Minors
Posted on November 2, 2004 by Ching under School.
I met with one of the academic advisors yesterday and I’ve got great news! Even though I’m going to be stuck at WSU until spring of 2006 (because of the way that the MIS classes are structured and because they’re only offered during certain semesters) by the time I finally graduate I’ll end up with three minors: my computer science minor (which I had previously planned on), an accounting minor, and also management. Isn’t that just awesome news?! Â
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Recap Continued
Posted on November 1, 2004 by Ching under Life.
To continue my recap.. I make it to Orgins by 5:30 PM. I get my makeup done. Sarah and Savannah want dinner so they go down to Fusa. Brian and I hit Hollister to continue our shopping binge. He didn’t find anything of interest but I managed to buy quite a few things for myself. I’m super excited to wear them! Brian and I actually put together this outfit that consists of a red lacy spaghetti strap tank under a cropped fair isle sweater to wear with one of my denim mini skirts and then some cute leg warmers. Still thinking about the proper shoes to wear with the outfit, though. I got a couple of other things, but that was the main thing that Brian is proud of because he put it together.
After hitting a few other stores, Brian decides he is hungry so he goes downstairs for a pretzel. Sarah and Savannah are still there eating so I show them my goodies. I decide that I’m not hungry so I skip dinner. Dumb idea! You’ll understand later..
Fast forward to Erin and Jason’s halloween party. I come as Tomb Raider and, for the first year ever, Brian decides to skip the costume. Everyone had great costumes. Erin was Marilyn Monroe, Kelly was Dorothy, Sarah and Savannah did coordinating bunny costumes, Aubrey was a football player.. Gosh there’s too many to list. You’ll see them all in the Flickr album though. I also put together a fun photoshow, if you’re so inclined and have a few minutes to spare.
The party was fun. We played some poker and battle of the sexes. They even took time to sing me happy birthday. As you know, I don’t really like the attention so that was kind of embarrassing, but I’m glad that it was my birthday because I didn’t have to sing happy birthday. I hate singing happy birthday because I’m so tone deaf that I can’t even sing the stupid freakin’ happy birthday song properly. Thank God it was MY birthday so I was exempt from singing! Anyway, that was really nice of them.
As the night wore on and the drinks kept pouring, I didn’t even realize I was getting a little too drunk. Brian’s version of the evening consisted of me being loud and obnoxious. Of course, all the other drunk people didn’t notice. At least, I hope they didn’t. Things are way, way different from a sober person’s perspective I guess..
I thought I was fine, but when Brian and I finally got home that’s when the shit hit the fan. Brian said I passed out over the toilet, with my chin hanging on the edge. He had to pick me up to take me to the bedroom. He was actually surprised that I didn’t bruise because he said he dropped me! I was so sick Brian said he stayed up until 5:30 AM or so just to make sure I would be okay. The next day was the same. Still queasy puky. I was so close to canceling my birthday lunch with the family because at 12:30 PM I was still feeling nauseous. Brian wouldn’t let me cancel lunch though so we went.
The sucky part is that I love Abuelo’s and all I could eat were bland chips and a side of rice. I eventually was able to eat some chips with my favorite chili con queso with beef after I started feeling a little better but I was so disappointed that I couldn’t eat anything else. We’ll just have to go again next time.
Anyway, we had planned on going shopping after lunch and playing some racquet ball from 5 to 7 PM but, because of the state I was in, we couldn’t do any of that. It was no fun at all being hung over! I think I may forsake drinking forever. Brian sure doesn’t like it when I drink so I’m sure he’d support the decision.
BTW, dinner at Outback with Sarah, Benny, Ashley and Brian was pretty good. I’m just so glad that I can start eating food again and not have to worry about it wanting to come back out. After dinner we went over to Ashley’s to checkout their new PS2. Pretty cool!
I guess this is it for now because I’m getting sleepy. I’ll try to write a more interesting entry next time, instead of telling you how the weekend went. Maybe I’ll write some fiction that could be non-fiction that will leave you wondering, did she or did she not? Ha! I think I may just do that next time.
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Recap
Posted on November 1, 2004 by Ching under Life.
This picture pretty much sums up what happened on Saturday night. But let me start from the very beginning and give you a play by play of how the weekend went.
Friday night was spent at Raymond and Cherisse’s house. He hosted a $20 buy-in poker game. I made the mistake of freakin’ inviting Mano and he won. Ugh. No surprise there, though.
The funny thing is Mano lives just around the corner. He lived so close that all he had to do was walk. I knew that the game would be in his general vicinity so I told him when I invited him that it was right by his house and it turned out to be REALLY right by his house!
It was a pretty disappointing game. Brian got knocked out first. I got knocked out second. I wore my lucky shirt, too! Which I’ve proven now, doesn’t work on poker games, only on exams. I wore the lucky “I’m blogging this..” shirt to my first VB exam and got a 102. For the second VB exam I wore the same shirt and scored a 103. Thinking that the luck would follow, I wore it to poker the same evening as exam number 2 and did horrible. I wore it again on Friday night and again did poorly. It’s just been a horrible week for poker altogether.
Saturday morning we woke up really early to drive to KC to eat some sushi at one of my favorite restos at the Plaza, Kona Grill. After eating some good food, we went and hit Armani Exchange, Abercrombie and Fitch and J.Crew for a major shopping binge. It almost felt like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman (not quite the $$ damage, though, but close).
Due to our shopping binge, we left KC late which made me run late for my makeup appointment at Origins. Sarah was a real trooper, though. She rescheduled my appointment for 5:30 PM. We just drove straight from KC to the mall to make my appointment and didn’t even stop at the house.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Okay, I’ll have to continue this later.. I gotta go get ready for dinner at the Outback with Sarah, Brian and Sarah’s friend Benny (we get to meet him for the first time). I will definitely pickup where I left off when I return, I promise!!
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Charles
Posted on October 25, 2004 by Ching under School.
This is Charles. I ran into him at school today. It’s been almost five years since we’ve seen each other. We used to work together at Spiegel, in the customer satisfaction department. He left in the beginning of 2000 and I hadn’t seen him since.
The amazing part is that I just ran into Tien a couple of weeks ago at the Communities in Schools event at North High School. Tien works for Communities in Schools. It’s local nonprofit organization that’s doing some really great things.
Anyway, I guess Tien and Charles have been in contact since they both work downtown. They didn’t know that I worked downtown as well until my chance encounter with Tien. Hopefully the three of us can meet for lunch one day. It would be neat to catch up and everything.
Charles got married last year and has an 8-week-old baby. Tien got married in 2000 (I think), at least two years before me and I think she has two kids now. It’s crazy how time flies!
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Movies
Posted on October 23, 2004 by Ching under Movies.
Went to Red Robin last night. Had some dinner. Was just going to drink (I’m hooked on sand in your shorts, it’s a drink that tastes like sex on the beach at most places only yummier) but then I was afraid I’d get hungry later in the evening so I went ahead and ordered a Royal Red Robin. They make the best burgers ever!
Our movie (I Heart Huckabees) didn’t start until 10:10 PM so we went and played some Galaga after dinner. I took some pictures. You’ll see them in my Flickr album. I was photo-blogging but the posts went to Nick’s blog. I’ve got my Flickr set to send photo-blog posts here instead from now on.
Anyway, Brian hated the movie. He just didn’t get it. Actually, I didn’t really know what it was about at first. Scott, our IT guy, told me about it. I watched the preview online. It’s got my favorite people: Jude Law, Mark Wahlberg and Naomi Watts (who looked really hot in the movie btw – until she had an epiphany and decided to start dressing like an amish farmer) so I figured it couldn’t be bad. It’s one of those weird movies that make you think so it was right up my alley. So maybe Brian (who hated and :fell asleep through: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) didn’t hate-hate the movie, but he certainly didn’t enjoy it as much I did.
Speaking of movies, I just got done watching Intermission (Colin Farrell indie film). I had to watch it by myself because Brian’s not really interested. I asked him if I could watch one of our Neflix movies (as a way of procrastinationg from doing FIN 340 stuff – but I omitted that part – I had to or he never would’ve let me) while he’s at work and he told me to watch Intermission because he wanted to see the other stuff. The other stuff being The Missing and A Cinderella Story. The Missing, I can understand.. But A Cinderella Story? He’d rather watch that than Intermission? Shows you what kind of taste he has movie-wise. Either his movie tastes have gone to the shitter or he just wants to oogle Hilary Duff. Let’s hope he just wants to oogle or I’ll lose all respect for his movie aficionado-ness.
Ugh. I’m making up my own words again! I hate that. I guess this is my cue to stop. Until next time..
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