I LOVE MY CRAB!

Well, 3 days in a row...lessons about crab.  Gotta love it!  =)    

This song is dedicated to LAVALAVA! GO GIRLFRIEND!

Another CRABBY Lesson

Butter him up with compliments.  That is so true.  I don't need to say more.  But I'm much nicer than this Mrs. Crabby in this comic strip.  

Back to work

Back to school and back to work.  Posting will probably done on a weekly basis...I need to get organized.  As soon as I  finish inputing data for Coach K's study from last school year I think I'll have more blogging time.  

I didn't go walking at the beach today.  I'm sorry Aunty Raine.  I pressed my snooze button at 4:40am and then slept all the way to 5:30am.  I know I didn't show up on Saturday as well.  So, sori.  ('_')

Well, gotta input stats now.  Back to work.

How to Live with a Crab

Who is the CRABBY-YER CRAB?  I don't know about you guys but this comic strip from MUTTS (7/28/08) perfectly portrayed some of our dramas in life.   For those of you who don't  know us... =)  the King and I are like this at times.    I've gotten so good at it that I no longer need ear plugs!  Ha ha!  So, which CRAB are you?

No Serious Homework Yet

I didn't do anything today.  I slept all day today.  From 9am-1pm.  I don't know but my body just felt so tired.   Therefore, I surrendered.  

A week of school have gone and still no homework.  Watsup wit dat? "Okay, no homework then you read."   The GooeyBabes are cool with that.  Especially Warrior 3...because the more he read the more time he got on the playstation.   He read 4 books yesterday...A-Z  Mysteries  (can't remember which one)  and  3 Magic Tree House 15,16, 17.  Anyway, today he finished reading 2 books from Beast Quest by Adam Blade

 1. Ferno the Fire Dragon 

   2.  Sepron the Sea Serpent.

Well, chores are done and now Warrior 1 and 2 are jumping next door.  On Plain Jayne's trampoline.  Princess is in Gym.  The King was off today.  I slept for 4 hours...recovering from I don't know I have or had exactly.  Well, I gotta go get ready for class.

Under the Weather

Monday 8/4/08

Ohayo Gozaimasu!  Walked around BYUH, up and down admin parking lot, around the dorms, TVA, up the Temple and finally at the beach....(Temple to Hukilau and back) with Aunty Raine this morning @ 5 am.  It was a good sweat busting workout.  My gluts felt it.  Was dripping when I got home.    Went to work....no kindies in class room yet  (they have their orientation) so Mrs. Cost and Mrs. Graham suggested that I come in next week.   No sense come in if no more kids for read to.  Who English me?  Myself I say.  

Tuesday  8/5/08

Woke up with a sore throat.  Walked with Plain Jayne (same person as Plain Jane--I've been misspelling her name all dis time.)   Tita 96762  had to babysit.  Emergency kine.   Good  job Tita....you did your service for the day.  Are  you going to do it again the next day?    Great walk neighbor!

Went to yoga.   The class before me was cancelled but I was not informed so I didn't have a key to the sound system.  Made the yogis and yoginis wait...(there were only 7 this evening)  while I ran to get the keys from the security office.  How inconvenient?  Can't really do anything about the past.  Focus on the present moment.  Let it go.  

Class pau.  Felt better.    Went home.  Oopps.  Spoke too soon.  Sniffling, body aches and sore throat still.  (I think I drank too much smoothie for the past couple of days....my throat not used to extreme cold.)  Came home ate grilled eggplant seasoned with garlic salt and brown rice.   Naimas man. 

After dinner.  I  had Princess step on my back, right gluteus maximus down to my thighs while Warrior 2 stepped on the soles of my feet.  Relax and let go.  Fell asleep on di floor for half an hour.   I think I even drooled on my sleeve.   eeeeeeew!   Excuse me.  I'm just human with lots of imperfections and different dimensions. 

Anyway, I was up in time for family prayer.  Sitting  with my legs crossed, arms folded and  chin on the notch of my sternum....I sat half awake and mostly  sleeping.   Then  I felt someone poking me to say prayer.  Warrior 3 loves to pick on me to pray.    Breakfast, lunch and dinner.   "Mom, will  you pray, please?" 

Anyway, I'm deeply meditating in my own world.   Zen.   In my head ..."leave me alone!"   I feel another poke here and there.  Lucky, the witch in me never came out  to ruin the peace and serenity.    That witch is super scary and uh-guh-lee.  I just went ahead and prayed.  Do I remember what I said in the prayer?  NO!!!    Not really.

Really wasn't feeling good at all.  Went to bed early...9 pm.  I was debating whether to call Aunty Raine and let her know that I was not up to waking up at 5 in the morning...I was not feeling good.   I was cold.  Body aching.  Runny nose. Sore throat.  A headache that doesn't know what to do whether to go or stay.  I didn't take any pain meds because I was too tired to go get it.   Well, I didn't call Aunty Raine.    I dreamed ...I dreamt...  Anyway this is not an English assignment..so give me a break.   Pick one that sounds or looks good.  =)   I just didn't show up!  How terrible of me!  I woke up and it was already 6 am!   aaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!  I ditched her again!    

Woke up and it was only 1 in the morning.  Whew!   

Wednesday  8/6/08  That's today!  durrrrrrh.

Woke up in time for our walk at 5am with Aunty Raine.  Well,  yup!  We ended up walking after all. I just bundled up. Long yoga pants, long sleeve shirt under hooded jacket. I was praying that she wouldn't take us to do the beach route and she read my mind. ( i'm falling  asleep as i tyype).  Went for a walk with Tita 96762 and Plain Jayne.   Nice and sunny...but still felt cold so had my jacket on.  Tita 96762 felt hot seeing me wear my jacket.  Funny moment:  The three of us calling each other deaf ear.  You had to be there.  =)

I don't know what bug is attacking my immune system.  I know, it too will pass.

Warrior 3's Tooth

Warrior 3 woke us up Sunday morning with an exciting news!   "Mom!  My tooth came out!"    I was still half asleep.  "Great!  Go put it in a ziploc bag so you don't lose it."  When I got up he showed me the tooth and said, "It's tiny."

This is his 3rd tooth.  The tooth fairy  was generous and gave him a quarter.    Congratulations Warrior 3!

Rested and Rejuvinated

Well, good morning!  It's been a good day so far.  The Gooey Babes are still in deep slumber.  You see Friday night is their stay up late to watch and play night.  They are keeping the King's tradition growing up.  They always look forward to Fridays and if I ever ground them  this is one of the things they don't want me to take away.  =)  Anyway...I was so tired last night that after the party I just wanted to crash and go "moi-moi".   The King is  in much pain.  (same pains for the last...oh idk....along time.)  Offered to massage the King.

King:   "no, you're tired."  Well,  it's 9:37 am Warrior 3 is up.  Ooooooo and Princess just woke up.  Me:   I can message!   King:  What,  all 12 seconds?    They are hungry.  I'll make peanut butter-and  banana smoothie.  yummy!   9:52 am.  I'm drinking and typing with one hand right now.   Hey i type pretty fast with just one ima.  (hand)  Okay, back to the conversation.

 

Me:  Not!   I can ...20 minutes!   So,  I proceeded.   Masaje.   Sige masaje.  Masaje dayta.  Masaje with eyes open.   Masaje with my eyes closed.  MASAJE really hard.   Masaje really soft.   Masaje.  Masaje -n- masaje some more until my fingers were lactic acid laden. Switch!   Masaje with my fist.  Masaje  with my forearm.  Masaje  with my elbow.  I was slowing down.  That felt like 30 minutes.  I thought I heard the King snore.  Good he is asleep.   So, I slowly backed away...slithered my way to my side of the bed.  I couldn't scoot myself up and lift my head to put on my pillow....I'm dead tired from staying until 3am the night before...shut my eyes (I don't know for how long)  and heard the King moaning and groaning from  pain.   So, I sat up tried to massage but was too tired.  The King sensed that there was no "umph!" in my hands....so he was nice to let me go to sleep.   Just like my cell phone.  I was running on low bat,  and soon that low bat finally went DEAD BAT!!!  

Woke up at 6 this morning.... King is still in pain.  Started to massage him and the incident from last night's massage came up and he said that I  just massaged him for 2 minutes!  What? Not!  The King is funny.  I know I massaged him longer than that.

 Warrior 2 is up.  It's now 10:27 am.     Eat  and then do chores!  

So, this is what happened the rest of  today.   (Saturday 8/3/08)    Oh, did I mention that I went to Aunty Z's class---man those stability balls are light but holding them between my legs made my inner thighs burn.  Saw Aunty Raine there as well.    I'll continue later.

Okay it's later.  I took a nap.....we ate, wrapped more lumpia,  did chores--dishes, bathroom, laundry, trash, put the rest of the junk from the food fest in the garage and organized the garage  and last but not least....I finally washed the van!  Yey!  It's clean!   Dinner Time!  Aaaahhhhh!!!   What to cook?

I'm back again.  The Gooey Babes  didn't get to *play.  Well, that's because they chose to play around when they were supposed to be doing their chores.  Same chores every Saturday....doesn't change and yet they still have to be told to do this and this and that.  Hellurh!  The King  comes home and asks the kids, "did you *play?"  The anwser of course is a no.  The King was like "wow, mommy just makes you work and doesn't let you play."  Hellow!  I couldn't let them.  They didn't finish their chores.  They were too busy playing around with each other.  Folding the laundry...instead of folding they start throwing the little things at each other.   Underwear found in places where there shouldn't be any underwear!   Oh, what a beautiful sight.  NOT!

 I ask Warrior 2 to wash the dishes...he responds...."I can not.  There is a greasy bowl in there."  WHAT?!  Are you serious?   I'm mad.  That's it!  Sutil nga primero ni Warrior 2, man.  Then when he was done scrubbing he was like "okay, Warrior 3 can rinse."  Dude!  Finish it!    That's Warrior 2's concept of DIVISION OF LABOR.   

Why is it that when the King calls the Gooey Babes come running like there's fire in their pants.  When I call...I have to raise my voice and  call them several times before I get their attention.  It's not fair.

Well, this is us.  We are not a perfect family.  We are all learning as we are going.    It's a process.   Lucky, I'm rested and rejuvinated.  Was able to cope today's excitement.   

Relax and surrender.   Inhale through the nose and  exhale through the nose.   G'day.

*play=Playstion/Wii

Lumpia Shanghai

Had a work meeting yesterday.  It was a fun and foodfilling meeting.   We had yogurt, bananas, fruit salad, muffins, granola bars and french bread with cream cheese or pesto.  I'm not a pesto person but that was some yummy pesto.  We even got to experience Ui's Turbo Jam.  CheeHoo!  That was funkeh!  yeah!  I better checkout  her class next time.  

I'm still up.  It is now 1:39 am just taking a break from wrapping those painstakingly rolled manini lumpia.  One of Profesor and Profesora Furuto's  son,  Mike is getting married later on today and we were asked to cook beef broccoli  and  lumpia shanghai.  So...this is it for now.  I gotta go back wrapping.  wish me luck.  

Well, I'm back!  It is 10:40 am and again taking a break.  I've wrapped over 240 so far.  I didn't finish this morning.  I was seeing double at 3am had to get some sleep.  Woke up at 7:11 and kids were almost late for school.  Warrior 1 and Princess barely made it to class.  Anyway... I wish Princess was home to help me pull the lumpia wrappers apart so all i have to do is smack the filling in the middle and roll.  It's taking me longer  without my big helper.  =)    

Ended up wrapping 420 total and the king made about 4 big pans of beef broccoli.