I Am So Spoiled
Posted on March 12, 2008 by Ching under Life.
After walking from the Bank of America building to the AMPCO parking garage next to the Protection One building (our old location) I realized how very spoiled I am. Walking is not fun. To top it off, I wore the wrong shoes. Thankfully, I don’t have another dental appointment until September 25 and our parking lot will be completed by then.
This is the location of the North parking lot. It’s not quite ready yet but they demolition is underway and they’re making pretty good progress. The parking lot should be ready by May, hopefully. In the meantime those of us assigned to the North parking lot have to continue parking at the old parking garage. It’s quite a walk. I didn’t realize it until I had to walk it today in heels. =P
I haven’t had to walk because Brian and I have been carpooling. Being dropped off next to the East entrance is pretty nice. The elevator is only a few paces away.
Brian and I are really enjoying working downtown together. For the last couple of weeks we’ve been able to lunch together. It has been really wonderful — and expensive at the same time. We agreed that we need to cut back on lunch spending so we’re going to start brown bagging. That starts tomorrow. It’s not too bad because it’s supposed to be rainy anyway.
By the way, my new dry-erase board was installed today… And my new coatrack
Something that isn’t so exciting… I found out that I owe $400 to WSU for some Perkins Loan they provided to me in Summer of 2004. That’s on top of the thousands that I already owe on Stafford Loans. Ugh.
Then we had to pay tags and taxes a couple of weeks ago… And we have to make our first house payment on our Wells Fargo refi… And we racked up quite a bit on BOA this month because of buying clothes for work (both Brian and I) and cellphone overage (mostly Brian). It’s very, very sad.
I’m ready for a normal month.
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Pictures of Our New Office Space
Posted on March 8, 2008 by Ching under Flickr.
These are pictures of our new office space that Jan took with her iPhone the other day. The picture above is of the main lobby.
This next photo is of my new office.
This is the view from my office window — the wall, basically.
I can see our old building and Brian’s building from where I am. It’s not the best view, but I didn’t get to pick first. I still think it’s nice, though.
The next photo is the view from Jan’s office.
This is the building that is being demolished and converted into a parking lot. This is pretty much what I’ll be looking at when I look down from my window for the next few weeks.
This is a picture of the building from the outside.
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Serendipitous
Posted on March 2, 2008 by Ching under Flickr, Life, School.
We had our annual management meeting at the Airport Hilton this year. Incidentally, we had my bridal shower there six years ago.
Speaking of serendipitous… I ran into Becca, Dill, April, and Corey while waiting for Brian at the airport a couple of weeks ago.
I got there early on Friday night (February 15) because I wanted to use the time to catch up on reading for Advanced Strategic Management (MGMT 885) class. Besides, since I wasn’t playing poker (and I have no life) I had nothing better to do. Anyway, I was reading my handouts while patiently waiting for Brian when I heard, “Chingay!”
It was Becca, Dill, and Corey. They were waiting for April. She spent the week in Denver. I found it uncanny that her flight came in about the same time as Brian’s flight. What are the odds that Brian and someone else we know are both out of town the week of Valentines? I think it is some sort of corporate conspiracy to increase national divorce rates—job security for liars.. I mean, lawyers. LOL.
Kidding aside, the six of us ended up going to dinner that night at Logan’s. Ugh. Bad idea. Never go to Logan’s an hour before they close. The kitchen is pretty much out of commish. We had the worst food and service ever. Needless to say, Brian and I haven’t been back.
I would have blogged about the Logan’s experience on Foodies but I have been super busy. MGMT 885 is a lot of work! Anyway, it’s almost over. I’m counting down the days to graduation—May 17—mark your calendars!
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African Safari
Posted on February 24, 2008 by Ching under Movies, Sponsored Post, Travel, Wishlist.
Brian and I watched two great movies over the last two days. We watched 3:10 to Yuma this afternoon. Yesterday we watched The Bucket List. Both were excellent movies in their own right.
Anyway, there was a scene in The Bucket List where Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman went on an African safari. It’s the scene where they are in the safari jeep singing that song from The Lion King, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” You know the scene. The landscape was just breathtaking. They were in that safari tent and it just made me want to go on a safari real bad.
Almost immediately, I hopped online and checked out flights to South Africa. It’s a shame that Brian doesn’t have any vacation time. Otherwise, that could be our anniversary trip this year. Not that we can afford to go or anything. We all know we have to finish working on the house still. But, whatever. It doesn’t hurt to dream.
Brian and I agreed that we are taking a major trip next year because 2009 marks our ten years of “togetherness,” so we have to do something big. Right? It’s got to be bigger than Jamaica. LOL.
Either way. Whether it be 2009 or later. An African safari is going on my own personal “bucket list.”
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Valentines Flowers
Posted on February 24, 2008 by Ching under Flickr, Life, Travel.
Sometimes I think I am the man and Brian is the woman. I didn’t get flowers this year, he did. I guess you can say I wear the pants in this relationship. =P
While he was away, I thought I would do something nice for him so I had FTD deliver flowers to his hotel. I had them deliver it on Tuesday instead of Thursday so that he would enjoy the flowers during his entire stay.
I picked stargazer lilies because they are my favorite and I figured that they would remind him of me. I thought it would make him happy and cheer him up, but it kind of backfired. The flowers reminded him of me and made him even more homesick (or so he said, anyway).
[ NOTE: This is the second time I’ve bought Brian flowers for Valentines. The first time was in 2000, when we first started dating. I had Tillies deliver a dozen red roses to his work. He worked at Intrust Bank back then. He said he felt special because he was the only one (out of everyone, including women coworkers) who got a dozen roses, but at the same time he said he felt very, very gay because only his gay coworkers got flowers. ]
Here are some other pictures from Brian’s trip to New Hampshire:
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