October 12 is an Important Day
Posted on October 11, 2010 by Ching under Life.
The gifts for the grandparents are wrapped and ready to go. One is for Brian’s grandfather whose birthday is on the 12th. The other is an anniversary present for both grandma and grandpa because they were married on October 12 as well. I think grandma did this on purpose so that grandpa would never forget their wedding anniversary. Brilliant, right?
Anyway, we just need to figure out when we can drop the presents off because we’re not able to join them for dinner. I have therapy tomorrow night. 🙁
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Unboxing Ching’s New Computer
Posted on October 10, 2010 by Ching under Toys.
Brian got to do the honors.
We can be so impulsive sometimes. So my laptop crashed and we couldn’t get it to work and we figured it was toast. What did we do? We ordered a replacement from Dell, naturally.
This reminds me of when we decided to buy a Bowflex out of nowhere several years ago. That was one heck of an impulse buy. We ended up making payments on that thing for years, long after the novelty wore off and we quit using it, which wasn’t really very long to be honest. I think we were paying for that thing ten times longer than we actually used it. When we moved out of our old house, we just ended up giving it to mom and dad because we no longer had room for it.
Anyway, we bought a new laptop only to find that my old laptop is fine. It just needed a little breather. Jay and Becca came over one night to pick up a Bed Bath and Beyond coupon, drank some wine, and ended up staying for a couple of hours. Jay took a look at my laptop and was able to revive it within a few minutes. He’s brilliant like that.
I’m still on my old laptop, though, because I haven’t had time to move all of my stuff over to the new laptop. Jay is buying this old laptop from us when we are both ready. I’ll probably leave the software that’s already installed like Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office, etc. but I’ll need to clean out information about my Swiss bank accounts, all of my hidden albums and other naughty stuff. LOL.
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Our Weekend with Molly
Posted on October 10, 2010 by Ching under Babies, Videos.
We had the opportunity to watch Molly over the weekend a couple of weeks ago. Tita Sol went to Nebraska and needed someone to look after Molly while she was away. We immediately jumped at the chance. I didn’t have to take time off work this time around because we only had to watch her over the weekend, but we did cancel all of our plans so that we could spend all of our time with Molly.
We picked her up from Tita Sol’s house on Friday right after work. We’d recently started Salsa Fridays, but we had to skip this week so that we could hang out at home with Molly. Our friends wanted us to come out on Saturday night, but we told them that we couldn’t because we had Molly and we didn’t want to leave her at home. Not that we’re worried that she would destroy anything because she is the sweetest, most well-behaved, most perfect dog ever. We just didn’t want her to be lonesome.
We get made fun of quite a bit because every time we watch Molly, we make all of these plans to take her out and show her a good time or just hang out at home with her. We can’t help it, though. She’s like our child. If you have your child for the weekend, don’t you want to spend every waking moment with them?
So anyway, we made plans to take Molly for a walk along the river. Misty and her two dogs were going to walk with us also. It rained though, so that nixed our plans. Our friends wanted us to come out to celebrate April’s birthday, but we couldn’t leave Molly. Somehow they ended up deciding to celebrate at home. Cory and April were nice enough to let us bring Molly so that we could go.
We had a great time at the Phelpi, celebrating April’s birthday. We ended up having a small six-person poker tournament, which I ended up winning. I think it was because everyone was drunk but me. Yes, including Brian. Ever since he learned he can drink wine, he hasn’t been without. He was a source of amusement for Jay, and I suspect everyone else that night. I was a little worried, but did find it hilarious. He reminded me of that kid on YouTube who was acting high after a dental visit.
We stayed up way too late that night. I think I ended up skipping my Sunday workout that weekend. Mostly because I was tired from the day before, but also because I knew that we’d be taking Molly home that night and I wanted to spend as much time as I could with her.
We really love having Molly over. I can’t wait for us to watch her again!
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Quotables from this Weekend
Posted on October 4, 2010 by Ching under Family.
Being cooped up in the car with mom, Jenni and Brian for ten hours (twenty if count the return trip) was quite interesting. I did most of the driving. Brian took his turn, but neither Jenni nor mom drove. Jenni mostly just slept through everything. Mom stayed awake and talked to me to keep me alert. At times when the four of us were awake, we had some pretty funny conversations.
Mom was trying to tell me to drive safely because I had very important people in the car with us, including myself.
MOM: Drive carefully because you have valuable cargo.
JENNI: What? The apple butter?
ME: I thought you said it only cost five bucks.
There are times that we’re not on the same wave length. LOL.
Here’s another one that was about my lack of singing talent…
MOM: You should get a voice coach.
ME: Why?
MOM: If you’re going to insist on singing, you’ll need to learn how.
BRIAN: Wow. Even your own mom thinks your singing is awful!
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There’s Always a State Fair Going On Somewhere
Posted on October 3, 2010 by Ching under Life, Things to Do, Travel.
I got a chance to talk to Sheryll yesterday afternoon. She’s back from her short trip to the Philippines. She told me about her trip and also about what she and her family are up to these days.
I guess the kids got some free passes to the State Fair of Texas at school, so they’ve been wanting to go to that. I think they’re going sometime this week.
That got me to thinking about our own state fair in Kansas, which my friend Misty and I volunteered for again this year. I didn’t really get to do any browsing since we’ve been so busy this year. I barely had enough time that weekend to actually work the shift that I volunteered for (Brian and I have got a lot of stuff going on right now). Brian came to the fair with Misty and me. He actually got to walk around and check things out and take pictures.
Brian has always had this idea in his head about the demographic of people who regularly attend the state fair. What can I say? He’s a little prejudiced. Anyway, he wanted to do a web site devoted to “fair creatures” much like the People of Walmart web site. Much to his disappointment, he couldn’t find the “strange” people that he thought would be so abundant at the state fair. I think I’ve finally convinced him that a lot of “normal” people go to the state fair. The web site idea is pretty much nixed at this point. Besides, what could we do with it the rest of the year? The state fair barely runs two weeks; unlike the one in Texas, which runs for almost a month.
I had mentioned to Sheryll that their state fair is probably a lot like our state fair, and how you could probably spend an entire day there and not be able to see everything. While that’s true, I really had no idea what I was talking about. I’d only been to our state fair here and have never experienced the State Fair of Texas first hand. After checking their web site, I realized that it’s similar but it is not the same. Their state fair runs for almost a month and there’s so much more to see and do! I might ask Brian to take me next year just so I can see for myself. The bonus for him is that he might finally get to snap some photos of those highly elusive “fair creatures” – LOL.
Anyway, I got to thinking that there’s always a state fair going on somewhere so that’s what we could do with the web site for the rest of the year. Outside of the Kansas State Fair time frame, we can post pictures of “fair creatures” from other state fairs going on around the nation! And here you all thought, I wasn’t a supportive wife… I will try to support all of Brian’s ideas, no matter how crazy and hair-brained they are. I love you, baby!
P.S. I was thinking of filing this under “Cheap Date” also, but decided against it. If any of you have ever been to a state fair anywhere, then you probably known that going to the state fair is far from cheap. LOL.
P.P.S. Now that I’ve posted this, someone will probably beat us to starting our stupid blog/web site idea. Booo!
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