Archive for September 2004
Full Day
Posted on September 9, 2004 by Ching under Life, Poker, School.
Today has been a full day — and it’s not even over yet. Stayed up last night to finish my homework. Went to work early. Got there at 7:30 AM. Worked until 5:00 PM. Rushed to WSU for my 5:35 PM Visual Basic .NET class. Got done with class at 6:55 PM or so. Talked to Dave about some software that he wants to use to facilitate our group project..
Rushed home to pick up Brian. Brian and I go to Red Robin to have dinner with his parents, grandparents, Bill, Lisa and kids. After dinner we stop by an Intrust ATM to get cash for a poker game at Brendan’s later tonight. It will only be the second time we’ve played poker for money.
Anyway, we come home. I note today’s expenditures on our checkbook register (it’s in my computer on an Excel spreadsheet because we’re always running out of checkbook registers). Check some email..
I wake up Dave (who is already asleep, I think — I feel so horrible) to ask him about this software, thinking that I might already have it, and I don’t. So now I will meet him tomorrow at school so he can give me the software to install in my computer. I hope it’s as useful as he says it is. I really don’t want to install any more crap on my computer because it’s full of crap as it is.
So anyway, now I’m just blogging while we’re waiting for our 10:30 PM when poker at Brendan’s starts. Brian is playing on UB. I guess he’s practicing. He’ll need it. I plan on playing really well so that I don’t have to pay money out of my own pocket for my bikini wax on Saturday and haircut on Sunday. Heh. Heh.
Let’s hope I win some money!
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UPDATE: I lost! Boo! Hoo! Good thing the buy-in was only $10! I’ll get them back on Tuesday, though! =P
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New Shoes
Posted on September 7, 2004 by Ching under Life, Wishlist.
I finally broke down and bought a pair of good, fancy shoes yesterday. I’ve been wanting a nice pair of shoes to wear with my work clothes for months. I’ve just been to frugal to actually do it. I wish that I could’ve gotten a pair of Kenneth Cole – Wall Street but I cannot find them in stock anywhere. I had to settle for a pair of Kenneth Cole – Work Outs but they are slides/mules too so they’re pretty easy to wear. I can wear them with my suits, skirts and even jeans so even though I paid $160 for them (after taxes) I think they’re a practical choice. Besides, Brian bought himself a $250 tank that he’s not even playing with. I deserve a nice pair of shoes that I’m actually going to wear!
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Change of Plans
Posted on September 4, 2004 by Ching under Family.
Change of plans for tonight. There’s a party after the rosary at Tito Rose’s new resto in West Wichita. I just found out. So I guess that’s what’s for dinner. LOL.
Tomorrow Tita Tessie is having a party to celebrate her birthday. It’s at six-thirty. Our movie is not until eight and it’s balcony so we don’t have to be there early. We have time to make a brief appearance at the party. I haven’t told Brian, though. He’s having a hard time dealing with the fact that we can’t swordfight on Sunday as it is.
Brian’s mom’s birthday is coming up. I’m still waiting to find out when we are celebrating it and what we are doing. It seems like everything is so last minute lately. Oh, well. I guess it doesn’t hurt to be spontaneous every once in a while.
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Shallowness
Posted on September 4, 2004 by Ching under Confessions, Life.
I should probably work out. But I think I’m going to play on UB for an hour. Brian will come home around noon. We’ll grub and then rest a bit. I’ll probably work out, if I can get motivated enough, and then shower and go to work. Put in my time from 4p to 8p and then see if Brian wants to go out (rolling my eyes) later. I think if I bribe him with dinner at Carrabba’s he just might. I took out cash yesterday and everything! I didn’t even get to use it. =(
It’s been a while since we’ve gone out dancing. It’s been a month, I think. I don’t have too much homework yet so I better take advantage while I still can. But now the dillema is what to wear to work so that I don’t have to change later.. I think I might just have to change after work. Even though it’s a weekend there will be a lot of people working and I can’t set a bad example since I’m in leadership now. =(
You’re probably thinking that my life is so shallow and my worries are nothing. I wish that were the case. I have to talk about mundane things to keep from talking about the real issues going on in my life that I am unable to discuss. Like how someone complained about me on our integrity hotline.. I won’t go any further because I’m not allowed to talk about it. Besides, I may still be under investigation. Who knows? Better be safe than sorry. Remind me in a few months. Hopefully, I’ll have survived the ordeal unscathed, I can tell you the story and we can all laugh about it. At this particular point in time, though, I’m not laughing. The opposite is actually true. I cried. I cried a lot on Thursday. That’s when I found out. I think I was mostly in shock. But it was also partly because my feelings were hurt. How could anyone do something like that? After I go out of my way to be nice to everyone?
It was good, though. For a while there I had forgotten that I had feelings, too. I’d gone on for so long being indifferent. It was an awakening.
I also realized that I am so careful and nice to everyone and because of all of the energy that I expend doing so, I end up being crabby and cranky when I come home to Brian. He takes the brunt of my frustrations and he doesn’t deserve it. So I guess, this situation (though unpleasant) is a blessing in disguise. It’s good because it has helped to open my eyes. Look at me, always finding the silver lining!
Then there is that other thing. Something that I created on my own. Is it boredom? I think it’s more than that because I’ve got lots of :toys: to combat my boredom. I think it’s because I haven’t been shopping. Maybe? Normally, I’m always shopping online. Lately, I’ve been more creative with my free time. No shopping. So from a financial standpoint this is a good thing. There are some negative aspects, though.
I think I will need to reassess the situation in the next few days. I’m sure I’ll find other things to do that will have less negative externalities. I may just go back to shopping. After all, it does give me a lot of satisfaction. I don’t know.. But now that I’m thinking about it, I’ve got some planning to do.
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Sneaky Brian
Posted on September 2, 2004 by Ching under Toys.
I just found out that Brian’s tank thing (it’s actually called a desktop rover; he ordered it from ThinkGeek) cost him almost $250 bucks! The sneaky turd wasn’t even going to tell me. He finally admitted to spending $49 for the tank, $39 for the commander software (which we don’t even know if he will know how to use), $149 for the camera attachment and only God knows how much for shipping. I must’ve upset him really bad!
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