Archive for October 2006
The Way We Were
Posted on October 10, 2006 by Ching under Life, Memes.
This is an old Friday Five entry I found. It was originally posted on February 23, 2002.
1. Hey, baby, what’s your sign? Do you think it fits you pretty well? Scorpio. Yes, I’d say it fits me pretty well. Or should I say, I fit into the Scorpio stereotype pretty well?
2. What’s the worst birthday gift you’ve ever received? There is no such thing as a bad birthday gift. At least, not in my book. I’ve never, ever received anything that I absolutely hated. All gifts have their own merits.
3. What’s the best birthday gift you’ve ever received? The personalized silver beaded bracelet that I got last year. It consists of two strands of various beads. The two strands are attached so they never separate. It’s got an antique heart clasp, which is the most beautiful that I have ever seen. Brian & his parents chipped in and they got it for me at Kay Wiggins (she’s known for personalized jewelry items). One strand has square letter blocks that spell “CHING” and the blocks on the other strand spell “BRIAN.” There’s a bead at each end of our name that corresponds to our birthstones (which happens to be our wedding colors, too — pure coincindence — we didn’t pick our wedding colors with our birthstones in mind). What makes it really special is that Brian mom got her bracelet first. Hers says “DAVID” and “DONNA.” Several months down the line, Brian’s parents got his grandma one for her birthday. Hers says “CLARK” and “BETTY.” Still a few months later, I got one for my birthday (you already know what mine says). I feel like a truly a part of the family now.. Like I am now officially a Brubaker woman.
4. What’s the best way you’ve celebrated your birthday thus far? The best birthday that I’ve ever celebrated was last year. It was very low-profile. We had a barbecue and only a few people were invited. But all of the important people came. And it’s the first birthday that I’ve celebrated in our very first house. I thought it was pretty special.
5. What are your plans for this weekend? Skipping work on Saturday (today). Gina Ann’s debut at the Hilton (Saturday night). Picking up my Ortho TriCyclen at Walgreens (Sunday morning). Getting our new (new to us, anyway) dining table from mom (Sunday night). It’s a hand-me-down. But it’s better than the one we’ve got. It’s a dark, solid wood (which will match most of the wood we’ve got throughout the house) and it’s got six chairs (our current dining table only has four, because the other two broke eons ago — it was a hand-me-down as well). I’m actually excited to have six chairs because Brian and I both love to entertain.
I couldn’t believe the last part when I read it. I had to ask Brian if we ever liked entertaining. He said, “Who said that?” I said, “I did. I wrote it in a blog.” He goes, “Were you delusional?” How things change!
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More About Google and YouTube Rumors
Posted on October 9, 2006 by Ching under News, Web.
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2006 Fall Parade of Homes
Posted on October 8, 2006 by Ching under Life.
Guess what time of the year it is? It’s time for the fall parade of homes! Don’t you just love looking at fancy new houses? Someday Brian and I will be able to own one of those nice houses. Until then all we can do is dream and drool. 🙂
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All Around the Web
Posted on October 7, 2006 by Ching under Family, News, Poker, Web.
Poker hasn’t been good to me lately so I’m returning to my first love–blogging. So long poker. At least until next week.
So what’s going on around the web over the last few days?
- My poker hiatus may last longer than a few days if the new online gambling law passes. There are many people who are more than a little distruntled about this. Even my idol is chiming in.
- Mom’s birthday was yesterday, October 6, but we are celebrating tomorrow. Lunch at their house. I’m looking forward to it. Yummy food, here I come! Scarf, scarf, scarf!
- Speaking of mom’s birthday, Dad made her a tribute video. Isn’t it amazing that even my dad is on YouTube? That should tell you something.
- It’s telling Google something. It’s supposed to be all rumor and speculation right now. Neither camp has confirmed anything. No one is talking. However, the news made the Wall Street Journal. So it’s gotten pretty big as rumors go.
- If this goes through there will be serious repercussions. Some say YouTube will go down the tubes. Some say that the Google folks are nuts for even thinking about it. Mark Cuban has been quoted as saying only a moron would buy YouTube.
- But who cares about that stuff, I’ve already moved on to the next big thing: PornoTube. That’s right. You knew it was only a matter of time. It’s a shame I didn’t think of it or I’d be a millionaire entrepreneur by now. LOL.
- For someone who is super busy this semester I found a couple of new shows to add to my watch list. First there’s Heroes which Brian has been anxiously awaiting for several months; and then there is 5 Takes which is like MTV’s Road Rules but ten times better. There’s more travelling and less drama.
Who needs TV when there is so much entertainment to be found online?
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I went to Hell and All I got was $50 bucks!
Posted on October 6, 2006 by Brian under Flickr.
My mother owes me so big she has no clue. Let me tell you how this all began.
My mom calls me as asks me if I want to earn $50.00. I tell her heck ya as long as I dont have to do any physical labor. She assures me that I will have to just sit there and listen to some music for a survey and when its over I will be able to collect $50.00. I tell her i’m down sign me up! she says that she is going to send me an e-mail and it will have the number of the lady I need to call and then the information on the time and the location. I open the e-mail and there is everything that she says I need. Then I see a follow up e-mail and when I open it I feel like commiting murder! My mother tells me in a seperat e-mail that the music I have to listen to is country music. Any one that knows me knows that I hate country music with a passion. But as my wife pointed ouit, its $50.00!
So tonight I get to the Survey place. Sit down and begin to listen to
the obnoxious sounds of country played in 5 second intervals. I had to listen to 700 songs total. We were given little bubble answer sheets like they give you in SAT tests. So i did what I did in my SAT test. I looked at my neighbors test and wrote down what they had. When it was over I thought I was going to have to trample the people in front of me to get out of the boulding. I had to supress the urge to run out of the building and scream at the top of my lungs “My ears are bleeding!”. But in the end. I got $50.00 and I only had to listen to 5 seconds of country music.
If I end up in Hell, I will have to repeat that Survey for eternity!
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