It’s great that Ruby’s home, she was really happy to see us.
They must have let her eat whatever she wanted in quarentine, I mean the feed bag must have just been full and open, because she is one huge, huge dog. Labs are just incapable of controlling themselves when it comes to feasting.
Raymond and Yvonne and her 2 kids came over. It was really nice.
So last night, Vince just puked and puked. And then 3 hours later, he had to pretty much sit on the toilet all night. And as soon as the sun was up, he was fine. What’s the deal with the late night stomach troubles? Do they never show up in daylight. I have to hand it to Jeremy, he got puked on this week by both Edda and Vince. Somehow I didn’t even get a splash. I had to send 2 down comforters, a down pillow, a rug and a quilt out to the laundry to clean them. Disgusting.
Mom & I are leaving form Mesa Verde National Park after work. It is 400 miles away and very close to 4 corners 🙂
We will be back on Saturday and, Sunday, I need to fly back to DC. Will be back to Denver Tuesday night.
Last night, we went to swim. It was a nice pool.
Yup, 15 years since I’ve graced the halls of Wootton High School. Shudder. I got an email in my inbox today. I’m so old.
We spent a low key day at home today, going to the library and the mall. Vince and Edda are finally both well and getting enough to eat and sleep so everyone is doing much, much better.
I was brave and called my potential friend, Annie, up and invited her over this morning, but she was headed to IKEA today to shop with her hubby. He’s a steward on Singapore airlines so he just came back yesterday for a few days off, so I figured she would be going out with him today. I hate calling people and asking them if they’d like to do something, even though they have made it perfectly clear that it’s OK to do so. I’m concentrating on this more and trying to make more of an effort to do so.
I’m happy to report that Vince is coming out of his I hate school mode. We talked a lot about his old school this morning and thinking about writing letters to his old friends at school. And this afternoon, he filled up his backpack and his water bottle and went to pretend school for a good 15 minutes or so. It was really nice to see, he had been shunning his backpack and was willing to give Edda his waterbottle when she needs it for her school because he planned on staying home.
Hrm. I found a neat little lunch place today. It totally reminds me of Gooseberry’s from MIT. It’s an asian food truck parked outside the student union called NetAppetit. It’s 6 bucks, which is cheap on campus, and it’s a buffet. You can get whatever you want as long as it’s under 30oz, which is a hell lot of food. The crazy thing is that buffet is actually inside the truck, so there are like 5-6 people cramped inside trying to grab food. Not the easiest thing to do, especially when you’re holding a Coke and a Powerbook.
So keeping the kids happy means feeding them every 2 hours. They don’t actually eat enough in one sitting to make them full for longer than that amount of time. Today Vince and Edda had a meal at 8 am, 11 am, 3 pm, 4:30 pm and 7pm. Crazy.
We had to get out of the house between 1:30 and 3:30 pm today because our housekeeper, Rukia, came by and cleaned. We went to the Causeway mall and bumped into Matilda and Julia. Boy, we partied with them, made a craft and also had ice cream sundaes. Yum.
I’m exhausted, but of course, once the kids are asleep, I want to stay up and hang out!
Matilda and Julia came over today at 10:30 in the morning and we played and swam until 4:30 pm. Wow, what a day! The kids had a lot of fun, mainly playing in a huge cardboard box. Julia is good fun to have around. I ogled her real Louis Vuitton backback that she got from her hubby for her birthday.
Edda is still a bit unenthusiastic about eating.
I’m sitting here waiting for the bus by the Stanford Quad. It’ great to have wireless all over campus. It’s great to actually have a computer that has a battery that lasts long enough to be somewhat useful. I’m not starting to play around with ripping DVDs. I’ve gotten 300 gig hard drive, and i’m going to try to fill it up with something. 😛
Other than that it’s going to be a pretty busy week. I’ve got so many things on my agenda this week. Plus I’m trying to not go out to eat this week to pay for that 300 gig hard drive. sigh.
I realize that a lot of my time these days is taken up thinking and researching what stuff i ought to buy. It’s somewhat depressing, but somewhat it’s great cause I couldnt’ afford these things for so long! So I’m consumed with consumerism. nice.
Hopefully I’ll get together with Choon this week. His wedding is coming up. I suppose I ought to shopping for a suit too since i didn’t manage to get one for Arif’s wedding.
Friday will be poker tournament 4. Hopefulyl this time i’ll come out with the top prize. muahhahaha.
where is that dang bus?
Biking down a straight road at 40mph or some soccer mom driving a 3500 lbs car, with her kid in the back seat, trying to get the attention of said biker to tell him that he’s going 40 mph?
laff. this happened to me on saturday. get a grip people.
In order to ward off feelings of lameness and stuck-at-homeness and encouraged by a quickie call to my brother, Vince, Edda and I went out on the town and spent money like crazy. OK, really just semi-crazy. I went all over to the other side of the island in search of a 3-story indoor (air conditioned) playground and I didn’t find it. It was pretty lame looking around a mall and asking a bunch of people with kids where the indoor playground is and have them all look at me real funny. Vince was not convinced today’s 3 different cab rides were worth the effort.
We went to the Tampines Mall, the Suntec City mall and then home. We ate at McD at the Suntec City mall and Vince declared that he missed the McDonald’s in New York.
Vince is kind of hard to manage these days, he won’t go down for a nap easily. I can spend two hours in a darkened room with him and he just won’t nap, my usual rule is no napping after 4 pm which results in an 11:30pm bed time. Without a nap, he’s flipping out at 5pm. I really should get on top of the food as well, I have to get back into feeding them every 3 hours or so. I’m still not familiar enough with the grocery store to get them the things that they’ll eat, I’m usually rushing though trying to get dinner together and not concentrating on what is actually on the shelves. I’ve been here almost 3 week and I’ve gone grocery shopping at least every other day and I just realized tonight that there is no pasta in my grocery store.
On a good note, I met a potential friend! I’m so excited! She has two girls, ages 4 and 2 and she lives in my apartment complex and within 5 minutes of meeting us, she invited us over tomorrow. And tomorrow we have a playdate with Matilda!