Life with the Three Crazy Dogs

I’m off tomorrow – last vacation day I’m taking for the year. Carrying 32 hours over to next year. So, what are my plans for the weekend? I’m thinking of calling Mrs. R up and have lunch at Great Moon in South St. Paul. Then, I thought of going to the Mall of America (MOA) just to “jalan-jalan” (walk around). Need to get new pants so maybe Old Navy or the Gap.

On the hand, I might not feel like going either. I was so tired after I got home this afternoon. Took a nap – supposely a 30 minute, but it turned out to be a hour. I felt better though. Walked the dogs which they were already bugging me to walk them since I got home at 2:30.

On Saturday, DB is taking my car to get the blinkers fixed. I have been driving without proper blinkers for about 2 months now. Not sure what went wrong – DB said it’s the wiring which he does not want to touch coz the wirings are connected to the airbag and cruise control. Hey, don’t mess with my cruise control. That’s my life saver. Set it for 75mph and off I go on 35E.

I’m still working on my work stuff, Excel spreadsheets, tonight. Told the boss I will be able to do it this weekend. Since I took the day off tomorrow, I will continue to work on them. It is a pain in the butt…didn’t know the reports from the query were so complicated. So, it made my life tougher to work with VLookups for multiple rows. I’m sure I will figure it out.

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Boss took us out for our holiday luncheon at Chiang Mai Thai at Calhoun Square in uptown Minneapolis. I rode with E and P drove R. It was quite some time since I went to Calhoun Square. It just feels good to be in Minneapolis. Anyways, the restaurant has a great atmosphere with very “Thai” decorations. The food, it’s not too bad. I ordered Massaman curry with shrimp (they omitted the squid) and papaya salad, Thai style. I have not tried the curried before, thought I would check it out. P and E each ordered Pad Thai with chickie and a cup of Tom Yam soup. R ordered fried noodles with shrimp and squids. I should have ordered noodles. The curry was, first of all, not spicy enough for me. Secondly, it was too sweet. Thirdly, there was no kick to it – not much of a taste of curry in it. Lastly, there was so much coconut milk in it, it was too icky. I had probably a few spoonfuls of it and the rest went into a doggie bag. The papaya salad was good. Had enough chilies to burn my butt hole tomorrow morning (it could be tonight!). R and I prefer super hot and spicy food. He and I kept adding chilies to our meal – there is no kick to it without adding chilies to the food. Well, I will find out tomorrow if I will have ABS!!

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Woohoo, I passed my HRM class with an A. Three more credits added on to my total credits. 11 credits out of 60…whew, long ways to go to achieve the 60-credit goal, but 11 credits is 11 credits. My next class starts January 23 for spring semester is an evening class to be held at the college. I have yet to figure out a schedule how I should do this – go to work, come home, get my running in, shower, dinner and zoom over to school, which is about 15 miles (30 minutes) from my home. If not, I will have to bring my backpack to work, get my run in, and then head to school from work (10 minutes).

Keeping my fingers crossed that this class will be as smooth as the previous one and teams are more cooperative. During the last day of my HRM class, I had to complete a peer review of one of my team member. Good thing the instructor picked that person. I really “hantam” the lack of support from this team member. In addition, there were several questions I have answer how the team was. Again, I poured my disgusted feelings out. To me was so unfair I have to get the ball rolling and kept asking the team for their opinion. KNB, no response from them till the last two weeks all of them were panicking coz we had to finish our final paper plus the presentation and our team paper. Igiots!!! Anyway, guess I’m done ranting. Let bygones be bygones. Let’s look toward the future. What the heck 2007 is just round the corner.

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I was so surprised to receive a call from Samm. We chatted till my cellphone ran out of juice! It was a lovely conversation we had. Chatted about every thing kids, family, blogs, organic life, food, former classmates, and then “blank”….duh, I forgot to charge my phone. Learned a lot from Samm on how to blog since I’m a rookie on this blogging thing. I think we were on the phone for about an hour plus. Thanks Samm for the call.

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