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It’s a Chingism!
Posted on December 10, 2008 by Ching under Family, Food and Drink.
So Brian and I stopped by the mall on the way home from work today. It’s that time of the year when I have to take my wedding ring to Zales for a check up (usually June and December is when this happens). While we were waiting for the sales associate to return my ring, I asked Brian where his parents were going to dinner tonight… (I had gotten out of work a few minutes later than usual and he was on the phone with his dad when I got in the car. He mentioned that they were on their way to dinner.) He told me they had decided to go to Outback Steakhouse.
“And you didn’t want to join them?” I asked. I remembered that I had a $10 off coupon to Outback somewhere in the abyss of a purse I carry around with me. “Call them and ask them if we can join them,” I urged.
Much to my chagrin, I found out that the coupon is only valid from November 1 to December 1. I am sadly over a week too late to redeem the offer. Of course, we still met his parents for dinner. I had to tell them about being excited about going to Outback at first because I finally had reason to use my coupon, which I didn’t realize was already expired. It’s still nice to have dinner with them, but it would have been nicer with a $10 discount on our meal. LOL.
So we had regular dinner conversation, along with a few tweets in between (I can’t help it; I have twitterrhea or so Brian says). All the while they kept complaining about how slow our server was. They had asked him for more bread and he came back with it ten minutes later when our food came. And then Brian asked for steak sauce, which took forever. My extra side of rice took forever. The refill on Donna’s coffee? You guessed it. That took forever, too.
Needless to say, we weren’t very happy with the service. However, we weren’t upset enough to say anything either. I think everyone in the guy’s section received the same sort of lack luster service. David said that the lady next to us had asked him for tartar sauce, and he didn’t bring it until after she was finished with her meal. Naturally, he was oblivious to her “It’s too late now comment.” My very observant father-in-law picked up on it, though.
So when it finally came time to pay, I wrestled with Brian to put my coupon in the billfold. He’s like, “Baby! Quit it! It’s expired!”
“If they take it, they take it. If they don’t, they don’t. No harm, no foul.” I kept trying to get him to put it in there. Half joking, half serious because you know me. I’m the queen of coupons.
Brian actually won that argument, but I had to make the following comment as I waved the proverbial white flag: “You all said he was slow!“
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Phase 10, A Thanksgiving Tradition
Posted on November 29, 2008 by Ching under Family, Games.
We played Phase 10 after Thanksgiving supper. I got stuck at phase 5 for almost an hour. It was so frustrating. I finally caught up. I reached phase 9 and was in a three-way tie with my father-in-law David and grandma for the win. In the end grandma prevailed and won by reaching phase 10 first.
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Thanksgiving 2008 at the Brubakers’
Posted on November 29, 2008 by Ching under Family, Flickr, Food and Drink.
We spent Thanksgiving day at Brian’s parents’ house. This is pretty much tradition for us, except for 2006 when Brian’s parents spent Thanksgiving in Houston and we had to do it ourselves. Thankfully, Piccadilly sells a good Thanksgiving feast. It was probably more expensive than simply cooking ourselves, but it saved us time and it was delicious. I think better than I could have done.
Brian’s mom is a fantastic cook so I’m glad we don’t usually have to fend for ourselves. Granted Piccadilly’s food was good and it turned out okay for everyone, but it doesn’t compare to the food she prepares. Here are some photos taken on Thanksgiving day…
Brian’s dad…
I think we all went a little stir-crazy while waiting for the food to be ready, specially with the aroma wafting from the oven and permeating the entire house.
Even Scooter was restless…
My mother-in-law Donna makes the best deviled eggs…
We had both ham and turkey this year…
Everyone likes to nap after a good meal…
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Playing Cards with the Grandparents
Posted on November 23, 2008 by Ching under Family, Flickr, Games.
Here are pictures of us playing cards yesterday before I left to pick Brian up at the airport. Amanda and her daughters Jessica and Olivia played cards with us also.
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Brian’s Welcome Home Gift
Posted on November 22, 2008 by Ching under Family, Life, Wishlist.
I picked this up yesterday at Barnes & Noble for Brian as a “welcome home” gift. This week has actually gone by pretty quickly. It hasn’t been bad, but I am really glad that he’s back. I have missed him so much.
Being busy has helped me get through the week a lot easier. Let’s see, I dropped him off at the airport on Sunday and that was the day I came home and crashed and spent most of the day in bed because of a fever.
I missed work on Monday to go to the doctor. Went to see my parents and then came home and crashed again. I was starting to feel better though.
I was back to work on Tuesday, followed by dinner with Jen that evening. I picked up a really nice business card holder at Lucinda’s. I think this is what guilted me into buying a “welcome home” gift for Brian. Believe it or not, my tiny little business card holder cost more than his Watchmen book.
Wednesday night was spent having dinner with my in-laws. We had pork chops, and mac and cheese, and corn. Yum! I got to take some leftovers for lunch at work the next day. Speaking of which, I think I left the container on my desk. That is going to be really stinky on Monday. Ugh.
Thanksgiving dinner at Cherry Creek was on Thursday night. Grandma and grandpa were nice enough to invite me, so I got to have dinner with them, David, Donna, and their friend John.
Jan was looking forward to us hanging out since Brian was out of town so we scheduled our time on Friday before poker. She took me out to dinner at Jason’s Deli and we ran around Bradley Fair for a while. She had a coupon to claim at Origins and we checked out the closeout sale at Harold’s where I found some things I liked (like a couple of argyle sweaters and some blouses that would be good for work) but their prices, even though discounted, were still too high.
We also went to Franklin Covey and Barnes & Noble where I picked up a couple of things for Jen’s birthday coming up. Then I took her home and headed to poker, which was a bad idea because I’m in a bit of a rut. I didn’t even make it to break. 🙁
Today I went to the gym, locked myself out of the house, had breakfast with my rescue party at Jimmy’s Egg, played Phase 10 with the grandparents for three hours, and then finally went to pick up Brian at the airport. Now he is back home, so the week has gone by relatively quickly.
Anyway, time to give Brian a body rub. The post about Jimmy’s Egg is still coming. Stay tuned!
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