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finally…a 4-day weekend

I’ve been waiting for this weekend to arrive all month. November is usually a busy month for me because of the number of parent conferences I have to attend. Well, it’s almost over and I can finally enjoy a nice 4-day weekend. I finished at about 1:00 today and looking forward to some yummy food and hanging out with family and friends. On the agenda so far are the following:
1) Wine Tasting with the Miss Chans
2) Thanksgiving Dinner with the parents at our house
3) Possible Black Friday shopping
4) Another Thanksgiving Dinner with extended family in Buena Park
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Unfortunately, I’m swamped with 4 reports to write by next week…maybe I’ll get some work done over the weekend too…*sigh* it just never ends.

100 yards

I had today off because of Veteran’s Day so I went to the driving range with Dayantha. We went to Strawberry Farms by my house where a large bag of balls costs $12 and you can hit balls off of grass instead of green mats. My shots were surprisingly better than I expected. I switched between my 7 iron, 5 wood, 3 wood, and driver. Overall, I made a few grounders, hit the ball collector once, and whiffed a couple times but I shot my usual straight 100 yards with the 7 iron and occasionally reached at least 200 with the woods/driver. Dayantha did rather well for someone who doesn’t even own a set of clubs. He used Jes’ clubs and managed to get the ball off the ground with some major yardage. It looks like our Dayantha is a natural at the sport. I think the only habit he’ll need to break is the baseball swing that he has a tendency wants to fall back on.

Our 3rd/10th Anniversary

It’s been 3 years today that Jes and I tied the knot. It’s so weird because 3 years doesn’t seem very long considering that Jes and I have been together for 10 years. That anniversary passed just a week ago so our wedding anniversary sorta plays double-duty. Boy, things have really changed and evolved since our college days and we’ve gone through a lot of crazy stuff together. Unfortunately, we have to spend today apart because of a business trip that Jes had to take this week. Instead, I’m going out for sushi with Marie and Cole tonight since Kenji is also on a business trip this week. I get to relive my “consultant’s widow” life again for a couple days…time to catch up on my soap opera. Hee Hee.

trick or treat

I finally carved my pumpkin last night. We made the basic triangle eyes and nose and two buck teeth. Only difference was that Jes used his dremel for some of it…that was not pretty. Mary also came over last night to hang out with us. We had a small 9-lb turkey that’s been defrosting the fridge all week so Jes roasted it up and made all the fixins. I even made some homemade cranberry sauce…mmm…cranberry sauce. I can’t wait for Thanksgiving and Christmas. They have to be my two most favorite holidays. This was just a preview of more things to come!
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Today at school, the kids had a big Halloween carnival with games and prizes. They all dressed up and had a little parade on the blacktop. If I didn’t work with kids I think I’d almost forget it was Halloween. We bought some candy at Target yesterday just in case some kids came by…uh, we got one. Where are all the kids?! We certainly have a few living on our street but I guess they’ve gone elsewhere. My cousin was in Cerritos tonight and said that not many kids came by her house either. Hm… Oh well…they really missed out on the Batman Pez dispensers and Skittles that we have here! I suppose Jes will just have to stuff his face with chocolate and sugar this coming week. I don’t think it’ll be too difficult.

It’s been a while.

We met up with Dayantha, Huy, Ti, Thilan, Krishani, Derek, and Elise last night at Shark Club in Costa Mesa. The club was decorated for Halloween with plenty of people dressed up. The cover was pretty unreasonable but the price for a drink wasn’t so bad. All I know is that I had quite a few vodka tonics on an empty stomach and whew! I was nice and toasty by the end of the night and wide awake! You know…taking a nap before going out really helps. Anyway, we had fun and got to see some pretty skimpy costumes. Jesse always says that Halloween seems to bring out the “inner slut” in girls. It seemed rather true last night. Our waitress was a “slutty cop” and there were a bunch of just “slutty [fill in the blank]”. Girls get pretty creative and manage to hike up the hem lines and push up the boobs whenever possible. I suppose that’s why there were so many guys out last night…to check out the final package. Afterwards we stopped at Denny’s for some grease and sugar where the topic of conversation revolved around what Dayantha’s type was…pretty funny. Jes got us home in one piece and I slept in this morning with a headache and a couple trips to the bathroom to get rid of all that I had in my system. I made some coffee and rice porridge for breakfast and all is well in the world again. I can’t remember the last time I got this faded. Cheers and Happy Halloween!

Has it been a year already?

Jonah, Linda’s little boy, turned 1 today and she threw a little shindig for him. Linda and Shaun came all the way out here from Illinois to celebrate with the family and friends. I can’t believe that it has been a whole year since we were in Chicago and drove to Rockford to visit little Jonah at the hospital the day after he was born. Now he’s a big boy with four teeth and crawling. It was also nice to see the old UCLA gang again.