fun weekend

Thursday was my 4th year wedding anniversary. Andrew took me out for dinner and watch a movie. We had our dinner at foodcourt in the mall, very romantic. Actually, I don't mind at all since I know he will take me to some place nicer later. Then we watched Stardust. It was nice, suitable for our anniversary. It you like the Prince's Bride, you will like Stardust too. Of course, I have missed SnB that night.

Then Andrew had some friends from work came over to watch UFC on Friday night. Violence? I am ok with that. Plus there were lots of food for the fight party. Ken bought ribs from Uncle Willies, Jeff bought chicken wings, Sean and Debroah bought chips and wine. And I bought sushi.

On Saturday night, we went to Carolina's house for another BBQ(one on last week). I had marinated some chicken wings on Friday night and brought over for Carolina's bbq. Besides wings, we had burgers, hot dogs, chips and beer! After eating all the food, we play Wii. If you have a Wii, "Mario Party 8" is a must buy for a party. We, Carolina, Bijal, Miguel, Dave and I, tried to have a little fun before the school starts which is on Wednesday. Man, I can't wait for it starts!!

Today, Sunday, We continuely celebrating our anniversary. We went to watch a movie again, we saw Harry Potter. All the HP fans, I am sorry, but I don't think I like the movie. I almost felt asleep at some points. Then we went home and took care of some stuff. Around 6pm, we headed out and tried to go to East for our anniversary dinner. We drove all the way to Milford, about 6 miles(hehehe), and it was CLOSED!!! They close on Sunday. OK, then we went home and had our leftover ribs for dinner tonight. Oh and we watched the movie Perfume while having our dinner. Weird movie, not recommanded.

So, our plan is going to East for dinner tomorrow night. We will see if it will happen or not...

Cooking mama

Andrew got me a Wii game that I have been wanting for long time. It's called Cooking Mama. It's obviously a game about cooking. By moving the control, the player could do chopping, peeling, stirring, mixing dough? ect... I played for 3.5 hours last night after SnB, and my arms are a bit sore.

Speaking of SnB, I honestly have thought about stop going there lately. Here is the reason... I have noticed that around my friends from school and SnB, I still couldn't express myself all the time. What I mean is, I always said something that I didn't mean, or the way I said it turned out it sounded rude or non-sense. Mostly of the time, I understand what people are talking about in the conversations, but when it's my turn to say something, I don't know what to say or I would say something that makes me sound stupid or looks like an idiot. Sometimes, I sound like yelling; sometimes I sound like I am from another planet. I don't know what would people think if someone gave them an annoying look of "what the heck are you talking about"? For me, I would be very upset and frustrated. Don't get me wrong, not that my SnB friends or my classmates would give me that look, they are all being so patient to me. It's just that I am upset that I can't speak English like I speak Chinese which could let me talk regularly or at least use the right words for everything. I said I didn't want to go to SnB because, I guess I have lost the confident to actually go out of the house and talk to anyone besides my husband and my family. I even said to Andrew that I didn't want to leave the house, I didn't want to see anyone else, I don't want to be annoying to people, and I don't want to humilate myself anymore. I am mad at myself that I have been in the States for 7 years, and my english is still embarrassingly bad which most of the time people still don't understand what I am saying. I am very very depressed.

Spring break

This week is spring break. I hanged out with An on Monday. We first went to Thai House for lunch, then we went shopping clothes for work, I was planning to work 2 days at Schick started on Wednesday. Then, we came to my house and baked a chocolate cake with coffee icing. It was the first time An bake a cake. We were both very excited.


So, I went to work on Wednesday and Thursday(at Schick). I worked in the physics lab, I were doing some testing, can't tell what that was, top secret :) I had fun. Since I worked in different department than before, I got to see and learn different things.

Andrew was sick since Thursday, so I didn't go to SnB. I missed it!! But, guess what, I have casted on another pair of socks... yes, another pair. It's called Feather and Fan from Socks Socks Socks. I am using Bernat baby fingering weight in soft lilac, because it's for my mom, the socks need to be machine washable and dryable. I got them in A.C. Moore when the yarn was on sale for $2 each, $4 for a pair of socks, great deal!!


I can't believe it snowed again in mid-March. When everyone is blaming global warming, it snows. I am not anti-saving-enviornment-or-energy, but it seems when people couldn't find a reason why it didn't snow during Christmas or Janurary, they blamed global warming. Wait, people blame globla warming for everything... ok, I am calming down... Anyway, it snowed very hard on Friday, we got at least 5 inches snow. We didn't measure exactly how deep the snow was, but it's quite a lot. We drove out last night, and saw couple cars sliding or got stuck, couldn't move, saw a taxi couldn't make it up because it slow down too much on the bottom of the hill.

I put another movie in my favorite movies list last night. Andrew and I was going to rent Borat last night, but of course on friday night, we didn't have luck, and they were all rented out of course. So, I picked this movie called Stranger than Fiction. I never heard of that movie before. When I saw it, (Andrew was outside cleaning the snow on the car), I thought it could be funny since it has Will Ferrell, and Andrew like him a lot, so I rented it home. After watching it 15 mins, I found out that it's not quite funny. After watching about 30mins, it's quite interesting and creepy. After finished watching it, I felt in love with this movie. It's a very simple but not possible story, but it's very meaningful and touching and crazy. Totally recommand this movie to everyone.

Lastly, my spring break is pretty much over, and I don't want to go back to school!! I am having 3 mid-tern exams next week. Wish me luck!!

Wii party

Several of my friends from school came over to my house on Friday and we had a Wii party. I was the oldest in the party, but when playing wii, we all forgot how old we were, well, at least I did. I make fun of myself all the time that I always play with kids since my friends from school are way younger than me... yes Bijal, I know what you are going to say, but really, I am older than you, all of you, and yet, I feel younger when I am around you guys, thanks. After the Wii party, Andrew had his friends came over to have another party. I felt bad that I kind of ended my Wii party rushly and my Wii party messed up his UFC party, sorry Sean and Ken...





I finsihed the Jaywalker tonight. Yay!! They look real big, because I have big feet. The yarn I used is called "scheepjes" which I got it from Yarn Garden during superbowl sale, and I used knitpicks circular needles #1 for magic loops method. I made a mistake on the side of the sock. when I noticed, it was already too late to fix it. oh well. I don't think people can see it unless I told them...

Happy Valentine's Day!

I did have a happy Valentine's Day. Although Andrew and I did not do anything special, I still had a very good time. We ordered a take out dinner from Texas Roadhouse and had a very romantic dinner while watching a movie at home. Andrew used lots of efford to look for the gifts for me. What did I get? After work, he called several game stores to find the "Wii Play" for me. Since it was launched on the 13th, it was sold out everywhere. But finally, he found it at Target in the mall. Beside the game, he also got me something else. It is being mailed, so I will tell what it is once I have got it. I didn't get him a good gift compare to what he got me. I bought him the Celtic Women cd and DVD. He said he likes their songs which would make him have goosebum? (don't know how to spell). Anyway. The steak I order from Texas Roadhouse was so good, and Andrew loves their ribs too. I think it's a 4.5 stars restaurant!!

We had a little snow yesterday. So in the morning, I got up a little earlier than I usually do, and see if the school was closed or not. While all the schools were closed in Connecticut, University of New Haven which is my school was still opened. I was very depressed and then got ready for school. I was driving about 25 miles/hour on Rt 1, the road was awful, 4 lanes become 2. When I arrived to the classroom, the building was almost empty. The classroom door was locked, and the professor said "this class should have been cancelled", I know!! The class was supposed to started at 9:30am, ended at 11:30am, but most of the people came in very late, some of them didn't even show up. Around 11am, the school annouced that they were closing, no class in the afternoon and evening. I was a little mad, why didn't they just closed when everyone else did in the morning, instead of having the students drove all the way from home and had one class. So stupid. Then I had the afternoon off which I was trying to finish some homework at home. I didn't get to knit!! So sad.