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Five Years Ago

Posted on February 11, 2006 by under Life.    

Taking an Ice Cream Break

Time just flies by.. It seems like only yesterday we were living in our townhouse at Cross Creek. This photo was taken five years ago when we were moving out of the townhouse and into our house. The house we live in now that we absolutely hate.

Anyway, I thought I’d post this picture in honor of Richard. We actually heard from him last night. He called out of nowhere to check up on us. He is just so thoughtful.

It’s funny because he fell for Brian’s tricky voicemail. It goes like this:

“Hello?” [long pause]

“Ha! Fooled you! Leave a message after the beep.”

So in the meantime you’re yapping away like you’re talking to a person only to find out that you’re actually talking to the voicemail. Brian’s voicemail message doesn’t say who it is, so Richard was kind of worried that he got the wrong number. I guess, the clever voicemail message must have thrown him off (no offense, babe; you know I’m only joking).

So he proceeds to say that he is leaving a message for his friend Brian but he isn’t sure if this is the right phone number. He even says Brian’s last name for good measure. He sounded so unsure that Brian decided to mess with him.

So when Brian called him up Brian began with, “Yeah. Someone called me from this number?”

Richard responded apologetically, “Sorry about that. I was trying to reach my friend Brian but I think I dialed the wrong number.”

Brian was tempted to mess with him more but just could not contain himself so he gave himself up. Richard was a little confused and didn’t believe him at first. So Brian added, “Ching is sitting right here. You want to talk to her?”

I guess Richard didn’t recognize Brian’s voice. He recognized mine, though. After he heard my voice, he realized he really did dial the correct number and we were just messing around.

Although, he didn’t find the prank as hilarious as when I told him that I’d fallen for Brian’s stupid voicemail message twice. Yeah, I was actually blonde in a past life. I hate his voicemail message!

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No More Eating Out

Posted on February 11, 2006 by under Life.    

Between taking Sara and Jeremy to lunch at Granite City last Sunday (we figured we would do something nice for them because they are having marriage issues; Brian actually invited Jeremy to over to help him fix his computer so that he could take his mind off things but it was good to see that Sara came with him; we were glad that they were doing things together because it seemed the situation was improving), paying for dinner with Jen at Sumo last night (it was less hassle to just pay for everything because it confuses servers when you make them start splitting things up; if we had Ken it would have been different because he is smart; we ended up getting a different guy this time and he didn’t look like he would be smart enough to figure it out so Brian and I just said whatever and paid for Jen’s food as well; it was easier that way; although, I did tell Jen that she owes us a pizza night for buying her food; lol), and all the other times Brian and I have dined by ourselves this week, we have probably spent well over $200. On a side note, Sunday brunch at Granite City is pretty good. Although, not as good as champagne brunch at Legends which is still my favorite brunch buffet in town. Oh, Jeremy and I agreed that we do not like the cheesy, soggy hash browns (Jeremy and I had the breakfast buffet, while Brian and Sara both ordered from the menu). We like our hash browns crispy. But I digress.. My car is dying yet I can’t buy a new one because I’m afraid that we can’t afford it. This week made me realize how ridiculous Brian and I really are. We need to stop eating my car payment and just buy me a freakin’ car once and for all! Of course, we probably still won’t buy me a car because things never work out the way we planned. A few months ago we started setting money aside to buy a new microwave. We’ve needed one since the day we moved in. Okay, maybe not that long but for a couple of years now we’ve been thinking of buying a new microwave. We finally put the money together and were ready to buy it three weeks ago. We’ve been so busy that we’ve put off buying our microwave and now we can’t even but it anymore. Brian figured our taxes and we have to pay $1600 this year. The microwave money and then some is going to that. I’m actually kind of glad that we didn’t buy the microwave because then it will be that much less that we have to come up with. That’s actually the reason for going to Outback the other night. We were celebrating the joys of living in the US. LOL. I guess sarcasm doesn’t come through too well on text. Brian absolutely hates living in this country would move to the Philippines in a heartbeat. But that’s beside the point. We don’t really eat out all that much because we have been pretty frugal of late. Treating Sara and Jeremy to lunch on Sunday was something that we wanted to do for them because they are great people and we don’t want them to get divorced. The rest of it I think is just a backlash to how miserable life can be sometimes. You take two steps forward and then have to take five steps back. Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out and things are falling into place, something happens to throw off the balance. So as Brian and I are finally getting our finances in order, my car starts falling apart, our house starts falling apart (okay, so maybe this one is recent but has been going on for a long time), we have to pay taxes this year instead of getting a refund (we were actually banking on putting the refund toward the house renovation fund; I guess it just wasn’t meant to be; we are meant to live in a dilapidated hell hole or so it seems) and on and on and on. Seriously, though, in the 28 years I’ve lived in this world the one thing that I live by is “Never give up; Never surrender” (straight out of Galaxy Quest; the lessons I’ve learned in life are all from movies and comedies at that; just kidding). There are many challenges that will come your way. That is to be expected. Just be strong, keep your integrity (yes, Uncle Sam, you will get paid this year even though Brian and I are absolutely loathe to do so) and keep on keepin’ on.

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Tax Season Blows!

Posted on February 7, 2006 by under Life.    

Well Tax season is upon us once again. And this year it wasn’t all Checks and Spending like in previous years. No this year we got spanked. This is the reward we get for helping other people out. The financial gods decided to punish us and make us pay $1600.00 total in State and Federal Taxes. I’m so pissed I can barley see straight. We Save and Save and Save and try to get our life back in some sort of financial order and then Uncle Sam comes along and says FUCK YOU, GIVE ME YOUR MONEY YOU POOR PIECE OF SHIT!

I’m sick of all this Tax bull shit. I’m ready for a Revolution, World War, Pandemic, Plague or Mass extinction event. This world is on an express rout to hell and I want to be the conductor of that train. Taxes are a violation of our rights as Americans but we have been paying them for so long and the cronies of Uncle Sam have gotten fat of us for so long that no one is willing to make a change. Taxes were started to help pay for War. Is it any coincidence that we seem to be forever in some kind of War or Conflict. Now that I have sounded like a raving lunatic and have used at least 10 words that are probably flagged by the NSA, CIA or one of those other super secrete, stick up their ass, I gotta control ever facet of your life organizations. I will probably get a visit from men in white coats or the ones in black coats that try to scare the shit out of you. Well to those people THIS… IS… A… FUCKING… BLOG. ITS… WHERE… NORMAL… PEOPLE… COME… TO… VENT… WHEN… THEY… ARE… FRUSTRATED. IF… IT… WASN’T… FOR… FIXTURES… LIKE… THIS… YOU… WOULD… PROBABLY… HAVE… ONE… OF… THE… THINGS… I… MENTIONED… ABOVE… HAPPENING… EVERY… DAY! DEAL… WITH… IT… YOU… BASTARDS(the periods are to imitate the slowness of speech needed to get my point across to the mindless drones that work for these stupid organizations). Ok! Maybe a slight exeragtion their.

Their now I feel better. I have torn up our governmental system and vented my frustrations to the world.

I’m moving to Mars!

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Jen’s New Watch

Posted on February 7, 2006 by under Moblog.    

DSC00519.jpg by Ching

This was an “I’m Sorry” gift from Ray to make up for the fiasco of several weeks ago. Jen wanted me to take a picture of it so that she could blog about it. They have the weirdest relationship ever.

Anyway, Ray really pissed off the family because of what he did. I thought I reacted badly (I’m over it now) but my dad actually reacted far worse. After the incident he proceeded to delete every single vacation picture with Ray in it.

I don’t even do stuff like that. At least when I get mad, I just vent by blogging. I don’t delete people’s pictures. Dad does the most eccentric, adorable things. He just makes me laugh sometimes.

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Our Pets are so Spoiled

Posted on February 4, 2006 by under Babies, Toys.    

Last night we stopped by PETCO on the way to poker and ended up spending $50 in cat and sugarglider toys. I haven’t even spent that much on myself in a couple of years! Not in toys, anyway. Our babies are so spoiled. Our best buy that night is this crinkly cat tunnel. It’s similar to the one shown in the photo on the left but it’s in leopard print and has a peak-a-boo hole in the middle. It was on sale for $19.99 but we got it for $15.99 with our store discount card. The cats love it because it sounds like a plastic grocery bag when they play inside it. We’ll take some pictures soon so you guys can check them out.

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