Amen.

My old roomies and JT took me out to eat tonight. Now, I’m not religious or anything, but they are Christian. It’s never been an issue, but tonight I felt really touched. JT made a prayer before eating, and he prayed for God to watch over me in SF. It was really nice. Now usually, I don’t join in prayer, simply because I would just be some faker, but i couldn’t help saying, “Amen” tonight. Hrm.. isn’t that a bit self serving tho?

JT is off to taiwan tomorrow for a cultural exchange. Good luck and have fun out there man….

Tagged?

Well. It’s so open ended.

These are the rules: Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

1) I use q-tips in my ears. Both of them. At the same time.
2) I’m still bitter abour my family ditching me after freshman year in college to go to Hawaii.
3) I too, like my sister, am always early to everything.
4) If I had a lot of money, I would buy a lot clothes.
5) I often sing in the car, pretending I’m on American Idol.
6) I have to twist tie my cables for my electronics, because the clutter bothers me. I haven’t done it yet for my new place tho.
7) I get pissed at people who don’t know how to take care of their yuppie gear
8) I don’t like eggs, but will eat french toast.

I’ll tag.. d&X, frank, choon & ps, judy & p’ng, & yi-ling. I think that should be enough.

I’ve been tagged!

Vanessa tagged me!

These are the rules: Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

1. I like to be early for appointments. It usually has to be at least 10 minutes early. I sit in parking lots a lot.
2. I prefer salty over sweet. Doritos over ice cream any day.
3. I am a sucker for European comfort shoes even though they are totally ugly and geeky.
4. I have a secret fantasy of being single and living in NYC and staying out very late and going to parties and being some sort of artist.
5. I loved college and I hated graduate school.
6. I do one cartwheel every six months to prove I’ve still got it.
7. When I’m old, I’m buying a sports car and will drive it very slowly.
8. I want to get a bird that talks and sits on my shoulder, but I don’t think I can bear to take care of another thing in the house.

I’m tagging only Donald, I know, I’m a party pooper.

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We had to fire a therapist today. She didn’t have much experience working with Rett girls and it was pretty apparent she was in over her head. I was going to do the chicken thing and call her office tomorrow and talk to the admin, but then I thought it wasn’t very nice not to have a chance to say good-bye to Edda. So at the end of the session today, I told her that we’d found someone with more experience and that I appreciated her hard work during the summer and she actually seemed kind of relieved. Whew.

Look at this beautiful outfit that my mom bought for Edda. (The graffiti at the park is getting more colorful, the orange dot looks almost fake, like a film error.)

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Mom doing stroller duty..

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NYC and a surprise.

We went to NYC on Friday to:

1. have Jeremy meet with a contact.
2. see my roommate from college, Karen, and finally have her meet Jeremy and the kids
3. to hang with the grandparents
4. to see an old family friend, Cladd
5. to go on a 2 hour date with Jeremy
7. to help Emy move upstate

and finally,

8. to sit in traffic for a bazillion hours on 95.

I don’t know what I was thinking leaving DC at 4pm on Friday afternoon and coming back from NYC at 2 pm Sunday afternoon, 95 is pretty much like a parking lot and although the drive should take less than 4.5 hours, it took us just over 6. It was kind of like ripping a Band-Aid off very slowly from a hairy area of your body.

The weekend was wonderful, especially Saturday where we got to spend most of the day at the Museum of Natural History with family and friends.

On the subway:

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Also, as I was sitting in traffic an hour away from the house heading towards NYC, I had a faint fly in my ear telling me that I had left the stove on. But I reasoned that if I had left the stove on, the house would already be on fire and certainly the neighbors would call the fire department and they would remember that we gave some money in their annual fund drive and take care of our burning house and that nothing would be gained by turning around and facing all the hours of traffic again.

So all weekend, I waited for the call which would tell me that the house was burned down. So when on Sunday at 7 am, my dad called on my cell phone, I was sure that he was calling about the house being burned to a crisp, instead he asked where the heck we were because mom had returned to the house from China without telling us and wanted to surprise us! Well we were very surprised and high-tailed it as fast as we could (at 30 mph) back to DC where she had scrambled eggs and warm porridge waiting for our tummies.

We Are Back

Mom and I arrived at Detroit Airport together from Far East at 2:00 PM today (7/28/07). Mom arrived home at North Potomac about 8:00 PM and I just arrived at my apartment in Aiken, SC around 1:00 AM (7/29/07). Everything is fine and we had a good time together in China 🙂

I got a job – maybe!

I got a job! Well, I almost got a job, I don’t have the formal offer yet, but it’s looking pretty good. This job is in a shiny building and they have computers, copiers, water coolers and snack machines. Everything I want in an office environment. Oh, there’s also a cafeteria, but I haven’t seen it yet. It’s not a sexy job- like working at Google or Shoehorn Design where all the popular girls come a runnin’ towards your little plastic laminated name tag, but it will do, it will do.

Edda – the sneak-meister.

Edda has figured out how to maximize her TV time. Unlike Brooklyn, Edda doesn’t really get her kicks from the Wiggles (they are OK, but not a favorite), she loves Blue’s Clues and Dora the Expl(horror).

She goes to bed at about 8, sleeps pretty well through the night (which is a blessed improvement from when she got up every night at 2 am for 1.5 hours for months), and gets up every morning at 5 am. One of us (usually Jeremy) takes her downstairs to watch Blue and we start our morning a little bit later.

By the time the school bus comes, she’s getting a bit tired again and once she’s at school, she’s asleep. Like pretty much the whole time. Then the bus brings her back home at lunch time, she’s perky again. Then today we went to OT and she’s totally sleepy again. Back home, wide awake. I can’t decide if she’s insanely smart to have figured out a way to avoid all this work. Grrr.

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