We went to E’s house today.
This is the best picture I could coax out of the two friends – both of them don’t really like looking into cameras. Edda and E. are classmates. E. was really happy to see Edda! Vince and E’s older brother get along really well, so it’s nice to have the 4 kids wandering around and having fun.
Hrm. I’m saddened. One of my friends just asked a guy out on a date, and of course, he said yes. This was on like Thursday or Friday. They went out tonight and he mentioned that he was just being polite and all, by accepting the dinner offer. So I think she’s a bit bummed out by that. I’m sorta wondering why you go out with someone if you know it’s not there? Maybe it’s just hard to say no when confronted with it? i dunno…
In other relationship news, another friend of mine is in a spat with his GF. A silly argument that started over a misunderstanding. She was so mad, that she got up, left the house, got in her car, and _pretended_ to drive away. Really she just drove around the block and parked the car. He figured it out cuase they were on the phone, and he walked out to the car to talk to her. I thought that was freakin’ hilarious. I would be totally on the floor if it was my girlfriend – even if I was steaming mad at her. Hahhaha.
No silly, not Christmas, It’s the start of the 2006 NFL season and the start of my fantasy football season once again!
I can hear the snores of a thousand bored blog readers, but I don’t care.
My friend JT setup a league that I played in last year. My team did reasonable well, making the playoffs but losing in the first round. Last year I wasn’t able to attend the draft, so the computer picked my players for me, but this year, I managed to make it and without further ado, here’s my roster:
(s) for starter, 14 team league, starting 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 RB/WR, 1 TE, 1 K, 1 D, 1 DEF
QB – Drew Bledsoe, Cowboys (s)
QB – Jon Kitna, Lions
RB – Ladainian Tomlinson, Chargers (s)
RB – Willie Parker, Steelers (s)
RB – Warrick Dunn, Falcons (s)
RB – Kevan Barlow, Jets
RB – Michael Turner, Chargers
WR – T. Houshmandzadeh, Bengals (s)
WR – Derrick Mason, Ravens (s)
WR – Donte Stallworth, Eagles (s)
WR – Ernest Wilford, Jaguars
TE – Ben Troupe, Titans (s)
K – Lawrence Tynes, Chiefs (s)
D – DeAngelo Hall, Falcons (s)
DEF – Washington (s)
I had absolutely nothing planned today which ended up being perfect. Vince and Edda had a lot of videotherapy and I cleaned the study, washed some slipcovers of the couch, finished the Genesis newsletter, did a few hobby-like things and lazed around at home. It felt wonderful.
Our housekeeper comes on Tuesdays. I haven’t seen her for a while because usually I’m out dropping the kids off at school, but since there was no school today, I had a chance to chat with her. Rukia really helped me through the first half of the year when we were first grappling with Edda’s developmetal delay. Edda really likes her and Rukia has such a calmness about her and has an interesting perspective. She told me that as a Muslim, she believes that everything in our lives has been fated, already written out and planned for us. I don’t really agree exactly with that philosophy, but it was just the way Rukia said it to me that made me feel better – just that everything is going to be OK. And it’s true, I am going to make it through 2006 and we’re going to be OK!
Jeremy was always relieved when Rukia came over because both the house would be cleaner and I would not be in as much emotional dispair.
Today, Rukia brought over her youngest daughter, it’s cute because even though H. speaks mainly Malay, Vince speaks English and Edda speaks Edda – they all play together pretty well – all of them speaking their own language, each one incomprehensible to the other two.
Oh, and look at this hilarious picture of Vince.
Dude!
Well, it seems like everyone is in a mood to setup me up these days – Mom, my friend Anna, Ray, Mike. Some people just mostly encourging me to go after people, like Doris and Katherine encourging me to write back to someone… (which I have incidentally, tho it was more businessy really.)
I guess I’ll come out of the closet and say that I’ve been on match for awhile, tho I haven’t really been taking it too seriously at all, I haven’t met any one yet, but trying to be more wholehearted about it. (Ted, this is for you if you are reading this) So I’m trying to setup some lunches this week also…
Today I had a blind date with this girl that Anna set me up with – Olivia. Funny thing is that Anna and I were setup back in Feb by some mutual friends, and I suppose it says something if Anna is willing to set me up. I’ll have to thank her tomorrow.
Anyhow the date with Olivia was only okay for me. I have my reasons that probably don’t belong on a blog… The cool thing tho was that she mountain bikes, and we went on a biking first date which was kinda neat. Just up Arastradero Park, behind Stanford, where there’s a great view of the valley. Anyhow, I suppose that’s the way blind dates go. We’re having a group dinner on Friday, but honestly, I don’t think it’s there for me.
I’ll compound this with another interesting development, that I can’t quite blog about either, but if you want to email me about it, I can tell you the gory details.
P’ng and Judy are having a sorta baby shower/potluck/sleepover party on Saturday. Jocelyn will be there. It’ll be interesting to note if she listens to my request to leave me alone. I’m curious to know if she has the required control to do so. We’ll see.
Both the kids are out of school this week, Jeremy’s taking Monday, Wed and Fri off. I told him it was appropriate since today is Labor day, and he is our ace #1 laborer.
Edda got her Mass Transit card today; she’s now 90cm tall, too tall to be a freebie.
What’s with that weird pucker on her face? Perhaps trying to keep that hand out of her mouth?
We went to a fast food joint called Mos Burger – a Japanese burger joint (I know, a bit weird if you think about it). I mainly like it because of the super cute paper packaging they have and because they make your food to order and it’s super hot.
Then we went home – Vince had invited a friend over.
Notice the matching socks.
After a delicious meal where we ate
and
and other things that were so delicious that I forgot to take pictures of them, Jeremy took me to the most romantic place in Singapore…
Sim Lim Square, the computer mecca of Singapore. Looking for any computer crap ever made by mankind? It’s at Sim Lim Square. I have no idea how anyone can make any money since it seems like all 100 stores were selling the exact same MP3 players, digital cameras, video cameras, speakers, wires, converters, etc, etc. There seemed to be a lot of bored women just milling around.
After their beloved rabbit, Porky, passed away from porking out on too many pandan leaves, our neighbors decided to get a dog. A dog! I was so excited, a playmate for Ruby, right on our floor! Ruby, our poor Texan, has had a tough time in Singapore – a bit cooped up, a bit scorned – why just today, a pre-teen on the playground said that she wanted to eat Ruby for lunch! Sheez.
Anywhoo – Toasty, a 3-month old Maltese arrived today in all his tiny, white, fluffy greatness and Ruby was so excited to meet him. She was in a great mood.
Toasty is so tiny. About as large as a chicken. They are attempting to paper train Toasty. Since most people who own dogs live in high rise apartments, they tend to keep them in the house and paper train their dogs – so Sinagpore dogs don’t really get walked all that much.
We dutifully take Ruby on a long morning and evening walk everyday – Jeremy and I take turns, ensuring that we each get walked once a day.
Edda started mouthing her right hand in November of last year. This was just about the time I was becoming fairly certain that she wasn’t your typically developing kid. I remember so clearly thinking, oh, she’s getting her molars, she’s just chewing on her fingers.. Little did I know..
Argh. I hate the mouthing. Well, maybe hate it is too strong a word, I just really dislike it. It’s just a wee bit disgusting. You know, saliva everywhere, everything a bit smelly and then you think of all the germs (although I have to say that Edda is no sicker than the rest of us).
So for the first half of the year, when we weren’t sure if Edda had Rett, I put her arm in the brace because I was totally paranoid that she was losing her ability to use her hand and if I put the brace on her, she could still use her right hand pretty well. Everyday I would look at that hand and see that she was still picking up stuff and moving things around. So I’d say to myself, see? She doesn’t have Rett, she still can use her hand! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Well, I have to say that now it’s finally September and since January, Edda has lost a lot of the use of her right hand even with the extensive bracing and various rubbing/tickling/scratching sensory crap that we’ve been doing to get her to try and remember that she has a right hand – she still likes best to put it in her mouth.
So now we’ve braced the arm so much that it’s losing muscle tone. I’ve given up thinking that she’s going to give up mouthing anytime soon, so we’ve gone back to where we’ve started. To preserve muscle tone, she gets to go braceless again, but everyone at school and at her therapies is reminding her to keep her hand out of her mouth. She knows she’s not suppose to do it and our PT managed to get NO MOUTHING for a whole 45 minute session.
At school today, I saw her go hide in a corner so she could mouth to her hearts content away from the teacher’s eye. She’s a clever one, that Edda.
On Thursday, I got this amazing package from my secret pal. She revealed to me who she is, she’s Lynae from Avec le coton. Hooray! A yarn pal near Chicago.
Look at this wonderful package. I love the yarn, I already have a few ideas of what I want to do with it. My first real sweater.. And I just absolutely love the buttons.
Also, an iTunes music card for Edda.. We have never bought anything from the iTunes store, Jeremy’s eyes sparkled when he heard of that surprise. Vince loves the yo-yo thing-y!
Thank you! Thank you Lynae! For being the best Secret Pal ever 🙂