Archive for the year 2003
Brian’s Birthday Tattoo
Posted on June 15, 2003 by Ching under Life.
Brian and I are both miserable. I don’t know how he caught a cold since he’s notorious for cleaning his hands with antibacterial stuff every ten minutes. “How the hell did you catch a cold?” I asked him. “From shaking someone’s hands,” he speculated. “I thought you were using your antibacterial stuff?” “I am!” he insisted.
You know what I think? I think it’s Bath and Body Works‘ fault. Brian loved the antibacterial spray and used the hell out of it. Now that they don’t carry it anymore, he’s had to switch to the gel stuff and he doesn’t like the way it feels so he’s probably slacked off. As a result, he’s passed his cold to me. It sucks because not only am I totally miserable, I’m totally cranky as well.
Brian was apologetic about infecting me but he goes, “That’s what being married is all about. Whatever I get, you get. Whatever you get, I get. Don’t you remember them saying the phrase in sickness and in health? Or weren’t you paying attention?”
It was a busy weekend for a couple of sick folks, nonetheless. It was Brian’s birthday and, to commemorate his birthday falling on Friday the 13th this year, he decided to get a tattoo. He got it from Body Ink and Steel in Newton, where he got his first tattoo. Here are some pictures..
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Sarah’s Birthday
Posted on June 8, 2003 by Ching under Life.
I’ve spent the last few nights at work creating dozens of origami tulips in preparation for Sarah’s birthday. I wanted to do something special for her and I didn’t have any money. After bills, the $15 contribution I gave to Ashley (I gotta hand it to her, she’s an amazing fundraiser — she got nine people to go in on it and collected $110 altogether) toward an Express giftcard (our group gift to Sarah), a new string bikini (the placed bandana print in fresco) from J.Crew, the money that I’d reserved for Sarah’s birthday cake and my hair appointment on Monday I didn’t have any left to spend on decorations. 
Brian got me these streamers but I knew I needed something more. So I made a whole bunch of tulips. I had everyone write birthday greetings to Sarah on the excess paper so we could decorate her walls with them. The end result? Decorations that don’t burn a hole in your wallet.
Katie helped me decorate Sarah’s desk after she left on Thursday night. We didn’t have a lot of time so instead of actually decorating, it was more like we toilet-papered her whole cubicle. I was afraid that she would get mad because it was extremely messy after we were done. Katie, Joni and Wade had this great idea of printing and enlarging Sarah’s work ID picture. They made a whole bunch of copies and posted it everywhere, including the bathrooms! I made a bunch of “Happy Birthday, Sarah!!!” signs so that she would them as she came in to work. If some people didn’t know Sarah before, they were sure to recognize her after all of the signs and posters.
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Lake Afton Car Show
Posted on June 8, 2003 by Ching under Life.
Brian and I had a lot of fun driving to the annual car show at Lake Afton. It was even more fun when we finally got there. I don’t know what Brian was thinking. I mean, it’s not like it’s his first time driving out there. It is an annual event after all. He must have had titties on the brain or something because we ended up at Pleasures (a local nudy bar). Of course, he vehemently denies even knowing where Pleasures is located. We called his father and eventually got ourselves on the right street.
There’s really not much to do at the car show but walk around gawk at cars and take pictures. That’s exactly what we did for a couple of hours. I’m going to post some of our pictures here (probably not all of them because I took almost a hundred) once I get them resized.
After the car show we took Brian’s mom home, bought some candy (for Brian’s work) at Wal-Mart, grubbed at KFC and then headed on to Rigodon practice. It was so much fun today because we got to stay for the whole thing. Usually we only stay for the first part because we’re always running off to do other plans. Sometimes it’s dinner, sometimes it’s a movie.. But there’s always something. Tonight we were there for three hours (from five to eight).
Brian endured the whole ordeal while I, on the other hand, had a blast. We learned a couple of line dances (not country line dancing more like ballroom line dancing, if there is such a thing) during break. I like learning new dances. So I had a lot of fun.
When Brian and I arrived home (after dropping off his parents’ tickets to the gala next week) we soaked in the tub together, took a quick shower and had even more fun! I guess you could say he was rewarded for being such a good boy today!
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Human Guniea Pig
Posted on June 4, 2003 by Ching under Life.
I have truly become a human guinea pig!
I’ve been doing surveys online for at least a couple of months now. Yesterday I received a stick of deodorant to use for the next three weeks. Then I will be taking a survey about it online. I’ve always like participating in product testing. Several years ago, I participated in a product test for gel pens. Obviously, their tests were successful and the products were well-received because now you see gel pens everywhere. I gives me great pride to know that I tried them first!
I guess deodorants are another story. Brian thinks it’s a bad idea. He goes, “I’ll laugh if you start walking around with your arms in the air because you can’t put them down due to an armpit irritation.” I doubt that will really happen. But then, I don’t know what I’m trying (other than it’s a deodorant stick). Being that I have voluntarily subjected myself to this, I doubt that I could sue should anything bad happen. But that’s being pessimistic. I’m sure it’s just like any old deodorant stick. It can’t possibly kill me!
I told Brian about it last night while we were laying in bed, watching tv. I mentioned the paragraph in the instruction letter that came with it which states:
If you experience a medical emergency related to this product, discontinue use and call 651-632-6180.
I suppose so they can do a cover up. They’ll mop up everyone who knows that you took this product so they can’t get sued. After which they will disavow any knowledge of your being a part of the program. Just kidding!
Brian, paranoid freak that he is, goes “Fuck that! I think you should send it back to them and highlight all of the things that you disagree with.”
He’s just being paranoid. Those disclaimers come standard on everything. And I mean, EVERYTHING! This is the US after all.
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Online Poker
Posted on June 3, 2003 by Ching under Poker.
The first time Brian tried online poker he didn’t like it. He said he didn’t have a clue what he was doing. So we decided to sit together and play as one person. Actually, he played and I was his advisor. He’d ask me, “Do I call, fold, raise?” It made me feel good, being the beginner that I am, to be able to show someone how to play (it’s not like he had much of a choice, we’re the only two people living here). I’d give him silly suggestions like, wait at least five to ten seconds before you raise or don’t raise too much money or too quickly so they don’t think you have a really good hand and they’ll stay in.. Or don’t think about it too long before you call because they’ll know you have a crappier hand than they do.. Or if this guy (someone who we’ve observed never bluffs) bets high just fold because he probably has a really good hand. It’s silly but you can kind of tell what type of hand they have based on the way they play and react. As for me, I’m just glad that it’s online and not in person because even though I can control how quickly or slowly I click on the button I’m not able to control my many facial expressions that, for sure, give me away. 
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