Life with the Three Crazy Dogs

The above picture was taken last Friday. The dogs were bored to DEATH!!!! It was thundering and lightning majorly. I usually walk them after our dinner but that evening was not the case. Mother nature was having a fit! And it was a bad one too.  I don’t mind walking if there’s thunder but then the man forbid me to go out at all.  He is the kind that if it thundering and lightning out, no going outside and no using the shower.  

In the picture below, we are in the central part where it says Twin Cities (the box towards the right), if you can read it.  Sorry for the blur picture.  I set the camera mode to something besides Auto.  Didn’t check it before taking the pictures.

There were thunderstorm and tornado warnings. There was actually tornado touch downs but far from us. The picture I took from the news on TV shows where the tornados are – the 2 big red round dots.  Needless to say, DB was glued to the TV watching out for the storm.    There was one bad storm over our head the next night.  Super heavy rain, thunder, lightning right before we head to bed (10 pm).  DB stayed up till the storm passed by which was about 30+ minutes later.

It has been raining every week, at least 3 – 4 days a week.  The ground is so saturated it’s no joke.  Walk on it and it’s “squish, squish”.  There’s water running off the grass onto the sidewalks and roads even the day after.  

There is more rain forecasted for this weekend….storms.  Whoopee doo!  “Love summer weather!” :(

It’s weird how Asians tend to stick to together, at least here at work. A new recruiter joined the company and she sits a wall away from me and she’s Asian. (I didn’t know the recruiting department is replacing the other recruiter who has to go for Mesothelioma treatment.) Since this new recruiter came on board, us 3 (another Asian in the same HR area) have been hanging together for coffee and chats. I noticed other Asians in the company are doing the same thing. Chinese from China are in one group and so are the Indians from India. Although the 3 of us Asians are from different countries (Malaysia, Vietnam and Korea), we still share one common thing: filial piety.  We do have very interesting conversations once we get it going!

Both DB and I are looking forward to the coming 3-day weekend. It’s Fourth of July, America’s independence day. It falls on a Sunday, so both DB and I have Monday, July 5 off. We already have plans to work around the house. First of is to move his office furniture from the garage and boxes of stuff out of my den to his office. Then he has to help me work on my little den where he has to move the book cases so I can clear up my area of boxes! There are still boxes all over the house and garage. Next will be the pantry. Land lady is going to get us the shelving for the pantry, DB will put them up. It will be a busy 3-day weekend for us.

Like I mentioned on the previous post, our two-year is up for a cellphone upgrade with our cellphone provider.  DB is itching to get his upgraded to another BB Curve.  Right now he has a BB Curve 8330.  He is looking at the BB Curve 8530 in black.  He put on a ton of usage on his phone and I don’t even know how many times he has dropped that phone.  All these usage was when he was in TX – calls and texting day in day out from morning till he goes to bed.  From the surface the phone has a lot of scratches and some of the numbers and alphabets are rubbing off the keys. 

I on the other hand will just stick to my LG enV@2 for now which looks like this which I took from here.

DB said I should go a head and look at which one I want.  I was told by my coworker to check out HTC Imagio which is compatible with the phone provider.   The only drawback about this phone is the touch screen thingy.  Hate all the finger prints all over the screen.  The features are good especially the camera with 5 megapixels. 

As of writing this, DB is checking out the BB Bold 9650 Smartphone.  Under this phone plan, he is the primary holder and I’m the secondary.  Some phones that I really like I have to pay some $$ in order to get it (BB Curve, HTC, LG).  The freebies are quite “loh toh”, not that canggih looking.  So, I might just have to wait on mine for now.  When DB decides which one he wants and if he feels like forking out a few bucks for mine, I will decide which to get. 

Anyone used Motorola phones before?

Our cellphones 2-year plan is already up. We both are entitled to change new phones with the same provider and the same 2-year plan. If we want to put the phone plan on a diet we can do that too. DB is up to changing his phone to another Blackberry. At least getting new phones they do not check our credit report or even for his so call business, no business credit reports needed for checking. I looked at my choices of phones and the BB Curve is one of it. However, after reading the reviews from other users about how the battery suck, and also from DB’s current BB battery, I opting to stick with my current phone. There are other phones like the Droid and don’t know what others but I will just hang on to my good old LG for now.