posted more pictures
pictures from tina’s concert for the stuffed animals
pictures from thanksgiving… still waiting on pictures of my sister gone buck-o with the blue hair hat and the traditional picture of my dad sleeping with the georges…
i found this bug 11/23. was trying to go to work early on wednesday so i could leave early… but then i ran into this bug on my way outta my room!
tina found this bug on the floor of my bathroom
after killing the bug, i dared to get a closeup. i was tempted to print out this picture and put it as a warning to all the bugs, but then tina said all the bugs could get mad and seek revenge…
note the new category 
ah turkey day, my favorite holiday of the year!
this year, we went to my aunt judie’s house for the traditional thanksgiving day dinner. mmm mmm good. my uncle greg roasts the BEST turkey (not too dry, juuust right), my aunt judie makes some awesome stuffing (it’s like chinese sticky rice!) and a couple of my aunts/uncles (this year- uncle jack and auntie maggie, uncle julian, and auntie anna) always come. also there was eric, my GRAND-NEPHEW. that’s right, i have one grand-nephew and another one is on the way. granted this is not my sister’s grandchild… or even my cousin’s grandchild, but the way chinese count generations, the kid was 2 generations below me. he is actually my dad’s cousin’s great grandchild. yup, it’s weird being called grandaunt…
it’s always fun at a hsiung family dinner… those aunts are hilarious. so one of my aunts bought a transparent rubber duckie that lights up for eric. the duck has 2 metal dots on the bottom that if you touch at the same time, complete the circuit to light up the duckie. this provided eric annnd the “adults” hours of entertainment. so to experiment, we started having one person touch one dot, another person touch the other. then the two people touch each other, thereby completing the circuit. it was weird, but it seemed some people were not good conductors. iiii am an AWESOME conductor of electricity 
there wasn’t anyone who i couldn’t conduct with… my sister and mom had trouble conducting with each other. the quote of the night was from my aunt maggie. she started testing this with each member of the family. then she called her husband, uncle jack.
aunt maggie: jack! jack! come over here, let’s see if we have any electricity.
uncle jack: o.. ok…
(they touch the rubber duckie)
aunt maggie: damnit! we have no electricity!
…. later on in the night…
aunt maggie: come over here jack! let’s try it again, i can’t believe we don’t have electricity!
bahh, another funny thing: on the way to my aunt’s house after picking up my sister at the bus stop, we get stuck behind a mathnkids van. so it had its contact info painted on the window as an advertisement. my dad started getting annoyed at how slow the van was driving- “we should call the number and say ‘you drive so slow, just like your students are slow’!!!” hahahha, i don’t even think my dad realized what he said. BAH!
only bad part this year was the lack of turkey congee! after my aunt’s thanksgiving dinner, we usually head over to the mei’s house for some turkey congee! that’s perfect for midnight snacking after a hearty thanksgiving dinner. this year, we heard there was no congee so what was the point of going over?! (jk jk… it wasn’t just about the congee, apparently none of the chinese school families were celebrating turkey day together this year) so at around 11ish, my stomach actually started feeling a bit empty 
weirdest feeling ever.
fortunately, i got to eat brunch at ihop with angela, mariam, and jason. mmm cinnamon swirl french toast… so delicious! (mariam didn’t think so ) then riiiight after eating with them at ihop, i went to A&J’s with my parents. ooo man, you can’t not eat at A&J’s! so i had another meal
so much food, it was awesome!!
so last amazing race, i hated ray & deana… before that, it was jonathan & victoria.
this year’s amazing race hasn’t been as exciting. it’s family edition, which just seems to make the race less exciting. plus, they’ve been racing across the US (ooh, virginia… exciting…!)… i think later they moved outside the US but now they’re back in the US… kinda dull. i haven’t followed every episode this season ’cause it hasnt been as interesting.
but that doesn’t mean i haven’t chosen a team to hate!! … it’s the weaver family!
things they’ve done/said (from the amazing race webpage at cbs):
Episode 3: “Their behavior took a bizarre turn at a quick restaurant stop when Linda instructed her children to “lie and be completely fake†so the other Teams wouldn’t see them cracking from the pressure. This lead to Rebecca and Linda dancing around in the parking lot while the other Teams looked on in bewilderment. ”
Episode 6: “‘To pass the time, Rachel and Rebecca made fun of the garbage truck (Tony Paolo’s a garbage man), in the Paolo family’s picture while waiting for their yield to expire. Pulling out the Godlewski sisters’ picture, the Weavers joked, “I hope those boobs cost a lot!’”
Episode 8: “After throwing garbage out of their window at the Godlewski sisters and telling a toll attendant to delay the Linz siblings, the Weavers…”
“As the Linzes and Godlewskis each walked back from the cluebox, they passed the Weavers, who became offended when neither Team acknowledged them or accepted a high-five from Linda. An annoyed Linda sniped, ‘They’re just idiots.’”
“Stepping onto the mat in third place, the Weaver family talked to Phil about the animosity between them and the other Teams. Rachel Weaver, in tears, commented, ‘It’s really frustrating because those people are classless…[we’re] the only family that’s trying to live a Christian life and it’s really hard.’”
Episode 9: “Along the way, the Weavers complained about the starkness of Utah’s landscape. Rolly remarked, “God must have spent a little less time on this state.†When told that Utah is called the Mormon state, Rachel added, ‘No wonder it’s so ugly.’”
“Rachel commented, ‘We’re already the last nice family and we’re gone. People who win will probably spend it on a new nose and bigger boobs.’”
man, i haven’t even followed the show that much but those things really make me hate ‘em!
i’m so sleepy today at work and i had nearly 9 hours of sleep last night! i want to curl up and take a nap….
a few other sleep-related things:
it actually woke me up in the middle of the night and i thought nasty, why am i drooling so much), my nose (my family is notorious for non-stop nosebleeds, my sister actually got sent to the hospital in elementary school because her nose wouldn’t stop), my head, and my fingers (a callous had recently pealed)… i couldn’t figure where it came from!! today, i realized it came from my back. anyone ever get “holes” on their body? literally, tiny (maybe the size of a pencil point) holes that just don’t stop bleeding? anyone? anyone? … maybe it’s just me. lotion doesn’t seem to help, i get it on my legs and arms too.erp… this entry made me sound weird when that clearly is not the case
i found this sucker on friday! i freaked out at first because it was sitting right next to me while i was playing drums! after whacking it many times with some junk mail… i realized it was already dead (that’s why i had such an easy time killing it)
i got a BUNCH of paper towels and scooped it up when it made a crunching sound! A CRUNCHING SOUND!! nasty
it seems i bought a digital camera for the sole purpose of taking pictures of bugs….i should start a bug category for this blog….
i packed up my cube. all my junks packed away into 2 boxes.
it’s weird sitting in my cube all empty… i’ll miss you light green cube!
5pm… i’m DEFINITELY leaving! (i said that i would leave at 3pm… then 3pm became 4pm….)
another bug was in the house yesterday! i came home and went down to my room for a bit, came back upstairs, started popping popcorn, went down to the living room to turn on the tv, came back upstairs to get the popcorn, went back down to the living room… was going to come back up the stairs to get some napkins… when there it was! right there on the steps i had walked up/down multiple times!!
bah! it’s the same jumping bug that we spent 30 minutes trying to kill last time!! so i started to look around for something to hit him with. unfortunately, trash was just taken out that morning so there wasnt any junk mail to use!! after searching my room (climbed over the railing in the dining room into the living room just to avoid the bug), i sat waiting in the dining room for julie or tina to get home. (nuts, talida went home to texas for the weekend)
when julie came home, she also tried to find something to hit the bug with. but she couldn’t find anything either. but ever the resourceful person, she pulled a macgyver! using a plastic cup, a postcard, saran wrap, and tape… she managed to catch the bug!
here’s pictures of the little sucker:
i was pretty useless in the bug catching i can’t get too close to a live bug for very long. even after the bug was in the cup, i couldn’t be near it if it jumped. it just freaks me out… i don’t mind whacking them a million times until they die, but i can’t see them hopping around.
good job julie
it’s ghetto to program in notepad
random update
the townhouse i moved into has a bug problem. specifically the area near my basement bedroom door seems to have an infestation of cricket/grasshopper/jumping bugs! the very first bug was within a few days of moving in. i killed one right on the stairs. the 2nd one was last week… he was hopping all over the area near my door when tina saw it. after half a hour of freaking out and an overturned sofa (he jumped underneath the sofa and disappeared in it!!!), talida finally got that sucker! THEN this past weekend, as i was walking into my room, another one of those jumpers was jumping all near my feet. i freaked out and ran outta my room. luckily, the bug was found and isaac shoe-ed it out of the house.
… THEN on sunday afternoon, julie and i were secretly practicing DDR when we both smelled something burning. after ignoring it for awhile (the heat vents some times smell when the heat turns on), we finally went investigating. we discovered it was coming from my room. great! julie suggested that maybe a bug flew into my halogen. i didn’t really think that would happen (my halogen is REALLY far into my room, nowhere near the door with the cricket problem. plus, what freak cricket can jump that high into a halogen) so i didnt think too much when i went to check so my nose was RIGHT next to the light… and yup, she was right. there was this HUGEEEEEEEEEE bee-like bug completely fried just sitting in my halogen… ewwww. my room stunk for a couple of hours afterwards.
work… i’m sure i shouldn’t be putting up exact quotes, but this was just too awesome to pass up. “The moves that are happening this year are ‘eviction’ moves – therefore they need to be done quickly.” … thanks for evicting me nameless company that i work for! even if you’re evicting me, i much rather you euphemize it just a little! … maybe call it an urgent move, necessary move to consolidate teams, i don’t know…! but evict!? who uses these words!? several friends have pointed out (not to give away too much information so that people know what nameless company i work for) that perhaps it was a “foreigner” who was writing this email and therefore didn’t realize the poor word choice when composing this email… hahah, i cracked up when they suggested that!
ddr… the DDR pads i purchased arrived last week! bryan lent me 2 of his DDR games (unfortunately, neither game included any britney songs )… i really suck at the game, but it’s been fun trying to learn it. i still prefer the taiko drum master game 
but DDR is better exercise!
