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Brian is Getting Hotter by the Day
Posted on May 30, 2011 by Ching under Health, Life.
Brian looks really good in this photo. Don’t you guys think so?
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Hai’s Last Lunch (Until She Comes Back to Visit)
Posted on May 28, 2011 by Ching under Life.
Gina Ann, Misty, Brian and I had lunch with Hai and Ricky today at Chipotle. It was Hai’s last lunch before they embark on the long drive to Denver. We will miss you, Hai!
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Hai is Moving to Denver
Posted on May 27, 2011 by Ching under Life.
Gina Ann hosted a cookout at her place in honor of Hai since Hai will be leaving for Denver this weekend. Her final class is tomorrow. I am so sad. It seems like we just met yesterday and now she’s leaving. Booo! 🙁
Here are some pictures that we took at the cookout…
Nancy and her large melons…
Brian manned the grill. As he was grilling the chicken breasts, hamburger patties and hotdogs, he had total grill envy. Coley has a huge deck and a monster grill! Their house is made for cookouts!
Zumba husbands (or boyfriend in Ricky’s case)… =)
Brian with wives #2 and #3… He loves the attention.
Ricky and Hai…
Hai and Nancy…
Gina Ann..
We couldn’t help playing with the tequila guns.
We had a lot of fun. Thank you to Gina Ann and Coley for having us over. Sorry about the late night. You guys are the best!
P.S. Hai, I will miss you! I’m looking forward to Zumba tomorrow, but at the same time I’m sad because it is your last class. Please come back and visit often!
P.P.S. Gina and Karla have more pictures. I think you need to be friends with them on Facebook in order to see them, though. You’ll just have to join our little Zumba crew!
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Truck Stop Memories
Posted on May 17, 2011 by Ching under Life.
A conversation Brian and I had while we were driving to KC over the weekend…
ME: Was that Beto Junction?
BRIAN: Yes.
ME: Darn it! I wanted to stop there.
BRIAN: Why?
ME: I love Beto Junction! It’s my favorite truck stop.
BRIAN: [giving me a strange, you-are-a-crazy-woman look] Have you even been there? And when?
ME: It was 12-13 years ago. Before we met. I just remember making a pit stop and browsing their store. They had these cool, funny t-shirts inside milk cartons. They had clever sayings on them. It looked like you were buying milk but, when you open it, there’s a t-shirt inside. Every time I drive by Beto Junction, it makes me think of that day I was in there and saw those clever shirts in the cool packaging. What about you? Don’t you have any fond truck stop memories?
BRIAN: Wow. I try to forget all my truck stop memories.
LOL. I think most of Brian’s truck stop memories consist of creepy truckers, filthy bathrooms and bad food. I try to block those from memory also. =P
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Good Friday was a Great Friday
Posted on April 24, 2011 by Ching under Life, Zumba.
Brian was worn out from the hectic week he had last week. The week of the National Sales Meeting always drains him. While it’s fun and exciting, the long days are exhausting. We talked about taking last Friday or Monday off, but we both had stuff going on and couldn’t miss work. The first day that we both could feasibly take off was Friday, April 22 (which happens to be Good Friday).
Since we were both off work, we figured we could clean house and do some chores. The house specially needed attention because Brian and I have been so busy the last few weeks that it’s been messier than usual. Brian had invited his ex-girlfriend (from almost 15 years ago; the one he was with right before we got together) over for dinner so we really needed to tidy up the place.
Anyway, something came up and she couldn’t make it. Other than making too much spaghetti (and having to eat the leftovers the next day), things turned out okay. Brian and I actually work better on a time crunch. I didn’t want dirty clothes all over the laundry room when we had guests over so I didn’t do laundry in my usual leisurely way, which usually takes all weekend and sometimes carries over into Monday night. I got all the laundry done (all four loads) before 5 PM. It was quite a productive day overall.
Brian and I ended the evening at Lizards Lounge. We were mostly there to see Skrapyard, but the first two acts (Kingshifter and Death Valley Wolfriders) actually weren’t bad. Brian really liked Kingshifter. I appreciated Death Valley Wolfriders for their Black Sabbath cover. Both bands had some good original songs, but not having seen or heard of these guys before, it was nice to hear a familiar song.
Skrapyard was amazing. This was Brian’s first time watching them perform live. I’d played some of their songs for him before and he really liked it. “Deeds of Man” was the highlight of the evening for me. I love the mellow part of the song toward the end.
Charlie Withers is awesome! I told Brian that we’ll have to drive to the West side Granite City to watch him perform solo one day.
Since Danielle bailed on us, I falsely assumed it was going to be just the two of us (Brian and me) all night. We were just lounging around the house (killing time before the show, letting our spaghetti dinner digest), when I got a call from Doug. He and Tammy were already at Lizards Lounge. Brian and I were both like, “Crap!” And then we scrambled to get cash (it’s a “cash only” bar) and head out there. It’s a good thing that the bar is pretty close by. I think we were there in less than ten minutes.
I’m not sure if the bands were too loud for them, but they were both really good sports and seemed to have a good time. I feel awkward inviting people to Lizards Lounge because of its bad rap. I’d never been there before until Jenni invited us to see Surphace there a few weeks ago. I had heard so many bad things about the place before, I was totally surprised that I liked it. I think it was really bad before when people smoked inside. I had such low expectations of the place that they were quite easy to exceed. Then again, I’m pretty easy to please. I’m not a “bar snob” like Misty. =P Give me cheap drinks and good music and I’m all set. LOL. I could totally add LL to our regular rotation.
Brian said he figured out why I liked their fuzzy navels there. He watched the bar tender make my drink and he said they put some vodka in it. Instead of just using peach schnapps and orange juice, they do peach schnapps and orange juice and vodka. So it’s like a cross between a screwdriver and a fuzzy navel. I’ve decided to call it a fuzzy screwdriver. LOL.
The two glasses of coconut rum and pineapple juice that I had at home after dinner and the fuzzy screwdrivers I had at the bar made me feel quite fuzzy the next day. I never really get hung over, but I wobbled to the restroom when I got up the next morning. I still made it to step class, though. I even had enough energy to spare for Zumba, but decided to skip it (since Gina is out of town). I’ll tell you more about Saturday later today. Check back in a few hours.
Anyway, we had a really great Friday. I love, love, love Skrapyard!
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