Posted on February 18, 2006 by Ching under Sex.
Here’s an interesting web site that I came across this evening while waiting for Brian to get tired of playing his new game addiction, World of Warcraft.. It’s the Kama Sutra, Animated! I have the book
somewhere but we put it away several months (maybe a couple of years) back and now I can’t find it. Of course, who needs the book when the animated version is now available online?
Posted on February 16, 2006 by Ching under Games.
This is a picture of Brian after beating me at racquetball. He had no choice but to win because World of Warcraft was at stake. Just like in life, there are no free rides here. Brian told me today that he wants to start playing World of Warcraft because all of his geeky buddies at work are playing it. The game costs $50 and it’s going to cost $200 a year in addition to that because of the montly service fee. Obviously, this is going to be a much larger expense than we are prepared to tackle. Specially after having paid a huge sum of money to Uncle Sam. I mean, I wouldn’t even let him get Ogame Commander back in our Ogame playing days. And that was only $3 a month!
Not wanting to just say no out-right, I posed the following challenge: beat me at racquetball today and you can have your game for one year. Once the year is up, we will have to reevaluate naturally. Anyway, I was pretty confident that I would win. I failed to take desperation into account, though.
Brian gave it his all and took me to the third game. He beat me 15-13. I cannot whine, because he beat me fair and square. Some of his strategies were questionable, but what can you do? He is desperate.
I hope he enjoys his game because now we don’t have any grocery money! Someone donate to us!
Posted on February 11, 2006 by Ching under Life.
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!
Posted on February 11, 2006 by Ching 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.
Posted on February 7, 2006 by Brian 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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