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November 25, 2004 | Posted by Ching under Sex

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What Kind of Car are You?

Brian and I were talking about cars the other day..  You know, since we’re preoccupied about that stuff lately.  He wants to be practical and perhaps get a good reliable used car for me.  I was thinking that if that were the case I’d just wait a couple of years and get the car that I really want.  But then, we don’t think Sunny will last six months, let alone two years!

In trying to think of suitable cars, I asked Brian what kind of car he thought I would be if I were a car and not a person.  He said that I would be a Cadillac XLR.  I don’t even know what those look like so I had to ask him to elaborate.  He goes, “You know.. Classy with nice lines.”  I bust up laughing.  He must be thinking of someone else, surely!  I would never in a million years describe myself as classy.  You’re talking to a girl who picks her nose, likes to sniff armpits, thinks farting the alphabet while aiming it at your spouse is hilarious and burps louder than Shrek.

Anyway, I was thinking to myself that I could get a car to match my personality.  So I asked him, “Can I afford a Cadillac XLR?”  He goes, “Hell no!”  Ack, how can he be telling me I resemble a car that I can’t even afford?  WTF?!

Then he starts thinking, “What did we say I was again?”  I go, “A Suburban” as I burst into laughter.  I remember telling him he reminded me of a Suburban because he’s big and roomy.  He goes, “Oh, yeah..  Because I’m strong and powerful with lots of room in the trunk.”

I go, “You could be a Suburban with a flat tire” just because I like picking on him.  He goes, “Great.  So not only am I big, I’m slow too.  You could say that I’m a Suburban with a flat tire and misfiring piston because I’m a little crazy too.”

And then, of course, I had to bring back the conversation to me..  Because of how self-absorbed I am.  You know how it goes.  Seriously though, I really didn’t buy that Cadillac crap.  I think he must be wanting to get laid or something.  But I digress, I want a car that would resemble my personality so I had him keep thinking.  And then I came up with an idea on my own..  “I could be an RX8,” I tell him.  But he disagreed.  He said I wasn’t fast and racy.

So I still don’t know.  Hmmm..  Now I it’s your turn to ponder the question: if you were a car, what kind of car would you be?  Do you think I would be a Cadillac convertible?  If not, what car do you think I would be?  I’m curious!  Leave the answer in the comments.  I’m hoping we’ll get some interesting ones. =)

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UPDATE: I went to the Cadillac website and checked out what an XLR looks like so I know what Brian is talking about.  I gotta admit.  They’re pretty spiffy.  I think I just replaced my dream car!  Lotus Elise step aside.  Ching wants an XLR in blue steel now!  Maybe when I win the lottery!  LOL!  

November 20, 2004 | Posted by Ching under Life

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Stages of Grief

You know how good things happen to you sometimes and then shitty things happen to you sometimes too?  Well, this has been a week of shitty things.

On Saturday, I got up bright eyed and bushy tailed, all gung ho for my (now pretty regular) Saturday morning workout regimen.  Step (aerobics) for an hour, then hi/low (high and low impact interval aerobics) for 45 minutes right after than and then PHAT (pretty hips, abs and thights) for 30 minutes after that.  Sarah and I decided we wanted to play racquetball and since there weren’t any courts available at the North branch of the YMCA (where we do our regular Saturday morning workout), we drove to the downtown branch.  We met this lady who was quite a character but that’s another blog entry on its own.  After playing racquetball, we have lunch at this one Vietnamese resto on Broadway.

Sarah doesn’t want to bring Benny food so she tells him we’re at Applebees.  The plan totally backfires.  He wants food.  So we drive to Applebees (on 21st and Rock) to get Benny food.  We drive to Benny’s (Webb and Harry) and bring him his food.  Her excuse for not staying and hanging out is me; we’re supposedly running errands together so we make up things to do.

We go to the 13th Avenue Warren (13th and Greenwich) and get our movie tickets for later that evening (After the Sunset, which is pretty good by the way; Salma Hayek is way hotter than ever before).  Then we decide we want to go check out some workout clothes at Dick’s (21st and Rock again).  Nothing on sale at Dick’s.  We figure there will be cheaper workout clothes at the brand spankin’ new Super Target (21st and Greenwich).  With our morning and afternoon spent, we head on back downtown to YMCA where Sarah’s car is parked.

As we drive to get on the freeway, we notice that my car won’t shift.  It’s going at 5000 RPM and is not shifting.  Sarah freaks out and refuses to let me get on the highway.  This has happened before so I’m pretty used to it.  I’m like, “Whatever.”  The car finally budges and I convince Sarah that it’s okay to get on the highway.  I drop her off and then head on home.

On the way home, I notice that my “Check Engine Soon” light is lit.  That’s new.  Now I too am freakin’ out.  I decided to stay on regular 30 mph roads instead of taking 135 highway.  My route is Douglas to Woodlawn and Woodlawn home.  Slow and safe.

I don’t really drive anywhere.  We are usually in Brian’s car so poor little Sunny (my car, to those of you who are new to my world), who isn’t used to being driven around so much, probably couldn’t handle it and just got exhausted.  Maybe I gave her a minor stroke from all the driving back and forth we did.

Brian thinks that my ten year old car has finally gone tits up.  It’s about time, as far as he is concerned.  He’s been urging me to get a new car for a while.  Now it seems I don’t have a choice.  So let me describe to you the rollercoaster of emotions that I’ve experienced over the last three days, which Brian and I have creatively dubbed the “Seven Stages of Mourning the Demise of Your Beloved but Shitty Vehicle.”

DENIAL
My car is pefectly fine!  I refuse to buy a new car.  I will wait until 2006 when I am out of school.  My car still runs.  Until I am found stranded on the side of the road and I am among the creepy hitchhikers desperately trying to hitch a ride home, I shall not consider buying a new car.

ANGER
What the fuck?!  How can this shit happen to me?  Why couldn’t it wait just two more freakin’ years?!  Two years!!  Is that so much to ask?!!

ANXIETY
What are we going to do?  We are poor and we are broke.  We can’t afford another car payment?  Let alone another insurance payment!  I haven’t had a car payment in so long, I don’t even remember what it’s like!  How are we going to live?  What are we going to buy food with?  Does this mean I can’t shop whenever I feel like it anymore?

GRIEF
I can’t believe my car has finally crapped out on me.  My car that I’ve had since – forever!  My car that I drove to South Padre in..  My car that has had at least five different people get speeding tickets in..  My car that has witnessed countless road heads (and other perverted sex acts that shall remain unnamed)..  My car that drove me to Wellington to get my first tattoo..  My poor little decrepit, incapacitated baby..  Boo hoo!  Waaa waa!  You get the idea.

ACCEPTANCE
We are going to be fine.  I’m going to be fine.  I can let go.  Granted Sunny is priceless and has immense sentimental value but I’ll survive.  We can get rid of her.  We’ll make ends meet.  We’ll get something cheap and practical and really nerdy (like maybe a Hyundai or a Kia) and we’ll budget, budget, budget.  Less eating out.  No more Armani.  No more Healing Waters.  We can do it.  We’ll still have food in our bellies and I can have a more reliable car to drive and a new car to desecrate with my perverted sex acts.

EXCITEMENT
This means I get to pick one out!  Which is just like shopping for clothes only ten times better!  I’ll get to have a CD player (since the 10 disc changer in Sunny quit working a couple of years ago), power windows, power locks..  Maybe even a sunroof?  And they come in such juicy colors!  How fun!

DELUSION
So while we’re picking out cars, I guess we could check out one of the brand new MR2 Spyders..  Or maybe a Mini Cooper convertible?  Or a Nissan NSX?  BMW M3?  Or maybe even a Lotus Elise!!  Holy shit!!

All of that in the span of three days!  Can you believe it?

[ P.S. I was just reading through this blog entry when I came to the realization that this would mean no more video games and no more sex toys and no more of a lot of things!  I think I'm back to the ANXIETY stage again.  Yikes! ]  

November 15, 2004 | Posted by Ching under Life

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Halo 2

 


halo 2
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Needless to say, Brian got his way.  He got Halo 2 today.  I won’t see him again for another two weeks!

And to think he texted me earlier today to say he was horny.  Well, now that Halo 2 is in the picture it’s buh-bye Stanley!

How sad my life is!

November 9, 2004 | Posted by Ching under Games

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Busy Day

 


Healing Waters’ Robe
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Today was one of the busiest days ever.  Brian and I got up at 10:30 AM so we could meet our trainer at the Y.  Got done with that at noon, got gas for my car and more cash for tipping the massage therapists, grubbed at Arby’s and then headed to Healing Waters for our couples massage.

Got there with plenty of time to spare, (our appointment was for 1:00 PM) so we chilled for a bit.  I really enjoy sitting next to the fire, in the warm and comfy robe and nubby slippers.  Our appointment was for an hour and a half of the couples aromatherapy massage this time so we were there until 2:30 PM.  I told my friend that I would meet her at 3:00 PM to discuss our group project so after changing and checking out and scheduling our next appointments (bikini wax on December 19 and another hour and a half couples massage on January 9) we were running very, very late.

I had asked Brian the other day if he knew how to get to Barnes & Noble out West and he said he did so I trusted that he knew where he was going.  On the way, I call my friend.  Her husband answered.  I guess it was her home phone number that I had.  He said she wasn’t home because she was meeting one of her friends from school.  This was good sign.  It meant that she went to the bookstore.  I was worried that she had dropped the class because she didn’t show up last Thursday.

So anyway, we get off on Dugan and it suddenly dawns on Brian that he was going to Best Buy.  I guess he had Best Buy on the brain instead of Barnes & Noble.  He’s like, “It’s okay we can get back on the highway.”

We are running very, very late but I do my best to remain calm.  Finally he takes me to New Market Square.  I’m like, “What the fuck?!  There’s no Barnes & Noble here?!  This is Borders!”  At this point, I’m flipping out because it’s 3:30 PM and we don’t know where the fuck we are.  I’m this close to crying.  I get frustrated really easily, as you can probably already tell.  I’m thinking, “I can’t believe this is happening to me.”

I called Jen’s husband again.  I’m like, “Did she tell you where she was going?  Did she go to Borders or Barnes & Noble?”  He’s like, “She didn’t say.”  He has no clue where the Barnes & Noble is on the West side so no help there but he did give me her cellphone number which I didn’t previously have.  So that was really good.

In the meantime, Brian has called information to ask for the address of the Barnes & Noble in West Wichita.  Come to find out, there isn’t one.  At the same time that this is going on I’m calling Jen.  She confirms that she is indeed at Borders.  Sigh of relief.  Great, we are at the right place.  Thank the Lord!

We do our thing there and we get done around 4:45 PM.  I’m starving and want to go somewhere to eat.  We had full intention of going to Philippine Grille until Brian pointed out what time it was.  And I had promised both Henry (Brian’s boss) and Ashley that I would meet them for racquetball at 5:00 PM.  So now dinner is scratched and I’m changing into workout shorts while Brian is driving.  We get to the Y around 5:10 PM.  Brian just dropped me off.  He uses every excuse not to play these days.  But that’s cool because Henry and Deb came so we got to play doubles with them.  It was fun.

We got done at 7:00 PM and promptly went to Chipotle to pig out.  Now I’m home and I’m sleepy.  I don’t feel like doing homework so I’m blogging.  Yikes!

I think I’m going to turn in early tonight.  Have a good evening ya’ll!

November 7, 2004 | Posted by Ching under Life

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Good Workout Day

This week has been a good workout week.  Since I didn’t get to play racquetball on Sunday because I was in horrible shape after drinking too much the night before, I vowed that I would workout as much as I could this week.  On Wednesday I did Circuit Step with Ashley.  Thursday, I did Step for an hour until 8:30 PM and then Ashley, Travis and I played racquetball until 10:00 PM.  We would’ve played longer I think, but the Y closes at 10:00 PM.

I didn’t get to work out yesterday because we had dinner plans.  We met Ashley and Travis and Jason and Erin at the Outback.  Had a nice dinner and then Ashley, Travis, brian and I went to see The Incredibles.  Erin and Jason didn’t go because Jason had to work.  Anyway, the movie is really good.  You all ought to go watch it!

This morning Ashley was supposed to do Step with me but she overslept so I did an hour of Step by myself.  After that I did 45 minutes of Hi/Low.  Sarah was going to do that with me but due to some miscommunication she did cardio (treadmill, elliptical etc) upstairs instead.  Misty and Sarah did PHAT (it stands for Pretty Hips Abs and Thighs) with me for 30 minutes.  So I worked out for over 2 hours in one day.  Isn’t that awesome?!

After that we had lunch at Samurai.  I went home, fixed Nick’s Flickr, took a nap, got up, showered and met Sarah at the mall for some hardcore shopping.  Just kidding.  It wasn’t really hardcore.

I just had to exchange a couple of shirts at Abercrombie & Fitch and Hollister.  What is up with the sizing these days?  I mean, I’ve always worn size small in everything so I picked up two shirts at both stores in size small only to find out that they are too small for me!

Our first stop was Abercrombie.  Remember the “I may not be perfect but parts of me are pretty awesome” shirt?  I had to exchange that for a medium.  I am NOT a freakin’ medium!!  I swear to God!  There’s a conspiracy out there against me.

While there though, I found that my two cropped sweatshirts went down to $29 instead of $39.  I just got them last week in Kansas City so I asked the girl nicely if I could get a price adjustment and she gave me $20 back (it was $22 something after taxes)!  Go me!  The stupid thing is we kept trying to put it back to my Abercrombie card and it wouldn’t go through.  Finally, she’s like “Are you sure this is the card that you use?”  And it hits me that we used our debit card!  That was a total retard moment!

So anyway, next stop Hollister.  I wanted to exchange my “Now Hiring for All Positions” shirt for a medium too.  I found a large and asked the girl if she could search for a medium in the back because the large one was all that was left on the shelf.  She comes back, no mediums.  So I say, I’ll take the large.  I try it on thinking it will be a little loose and it’s still somewhat fitted.  What the fuck?!  I am NOT a large!!

Sarah was holding a size medium sweater in her hand (the same one that I bought last week in gray; she got the dark blue one) and she promptly drops it and looks for a large.  What is the world coming to?  Everything is designed for skinny little twinkies!  There are no more cool stores with normal sizing!

Next stop Express.  I couldn’t find anything I wanted so I finally setlled for this knit tank with a matching scarf and I got another one of those strechy camisole tanks that I like with the lace trim across the front.  I got the cami in black because I already have it in white, cream and light blue.  Anyway, she rings up my total and she goes $150 something.  Again, what the fuck?!  I only picked up three things!  I knew that the sweater knit tank was like $49.50 and the cami was $24.50 so my question to her was, “How much was the scarf?”  The stupid scarf that goes with my tank is $68!!  Insane!!  I could’ve gotten one of the fancy tops for that price.  But then, I had to get it.  It makes the outfit.  The tank would be really plain otherwise.

I don’t think I can wear it to work, but I may wear it next weekend.  I’ll look like a veritable fashion plate.  LOL!

Now I think I’m going to nap.  We have poker tonight ($10 buy-in; so it works out that I just got $20 back from Abercrombie & Fitch) and I want to be awake for that.  Plus I’m hoping that a nap will get rid of this stupid headache!  Until next time!    

November 6, 2004 | Posted by Ching under Life

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Minors

I met with one of the academic advisors yesterday and I’ve got great news!  Even though I’m going to be stuck at WSU until spring of 2006 (because of the way that the MIS classes are structured and because they’re only offered during certain semesters) by the time I finally graduate I’ll end up with three minors: my computer science minor (which I had previously planned on), an accounting minor, and also management.  Isn’t that just awesome news?!  

November 2, 2004 | Posted by Ching under School

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Recap Continued

 


Brian’s Fantasy
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To continue my recap..  I make it to Orgins by 5:30 PM.  I get my makeup done.  Sarah and Savannah want dinner so they go down to Fusa.  Brian and I hit Hollister to continue our shopping binge.  He didn’t find anything of interest but I managed to buy quite a few things for myself.  I’m super excited to wear them!  Brian and I actually put together this outfit that consists of a red lacy spaghetti strap tank under a cropped fair isle sweater to wear with one of my denim mini skirts and then some cute leg warmers.  Still thinking about the proper shoes to wear with the outfit, though.  I got a couple of other things, but that was the main thing that Brian is proud of because he put it together.

After hitting a few other stores, Brian decides he is hungry so he goes downstairs for a pretzel.  Sarah and Savannah are still there eating so I show them my goodies.  I decide that I’m not hungry so I skip dinner.  Dumb idea!  You’ll understand later..

Fast forward to Erin and Jason’s halloween party.  I come as Tomb Raider and, for the first year ever, Brian decides to skip the costume.  Everyone had great costumes.  Erin was Marilyn Monroe, Kelly was Dorothy, Sarah and Savannah did coordinating bunny costumes, Aubrey was a football player.. Gosh there’s too many to list.  You’ll see them all in the Flickr album though.  I also put together a fun photoshow, if you’re so inclined and have a few minutes to spare.

The party was fun.  We played some poker and battle of the sexes.  They even took time to sing me happy birthday.  As you know, I don’t really like the attention so that was kind of embarrassing, but I’m glad that it was my birthday because I didn’t have to sing happy birthday.  I hate singing happy birthday because I’m so tone deaf that I can’t even sing the stupid freakin’ happy birthday song properly.  Thank God it was MY birthday so I was exempt from singing!  Anyway, that was really nice of them.

As the night wore on and the drinks kept pouring, I didn’t even realize I was getting a little too drunk.  Brian’s version of the evening consisted of me being loud and obnoxious.  Of course, all the other drunk people didn’t notice.  At least, I hope they didn’t.  Things are way, way different from a sober person’s perspective I guess..

I thought I was fine, but when Brian and I finally got home that’s when the shit hit the fan.  Brian said I passed out over the toilet, with my chin hanging on the edge.  He had to pick me up to take me to the bedroom.  He was actually surprised that I didn’t bruise because he said he dropped me!  I was so sick Brian said he stayed up until 5:30 AM or so just to make sure I would be okay.  The next day was the same.  Still queasy puky.  I was so close to canceling my birthday lunch with the family because at 12:30 PM I was still feeling nauseous.  Brian wouldn’t let me cancel lunch though so we went.

The sucky part is that I love Abuelo’s and all I could eat were bland chips and a side of rice.  I eventually was able to eat some chips with my favorite chili con queso with beef after I started feeling a little better but I was so disappointed that I couldn’t eat anything else.  We’ll just have to go again next time.

Anyway, we had planned on going shopping after lunch and playing some racquet ball from 5 to 7 PM but, because of the state I was in, we couldn’t do any of that.  It was no fun at all being hung over!  I think I may forsake drinking forever.  Brian sure doesn’t like it when I drink so I’m sure he’d support the decision.

BTW, dinner at Outback with Sarah, Benny, Ashley and Brian was pretty good.  I’m just so glad that I can start eating food again and not have to worry about it wanting to come back out.  After dinner we went over to Ashley’s to checkout their new PS2.  Pretty cool!

I guess this is it for now because I’m getting sleepy.  I’ll try to write a more interesting entry next time, instead of telling you how the weekend went.  Maybe I’ll write some fiction that could be non-fiction that will leave you wondering, did she or did she not?  Ha!  I think I may just do that next time.

November 1, 2004 | Posted by Ching under Life

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Recap

 


Erin
Originally uploaded by Ching.

This picture pretty much sums up what happened on Saturday night.  But let me start from the very beginning and give you a play by play of how the weekend went.

Friday night was spent at Raymond and Cherisse’s house.  He hosted a $20 buy-in poker game.  I made the mistake of freakin’ inviting Mano and he won.  Ugh.  No surprise there, though.

The funny thing is Mano lives just around the corner.  He lived so close that all he had to do was walk.  I knew that the game would be in his general vicinity so I told him when I invited him that it was right by his house and it turned out to be REALLY right by his house!

It was a pretty disappointing game.  Brian got knocked out first.  I got knocked out second.  I wore my lucky shirt, too!  Which I’ve proven now, doesn’t work on poker games, only on exams.  I wore the lucky “I’m blogging this..” shirt to my first VB exam and got a 102.  For the second VB exam I wore the same shirt and scored a 103.  Thinking that the luck would follow, I wore it to poker the same evening as exam number 2 and did horrible.  I wore it again on Friday night and again did poorly.  It’s just been a horrible week for poker altogether.

Saturday morning we woke up really early to drive to KC to eat some sushi at one of my favorite restos at the Plaza, Kona Grill.  After eating some good food, we went and hit Armani Exchange, Abercrombie and Fitch and J.Crew for a major shopping binge.  It almost felt like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman (not quite the $$ damage, though, but close).

Due to our shopping binge, we left KC late which made me run late for my makeup appointment at Origins.  Sarah was a real trooper, though.  She rescheduled my appointment for 5:30 PM.  We just drove straight from KC to the mall to make my appointment and didn’t even stop at the house.

TO BE CONTINUED…

Okay, I’ll have to continue this later.. I gotta go get ready for dinner at the Outback with Sarah, Brian and Sarah’s friend Benny (we get to meet him for the first time). I will definitely pickup where I left off when I return, I promise!!

November 1, 2004 | Posted by Ching under Life

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