Various Happenings - US '09
Thank goodness for the Internet! As you can guess, one major way for me to alleviate my boredom is going on line. Thanks to friend Deo Co as well, since he saved my WD external drive and digicam, I'm able to access and upload my pictures into Flickr.com which then allowed me to download them into my blogs. And I'm almost caught up! Woo Hoo!!
I've also been trying to get caught up with all my eMails, chatting with everyone on line through YM and Facebook. A certain niece of mine had some really, deeply personal stuff that she brought up with me and I think it was a huge load off her chest. I'm honored and grateful that she chose me as "the only person I can talk with about these things."
Eph picked us up yesterday from La Mirada and we went to visit Elijah together. We then went and got us some El Pollo Loco for dinner at their place in Long Beach. They were watching the first game between the Lakers and the Nuggets while I was blogging. The Lakers won, by the way, in a really close game. I think they were only up by one point.
Speaking of Elijah, since we got here, Donna and I have made it a point to try and visit his grave site everyday at Forest Lawn in Cypress. We figured since we pray the rosary every night, we might as well do it while we're over there. I feel that it's helped us a lot deal with our grief and continuous healing. One of the days we missed was when we got there around 6:30 pm not realizing the gate to the grounds closes daily at 6. So now we see to it that, if we're here, we leave the house by 5:30.
The beautiful bronze grave marker that Rach and Eph specially ordered has been installed. They went and waxed it recently and when we visited we always wipe the water spots off it from the regular grounds irrigation by Forest Lawn.
We've also seen a few movies while we're here. The first one I watched was Hugh Jackman's Wolverine. The critics didn't care for it too much but I liked it. I've stopped listening to critics a while back. Star Trek was great! Like I noted over on Facebook, I'm not a Trekkie but this one was good and I think it'll be one of those movies that'll be really cool to watch in my home theater. I thought Angels and Demons was better than The Da Vinci Code. It's plot was a little easier to follow. And Donna kept on hitting me with her elbows whenever she recognizes a scene in Rome that we've visited when we were there in 2007. We took Emy with us when we watched the chic movie Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.
We're going to be in Las Vegas this weekend so who knows what we're going to be watching next. Terminator maybe? Night at the Museum, perhaps?
My birthday and our anniversary was pretty quiet this year with a dinner at CPK. Everyone came including Dan's friend Sue. Nido ended up picking the tab I think because, according to him "It was my birthday on April 26."
For Mother's Day we had dinner over at Rach's parents' home in Norwalk. The Moms got some presents from Rachel.
Whenever we come over here, Donna takes it upon herself to tackle some kind of project around the house. I think, the first time she helped Nido with painting some of the interior walls of the house and last year, it's the retaining wall by the street outside their lawn. I'm really surprised that no one has tagged it with any graffiti.
When we got here, Emy was on medical leave due to her recent gall bladder surgery. And she told us we have to help her and Nido clean out their garage. I'm sorry I don't have a before-and-after picture. Just trust me when I say that Nido can now park his Camry in it whereas before you can't even park a Matchbox car in it!!
Several days ago, someone hit the Avalon while it was parked on the street of the apartment where Dan lives. It was a hit and run so the insurance has to cover it.
It was towed to a body shop recommended by the insurance. Dan is currently driving a white Dodge Avenger, one of those American generic small cars mostly found in fleets of rental car companies.
Unfortunately the Avalon got hit in such a way that the axle and perhaps even the chassis was damaged. The repair estimate the body shop gave the insurance was more than the value of the car, bought in 2000 with a little less than 120,000 miles. The obvious result - the insurance declared the car a total wreck. So now we're in the process of trying to decide what to do with the money they'll give us which is hardly enough to buy a decent used car and nowhere near enough to buy a new car.
Last Sunday May 17 was a pretty hectic day for us. After church we immediately headed to a hotel in Pomona to attend Arcel's Mom's (Imang Mer) 75th birthday. Donna was one of the major sponsors during Arcel and Evelyn's wedding several years ago. They have their daughter Nicki and twins AJ and CJ. Nicki is now a pretty 16 year old and the twins have grown so big we hardly recognized them.
We had to eat and run out of there because we had a scheduled meeting with our JASHS Class '70 USA group at 2 pm in Nestor and Daisy's place in La Mirada. It was good to see my ever active LA group: Ed and Odette, Bert, Elaine with hubby Gene, Rey and Josie with son Ryan, Alice and EJ, Boy and Remy and Maryjo. Imelda and Dan came a bit later. There was a lot of food although we agreed it will only be for meryenda. Daisy prepared some delicious fresh lumpia and Odette brought her scrumptious sampelut!
I reported about the classroom we're adopting at PHS. We also talked about the coming 40th Anniversary celebration in 2010. As previously voted on, we all agreed that we'll have it on Saturday, February 6, 2010. We were able to sell all the PHS Sentenaryu Souvenir Programs that we brought. It's too bad we weren't able to take all 15 with us because each book weighs 4 lbs so we had to leave 5 behind. Boy and Remy are going on vacation in the Philippines next month so his copy will be waiting at our house. Ed took Mon's two copies, 1 for him and 1 for his mother-in-law, Mrs. Santos. By the way, we'll be visiting Mon at their place on Friday evening.
I don't know what came over me but the only picture I took was of Josie's grandson EJ!
My god daughter Stacy (Nestor and Glo's daughter) had a work related trip to Palm Springs the day after so she booked her flight one day early to see us. Emy picked up some fish tacos and we had dinner here at home.
I've also been trying to get caught up with all my eMails, chatting with everyone on line through YM and Facebook. A certain niece of mine had some really, deeply personal stuff that she brought up with me and I think it was a huge load off her chest. I'm honored and grateful that she chose me as "the only person I can talk with about these things."
Eph picked us up yesterday from La Mirada and we went to visit Elijah together. We then went and got us some El Pollo Loco for dinner at their place in Long Beach. They were watching the first game between the Lakers and the Nuggets while I was blogging. The Lakers won, by the way, in a really close game. I think they were only up by one point.
Speaking of Elijah, since we got here, Donna and I have made it a point to try and visit his grave site everyday at Forest Lawn in Cypress. We figured since we pray the rosary every night, we might as well do it while we're over there. I feel that it's helped us a lot deal with our grief and continuous healing. One of the days we missed was when we got there around 6:30 pm not realizing the gate to the grounds closes daily at 6. So now we see to it that, if we're here, we leave the house by 5:30.
The beautiful bronze grave marker that Rach and Eph specially ordered has been installed. They went and waxed it recently and when we visited we always wipe the water spots off it from the regular grounds irrigation by Forest Lawn.
We've also seen a few movies while we're here. The first one I watched was Hugh Jackman's Wolverine. The critics didn't care for it too much but I liked it. I've stopped listening to critics a while back. Star Trek was great! Like I noted over on Facebook, I'm not a Trekkie but this one was good and I think it'll be one of those movies that'll be really cool to watch in my home theater. I thought Angels and Demons was better than The Da Vinci Code. It's plot was a little easier to follow. And Donna kept on hitting me with her elbows whenever she recognizes a scene in Rome that we've visited when we were there in 2007. We took Emy with us when we watched the chic movie Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.
We're going to be in Las Vegas this weekend so who knows what we're going to be watching next. Terminator maybe? Night at the Museum, perhaps?
My birthday and our anniversary was pretty quiet this year with a dinner at CPK. Everyone came including Dan's friend Sue. Nido ended up picking the tab I think because, according to him "It was my birthday on April 26."
For Mother's Day we had dinner over at Rach's parents' home in Norwalk. The Moms got some presents from Rachel.
Whenever we come over here, Donna takes it upon herself to tackle some kind of project around the house. I think, the first time she helped Nido with painting some of the interior walls of the house and last year, it's the retaining wall by the street outside their lawn. I'm really surprised that no one has tagged it with any graffiti.
When we got here, Emy was on medical leave due to her recent gall bladder surgery. And she told us we have to help her and Nido clean out their garage. I'm sorry I don't have a before-and-after picture. Just trust me when I say that Nido can now park his Camry in it whereas before you can't even park a Matchbox car in it!!
Several days ago, someone hit the Avalon while it was parked on the street of the apartment where Dan lives. It was a hit and run so the insurance has to cover it.
It was towed to a body shop recommended by the insurance. Dan is currently driving a white Dodge Avenger, one of those American generic small cars mostly found in fleets of rental car companies.
Unfortunately the Avalon got hit in such a way that the axle and perhaps even the chassis was damaged. The repair estimate the body shop gave the insurance was more than the value of the car, bought in 2000 with a little less than 120,000 miles. The obvious result - the insurance declared the car a total wreck. So now we're in the process of trying to decide what to do with the money they'll give us which is hardly enough to buy a decent used car and nowhere near enough to buy a new car.
Last Sunday May 17 was a pretty hectic day for us. After church we immediately headed to a hotel in Pomona to attend Arcel's Mom's (Imang Mer) 75th birthday. Donna was one of the major sponsors during Arcel and Evelyn's wedding several years ago. They have their daughter Nicki and twins AJ and CJ. Nicki is now a pretty 16 year old and the twins have grown so big we hardly recognized them.
We had to eat and run out of there because we had a scheduled meeting with our JASHS Class '70 USA group at 2 pm in Nestor and Daisy's place in La Mirada. It was good to see my ever active LA group: Ed and Odette, Bert, Elaine with hubby Gene, Rey and Josie with son Ryan, Alice and EJ, Boy and Remy and Maryjo. Imelda and Dan came a bit later. There was a lot of food although we agreed it will only be for meryenda. Daisy prepared some delicious fresh lumpia and Odette brought her scrumptious sampelut!
I reported about the classroom we're adopting at PHS. We also talked about the coming 40th Anniversary celebration in 2010. As previously voted on, we all agreed that we'll have it on Saturday, February 6, 2010. We were able to sell all the PHS Sentenaryu Souvenir Programs that we brought. It's too bad we weren't able to take all 15 with us because each book weighs 4 lbs so we had to leave 5 behind. Boy and Remy are going on vacation in the Philippines next month so his copy will be waiting at our house. Ed took Mon's two copies, 1 for him and 1 for his mother-in-law, Mrs. Santos. By the way, we'll be visiting Mon at their place on Friday evening.
I don't know what came over me but the only picture I took was of Josie's grandson EJ!
My god daughter Stacy (Nestor and Glo's daughter) had a work related trip to Palm Springs the day after so she booked her flight one day early to see us. Emy picked up some fish tacos and we had dinner here at home.
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