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I want my Friday back!
By Leighton | February 7, 2009
Okay, this week went by WAY too fast. It went pretty normal-y, Sharon goes to teach at school and I stay home. Then Thursday night I wanted to watch a movie with Sharon, and she said she didn’t have school tomorrow so I asked, “Oh, you get a holiday eh?” and she said she had to teach on Saturday. So I said well let’s watch the movie then (Blast from the Past) and we stayed up late 
. The next day, I went to work while Sharon watched Canada’s Next Top Model 10 episodes in a row (okay, maybe not ten, but it seemed like that much). Okay so maybe I watched a couple too, but that was just to scoff and sneer (as is my custom when watching these reality-competition type shows.) Anyways, about halfway through the afternoon, Sharon asked me where we should eat that night. I was thinking, strange that she wants to go out and eat on a Friday night, since it is usually our custom to eat on a Saturday night. But I didn’t say anything, cause I don’t mind going out no matter what night it is. Anyways, I finished up my work and then we went out to eat. At the restaurant, we were talking and she mentioned we have church tomorrow, and I was like, no, it’s Friday. And then she said no, it’s Saturday, why else do you think I didn’t go to School today? She had to prove it to me that it really was Saturday. In the end I felt somehow cheated as if someone had stolen a day of my life. I don’t know how I could have missed a day. Sigh… Guess I’m getting old.
As a side note, more and more often Sharon will say something that I laugh at and say is wrong, only to be proven wrong by her. Like last night, she was grading papers and she remarked how one student misspelled ‘hamster’ as ‘hampster’. I laughed at her and said ‘Actually that’s right, it does have a p’. She said it didn’t, so she looked it up and soon it was evidenced that I had been spelling HAMSTER wrong my whole life ><. Haha. Well, I guess it’s always a good thing to marry someone smarter than you, she was the one who got the short end of the deal here.
Last night I also taught her how to play ‘Go-Fish’ and she beat me all three rounds we played ><. I even developed a system of how to hold my cards to improve my chances, but she is just too lucky! Haha. Speaking of games, Sharon and I learned how to play Mahjong (not to be confused with Solitaire Mahjong, which still confuses me) during Chinese New Year at her cousin’s house. Their 10-year old kid taught us in Chinese (so I pretty much learned by trial and error, playing a domino and seeing whether or not people laughed at me ><). But in the end Sharon and I each won a round, so we are now semi-pro. We want to buy a set here in Miri, supposedly Sharon’s Mom used to be the Mahjong Queen. I think we can play with 3 players but it is better to have 4.
Another cool thing that happened this week was the letter from the embassy came (albeit smashed up by the postman, much to Sharon’s chagrin). It gives instructions on what forms we need to send in and so we got started on all of that. Sharon needs to go renew her passport first since it expires this November. We both filled out a few forms though so progress was made.
My visa is about to expire (February 16th) so I will need to go to Brunei soon to do a Visa run again. I am also planning on going back to Bintulu this week, since I’ve been promising my friends there that I would come. I’m excited, I think I’ll go while Sharon is at school, on a weekday, and then be back in time for the weekend.
Work has been good, I’ve gotten caught up on a number of things that I was constantly behind on. I can breathe a bit easier now and I can also spend some time on my personal project. I may start looking for more clients next week as well, we’ll see how that goes. I need to work on my portfolio first, however. I think my portfolio will be hosted at http://portfolio.leightonwhiting.com , so you guys can check that in a week if you want.
On a side (and geeky) note, I made a bot last week for <a game I play> which made me tons of in-game money. I did it for the stats though, and I made a web site to display the stats. It wasn’t just a complete waste of time, since I learned how to make flash charts that are dynamic (something I will be using for my personal work project mentioned above).
Tyler gets home on February 19th, which is literally less than two weeks away, so I am excited about that. Wish I could be there to see, but I really do wish him all the best and a safe flight home.
Sharon and I (okay mostly just Sharon) have been making plans for the reception, talking about food, decorations, place, what we will do, etc. I am really excited about getting married to such a wonderful woman soon.
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Topics: Miri, My Life | 4 Comments »
February 7th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
I am so jealous you learned how to play mahjong! You guys have to teach me! My family in Taiwan will never teach me because I guess I have a lot of family members who get addicted to it and gamble away their life savings . ..
February 7th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Lia,
It’s actually not very difficult to learn, but there seems to be a lot of strategy involved, like which pieces have the highest chance to score, and other subtleties of which I am as of yet unaware. Sharon and I can teach you when we get back, which hopefully will be April!
February 14th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Hey when you get back you’ll have to teach Mahjong to Paul and me! I have a game called Mahjong on my computer, but I wonder if that’s totally different than the one you guys play. But the one that’s on my computer is awesome!
So I showed Paul the “hamster” and “hampster” part of your blog and as I was laughing he said “Oh, I thought it was spelled with a P too.” And that just made me laugh harder. I have to tell him that most of what he spells is wrong and to just get used to it.
I’m so jealous! You already have a career AND portfolio (well….almost) of what you love! I’m still in the works. I’m doing a website for someone at work and actually getting paid for it, so I guess that’s a start for me!
Hmmm so I just noticed…Paul is going to school to be a teacher, Sharon is a teacher (English for both of them) and you are into design/programming while I’m going to school for that! Our little families are opposites! HA!!
February 14th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Nikki,
LOL, reminds me of the time paul spelled Nephew as Nefu. Mahjong is really fun, we play the multiplayer mode which is different from the Solitaire mode that most people play. It’s basically a gambling game but we don’t play for money. We’ll teach you guys for sure!
Lol, it’s funny but I was thinking the same thing the other day, except comparing me with Paul and how he is going to be getting his Associates this May and I don’t have that yet, so I was jealous of him haha. Well not jealous in a bad way, of course I’m way happy for him
Thanks for the cool comment, We love you guys and I read your blog every time you post. Keep in touch!