Just regular folks.

Finished my first knitting project! Hooray! It turned out pretty well for my first project. I’m doing a little dance. Dance, dance, dance. Doesn’t Edda look great? And her big toe looks huge.

Jeremy’s boss is in town and so he’s at dinner for the 2nd time in a week, leaving Vince really bummed that he’s put to bed by me. Jeremy’s been doing the bed routine for months now and the boys really enjoy it.

I’ve been surfing the web on my new computer and it’s so nice. I can’t believe how much I’ll pay in hardware for a stupid internet connection. I don’t want to download anything, not even the Flash plug-in, because I want to keep my computer all new and pristine. You know when you buy new white sneakers and you don’t want to scuff them? Same thing.

Hmmm, what else? Oh yes, we got a bigger fish tank and more fish. The goldfish were just getting so huge, they needed more room, so I Super Sized the tank and added 2 new Rosy Tetras. I’m pretty much not picking out the fish, I’m just asking the guy at the aquarium store which fish are the hardest to kill. Anyways the 2 new guy are called Bob and Wendy. And it turns out that I’m overfeeding the goldfish. Apparently they are the Laborador Retrievers of the fish world, always pretending to be hungry.

And for the knitters out there… I’ve finished my first project, a green kids sweater, but I can’t post a picture becuase I haven’t downloaded and photo software just yet.

I’m typing this on my brand-spanking new HP/AMD Laptop! Woo hoo! I’m connected and ready-to-go! I will post a picture soon. Finally after almost 2.5 months without one.

Oye, what a pain in the butt. I bought my nice 24″ lcd panel the other day, and I ordered a pretty cheap Nvidia card with a DVI port thinking that I could run 1920×1200 just fine on it. Apparently it’s not able to do it even tho it’s max resolution is like 2000×1500. And then on top of that newegg has a 15% restocking fee! sigh. well i guess it’s my own fault for not doing my research first. I’m running only 1280×1024 right now on my old crappy ass card. Looks like I’ll have to bite the bullet and go out and buy a computer now. sigh….

in other comptuer news, I reinstalled Arif’s boss’ computer. It took me awhile to transfer all the iTunes playlists over to the new system. iTunes definitely does not make this easy. The other funny thing is that her computer could run 1920×1200 just fine! and it’s like a 2 year old computer! double sigh.

Well I got back from LA Sunday night at 3am. It was a long weekend, with very little sleep.

I drove down thursday night, and almost fell asleep in the middle of I-5. but i got to Ted’s place okay. He’s living with 3 other guys now, and one of them is a psychologist/trash talker. so on Friday, we were both working from home, and he sorta psychoanalyized me. it was fun. 😛

Anh came in that night, and we all went out, and ate japanese…

Sat we woke up early to play some tennis and then sort just hung out until dinner time. Went to the last hour of the jazz festival in Brea. The band on the stage was interestingly not playing any jazz at all. But things like “My Girl” and “kiss” from Prince.

Sunday was mostly just brunch, watching the Redskins narrowly miss defeat to improve to 3-0 on the year. Anh’s cousin has NFL Sunday Ticket in HD. nice.

And that was it. I’m super tired, and today I pretty much feel asleep at my desk at 11, and fell asleep in a 2 hours meeting at 2.

oh yeah I had lunch with Stella again today. She’s a funny lady. but I enjoy talking to her.

okay bedtime… ramadan starts tomorrow. it’s going to be a hard day…

After our healthy dinner of pork chops (Vince is finally eating meat again), we dug into the chocolates sent by my secret pal. Thank you from my husband, Jeremy, who enjoyed his chocolate treat.

Thank you, thank you secret pal! I know you emailed me last week telling me that you sent the package and I kind of put it in the back of my mind and had been busy with other stuff, but when the doorbell rang today, I instantly remembered that you sent a package! A package from New York, our old home. I have to say when I opened it I almost cried, I miss home so much, and everything in the package is perfect and wonderful. Here’s Vince posing with the goodies. He, of course, zoomed in onto the candy. I can’t wait to learn how to knit socks. Thank you for thinking of me and taking the time to put the package together!

Well, here you can see Edda gripping the side of our dining table, finally able to see the fish on her own two feet. She’s trying to pull the fish onto the floor. She’s still not walking, but thinking about it pretty hard.

On Sunday night, AMD Singapore had it’s yearly celebration and so we babysat Mathida so the Tristans could have a night out. The celebration was a many-course banquet which was suppose to last until 2 in the morning at Suntec City.

We had a ball at The Warren with the three kids. We all went swimming and then had pizza for dinner (Pizza Hut, pepperoni for the kids and BBQ chicken for us). No one fell asleep before 10 pm. Edda struggled for about an hour to stay awake in her darkened room. Vince actually asked to go to sleep around 10:30 and Mathilda headed to bed shortly thereafter.

John and Julia picked her up at about 11:30. Of course, I couldn’t fall asleep afterward. Stayed up roaming the house for carbohydrates to eat.

Edda got a haircut today. It turned out really well, you’ll have to tune in later to find a dry picture.