The 8th day of the 8th month of the 8th year of the current century…If you’re asian or partly asian, this is the day to bet big! For those not in the know, 8 is considered a very lucky number in most asian cultures. I’ve got two friends celebrating a birthday today and another friend scheduled for a c-section earlier this morning.
Though it may not seem like it, I feel like I’ve been neglecting Kellybean, not writing as often as I as I would like and so on…I’ve been busy with…
…Work – really! With folks on vacation, guess who gets to fill-in for them?
…trying to plan a child-less vacation – we’ll be in Andalucia for a week. Temperatures are in the high 90s, low 100s – mas agua por favor – which also means that I need to brush up on my espanol muy pronto! I bought the lonely planet spanish language guide (just as a refresher) and was shocked to see translations for social situations. Close, intimate, social situations, at that. I guess that’s me in my old mama age.
…attending baby showers, a bridal shower, and a birthday party
…the AIDS Walk – in the same weekend as a baby shower and same day as the bridal shower. There were so many people it was insane! Mads and I were supposed to walk with our friend, T, but foolishly, we never agreed on a meeting spot. Mads was going through a cycle of ride in the BOB, get out and walk, back in the BOB, walk, BOB, walk…we made it about ½ way through when Mads and I decided we had enough. All in all, $4.5M was raised, so thank you to those who helped us meet and surpass our fundraising goal!
…figuring out how to get to Austin, Texas for a wedding the day we get back – in the end, the wedding lost out. If we weren’t going to be able to make it to Santa Barbara for a wedding, how on earth would we make it to Texas?
…playing Wii Fit – though not so much anymore as I’m finding it impossible to get up early to workout
…figuring out how to play DVDs on the PS3 – yes, we now have a PS3. if you’re counting, in our entertainment console we have the TiVo, a xBox 360, a Wii (the Wii fit board fits nicely underneath the console) and now a PS3. Purchased for work reasons, we now can watch Blu-Ray DVDs. So, last weekend, we went to Blockbuster, rented National Treasure 2 and the Lego Indiana Jones game for the PS3. (Oh, and S finally mounted the flat screen to the wall.) After the movie…could I tell a difference? Of course not! I really should have lied to S and said, “Yes, my gosh! How did we not get this sooner!” Just kidding! Which reminds me, I need to update my Netflix queue to include Blu-Ray.
…wasting time on Facebook & Kaboodle
(To be honest, I’ve also been distracted by this Anderson Cooper – Lohan Family battle, so insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but like all traffic accidents, I can’t look away. And while I’m on the topic of celebrity “news” – why the heck is Suri Holmes Cruise still on a bottle?)
In other news
My cousin alerted to me that FOX the king of trash tv, may be in the works in airing a game show wholly devoted to…wait for it…HUMAN TETRIS!!! The story is here.
Two words why I think Obama will be the next president: web presence.
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