Archive for the year 2003
Felix and Hobbie
Posted on March 22, 2003 by Ching under Babies.
Not much going on today.. Just staying home, washing dishes, doing laundry, working on daddy’s birthday present, working out and just being bumming around the house (not necessarily in that order). It’s about six o’clock and I’ve barely begun laundry, I haven’t done the dishes and I’m still trying to get motivated to work out. The only thing I’ve accomplished today is bumming around the house and tweaking dad’s suprise. Two out of four ain’t bad. I’m performing at 50% productivity today. It’s so weird because now that we’ve got a working furnace and it’s not so cold inside the house I can’t get myself to work out when during the week that our furnace was broke I woke up at seven everyday and worked out for an hour — I even had to work out in a turtleneck because it was so cold. Now that conditions are more conducive to working out I can’t get myself to do it. Isn’t that something?
Anyway, I took a break earlier. I played with the cats and took some pictures. Felix and Hobbie were helping me procrastinate. Now Blogger is my distraction. I better quit this procrastinating crap already, otherwise I won’t be able to cross off the things on my to-do list. Here are some pictures of Felix and Hobbie to keep you company. I may not be back for a few days because I have to relocate Golden Sushi to a more reliable server (as soon as Fateback’s servers are back up) and work on the new webzine.
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Baby Shower
Posted on March 16, 2003 by Ching under Family, Life.
God! I am so ticked off! I wrote this long schpiel about how mom and I went to the baby shower at Tita Rose’s house yesterday and how I had to speed on the way home so I could make it there before Brian got home (he comes home for lunch) and everything and then I encountered this run-time error and my whole post just vanished into thin air! I am so freakin’ upset!
Anyway, I’m not going to whine (too late for that) and I’m not going to retype the whole thing either. Here are the pictures. Enjoy.
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New Furnace
Posted on March 12, 2003 by Ching under Life.
Some pictures of our brand-spankin’ new furnace and AC unit. Glad that’s finally over. Now we start paying. When our tax refund comes back we’ll start to see some light at the end of the tunnel (the tunnel of debt, that is).
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Ritchie’s 25th Birthday
Posted on March 11, 2003 by Ching under Life.
Today is a super-duper great day — not just because it’s Ritchie’s 25th birthday either! Although that is definitely a cause to celebrate! Happy birthday, Ritchie!
When I arrived home today I was greeted by the wonderful sound of a working furnace. It was music to my ears! Nevermind that the hallway was in shambles and that there was enough sheetrock dust all over the place to fill a small tub, it was all worth it. I’m so thankful for David coming over to help Brian install the new door on our utility closet (the old one had to be removed so that the service guys could have access, not necessarily replaced though, but there again — Brian hated that door so it had to be replaced — so what if it doesn’t match the door to the water heater a mere two inches away from it). Call today’s blog an ode to my father-in-law Dave because without his help I don’t think that the the door would have gotten installed.
At any rate, Brian made me take a shower with him because he was feeling grody from working on the door and being covered in sheetrock dust. It took some convincing on his part too because showering at night is really not my thing. My routine is to shower in the morning when I wake up, which I will do again tomorrow, but I decided to give in and shower with Brian. Oh, what a glorious feeling it is to be able to step out of the shower and not have to run to the bedroom where the space heater is! I can walk around the house naked (or at least partially clothed) again, instead of having to wear layers of clothing to keep warm. I could go on and on but you get the picture.
Allelujah! It truly is a wonderful day!
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Introduce Me as Your Wife Dammit
Posted on March 10, 2003 by Ching under Life.
I’ve never ever wanted to be a geek so badly in my entire life! All of the cool geeks are at SXSW having fun. I wish that Brian and I could go at least just once. Sadly, I don’t think that he’ll go for it. I could play up the film segment of it. I still don’t think that he’ll go for it. Maybe if it was Sundance?
[ Don’t bother clicking on it (Sundance link). Their site is broke for some reason. The page just keeps twitching and won’t load. /]
So anyway we signed our loan today. Oh yeah — didn’t you hear? We had to take out a loan to pay for our new air conditioning unit and furance. It wasn’t too bad, though. Fahnestock is doing a special right now where you get the furnace free if you pay for the AC unit and coil and all of the other stuff they charge you for.. Our total $3100. Normal people would have been able to take that from their savings — not us! We are so far in debt that we don’t have anything extra to even shoot over to a savings account. So everytime shit like this happens we have to charge it or get a loan or something, which puts us into even more debt. It’s a vicious cycle! At this rate I’ll never be able to have children!
[ Have pity on me and click on the “Make a Donation” button at the left to make a donation to the “help Ching get out of debt so she can start having children” fund. Every penny will be greatly appreciated. I promise I won’t spend it on anything foolish like another coatrack — err, Bowflex! /]
After we signed our loan papers at the Intrust Bank loan office downtown, Brian and I walked around the corner to Picadilly Express. I’d forgotten how inexpensive their food is! It’s good food, too! So it’s a really great value! For the same amount of money that we would normally spend at a fast food joint (about ten bucks) we both got rotisserie chicken and two side dishes (I got mashed potatoes and some kind of chicken noodle casserole — looks yucky but tastes yummy — while Brian got mashed potatoes and corn).
It’s not as good as the rotisserie chicken at Red Rock Canyon Grill (about $25 per person — entree only; salads, starters/appetizers and desserts are a la carte; plus potent potables and gratuity are extra) but it’s definitely ten times better than any kind of chicken that you can get for the price that you pay.
Speaking of paying, here’s the fun part. Out of the blue the cashier lady just goes “I know you from somewhere,” to Brian Not “Don’t I know you from somewhere?” mind you, which is the way that the statement is normally presented. She was pretty freakin’ sure of herself. Well, kind of — I’m not sure how to describe it really. She didn’t form her statement in a questioning way which signifies certainty but she didn’t speak it with confidence either which implied some doubt.
Anyway, I didn’t believe her at first. I thought, “Yeah — whatever.” She was no where near our age bracket and she looked like a church-going bible-thumper (I’m totally stereotyping her by the way that she looks here — forgive me, I do that from time to time). There ain’t no way that she’s met Brian before. Well, not in this lifetime at least.
So naturally when she pulled a rabbit out of her hat, I was both impressed and surprised at the same time. “Your name is Brian right?” she persisted. “That’s right! How did you know that?” I asked with my eyes rounder than a billiard ball. Picture a two year old who has discovered a present with no name on it. I was totally intrigued.
“I knew it! I knew that I’d known you from somewhere, she continued. “I’m Marlissa’s mom.” Marlissa being an ex-girlfriend of Brian’s from several years ago.
I’d met her (Marlissa, not her mom) before. Well, seen her at least. I never got introduced (Brian is just terrible about this sort of stuff). I think it would have been awkward anyway because it was at a Subway by my old job (yep, another lunchtime run-in) and she was on the other side of the counter.
She and Brian didn’t acknowledge each other at all. Well, they did in a way.. She made our sandwiches and took our payment after all but you wouldn’t have known that they knew each other before. Brian didn’t tell me that she was one of his ex-girlfriends until after we had left.
Her mom is definitely way more cordial than she is. From the limited information and experience that I have had with both of them, I’ve observed that the at-one-time crack-head Marlissa (Brian said that when he was dating Danielle — another one of his ex-girlfriends — Marlissa’s dealer lived a couple of houses down and they’d see her drive by — she actually even stopped once, I guess this was when she had a more pleasant disposition but drugs can do that, turn otherwise disagreeable people friendly) and her mom have very little in common except for their genes (maybe).
As Brian and I were driving back to my work, I asked him why he neglected to introduce (after they had their nice “how have you been” chit-chat) me just out of curiosity. He goes, “Why?” His point being that it was totally unnecessary. She was immaterial — they hadn’t seen each other in five years, probably more, and they’d probably never see each other again. I had no reply really. I just get KSP sometimes. Picture Felix when he feels he’s being ignored.
“I don’t know baby,” I finally replied. “I just wanted to be introduced as your wife dammit!”
[ Anyway, he knows I’m not being serious. I just wanted to give him a hard time. /]
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