Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
31 cent Scoop Nite Tonight 5-10 pm
Get there early and be prepared for a long line.LINK
For free ice cream year-round, read my previous post:
Free Ice Cream
Friday, April 24, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Free Ice Cream
Tomorrow, get your free cone at Ben & Jerry's. Honestly, I've never been to Ben & Jerry's because there are none where I live or work. The closest one to me is the one at the Coliseum, which is not participating. Then there's Jack London Square... quite inconvenient.But if you want local free ice cream, I suggest you sign up for Baskin Robbin's Birthday club. Every year we get emails during our birthdays to get a free kids scoop of ice cream. They encourage you to sign up not only yourselves, your kids, but also your siblings. Thanks to both of our rather large families, I get free coupons year-round! My brother's birthday is between the boys' birthdays. So we print out all 3 and get 3 scoops so that Justine won't get left out. You can also print out several copies and visit other Baskin Robbins within the 2 week allowance to maximize your deal too. We visited 3 BK's in 3 days!
And a reminder, next Wednesday, April 29 is 31¢ Scoop Night at Baskin Robbins from 5-10 p.m.
For fancier (pricier) ice cream, Cold Stone Creamery also has a birthday club. But their redemption policy is a lot more stringent. You have to preselect which particular store you plan to go to, then they will print out a store-specific coupon that you can only use once. What a bunch of killjoys! But considering our boys' birthdays are just a few days apart, we can still get them together. But like B&J, their locations aren't very local to us either.
And don't forget your free Redbox code for today is: M6FR97
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Shameless!
If you're on Facebook and have the same demographic of friends that I do, you'll notice that 50% of the photos posted are of their children. Another 30% are of their vacation – with their children. The leftover 20% are of photos of their own childhood, or of their pets, or single adults partying with their alcoholic friends.It's quite shameless how some parents like to flaunt photos of their kids assuming that all the world is just dying to see them. These are the same parents that plaster their car bumpers with those annoying Honor Student stickers (which I can easily print out of our laser printer). Sure, YOU might think you have the world's cutest kids, but then so does the next person and the person after that. So which one is it? Yours? Hers? His?? Fact is, none of them are because quite frankly, we all know who I think is the cutest. Sorry.
But unlike those other parents, you'll never see me parading my kids all over the net. Nope. Remember, my photos are not about my kids, but about my artistic journey toward photographic excellence. It's not about the subject, but rather it's all about composition, storytelling, and creative coloring and cropping. I can't help it if my favorite test subject just happens to be my daughter.
In my busy life, whenever I want to practice photography, it's all about convenience. We rarely get to travel. And at parties, my finger are always too covered with grease and cheese powder to pick up the camera. But Justine, everyday she's always in my line of sight. Hey, sometimes you just got to work with what you've got. Am I right?
Below are some photos from a recent wedding banquet where I was sharpening my photo skills. I guess shooting the bride and groom wasn't as convenient as shooting the kids. Oh well.
:)
She loves them...
She leaves them.
Why is it all the beautiful girls always have a weirdo brother? Never fails.
Correction. Make that two weirdo brothers.
I bet you've never seen fried rice look like that.
Forget the fried rice, I'd rather have a grape fruit rollup!Thursday, April 2, 2009
No longer Hopeless!
Today I received some photos of Grace and Owen's newest family addition from an anonymous source. I checked their blog, O, Grace, Faith & Hope, but no pictures!! What's up with that?? They probably didn't post them because of privacy issues. So please allow me!If you're just now learning of the Lee family's adoption journey, you've come just in time. They are still in China right now so they still need lots of prayers with their daily challenges (like finding a real toilet and getting rid of that fish smell). I invite you to visit their blog right now and catch up on their exciting adventure before it's too late! Because once they come home, they'll be boring like the rest of us.
Congratulations Lee family!
Link: O, Grace, Faith & Hope
Cool outfit. Like one of those lion dance costumes.
Special delivery. Just like FedEx, you have to sign for it.
Hope and Faith, with lots of love!
The orphanage director explaining the No Return policy.Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Welcome Kyle Devin
Kyle Devin GunnMarch 24, 2009, 5:35 p.m., 6 lbs. 1 oz.
Congratulations! And if you forgot who Burt was or didn't even know he was married, you can read about his nuptials here. That post still remains my most popular.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Sex Talk with Dr. Dan
For those of you who missed the last YFC meeting (Christine, Peggy, Veronica, Wayland, Wenna), boy did you miss a great meeting! In our continual study of the book, Men are Waffles. Women are Spaghetti, we talked about sex, and lots of it! Actually, Dr. Dan and his lovely wife did all the talking, we just sat in wide-eyed silence soaking it all in. It brought back memories of junior high learning about contraceptives.
Did you know?
Did you know that P.M.S. is actually a real thing and not some made up excuse? ...or at least Dr. Dan seems to think so. Even though there’s scientific evidence, I’m still not totally convinced. There are women I know who are a certain way year-round.
Did you know that the United States is the most sexually active nation in the whole world? Even more so than Sweden and France? And that the Japanese are the least active? I guess if you take your mind off of sex all the time, you can build some great TV’s and cars! No offense to my American-born Japanese readers (who are really American anyway). Just telling the facts.
Did you know that the average married couple has sex 98 times a year? Ninety-eight times! If my math is correct, that’s twice a week, every week, minus three weeks of vacation! Man, I need to start clearing off my calendar and play less Scrabble! The real eye-opener is when you think about it, if you’re only doing it 50 times, then there’s someone else doing it 146 times! Speaking of which...
After the lesson, Myron (aka Han Solo) quickly announced that Grace is expecting their fourth child in September! Maybe instead of being Han Solo, perhaps he should be known as Samson. All I can say to Myron is, “Don’t cut that hair!” And let’s not forget about Grace. With three kids and that breakneck schedule, she still makes time for Scrabble and reading my blog. Wow, I am indeed honored. Grace, you are truly amazing!
So back to the meeting. Dr. Dan delivered the lesson with utmost professionalism and a straight face. His Powerpoint was informative, complete with entertaining video clips from Everyone Loves Raymond that illustrates the sexual tension between husband and wife. We noticed that when discussing certain awkward topics, he tended to talk a little faster. Haha. At the end I commended Dr. Dan for his great seminar. His response was, “I can’t believe I said ‘ejaculation’ at church!”
See you at the next meeting!
Friday, March 13, 2009
Friday Free Music
Did you see Kelly on American Idol this week? At first I couldn't recognize her. It's obvious she's grown up since the last time I saw her, but she's also grown out a bit too :o Click on the link, watch the videos of her live performances. Click on the orange bar for "Free Download" and enter the code "DOVE" for her latest single.
Also, free download of Taylor Swift's Love Song here.
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