Posted on October 9, 2005 by Ching under Babies.
His name is Jesus, pronounced hay-zeus. We named him that because he’s a stray cat. Brian had been sneaking him cat food for over a month now. Since winter is just around the corner, Brian felt bad and so he begged and pleaded with me to let Jesus into the house. I finally relented so now we have three cats again.
Posted on October 7, 2005 by Ching under Life.
As you all know this week (October 3rd through October 7th) was National Customer Service Appreciation week. While it has been fun, I’m so glad that it is finally over with. I actually broke my participation record. I participated every single dress up day. Something that I’d never done before, not even in high school. Monday was mistmatch day. I actually went to lunch at Jason’s Deli, went to Sam’s Club to pick up the cakes and then to school dressed in mismatched attire. But you know, nothing embarrasses me anymore. Surprisingly, I didn’t get a lot of strange looks on campus. I guess they all figured that is how I normally dress anyway so it’s not like there was anything different. I didn’t really have any special clothes for 80’s day so I just put something together from my closet. I have these off-shoulder shirts that I got a couple of years ago from
Abercrombie & Fitch so I put the red one on over a light blue racerback tank. I wore a short poufy skirt, leg warmers and pumps. Then I was going to tease my hair but I didn’t have any hairspray so I just wore my hair in a high side pony tail. I looked pretty 80’s. Lance and I actually went to Sam’s Club. I think he was kind of embarrassed to be seen with me because of my ridiculous get up. The funny thing is I had to activate a line of credit with Sam’s because Sam’s doesn’t take credit cards and I don’t have a pin to my debit card. So they had to take my picture with my hair in a side pony tail. I don’t want to hear anyone complain about their driver’s license picture ever. My Sam’s Club photo experience is a lot worse than that by leaps. I had a little bit of time to change before class so I didn’t have to go looking all 80’s. I moved my pony tail to the middle, took off my leg warmers and replaced the pumps with flip flops. My clothes were actually pretty normal-looking otherwise. Wednesday was crazy hat day but I don’t really own any crazy hats so I just put on my Roxy denim hat. I’ve had it since at least 1999. I even have a picture of me wearing it in the bedroom of our old townhouse. I don’t know if it’s in
my Flickr album. I think it might be, but I’m too lazy to sift through over two thousand pictures.
[Instead of looking for it, I thought I’d just scan it and upload it. So there may be two of these on Flickr now. It’s not like I’m going to run out of space, though. Just one of the perks of having a pro account. LOL. Anyway, this photo was taken May 2000.] Thursday was Hawaiian day. It was also the day of our luncheon. The next day was slippers day. I think everything went great with the food and the games. The only off thing was the ice cream that we provided on Friday when it was kind of cold out. But the plans were made in September when the weather was still pretty warm. I guess we didn’t expect winter weather so soon. People ate the ice cream anyway, though. I guess there’s never a bad time for ice cream. Â 😛
Posted on October 4, 2005 by Ching under Life.
Here’s a quick update for those of you who are wondering why I am missing in action. My Blogger account was messed up over the weekend. I had posted a couple of blogs but they didn’t update until yesterday. On top of that, Brian’s computer went kaput due to the power outage on Friday. Spent $150 getting it fixed when it really should’ve only cost us $40. That’s because we are dumb and we don’t know jack about computer hardware. It’s times like these when I really miss having Jason around. I hate that they freakin’ moved to Georgia. He was “the” computer god! Then, I lost $65 on Ultimate Bet last night. I lost all of the money I had on my account and then started playing with Brian’s account and lost all of his money too. This is “real” money, mind you! I felt so bad that I wanted to cry. Of course, my way of solving the problem was offering to put more money into our poker accounts. Thank God Brian was smart enough to decline. Had he let me do it, I’m sure I would’ve lost the reload too. On the plus side, my right tail light that has been broken for over a year now is working again out of the blue. Brian had offered to fix it a long time ago. He went to the auto parts store but they said that they didn’t have the part necessary or it wasn’t a blown out bulb or something. Anyway, we would’ve had to take the car to the repair shop. Me being me, I said don’t bother. It’s not like I’m going to get pulled over ever. I’m the safest driver in the world! So I never did get pulled over and then last week I hit my right turn signal on accident and it was blinking normal instead of the superfast blinking that it usually does. Brian and I checked on Saturday and sure enough the tail light and signal are both working again. Isn’t that weird? It just goes to show you, if you wait long enough things will fix themselves. That applies to relationships too, not just cars. 😉
Posted on October 1, 2005 by Ching under Life.
Like I said before, there’s always something wrong. This time it’s Brian’s computer. To those of you who have messaged me or notified me about my cam being down, I know this. I know it’s down and it’s going to stay that way until the home network is fixed. I need a break from being on camera for your entertainment anyway. Consider this my leave of absence notice. Brian called me on his lunch break yesterday to ask if I had paid our power bill because our power was out. I told him it must be an outage because I always pay the bills as soon as I receive them. In fact, it’s always paid at least two weeks before the due date. There was no way we could be off for non payment. I asked Angie to check on my account because we had no power. She and Rush thought it would be funny so they proceed to pretend that my electric service was disconnected for non payment. They think I get riled up easily so they like to picking on me. I concede that I’m probably the most gullible person I know, so I can’t blame them. Besides that, I have been super busy and super stressed lately so I guess it’s possible that I could have missed the power bill and the disconnect notice and the courtesy collection call. I’m not perfect, I know this. I really believed and was totally ready to make a payment until they started laughing. Such mean people! It turns out, there was a power outage in the area and there were crew already onsite. I gave Brian the information and he seemed satisfied. I mean, he knows that I do a darn good job of keeping up with the bills despite my busy schedule. I do a better job of it now, than he did when he used to do it. So anyway, I think the power outage caused Brian’s computer to bite it. His computer is out of commission for a while until we can figure out what’s wrong with it. You can anticipate my cam to be off until Brian’s computer is fixed. Yes, I know my computer works and my cam has nothing to do with Brian’s computer but don’t bother arguing with me. The cam will stay off and that’s that. Who’s cam is it, anyway? Alright then. P.S. I overslept today so I’m not going to the gym. Brian set up the Bowflex for me though, so I’m going to use that today. We’ve had that thing for almost three years now and I’ve only used it a handful of times. Brian has never used it, I think. The cats have probably used it (as a cat tree) more than we have (actually exercising).
Posted on October 1, 2005 by Ching under Movies.
Brian and I went to see Serenity today with his dad and this kid named Alex. Before the movie started there was a preview of an upcoming movie Jarhead. The movie is like a huge Go Army commercial. I half-expected the slogan, “If we can turn Bubble Boy into a soldier you can be one too!” Seriously, what is the deal with advertising campaigns disguised as movies. There are more and more of them lately. I remember feeling like I just watched an anti-smoking documentary after the movie Constantine because of the stupid gum-chewing scene movie ending. I don’t smoke anyway and I think smoking is stupid so don’t waste my time by trying to convince me that smoking is bad. I know this! Which is why I don’t smoke. I paid to see a movie, not a freaking Truth commercial! The movie that we went to see, Serenity, was actually pretty good. It was better than I expected. They remained true to the TV series. Lots of funny scenes. I liked it more than I thought I would, considering I wasn’t as fond of the series Firefly (the TV show that the movie is based on) as Brian was. Anyway, Brian and I went to the mall after the movie. After a year of avoiding the mall altogether, I was forced to return because of a free panty coupon from Felicity’s. Felicity’s is this new lingerie store at the mall. The coupon was for a free panty or get a second free panty if you spend $20. Their lingerie items are pretty reasonably priced so Brian and I took the opportunity to buy some stuff. I really don’t need any more lingerie, but I got two free panties (actually, I ended up with three free ones because they were doing a buy three get one free deal on selected panties) out of it. Incidentally, they also carry men’s undergarments and cigars so Brian got something for himself. He bought a cigar. He doesn’t really do the whole underwear thing. While at the mall, we also took advantage of the opportunity to shop for gifts for Brian’s grandparents’ wedding anniversary, Brian’s grandfather’s birthday and mom’s birthday so our trip to the mall was actually pretty productive. It’s amazing how the mall looks so different now than it did on our last visit. Several stores have closed and opened since. I’m sure the next time we visit the mall, the place will look totally different than it did today. Hopefully we won’t wait another year to return. I miss shopping terribly. Although, I just can’t afford my old shopping habits any more.
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