Just regular folks.

Edda loves her boots. Thanks Kappa!

I had a tough day today. I didn’t get much sleep last night and I think Edda is getting her last set of molars in so she has been really cranky during the day. Since she’s so cranky, I don’t want to leave the house because nothing makes me crankier than kids screaming in public when I’m tired. Vince was very sweet to me today and tried to cheer me up when I was getting exasperated.

Karen, my college roommate, called me today! Out of the blue!

I was so surprised and happy to hear from her. I don’t think we’ve spoken to each other since 1994. She is living and working in the financial district in NYC and the next time I go home, we made plans to have drinks together. I’ve been letting Vince answer the phones because he gets so pissed when I answer the phone first and now he’s usually pretty good about not hanging up on people… So it’s was funny to hear Karen’s reaction to Vince’s voice on the phone picking up and saying hello. Vince seemed pretty excited to visit Karen in New York as well.

We are all exhausted. Edda is just not sleeping well. She isn’t ill, the only thing we can come up with is that her last set of molars are coming in and they are bothering her. So tonight, we gave her a dose of Tylenol and hopefully, that will help.

The prize of Power Ball will be $340M this coming Saterday. I bought 5 tickets. Daddy would like to buy only one dollar. But I think I am willing to loss $5.00. Daddy said that if we won the prize, he will quit job right way. I think I will finish this job then quit.

We bought a bottle of red wine with rating 92 other day. It was good, So we bought few bottles more today. The saleman sold daddy another bottle of wine with rating of 92.

MingMing and Wing invited us to have Hawaii cruise berfore Xmas time. His parents (Mr. and Mrs. Wang) are coming too. We will stop at LA few day after cruise. Then we will go to FL to see thier $1.7M house next to sea shore. That should be fun. Hope my job will be done at that time.

So today Vince, Edda and I went over the Julia and Mathilda’s house. It was a casual hang-out kind of day, we went to KFC for lunch (Vince and Mathilda couldn’t agree on where to sit for lunch, so we sat at 2 different tables… What’s up with that?) and then over to their house for hanging out at the pool and playing with puzzles. Vince and Mathilda had a nice time together, they are so sweet. They do argue, but not more than expected. I’m glad they have each other here in Singapore. Then we headed home and Vince was drinking a can of Milo that Julia had bought him at the pool. We were walking along the street and he emptied his can of Milo and, of course, he needed to pee. I was about 8 minutes away from Julia’s house and 10 minutes away from the mall… So where to pee? Should we pee in the bushes and risk being busted by the Singapore police? Should we try to run back to the Tristans? No I had a brilliant idea! We’ll just pee back into the soda can… Vince pulled down his pants and returned the Milo back into the can and I told him sternly not to drink it and at the next trash can, he threw it away.

Edda is killing us. For the past week or two, she’s been waking up earlier and earlier – first 6 am, then 5:30, then 5 and a few days 4 am. Finally last night, she got up at 1 am, demanded a banana and a new diaper and wanted to play for 2 hours.

Somehow, these days, I get really frustrated trying to put Edda to bed. I nurse and nurse and I can’t get her to go to sleep. So, Jeremy’s been putting her to bed. So we are all underslept.

Vince’s favorite group is Hi-5. He LOVES LOVES LOVES it and Edda HATES HATES HATES it. So he’s been listening to it on headphones on the iPod so Edda can’t hear it. Guess what happened today? He dropped it on the stone kitchen floor. Oh well, so much for that, the screen is broken and hopefully we can get just that replaced.

To day is the organizing day. Doing luandry and grocery shopping. Daddy is doing his paper wroks to file all receipts and reports. So he is not in good mood. I cooked scramble eggs for him this morning.

We went to God of Garden yesterday. It was fist day of national week or so. There was a big cerabration from local indians. It was very nice. Over there, we saw many artists doing painting nice fall senaries. They belong a artists group. We also went to see another mational park nearby. There are lots of sequoia fassiles. It is not like those in AZ. Weather was very nice.

Jeremy’s company will sent magazines though their interoffice mail from Texas to Singapore, so we subscribed to a bunch of magazines, mainly cooking magazines… Jeremy’s made a hunter’s chicken from Cook’s Illustrated. Here he is trying to light the alcohol on fire, but it didn’t work.