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Hanes Pink Desgin-A-Tee Contest

Hanes is holding a design your own t-shirt contest to support breast cancer awareness.  Please vote for my t-shirt http://www.hanespink.com/gallery#/design/8113  I design it with in mind what I want to say toward those who have breast cancer or effected by it.  Those words really comes from my heart and mean every word of it.  I hope you guys can take a minute out of your day and vote for me. 

I'LL COULD HAVE DIE FROM CARBON MONOXIDE!

I wasn't feeling well today so I stayed home.  Did some research on my computer and took a nap in between.  Little did I know there was something wrong with my burner in the basement.  Apparently, the guys who were here yesterday did not clean the burner well enough (again, because they did a bad job the first time causing smoke to arise through out the house).  Now, this time carbon monoxide was leaking back into the house slowly.  I didn't notice it because I was on the second floor with my door closed.  When I got out of my room to cook dinner I smell something little bit weird but, didn't think much about it because the carbon monoxide detector in the basement didn't went off plus, I thought probably there was still some odor trap in the basement from the previous night.  I was only there in the kitchen for one hour or so but, I already started to feel a little bit dizzy and discomfort in breathing. 

Then, out of no where I heard a knock on my front door.  I open the door and surprise to see a fireman standing on my front porch telling me to get my jacket and come out of the house immediately.  I asked him what was going on.  He quickly explains to me a neighbor from across the street thought my house was on fire.  I gasp for a split second out of totally disbelief of what I just heard.  Fire, what fire?  I thought to myself this man must be joking or mistaken my house for one of my neighbors!  If there was a fire I think I would have known about it since I’m in the house.  As much as I don’t want to be seen wearing my pajama in public in front of all the fireman, fire chief captains, and my noisy neighbors, I did what I was told.  As I was walking out to the drive way, I saw three fire trucks park in the street right front of my house and fireman running pass me towards the opposite direction.  They asked me is there any other way to get into the basement besides the front entrance.  I say no.

Once I turned around facing towards the house, the guy who I was talking to when I open the door (Chief Captain?) pointed to the black smoke coming out of my chimney.  It’s not like anyone can miss it.  You can see it couple miles away.  Unfortunately, I stayed inside the whole time and looked like a complete idiot for not noticing this.  Then, two of the fire man came out of the house telling Chief their carbon monoxide reading in the basement was 40.  If I have stayed there any longer  I could have die from carbon monoxide poison!  Lucky, I had stayed most of the time in my room closed door.  If I had not, I’m easily gone and they would come too late to rescue me.  Shocking, yes!  Then Chief Captain made me get check if I was ok by one of theirs EMT.  It was so embarrassing because I was used to volunteer as an EMT for one year and half during my college days.  Now, a few years later, here I am in my pajama.  Luckily, this ambulance belongs to the fire department and not the ambulance corporation I used to volunteer for.  Still, I was mortified to the point I want to dig a hole in the corner and hide.  It was funny I answer all the questions before he even asked me.  Hahaha…I guess they never change the same old routine.  What made it worse was this EMT guy was really cute.  He told me everything looks normal except my pulse was little bit high.  *cough*  Did I told you he was very cute and I’ll was wearing my pajama (and not a very flattering one I might add).  Now, I know how my patients felt when I made them leave to go to the hospital in their pajamas.

I'M BACK!

Yes, I'm back!  It has been a long time since I have written anything new on this blog.  Hehe...sorry about that.  For my defense I...was...busy.  You know, the home improvement projects and helping out my brother's wedding stuff.  Speaking of the home improvement projects, guess what is finally finished?  The bathroom!!!!  Oh, yeah!  The joy of having running water and able to take my first relaxing victory bath in this new, fixed and improved bathroom, all the money in the world can not put a price tag how happy I felted.  I did not realize how much work and time needed to be put into remodel this bathroom.  Originally my brother and I thought we can get it done within 2-3 months.  If only I knew it will expand over the period of 8 months, I might not agree to start this project.  However, I'm glade we did because there's no more leaking pipe behind the wall and the room is much warmer.  Besides that, I got to spend some time working with my brother.  We rarely do anything together nowadays except for these type of things and helping him working on his car.  I know me and fixing car!  Hahaha...that's the last place you expect to find me.  Strangely, enough I found myself not hating the entire experience of fixing his car.  In fact, I even learned how to change the oil, filter, and brake pads.  Hey, this is what happens when you have a brother as the only other sibling.  His interest in sci-fi, computers, technology, God, and ski, in some little way or another rub onto me.  The other day he got me hook on the TV show "Heroes".  Now, it's one of my favorite TV show.  If you haven't watched it yet, I highly recommend you should.  Oh, yeah start from the first episode, if not you will feel complete lost of what's going on.  So, if you think I'm a total geek, you now know whom is the cause of it all. lol I like hanging out with my older brother but, sometime I wish we don't have to do only things that he likes.  It wouldn't hurt him if he tries to see what type of things that I'm into and experience with me.

After, the bathroom project was done I sort of started another home improvement project on my own.  Guess what it is.  Don't have a clue?  Give up?  Well, I tear down the wallpapers in my bed room and painted it pinkish purple.  Actually, there is a lot of more work involved between tearing down the wallpaper and painting the room.  The wall needs to be smooth therefore, after tearing the wallpaper for two weeks I smoothing the wall using a sander machine.  Next, I wipe the wall with a wet sponge to get rid of the dust. Then, fills the holes and uneven wall with multi purpose joint compound (did this a few times to built layers on top of each other so the wall is now even).  Besides tearing the wall paper down, I personally think putting up joint compound is even harder.  So, tedious and took so much energy to make it perfectly smooth.  I'm a perfectionist so; it practically drove me insane to get it right.  Then, I sand it down with a joint compound sander (there are made for sanding down joint compound and it's a sponge like material wrap around with fine sand paper).  Wash the dust of the wall again with a wet sponge.  Saw something uneven, did some touch up using joint compound, sand over that spot, and wipe it down.  Finally, I prime painted the wall white.  Took me 7 hours to paint my room.  I'm serious, not kidding!  Next day, painted the outer coat and second coat the day after that.  Each time took me 7 hours.  The whole project took me about 6 weeks.  During this whole time I didn't get a good enough sleep because I slept on the living room couch.  Almost roll off the couch couple of times and the noise from the refrigerator and clock kept me up the whole night.  I remember being so tired but, wasn't able to go into deep sleep.  I'm pleased with the outcome and so as my family.  However, they want me to take a long break before even wanting to start another home improvement project. hehe...manily because they can't stand me being cranky all the time.  This is what happens when I don't have enough sleep, highly stress, working long hours and can't think anything but the project itself.

DEAR BODY,

//EDIT: Sometimes you guys crack me up.  I mean what's with the "cake" comment?  Of course, I have cake on my birthday.  I can't think of a reason why not.  I love cake.  What bring you guys to ask such a odd question?  Did I implied somewhere in my blog that I will not have cake?  Anyway, if you guys want to see pictures from my birthday check out my other blog.