Hmmm: 05/01/2004 - 06/01/2004

Saturday, May 29, 2004

Movie weenkend

Well nothing much to talk about; been at home trying to make a good wife outta me. Wake up at 5am to get ready for excercise. Thirty minutes of weights and 30 of laps... if I can call them that. Mainly I do 50-100 meters at once, then I rest for like 5 minutes. Then the lap distance goes to 50 meters with its same time for rest. I can't believe I used to do on average 10 continuous laps with a 1 minute break followed by the same routine. Well, at least I am doing something, right? Feels good though... to feel hungry and to know that it is because I've been up and about since such an early hour.

I do most cleaning of my house, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, the bathroom. Then I check e-mails, work on things here and there and then about 4pm I start preparing dinner. He says it's getting pretty good. Getting? heh. It's always been good, except maybe for my soups... I've been known to burn water. heheheh.

Oho! I watched Kill Bill Vol 1 on Friday night. Pretty neat movie. The fight scenes were highly dramatic and exaggerated, but heck, they were nicely choreographed. Loved the fountanous blood spraying.

And this Saturday I watched Hidalgo - what a great horse man! The trainer did an awesome job. And we stayed to watch Starsky and Hutch – stupid funny… the sort you want to just see to laugh your head off.

And now I am tired. Me’s out!

Thursday, May 20, 2004

What a Week

Saturday.

Went to my friend's graduation ceremony - Bibi's ceremony. We had to get there super early (5pm) in order to save seats for her family members. So 2 of her cousins, her 2 little brothers (little meaning in their late teens early 20s... but since I've known them since forever, they are little to me), my hubby and I. We each took a row and sat at the first seat and last seat to make sure we didn't let anyone in to take the middle chairs. hehehehe. Oh... people get maaaaad. *shrugs*

Family members started to arrive and the ceremony started at 7 pm sharp. After hearing the dean and guest speakers talk for about an hour about... erm... stuff - you know all that about the hard road they took to be where they were but that none of us cares about? - then the graduates began their walk to get their diplomas. She got her BS in Mathematics with an extra Associates degree. Right after she walked, she met us at the chairs and we went to her house to celebrate with burgers! We got out late and restaurants close so darn early down here.

Hubby, Bibi, and I

Overall it was very nice. The family is just so nice and my hubby loves to chat with her dad. He is a very down-to-earth, hard-working, decent man, and both him and his wife, Mrs. L., raised a very fine family. I went to school with 3 of the 'kids', the 2nd oldest whom I affectively call my Bro (1 year older than I), my friend Bibi (same age as I, both graduated together in High School), and the 4th oldest and youngest girl in the family (about 2 years younger than us... yeah, she was a Sophomore when we were Seniors). The baby boys, one went to school with my little sister, same age, and then the baby baby, who's been out of HS for about a year and a half, or is it 2? Him I met well... you always get to meet your friends' baby siblings. Such a lovable boy. The only one that I know very little is the eldest, who was already out of High School when I got there and met them all.

Well, the graduation party is this coming saturday. They will be making a big fajita cookout. They made the best brisket, chicken, and fajita that I've ever tasted! Ohhh and the potato salad...

Sunday was all right until I got a call from another one of my college girlfriends, Magda. She had had a rough weekend. Had problems with the significant other - the bastard - and was just in tears. We talked for a very long while and I shared my opinion on the matter with her. Not trying to make up her mind for her, but simply telling her how I saw things. It is always so much easier for those of us outside of the problem to see reasonable solutions to situations, but of course, easier said than done.

By the end of our conversation she was laughing a little and even said she was getting hungry, which was a big plus! since she had not eaten anything but nibbled at some crackers since friday. *sigh* What heart ahce does to a person. She's such a smart woman; has more degrees under her belt than any of the guys she's dated... She probably holds as many as all of them together! Maybe she is just so intimidating because of it that they just can't keep up with her. Heh... well, their loss.

Monday - spent the day with mom. We went to a public swimming facility, checked it out and decided to make it a daily habit to go there. We subscribed and went to purchase our equipment. She will be doing Aquaerobics from 6:15 to 7:00am, while I do free-style swimming for about the same time.

Tuesday - what a crappy day. woke up at 5:15am to get ready for my first day of swimming. Mom and dad picked me up at 5:45, we took at quick shower at the center and she took her class and I did laps. I am out of shape... big time. But eventually I'll be able to do my 50 laps non-stop, I just have to take my time and get the technique back. It's all about endurance and breathing.

After that, ma took me home and we walked for a bit around the block and then she went to her house. I got a call from dad like 45 minutes later telling me to go with mom. We had a break in... again and the bandits took garden equipment, an expensive mower that my hubby and I had just bought my dad about 2 weeks ago (by the way... that was to replace another mower that had gotten stolen too), and they took my parents' new puppy!

Bastards. One of the local Constables was able to recuperate a mower (which we ended up discovering was the very first mower that got stolen) but after a chase, the guys escaped with the other mower and the little dog. It's like they already targeted their house, and oh man.. I just get such bad feelings about the neighbors. They do nothing... the girls go out to work while the guys stay there at home... probably just waiting for government checks... good-for-nothing, uneducated, beer-drinking, lazy people. Big coincidence... they always notice Everything that my parents do (one of the guys gets near the fence and comments on anything new that my dad may be using) but when bad things happen, oh they don't know anything, they are always out. Whatever.

What sucks even more is that yes, the constables saw the guys, saw the car, read a few letters from the plates, chased after them... and they say they'll keep looking but... I know that they'll forget soon. It's happened before. I really think my parents should move. That block is no good anymore.

Wednesday - After swimming, mom and I went to all the animal shelters and vet offices that we could to leave off posters of the puppy. She was a nice, full-breed rottweiler, 2 months old. My dad had given it to my mom last week. If we can find the puppy, we may be able to find the robbers... or something. Chances are slim, however. If they leave the puppy anywhere and someone finds it, I doubt they'll turn it in to any shelter, the dog is worth quite a bit... and even if they take it to get vaccines, it probably won't be until several months later, the doggy will be much older so it won't be that easy to recognize it... and I doubt that veterinarians or the city shelter officials will are about a stolen dog after this weekend.

I just hope 'Beauty' is bought of found by a nice family that will feed and treat her right and not just left to wander the roads until it gets ran over by a truck.

Beauty

Beauty

Thursday, today... I was super exhausted this morning. I did very few laps and I found that it wasn't because I was sore or anything... but my breathing just did not seem to be enough. I was just getting tired quickly. So after like 10 laps, which took about 45 minutes to do (dang that was slow) I went to the showers and began to get ready. Mom arrived minutes later and she took began to get ready.

After the make-up ritual We headed to get her checked up at the doc's and we were doing all that for... dang... 5 hrs or so. Gaw, Mom says I chose a wrong major. I should have taken medicine - there are always sick people in need of doctors!

I was dropped off home at around 1:30pm and decided to take a nap instead of just cleaning around the house. I was just soooo tired. Some time later hubby was pushing me so that I would scoot over and he joined me in the nap. He got off work early today ^_^ I snuggled against his chest and was out again. I got up at 6:30 something and I could already smell good cooking going on. We watched TV and well... now I am here.

But I better close it up. I am still tired, must be from waking up so early this week, something I haven't done in forever, and then with all anger from Tuesday and oh well... Me's off to bed again.

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Pretty women scramble men's ability to assess the future

"Psychologists in Canada have finally proved what women have long suspected - men really are irrational enough to risk entire kingdoms to catch sight of a beautiful face.

Biologists have long known that animals prefer immediate rewards to greater ones in the future. This process, known as "discounting the future", is found in humans too and is fundamental to many economic models.

... Margo Wilson and Martin Daly of McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada decided to investigate discounting behaviour and see if it varied with sexual mood.

Male students, when shown pictures of pretty women, were more likely to opt for short-term economic gain than wait for a better reward in the future.

...Wilson and Daly found that male students shown the pictures of averagely attractive women showed exponential discounting of the future value of the reward. This indicated that they had made a rational decision. When male students were shown pictures of pretty women, they discounted the future value of the reward in an "irrational" way - they would opt for the smaller amount of money available the next day rather than wait for a much bigger reward.

Women, by contrast, made equally rational decisions whether they had been shown pictures of handsome men or those of average attractiveness."

"We have not elucidated the psychological mechanisms mediating our results," says Margo Wilson. "But we hypothesise that viewing pictures of pretty women was mildly arousing, activating neural mechanisms associated with cues of sexual opportunity."

Tommaso Pizzari, an evolutionary biologist at Leeds University, offers another possible explanation: "If there's the prospect of getting a very attractive partner it may pay a man to take more risks than if an average partner was available."

He told New Scientist: "If this is a response to sexual selection then you would expect men who are less attractive to take more risks. If you have many attractive potential partners then it does not pay to take risks. If you are less attractive, with few potential partners, then it pays to take risks."

Source: NewScientist.com

... Moral of the story: Stick to average-looking guys.

Saturday, May 08, 2004

Whoa yeah!

Van Helsing RULES!!!!!

Suuuuuch a good, action-packed movie! Watch it.

Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Cinco de Mayo, La Batalla de Puebla

… or 5th of May, the Battle of Puebla. Several of you may have heard about this day… a day celebrated by most Mexican and Mexican descendants (and friends that tag along). Contrary to what people may believe, Cinco de Mayo does not celebrate Mexico’s Independence from Spain. Not at all. Cinco de Mayo marks a day in Mexican history when a small group of soldiers, armed with rudimentary weapons (compared to the high-tech stuff used in the mid 1800s) overcame a much larger French army in the small city of Puebla in 1862. That day has ever since been remembered as the day that Mexico began the overthrow of foreign rule in its lands.

It is also my daddy’s birthday. ^_^ *skips off to get ready for the special dinner*

Tuesday, May 04, 2004

If only I could draw... sketch even...

I saw a most beautiful boy today. He sat at a table across from me... sideways. He was hunching over a blue plastic bowl, eyes gazing at a slice of cooked green pepper that he had pulled out of the soup with his plastic fork. He seemed bored, worried, sad? Made me wonder what he had on his mind. Could anyone help? Did he need a friend? I was engrossed with the scene, admiring the straight nose, defined jaw, and the small brown eyes that continued to peer into the bowl. For the first time in my life I wished I could draw... really, really draw so that I could forever hold the image of this young, pretty man. So that he would never age, never die. His large hand took the bowl and thin fingers helped tilt it to his lips, thinned and tanned.

Another boy came over and they exchanged words while turning to look at one of the windows. The pretty one quickly finished his meal, covered his Tupperware and then got up, following his 'friend' to somewhere... I just didn't think it right to continue to stare as if to make it any more obvious. And unfortunately, I was not able to get a glimpse at his name tag...

*sigh*

My pocket will suffer from now on.

Burger King, you now have a new daily customer.

Saturday, May 01, 2004

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh lazy day.

I should have been working but... lazy, lazy day. Did part of the laundry, however, and cut up some vegetables for my husband's dish. It's has been raining part of today, surprisingly making it a semi chilly morn.

Had an appointment with a buddy of mine online at around 5. Missed it 'cause I fell asleep and when I woke up I had to rush to S.B. to feed my doggie. ^_^ Got back at around 6:45 and then was able to give him a call at around 7 something. Yeah, it had been a while since we'd spoken. ^_~ Pretty voice.

Did I make your day? Did I? Did I?

Oho! I also got an invitation from a friend of mine who is graduating in a few weeks! Yeyness! Another gal that goes into Mathematics – now I have 2 friends in that area. Geesh, I have these geniuses girlfriends and it just makes me all warm inside. =^_^= I gotta get her something neat as a gift, but I don't know what!!! I was thinking of a personalized desk item... like a pen set or something... hmmm. Necklace? hmmm, she's like me and I haven't seen her wearing much jewelry. Oh well, she is into tech too... a package of mini CD-RWs for her cool CD-mavica camera? >_< oh man, I am brain dead.

Hmmm