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Our Weekend with Molly

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Ching under Babies, Videos.

We had the opportunity to watch Molly over the weekend a couple of weeks ago. Tita Sol went to Nebraska and needed someone to look after Molly while she was away. We immediately jumped at the chance. I didn’t have to take time off work this time around because we only had to watch her over the weekend, but we did cancel all of our plans so that we could spend all of our time with Molly.

We picked her up from Tita Sol’s house on Friday right after work. We’d recently started Salsa Fridays, but we had to skip this week so that we could hang out at home with Molly. Our friends wanted us to come out on Saturday night, but we told them that we couldn’t because we had Molly and we didn’t want to leave her at home. Not that we’re worried that she would destroy anything because she is the sweetest, most well-behaved, most perfect dog ever. We just didn’t want her to be lonesome.

We get made fun of quite a bit because every time we watch Molly, we make all of these plans to take her out and show her a good time or just hang out at home with her. We can’t help it, though. She’s like our child. If you have your child for the weekend, don’t you want to spend every waking moment with them?

So anyway, we made plans to take Molly for a walk along the river. Misty and her two dogs were going to walk with us also. It rained though, so that nixed our plans. Our friends wanted us to come out to celebrate April’s birthday, but we couldn’t leave Molly. Somehow they ended up deciding to celebrate at home. Cory and April were nice enough to let us bring Molly so that we could go.

We had a great time at the Phelpi, celebrating April’s birthday. We ended up having a small six-person poker tournament, which I ended up winning. I think it was because everyone was drunk but me. Yes, including Brian. Ever since he learned he can drink wine, he hasn’t been without. He was a source of amusement for Jay, and I suspect everyone else that night. I was a little worried, but did find it hilarious. He reminded me of that kid on YouTube who was acting high after a dental visit.

We stayed up way too late that night. I think I ended up skipping my Sunday workout that weekend. Mostly because I was tired from the day before, but also because I knew that we’d be taking Molly home that night and I wanted to spend as much time as I could with her.

We really love having Molly over. I can’t wait for us to watch her again!

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More of Cass Elliot

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Ching under Videos.

Just in case you’re not familiar with Cass Elliot or Mama Cass, here are some of my favorites (what Brian’s been suffering through the last couple of days):

P.S. If you can’t see the video then you’re probably reading this post through my Facebook notes. Click here for the full blog post (which isn’t really a blog entry, just a series of YouTube vids).

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Driving Brian Crazy with My Horrible Singing

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Ching under Life, Videos.

Didn’t feel like getting up today. Probably because I didn’t get much sleep or rest this weekend. I was looking forward to my spa treatment, but they called me at the last minute to reschedule. The therapist who was going to perform the service called in sick. I think it worked out for the best because I was on call this weekend and I didn’t really want to get a phone call during the treatment when I’m supposed to be relaxing. Also, they are going to give me a warm stone foot massage to compensate me for the inconvenience of having to reschedule. So I was disappointed, but I think the free add-on makes up for it. Now I have a two and a half hour spa treatment on Sunday to look forward to… Incidentally, this actually works with my workout schedule as well because group fitness classes are canceled at North YMCA for this coming weekend so they can resurface the studio floors. So I won’t have to rush from the gym to the spa clinic. It was a blessing in disguise, really.

So yesterday when they called me to reschedule, Brian had flashbacks of our bad experience at Healing Waters years ago when we both actually took vacation days and were planning our day around our spa visit and then they canceled on us. Same issue, sick therapists. Brian who is a bit of a “Negative Nancy” and was reliving the bad Healing Waters experience started bitching, moaning, and complaining and even took to his Twitter to rant and rave. I’m like, “It’s all good… No big deal… It just gets pushed back a week…” I was honestly disappointed because I could’ve really used a good massage and some RNR after the rough Saturday I had, but I learned long ago that it’s pointless to get upset over things you have no control over. Plus, there’s usually a silver lining to everything. As it turns out, moving it to next Sunday actually works out better overall.

This morning, I got up and got ready for work though I didn’t really feel like it. After a bowl of Fiber One Shredded Wheat cereal, I was good to go. Pretty much. I was actually in a pretty good mood. I was in a “singing in the car” mood, which was not so great for Brian because I’m tone deaf. LOL.

I popped in my Cass Elliot (Mama Cass to most folks) CD and proceeded to sing along, in my special off-key car singing voice, to Make Your Own Kind of Music, One Way Ticket, It’s Getting Better etc. I think Brian was ready to strangle himself. Of course, he couldn’t because he was driving, but I think that might have been why he was driving so erratically this morning.

He was like, “This is worse than Kings of Leon!” Yeah, he’s a party pooper.

We both had dental appointments today so we took off work a couple of hours early this afternoon. I was still in Cass Elliot singing mode, though. After the dentist, we stopped by the house to change out of our work clothes before heading to his parents’ house for dinner. Brian’s parents said they had an anniversary gift for us so we figured we’d come by and the four of us could have dinner and all that jazz.

As we were about to walk out the door, Brian asked me if I wanted to take my car or his truck. I replied with, “It doesn’t matter to me either way. Let’s take the truck.” Not really thinking about it. I just figured, Crichton doesn’t ever get driven so it would be nice to drive him once in a while.

So we’re driving South on Webb Road to his parents’ house when I felt a song coming on and it didn’t dawn on me that I couldn’t sing along to my music because my Cass Elliot CD was in the car! We were just past Douglas when I realized how he’d tricked me! He wanted to take the truck. He was hoping that I would choose the truck. In doing so, there would be no singing in the car on the way to dinner. What an evil, manipulative, conniving trickster!

“I was wondering how long it’d take you to figure it out,” he said laughing.

I’ll let him win this round, but he needs to look out. I’m going to sing to him on the way to work even louder and more off-key than ever before tomorrow morning. =P

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Lady Gaga’s Poker Face – iPhone Apps Version

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Ching under Videos.

Jen and Armando showed us this YouTube video today. Some people just have way too much time on their hands! Kidding aside, I’m just jealous because I didn’t think of it first. LOL.

Actually, I couldn’t have done this because I don’t own an iPhone, let alone four. And, I’m tone deaf. So there’s no way I could have done this even if I tried. Some people are just more creative and talented than others. All the untalented, dull people can do is mock the people who are doing interesting, clever things.

Kudos to Kim Yeo Hee (aka Applegirl) for figuring out how to do this and sharing it with the world. You go, girl!

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For Those Who Think I’m Evil

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Ching under Life, Money, Videos.

I actually gave in to Brian last week. I’d been trying to hold out on turning our AC on until June. Last week, however, I’d had enough of Brian’s incessant whining. I finally agreed to turn on our AC and leave it on. I rather liked the $60 power bill we had last month. I doubt it will ever be that low again until fall. Ugh.

I don’t really do much to save on energy, but holding out on using your AC makes a huge difference. This is because ACs use the bulk of home energy consumption. I never set our AC lower than 78 degrees, another point of contention between Brian and me. He likes it at a constant 72 degrees. Believe it or not, those 6 degrees amount to a lot of dollars — specially on hot summer days.