Happy Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day.

Hopefully, gifts from Mom will arrive at your door steps today. Also, my gift to Mom.

I probably will drive to DC and back today to do some household chores because this week is a short week. This way, it will give me a month without visiting home in DC. Of course, Mom’s plants are not too happy but they sure can last about a month without watering.

I will be at Mom’s place on Thursday. Mom sounded aweful yesterday, just like Jeremy, sick again. Hope, you all are getting better. Donald, are you getting better?

Sunday night – weekly goal and progress made.

It’s Sunday night and I’m going to hold myself accountable to my goals by updating them here on the blog on Sunday night. Part of the Wishcraft deal.

Let’s see, there are a few different catagories:

Physical:
Row daily.

Social:
Invite someone over for dinner this week.

Personal:
Finish knitting the main piece of Vince’s sweater.
Practice piano daily.
Keep the kids happy and fed.

Professional:
My professional goals for the next five years are to run an independent press publishing poetry and to get a Master’s in Nursing.

But for this week:
I’m going to write 1 poem this week (the first one in about 10 years.)
I’m going to send out a poem that I wrote 10 years ago out to 5 magazines to see if anyone wants to publish it.
I’m going to try and figure out about nursing schools in Singapore.

Spyware attack

Jeremy has been trying to disinfect our computer all weekend so my access to the computer has been limited. We thought we had lost all our computer disks and so we were going to lose all our programs, but Katherine found them today in her study, so I think that after this weekend, we’ll have to wipe the slate clean and reinstall Windows on our computer.

Potluck NIght.

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 Could Not Locate Mom Late Last Night

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 🙂