Another Sad Story

It was March when I lost one of my first fish Taffy. I had remembered how the feeling was and now I felt like I am going to have the same feeling. I bought Taffy together with Blue. The latter is the beta fish. For me, he is the smart fish. When I get home, I can see from the door looking to where he is that his excitedly swimming to get my attention. The body language I get makes me delighted to see that I am recognized by the fish. I had never seen a fish that could interact with a human. In some way this fish can.

Yesterday, hubby told me that one eye on his left is trying to pop out with some white pigments around the eyelids. I can sense that his not doing any good and he didn’t eat his food. When I got up today trying to eat my breakfast, I checked him again. This time the problem eye is getting worst and the other eye is having white pigments too. His fins are getting the same pigmentation and it’s all over. It’s the worst part to see him suffering. I don’t want to loose that fish but there’s no way for me to prevent it. I guess it’s his time. I will surely going to miss him.

Halloween Fun

It was my very first to wear a costume and spending time with friends. My costume is the version of the Bride of Frankenstein. Reviewing all the photos and clips from the original movie, I don't find it interesting to copy cat her. So I made to use a different thing to make it modern. With the help of my husband, he made my hair perfect for the costume. My friends did ask on how it was done. They were pretty surprised that Joe did it for me. They really liked it on me. That was a very good appreciation. I don't need much of those since there is no need to impress but the thing that people see you as they see you as you are, that's a big thing. So happy about that.

Hubby and I went to Shirley's spent a few hours there and friends invited me to join them at Zen in Mountain View. Hubby went home while I was with the girls. It was fun at the club. Listening to music and dancing. People were jamming really good. The downside of it, the music though doesn't really impress me. Though they played mostly good songs but the mixing was not impressive for me. Still, it didn't spoil the excitement I had since good friends were too cool enough to make the night so full of delight.

Quite busy

I would summary this month as an entertaining month. I spent sometime with friends in occasions like birthdays, housewarming or just a friends visit. It was nice to be able to spend a time with them. It's really nice to know having friends with whom you can talk to and share laughters with.

If not with spending time with friends on some gatherings, in others time do my editing and learning how to use my video software. I am fascinated to learn some techniques. But this month, I didn't get so much time learning my camera and techniques. I hope I can be inspired and motivated again to learn some new stuff. Anyway, to sum it up this month is a sharing time with friends, learning technical skills and planning for the next trip next year. The latter is more important which I have to purchase my ticket soon. I will get to tell you the details when the right time comes.

Unexpected Gift

It was the day on his birthday. He came home in the afternoon, I greeted him with a hug and kiss and showed him the cake, and his another gift together with a card. He was delighted.

Later on, he told me that I have a gift. So I closed my eyes as he got it. He requested me to close it until I have it in front of me. I saw the small white gift bag. He asked me again to close my eyes and just feel what's inside. So I slid my right hand grabbed the paper and I touched a smooth case. He told me to guess what it was. I said "Ipod or light meter", he said you are "social". Well, that's just what I can sense. To my surprise, there it is the 32gb Ipod touch. He asked me to looked at the back. I saw my name engraved with a Happy fourth anniversary greeting. So touched with his thoughtfulness.

Birthday Surprise

It was my birthday surprise for Joey and so glad that my friends made it possible for me. But best of all thankful for the main host for spending the occasion at her house. The guests invited were cooperative too. And I would say we pulled it off to deliver the surprise until we brought in the birthday cake. It was deliberately a shocking revelation but so very happy he appreciated the thoughts we had for him.

Memories on the 24th

La Fondue, Saratoga CA

I had a great time on Thursday. My day was filled with love and contentment. Early morning, hubby greeted me with a hug and said "Happy Anniversary". I asked him if we can exchange gifts he said we will save it early in the afternoon. So I came home with some happy thoughts.

He came after 5pm, we hugged and kissed. He went to the kitchen and did something. He then brought two glasses filled with white wine. He gave me one and we crossed tossed and drank. It was so sweet of him. I asked him if it’s time for the gift giving and he said "okay". He asked me to close my eyes while he got his gift. When he was done, I asked him to do the same.

He opened his gifts first. He was so happy to received with our both name stitched on his boxer, his initial J with the bath robe and pajama. While I did receive a silk red robe with a very sassy packaging and an orchid plant. Both of us did receive a well thought off cards too.

We end up our night with a fine elegant dining in La Fondue. The food was great. We ordered La Romantica on their combination menu. It includes appetizer, salad, Entree and Dessert. It was very nice evening with the restaurant. We had enjoyed our time together.

Reno '09

I have not been very diligent here updating where I was going and what did I do for the past several months. I will try to post now and then what I did not write. I will start of from my recent trip just a few days ago.

Labor day holiday weekend is the time where me and hubby will go somewhere. Beginning of last week, there was no plan set and I was thinking maybe we will just be staying home. Taking more quality time with each other. Friday night, hubby was thinking to go somewhere right there and then. But it's quite too late to be on the road. We were searching something until he decided Reno could be a good place to drive.

Saturday morning, I searched online with the hotels in Reno. I talked to my friend Ji.ann and helped me decide what hotel. So I booked one for Sunday and I packed my things together with hubby. We left the house at 2:30pm. Not too early for the trip but it was definitely okay.

We arrived in Reno almost 7pm. We have no hotel to stay so we were searching until we found one in Vagabound Inn. It was kind of pricey with just an Inn. Because it was a saturday, hotels, motels and inn, would jack up their prices. With no much choice we stayed. It was definitely a good relaxing place because we slept good there.

On the 2nd night, we stayed at Silver Legacy. It was much more cheaper than the first night and the hotel was nice. We walked around the casino, dined and played the slots machine. I could have won if I wasn't too greedy but losing 10 dollars wasn't too bad. I had a good time playing with the machine.