Archive For January, 2007

Boyz, boyz, boyz

By | January 31, 2007

The boys were so lost since I started school on Tuesday nights. Last week, DB told me the boys were waiting for me next to the door to the garage the entire time I was gone. The only time they moved away from their position was, of coz, their dinner and treats (carrots and apples). [...]

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Keeping up

By | January 28, 2007

School started last week Tuesday, 23rd. I’m trying to keep up with blogging and my school reading and assignments. Pretty hard to do. By the time I’m done reading blogs, which I have to say it’s a must for me now. Addicted?? I think so. School starts at 6 p.m. and ends at 9:50 p.m. [...]

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10 Years in MN – (Part 6)

By | January 28, 2007

Three weeks after we moved in to our place call home, we prep for our trip to Montana, to Marlboro’s Crazy Mountain Ranch. I booked a place for the boys at Kaos Kennel for boarding and brought them there the day before we left. The boys were so excited that they were going for a [...]

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Baseline Mammogram

By | January 28, 2007

Since I’m at the age where my GP needed me to get my base line done, I finally went for my baseline mammogram on Wednesday at Park Nicollet Clinic. I have been procrastinating about it since last year. I didn’t want to do it coz I heard it hurts especially if you have small boobs. [...]

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10 Years in MN (Part 5)

By | January 23, 2007

2006 was much better. I made a trip to S’pore for CNY and surprised my parents of my visit. My sister and I “pakat” (collaborated) and she planned with her hubby how to get out of their house to pick me up in the middle of the night. One thing about flying Northworst (Northwest) Airlines, [...]

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10 years in MN (Part 4)

By | January 21, 2007

DB got home on July 16, 2004. Once he was home, he got into business. I told him we have to file for bankruptcy asap before collection agencies garnish my wages. He agreed to my plan, and I called up several attorneys to check out their fees. I settled with a Mr. Radke to file [...]

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10 years in MN (Part 3)

By | January 21, 2007

Also, in the same year, DB got laid off and that was where all hell broke loose. Could not remember how many times we were arguing. Here I am trying to get a degree and he was all depressed about losing his job. His drinking was already bad enough, but after being laid off, it [...]

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10 Years in MN (Part 2)

By | January 20, 2007

What have I done in these 10 years I have been here? Let’s see if I can recall them. I had lots of drinking sessions with Kay whenever DB and I were down in Rochester. There were always something going on when we were at Kay’s. The most memorable occasion was Valentine’s day of 1998, [...]

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Finally, we met!

By | January 18, 2007

Ai-yah brother and I met yesterday at Sambol Restaurant. My boss told me to take my time. Nice, huh? Before I left my work parking lot, I wondering what in the world am I gonna talk to him about – school, music, work and what else? Got to the restaurant, a table and waited about [...]

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10th years in MN

By | January 16, 2007

It will be 10 years on Saturday, January 20th, I have lived in Minnesota. So much has happened in 10 years. It doesn’t seemed that long though. 10 years flew by very quickly – year by year. I still remember my first 3-week trip to MN was in 1996 during the week of Halloween. The [...]

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The dog park

By | January 15, 2007

I took the boys to the dog park yesterday afternoon. It was packed which I was quite surprised. Got the boys out from the truck and they went right for the other “greeters”. Coops did his big business and so did Ranger. I knew Ranger needed to go as he was letting gas while we [...]

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Appt set for our meeting

By | January 15, 2007

Aiyah tai loh sent an email and confirmed we will meet for lunch at 11:30 on Wednesday, Jan 17 in Eagan. He said it’s his treat but I have to tell him since he’s in my territory, I will buy him lunch. When I’m in his territory he will buy me lunch, dinner and all [...]

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Parcel from Aiyah Tai Loh

By | January 12, 2007

My ai-yah brother sent me a parcel last week. I was kinda surprised to see it that soon. He sort of mentioned about VHS tapes during our email exchanges. I didn’t not expect to see the tapes that soon. Of course when I received the parcel and saw the return address, I knew it had [...]

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Ranger’s on Pred Again!

By | January 12, 2007

Ranger’s itching came back about 2 weeks ago. DB called the vet and Ranger is back on his prednisone again. In addition to the pred, I have to bathe him and clean his ears every week. We put on two pred twice a day last week for five days. Then it’s one a day for [...]

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We love our dryer

By | January 8, 2007

The electrician came on Saturday and installed a brand new what-ever-you-call-it board for the breakers. DB and Mr Electrician went out to Menards and Home Depot and return within half hour with all the parts needed for the installation. 4 hours later, all done. Moved the old crappy GE dryer out and guess we found [...]

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