted to keep things simple and have a good time esp after my 3 year relationship/jail-time...but eventually his persistence won me over and now we are engaged. Well of course there was alot of stuff that happened between then and now...but that's the jist of it.
Some of the things I love about Greg are related to the fact that he is not from around here...so he's very different from anyone I know. His job does not define him...nowhere close. He is incredibly intelligent, got his MBA in one year from the top MBA school--Kellogg...works in an office during the day wearing SUITS (unheard of here in the Bayarea)...and then on the weekends is in his grubby gear playing around with our cars--taking them apart and putting them back together. In his *other* spare time he takes bio-technology classes (straight A student) because he is thinking of switching careers at some point...and plays the tuba, saxaphone and trombone in about 4 symphonies around the Bayarea. When do I get to see him you ask? I don't know!!!
While looking for the engagement ring, found Pricescope and all the great people here. Learned alot about diamonds and then became OBSESSED. Greg finally had to take the reins and say ..'woaah...I'm buying you THIS stone..end of story'. So that's the stone I wear quite happily. We had our setting custom made and we love it. He'll be getting a superideal cut H&A stone for a tension set titanium ring for the wedding next year...can't wait to start working on that. So even though we purchased our stone last November (a year ago!), I stick around on Pricescope to help others and basically because once you are obsessed with diamonds, you can't go back. Plus it's so much fun to see what everyone else is buying and how I can help them out. For every person who doesn't shop at the maul who finds Pricescope...I feel the warm fuzzies inside. /idealbb/images/smilies/rodent.gif
We are getting married in Hawaii next May which most of you already know, and are also in the midst of buying a brand-new townhouse which we will move into next January. We are so excited...we will finally have a place to call our own and lots of room! A new house and a new marriage all in 2004....it promises to be a HUGE year for us. Almost all of my birthday wishes this year had to do with 2004 and happiness. Hopefully they all come true.
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