I have a bun in the oven! Eeee!! How exciting. I’m not feeling sick yet. Just hungry. But that’s my natural state anyway isn’t it? By the way, the dollar store is the place to get pregnancy tests. Why pay more than a buck for something you just pee on? So I was kinda’ hoping that it wouldn’t happen while I was traveling abroad cuz now I have to be careful what I eat (no sashimi) and I can’t drink obviously. Oh well, it’s hard to predict these things right? I wasn’t expecting it to happen so soon, but I’m very happy about it all the same.
Category Archives: Passage of Time
Vernal Equinox
Posted by Leaf on March 20, 2011
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Saving my daylight
Posted by Leaf on March 14, 2011
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Fat Tuesday
Posted by Leaf on March 8, 2011
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This year, I have nothing to improve on. I can’t think of a single thing to do for Lent. I am perfect the way that I am. Seriously? Seriously!? Usually for Lent I’m giving up some kind of food. One year it was pretzals, last year it was coffee. Since I haven’t been drinking coffee or alcohol, at least not as of late, that isn’t really changing anything. Maybe I’ll try to be more diligent about journaling. I’ll try to write in it every day for 40 days. Even if it’s stupid. At least I put pen to paper. I should have lots of material to cover anyway. My coworker said her son volunteered to give up chores for Lent. How about that? I like that one too.
Superbowl Forty-Five
Posted by Leaf on February 7, 2011
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Yesterday might have been the first time I watched a Superbowl/football game and kinda understood what was going on. I was rooting for the Packers because I had read bad things about some of the Steelers players. Harrison and the quarterback. Harrison was fined more than the entire Packers team this year for roughplay. I know football is a violent sport but for one person to be fined more than an entire team tells me his level of roughness falls outside of the norm. The quarterback Roethlisberger (or however you spell it) has a problem with being respectful towards women. So I can’t support bad people winning the Superbowl. And maybe they’re not bad people but they do bad things, and I don’t like rewarding bad behavior. As it were, the Steelers played badly and the Packers played well and won. Yay!
The commercials were entertaining. I liked the Darth Vader kid in the Volkswagen commercial and the Doritos commercial where everything was brought back to life with a sprinkling of Doritos. The Chevy truck was also good where the family’s son kept getting trapped in the craziest situation and the truck had to rescue him. Now I don’t know that I’ll ever get into football but I think I’m finally starting to understand bits and pieces of it. It’s really not that complicated. The offense gets 4 tries to make 10 yards and if they don’t they will probably punt the ball far so the other team will have more yardage to make before they get it to the touchdown part of the field. If they make 10 yards in the 4 tries they get another 4 tries to make another 10 yards and so on and so forth. Easy peasy! I hope this is right. After they make a touchdown some guy gets a chance to win an extra point by kicking the ball through the yellow poles. It’s like a field goal or something. Ok, I’ve exhausted all I know about football. The food at the Superbowl party we went to was delicious. BBQ ribs, pulled pork, jerked chicken, chile lasagna, cheese and bagel chips, cookies, cupcakes, beer, and so on and so forth. Somewhere in there were some veggies.
Happy Bunny New Year!
Posted by Leaf on February 3, 2011
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Recuperation
Posted by Leaf on January 2, 2011
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After all that wild partying with endless food and Settlers of Catan, we needed some time to recuperate for the start of a new work week.
Here’s what we did:
Dec. 23rd – Dinner at home with the extended family. Catan the rest of the night, into the morning.
Dec. 24th – We went home to give our neighbor’s cat a kitty-loving session while they were out of town. Then came back for round 2 of family dinner and Catan.
Dec. 25th – Brunch at Hunan Palace. We had Taiwanese brunch dishes. After dinner of leftovers, we yes, played more Catan.
Dec. 26th – The twice yearly pilgrimage to Full Key. Delicious as ever. Nap. Catan.
Dec. 27th – Dec. 29th – Had to go to work. I think we tried to get some normal sleep hours going. On Monday, our uncle took us out to Rio Grande. On Wednesday, a few of us “kids” got together at Dave & Busters for some drinks after dinner at Amina Thai.
Dec. 30th – Got out of work early. Went shopping at the nearby mall. Then went to my other cousin’s house for a NYE-eve dinner party. Surprise! We didn’t play Catan. It was Taboo instead.
Dec. 31st – Took sis & b-i-l back to the airport, which was interesting. We came back, napped, then they came back, then we all had dinner, then they went back to the airport. That’s the short version. We spent the rest of the evening at my uncle’s house to count down to the new year. I slept a good 3 or 4 hours there. It was a beautiful nap. I needed it. I woke up to the end of Kick-Ass which was disturbingly violent. Yuck. I had the impression from the trailers that it was a comedy. Talk about misleading.
And finally!
Jan. 1st – We were home so we went out to Rustico for lunch.
Chickpea crusted (gluten-free) eggplant pizza. Delicious. Delicious crust too. Usually we get to a point where we start skipping the crust. This time, I was breaking it off and eating it. We also shared a very interesting stout beer. It tasted of Asian barley tea and chocolate. After, we went grocery shopping. I made a curry with chicken, mushrooms, onions, butternut squash, and carrots. A big ol’ pot of it.
Jan. 2nd – Did nothing. Rotted our brains out with TV! It was luxurious. Between yesterday and today, we also watched The Wrestler, totally depressing and tragic, Knowing, a little odd but okay, and Milk, hopeful, inspiring, good, and Gentleman’s Agreement, also along the same lines as Milk, about fighting bigotry and also hopeful and good.
And that was how we spent our holiday season. I’m beat.
My Big Plans for 2011
Posted by Leaf on January 1, 2011
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- Travel! (Internationally, domestically, anything goes)
- Discover more delicious restaurants
- Try to pare down my possessions even more. Do more with less.
- Consume less.
- Eat less meat
- Eat organic/grassfed as much as possible.
- Eat out no more than two meals a week, preferably no more than one meal a week.
- Attend more training at work.
- Create a rainy day fund. (Shopping on a rainy day does not count!!)
- Volunteer as much as possible
- Learn how to dance.
Happy New Year!
The Year in Review
Posted by Leaf on December 30, 2010
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I’m grateful I got to do everything that I got to do in 2010.
Another holiday season
Posted by Leaf on December 26, 2010
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Ahh, another holiday season is here. This means more food than you can shake a pair of chopsticks at and sleep deprivation. We’ve spent most of the time playing marathon games of Settlers of Catan. The 6 player expansion. I usually last until maybe 2 or 3 AM. The rest of the family will go til the sun rises. I’m guessing 7 or 8 AM. We’re not normal! Somehow, with 4 players the game runs at a decent clip. With 6 players all out to get one another, wheelin’ and dealin’ it’s another ball game. Or board game.
So far, I haven’t gone post-Xmas shopping. It’s just too cold to want to venture outside. No matter how good the sales may be. We keep hearing about 6″ snow on the horizon but aside from a short snowfall this afternoon with no accumulation, I haven’t seen a thing. Hopefully, it stays that way.
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