Busy Month!
Posted on September 15, 2010 by Brian under Life.
The month of September is shaping up to be a busy month for the wife and I. To start we visited my wife’s friend Sheryl in Dallas. It was a fun trip and not too bad of a drive. I told my wife that the drive to Dallas was easier than the one to KC. I think its because there is more to see on the way to Dallas. We went with her parents and sister and had a blast visiting the Gallaria Mall and cooking out with Sheryl’s family.
Next we had my Mom’s birthday at PF Chang’s. We had not been here in some time and I had forgotten how good the food was. The wife and I split the Mongolian beef and added eggplant instead of the scallions, it was a lot of fun as well.
That Saturday we volunteered at Zoobalee. We has a blast at this event. We got to walk around the event before we had to work. We got to sample wines, eat lots of food and visit a few booths that had deals and freebees. It was great, then we had to work, which wasn’t that bad either. We just had to stand at a door and make sure that no one but members entered the party. It was fun. I hope we get to do it again next year.
Right now Ching is out of town on a work trip. When she has these over night meetings we get to chat over Google talk. Its great that technology has grown to allow this form of communication. How did the world cope before cell phones and the internet, barbaric!
On Saturday Ching will be working the fair for her company. I’m tagging along so that I can take pictures of all of the weird people that go to the fair. I think I may start a “people of the fair” website, like the “wall-creatures” site, it should be good for a laugh or two.
Next week Ching has another out of town meeting. This time almost all of her coworkers will be in attendance. Maybe they will offer her a big raise, hint…wink…elbow rub to the big boss, LOL.
Then at the beginning of October we have our friend Richards wedding. We are both looking forward to this because Richard and his wife to be are dancers.
We are expecting lots of dancing at the wedding reception. So much so that we are trying to start dance classes this Friday.
Hopefully after that things will calm calm down a bit and Ching and I can do a few things just the two of us. I’m thinking we should have a date night, maybe a nice dinner out, stroll around the Water Front or Bradley Fair, then dancing at club Suede. She loves this place because they have great salsa music, sometimes live.
So you can see that we have a pretty active lifestyle, but we like that. If it were not for my wife, I would not have experienced half of the things that we have done together. I know for a fact that I would never have left this country, I owe all of that to her. Hopefully next year we can go back to the Philippines and visit the resort we went to last time. We had a lot of fun then and I am sure we will again. I want to do the jet ski around the islands, I think that would be a blast.
Well I’m sire I will have more later. Till then.
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Brian’s Health Assessment Do Over
Posted on September 13, 2010 by Ching under Health.
Brian had to do his cardio fitness assessment over because his results were abnormal the first time. Take two still yielded abnormal results, but I guess it’s close enough. Brian just has a weird heart I guess.
I love his abnormal heart, though.
No other heart would love me, with all my flaws and shortcomings.
No other heart would love me the way he does.
I love you, baby!
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Yola’s Daughter’s Christening
Posted on September 12, 2010 by Ching under Family.
We missed Yola’s daughter Kayla’s christening. It happened the same weekend as the camping trip. Brian didn’t have enough vacation to go with me to New Jersey, though. Plus, we were broke. 🙁
Here are some photos from the grand event:
I really wish we could have been there. I’ll get to meet Yola one of these days. For now, I guess there’s always Facebook.
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What a Difference a Couple of Days Makes
Posted on September 12, 2010 by Ching under Life.
One of the headlines in the local and state section of the paper on Wednesday read, “Hartman may run as Libertarian.” A couple of days later in the Friday paper, “Hartman won’t run as a Libertarian.” What a difference a couple of days makes!
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I’m a Month Behind at Posting Photos
Posted on September 12, 2010 by Ching under Life.
I probably won’t get caught up by this weekend, but it’s worth a shot. LOL. I’ll make a valiant effort, though. Here are the photos from our camping adventure a few weeks ago. It was the first time that Brian and I had gone camping together.
Because we’re nerds, we brought way too much stuff with us. We packed like we were going to stay there for a week; as opposed to overnight, which is all we were doing.
The Phelpi and their family were already there. They actually stayed on Friday night. The Dills and Brian and I decided we would come on Saturday and stay only one night, though. It worked out great because we promised to bring them fresh LaMars on Saturday morning.
After delivering the donuts, our first task was to set up shelter.
Thanks to Mom and Dad B for loaning us their camping gear, including this nice tent.
I think we went way overboard with the blankets. It was a nice evening and the weather was perfect. We brought way more blankets than we really needed.
Gavin was wearing the Alcatraz shirt that we got for him that day.
April and Brian chillaxin’ by our tent in our awning chairs.
We ended up having to move our tent a few yards away because we originally had it set up by the swimming area. I guess that isn’t allowed.
By the way, here’s how “brilliant” we are… We put our camping permit on before we put on the rain cover. LOL. Well, at first Brian didn’t want to put the rain cover on because he was afraid that it would make the inside of the tent too hot. Then we decided to put the cover on at the last minute, but I’d already put the permit on. The park rangers didn’t give us a hard time about it, though. Shoot, the Dills didn’t even bother with a getting a permit and they were fine. =P
Here’s Brian taking a nap inside our tent.
The Dills arrived later that day. Brian helped them set up their mansion… Err, tent.
Becca and Jay, post tent set up.
We played a little bit of Ladder Golf before sitting around the campfire for hotdogs, smores, and some great conversation.
Christy’s middle child, Evan, was sweet and sat with me in my chair. He mostly just wanted to play with my phone, though. =P
Cory with Evan and Marshall.
Evan and Marshall playing Angry Birds on Christy’s phone the next day, while Cory cooked us some bacon.
Camping was lot of fun. I didn’t think I would enjoy it at first, but I actually liked it. Mostly I liked sleeping outdoors. Reminds me of summers in Tanjay. Anyway, Brian and I decided we’ll do some more camping in the future.
P.S. Click here for more of our camping photos.
P.P.S. In an effort to keep this blog G-rated, I purposely avoided mentioning the religious revival in the shelter next to our camp site that almost ruined the best part of the camping experience for me. Good thing they were all gone by nightfall. 😉
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