Life with the Three Crazy Dogs

I asked DB if he like animal print bedding for our master bedroom.  He gave me the look like “Are you okay?”  Some days I can be nuts.  I mean it will not be that bad if I get those leopard prints as they are much kinda to the eyes.  I do not mean to get those zebra or giraffe prints as they are a little too much for me.  I told him these animal print beddings will be a nice change to our usual navy blue, taupe, green, and some kind of reddish sheets we have.  His response was, “Let me think about it.”  So much for being a wild animal! :)

My sister and her family took a mini vacation to Ipoh during the Singapore National holiday week.  She took some pictures of the house we grew up in.  I sent the link to DB and ask him if he can stay there for a week or 2.  I told him the beds we will be sleeping on is not like our sleep number bed – adjust to your desired firmness.  Thosse mattresses are hard and so are the pillows.  Also, I reminded him that the bathroom at my parents’ is unlike the bathrooms in our house where the toilet and shower stall/tub are in one room.  At my parents’ the toilet is separated from the bathroom and he gotta get use to it. 

He said he can handle it.  Fabulous!!  He said he wants to spend some time with my parents since the last he saw them was, I think, in 2000.  It’s been 7 years and so much has changed.  I think he will be okay at my parents, plus he will be visiting his friends in Ipoh, and I will be visiting my schoolmates whom I have not seen since 2002.  Oh yes, it’s time to pay a visit to my hometown, and my alma mater, Main Convent.

Tentatively, we are still thinking of November 17 departing Minneapolis.  The reason we have not bought our tickets is because we have to wait til the refi is done with and then what DB is gonna do for work; quit and work as a contractor, or look for a permanent job.  I really hope he decides soon coz ticket prices are going up.

Ever since we moved in to our present home, DB and I have been thinking about remodelling the kitchen.  Our kitchen is rather small, if you ask me.  We spend a lot of our time in the kitchen – writing out bills, watch some boob tube, morning coffee, snacking, or when there are visitors, they will hang out in the kitchen.  Actually what we need to do is to extend the kitchen out to where the patio is.

We looked around for estimates and the result was to wait out til we hit the Powerball jackpot!  What we did to make the kitchen look more enticing was replaced the cabinet hardware.  We replaced the old ones to silver knobs to sort of match the color of the cabinets since the color of the cabinets are white.  Initially I detest the white colored cabinets, but now, I like them very much especially with these new cabinet hardware. 

Our guest, Justin, left Sunday afternoon to SD’s place.   He went to his other uncle’s on Wednesday and spent some uncle/aunt/nephew/cousins time.  He had a blast out there coz he had the chance to see the cheerleaders who they had an interest on him 2 years ago.  He also said he thoroughly enjoyed the ride with his cousin going 125 mph after a crook.  His uncle works part-time at the town’s police department.  And the cousin is a paramedic and works part-time at the sherrif’s office, too. 

The whole gang came to the cities on Saturday to the Mall of America and ride the NASCAR simulation and shopping.  They went for a show at the Acme Comedy Club where Emo Phillipswas performing.  They invited DB and I but I turned it down coz I for the life of me refuse to sit with my nosy SIL, her clone (daughter) and son in-law.  I don’t care what others gonna say or think of me, if I can avoid them, I will, and especially when I know the entire jing-band will be here on Sunday to drop Justin off at our house.

They showed up on Sunday while I was vacumming the house since Sunday is my cleaning day.  Stopped and BS with them and had to answer both SIL and her clone’s questions.  Wonder when they are gonna ask me if DB and I had sex.  That is how annoying they are.  Questions from who painted the walls, who chose the colors, who decorated the house, did we do any renovations to the house, what are we doing with the basement, why is the basement so empty, why we use the former nursery as an office, why we didn’t repaint the room, and so many more, I walked away and let DB handled them.  Can they mind their own freaking business??  Nosy bastards!!! I wanted to tell her if she can give me the money, I can buy more furniture for the basement, blow up the kitchen wall so we have a bigger kitchen, and hire a housekeeper to clean the house for me. 

Anyways, Justin packed up his luggage with his back to school clothes and waited for SD’s BF to show up.  Those two are inseparable since they met a week ago.  He offered to bring Justin to the airport on Monday afternoon since DB and I had to work.  The four of us had dinner and BF and Justin around 7:30ish.  It was great to see them have so much fun together. 

I bought the three of them (Justin, SD, and BF) tickets and gave them some money to Valley Fair for last Tuesday.   Justin said SD had so much she was grinning the whole day.  At least them kids are enjoying themselves.  I knew they would like that.

MIL called and chatted with DB and complained about Justin’s mother, what she did to her son’s paycheck and truck.  Something we don’t really want to listen to but we had to.  His mom took his paycheck, cashed it out, and spent $200 on booze, etc, took his truck for a joyride and came back with a almost empty gas tank.  Very nice.  Poor kid.  Now I know why he wants to move to Minnesota for good.  Before he left, he told DB he don’t want to go back to Texas.  He said if he can convince his mom to allow him to move to Minnesota, DB is all for it. 

Time will tell if we will have a new resident in the near future.