Author: Doris

1) laundry
2) shopping for food
3) clean my room (still)

I went to Choon’s house for another Chinese New Year Party. This time it was a potluck. Since I have no cooking skills whatsoever, I made some brownies for the group. It was super cheap too! On sale for a buck! I botched the first batch I made a couple weeks ago for my roomies, but I realized my mistake. The previous brownies were too fluffy – not enough density. So this time, I let the brownie mix settle for an hour before I popped it into the oven. They turned out scrumpcilicious.

Too bad my stomach wasn’t feeling very well for dinner. I felt like I was going to throw up and I had to lay down for a little while. Ever since being sick, my appetite really hasn’t come back at all.

Aunt Margaret called me very late last night that she could not locate Mom. Just awful late, to my standard. Well, at least, it is good that someone cares and I appreciated that. After her call, I was wild awake and called Donald and left a voice message.

Grand uncle’s son just came back from Beijing after his dad’s memorial service. Grand uncle is a good guy with convictions – maybe his convictions are out of date? But, very few, walk the talk.

He also carried our family’s terrible genes, pround, stubborn, no ears, fail to see other sides’ story, unforgivable, not letting small disagreements go, never be on the wrong side, and always doing things in hard ways. Mom’s side on these is much, much better. But, there is again an old Chinese saying “Ocean can sink any boat, but it also can carry us to far away places”. Without those damned stubbornness, probably I would not be here writing. But, with it, looking back, I probably could do much better if I used it more selectively and wisely. Maybe, I am just getting too philosopherically here and get carried away out of my frustration.

But, keep smiling 🙂

Vince and I went to the Avalon View apt Valentine’s Day party. We made a little foam teddy bear angel and Vince won the door prize!

Vince’s prize from the Valentine’s Day Party.

Had ravioli and then we went to bed early. Today we woke up at 7:30 or so and I went to my piano lesson where I am stuggling with Bach’s 8th invention. I can’t get the rythmns right and the phrasing, it sounds so clunky. But my teacher had some suggestions about moving my wrists with the phrasing. It also turned out that I lost my wallet yesterday. It was at the Barnes and Noble and I went back to retrieve it. Tonight we are having a lime-marinade chicken, yum!

A couple of days ago, Mom bought some Valentine gifts using expedited shipping on line. They should arrive by the Valentine’s Day. Enjoying it and Happy Valentine’s Day.

Well, Mom was waiting for you folks to call her and wishing her a Happy Chinese New Year. She even prepared red envelops just for that. Well, I guessed no one called. So, the red envelops just have to wait for next time.

I am in the office today and will be in tomorrow also. Well, have a nice weekend.

OK, it’s too late in the day, I’m reading all the help sections of Blogger and I want to do all this stuff! I want to make all of our posts different colors, I want to add a blogroll, I want to do all this crap and I’m starting to dig into the HMTL and I’m like holy crap! This is not what I want to do.

Well, I am pretty happy that Mom passed her physical with flying colors for at least two reasons:

1) She was doing on her own. That means she takes good care of herself.
2) That translate that I can have more of her dumplings, beggar’s bowls, etc.

🙂 🙂 🙂