Rush Time Machine Tour 2010
Posted on August 26, 2010 by Ching under Life.
You want to know what else happened on Friday? I finally got to see Rush perform live for the very first time. It was awesome! They played all my favorite songs AND we got to watch Neil Peart perform a 15-minute drum solo on a rotating drum platform. Phenomenal.
I wish that our new phones weren’t at home charging so that I could have taken better pictures at the concert with its 5MP camera. We had to take this one with Brian’s crummy work phone. Photo quality is crap. Even my HTC Touch Pro 2 probably would’ve been better to have with us. Oh, well.
P.S. My favorite songs came on at 8:35 PM, 8:45 PM, 9:15 PM, 9:40 PM, 10:05 PM… Actually, everything that happened after 10:05 PM was fantastic. That’s when they really got going. The video backdrop, lighting and visuals were fantastic all night, but in the last hour they had pyros and fireworks. It was crazy! Neil Peart’s drum solo was Brian’s favorite part. I liked it because it led into Alex Lifeson’s guitar solo, which led into “Closer to the Heart,” one of my all-time favorite Rush songs at about 10:20 PM. They closed with “Working Man,” another Rush classic. What a great show!
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Our New Cellphones Arrived on Friday
Posted on August 26, 2010 by Ching under Toys, Wishlist.
I won’t blog about the whole cellphone saga because it’s a long story and Brian told me that he would blog about it. After all, he is the one who worked super hard to get us our new Samsung Galaxy S/Vibrant phones. T-Mobile wouldn’t give them to us for less than $150 each at first. Even after multiple phone calls and multiple cancellation threats, they wouldn’t do it. We almost switched to Verizon to get HTC Incredibles. Luckily, they ran a special where everyone could get it for $99 so we were able to get in on that deal.
I’m glad we stayed with T-Mobile because our rate plan is unbeatable. We got to keep our grandfathered calling and messaging plans, and simply added unlimited data for $20 per month on each line. Also, I really, really like the Vibrant because I can control our TV with it. I can show pictures and videos stored in my phone on the TV wirelessly through the AllShare app. It is soo neat!
Check out what the phone can do below…
P.S. If you can’t see the video, you need to get out of Facebook for a second and visit my actual blog.
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Reorganizing My Closet
Posted on August 22, 2010 by Ching under Life, Things to Do.
Brian and I missed seeing Virginia Williams perform at The Shamrock on Thursday night because we were stuck at home reorganizing my closet. It had gotten to the point where I could not find anything, so it was in dire need of sorting. These are the fruits of our labor.
It doesn’t look like much, but this is a huge improvement from the condition that the closet was in prior to the reorganization. Trust me.
Brian, who is quite anal, helped me group the clothes into specific sections for dresses (separating dressy from casual), suits, pants, capris, shirts, work blouses (separating long-sleeved ones from short-sleeved ones), everyday casual tops, camisoles, jackets and blazers, polo shirts, work logo shirts etc. He even grouped similarly-colored articles of clothing in each section. This made me realize that I have over a dozen black work blouses. That’s not counting the long-sleeved ones!
I’m actually rather boring and wear mostly whites and blacks and browns. I really need to inject more color into my wardrobe not be so conservative in my clothing choices. Brian says I dress like I’m 50. (I don’t think I really started dressing this way until about four or five years ago when I started getting fat.) Hopefully, I can lose some more weight. Maybe we can change that as I start to feel better about myself and my personal appearance.
P.S. Since we missed Virginia Williams last Thursday at The Shamrock, we are going to try to catch her on Tuesday at Kelly’s Irish Pub. We’re going to be out and about anyway (we have a late night mystery shop that evening) and figured we could hit Kelly’s before heading home. I believe there isn’t a cover charge on this night. The music starts at 9 PM. See you all there!
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Another Busy Week
Posted on August 19, 2010 by Ching under Health, Life.
It’s been another busy week, which means I missed going to the gym again. On Monday night we were invited to dinner at Brian’s parents’ house. They gave us our anniversary gift. They are always so generous to us. This year tops all other years, though. Their gift went towards getting us our new Samsung Vibrant Galaxy S phones! I think we are also going to use it towards new stainless steel cookware and then maybe some new window treatments and a 16G microSD card for Brian.
Tuesday night was spent at the Phelpi. It was Tekken and WSOP night. I went undefeated at Tekken for most of the night until the very last game that Jay and I played. I think seven consecutive wins is pretty good, though. I don’t know that anyone else in our crew has achieved the same feat. We left our Tekken game over there because Cory was whining that he’d only played the game twice. I figured he could use some practice. =P Just kidding, Cory!
Mr. Miyagi
Brian and Miyagi
Ching and Miyagi
Jay and Becca
On Wednesday, Misty and I had our first laser hair removal appointments at the Kellogg Clinic. We went in together. It wasn’t as bad as I thought, but it was pretty painful. The nurse practitioner, Steve, said that he will numb me next time, though, since I am such a wuss.
Misty could handle a much higher laser setting because she’s fair-skinned and fair-haired. It’s more painful for me because of my dark skin color. That is what Steve says, anyhow.
Misty got to wear the cool shades.
Misty and I agreed that we like going together because we’re chatting while we’re getting treated and so it keeps our mind off it. Although, there was no getting around the pain that I felt. It burned! Also, burnt hair smells bad. FYI.
After our appointment, we treated ourselves to “Bang Wednesday” at Bonefish Grill. Mom, Dad, Jenni, JenTevs, her husband Armand, Mikki, Mikki’s sister, Misty, Brian and I all met up there. I think the Bonefish folks were starting to get annoyed at us because we started out with a reservation for four, that turned into six, that turned into nine, that turned into ten. We just kept calling back to add more people to the reservation. I can’t blame them for being irritated. We were a bit of a pain.
Tonight was supposed to be Shamrock night, but I got home too late last night to organize my closet so that ended up having to be done today. We didn’t finish early enough to make it to The Shamrock. I really wanted to see Virginia Williams, too! The last time I’d heard her perform was last year before Highlands closed. 🙁
Tomorrow night is Rush night. Looking forward to that. Brian’s isn’t too excited about it, though. He hates Rush. Mostly he’s just going for me.
So yeah.. Here’s to another busy week, which means no workout. Ugh. I will be hitting it hard this weekend, though, to make up for slacking during the week.
Until next time.
xoxo,
Ching
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Ching’s Red Eye
Posted on August 19, 2010 by Ching under Health.
I busted a blood vessel in my eye somehow. I still haven’t figured out how, though. I didn’t even know there was something wrong until Monday when Jan noticed my eye had a red spot. It didn’t hurt so I wasn’t worried about it at first. Then on Tuesday morning, the redness had spread. It made my eye look really funky. At that point I was worried so Brian and I agreed I should have the doctor check it out.
Luckily for me, the eye doctor was available that afternoon. We go to College Hill Eye Care, which is located just South of Central on Hillside so I was gone from work only 30 minutes or so. Their office was slow so I didn’t even have to wait. I got in really quickly and they had me read some letters on the wall and then he looked in my eye and in about two seconds decided I was fine.
I can’t believe I paid copay for that. LOL. I should have listened to Isaac who told me earlier that day that I was going to be fine. I told him that I trusted him and all, but I wanted a professional opinion. =P
The optometrist, who isn’t my regular optometrist (Dr. Goertz wasn’t in that day), told me that he did not find any foreign objects and as long as my eye doesn’t hurt then it should be fine. I wore my glasses on Tuesday because I was afraid that I would further irritate my eye and he reassured me that it would be fine to resume wearing my contact lenses. He did say that my eye will probably look worse before it gets better, but that it should be back to normal in about a week or two.
Apparently, these things are pretty common. If you cough or sneeze or puke or are constipated or strain in any way then you could bust a blood vessel in your eye and your eye will look just like mine does. I’d never had this happen before, though, so it made me panic. Everything is fine, however. As a matter of fact, I think the redness is starting to dissipate.
P.S. I have a theory about what caused the blood vessel to pop, but I’ll keep it to myself in the interest of keeping this blog PG. LOL!
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