Happy New Year!

Happy New Years everyone!! I am probably the last one to update at the start of the New Year. I have just been lazy this past week trying to get out of work from home mode and back into the full time work mode.

No resolutions for me. I usually make all my resolutions and evaluate my year on my birthday. This year is pretty much a repeat for me in terms of a resolutions and/or goals. Actually I do have a new goal for 2008 but it is top secret right now, but I will be letting you all in on it within the next few months. (Key word was GOAL, so no one think that means baby #2!! In fact, I am highlight goal to eliminate confusion).

Like I read on almost everyone else's site, I can't complain about 2007 or what I want in 2008. Things are going well for me and the family. Everyone is healthy, people are working, people have roofs over their head and no one I know is starving (except for skinny jenny).

I just hope for more of the same in 2008…but maybe just a tad better…it can't always be same old same old...except in this case where New Year's lunch was at my parent's house. All the usual suspects came for lunch:



And...one slightly older person…my MOM who turned 6-0.

We celebrated a few days early since everyone was over for New Years. Aya, Dawn and I also surprised our parents with a cruise to Alaska this year. In fact, the cruise is not only for them but for us as well!!

Things in 3...

The past week a few things did not go my way. They say things happen in "3" so hopefully this is my 3.

First, I lost in the finals of fantasy football. The team that beat me, lost the first game of the season and then won the next 14 weeks! It is like having the Patriots in Fantasy Football.


Second, I must have eaten some bad chicken because I got food poisoning on Saturday and was pretty much in the crapper for most of the day. Who knew 'pooping' could be so tiring. I was wiped out!

Third and probably the funniest was JT has been using the bathroom more frequently. This morning he was happy that he pee'd in the toilet and as he went to flush the toilet he spiked his hot wheel into the toilet like a football. Note to self, don't let JT hold toys when he is on the crapper.

So in fresh bowl of pee, I had to reach in with my hand to grab JT's hot wheel. YUCKO! Yes, I suppose I could have scooped it out with a spoon or tongs but I did not feel like throwing away perfectly good utensils. Just another day in the life of being a parent.

Christmas 2007

Merry Christmas!

Happy Holidays to everyone! I am lucky as UMG is one of those companies that close at the end of the year so I am off until the 3rd! Although, I have already been busy getting the house cleaned for Christmas. JT has been so lucky to get so many presents that we opened gifts as a family yesterday! We still have more to open on Christmas as well!

This was one our 'rejected' Christmas cards. This is going to sound 'scrooge' like and I am not trying to single anyone out or sound ungrateful but I am going to say it anyway. What is up with Christmas cards with glitter? Are they not the worse cards ever? Some cards are okay because the glitter is mild and for the most part stays on the card. Other cards are PACKED with glitter and all the glitter pours out when you pull the card our of the envelope. I can't imagine the mess is makes for the person who has got to send out all their glitter cards!

Yes, I know. Next year I will get NOTHING but GLITTER cards. Just so you know, glitter cards do make it up on the wall at my house for display.

Hope everyone has a safe and Merry Christmas!!

Fab Four...

Tonight I got together with Stewart, Jeff and Oscar. We went to Lawrys for dinner and for our gag gift exchange. The evening started off well as Oscar got the hot waitress (she is single for all you single dudes out there).

Jeff was first up with a six pack of Corona, a belt with a Corona belt buckle!

Oscar was next a mento's diet coke bottle launcher.

I was third with the Dr. Rojano "love kit":

Yup, posing in Lawrys with a dildo and flavored tasting condoms!

Last but not least was Stewart with a Coors Light glasses and ice bucket.

It ain't no party like a west coast party without Christmas carolers:

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

My own cheerleader...

Thanks to Saori for rooting me on in Fantasy Football. See her dance here:

http://www.cocacolazero.com/ffgames.jsp#/victorydance/661028541/

I'm back in the Finals...

After 15 weeks of Fantasy Football, I am back into the Finals to defend last year's championship. I beat Ron's team tonight....that alone makes the season!

Sadly, I play a team that has won 13 games in a row. Hopefully, Farve, Peterson and TO all have crappy games next week so my team has a chance to win. Root for my players next week!

Christmas means being social...

With Christmas and the end of the year rapidly approaching it is time for me to be 'social' and out going. Normally, I prefer being anti-social but with friends going back home for the holidays it is that time of year to get together and wish everyone happy holidays.

Last week, I went to dinner with Ayumi, visited the guys at LMB, had dinner with Jen and June. This week it is dinner with the fab four, Tarn, SKim and Oscar.

With all my going plans the past 2 weeks it brought up 2 topics of conversation with Aya.

The first topic being for someone, namely me, who is mean to everyone Aya thinks it is amazing that I have friends that would *WANT* to go to dinner with me.

The second topic had to do with having a maid. Saturday, Aya spent the day in Fullerton. When she got back home she asked me what I did all day. I played tennis, stopped by my parents, cleaned the house and I went to the mall for a last minute item and to get Aya's admin a present. I told her that pretty much took up the day because I spent so much time cleaning. In fact, I spent so much time, I considered listening to Aya to hire a maid.

Aya: Great! We can get a maid. All my friends have maids.
Miles: I dunno, I said I thought about it while I cleaned...but I don't think I want a maid.
Aya: Don't your friends have maids?
Miles: Nope.
Aya: C'mon your friends are all rich! How can they not have maids?
Miles: Oscar, no maid. Tarn, no maid. Skim, no maid. Sascha, no maid. Dan, no maid.
Aya: What is wrong with those guys?
Miles: Hmm, well they all make way more than us...so if they don't have a maid, no way we can get a maid.

Just one more week of work and then I am off until 2008!! UMG shuts down at the end of the year! I can't wait to be off for a few days.

Ladies golf...

This post is totally for my cousin, Scott. I am not a big golf fan. I will watch if Tiger Woods is playing but normally I don't watch...even more I do NOT watch women's golf. However, a sports website I read turned me on to this female golfer....Anna Rawson.

If Anna is going to be playing...I am going to be watching! If all the ladies on the LPGA looked like this I would be watching or hoping EA comes out with the video game version of Anna Rawson 2008.

Enjoy...

Why can't more golfers wear skirts?

Good versus Evil...

And by good versus evil, I mean Miles (Good) versus Ron (evil). About 6 weeks ago, I wrote about fantasy football and how I believe Ron has a stacked team. Since that posting both Ron and I went on losing streaks. However, we won enough games to make the playoffs.

This week, Ron and I face off against each other. He killed my team in the regular season matchup. Sure, Ron seems like a quiet and nice guy, but when it comes to Fantasy sports Ron turns into the Gary Payton trash talking machine.

Here is the email Ron sent to me this morning:

A few small requests after I beat you:

1) Please invite me back to play next season. I don’t want you to be bitter that I blew your chances of repeating.
2) Promise me now that I’ll cover your fees for you next season!
3) Please don’t let a fantasy loss ruin your holidays!
4) Please don’t be a bad sport and take out your anger on Aya or JT!

It is going to be close this week...I am just hoping that I come out victorious!

Mr. Baseball...

This weekend Shirley invited us over for dinner and so JT and Jessica could hang out and play. I think JT was trying to get Jessica to hold his sweaty clammy hands (courtesy of Aya's genes):

Jessica and JT drawing:

Jessica giving JT a hug:

After dinner, we were going to head home. We figured JT was going to fall asleep in the car so we were going to change him into his PJ's. Shirley said JT could take a bath with Jessica. Hmm, a co-ed bath. I was a little nervous because I thought JT might pee on Jessica. I didn't really care if Jessica peed on JT because I don't think a girl can aim pee the way a guy can.

In any case it was pretty funny watching them take a bath together. For privacy sake, no pictures or video of the bath will be posted but they will be saved for future blackmail material.

Did anyone see that Tom Selleck movie, Mr. Baseball? Well, I always thought one of the perks of marrying a fobby japanese girl was so I could get baths on a regular basis...Mr. Baseball style. I always ask Aya and it never happens. Go figure, that my son gets a Mr. Baseball bath before me!

When JT and Jessica were in the bath, JT was playing and doodling with bath crayons and Jessica was keeping JT warm by pouring water on him and trying to wash his hair. Ahh, it is good to be King.

Test taking...

Last week I was in class trying to add another MicroStrategy certification under my belt. I had a week long class for Platform Administration certification with a test on Friday.

I was confident in class and knew a lot of the answers that the teacher was asking, but that did not have me prepared for the class exam. In fact, I was more nervous about the test because MicroStrategy does not test you on using the application but on theory and terminology. You hardly ever discuss theory and terminolgy with coworkers on a day to day basis.

During the week we had several reviews and I did not do so hot. I had to study Thursday night. Aya usually helps me and quizzes me. This time she said I knew everything. Uh-oh. Not a good sign, because I don't want to go in over confident. You need a 75 out of 100 to pass. Basically that means you can only miss 7 of the 45 questions.

I breezed through page 1 of the exam but page 2 had me all messed up. I couldn't do answer any on that page so I skipped ahead. I did well on the other pages but then I started thinking about all the questions I was unsure about. Sure enough, 8 questions had me stumped. That means I would have to get ALL the other questions right and then get 1 of the 8 right to pass. Unfortunately I was not confident that I had ALL the other questions correct.

On the 8 questions I was unsure about I always narrowed it down to 2 possibilities. After a while I just forget it...I am not going to stress about failing...someone has to fail sometime...unfortunately this time it is me. I turned my exam in, got my parking validated and I was prepared to leave as the pathetic person to fail a MSTR certification exam. It is so nerve racking to test after being out of school for 12 years.

When I got back the instructor congratulated me and handed me my certification as I got 91 out of 100. I guess I really did know all the other answers and I must have guessed right on half of the 8 questions! Woo-Hoo!! One more thing to add to my resume!

Fantasy Football...

A word of advice for any guy out there thinking of having children. If you enjoy playing fantasy football, don't have your kid until AFTER football season! After you have a kid, fantasy football becomes a lot harder because you can no longer lie around on Sunday from 8 am (when I check injuries, probables and the weather) until 10:00 pm when the night game is over and I have watched all the ESPN highlights.

This year I felt like I was finally able to enjoy playing Fantasy Football again. I guess I enjoyed it last year as well, since I did win it all! Congratulations to me and Ron for making the playoffs. I am the #2 seeded team and if Ron wins the quarterfinal game, he will have to play the current undisputed champion...ME. (No whammies, no whammies, no whammies!)


Aya tolerates my fantasy football and sometimes evens helps me makes roster decisions. When I can't decide who to play I ask her which name sounds better...then take the opposite. Usually it works out pretty well. Not to mention, Aya is dominating her work pick league and is currently beating me in my work pick league. So, Aya knows a little something-something about football.

Aya and I were sitting around watching ESPN Monday night after the Patriots - Ravens game. The announcers were talking about Willis McGahee great rushing night, 120+ yards and 1000 yards for the season.

Aya: Whoa, he had a good night.
Miles: It was alright...maybe 18 fantasy points.
Aya: That's it?
Miles: Yeah, 120+ yards and a TD...18 points.
Aya: No way, he had 1000 yards!!
Miles: hahahaha
Aya: What's so funny?
Miles: 1000 yards!!! hahahahahhaa!
Aya: What?! Tell me. What is so funny.
Miles: 1000 yards would mean that McGahee would get the ball from his own endzone and run it all the way to HIS endzone...10 times. That would also give him 10 TDs. Thus, he would have 160 fantasy points...which is WAY more than a great day in Fantasy football scoring.
Aya: But the announcer said he had 1000 yards.
Miles: Yes, that was for the season, not the game.

I was laughing so hard. Funniest thing I have heard in a long time!

Call me Rev...

Just in case any one wants to get married, baptised or have any other religious ceremonies, I am now an ordained minister! Why? I don't know why, just because I can.

Its starting to look a lot like Christmas...

Not to be out done by Jenny's Christmas tree, but this is our Christmas tree.