Two Men Enter One Man Leaves...

You want to know a sure fire way to make your living room ugly?? Add an a UFC octagon. Ron, I know you love this UFC stuff, so you can purchase octagons at Toys R Us.

How did it get there?

JT, Aya and I went to my parents house for dinner on Sunday. The topic of conversation turned into how smelly JT's poops are. My parents said now that he has human poop (instead of running, wet, diarrhea kind) they flush it down the toilet. I thought that was stupid, but given they smell so much I am willing to try it.

JT takes a crap while we eat dinner so I change him. I think, hmm, I guess I should take the diaper and flush the poop down the toilet. It isn't so easy trying to get the poop outta the diaper with wet naps in the diaper. To top it off it still smells and looks funny too. Ever see orange poop? Try eating ONLY carrots, butternut squash and mangos. ORANGE poop.

Okay, no problem, we eat dinner and come home. I am lounging around the house, give JT a bath when we notice the answering machine light flashing. We play the message and it' my sister:

You better check your feet. I think someone stepped in poop, because there are poop stains in the bathroom and on the blanket JT was playing on.

Interesting. I check my feet and there are brown marks. I tell Aya to smell it and she is NO WAY!! Yup, I got poop on my ankles and on my foot. I mean like streaks of poop!!! How it got there, I dunno, but NO MORE shaking out poop from the diaper into the crapper. Good thing this was at my parents house.

Jeff's Birthday

A very social weekend for JT. We did a lot of shopping, went to the VYC carnival and had lunch for Jeff's birthday.


JT has only immediately cried twice when meeting people. Once was Jeff and the other was my Aunty Paul. At least this time Jeff got JT to laugh and promise to put Jeff in a music video if JT ever becomes a rock star!


JT is now crawling although he never wants to crawl when the camera is on, but this one if for Uncle Jeff!

Legal Guardian...

The subject of a living trust and legal guardian has popped up. We will be meeting an attorney in a few weeks to talk about a living trust. No biggie there, but when thinking about a legal guardian for JT came up all these questions came into my mind.

1. How do I pick a guardian?
2. If Aya and I die today, then an old person is cool to be a guardian. If we die 20 years from now, than a younger guardian would be better.
3. I can't ask someone who already has multiple kids. I don't want to burden them with ANOTHER kid to watch.
4. What if they don't have kids now when I pick them but have kids later?
5. What if they have no kids...and don't want any kids.
6. Some of you I wouldn't let drive my Celica so no way will you get JT.
7. Do I want a guy or a girl to watch my kid?
8. What if I like one spouse but not the other?
9. What if the Guardians don't like the Dodgers or Lakers? I can't have my son rooting for Clippers or Angels.
10. Does the person I select have to at least spend time with JT so if we do die he knows who you are??

Just several things I was thinking about. Needless to say no one out there is looking good to be a guardian.

Ending the weekend...

A nice weekend for Aya, JT and I. I got a work bonus for staying the year. Actually for not staying but they have annual performance bonuses. Yes, I got a Christmas bonus, two raises and now a performance bonus. It was a good year. I doubt I will stay on that track for 2006.

We went to beach on Saturday and checked out some homes in the area. We had no idea how much the homes were but they were pretty large. We came back home and looked at prices...oh just $4.4 million!! Yikes!! We won't be moving there anytime soon.

Sunday was my first fathers day. We down to Beverly Hills to get some cupcakes and then went to a Ferrari car show. I forgot my camera...but maybe that was good because I don't want JT to think he was going to get a Ferrari.

I got a present from Aya and JT for Father's Day. Before you ask, "No, I didn't get a mother's day present for Aya." Yes, I am a heel. My first fathers day present was father-like as well.....a new drill.

(Doesn't JT's hand look gi-normous??)

Starting the weekend...

An interesting way to start the weekend off for Aya and I. On Thursday, Aya went to a Texas Hold'em Tournament for a bunch of Financial analysts. There was 100 people entered and Aya came in 10th place. Aya won some cash from some coworkers and a 2 gig ipod nano.

On Friday, my company rented a boat and sailed in the Marina. We left work at 11:30, ate lunch, went on the boat for appetizers and drinks at 1:00 and docked again at 4:00. On board they had various casino games. For every $100 won you got 1 raffle ticket. I won about $3000 grand, so 30 tickets in the raffle for me and I won a free hand car wash and car wax....and I also won the 5th gen 30 gig video ipod!

I had boycotted ipods in the past until Jeff gave me the ipod shuffle...now I have 3 ipods!!

Shirley who??

Snip-Snip....just like the way Barber Shirley cuts hair!!! Not too shabby if I do say so myself. I gave JT another haircut the other day. Nothing major, just a little trim around the edges to clean up his bowl haircut. It isn't so easy, cutting a 6 month old's hair, but I think I did decent...except for the little bald patch where I cut too much. Oops.

My new toy!!!

Look what got delivered at work today!! My new toy.....and it is in yellow!! Now all I gotta do is pass my class, get my license and I am ready to roll!!!

It isn't quite a Porsche but this is a nice replacement!

Okay, just kidding. This is my coworkers. He got it shipped to work.

Bugs....

It was happy hour last week and it was a bit happier than usual when we ordered the house special:


Even I ate some!

Dads 60th Birthday

Dawn, Aya and I decided to throw a surprise birthday for my Dad. He turned 60 over the weekend. Instead of the usual birthday parties, we rented a yacht to go around the harbor in Marina Del Rey. We had appetizers, drinks, lunch and cake.

Hopefully everyone had a good time. It was JT's first time on a boat and I think he loved it. He liked being out on the top deck in the sun with the salt sea air blowing on him. JT liked watching all the sailboats go by.

It definately turned out better than I expected. Happy Birthday dad!!

Tradition

The good luck tradition of wearing red basketball shorts at weddings continues! Congratulations to Ron and Laura!!

Almost Crawling

JT Crocodile Hunter

Cause and Effect...

I hurt my neck playing softball two weeks ago. I did what the doctor said and I played no sports for a week...except for basketball. The doctor said I could play bball anyway. My neck was a little sore after bball so I rested a few more days and then resumed softball, weights and swimming. (Side bar: Ron, I went 3 for 3 with a 3 run homerun to raise my batting over .500)

Saturday I woke up in extreme pain and I couldn't move my neck again. I wasn't going to let my sore neck ruin my weekend so Aya, JT and I went to do errands. Not only was it hot, but I was just sweating because I had to walk and not turn my neck. My sister tried to adjust me and I felt better but she said that I don't have a neck problem at all. Instead, I have a detached rib and that is causing my muscles to spasm which creates neck pain.

Saturday, I was feeling better but decided to sleep on Aya's ergonomic pillow and lay on my back. Umm, nope. Sunday, not only did I wake up tired with a sore neck but my teeth hurt. The reason for that is I normally sleep on my stomach with my mouth closed. My saliva keeps my teeth moist and refreshed. Since I slept on my back, my mouth was open, no saliva, so my teeth dried up and was sore all day.

Needless to say, it was a rather uneventful weekend as I wasn't able to do a whole lot. What a waste of a weekend. =(

Luckily my sister adjusted me some more, but said it is going to take some time for my rib to heal. She can't put the rib back into place until the muscle tightness goes away.

Technology....

The good thing about working with a bunch of IT guys is that they are always checking out new technology. With storage being so cheap, we all made portable 100 gig hard drives. What can we do with 100 gig? We all turned them into transportable mp3 and video players.

I actually use mine as a one touch backup drive for my home hard drive and mp3 player. Instead of just taking a few cds, I have my whole mp3 collection on a 5 inch by 1/4 inch hard drive. Sweet. It took me a week to move my files onto my drive.

Even better, my old Windows 98 laptop has been fully upgraded and working like a charm. I also have my new 19" wide screen monitor, upgraded to 1 gig of RAM....now if only I bought a better video card. I shouldn't have been such a cheap skate and just bit the bullet and bought a top of line card. Grrr.