Tuesday, August 31, 2004

yesterday was john's birthday, so my parents and i took him to his favorite restaurant The Elephant Bar for dinner. it was the 4th time we have been there this month. both the food and services are always excellent there. but last night's dinner just totally threw me off.

i ordered Bangkok Stir-Fried Pad Thai with Vegetables & Tofu. when the food first arrived, i took out all the bits that i didn't like, such as green onion and put them on a piece of napkin in front of me. i had a few bites of the food, which was pretty good. until, ready for this? JE yelled out, "a worm, a worm." first i had no idea what he was talking about, until i looked at the napkin in front of me. sure enough, there was a LIFE green worm wiggling around the green onions. it was so fucking gross. i was very lucky that i had past the morning sickness stage, otherwise i would have puked right there!

Monday, August 30, 2004

Saturday morning after dropping off John at his exam site nice and early (before 8am). JE and I had breaky at McD, then instead of swimming class, I took him to Methodist Hospital, where I will give birth in 2 months for a "Big Kid and Baby" class.

Basically it teaches the big brother/sister the basic skill of holding the baby, changing diapers, and wrapping the blanket. We also did a tour of the maternity ward and new born's room.

It was a pretty cool class. Both of us had a good time. :)

Monday, August 30, 2004

Happy Birthday John. ;)

Friday, August 27, 2004

Since I have 45 minutes left until I leave for work, I will kill some time to write something here. Haven't written much lately. Don't feel like blogging, and not much to report anyway.

Mark is here from Australia. He brought lots of gifts from my in-laws to us, mostly to JE and the baby, and John's birthday gifts (8/30). He got in yesterday. I know I said before that I don't feel like having guests. But now I am glad he is able to stay with us for a few days, until he leaves for TX on Monday morning. He will be there for 6-7 months at some endangered animals care facility. It's his first time away from his family this long time. So here is like a stop over before he ventures into a totally strange environment.

Last night we went to Santa Anita mall to get a cell phone for Mark. He was thinking of getting a pre-paid phone originally. But the sales girl, whom is Greek and has a really cool name Aphrodite, told him it would be more expensive than getting on a plan, since he would be using it for almost a year. Instead we added him onto our plan, which is about $ 9.99 extra per month.

We will probably take Mark to Old Town Pasadena for dinner later on. We will see.

You all have a good weekend now. :)

Monday, August 23, 2004

Yay, our yard is done. Drew contributed his weekend helping John laying down the pavers. They started on Friday afternoon, and finished late Sunday afternoon. The yard looks fatastic. Now just need to plant on the other side. Wish I had taken a before and after picture. :)

Friday, August 20, 2004

I am so tired, so very tired. Shouldn't have watched Olympics until wee hours, then read a book for another hour. And it is only 9:20 am!! This is going to be a long day.

*yawn*

Thursday, August 19, 2004

Tonight John Edward was looking at one of his pictures on the TV stand. He asked me when it was taken, in which I replied when you were a little over one, we went to visit Pop & Nan (his paternal grandparents) in Australia. He just suddenly started crying and saying, I don’t want grow up. I want to be a baby like in the picture and go in your tummy. That totally had me bawling my eyes out.

Thursday, August 19, 2004

There is an online service called photo stamps (i saw it on someone's blog's blog), which allow you to download your favorite photo and they make a stamp out of it. It costs about 85¢ to make a 37¢ face value stamp. I think it is pretty cool, especailly for special occasion. I am thinking of doing it for the birth announcement.

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

OMG, I have hit the big 3-0.

That is me at 30 week of pregnancy. heh :)
(will add a picture when i get home)

Friday, August 13, 2004

This morning, I woke up with the worst and the most painful cramp on the left leg. I haven't had any cramp through my pregnancy until this morning. And it somehow happened on Friday the 13th. hmmm.

Luckily John hasn't left for work yet, or even awaken for that matter. I think it took him a good 20 minutes to massage my leg back to normal. Or it could be less time. But i was in so much pain, it felt like forever until I could feel my leg again.

I hope I never have this kind of cramp ever again. Even a contraction feels less pain than what I had this morning. *shudder*

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

I guess you are all so sick of me complaining. Here are some more pleasant things going on.

Tonight John and JE picked me up from work, and we headed out to one of the city’s unions’ annual BBQ in Commerce. The food was really yummy. I overate, since I didn’t eat much for lunch. Even though I do not work for the city, each year John “drags” me there. Yay for free yummy food. :) Afterwards we stopped by the Gap and Macy’s at Montebello mall to return some baby clothes.

I have been studying the city clerk typist’s exam at work. Since there are so few copies of the practice books to go around in the different libraries (when I put the passbook on hold, I was #91 on the list), I decided to buy my own book. If I keep waiting, I won’t get the book until after the exam date. So I have been practicing and practicing at work. I am doing really well with the math, number matching, and vocabulary questions, but not so good with office procedures. Some of the questions are so outdated, it ain’t funny.

Only a month left until the exam. Strangely the city scheduled it on Sept 11th. Hmmm, weird.

John also will take his next promotional exam on Aug 28th. Let’s hope we both do well, so he gets promoted and I get a job with the city. Then I can get out my current job, which is getting on my nerve. Basically I will be doing what I do now, with double of what I get paid. Not to the mention all the excellent city benefits.

Apparently someone from Australia, who is my in-laws’ friend’s sister’s son will be coming over here for a couple of days at the end of August. He is starting an intern job in Texas at some exotic animals place. We don’t know the date yet. If he is arriving on the 28th, no one will be able to pick him up. John will have his exam and I am not crazy enough to venture into LAX with JE by myself. Besides I am so not in the mood to take in any overnight guests, not even for one day. The idea itself already exhausted me. *sigh*

Tuesday, August 10, 2004

I hate it when I am asked whether I am having a girl or boy, and they found out I am having a girl. Some people's reaction is a basic "Oh". Like it is such a "tragedy" that I am having a girl. Then they found out she will be my second child and my first is a boy. The general reaction changed. "It is so perfect", they say, or something along that line.

WTF? You didn't seem very congratulative (is that such a word) when I told you I am having a girl. Now just because I already have a boy, your whole demeaner just changed?

Some people are just so ignorant and narrow-minded. They are in the same category of dumbass that I can not stand.

Now I am in my third trimester, I find myself having very little tolerance of everything and anything.

Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Because I also speak Mandarin/Cantonese, some customers will call me here and ask me questions in those language. Today the first phone call I got from this woman. After I answered the phone, she immediately greeted me in Mandarin, so I greeted her back in Mandarin as well. Guess what her next question is? "Do you speak Mandarin?" You dumb wit, I just spoke to you in Mardarin, what do you think? (I did answer her that way, minus the dumb wit part of course) Why oh why people don't pay attention over the phone?

Gosh, I have even less tolerance with stupid people these days. I blame on the hormones, yeah, that is it. :)

Thursday, August 5, 2004

I can't stand it when people calling me at work and saying, I have a question, then pause. I obviously don't have psychic power and can't read your mind. So spill it, what is your fucking question?

Or they say, can I ask you a question, but do not continue with the question. Hmm, let me think. No, you may not ask me a question. You should hang up the phone this minute and never call here again. What do you think? Stupid ass people.

Wednesday, August 4, 2004

Yesterday I asked John to stop by at the church's child care center after work, to put our names on the waiting list.

He missed his usual bus, by the time he got there, the director has left. Bah! He got a price list anyway. Guess how much they are charging there for infant care? $ 700/month!!!! I couldn't believe it when I saw it. And the earliest they can take is 5-month. You gotta be kidding me? Who has 5-month marternity leave. On top of that I didn't have enough sleep the night before. I became this grouchy, pissed-off bitch. Every little thing flared me up. I tend to be very bitchy when I am extremely tired and/or have lack of food.

Hopefully with my mom working there, I can get some kind of discount.

Wednesday, August 4, 2004

I have been feeling lazy lately, don't feel like blogging much. I did have a good weekend, but since both John and Xinh described it well in their blogs. Don't feel like repeating.

I think mostly due to that I am carrying this extra weight around me. Now I am in my last trimester, my lower back hurts constantly. Yeah yeah, I know. I have been there and done that, I should have excepted them. But still... At least my feet haven't swalloned up like a balloon like last time.

Ouch, my baby just gave me a nasty kick on my left rib. THAT HURTS!

I also feel like there are a million things we need to be doing, but I am not sure where exactly to start? Maybe we can start by getting a chest of drawers for the baby's room. At least I can put away all the clothes, instead of having them piling up on the bed.

And I have been selling crazy on ebay with all these clothes I have not touched for ages. I just sold a pair of maternity pants which is too small for me now. Woohoo.