Tuesday, September 30, 2008

LOVE

K again is on call and I need to move on from the old and somewhat embarrassing post. Good thing that I have fallen in love!! I am talking serious love!! This is the object of my affection -
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maybe I am in love with it because it looks like the letter "C" and C is for COOKIE!! I think it is because it is so cool and fun to work - I really want to buy one!! To bad I can't rationalize a $500 tool I won't ever use again. But I really LOVE it. The fun end of the mallet is the rubber end - you get to whack the wood in place and then you get to whack the machine on that big black button. It really is fun! This also deserves my unswerving devotion because it helped us put in our new floor - doesn't it look awesome. It is only 8 billion times better looking than the old disgusting floor (most of you saw our old front room floor). The fact that the whole floor cost us like 60 bucks makes me love it even more. We originally were not using this amazing tool - we were using a nail gun that wasn't really the right one - but our neighbor came over and said we couldn't use that. He then called our other neighbor who came over and said he had the right tool and a bucket of nails. I asked him how much I could pay him for the clips (or whatever he called them) and he said "nothing - we are neighbors and that is what we do" - only in the sometimes very awesome PA do we hear words like that!! Tomorrow we will give back the awesome tool and my life will be a little empty - maybe if I ask nicely my neighbor will let me visit it and hit it every once in a while.

In other Phui news we have been very busy with projects and life. Pence and I went with the McWhorters to the Herr's potato chip factory tour - and they got us fresh chips off the line - they were so good and so bad. Julie you should be proud of me for doing something like that - even if DeAnn planned it, reserved it, and drove. Jacob had the apple festival in his class where he got to go to 20 different stations of different things made with apples - seriously grubbin. I don't remember calorie filled events like this at my school - caramel apples were my favorite station. While I was there this little boy looked up at me, grabbed Jacob's shoulder and smiled while saying "he is my best friend!". Jacob immediately without any delay looked at me with this - he is crazy look on his face - and said " no he's not, Aman is!" (Aman is our neighbor - they are not in the same class this year).. Jacob my advice to you is TACT - get some tact!! Plus I tried to explain to him that having lots of friends is a good thing - we don't have to have just one best friend - I am sure it fell on deaf ears.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

8 years

Today is our 8 year anniversary - he is on call and I am on the computer - very romantic. I am just going to share a few things. One of my favorite things about us is that we are a team. We have been a team for a long time - we have competed together on at least 3 odyssey of the mind teams, math comp teams, and an animation team. We have partnered up for lots of school projects that required team procrastination and late nights - the most infamous being our bio presentation on Mendel. At six am the morning of, I got the genius idea of using Twinkies (strawberry and white filling and plain white filling) to show basic genetics. Anyways - K said that was dumb and I told him he was crazy and made my mom go to the store for Twinkies - it earned us 10 extra credit points and a life time of memories. This last weekend we did this walkway - as a team - and both our backs hurt to prove it. He was on call Thurs, sat, sun and today and he still did this with me. While we were working yesterday he said "this is your anniversary present" - oh K - don't say things like that. It would be pretty hard to top a present like this.

This was when we laid them to see how they fit and to label them.
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This is the finished walkway - we still have to mulch on the sides and seed grass up to the mulch but it looks awesome!!! It is a night shot because I just went out to take it right now - but it really is beautiful.
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I have known K for over 22 years when in 1986 - his (then) toilet bowl haircut moved in across the street. These are a few memories of the good old days. (good old days being anything before HS when homework and sports took over)

- In 6th grade he was the TEACHERS PET - it seriously used to make me crazy. She would even say k said the right answer when I didn't hear him say anything - I had to make fun of him for it.

- We used to take turns carrying each others backpacks home. Don't laugh - we had a system - we believed it was easier to carry one on the front and one on the back - it kind of balanced you out.

- We ran every morning to Junior High School because we left late and were ALWAYS almost late to school. Things haven't changed much.

- In sixth grade I beat him in the "Invention Convention" - I got 2nd and he got
3rd (nice - we were very competitive with each other)

- I was a punk to him- in the summer between 7th and 8th we took a geometry class together and we would get "money" for doing things. At the end of the class we could buy things at an auction with our money. I purposely ran up the price on some colored pencils I knew he wanted then stopped so he had to pay the high price. (He still has those pencils)

- The summer after 8th grade we took IPS together and he had some serious bad breath - I told him so everyday.

- We would play baseball almost everyday after school in the street (he would play barefoot - CRAZY - and I was soo the better player:)

- He once told me he could fart whenever he wanted to - of course I told him to prove it!! (now I know better than to have that conversation with him)

- We had a bike race in 6th grade around the block - I kicked trash (mind u he probably only weighed 55 lbs, I on the other hand..)

- In HS he and my brother had a contest in the summer to see who could go the longest without showering - it was gross.

- I was in love with him in sixth grade.

K rocks!!

Monday, September 8, 2008

PRESCHOOL ROCKS!!

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What more needs to be said. A huge bonus is that DeAnn and I switch days where I take Brian and Pence on Friday and she takes Wednesday. That way I get one day from 9am-3pm penceless - not that I don't love the kid. This way he has a playmate and he loves it!! I am going to work on the many projects we still have to finish and start.

DeAnn was also kind enough to tag me -

Answer the following with only one word.
Where is your cell phone?.........................................table
Your significant other?...........................................drugrepdinner
Your hair?........................................................long
Your mother?.........................................................freakinawesome
Your father?..........................................................amazingmemories
Your favorite thing?..................................................khuong
Your dream last night..........................................none
Your favorite drink........................................caffeine
Your dream/goal..................................cyclingortriathalon
The room you're in..........................................soothing
Your children?...................................................sleeping??
Your Fear?.............................................losingfamily
Where do you want to be in 6 years?......................happy
Where were you last night?................................bed
What you're not?............................................Asian
Muffins?............................................chocolate
One of your wish list items?....................girl
Where'd you grow up?..........................California
What'd you read last?.......................heroic
What are you wearing?............................shorts - duh
Your TV?..........................................ghettofabulous
Your pet?........................................never
Your computer?........................................laptop
Your life?...........................................AMAZING
Your mood?..................................anticipatingkanddessertthathegaveawaytoahomelesscouple - good man
Missing someone?..................................k
Your car?...........................................vaccuum
Something you're not wearing?.................jewlery (i am usually decked out)
Favorite store?...................................none (does deanns house count haha)
Your summer?.....................................fun,fun,fun,fun!!!
Like someone?..........................LOVE
Your favorite color?.........................blue
Last time you laughed................................Today
Last time you cried?...........................................can'tremember

I will tag soly, meghan, and sarah the SILs