Cricket Cricket

Out of all the people I knew or subscribed to on xanga, only one is still writing on xanga. Not only that, but I myself have become so busy that I will send my family links to my facebook photo albums. So how can I keep up this log and entice my family to visit my lonely xanga page? By posting pictures that I haven't posted yet on facebook... like this adorable one:

My mother-in-law told me Audrey busted her lip by wiping out on the floor. The floor of wide open space with nothing on it to trip over. None of my kids seem to have inherited my nice eyelid folds or organizational skills. Instead, they have been genetically blessed with my obnoxiously protruding ears and CLUMSINESS. It's been a difficult month for our little girl. Pink eye, fat lip, black eye, the list goes on. And last weekend, all three kids and Kwang were sick w/a virus that attacked w/a short fever, chills, and swollen glands. I somehow escaped this illness and celebrated by partying the weekend away cleaning the bathrooms and vacuuming the house. It was wicky-wicky wack.

Eli & Audrey were the first to get sick but I soon suspected Jude was coming down with the illness when he fell asleep in the middle of the day while watching TV. But he gave a valiant effort to hold on nonetheless:

So my office pooled money together for the Mega Millions jackpot which was at somewhere around $300 million. I had never played the lottery, but I pitched in my money only out of fear that the office would get the winning ticket and I would be the only one left in the building after everyone quit. We didn't win, of course, so there goes my logical solution to managing two upcoming school schedules with my busy work schedule. Oy, stress!

 

Not wanting to leave...

Summer Days Driftin' Away

Quite a bit has happened since I last wrote. I'm sad the summer is quickly fading and my favorite month of the year is over. I love JULY! It is when everyone relaxes a bit more and has fun. It is also my birthday month and I still love it even though this past July I turned THIRTY-SEVEN. My sister called me on my birthday and as we sat there chit-chatting, she goes, "I'm THIRTY-NINE. And you're THIRTY-SEVEN. That sounds SO WEIRD. My sister is THIRTY-SEVEN." I don't know why that cracked me up. I couldn't stop laughing. It kind of hit us that we're so much older than we feel. I told her I like to think of people such as Jennifer Aniston who look crazy good for their age so I can say "I'm younger than her." Not sure why that makes me feel better. It probably shouldn't since she looks so much better than I do. I've noticed that now, my body won't hide things as well as it used to. Wretched body! It does horrible things like expose my inveterate lack of sleep so that instead of having the usual 2 bags under my eyes, I swear I see 4. Lovely, I know. I am a vision of beauty.

We also took a short summer trip to Vegas, because Kwang received another free stay at the Palazzo. It'd been a year since we last visited, but as soon as we entered the resort from the parking garage and Eli saw the blinking lights of the machines and heard the ding-dings of the casino, he yelled out of nowhere, "I looooove Las Vegas!"

Finally, this past Sunday marked our 7 year wedding anniversary. We didn't do much on our actual anniversary but I still feel that, like Eli, Kwang loves me "all the way up to the Transformer planet."