captaincrash
<font color=darkorchid>!!!Surrender over yer LOOT!
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Glad you had fun at DL. Tom, that is a very neat thing about sending the girls to Chinese school. I have never heard of that.
I know what you mean about not knowing what to get for your DW. I never have any suggestions for Christmas, birthdays etc for anyone to get me. I have plenty of "wants" but they are all terribly expensive things ad that is why we don't get them. We have basically stopped buying each other things and just enjoy the vacations we take. We usually just do cards.
I have to agree...
... on all counts. And with regard to what to get... I'm still stumped. Flowers to me seem so predictable - and affordable that it's just too easy. She knows it's what will show up. And I guess I'm lucky as my spouse does not seem to have many things that are expensive which she wants. Well... there was THAT RED Chanel suit that I nixed a few years ago that she still complains about... it was on clearance at the Sax 5th Ave outlet store for something like $400... marked down from... $5000. And I said "no" as $400 was still a lot and she litterally has dozens of business suit sets. And she gripes a few times every year. I think she just likes to poke me with the missed opportunity that represented as to find a Chanel suit that can fit a size ZERO (or 2, depending on the cut) suit from a real designer like Channel is a once in a Blue Moon thing.
At any rate, I'm just a "stick in the mud" after the 2nd decade for ideas of what ta do. Maybe I should go get a book of romance ideas to refresh my ideas and inspiriation for who to keep events like Mothers' Day fun with a little decorum. Somehow... if I had it my way I might enjoy giving my darling spouse some nice fishnet stockings with the seam running up the back... but somehow that is not appropriate. Now THAT is something she does not have yet.... <chuckles> ... and I guess Mothers; Day is not about things like THAT.
In the photo above - that would've been ME confused at all the kids whom I could NOT understand!!!!
So on Chinese School... I have to confess that when I was a kid my Mom tried to enroll me in the same thing. I balked and complained because all the kids spoke Chinese and I could not understand most of the other dialects spoken. HUGE MISTAKE on my part .... as if I went I would be multi-lingual with a plethoria of dialects. My family used to run an imported furniture business and we'd travel on buying trips to China and HK. The language skills I could have refined in Chinese school would have been of incalculable value if I ever wanted to do any business again in China today. Frankly, having grown up in that business (25 years my parents ran it) I still tell my spouse today that I would really ENJOY starting and running an import business again. Alas, my spouse tells me NEVER AGAIN will she allow me to work in a 7 day a week business. She likes her vacation and family time that comes with regular jobs. And the business I run now is extremely laid back with significant free time. If I started a funiture business like the one my parents had I would keep it open 365 days a year ... like my parents ... and I would enjoy running it! I miss the horse trading and handling live cash.
So... on the Chinese school... we just found out today was the 1st day to RE-ENROLL your child if they were attending the current academic year. So we have to return on June 2nd. And we also found out it is a BARGAIN at only $650 or so for 10 months of classes! That amounts to some 45 sessions at about $14 each! Plus a one time $20 enrollement fee. Wow! So I figure we'll have to get up early on the 2nd as slots are heavily in demand and space is limited. I have to correct myself as there were perhaps 1000+ folks at the school today! Oh well... for the P school we should be OK as there are very few renewing students ... but for K school there are many renewing students and space is extremely limited.
Oh well... we're about to hit the pool... as at this time there is no life guard on duty (until school lets out) and I wanna get our inflatible bumper boat out and into use. I wanted the thing when I saw it on sale at the Sharper Image store ... it was something like $80 half price - but I had to return when the kids were not with me.. and when I returned they had sold a whole stack of them! Then, at the end of last summer I noticed they had these exact same bumper boats listed on Sharper Images' Ebay auctions! And I won one for something like $16 plus only $6 shipping!!!! The shipping was based on the selling price and it was not flagged for special extra shipping expenses... so I feel as it I just STOLE it!
AT any rate, we only used it twice last summer. The life guards at our community pool enforce the rules - one of which says "NO Inflatible toys over 3' in length".... and our boat is just slightly under 4' in diameter. OK... gotta run so we can do the pool AND run around town a little before the sun sets!
Catch ya all later! Have a great day!
